The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-01-08
CONDITION. OF WALKERS ARmY.

CONDITION. OF WALKERS Army. |
One Of Walkers mefi who recently dc.
serted and arrived Mt San Francisco, tells a
pitiable story. He says
"There were Ubout 100 person, i'm the
hospital when good fortune allowed mo to
get away. The very recollection of that
horrible time is enough 10 sicken the, how
ever incapable am Of giving full descrip-
ton of its horrors. Many Of the soldiers
are ready to die before entering it, and
many sick ones report themselves fit for
duty rather than 90 there. Walker has
now no natives in his army. Many of his
troops have deserted and gone over 20 the
Chamorrista party. Ills officers are gen
orally drunk. lie himself is hardly ever
seen. 1t will be necessary for him to do
hard fighting to get food, and the only way
in which lie gets provisions now, if not by
fighting, is by takingit from the natives
and compelling them to take Cocoa, of which
there is plenty in the country, in return.
"No person is allowed to go from place
to place without IL passport. No person,
either citizen or soldier, is allowed to leave
Granada without one; and if soldier is
caught endeavoring to do so, he is taken :,s
dcserter and shot. Such is his inevitable
fate. Ii person escapes Walker, he runs
great risk of falling into tho hands Of the
Chamorristas, who would also shoot him.
elf he have the fever, he is carried to
the hospital ut Granada he is put on a
raw hide bed, without mattress or blank
cts, unIcs he should DO so fortunate as to
have these articles himself, whicl, seldom
l,o, T. Il, a. A.
sick man is put on II bed from which some
wretch has just been carried off to be hu-
ricd, who has died Of yellow fever, cholera,
or some other conta. ious disease, and
whose bed has never been cleaned or
changed. The sufferer cannot drink water,
because the doctors there say that it is poi
son to Il fever and the only drink allowed
is orange leaf ten. Even tins is not TO be
had, on account of the negligence of the
stewards and servants, and the sicl, man is
left to burn and parch with heat and thirst.
have lain hours after hours and bcpre,l
to got tablespoonful Of wine from the
doctors, and could not get it. They had
plenty, and many Of them were drunk on
it most Of the time"
Louisiana S"gur C,op.-Extract of a
letter to the Editors Of the Journal of Com
merce, dated
Glenwood Plantation, J
ASSUMPTION PAn, La, Dec. IS, 1856.
In q communication to your journal
about this time last year, predicted that
the crop Of sugar made in Louisiana for
1855 would he 100000 hhds. missed it
only 1000 hhds. have another prcelic-
ton to put i'll record, us regards the present
crop, and that is, that it will fall short of
100000 hlIds., and many think below
eighty thousand! This is quito retro
grade movement for Louisiana. in the sweets
lifc-fron 495.0O0h hlnls. in 1858, to per
haps 90 or 100000 hhds. 1856. The
causes of this are difficult to be- cxplainod.
Our winter and spring were unusually wet
and cod, conspiring to kill both slubbIe'
and plant came, and almost making worth
less the seed we planted late in the spring.
The planters are gen"-"llv irving to "bring
up" another year l., '...c .n..,: -.
the cry Of bud seer ..s ia, 49,.
some localities. To-: a ..>:..". =. :.
has gone. l cannc s.f. ........ ..
hear no complaint
n UuUaiinn Fau.::.! -. w. ,.... u.
following from the III ,:a!u .,;",,:;.r :;
November l6, received by the I:.st CaIifor-
mia steamer:
The funeral procession which accompan.
led the corpse of the son Of John Piikoi, (a
chief) on Saturday last, WAS q novel and
unusual sight, and illustrates tic fondncss
of the Hawaiians for display. The escort
partook somewhat Of luLicrous imitation
of royalty, consisting first Of the lads horse
with its equipage, saddle, &c, and with
pair of red.topped boots strung across the
saddle. Then followed the hcarse and af.
ter 1t two hundred females, all dressed in
deep mourning, and mounted on horseback
in Hawaiian strAddlc. fashion. Each fcmal.
had string of yellow laul,alas (wrcaths)
around her neck, with long black riding
dresses, reaching to the ground. After the
females, came about one hundred and ffty
men, also on horseback. all dressed in black,
with Grape on their left arm. After passing
through the principal streets the procession
went out to the new tomb recently built bv
lHkoi, his farm at Waikiki, where tents
had becn erected, and afior the collin was
deposited in the tomb feast was served up
in original Hawaiian style.
turning OF the Louisville Universify.-
Louisville, Jan. 2-Thc loss by the burning
OF the medical department Of the University
OF Louisville. including the library, laborato-
ry and museum, is estimated at one hun
dred thousand dollars, with insurance for
fifty thousand.
The building in which the "Old Medical
School" was held was donatcd>by the CITY
tor this purpose in 1880, and since that time
the trustees and professors of the institution
have been constantly adding to its usefulness
and interest by appropriations from their
personal profits for books, apparatus and
medical curiostcs. Professors SiIIiman,
Gross and Flint, eacl,, at different times,
visited Europe for tho purpose Of procuring
for the institution instruments and books