New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-18
FROM HONDURAS.
Core-pOndeoce Of The N. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence Of The N Y. Tribune.
OMOA, March 81, l557.
The information concerning the political state OF
Honduras, Salvador and Guatemala, which COM
muDicsted to you in a letter written FIVE days ago
at Bsze, is corroborated, with some additional
details by letters from the interior lately received
here, by traveller who rode into town on MS
mule while was landing, and in whom had the
good luck to recognize an old acquaintance from
other parts Of the world, an impartial observer and
and gentleman of an entirely reIaoie character
According to both sources OF Information, Uud-
temala. Honduras and Salvador nave gwen up
the war against Walker OF the army OF Qua
tcmola. which had consisted Of 2, 500 under Gen.
Savslo only a very small number have returned,
among them the General severely wounded. In
Salvador, the party opposed 10 the war had forced
the Government to draw back its troops from Mica
ragua. A revolution had been threatening in that
State for some time: and in Honduras, too matters
are said to be about to take turn. A complete
rupture has taken place in that State between the
temporal and the spiritual authorities, by which the
Bishop has been induced to leave the country and
take refuge in Guatemala. Salvador, moreover is
going TO war with Guatemala. Thus the coalition
against Walker is entirely dissolved.
Such is the latest report from the interior which
has been received here by letter. and the merit Of
With YOU VIII Dt llOit ODlc 10 Juugc IMAM dHI.
The traveller mentioned above is unacquanted with
these particulars He states, however, that public
opinion is strongly growing in favor of Walker and
the 'AmercanOs" in general-the common people az
well as men of wealth and higher standing in society
especially the mercnants agreeing in the conviction
that the everlasting revolutions Of Central America,
made by ambitious and greedy Generals, can only
be ended by foreign interyent0n-that they have
long since become too ntolerabe for that interyen-
tion to appear az an evil, and that il must come
from the United States
In general my friend tells me that public opinion
in Honduras is very much in favor of foreign imm-
grafton This from different quarters, preparing
TO pour into the country as soon as better commune
cations than those now existing shall be opened. A
gentleman connected with Victor Consdersnt has
lately been through the country, and speaks in the
highest terms of the beauty the healthiness aud the
natural wealth Of it, but not in similar terms Of its
roads, it's labitatiOns and ts inhabitants. Without
the railroad very little is to be expected from colo
mZation; with the railroad, Honduras will fill up
rapidly any State Territory in the United
States; and indeed i have the serious conviction
that none of the States and Territories of the Union
glorious as they are, boast of greater natural
advantages than Honduras and other adjoining parts
Of Central America. This is to be brought into ac-
count in comparing the Honduras Railroad project
with the merits of the Panama or the Tehuantepec
routes both Of which will always remain mere lines
of transit, while the execution of the Honduras
Railway will soon give 20 the world new territory
filled with settlers from Europe and will find very
essential part Of its reward in frequency inde
pendent Of California travellers. 1t is really pity
that the project still seems to be so far from real
izatiOn.