Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-12-17
THE S e M TIN Ell.
Important from Nicaragua.

on the 18th, where she was to connect
with the Hermann at San Juan del Sur,
on the Pacific coast Having waited
eight days without hearing from the Her
mann, the captain weighed anchor and
arrived at Aspinwall on the Goth. Many
of the passengers, weary of delay, took
passage on the other line; and the Wash
ington, with the remainder, left on the
LIST instant for New York.
The purser of the Washington fur
nishes the following narrative:
The steamer Washington sailed from
New York, November It'll, for San Juan
del Norte via Kingston, (Jamaica, } and
arrived at Port Royal on the evening Of
the 18th ult., landing several passengers,
and proceeded to sea same evening at IL
o'clock; arrived off the harbor of San
Juan del Nortc early on the morning of
the 18th ult., haying-oxperienced a heavy
gale from the south on the 5th and 10th.
She was boarded outside the harbor by
boat from the U. S. frigate Savannah.
and entered the harbor about noon, as
soon as pilot could be obtained,
The United States men-of-war Savan-
nah and Jamestown and English steam
frigates Leopard and Valarous, Sir VIM.
Gore Ousely being ON board the Valor-
GUS, were in the harbor. Col. Childs,
the company's agent, came on board and
Informed us that nothing had been heard
of the arrival of the Hermann at San
Juan del Sur, and that the Nicaragua
government refused to permit the passen-
gers by the Washington to pass through
the country, alleging that they were fill
busters connected with the passengers on
the Hermann. Mr.. Childs, with other
parties connected with the company, on
the morning of orr arrival, took the lit
tie steamer Catharihe Maria, and pro-
ceeded up the river Granada to consult,
and, if possible, to induce the govern
ment to grant permission for our passen-
gers to pass, if the Hermann was at San
Juan del Sur. Immediately upon our
anchoring at San Juan, we were boarded
by two English officers, with side-arms,
from the Leopard and Valorous, in
curing in regard to the number of
passengers, cargo, &C., wishing to see
the passenger list, asking of the purser
and chief officer if the passengers were
Americans, and if they were armed, and
if there were arms and ammunition on
board the ship.
They were told that the ship had been
boarded by an officer of the U. S. ship
Savannah, who would give them any in
formation they required They replied
that they were instructed to get such in
formation direct. They did not, how.
ever, insist upon the matches being taken
of, and left the ship rather suddenly. =
The same afternoon the frigate Leopard
got under weigh, and proceeded to sea
under the pretence, as Captain Vain
wright said to Capt. c., that they had
come eighty on the sick list, and went to
sea for their benefit 1t afterward APP
pears she was ordered to the mouth of
the Colorado to intercept two hundred
and fifty filibusters that it was reported
we had landed the previous night. Our
boat could not get up the San Juan on
account ef the very low stage of water
and had proceeded to the mouth of the
Colorado, where she arrived at daylight
next morning, just in time to be seen
by the Leopard that was anchored off the
mouth of the river there. Launches
were Immediately manned, and chase
made of our harmless little steamer. As
she had to stop after proceeding a short
distance up the river to fix some steam
pipe, the boats came up with them in
gallant style, with howitzer and small
arms pointed for an attack upon the sup
posed filibusters. After satisfying them
selves that they had been pretty cheaply
cold they returned to their ship, and
about noon the same day returned to an
chorage at Greytown, having been absent
only twenty hours to restore to health
over eighty on the sick list.
On the evening of the 25th, the flag
ship Roanoke, flag officer Mcintosh, ar
rived at anchorage outside the harbor,
from Aspinwall, bringing us the sad in
telligence that the Hermann had arrived
at Panama on the It'll, and proceeded to
San Francisco on the nth. On the
morning of the 26th, Col Childs return
ed from Granada without having accom-
plished any arrangement with the gov
ernmept On the contrary the boat was
not allowed to pass from San Carlos
without an officer with file of soldiers
on board. She proceeded to Virgin
Bay, the officer being instructed not to
allow the boat to land until he had as
certained that there were no flibusters at
that point, the government being inform
ed and firmly believing that the steamer
Hermann had landed several hundred
flibusters at San Juan del Sur. A small
beat was sent on shore, and the officer,
after being convinced that there were no
filibusters either there or at San Juan
del Sur, the steamboat was permitted to
land at the wharf, and the agent of the
company proceed to San Juan del Sur,
to look after the Hermann. The James
town, Capt. Kennedy, sailed for Aspin-
wall on the 22d.
On the evening of the Goth we sailed
for Aspinwall, Capt. G. having orders to
connect with the Mail Company's steam
err of the Goth from New York, fof orders
by that steamer for the passengers to &c
forward by that mail in the event of The
Hermann not being at Panama to receive
them. We arrived at Aspinwall on the
morning Of the 2sth, entering in compa.
ny with the mail steamer Moses Taylor
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