Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-01-28
The Capture Of Capt. Anderson = Details
of the Affairs.

OF tne Ana1rS.
The Aspinwall correspondent of the New
York Times, writing on the 4th inst, gives
the following particulars Of the capture of
Capt. ANDERSON by Capt. SANDS:
Asp1SwALL, Monday, Jan. 4, 1s49.
The most important news have to COM
municate by this mail is the capture by Cap
tain Sands Of the United States steam fri
gate Susquehanna of the balance of the fill.
buster force under Colonel Anderson, and
their arrival on the 30th ult., at this port, in
the United States war steamer Fulton, Capt.
Almy. This was the party which ascended
the Colorado into the San Juan river, and
took possession of Fort Castillo. Captain
Sands, in the capture Of this force, went to
a still further extreme than did Commodore
Paulding in landing on Punta Arenas. He
ascended the river San Juan into the interior
of a foreign country. ""
will give you the facts as have them
from a high official source. Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, in view of their common danger
it is presumed, came to an understanding on
their differences, and sent four hundred men
to San Carlos at the entrance 10 the Lake,
and one hundred to Castillo. Anderson,
finding himself closely pressed and likely
to be more SO, his stores being short, pre-
pared the steamer Ogden, embarked his men
on her, and then wrote 10 Captain Sands,
asking his views in regard to his surrender.
Captain Sands replied that he was ready to
receive him and his men, if they came and
delivered up their arms. Subsequently An
derson spiked his cannon, burned all the
buildings about Castillo, destroyed the ma
chinery of steamer at the Rapids, under
stood to be the Nrgin, and having killed all
the cattle and plundered all the merchandise
within reach, stsrted down the river. Cap.
tain Sands came upon them under these cir.
cumstances, nine miles up the river, in the
steamer Charles .Mordan, full Of armed men,
and captured them, without any resistance
of course. The Ogden was placed in charge
of Mr.. Cottrell, U. S. Consul at Greytown
who has also the charge efths Charles Nor.
gan, until the rightful ownership in them is
shown.
Capt. Sands thinks there is little irreg-
ularity in the extreme measures he took, but
as he was sent out to break up the flibus.
tiers, he thought this the shortest. and the
one most likely TO save trouble and suffer.
ing on all sides. He, like Commodore. will
doubtless be sustained by the honest public
sentiment Of the country, and they do not
look for nor wish the approval Of any other
Besides, it will be sustained by the Presi-
dent, if he is sincere in the very proper Ian
guags he used in his Message to Congress,
and We have no right to charge that he is
not, after the prompt course he took in the
removal of the New Orleans Judge and his
suspension Of Capt. Chatard from his com
mand. -....t .. .....~ ...rF ..a 3,
Colonel Anderson explains the matter Of
breaking the machinery Of a steamer in this
way. He says he unscrewed the cylinder
head, packed it into box and took it into
the woods and hid it, SO that the "snemy"
could not use the steamer, as he expected
Walker might be able to return, and would
want her himself.