The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-11


New York on Friday, brought intelligence
from Nicaragua to the 7th inst. The follow
ing statements are obtained from passengers
by the New. York papers:
WALKER AT RIvAs.
When we arrived at San Juan we could
not go ashore, all communication being stop
ped from that port. We had on board our
boat (the Sierra Nevada) from San Francis
co, some eighty recruits for Walker They
were landed at San Juan. We learned that
there had been three fights within thccourse
of three or four days previous to on" arrival
in the last of which Walker is said to have
lost as many men as his recruits would num-
her, SO that they had only to fill the places
Of the kiled-that is, if they could get on
the right ground. Walker was in possession
Of Riyas, but although lie might be in posses
sion, the truth is that Rivas possesses him,
nasmucil as he is in and cannot get out. He
is surrounded in every Pc; siblc direction by
the Costa Ricans, who have got entire pos
session Of all the lakes. Walkers men are
in the hardest imaginable fix. The are in a
state of the most Squalid misery Disease
and misery keep them weak and feeble
Those who can, do escape. There were some
Of them came along with us who may be said,
according to their own representations, to
have just esca4l the grave. Most of them
sccin to he pre- arl cases, but they have
got sufficient schooling under Walker to
teach them that glory is no. to be gained in
the direction OF Nicaragua, especially in the
service of General Walker or at the present
time. Walker is in a worse position than he
has ever before occupied.
The road between San Juan and Rivas, a
distance Of seventeen miles, is in possession
Of the Costa Ricans, so that all communica-
ton between the two places is cut off. There
are about eight hundred Costa Ricans in de-
| tachments Cn this road. Walker has some
forty men acting as rangers, trying to estab-
lsh communication between him at Riyas
and San Juan, and also for the purpose of
carrying provisions and ammunition from
San Juan to Rvas. The Sierra Nevada
brought down large quantity of provisions
and ammunition.
Tie first Lieutenant of The ST. Mary'> Uni
ted States sloop Of war, who is great friend
of Walker, stated that Walker was nearly
out of both provisions and ammunition He
was at San Juan at the time of our arrival
there. There had been three battles on the
9th and 9th of the month, Just before we ar
rived. The Costa kicans had been success
ful in two of the battles and Walker in one.
The Costa Ricans were in possession of the
San Juan River they were annoying Walk
err by sending dctachments all over the coun-
try, and chasing the cattle out of the reach
of Walkers army. AT Aspinwall we met
twenty-five deserters frcm Walker, who had
been aided to run away by the English, who
/ had brought them there from Greytown.-
The English were Offering free passages to all
! whe would desert Walker.
DESPERATE POSITION OF WALKER.
! Look at his present position. Can cause
, be more desperate? The town of Rivas is
his whole kingdom. He has lost the active
support of the most Of Nicaragua, because
| the people are beginning to lose the dread
with which they regarded him year ago.
lie has forfeited their regard because Ee has
been totally indifferent to their interests,
+ their lives and their property. He has con-
ii Gated their estates on frivolous pretences
oftreason whenever his treasury needed re-
plenishing, and they have joined his enemies
as soon as they felt they could do it safely
that is, when they saw him stripped of the
power to punish or retalate. 1t is inconceiv-
able how he who is SO shrewd should have
taken every means in his power to cstrange
tie people whose good will was needed tc
secure him permanent foothold in the coun-
try. 1t must be that he despised them, and
counted on having always sufficient military
force to control Nicaragua. lie has dropped
the cloak of hypocrisy, under cover of which
he went to Nicaragua as foe to tyranny
and stands out the selfish tyrant that he was
generally supposed to be from the beginning
But he has thrown it aside before he was
sufficiently well established to be safe with.
out it, and he can never succeed in seducing
many mole Americans to join in his nelarious
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