Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-09-04
Return ofDeserters from General
walkers n icaragnan Army.

Return ofDeserters from General
Walkers n icaraguan Army.
The steamer Tennessee. which arrived
at New York on Tuesday. from San Juan
del Norte, brought 975 passengers, of
whom $50 were deserters from Walkers
army. The Mirror. of Tuesday evening,
after. announcing their arrival, says:
The Park was this forenoon scene OF
distress. some fifty or sixty OF Walkers
victims being on exhibition to excite SYM
pathy and ask for aid. So wretched a
set Of beings, probably. never entered the
Park gate. Most of them were barefoot
ed; some of them bareheaded some
with hats having no crown; and some
with half shirt. others with none-all
ragged. fever and ague worn, and stary-
ed>looking.
A few kind citizens who happened to
pass through the Park gave them tri-
de and passed on but where are the
noisy political orators. who by the golden
prospects held out to these poor creatures.
induced them to go under Walkers
standard {? Why do they not now use
their eloquence and energies to have
these victims Of fillibustering clothed and
restored to some useful employment
The exhibition in the Park to-day, is
sad commentary of fillibusterism, and
may have some effect to dampen future
attempts at such glory.
The Post says they look tolerably
healthy, though emaeiated. as if they
had seen hard service. They are dress
ed in great variety of costumes. al.
though the mouse-colored slouched hats,
striped or colored shirts, and dark overs
alls largely predominant. Their features
are bronzed to an almost mulatto hue,
their heads long and shaggy. and their
general appearance is that OF men who
have long been exposed to the hardships
Of campaign.
They hail from all parts of the Union,
although nsiority belong to the West
ern States, and are exceedingly anxious
to return to their homes as soon as they
can raise funds to do 80, being at present
entirely destitute. They all concur in de-
nouncing Walker as black-hearted
william" alleging that he tyranized over
his men. neglecting them when sick, and
abandoning them when he found he could
gain nothing from their services. They
were generally enticed away under a
promise Of $50 acres of land each, and
$25 dollars month pay. Many of them
went to Nicaragua TO settle without any
intention Of joining the army, into which
they were pressed as soon as they land.
ed. Of course, they deserted at the first
opportunity that offered. They state that
Walkers soldiers were often compelled to
eat mules meat and the flesh of unclean
animals. to keep from starving. They
we're, generally, well treated by the Cos
ia Ricans, after desertion. and have been
sent home by them in the Tennessee.
During Tuesday afternoon and evening
several meetings were held to collect mo.
ney for the destitute. Speeches were
made by Captain Rynders and others .and
some 500 or $500 raised by small contri'
buttons, of which $l6 were contributed by
Wall street merchants on change. $40
by Joseph w. Baker, ESQ.,, and SIG by
Capt. Ryders. The latter said he con.
tributed that amount just to shame Wall
: street. The money collected was distrib'
} uted among the poor unfortunates to en-.
able them TO procure a-lodging until some,
6 thing further can be done to relieve them
and TO enable them to reach their homes
Mr.. George Kellock, Jr., superinten.
dent of out door poor. sent eight of theil
number to the aims. house, who were suf
tering from fever and ague, two to Bell,
t yue Hospital, and three others were for.
warded to Philadelphia.
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