Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-09-25
Capture 81 a1GsR EKFE8lTioh
Gen. W-aIaer nnd CO.. nu.IIe. shol.
THEREsr OF MEN sENTHoME


tFsoua the New Orleans Pieayane, lS;h)
By the receipt of cur Havana mail in full,
since our last. we have been put in posses
sion of full and important particulars of the
cauture of Gen. Walker and his expedition
| to Honduras. the probable fate OF the leaders,
and the disposition of the men, upwards of
seventy IN number, most of whom are natives
! OF the United States.
Our last news, it wi be remembered, left
! the expedition retreating from ruxIllo. at d
place called Lifnas or Limon. some thirty
niles from the abandoned city. In the di
rection of Cape Graclas. This was Sunday
the 26th ut. There were then seventy-sIx
men in all, in good health ard spirits, as re-
ported. with three or four wounded In the
! lat. engag ements with the natives 1t was
reported at the same time that the natives
desisted from the pursuit. AMI that there was
no danger of further annoyance.
All this turns out to be true. On the Cd
inst, however. an expedition was fitted out
| from the port of rruXilIo Tor the express pur
pose of the capture OF Walker and his men
This expedition consisted of the British
steam sloop of-war lcarus. Commander Sal
mon. and a smaller vessel, name and nation
aity not given. But she is presumed to
have been Honduran coaster. Both had
on board native iIonduran troops, under the
ment in which 'rruxiIlo is situated, the same
who took possession of the city after Walker
had abandoned H.
This expedition, thus fitted out, at whose
suggestion is not stated proceeded down the
coast to the mouth Of the Rio Negro, on or
near which Walker and his men were en-
campeG the troops sent up the river in the
small boats oil the Icarus; Walker, and all
his men, apparently without resistance, cap
tured taken down TO the steamer and thence
to Eruxlilo, where they were formally de.Iv
cred over into the hands of Gen. Alvarez.
According to the report before us. there
were at the time of the capture. some seven
ty men, besides Gen. Walker and CO..
Raider. The exact number was probably
seventy-siX, including the wounded. MANY
Of them were sick. and nearly all in a de-
poriable state all of which we can well
believe.
On delivering the prisoners up to Gen.
Alvarez, Commander Salmon is said to have
demanded that Walkers followers, both
officers and men, except Col. Rudler, should
be permitted to return unhaTned to the Uni
ted States.
This however, only on condition that they
..ol out never hereafter to serve in any ex-
petition against Central America Their
passage home, moreover, was TO be paii by
the American Consul, Mr.. FolIin In the
meantime they were lodged in the castle
which they had so recently abandoned.
In favor of Walker himself, and Col.
Rud.er, his second IN command, no cond-
tons were exacted. They were delivered
up to be dealt with according to the laws OF
the country, and il is believed, have already
been shot.
This important news was brought to Va
vana by the Spanish war steamer Francisco
de AISLE. which let Omoa Honduras, on !
the 9th, and TruXilo on the eth. This !
steamer it viii be remembered, left Havana /
on the ID, for the Central American coast. /
no doubt 20 watch this very expedition Of |
whose capture she is the first TO report back /
the news.
The Francisco de AISLE also reports from |
Omoa that still another expedition had sailed /
from that port on the 30tn ult., with the same /
object in view--the capture Of Walker. This /
exp ediiion consisted of slxty-fve Guatema- /
lans, under the command of Col. Cooley, of /
that Stale, and a number of HonGurans who |
had been Joined to them. The Guatemalans
had been dispatched to Onoa by Col. Caro-, |
the Governor of label, the adjacent depart
ment of that State Immediately after the in
tellisence of the landing in Honduras had /
been received. At Omoa they were suitably /
reinforced, and dispatched on a government
schooner or tie 3Uth, as before stated, but
nothing appears to have since been heard Of
t c expedition.
thus ends the last expedition to Central
America under Gen. Walker, of which W.
have recently heard 30 much. The first in
s,alment Of 1t sailed from this port on the
Goth Of April