Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-21
Important from Central America.
Total Failure of the Honduras Expedition
GEN. WALKER AND COL RUDLKR TO BE SHOT
THE BRITESH INTERVENTION.
Fr,n the New orleans neIts. Sept. Il

The steamship Star of the West arrived this morn
| ing from New York, via Havana. By this arriva
we have the following highly important letter from
our Havana correspondent:
HAVANA. Sept. 49, lS6O.-The fate of Walker i:
| settled at last and fhis dreams of human freedom
| and It's extension over the Republics of Central
America are yelled for ever; but, perhaps, good may
result from the action of the masses awakened to
Just sense of their own rights, who live under the
| Administration of a tyrant brute. The Spanish
authorities have dispatched the Spanish steam
| er Francisco de Asis hence I'd inst, to the aid of
| Honduras, arriving at Truxlo on the 7th. Walker
and Rudler, with seventy men, had just been brought
up from the Negro River by the British war steam
gun boat Icarus which went in PURSUIT of him with
| detachment from the troops of Gen. Alvarez on
board. and schooner in tow with a detachment
! from the same force.
The men of Walker were suffering from wounds
and Sickness and to be permitted to return to
| the United States-the commercial agent of the
United States to provide passage for them-and they
are to take an oath return military expe-
| ditions to the States of Central America: Walker
and Rudler to take the pdSSGJe-atGrr7s-tha is to
! be shot-for which they were being prepared on
the departure of the Asis The execution to take
place the 9TH on the morning of the Sth at the
| Castle where they were placed by the commander
of the Icarus, who will be long remembered for his
brilliant services 1t is probable that both Walker
and his companion have been killed and possible
others Of the command, for the authorities of Hon
uuTiS WCulu pay respect " pleugSS given by
them to the commander of the Icarus; or, if they
were shot, they could not well take the oath re-
quired of them, which would make the apology for
execution. ROUGH AND READY.
From the Havana PrenSa of the 18th, we trans
late the following intelligence concerning the capture
of the Walker expedition:
"A detachment of HOndurean troops, with the
cooperation of two British ships of war, has cap
tured at Rio Negro, the celebrated illibuster chief
his second in command, Rudler, and his seventy fol-
lowers, who were found in the most deporable con-
diton. 1t is supposed that the chiefs will be exc
cuted-an example which, it is probable will exter
inmate the last traces of fillibuStersm
"By the steamer Francisco de ASis, arrived this
morning from TruxIllo we have received important
correspondence according to which the famous fill
buster chief has at last fallen into the power of the
Central Americans, and at the last dates was in the
Castle of Truxo, about to be shot, with his second
in command. Ruder.
Walker, having been notified to evacuate Trux-
lilo By the COmmandant of the English steam gnn-boat
lCarUs on account Of the customhouse of that port
being hypothetical for the payment of the English
debt left that place and proceeded towards Inion
ten leagues distant the city returning to the possess
sion of the Hondurean government. On the I'd, the
lcarus and sloop left that port both vessels carry
ing national troops under command of Gen. Alvarez
and proceeded to Rio Negro the troops entered that
river in the boats of the IGarus and there captured
Walker, Rudler, and 20 other persons among them
many sick-all being in deplorable condition.
lnSSe peTSOnS were taken lruXllO. with their
arms and baggage, and there placed by the com
maniant of the lcarus at the disposition of General
Alvarez, under condition that Walker and RudIer
should be treated according to law and that their
seventy followers, officers and soldiers, should be
permitted to return to the United States taking An
oath not to serve in any expedition against Central
America-and the American Commercial Agent de-
frayiHg the expenses of their passage.
Gen. Alvarez accordingly took charge of the |
prisoners and placed them in the Castle 1t was be-
heved that the two chiefs would be immediately ex
ecuted.
In Omoa preparation had OPPORTUNITY been made |
Tor the INVASION and with great satisfaction we have
- add, an honor to Central American spirit that
the Colonel commanding at label Guatemala ST.
Caro-, sent to that port sxy-ive men under the or
ders of Col. GOdoy, in order that, in conjunction
with the Hondurean force then there, they should
embark IN schooner purchased by the government
and proceed to lniOn, for which port the expedition
IN fact, sailed from OmOa on the Both of August
although this expedition had no result net for
this less laudable the zeal which the authort es
of the two States displayed in perfect unity against
the common enemy.
''The steamer Francisco de Asis. which left here
on the I'd inst, arrived at OmOa the 9th whence
she proceeded TO Truxillo the day, arriving
It that port the It'll The Spanish flag was hailed
7illl great enthusiasm not only by our countrymen
esding On the coast but also by the authorities and
inhabitants Of CoRtral America"