Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-26
TIME FOR. ACTION. American Citizens Now in the Han5 Sf Nicaraguans.
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  MAY BT S EVERELY HANDLED 2
 fE If UnS Sam Fails to Take lnsf . taneous Steps-More
 in Danger.
MAY BT : EVERELY HANDLED

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 25.-From in- formation received on the steamer Gussie of the Southern Pacific line, which vessel arrived last night, the Nicaraguan govern ment has defied the governments of both the United States and Great Britain, and has taken into custody representatives of both nations. The commanders of the war vessels, which have been at the seat of the disturbance for the past month, have stood tamely by and permitted the soldiers of Nicaragua to arrest the subjects of their respective countries and made 10 protest, and the consequence of this apathy may be the loss of possibly a dozen lives and the con fiscation of the property of the prison CTS.
 When the Gussie left Bluefields last Sun day the people of that town were hourly in an anticipation of the Nicaraguans attempting further indignities and threatening the peace of the place by placing the remainder of the American and native population un- der arrest. The town-in fact, the entire reservation-is bereft of the semblance of either American or English protection, and the merchants and others doing business in the town fear that any moment will be the last in which they may assert any individ- ual authority.
 The officers of the Gussie, familiar as they are with the condition of affairs in the disturbed country, consider that the crisis is at hand and the time for action on the part of the United States is now or never. The men who have been placed under arr rest and whom the Nicaraguans intend conveying to Greytown, where they are to be accorded the privileges of Q trial, are not in any manner connected with the uprising of the Mosquito chief, Clarence, and are men of prominence in the res- ervation and possessed of con siderable meaps. To this fact is ascribed their arrest, as the Nicaraguans are said to become the owners of the prop erty of the prisoners. If the men are found to be guilty, or are so presumed by the tribunal before which they will proba- bly appear, the property of the prisoners will go to help 6ll the depleted coffers of the prisoners are not sentenced to be exe- cuted by the Nicaraguans they will be or dered from the country and will leave the1 property in the hands of their captors. This is said to be one of the stakes for which the Nicaraguans are playing, and 1t is said that if the powers do not interfere the destinies of the people at present in the town of Blueields are entirely in the hands qua. The man who have been made pris- oners by the Nicaraguans, and who at the time the Gussie left were in custody at the Bluff, are as follows:
 w. H. Brown, the agent of the Southern Pacific company, Canadian; George Wilt bank, an American planter; Capt. Brown Rick of the steamer Presidente Carzezo; E. D. Hatch, English vice. consul; Sim Clapton, an American, a resident of New Orleans; H. c. Ingram, planter, partner of John Wilson 6 Co. of New Orleans; John Taylor, a native planter; Markham Taylor, John A. Thomas, s. A. Hogson, George Hogson and Washington Glover, native merchants; Charles Patterson, vice. president of the Mosquito reservation; John Cuthbert, attorney general of the reservation.
 These men were arrested without reason or justice. The cause of the arrest was stated by the soldiera to be aiding and abetting the uprising of the natives.
 Several other Americans are in hiding and the Nicaraguans are making desper- ate efforts to locate their whereabouts that they may also be placed in custody. When the Gussie was ready to sail for the United sent an officer of the ship on board of the Southern Pacific vessel with dispatches which he desired to convey to the secre- tary of the navy in this country in person. He came fully prepared 10 make the voy- age, but the captain of the Gussie and the agent of the line decided that 1t would be an infringement of the quarantine regula- tions to carry passengers and refused to permit the officer to make the trip. The dispatches were sent by the captain of the Gussie and will be in the hands of the sec evening. They contain a full account of the affairs in the reservation and may con tain the reasons of the commander of the Columbia for acting as he did in refusing to accord protection to the Americans in that country.
 A BRILLIANT RETREAT.