New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-21
STATEMENT OF ANOTHER PASSENGER.

STATEMENT OF ANoTHEk PASSENGEh.
We arrived o. San Juan on the eth of March. We
had on hoard cur boat coming down about eighty re-
cruits for Walkers army they were all of them rnw,
but good Looking men, and well calculated to fight.
They had been spent up before starting by gambling
81 dissipation. They locked Ike men who could tight
pretty vel if put to it. They were landed at San juan
The road bets cen San Juan and RIyss distance OF
seventeen miles, s in possession of the Costa Rcsns
80 that all communication between the two places is
cut Oh Thee ale about eight hundred Costa Rcsns
in de,actmers on this road. Walker has some forty
men sctirg IS rangers trying 10 establish commuuica
ton between HIM at Riyas and San Juan, and also
fer the purroie Of carrying provisions aud ammunition
from San ausn 20 Rlgas The Sierra Nevada brought
down lars eGuanty Of provisions and anmuu ., n.
Tie F.rst Lieutenant OF the II. Marys Cnted States
slcot-otvar who Is great iIieId OF Walker, sa'ed
tina, Walker was nearly out Of both provisions and
al muLtior. He was al San Juan at the time of our
arrival there There bad been three bs;tes On the tb
end Cth Of tie month Just before we arrived The
Co.ta RcsIs had been successful IN two OF hese bst
It's and Walker in ore. The Costa Ricans wete 10
possession ottte San juan River they were annoying
Ws.her by srding detaCbmen,s I'll over the country,
AID chasing the cattle out of the reach OF Walkers
aay AT Aspiawall met twenty-five de7ertors
frori Waker who he'd been aided 10 run away by The
Erpl;sb VIE bad brought them there from GREY togn.
The Erelisb were Offering fee passages TO all who
would ctsert Walker. Tie deseI;ers sed that, when
they Ell tie army hktl We AZ ppseeselOn" VI "o OF
.h!,e foits 90 the San Juan River they di not give
he Iauts TIE defcr.ers wanted to accompany us al
Aspnn all and would fondly have cone oa board.
No uetsOn oau leave San Juan without q pass
oort from Walker or bis iuDctionares stationed
therc Gou Of bis officers came with us on the
TsDrfsee Three of them are resigned ard tiefO fourth
il bearer Ct dispatches. Col Jsqqes is oOe Of 'hese
ofcois-he va, sfDt through from sidc to side c the
battle Of 1t George. He has been reported dead in
tie New Oreans pspels but his company assured US
that the Nes OrleaI papers we're what mistaken
He says that il Walker could concentrate his forces
he nj. ht vet rally. Walker has about 800 men.
A bout 800 Of them the an Jusn RIVER ami toe
other 100 al San Juan and Rivas. There Is not tho
sg hest possibility OF his being able TO bring hs forces
10 ether so o. TO present bold 'front.' COL Saunder,
IVES cent Out ON the Jh Of the month to Try and esab-
lith line Of communication between San Juan aud
Ry,s. His party was said to have with them pack
OF ODE buLdltd mules. and we're on tdelr return from
n Juan with provisions ard ammunition when psr'
ty of Gotta Ricans made attack upon them, killing
fifty out al one hundred and eighty, thus leaving the
Colonel OF hundred aud thirty with which 70 return
Md carried away the mules, provisions and annunl'
ton Ii is doubtful whether there be 100 mules to be
got anywhere around that country but such was the
unor 1t was also reported that 10 the last engage
ment Walker had killed twelve hundred Costa Rlcans,
and that be had gathered them Into house and was
going TO burn them up There are eight hundred Costa
kcans betse.n son juan aud Rivas. The day prev
Gus 10 our ary al the Costa RicaDs followed party
Of Walkers men to within four miles OF san Juan, aud
would have got H. but for the timely aid OF the rnen
om the 81. Mays. In relation to the boats which
the Costa Roans possess aud use to good purpose II IS
the gel ers opiuion that they should be put hard 70
IT, they viii burn them, before they Will give them up
MIs Dut EMERY. the widow Of Col. Dusenberry, who
gas ked IN rba battle of Sac George. owe Of the
passenger with US on board the Tennessee.