Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-03-27
LATER FROM NICARAGUA
Arrival Of the steamship Black
Warrior.
GLORIOUS NEWS!
WALKER STILL yICTORIOUs.!

The U. S. mail steamship Black Warrior,
Capt. Smith, arrived at 8 O'Clock last night
from New York via Havana We learn from
the memoranda of the purser that she sailed
from New York at 7. T. NJ. on the I'd, and
from Havana on the Sth. Arrived a. South
West Pass at II O'Clock Tuesday night, and
was detained at the bar five hours by fog.
The weather in Cuba has been quite cool.
Sugars advanced upon the arrival of the news
of the reduction of duties in the United States;
stock at Havana and Matamoras, 100000
boxes. Exchange still improving. Freights
good, particularly to the United States.
BY the steamship Granada, from Aspn-
wall to Havana, and British steamer from
San Juan to Aspinwall, we have ad,iues of
the capture by Walkers forces of Serapiqui
and Castillo. The dispatch to the evening
papers states that "Wslkers party"-mean-
ing the men under Titus and Lockrdge-
''had forced Their way up San Juan river to
the lake with tritling loss" and captured pro-
visions and munitions of war, and had also
saved another steamer, the j. w. Scott.
The Purser saws:
He (Walker) has also retaken his lake
boats, and routed the enemy at every point.
From some cause we did not receive our
hSliuNdti NOM TIE
Prensa we translate the following. received
by the Granada at Havana, and by the Brit
ish steamer Trent at Aspiuwall, from San
Juan:
After the capture of the river steamers Mr..
Scott, the agent, fitted up a small steamer
called the Rescue, and sent her up the river,
and she not returning so soon as was expect
ed, fears were entertained that she had fallen
L
had been received that the troops under
Walker had returned aud taken possession
of Serapiqui. The attack was made on the
18th, at O'Clock in the morning, by 200
men, with two pieces of cannon. The place
was defended until the following morning,
when the Costa Ricans evacuated it, the Am
erlcans taking possession, with loss of only
two killed and three wounded. According
to the statement of IA prisoner, the Costa Ri
cans had il lnen killed and 20 wounded
The arrival OF the Rescue at San Juan
confirmed this news and furnished also the
intelligence of the capture of Castilon by the
same troops on Monday the 10th ut., with a
loss of eight killed and twenty wounded 1t
was stated that the Costa Rican troops had
suffered severely in the action, having thirty
two killed and sixty wounded.
The Americans had retaken the steamer
J. n. Scott, but her machinery had been so
maltreated that she could not descend the
river without undergoing repairs. Col. Lock-
ridge came down on the Rescue to obtain
provisions, of which there was an abundance
in San Juan.
The British naval forces were still holding
out protection to deserters from Walker"
This news comes originally from the AS
pinwall Courier. The inference might be
drawn from it that Walker had made dash
from Rivas upon Serapiqui and CastilIon. bul
it seems singular that he should have attempt
ed so bold movement with only 200 men,
and it is probable that it was the work of the
forces under Lockridge and Titus and in fact
this is the only reasonable conclusion.