Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-01

Nosenoer. RON the lolyhes'hn We extract the
following items:
Honolulu mechanics are complaining bitterly
If hard tmes. and with reason for there are a.
bout one hundred men of different trades-mosf-
~ onrpeHfers' however present out Of en-.
ployment here. 1t Is to b. hopedihat The Oehotsk
fleet soon 10 arrive. will give an impetus 10 bu,i.
mess which IL sadly needs.
Exchange on the United States rules at to
10 per cent. premium for dollars here, and for
the last two or three days showed symptoms of
dropping
At Lahana. money commands higher pre-
Mum arising from the difference in the eharac-
Ter of bills drawn, where the actions If the emp.
iain- controlled by resident agents. or those
directly interested in the expenditure for sup
plies.
King Kamehameha had appointed thursday.
25lh December. as day of general and public
thanksgiving TO God throughout the Islands.
EXECUTION OF AYoU.-Ayou. the Chinaman
found guilty at the last term of the Supreme
Court Of the murd, of Iloopli, was executed yes.
terday morning. at o'clock. The gaows 1as
erected inside the walls Of the fort. and the NOR
bid curiosity usual tn such occasions found only
n small opportunity to exhibit Itself. The priso-
ner was pad but remarkably self composed for
one in his awful position, and seemed n little Gu
rlous, ns we thou yh', 10 possess himself Of the
method and process of hanging. Having inquired
whether there were any of his coun,rymen pres
ent, md being answered in the negative he de.
sired the Marshal TO deliver his farewell to oil
natives and foreigners. and after short prayer
from the Rev. Mr.. Armstrong he was launched
into eternity. He mnde struggle; and after
hanging till the medical mnn in attendance Doc.
tors Ford and Hoffman, declared life utterly ex.
tinct, he was cut down, and corpse placed in Il
coffin.
FROM COSTA RIGA.
The Costa Rica papers OF the 10Th ult. give
arIIa aT In ,,,t h.tt
and it differs of course very materially from
Walkers. The following is from the Bulletin
Official.
General Canas writes from Rivas ON the Goth
November: In action of the 10Th Walker had ID
killed and q wounded Don Manuel Cardcnas
has been named Project Of Rivas General Jeres
and his division continued under the orders len
Canas. Walker, avaling himself Of the aIvanta.
gees which the steamers gave him, left Virgin
hay ON the l4tb, and attacked Gen. Bclloso on
the 18th at Masaya, destroying thu church of
San Sebastian, which incens5d the natives very
much.
On tho 10Th Walker lost all his baggage mules
and two cannons and suffered considerable loss
among his men. On the 18th the fighting con.
inued. 1000 men were in Masaya, under Gen
Beoso; they had suffered but few losses, and had
inflicted considerable in jury on the enemy
On the 18th 500 Guatemnlan troops slept in
Managua, and tho next day attacked Walkers
rear guard. On the Goth il was expected Grana-
da would be taken, and the transit road fall into
The hands of the ullies.
From the Weekly Album Nov. 20
BY the Courier of yesterday we have dates
from Rivas to tho Goth, and from Massaya to tho
18th.
i ferco conflict was going on the lnttcr place,
which had already lasted since tho 18th. Walk.
or, with his accustomed celebrity of movement
Gndng he could not di-lodg, Gen. Canas from
Z ~
Bay ON the l1th aud attacked Musaya on the
10Th with such viyor. that he effected Judgment
IN the town, and burnt tho church Of San Sebas-
tiun and some houses.
On the 10Th the battle recommended. and the
allies having surrounded his position, cut of and
captu'ed all his baggage mules aud horses aud
I wo guns. This, it would seem, has brought him
10 satc Of seigc in n part of Masaya. and 800
'uolemolan troops wese momentarily expected
front Manague to cut of his retreat who had slept
there IN the Eth.
The battle was raging on the 18th, without n
ny decided advantage being obtained. but Gen.
jiclloh' writes in confident terms about success,
: nj hopes To be in possession in Granada on the
2Dth
General Cnnas still at Rivas, with the di.
vision under General Ooeres. in all 500 strong,
md expected 10 attack the filihusters who re
lnnned in Virgin Bay on the 2lst
Some twenty desertrrs had arrived in Punta
Arenas from that place, who engaged in the
nct m of the 18th near San Juan They report
some fifty more to he on the way, as their i'll sue
cess had dispritcd them, and they more APP
lrehen>ive OF Nlcarngunn vengeance than Costa
Rican i'll treatment.
Walkers loss on The 18th was Ii killed and
~ wounded. Every thing appears to be going
rosperously, and we anticinate good news by
next mail
The operations of Walker already begin to
wear n desperate aspect. He is evidently seek
lng decisive engagement and the heavy rein
iorcemrnts he is receiving every fortni ght ena-
bles him to make light of losses.
Tho Costa Rica forces are soon expected to
he in the field, commanded 10y General Don Jose
Joaquin Mora or the President in person.
The Newly Invented War Enginc.
A correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce abiding TO the "lngernal Machine"