The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-26
WEAKLINGS OF WAR.
A GreaSer SOldiery Jailing Americans
and EngliShmen by Wholesale.

UAu A4hSilohiuNu W uUllOulSs
Citizens of Both Lands Thrown in
Nioaraguan Bastiles Under the Guns
of Their Respective Warships-
Gun Fired for the Honor of "Old
Glory" or the Union Jack-Pusilla-
nimity of the Ship captains Holly
Censured-The Prisoners Property
to Be Confsoated by Nicaragua.
New Orleans, Aug. 25.-From informa-
tion received, by the steamer Gussie of
the Southern Pacific line, which arrived
last night the Nicaraguan government
has dehed the governments of both the
United States ana 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 no
| protest, and the consequences of this
| apathy may be the loss of possibly dozen
| lives and the confiscation of the property
| of the prisoners. When the Gussie left
! Bluehelds last Sunday, the people of that
| town were hourly in anticipation of the
! Nicaraguans attempting further indigni-
! ties, and threatening the peace Of the
! place by placing the remainder of the
American and native population under
arrest.
The town, and in fact, the entire reser-
walton is bereft of the semblance of either
American or English protection, and the
/ - -,
the town fear that every moment will be
their last in which they may assert any
! individual 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
arrest and whom the Nicaraguans intend
! conveying TO Greytown, where they are
| to be accorded the privilege Of trial are
| not in any manner connected with the
| uprising of the Mosquito chief Clarence,
| and are all men of prominence in the res
ervation, and possessed Of considerable
means. To this fact is ascribed their ar
| rest, as the Nicaraguans are to become
! the owners of the property
| of the prisoners. If the men are found to
be guilty, or are so presumed by the tri-
| bunal before which they will probably
| appear, the property of the prisoners will
| go to help fill the depleted Golfers of the
| oppressors of the reservation, and if the
! prisoners are not sentenced to be executed
| by the Nicaraguans they will be ordered
| from the country and will leave their
/ property in the hands of their captors.
This is said to be one of the stakes for
which the Nicaraguans are playing and
- .usI eI,t 9 81 a,
fere the destinies of the people at present
in the town of Bluefelds are entirely in
the hands of the soldiers of the republic
The men who have been made prisoners
! 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 South
ern Pacific Company, Canadian captain;
George Wiltbank an American planter;
Capt. Brown Rick of the steamer Presi-
| dent r. Carzero, u. ID. Hatch, English vice
consul; Sim Clapton, an American and res
ident of New Orleans; II. G. Ingram, a
planter, partner of John Wilson Il Co,
New Orleans; John Taylor, native plan
| ter; Markham Taylor, John A. Thomas,
S. A. Hodgson, George Hodgson 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 ar
rest being stated by the soldiers is aiding
and abettng the uprising of natives.
I Several other Americans are now in hid
ing, and the Nicaraguans are making
! desperate efforts to locate their where
abouts, that they may also be placed in
custody. When the Gussie was ready 10
sail for the states, the commander Of the
/ Columbia sent an officer of the ship on
/ board of the Southern Pacific vessel
with dispatches, which he desired to con-
vey to the secretary Of the navy in this
| country in person. He came fully pre-
| pared to make the voyage. but
| the captain of the Gussie and the
/ agent of the line decided that it would be
an infringement of the quarantine regula-
| tions to carry passengers, and refused TO
| permit the on1cer to make the trip. The
dispatches were sent by the captain of
the Gussie, and will be in the hands of
| the Secretary of the Navy not later than
| Sunday evening. They contain a fu,l ac-
/ count of the occurrence in the reserva-
tion, and may contain the reasons of the
commander of the Columbia for acting as
| he did in refusing to accord protection TO
! the Americans in that country.