The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1857-03-28
FROM NICARAGUA.

BY the steamer Tennessee, which arrived
at New York on Friday afternoon last, from
Aspinwsll, we have full information of thu
state Of affairs in those parts of Nicaragua
occupied by the fillibusters. to a late date
She left San Juan or Greytown, on the Stt
inst, and brings information from that place
to the day of her departure. She arrived a
A'plnwall on the following day, and on the
evening Of the 10th, she took her departure
for New York, having taken on board 25(
passengers from San Francisco and San Ju
an del Sur, by the Sierra Nevada, who cross
ed the Isthmus from Panama the same after
noon. The Sierra Nevada left San Francis
co Feb. o6, and San Juan del Sur on Marcel
Z. She arrived at Panama on the 10th and
the passengers proceeded on the same after
noon to Aspinwall. The United States sIoop
of-wsr St. Mary's, and the British ship of
war Esk, Captain Sir Robert Mcclure the
late Arctic voyager, we're lying in the har
Dor of San Juan. The latter had been there
from early in February. On the 18th, Cap
tain Mcclure made visit to Walker at Ri.
vas, as did several officers of the St. Mary'.
on the eth. The latter made visit also to
Gen. Canas at San Jorge, who received them
in village outside of the barbados. A
md'hpman from the St. Mary's left the par.
ty at Hivas or San Jorge, and was absent for
some days, until Lieutenant Reynolds was
rent to search for him. His excuse for his
absence, was that he was waiting to see a
fight, an amusement he was compelled to
forego. Among the passengers frsm San
Juan, were several of Walkers men from
Rivas
On the night of the 4th of March a de-
tachment of Rangers, under Colonel Cav
Gee. went to San Juan del Sur, as an escort
to the widow of Major Dusenbury, who wa,
on her return to the United States. Thev
met with nc opposition on the wav but on
their return the next day they came upon a
men, SIX miles from San Juan, on the Jocote
road, which leads from the Transit road to
liivas, and were obliged to retire to San Ju.
an, with loss of two men killed, two wound.
ed and three missing In the meantime tn,
Sierra Nevada arrived and landed seventy
five recruits from California, and on the 9Th
Colonel Caycee set out again for Rivas with
his reinforcement. On the 9th, while thew
we're waiting at San Juan. a sound of dis.
tant rannonadInS was heard in the direction
OF klvas' and 1t seemed very probable that
the Costa Ricans had taken advantage of the
division of Walkers force-which thew knew
must happen ct the time the steamer was
due-to attack Rivas. There is no epidem-
&c at Walkers camp, but he has large num-
Der of wounded men in hospital
The town Of Rivas, and its vicinity, is we'll
fortified. The town 10 built of stone. and
defended by stone barbados and eleven
pieces or or'lnance-three six Founders, two
mines, two howifzers and four mortars; the
mortars are very small. The force of the
enemy at San Jorge i, very uncertain. and
probably varies from time to time. ACCORDING
as men are taken across the lake to San Car
los or other posts, or are concentrated at San
Jorge. Lieutenant Reynolds did not see more
than five hundred men there. but thev are
probably in much larger force. They range
the country about Rvas. and men who ven.
t"re outside Walkers outpo>ts are frequent
ly picked off. Altogether his position is no,
very enviable.
Walkers prospects are commented on Is
follows in the New York Herald: -
Look at hi, present position Can cause
be more desperate? The town of Rivas is
his whole kingdom. He has lost the active
support of,he most Of Nicaragua, because
the people are beginning to lose the dread
with which thew regarded him year ago
lie has forfeited their regard because he
has been totally Indifferent to their Interests
their lives and their property. He has con-
flsclated their estates on frivolous preten ces
OF treason whenever his treasury needed re-
plenishinS. and they have joined his enemies
as soon as they felt they could ,lo it safely
that is, when they saw him stripped Of the
power to punish or retaliate. 1t is uncon-
ccivable how he who is so shrewd should
have taken every means in his power to es-
TRANCE the people whose good will he needed
to secure him permanent foothold in the
country. 1t must be that he despised them,
and counted on having always sufficient
militia force to control Nicaragua. Rivas is
his whole possession. The Costa Ricans and
their allies hold every other place on that
side the lake except San Juan del Sur. 1t
Is not safe to venture outside the pickets of
the town, except in force. lie has not a boat
on the lake, nor can he communicate with it
and the men on the San Juan river have fail
ed to reach It on that side. Nearly hundred
men are sick and wounded in the hospital
and at least two hundred more are impine
about the streets of Rivas, unfit for marching
from the condition of their feet, chiefly from
the sores produced by jiggers. Four hun
dred men include probably the whole force
that he could march out of Rivas. There are
perhaps two hundred natives there, besides,
that are able to bear arms but Walker has
ceased to depend upon .hem, and, beyond
those in that city, he probably could not in
duce any to join him If he would. Ills race
is nearly run.
LATEST FROM KANsAs.-There is i'm.
portant news from Kansas. BY despatch
from St. Louis of March %, We learn that
in compliance with resolution passed BY the
Topeka Convention, Mr.. Robinson withdrew
his resignation of the Governorship of the
State ne kaDeso al