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EMERsoN's UNITED STATES MAGAZINE for
July 1857. j. NJ Emerson & Co. n. Y.
An account Of the machinery and manage
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olhccs,-that of the Herald, with many
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this number Maj. Jack Downings "My
thirty years out Of the Senate" is contin-
ued The illustrated ballad is "The love on
the Sea y by the author Of maggie Bell"
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LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. New York
Leonard Scott & Co.'S reprint
Contents of April Number Pedestri-
anism in Switzerland --Dred-American
Slavery Lunatic Asylums English Po-
litical Satires Photography; Rowing Life
in England Persia the new Parliament
and its work.
Publishers,
Contents of June number. What will
they do with it Chapter |. to VIII; New
Sea Side Studies No l. Scenes Of clerica
Life, Mr.. Glfl's love story, part "
American Exploration; China and Japan
The Athelings Part the last. Sir Francis
Palgrtve and his books. Stuart's practica
angler. Manchester Exhibition Of Art
Treasures. Naga' birthday
A FmmusrER ExrERIENcE.-The Newa.k
Daily AdrerHSer, June 3Oth, has the fol-
lowing
Mr.. Henry Barlow, Of this city, one of
the returned Walker men, who reached New
York in the frgate Najash on Sunday.
called at our Office this morning, aud gave
some interesting particulars Of his adven
lures. lie enlisted in New lrk on Feb
ruary 2jth, ls56, under the command of
Captain Creighton, and left there on the
same day IN the steamer NDrthcrn LtghI
with some 100 others. After reaching
Granada he proceeded direct to Costa Rica,
joined Walker s army, and participated in
the ensuing battles OF Santa Rosa, Rivas.
Messiah, and Granada. Shortly after the
latter battles in December last, he was
lamed in the foot by m marching. and entered
the hospital at Rivas where he remained
till Che 23d Of March. While engaged in
defending the occupants OF the hospital
from an attack Of some 600 Costa RIcans,
he wds shot through the left breast the
ball passing out under the opposite should
er.
Some twenty days after, while engaged
with some forty others in foraging for its
eupples, the party was attacked by "a large
lorce OF Costa Rlcdns. and Mr.. B., was shot
through both thighs. lie was then per
manently laid up IN the hospital. and when
General Walker surrendered on the lst of
May last, WAS lett there a cripple. He
walked from Rivas to St George "a miles,
on crutches, and thence sailed in the steam
er from Carlos to the head of San JuanRiver
From there he proceeded by other conveyance
to GreytOwn, and by the | 5 Sloop-of-War
Cydnc to Panama, where he was taken on
tue trigate IdjaSh.
Mr.. Barlow represents General Walker
as cruel, rapacious, selGsh man He him.
self only enlisted Tor six months and on
the expiration of that time, though he re.
rod tbut ha bnl ="
and though Walker had Just received some
$4,000 from Gen. Salazar, the later refus-
ed to give him either discharge or paw for
his services, but told him that he must re-
main with the army till the expiration of a
year, when he certainly should be discharg,
ed, General Walker pledging his word of
honor. At the time set, he again applied
discharge, and though he reminded
Walker OF his word, was peremptorily re-
fused and ordered back to his company.
Mr.. b., relates an incident Of Walkers
cruelty, in the shooting of man on a charge
OF influencing men to desert. The man
was brought before the General and
charged with the attempt, whereupon,
without holding any Court Martial, Walker
said. lake that man out and shoot him
The man was Immediately led out on the
Plaza and shot. Three davs afterward, it
appeared that the man was innocent
Mr.. Barlow has received no pay from
Walker, and but one suit OF clothes-in all g,
valued at less than five dollars All the
other clothing was obtained from the bodies
of those who were shot lie represents the
army as badly clothed. and worse fed FOR
some forty days they lived altogether on
mule steaks, plaintains, &c., and frequently
suffered from hunger, particularly when
they were in the hospital.