Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-12
Pull Particulars of the Capture aid
Execution of General Walker.

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Execution of General Walker.
The following account of the end Of the
sgray-eyed man of destiny" translated from
the Havana Diario de Ia Marina of Septen1
/ Der 26, viii be perused With interest, notwith-
standing all that has previously been publish
ed relative to the fate of the flibusters
By the steamer Osceola, which arrived yes
terday at Baltimore from Truxillo, We EeTe
reGei4ed letters that give us an account of the
tragical end of the great fillibuster. We in-
sert them below, as it is highly satisfactory to
note the Christian death of the celebrated fill
buster. 1t is a great pity that man capable
/ of such sentiments should have led III. dur
ing which he caused SO many disasters to hIi-
manity.
| 1t is not less satisfactory to US to see how
mercifully disposed the authorities of Hondu-
ras were to the gratuitous disturbers of the
/ tranquility Of the country. The gift Of life to
| the second in command is an eloquent demon
! stration of the noble spirit which prevailed
there, as is also the humane and generous
treatment shown to the officers and soldiers OF
the expedition The writers who daily insult
| these countries-for which they cannot find
| epithets sufficiently hard-may here learn all
that there is respectable and honorable in the
sentiments of which the authorities of HondI-
ras have just given proof.
| Here are the letters
TKuxIILo, September Is.
! "I'he capture of Walker and some seventy
| individuals of his party having been effected
| bv General Alverez, who with two hundred
men pursued them in connection with the
steamer Icarus, / am about to narrate to you,
circumstantially, the particulars of the en-
| trance and execution of the chieftain
son the 9Th instant, at the moment that
! General Godnv, with the auxiliary troop of
GautaHlala, set sail with two vessef5 tu i0in
| General Al4etez, the schooner Correo came to
anchor in this port, bringing lack the expedi-
ton of General Alverez himself. The Icarue
remained behind from motives of convenience,
but she also came to anchor during the night
The next day, at four o'clock in the after
noon, three great launches (the very ones used
| by the invadersl were brough alongside of thE
steamer to receive the prisoners. who came
ashore under guard of the marines OF the lear
US;
Upon disembarking, the marines marched
| first; the Hondureno troops came next, march
ing in hollow square, with the prisoners in
the ceutet:
"With the exception Of n few fiibusters, all
| The party looked ike corg5es and some of them
were apparently in The last agonies. With
their sad and languid looks, they appeared TO
curse the leader who had brought them to
such dire extremities.
The march at the entrance was slow and
solemn. Walker at the head of his people
marched to the tap of the dram, and was the
observed Of all observers.
| "As soon as Walker entered the prisoFi, be
vas heavily irened,, anil asked # he.waBttsl
anything. He asked only for acater. He then
sent for the chaplain of this port, and protest
| ed his faith as Roman Catholic, he was seen
| thereafter almost constantly kneeling at the
| feet of the priest in front of small alter, on
which, by the dim light of the tapers, the i'm
age 0: Jesus was distinguished. Among Other
/ things he once said to the chaplain, Il an pre-
I pared 10 die; my political career is ended"
6 On the 18th Sept. at seven O'Clock P. NJ.
Walker was notified of his sentence of death
and to this startling message the only reply he
made was to ask at 5h:.t fotr II would be ex-
eeuted, and whether he had time to write
..'On the 18th at eight o'clock A NJ: the
culprit marched to the place Of execution
He walked with crucifix in his hand, upon
wh-h he bent all his regards, looking nefther
to the right hand nor to the left, but listening
pious'y to the psalms which the priest recitcd
in his ear. He eentered the hollow square form
cd by the soldiery in the place of execution
and there, full of resignation, he pronounced
the following words 3" am Roman Catho
lie. The war which [ made upon Honduras
in accordance with the suggestions of som(
Ruatanoes was unjust Those who accompa
uied ne are not to blame. I alone am guilty
| ask pardon of the people. / receive deetl
with resignation would that it may be fo
the good of society,"" Walker died with re
marhsble fortitude. His remains were reeeiv
ed into torrb and rest IN peace foy perpet
ual example.
j One day after the execution of Walker
the American Schooner, John E. Taylor, witt
reinforcements and arms for the fiibusters
anchored in the port; but sie soon afterwart
) disappeared, having recognized the forces 0
the Eepublic in power. The immediate arri
val of an American man-of-war steamer is an
neunced, and it is considered very probabl
that other vessels with reinforcements for tb
unhappy expidition, will arrive, as the promo
tiers thereof in the United States are ignoraa
of the fate of " alker
f TRUxnLo, Sept. 10, 1860.
" The band of marauders which the buccan
eer Walker commanded, with the title of Sen
f eral, having been captured, the commander Q
the port d. Norberto Martinez, proceeded t
try by court-martial Walker and his seconc
F. A Rndler. The case was referred to th
chief of the force, General D. Mariana Alva
rez, who after having heard the cIirsilfsls j
their own behalf, sentenced the first to capita
punishment, and TIE second to four years in
prisonment, both being satisfied with the ser
tence.
q "The defense made by the criminals ther
' selves does not contain any attempt at excu
! patton, and, on the contrary, Col. Rudler, th
second in command, has handed to Commar
f der Martinez. through the medium of til
y English Consul, Communication manifestin
his gratitude to the Republic for tae mere
f with which he had been treated. TIE rest
the expedtion-some seventy odd-have bee
e pardoned under the condition and oath th;
| they would never enlist again for any similt
b Nantial eApeOftioh against any republic
. Central America.
j. Walker was shot, and suffered the perIsslt
$ in the old Plaza de Armas, which commun
! Gates with the mole on which he disembarke
n on the morning Of August s. Those wi
s have been pardoned still remain in Truxill
: while vessel is preparing to take them bat
d to the United States. They were very we
n treated, and even ladies of the highest ran
e forgetting the fatigues of their recent figh