Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-06-11
Nicaragua.
How Walker and his Men Escaped-the
Famine at Riuds- Eating Mules, Horses,
Cats and Dogs.

fOU WdheT ana ms shen ESCdpeu-We
Famine at Riuas- Eating Mules, Horses,
Cats and Dogs.
General Henningsen, Colonel Titus, and
one division of the army of Nicaragua have
arrived in New York. One OF the report |
ers of the Tribune visited the former and de-
rived some information in regard to the
evacuation Of the country by Walker Tie
reporter states:
"Sinee the last advices received here from
General Walker, the allies made an attack
on the intrenchments at Rivas with force
Of $500 men. The assault lasted six hours,
and was holly contested throughout. As near
as could be ascertained, the enemy lost 400
killed and wounded including 80 prisoners
taken by General Walker; one cannon be-
longing TO the allies also fell into the hands
of the fllibusters. Walkers total loss in
this engagement, in killed and wounded, did
net exceed 80 or 60 men.
From this time until the second week in
April, when Gen. Mora arrived and as
sumed command of the allies, no offensive
operations, to speak of took place on either
side. On the llth of that month the allied
forces, led on, it was said, by dsSerters from
the fillibuster camp, made desperate at
tack en- General Walkers intrenchments,
ard succeeded in gaining possession at one
time of the lower plaza. About one hun
dred and fifty had entered that portion of
the town, when Gen. Henningsen succeeded
in bringing three guns to bear upon them,
which moved them down with great slaugh-
ter. About half Of them escaped and the
remainder, being surrounded, were obliged
to surrender. After good deal of hard
fighting the enemy was finally repulsed, but
not without contesting the ground inch by
inch. One hundred and three prisoners in
all remained in the hads Of Gen. Walker af-
ter the fighting was over.
The hopes of the fllibusters were greatly
sustained by the constant expectation of re-
lief from Col. Lockridge and party, on the
San Juan river, who were daily looked for.
Of course no correct intelligence could be OBJ
tanned respecting his situation and prospects,
as all the avenues of approach from that
quarter were in the hands of the allies. But,
as day after day no news came from the
San Juan, the garrison in Rivas began to
despair, and were fast losing their spirits,
when information was received that Capt.
Davis, of the United States sloop, war ST.
Mary's, had seized the schooner Grenada,
containing half of all General Walkers am-
munition. .
Then in view Of the hopeless prospect be-
fore them, the design of retiring from the
country began to be entertained. Meantime
Captain Davis proceeded TO The seat of war
E and endeavored to urge the conteeding par.
ties to come to terms. General Walker, af.
ter prolonged and painful consultation with
his officers, concluded 10 enter into stipula
tions with Captain Davis, and be subse
quently surrendered to him as an officer o
the United States Government. The allie.
were not named in the instrument. BY
full understanding, however, the retirrn!
forces were not molested by them-one o
the Costa Rican Generals attending Wake
and his staff through the lines of the enemy
hostage, as il were. ....
At the instance of Captain Davis, tn
women and children, numbering about sew
enty, were removed from the camp on tn
2Oth of April. The formal capituation too
place on the 2Oth of the same month, an
the troops set out on the march TO San Jua
del Sur on the lst Of May.
The whole number of Walkers men q
the time of the surrender was four hundre
and seventy five; Of these, two hundred an
sixty, including officers, were effective; on
hundred and seventy were on the sic
and wounded list, and forty were natives.
Provisions had been exceedingly scare
during the whole month Of April, and III
men had lived chiefly on mule and hors
meat nearly all the time. Dogs, cats, an
other animals, were sometimes killed to fur
nish novelty. General Henningsen dc
scribes horse flesh as quite passable-whe
one can't get nothing better.
The enemy, the General states, had sui
fered much from desertions, and on the Il
Of May could not have had more than tw
thousand five hundred available men abol
Rivas. He thinks that, had General Walk
y er held out two weeks longer, scarcely
r shadow would have beeen left Of the allie
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