The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-30
Later from Central America.
CONDITION OF WALKERS FORCES.

The steamer Panama, with 125 deserters from
Walkers army arrived at Panama from San Jose.
Gu.t.maIa. on the 10th inst. The war agaips.
waIksr Ia to be carried on vigorously, and the
Republic If Salvador has granted its President au
.hor,v n no the revenue from all sources to ac-
complish Its end.
Ths Costa Rican papers inform us that s 600 more
troops were be added to the allied forces, 600 to
be supplied from es"h nation Gen. Cansas vas to
mach With some 500 m On from Leon against Rivss
and e. c0 we're to march on San Juan del Sur.
that the intention il to surround Walkers forces with
nearly 900 men. The numerical odds weu Id then
The Utter Journal publishes an appeal from the
desertens of Walker to their companions. A num-
ber Of copies Of shs address have been sent down to
Wslter'sarmy, sad may probably induce others to
General Cabanas, ex-President of Honduras,
has superseded General Belloso in command of the
Salvador troops, aud was to march from Leon
against Rivas, and Salvador was to send 1000
additional troops without delay. Besides this,
Admiral North, of Guatemala, has gone up to San
Jose to bring down 1000 troops In bis two vessels.
and 1850 more are to march into Nicaragua
overland
1t Is positively stated, by some of Walkers de-
serters, that his men had unanimously refused TO
60 out Of Rivas to fght, but expressed themselves
willing to defend their position.
passenger the Illinois says that on the arrival
ofths Golden Gate at Panama, they found there one
hnnd,ed and ds.y mon who had .uso ssded IN e sea
dsnt Nor. Of Costa aica, inviting all persons con-
neoted with Walkers band, who desired to escape
from him. and promising tenn protection and safe
pas age TO any part of the United states, had been
extensivey circulated in all paris Of Nrcaragua and
even among Walkers men, this last being accom-
plshed through the agency of the native women who
esme with their fruits. Acting upon this offer they
left In small numbers and sometimes singy, they
could escape, and walked across the mountains to
Costa RIGA. hsre thsy treated with theutmost
kindness, furnished with food and all their wants at
tended to.
After they had partially recruited their heaths they
wsr4 forwarded BY the steamer Panama from Pu.nts
Arenas on the Pacific side to Panama Thence they
were taken by railroad TO Aspinwsn where one hun
dred and twenty five by tbs Illinois to this city
These parsons state thar At the time ofther leaving
Walkers csuse hopelesI and the condition of his
mon terrible. They were destitute Of food and Gle
thing-being bsrefooted, ,fuaked, half starved
sick and emaclssed; and when they left, Walker had
only three hundred men.
His treatment of his men was scandal to cvil.
7stlon and humanity
For sixteen days they lived mule meat. His off,
ears arc made up Of gamblers and druns aids-sene
rally the ofscourines Of San Francisco New Orleans
and New York. In very many instances, however,
the o,se il different with the men, where they
intending in good faith to settle farmers tus being
pressed into service Immediately on landing
Thew stated also that the Costa Ricsn authorities
bad offered q reward of $4,000 fer the capture of
Walker alive, or 81 600 for his head.