New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-13
LATER FROM NICARAGUA.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP WASHINGTON
RRITIgH INsoLENcE AND oUTRAaE.
BY THE NATIONAL LINE.


of the Nicaragua transit line, has arrived at this
port from Greytown
She arrived out on the 18th ult., and on the 10th
was boarded by boat from the United States frigate
Savannah Her papers, passengers and cargo were
examined by the officers of the Savannah and found
to be regular and unobjectonable.
The United States Vesselof,war jamestown aud the
British ships ofwar Leopold and Yalorous were also
in port.
Sir VIM. Gore Ouseley, the British Central Ameri-
can Minister, had arrived and was on board the Leo
pold.
The English Minister and officers refused to all "
the passengers by the Washington to pass through
Nicaragua, alleging as reason for this assumption
of authority that some OF the passengers were sus
pected of nglibusters and that they were acting
in concert with the NiCaTaguan authorities to prevent
any such infringement Of the sell Of Nicaragua.
Under these circumstances, the steamer Catherine
Maria sent up the river to Grenada to obtain the
permission Of the Nicaraguan Government to land
the Washingtons passengers in case the steamship
Hermann should arrive at San Juan, on the Pacific
side.
The steamer Washington was afterwards boarded
by the officers of the British menot-War Leopold and
Yaorous, with side arms, for the purpose of examin
/ ing her papers, passengers and cargo.
The Captain Of the Washington referred them to
the officers OF the u S. trigate Savannah by whom
they had been boarded, and who could furnish them
| all the information they desired.
The British officers replied that their instructions
were to get such information direct from the steamer
! The Captain Of the Washington, however, did not
comply with their demand. The English officers
did not insist upon opening the matches of the steamer
TO prosecute their examination, and left the day
without accomplishing the purposes of their visit.
| The Leopold went to the mouth Of the Colorado
river for the purpose of uterCepng two hundred and
fifty libusters whom it was reported had been landed
| by the steamer Washington on the previous night
Our information says "0ur steamer (the Wash
ingtOh) could not get up to San Juan last night on
account Of low water, and therefore went TO the
mouth of the Colorado.
1.-The officers of the Leopold getting wind of it, ,
sent back their boats, armed with hoWitzer and
small arms, to give US chase.
"The officers, finding no filibusters on board, re-
turned to their ship at GreytOn."
The Roanoke had arrived from Aspfnwal bringing
news that the steamship Hermann had gone to San
Francisco.
Col Chlds, the agent Of the Transit Company, who
sent up the river to get permission to cross the
Isthmus, returned from Granada with the refusal of
the NiCaraguan authorities to grant the permission
| Finally, however, the Government and the British
officers becoming satisfied that there were no bus.
tiers on board either the Washington or the Hermann
the steamer Washington allowed to land her pas.
sengers and freight at Virgin Bay.
The agent Of the Company had proceeded to San
Juan del Sur to look after the Hermann, previous to
| the arrival of the Roanoke
| The jamestown proceeded to AspinwaLi where she
arrived on the 2Sth ult, in company with the steam
ship Moses Taylor from New York.
No orders being received from New York by the
Washingtons passengers to proceed by the Panama
route, they were obliged to return to New York.
Non-Arriyal Of the Persia.
New YORK Dec. IL, IL P. M.-The steamship Per.
STA has not yet been signalized off sandy Hook
She is now several days overdue, having been out
nearly fifteen days, and much anxiety is felt IN re-
gard to her.
It is thought she either put back, or some slower
boat had been put in her place.
The us. steam frigate Niagara was signazed be.
low at noon to-day having returned from MOnrovia
Africa, where she landed the negroes captured on
board the Echo at Charleston.
Washington News.
WASHINGTON, lee. 1.-THE recent escape of the
flibuster schooner Susan from the vigilance Of the
revenue cutter in Mobile bay has created intense eX
element in official quarters here.
1t is feared that if the fbusters are arrested by
the British other foreign forces will volunteer in CO.
operation with the British, and that the feelings Of
the people of this country will be aroused thereby to
raise and send large rentorcementst to rescue them.
The Union of this morning says it hopes our naval
vessels may yet intercept the schooner Susan, and
preserve yet longer this libuster question as purely
domestic one.
1t further says that upon the vigilance of our naval
officers n the Gulf depends in great measure, The
Congressional Proceedings
WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE Senate is not in SEES
sion to-day.
House.-An order was passed for printing twenty
thousand copies Of the Presidents message, and SIX
teen thousand copies of the ITeasuTerS report, fol
the use of the House.
A, NJ, Scales, of North Carolina, offered a resou
ton asking the Secretary Of the Treasury to furnis
the House a statement OF the payments from IS40 tt
1855 under the public debt. The resolution wa
adopted,
Judge Watrous' case was resumed, aud discusse,
at some length, when the House adjourned.
Domestic Markets
New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE cotton market closet
with an advancing tendency hliddling Uplands l2c
an advance Of / to ! on yesterdays prices. Sugar
steady Orleans ranges from to Sc. Muscoyudo &
to "a. Moasses-Oreans "a to 353c. for new. Mes
PorE-Eastern SIS %, Whisky dull at 255c.
CINCINNATI Dec. lI.-Whisky has declining ter
dency sales at 224c. Hogs are dali at noming
prices Flour has advanced 10 to l5c, per bbI., an
is selling at 81 50 to 81 CO. Western Mess Pork wa
offered to-day for Sl7 so, and no buyers. A cOntmr
for 100 bbls deliverable in February was closed a
8 SIS.
River Intelligence
CI&CINNATI, Dec. 1.-THE Ohio at this point
rising, with twenty.nine feet water in the channel.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. LITTLE river here rising, wit
ten feet OF water in the channel and seven feet
the falls
Sr. LOUIS Dec 1.-THE river here is falling SLOWLY
and full of floating ice. The river is falling at til
rate OF half an inch per hour. The ice is more sea
tered and lighter than it yesterday, and there Al
some indications Of thaW. There is nothing ne
5 above
The California overland mail, Of the 18th, has a
rived, but contained nothing not previously repore
E by the Quaker City
+ New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Hudson river navg,
; tou has been interrupted by ice near this city, and
large number of vessels have been badly injured.
SAVANNAH, Dec, LITTLE Savannah Republtca
Of this morning reports on go0dauthorty that earg
Of Africans, from the coast Of Africa, has inst bee
landed on the coast of this State.
The Republican says they were brought from A
RIGA BIZ the schooner Wanderer and landed on tL
coast near Brunswick Ga.