Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1857-05-02
Nlcaraeuan Affair.

The advices brought by the Empire
City confirm the previous report Of Lock-
ridges retreat from Castillo and his deter
mination TO return to Punta Arenas and
Join Walker via Panama.
He came down the river on the ID Of
April, the steamer Scott bursting beJ boil
srs and killing sixty Of his men.
He arrived at Punta Arenas on the
Rescue on the 9th, and found the fennes-
see in port, but she sailed Immediately,
taking only few of the sick and sealded.
The remainder, over 800 men, were
taken to Aspinwall on the 18th by the
British war vessels Tartar and Cossack.
Seventy Of these, including General
Wheat and Hornsby, have gone to New
York on the Illinois.
Ono hundred and three were brouehs 10
Havana by the Granada on their way to
New Orleans.
The remaining force OF nearly 900 men
will be brought to Key West or the Balize,
by the British corvette Tartar.
Capt. G. Norval Walker. brother to the
General. died on the Empire City, on his
way to New Orleans.
On the 18th April one hundred Costa
Ricans descended the San Juan river and
took possession of Punta Arenas. They
also seized tho steamer Rescue, which
was anchored in the harbor, with 81, 500
worth Of ammunition and six pieces Of
cannon.
The J. L. Stephens brings no further
intelligence from Gen. Walker, but Psi.
va,e dispatches received at Aspinwall and
Greytown, represent his position At Rivas
~ utterly impregnable, and that he has
plenty Of provisions and is likely to hold
out for some months.
The transit route from San Juan del
Sur to Rivas is reported rs open. The
same dispatch confirms the report Of the
battles Of tho 10th, in which 800 Of the
enemy were killed and wounded. 1t was
supposed that he would be again attacked
on the 25th.
The Aspinwall Courier thus states the
present attitude assumed by New Grana-
d. in regard to the Panama difficulty:
On the 10th the steamer Thames arriv.
ed here with U. 8. Commissioner Morse,
and full confirmation Of the worst fea-
lures Of our previous advices from that
quarter. We learn that this govern.
men. had deliberately. and in the most in
solent manner. rejected entirely the psopo.
sition of the United States Government
respecting 4 settlement Of the difficulties
between them; demanded reparaiion for
discourtesies on the part Of the United
States officials 1t Panama, denied in The
strongest terms any responsibility for the
] outrages Of April l5th, 1856, At Panama ;
charged said responsibility entirely and
empha,ically upon the U. 8. Government;
refused paremPtorily to pay any damages
for the results Of said outrage demanded
for the same Of the United States one
hundred and fifty Thousand dollars; dselar.
ed that the object Of the United States ia
making the claim, etc., was to get posses
sion Of tho Isthmus; that no settlement d
the questions At issue and Of protection
for said transit can be made, but through
coucert Of action and consent Of the rep.
reeentatives Of Great Britain and France
and proceeded to initiate preliminaries ior
placing New Granada on war footing.
! The Courier makes the following son.
sible observation s-t.-... s.
The United States must make this tran.
iii secure or some other nation will. She
has taken tho ground that American inter.
ests arc paramount here she owes il ia
the nations Of the world to prove Der con
sciousness in this assertion. It 10 plainly
intimaied from reliable sources. that Great
Britain wishes to rid herself Of al care in
this region, and is anxious that the United
States should take the job of her hands.
II is stated that the people Of Carthage.
M oil expect that and tho neighborine
ports to bs blockaded BY British vessel.
in consequence Of the noncompliance o.
the New Granadian Government with the
demands Of the English Government res.
pecting the Maekinsosh debt. The meth.
Cd Of arrangement decided upon by Con.
grsss 10 not in accordance with the wishes
Of the British Government - declared 4,
Bogo.a BY their resident minister there.
The Panama correspondent Of the Pic.
ayune, under date Of April 20, closes .
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