The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1857, Page 1

a ee ee a ee “WHOLE NO. 7453, THE NEW YORK | ADDITIONAL FROM NICARAGUA, Interesting Statements of Officers of Walker’s Army. Operations of Geueral Spencer on the San Juan. THE WAR OF THE TWO TRANSIT COMPANIES, SCENES AT GRANADA, &e., &e., &o. ‘We published seven or eight columns of late and im- portant news from Nicaragua in yesterday’s Hera.p. Among other papers we gave the graphic report of Gon. ‘Henningeon’s brilliant operations, Colone! Waters’ report ‘Of the gallant manner in which he went to the relief of tho besieged; and the protest of Mr. Harris relative to the seizure of the'steamers on the San Juan by Goneral Spencer, of the New York and Costa Rica army, The ad- ditional intelligence published this morning will be found ‘interesting, especially that part which developes the progress of the war between the two Transit com- panies :-— OUR NICARAGUA CORREST® ABRIVAL OF 275 RECRUITS "° EW OBLEANB—PROJRO™ > HE RIVER —PROCE 4+ ero. | dan, 1%, 186 | r bow ady av are of theo) ue | Tr oute © number of recraite ‘or W aow ations © 276, Si told, and looy are 'a kao Dest con- aith welt fed, well lothed, end im good epirits. We @re wally hero or steamer to take us up the river, aua expect to be able to start on ‘Thursday next, the 15th instant. Our object will be to ‘attack the three points at the Serapiqui, which will uo. doubtedly be crowned with success, as the Costa Ricans ‘are few in number, not more than fifty or seventy-five, ‘and these badly fed and clothea. From theace wepro- ceed to the two polnts above, both of which are poorly garrisoned, #0 far as men are concerned. The probabili- ties are, however, that we will meot wonoral Walker Coming south, and, in fact, it is reported, but mot ‘suthenticated, that he has already taken San Carlos. If this should prove to be the case we shall see him in a few days. It is well for me to say thet everything is io a state of doubt up to this time, so far as the time requir. ed for the opening of the river is regarded, but toat this will be effected within a month there is no reason to doubt—how much sooner I cannot tell. ‘We bave heard that the announcement of General Chil- ton, who is at the head of a large torce, having declared for Walker is confirmed. Tho Costa Ricans, on the other hand, are doing all in their power to prodace desertions Tas Pexsipest oy THe RaPvsiic or Costa Rica To Sou. Pimpreesed. wits s wollfoanded bellet that the greater m0] & well-fo: elle ver of ‘ho aro now in theraaks of the Fyne! tr capa by Rd fighting ina bad cause ageinst a people who bave ss BO ‘Swuse of offence, and who are only defending country, their rights, liberties and their bomesseads from the oriminal attempts of as unprincipied adveaturor %0 subvert all that freemen revere; and convinced that ho scourge of hu- manky, would wiltoe'y. quit bis. credited. service I only assured of protection and support to reach their na- country. “+1,” the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, my bonor, offer to any or ali of the officers ana ot Walker's ermy now in Nicaragaa a {ree aod Gate passage to Greytown and from thence per steamer @ New York cit Given et the National Palace at Sau Jore, Decombor 10, 4886. JOAN BR, MOR, Correct and reliable news from Rivas gives Walker ‘1,800 men, with bis army in & much betier coadition than ‘they have ever been before tn every respect. OPERATIONS ON THB SAN JUAN. STATEMENT OF CAPT. KRUGER RELATING TO THE TAKING OF THE FORT SAN CARLOS. On the 30th December, at balt past ten o’olock, the steamer Virgin hove in sight, coming up the river, and giving the signal, as usual, that all was right, we answered from the fort by acannon. I, in compsny with a boat's ‘orew, put off to board the steamer, as is gonoraily the cage, to receive orders, send despatches to headquarters, (Rivas,) &o, When I went alongside the steamer Mr. ‘Bpencer said, “Is that you, Captain Kruger?’ I said, “Yes.” He then told me to come aboard, acd asked, “Don’t you know mo?’ [salé, “No.’’ When I came on board I was surrounded by at least one hundred Costa Ricans, who before were crouched bebiad the bulwarks. Mr, Spencer then told me that I must surrender, as it ‘was impossible to hold out against the over ming force he bad. 1 then asked loave for my Firat Liouten- @at to go on shore, but was refused unloss I (irst signed the surrender of the fort. Mr. Spencer then told mo (when 1 hesitated) that the innocent bicod of my mon ‘would fall on my head, ar we would certainly be put to death by the Costa Ricans. (a seeing the determination of ‘Mr. Spencer and his superior force, amd not being able to parley or make time till | could send despatches to Rivas, a distance of one hundred and twenty-five miles, I coa- claded to surrender the fort. | was then banded pen, &o , and wrote the following, which | handed to my First Lieutenant: — Henry J. McMahon, you will embark the men on board the San Carlos steamer and surrender at once. McMahon then got permission to go 0a shore (> embark che men, the first officer of the Virgin accompanying him. ‘When on the fort be said be might easily sink tne ship, ‘and asked the men to assist him in turning the gun aaa Greon her, They told bim it was useless. fie then or- dered the men to got their things ready and leave, as wo ‘wore prisoners. He then told them the olroumstances of ‘their position, the captain prisoner, and five of our a Der on board the Virgin, leaving but 13 able bodied mea to defend the fort. They were al! amxtous to fignt it out, and said, ** Wasn't it Detter to die fighting than be a the ‘meroy of the Costa Ricans, who wore proverbial for giving no quarter?’ He then sated that I had confidence to Mr, Spencer, in whose hands we were. Tistnking that though be was a base, treacherous man, still he would noi have the haraihood 10 allow us to be executed if we surrendered. All went on board the Virgin,where we lay until the ‘morning of the 3ist—closely confined. On the ist of January we were ordered to take a bungo ‘and depart for @eeyiown, which is 126 miles from San Carlos. . Bpetwer, 1 believe, thought to drown us Dy inaisting on our leaving at § o'clock im the evening in ‘the bupgo; wo nad no resource, amd made our minds up to be dashed to death in the rapids which we certainly ‘would have been but jor the humanity o/ an Raglishman, ‘an officer named Hardy, boliing the poeition of captain tm the Costa Rican army, who allowed us to walk on isnd Ground or past the rapids. Mr, Spencer told me no re- Ovived $40,000 from Mr. Vanderbilt to ansist the Conta Ricans and psy the expenses of the Costa Rican army ty tako the Transit steamers on the river and iake, wach be qualified after by statiog that it was loft him by ade Ceased uncle, Who left him that amount in sock in we ‘Transit Company, and that Mr. Vanderbilt told hin ia ‘Now York be would pay all exponwes, and that their stoox ‘would bo all right when Walker was exterminated. H told me this LT appealed to him as an American, ani remonstrate him for joining the enemy, Tois Mr. ‘Gpenoor was an engineer for Vanderbilt up the San Carlos ‘and’ Berapiqui rivers, Mr. Spencer did not deny to me Prat he was the went of Mr. Vanderbilt, and had orders to “Gatiat the Costa b icama \o take the Transit steamers, whion he has mucceeded in doing. He also told me (when I said that Walker would retake them) that he, Spencer, if ne aw the slightest probability of that would biow them all ™?. Wo arrived at Greytown on the 4th January, and there mot Cel. Lockridge and Col. Ludrar, who ordored ‘Me to get into a boat and proceed to the point, and take the steamer, We were about fifty yards in the boat trom the shore when we wore ioudly hailed to return, and then told it was useless, as the Eoglish commander of the fis-ship Orion sald he would biow up tne first @Atacking party. It is my opinion, which is shared in by ail Walker's men, that the sympathies of the English captain, whose mame is Erskine, is with the Coste Ricans. I thon applied to the Amerioan Commorcial Agent for assistance. Ho distinotiy refused any ald. waa told he was intimate with Spencer, I then applied i to the English Consu', Mr. Green, who treated us kindly, pwomised to send us home, &c. We shipped on board the Texas, to go to New Orleans, but was afterwards transferred to the James Adger, for New-York. The names of my company, who all reside tn Now- York, are as follc we: — Henry J MoM IstLt, Thomas Duna, ‘Thomas Hagan, $d Lt. Daniet Duffy, Daniel Kehoe, bert Jobp McKeever, Joba Fisob, Licsaecd isn HD, \diey, Malsovy Healy, Joseph Horton, Petrick Connolly, John Johnson, ‘Thomas Atkinson, Frederick Moore, Frenois Adima, Franots doCultogh, George Brown, Wiliam Moduley, Charles Condit, Dominick O'Donnell, ‘Thomas Kerrigan, Joseph Wallace. ‘The San Carios tort is at the outlet of Lake Nicaragua, ‘and situated on # hiticommanding the lake and rivor trapsit, Is armament consists of two guns, andis a very important position for the Costa Ricans to hold. The Sap Carlos and Virgin steamers are the two lake boats; the others are all river boats, and are below the rapids. . While I was at Punta Aronas Mr. Morgan's agent troxt- ed us very well, and we unloaded tho hark ‘overs Hubbard, that had come from New Orlow The steamer Balwer ir “\ting out & retako the river si une Mon with Walker, ‘ . Gs PaY- a » ARMY, Frow @ ve oust Aloxander Jones wo bave guinered th .ag partioulars and incidents of (be ghtiog et .saoada, The narrative is noi given ta the exect words of the Colonel, but it contains the maic- vial fects, Colonel Jones holds the office of Paymaster. General in Waiker’s army. He was with Henningsen during the whole struggle and fighting at Granada, and while reconnoltering the position of the enomy, on the first Gey of the attack by the Oosta Ricans, he received a bali in his thigh from a minie rifle, which broke his thigh bone, and oonsequentiy incapacitated him from ‘taking apy active part in the defence of the various posi- ‘ions occupied by Gen. Henniagsen’s command. Ia his recopnottering adventure he rode right on to a detachment of the enemy which was secreted in the bushes; reign- ‘ng up bis horse he gianced at their position, then turned \o retire, when a minie bail, supposed to have been fired by a deserter, pierced his thigh and broke the bone, as belore mentioned. Without making any movement which «ould discover to the enemy that he had been wounded, he rode slowly away, while some hundreds of natives levelled their rifles at him, the balls all passing over bis bead He returned and reported the position of tue enc- my, then rode to the church, and called out to them to come and take bim from his horse ; they Isughed at hia at first, and would not beliove that his thigh was broken, but soon found it was tootrue. He came tv New York by the James Adger, on a furlough of one hundred sud twenty days, at the end of which time he will return to his duties in Nicaragua, ‘The {ncidente connected with the fighting in Central America have a pecullar interest, showing as they do the individval characteristica of men, and their idiosyncra- cies while suffering from wounds and the various stages of disease. During the fighting in the trenches and field there wero men on our side who frequently dis- played the most dare devii and reckless courage. While the minie balls were flying around us like hail they would stand out io an exposed position aad coolly pop of an enemy, being at the same ti & target for the sbot of hundreds of Central Americans. In tho place where the sick and wounded, the dead and dyirg were gathered together there wore scenes very comico tragical—incidents most diverse and opposed. A great many men went almost mad from the cilects of opium—they lost the entire use of their legs below the knees, They would alt there among the corpses of the dead, and amid the, moans of the dying, socting so feptestically ard droll, that was impossible sometimes to keep from laughing. They were tormented by a burning, parching, quonchless thirst, lize that of the Sahara under the meridian sun. Sometimes ip crawilag about to get water they would meot or ob- struct ome anotber; then they would attack each other t furiously, fight like madmen, which they were Atthe same time near them, or perhaps almost under them, would lay ® poor wounded man, howling from the intensity of his pain, or praying for death, while big agooy with torturing bi grappled bis qaiver- ‘pg form. The maddened men would thus Oght till sepa raved, exhausted, or one overdame the other. Some- times they would chant the fragment of a rabble song as a funeral dirge for the dying. ‘There was one poor fellow lying beside me who had bad bis leg terribly shattered by a bali. I forget his name, but we will call bim Anderson. A delirious man near him kept crawling about for water, and in doing eo came in contact with the wounded man’s mangled lim», which of course made the lattor sutfer the most intense pain, Andorson bore it patiently as long as be could, aad then swore that the next one who got on his log sbould suffer for it. Again, the delirious optum eator, parched with thirst, crawling along socking for water got upon the wounded leg. Anderson raised himself up and pitched into his tormenter, who with the instinct of madness, defended himself and returned the as- sault. The fight grew furious; they pelted each othor right heartily; the one assailed as flercoly as the blood bound does the stag when held at bay, the other defended as savagely as tho tiger when blind with rage and mad with wounds, ho rushes wildly at everything io bis course, At length sense or weakness overcame strength and madness, Anderson triumphed, though like maay ‘who battle for the right, more injured from its defence than be would have been by its loss; but he obtaiaed peace at least from one madman for (he rest of that night. I slept on @ lounge or raised bed which was scarcely s foot above the flocr, yx one night two crazy fellows got wit sued there tm that oonfinea position; they battled ‘tout, Ihad the legs of my bed cut off so they coald not get under there any more. A burning thirst and an ‘natinct of self defence set med to be the great ebaraster- istics of the men when maddened from the offects of optum. They take the opium when thoy are attacked by cholera to save them from the psin and effects of that disease; Dut the drug generates a thirst, aod if they crink water they are sure to die. If they do not drink water opium is s very good moedicme for cholera. ‘There was a native Nicaraguan with us, who, having deen attacked with the cholera, took opium for tte cure. Aa usual, a consuming thirst followed; they would not let him have apy water, There was « well noar, and ever) day be would go out there, sit down and look languidly st the water, The well was about four toon feet deep, with four feet of water in it, The top of the weil was surroanded by a wall two feet high. Every Gay be would goand sit for hours looking down into the water, until the water became so enticing and nls thirat #0 overpoworing, that he plunged in koad rat to geta drink, Help wae immediately cslied, and thoy barely succeeded in saving bim from drowning lis fail id not burt him much. He got one good drink and died The death of Owen Daily, editor of the Nicara guense, Wook very pecatiar circamsten ces, He was left with Gen. Honniogson's co ad at Granada, and did good service m the fold as woll as in the chair, During the singe he was solzed with cholers—there was no medicine to be found in the piace, tll at length they obtained some opin: Six pills were made of optaia, Containing a grain each, and given him ‘with the direction that he should take one pill every bour, to deatroy the effects of the cholera, Foarful of the dis enso from which be was aufering, ho took the six pilis at one dose. The immediate eifects of it were to pat him Into a deep narcotic sleep, He lay there as if in a trance il night and nearty all the next day, the poisonous wood having benumbed every faculty of his mind and body. In the latior part ofthe nextday they attempted to wake him ap; they took him out to the well, and poured cold water over bis head and ali over his bedy ; they rubbed im, shook him, and hai lord at , ull they succeeded in Net bim op sufficiently for him t understead what they were colng and what was going on immediately aroond him, Woe kept bim . this state a short time, 1 talked to bim and trie to ioterest him. He was very sleepy all the time, would isl! foto a baif doze and nod his head, then rouse himscil, That he coatinued his efforts for a little while te keep awake and then fell into & deep bonumbing sleep, During the succeeding night ho lay partly asleep and partly awake. He had set down MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1857. ‘Against the wall and bad fallen into a Very uncomfortabie position, the opit jad 8o exhausted his physical pow'rs that he had not suflicient strength to raise himself, Horrible Tragedies. MELANCHOLY C ~ OF MURDEX AND SUICIDE—A4 HUSBAND POIg "HOLR PAMILY AND KILL BIMBELY, All night long be sat there in that position, slowly, sor- rowfully, saaity breathing out br xe “some gontic. | 4 'erribie tray No, 26 avenue A, man pai mein a more comfortable position?’’—“Won't | 7o*orday mor valor, named Caries ‘some gentleman put mo in more comfortable position?” z. Eanenea, ' ‘ va atory of the ope It was thrilling to hoar bim as he lay there all might loug it hour ™ olson, supposed to bo pltoousty repesting these words, and not be able | Stenlc, andy s -olle mtatping coffee, whioh to help him, and know that no one there could. Mr | Dat been pr oh He drank coptoualy Duffy must have had some oplam sbout him, for next es ones as lent. Be oa peared mart. * ‘ oo of bie ghildren, a girl avor dey bo was up and ap; quite 6 The vis medi cob ee er oe ee catriz naixre alone could net have wrought such a ohange. That day he entered the trenches, aud fought yurtously, He was captain of the volunteer forces. |'» | died standing im the trenohes, his ritle in his h= Bat few good mon are attacked by the c’ most of the men who have suffers. » Wore the scum of low groc and broken down young mer there t “ uit, & » Without w! i . « pineapple into q ‘ ewell up to four times ~ & Ooal, for fermontation in- _ when the tiquor and apple come ia «+ is just so when the pineapple and eady are put in the stemach. I knew a young man who came from Ca/lfornia—etout, healthy and har- ay, be lived there without the least symptoms of deseaso, tho climate agreed with ; butone day ho said to me, “T guess I’ll eat a pine apple, I seo thoy have fine ones bere.’ He went out and bought a fine large one, pealed and eat it—feeling thirsty bo went out and drank some brandy; six hours atter he was dead. He was attacked with the cholera, when that disease was not aboat at all. Jt was not the Asiatic cholera, it was more like a terrible and severe diarrhos, There is so mush aeld in the fruit where, where {| grows rank beneath « tropical sun, that it ts dangerous to ea: @ large quantity of it, ut it ie meg nificent fruit when fully ripe The natives never begin so eat it till this month, they say it is not heaithy before. Teere ts no place in the world hoalthior or that hata finer climate than parts of Nicaragua, but of course where r a olol 1 red the poisoned coites. His id aot drink any of tne liquid, r som) oread in the coffee, aad thus saved. A younger child par- ‘id mot take suffictent to cause hours after the ariaking of tue veghwer died in great agony, we Bye Be father soon followed. Mrs. ‘rwetan was seized with sudden tliness, as aiso hor youngest cmd fhe betwg informed of the affair, ‘the sick woman and ber tnfant cblid were removed to tne residence of ber father, No. 44 Avenue Lb, where they were promptly ‘attended by Dr Shepuera, of the police surgical stafl, and wore soon declared out of di Rbineman was @ very intomperaie man, and oad Itvod unbappily with hie wife in coasequence sacarda: morning be said be had got something for them all, whisl expression on bis part aroused the suspicious of als #ife, end accoraligiy when he begged of her to partake of ihe coflee yestoroay morning she desiiued to do so uatil ho bad drank one or two oups of it bimself Even taen i jas afraid to driok j, and, a6 we have stated vatore, she olpped her bread in the bevorage, and in taat way made her morning weal Intempernace {is the ouly cause assigned for the com. miseiou of the horrid act | 1) ceuscd’s wile used wo snide bim for induiging too freely in the use of ardent spirits, ‘end this may bave induced bim to perpetrate tae double crime of auicide and murcer. The coroner has oven noti fled of the oscurrence, and will hold aa tayuest upon the Dovies of the deceased to-day. 1a the bosom of tno voifee kettle was found a white redimeat, which ws sapposed to be the remains of the arsenic mixed with tne drink ‘The meiancholy affair bas caused a great deal of exsite- ment among the residenis of the Seventeouih ward, and crowds visited the house wherein the shocking dood = for the purpose of gratifying an idle cu. rhoaity. f good hal t ang ai ALLEGED WIFE MURDER. Coroner Covnery was called upon yesterday to oid an fnquctt at No. 210 Sullivan street, upon the the vegetation grows so rack and the water overflows | body of a woman named Sarah Delaney, wno the land there is constantly going on & decomposition fa- | giod from injuries received, it is alleged, at the taj alike to the health of manand beast. The swamps, | nands of ner husband, William elatey, It appeared jow iands end river banks are generally visited at the peril of one’s life, Col. Jones brought us half a bushel of lemons as a spo- cimen of the fruit of Nicaragua. They were ocertalaly ihe most beautiful apd largest samples of that fruit that wo have seen in New York for many a year. If Nicara 608 can grow abuodantly such fruit as this, aad her in- \estine wars are ever ended, 20 that the soll and agri cultural arts receive their due mood of attention, thea New York will become the great patroness of ber indus- wy, apa the mart for ber rich produce. We wiil gladly exchange our manufactures for ner dolicious fruits. ‘thar Delane, O 8 @ Carmen, isa man of violout tem per, and dicted te the tuo {ree use of tasoxioating arinks; that on ¥riday while in that state, com: cured alomg hickory stick, used 10 fastening baies of hay, and struck deceased several heavy blows with ths bludgeon about the bead avd neck, tnilicting fatal wounds. Upun'fan examivation of the ceased the sxull was touna 0 be laid bare from the of Jecws of tt ‘eoetved with tue cluo in the baads of her busband. A daughter of the deceased tentified to beat nto the stick, aad also inid prostrate oa the dw verdist of band, Wiliam Delaney, with a wood jastrument.”’ Upon the rendition of the veroic. Voroner Uonnery committed Deianey to tae the action of the Grand Jury. fue ce of Irectand, aud was 32 yoars The prisoner, on his examivation, stated tpat ho was a native Of Ireland, and was 36 yoars of age. [0 aaswor to the charge preferred against bim be said be was ingocent. SUICIDE BY TaKING@ ARSENIC. Coroner Connery aso boid an inquest at 66 For- syth street, upon the body of a woman named Mary Lottule, who committed saicide by taking « dose of arsenic, The deceased, 1 appeared, bad a quarrel with ber band about some domestic matter, snd becoming low spirited, she purchased a quan ity of arsenic at the drug store, corner of tue Bowery and ties. Pirect, and swalio wou amo. The jury in this case re cered ® lenginy wordics, as fyilowa:—'* Death by euicide fu taking & large quaulity Of arsome, waist abe par cased Bt Lie Crug swre Cornero: Bowery aad Hoster sirees, On Saturday moruing, Jan 24, 1807 We severeiy CeLBUre said apriuecary ior selling to any fomale such & jarge quatuty of arvenic (>, oz.) Without a guaranties irom ® phyrician that all wasrigat. Woe /urbermore nope tbas the Or Bhd ausnorities will serve notives nO} 10 nell poison without @ doctor's proscription to do #0, and that che Siato Loguelavare will guard sae lives of our oti reps by & law to this offcot.”’ The deceased was forty dears of age, aud was a Dative of Germany. DEATH BY BURNS. Coroner Hills heid an toquest at the Now York Hosplial, upon the boy of an infant child of James Barry, of No. 105 Warren street, which died trom the eflects of revere burns, received by her clotues catch wg fire while sbe was playing with a box of matcnes, Verdict ‘Accident! deatn,’” STATEMENT OF M&. JOHN G. MITCHELL. Mr. Mitchell who ts one ol the passengers by the James Adger gives, us the following particulars of the ¢oadition of things tn Nioaragua during his brief passage through shat State: — Wo arrived, he says, at San Juan del Sur from San Franotioo by the Sierra Nevada with about four hundred passengers. Of these it was said some seventy-five or eighty were reoruite for the army of Goneral Walker, and were provided with arms, ammuntuon and ail the ne- cosrary equipments, None of these, it is true, wore to be seen, but it was contidently stated by those who pro. Jessed to be posted in the matter that they were woll provided witharms. It was ais0 understood that the Serra Nevada hada large supply of provisions for the toroes under General Walker, gad that io this supply were five hundred sacks of flour,"eacn weighiog ity pounds On our arrival at Sen Juan del Sur we met a party o Waiker’s men to the number of thirty-five or forty, al ot whom were mounted and well armed. Tuey looked ia €xcellent condition, and appeared to be in the boat o spirits with rogard to the prospects of ther General. They were all drested in blue shirts, on tho breast o which were the initials * R.,”’ sigaifying moanted rilemen. Speaking of Walker, they exprosged the coal dent belief that he would mot only ve avle to retain pos seasion of Rivas, but that Leon would also fall into bis bands, The object of their visit to San Juan del Sur ‘was vot precisely known, but {t was thought that they had come there to meet the new recruits from California, who, it appears, were expected by the Sierrs Nevade. Leaving San Juan dol Sur we were ac companied by & considerable mumber of these mounted riflemen, and om our way to Virgin Gay we fell in with others. They informed us that we were within nize miles of the camp of Goneral Walker, who, it was reported, had cight hundred officiest men under his command, There were e considerable nam vor lying sick, but these are not included in the above estimate, The Mounted Riflomon remained with us tili our arrival ot Virgin Bay, whore wo embarked on bosri the stoam boat and were conveyed to Fort St. Carlos which is about eighty miles from Sen Juan dei dar, From the fact that the flag of Walker was displayed at this piace it was sap. posed that it was in possession of ais forces. Un becom ‘pg more intimately acquainted witn the piace aad toove tn ft we found that this was buts ruse, as it was really io tho bans of band of some fifty or sixty Cools Ricans, under the command of a man named Spencer. This Spencer, we afterwards learned, was the agont of Commodore Vanderbilt, and as such, and acting under \be authority of the government of Costa Rics, had seized ‘be steamboats, and other property. which bad been coa Oncated by order of General Walker to the Stato of Nicar- *gua. He exhibited @ certificate of the authority under «hich be acted, and which purported to be issued by the government ot Costa Hea. It was to the effect that he was duly authorized and empowered to protect all Amer- ‘oan citizens crossing the Isthmus, and to disband or dis miss ail who might be found in the country, who were aunpected of being recruits or soldiers of General Waiker. “pepoor himeelf is acoused of being « deserter from Waiker, sod having gone over to Vanderbilt, whose agent be bas since become. Be came adoard the steamer near Fort % Carlos, aad took porseraton of ber in the name of Commodore \aa- derbiit, He taformed us that there were five hundred Nioaraguans stationed at the Fort and one thousand along the route, all in capital con-ition, woll armed and commended by able and ofictont officers. Those | saw did not certainly bear out this statement, for there wore pot more than fifty Nicaraguens, and they were in as bad and as ragged « state as it is possible to conceive The notice or certifeate with which he was proviied warved the passengers agaist taking the steamboats, which it appears, being well armed, they were capable of doteg =e informed os, in addition, that we wore bie prisoners and he should be obliged to detain ue for som: time, He wen placed us under arrest, in which mained @ day ard @ baif We Gnally suocesded aler being trantierred from one steamer to another in reaching Greytown, whe were boarded by an oiticor belo tng to one of the four Britian men-of- war iying at 400 Jusa, Meeting of the Young Men's Democratic Union Club, THE PROPOSED TARATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. 4 Dumeroes meeting of the Young Moa’s emooratic Union Clab, of this oy, was held at thoir rooms on Fri Gey evening, the 28d iast., 5. W. Cone in the caair. Afier Abe transaction of the usual routine of Dusiness, and afer making arrangements for a vis t of the club to Washing- ton op tee 4:bof March, F. H. Churchill, Esq , made some eloquent and explanatory remarks on oar rela ons with great Britain in reterence to the Central Ameri can question and the treaty |atoly mogotiatod with hor, and introduced for the conside ation and adoption by the club the following resolutions :— ‘The Young Men's Detocratic Union Club, of the city of New York, im view of the proposed treaty bewween the United Btaies aod reas Britait, Wuich it Is Undersioo! Is wow Delores the senate of the United Mates, resvive as follows: — ‘That we conceive ii to be the auty as it 8 wdmitied to be the Tight, Of BU American citizens (0 aiscums nud declare their ( express aay Opinion upoo ihe deus \, the proviaone of a tad betore the ‘alike in theory and by ex ¢ desire no other principles by which to contro! OUFepinions m retereace to ine pulley ,to be pursued vy tae United ptales respecung © the other ovates of the Coutneat, ADA’ Pad “OUF Prepoucerance iN all questions arising vas Gf it,” abd “Ur ascendancy in Lhe Walt oF Mi * thaw thowe embraced In We resolULiORs oFarieR On (noe atthe inte National Demicratic Cou rention ‘That the United states need Lo povitiens tuteuwge, and it order to develope, so far aw they righ Gilly may, he resvurces of He Weetern conuiwent, @ad that, to iuitodule a foreign evoment JOF that DUTbONe, Au reeuit OMLy Io emvarranean ties and Giseentions —Lhat, whive the existing rig (* Of tions should be serupwousiy observed by ibe united they should zealously oppose the exvenaion of the seiemen'A OF Proeciora re Uf every Nation Of Rurope GICDe ON thie CoutivENt * here wey Are NOL R.ready estabuaned Thos hough the United cimes may wih pertect pro priety exercise a tbe “domestic affairs be @ departure from the settle: enter Imo any troaty hw loflaenee Of the United etater aud a tocegn g2vern Allolr® of any nation, however Wess or wuimporwant ‘eUIANBINg Ailiagoes' should be avoided vat ol regard te own policy. and, m feover, the navption of m Wealy pro aig ¢ exer cian of such lafiuence, word be in fenaive to the nation upon which h was jateade! w by ched. 1 bat the United States should pursne an iodeyendent p ree the affairs oi Ceutea 4 4, responaibin Alone w themseives and the matured judg tent of mankind (or tae purity of tneir motives and the propriety of Leu wets. ‘That in Hew the fact. (ont im che nataral progress of ¢ te the mtater © Tuvure Une desire to peoume it oom i impotitie for the Unive peaition, rough weauies with fore was, BY Would be imponsiole fur them to yieu, if so disposed, w the earnest roliciiavion of those who may desire to suare mm We privileges which the Ameriesn propie enjoy. The resolusiuns on being seovaied were uoanimourly adopted. such Our Long Isiand Correspondence. Simmreneay day, Jam. 23, 1867 Abandenment of (he Sony Preedian who nterfered about our bagmage, ordering \\ to be tasoa oft the It was eons) At about exght o’olvck thie waing, the sloop Free corablyo Fougairaat | dom wae discovered olf boat house No 2, at Saesps ment It rece four days town whea - theatesm>hip Toxae arrived, and wo Prosenied win | Sted bay, with a signal of distross tiying. tain be opportuni y of going to New Oris d of being # Tappan, of boat bowse No, 2 mm to from ibat city York It | board OF remowe the distressed yeasel. The sivop needless to say we met th | drifted down om Rockaway shoals, Six men tron there Jemes Adger op our Way oot and came on by her. The steamer Toxas brought oat a consdoraple nimbe of reerwite to Walker jrom New Orieans, an: engaged in iting op & emall steamer to ascend tne river, with the viow of retaking the posta which had been cap tured by Spencer and the Coste Ricams. After oflecsiag velumteered to go w ber, Soe laid Ave miles irom tne shore, They dragged two boats a tar as they cvuid, but becoming weary of their siow sud laborious pro- grees, they aitempied to proceed the rest of the way on oot, though it waa at the hazard of their lives; they sao ceeded and boarded the unfortunate v ad no ‘The British Brig Princess Loulsa. THE UNITED ATATES STHAMEK ARCTIC TO BE DES- PATCHED TO HER ASSISTANCE ‘The United States stoamer Arctic will go sea to-day, under the command of Leut, Go». T. Sinclair, the Firat Lieutenant of tho Wabash, ¢) relieve the brig Priscoss Loulss, reported in distress by the ship Patrick Henry. ‘The accownt was received on board the Wabash carly yesterday moroing, read in the Sundsy Herp, thateao Koglish brig was off the coast in distress. At cnce Capt. Engle communicated to the commandant of the yard thet Lieut, Sinclair, Assistant Surgeon Otis, Engineers Mo- Coom and Jones, and Midehipmen Sicard, Lee and Norton, and any number of seamen, had voluntecred to take the steamer Arctic aad goto hor reliof. The roply from tho Commandant was, ‘‘goabead.”’ At 12 meridian the re- port from the Arctic was that they thought it impossibl to get her ont of tho tee, tt was so packod in that it was next to impossible to move her The reply was, that “if the Arctio can be got out, she hasto como.” At this time the tugboat Lackawana arrivod, and commenced to broak @ passage to the Arctic. At near 2, the tog miking no way, gave up. The ics is packed in so thick tha breaking and cutting makes no progress, The officers were thoreforo reluctantly compelled to ease work, for if the tugbvat could not mest the Arctic half way, thero was no use in trying to got the Arctic ont. ‘The Arotic bas not yet been moved her length, She will probably be got out to day, The Weather Moderating, SYMPTOMS OF 4 GENERAL THAW AND BakAK UP OF ICK IN THE RIVERS AND BAY—MOST OV THE FER- RIES RUNNING—THE CITY CARS—THE MALLS. The weather, which on Saturday might seomed to promise a snow storm, cleared up towards sunday morn- ing, and all yesterday Now York enjoyed bright and warmly-disposed sunshine, to which it bas for a loag time been an utter stranger. Broadway was (uil of po destrians during tho day, and the churobos rojoiced in good attendance, our citizens seoming to be destrous of embracing the opportunity of getting out while it was fine, not knowing how soon they might again fiad thom telves the other nide of zero. The sidewalks in the sua wore very muddy and watery, owing to tho long accumu. nd if this thaw continue, the pave- ments wil be almost impassavie to ladies. To-morrow will be an excellent opportunity for the unemployed poor to turn an honest penny, by going round to the different stores and houses, and requesting the job of clearing the sidewalks 10 front of them. The occupants wiil be giad of their services. THE FERRIES. ‘Thoro was little if any ice mace on Saturday night, and at LL A. M. yesterday the ebb tide begas to clear tae Kast river to @ considerable aegreo, except ou the Long Island sido, where folks were skati:« in large numbers, Wali street ferry ran only one boat during tho day, but sno made the trip about every ten minutes. Ali the ferries above that point experienced but Little difflouliy. Pook slip ran two boats to Williamsburg, aud the captains reported but little ico tn the channol during the afternoon. Taore was no ferry ranoixg below Wail street. On theN srta river ihe only boats plying were to Jer sey City and to Hoboken from Baroiay street. The river was pretty clear until approaching the New York shore. Passengers were numerous during tho day. One Staton Isiand boat ran three irips to aad from this city yestercay, and mot with but listle ice until near Governor's Island. The regular hour and-a-haif trips will be resumed to-day, THE CARS. ‘The First and Second Avenue Vompany have displayed Iaudab e energy in cioaring ther track, and yesterday ran their fail complement of car: with the usue! trata of horses, Tho line {s now cioar to Hariom, the compaay baving strown mai of coarse which reduces thi Carn ran yeswwrday every three minaves. Tho fhird avenue ran thirty flvo cars during the day, each with four borses The Fourth avenve had but six on the track. ‘The Sixth and Fighth avenue cars ran half their usu.) number with double teams, but only as far as Caambors street. THE MAILS. Tho Boston mai! due at 6:40 ?. M. on Saturday arrived in New York at4 A. M. yesterday. The Harlem Railroad through mail, duo st 4 P.M. Satur day, got 0 ibis city at $45 a. M. Sunday, The Cinctowat! mall, which snoula have been hore at 8 P.M. Saturday, arrived at 6:80 yestercay moruing; aad the Agents’ mail from Oswego, due st 7 P. M. Saturday, arrived at 6:80 A. M. yesterday, Tho Erie Railroad mail, dae at 10 P. M, Saturday, got here at 8:.9 Sundsy mornin, City Intelligence. THE “BESCUE OF A HANDSOME YOUNG LADY FROM A CONVENT. ‘The foliowing report has lately beer goleg the rounds of our city — Convent Romance —Constdorable Oreated in the borhood ot tH streets, on Fi cltemrnt = wae od Mulborry young sad vory busdsome Inay 9,000 from tae con vent of the Muters of Mery, It noems toast some two years ago the young !aay fell in iove, was disappointed upd disgusted with tne world, and entered toe convent se apovice. She fo have kes tue Disck veil ia s few duys, when woul © become toe property of “the chorcb.’’ Happily her friends dissuaded her Just ia time, and om Frivay carried ber home t» liwockor turest. Hereby “the churoh’’ lores & beausiiu! young Pen, ands fine dower, The Indy belongs tone af tae ert and wealthiest of car eld New York tives. “Happily her (riends dissuaded her just ia time, and on Friday carried ber home to Bloeckor street’’ la rather at variance with the cheap novel ives of “Convent Roman ces,’ where beauufal » ladies with large pro- perties are usually eeoured by bolis and bare, and their Iriends never permitted any commupication with them, cop! through an irom graiieg, aud in presence of the y handsome inay,’’ ‘ fell fn tove,”” is he etereciyped clapirap of such camara. We happen to be acquainted with the facts of the case. indy, Whore fortur Dot anything ike th the coo of the Saters of Mercy ia , ane the ususl worm of noviciate would Al September of ibis year. She entered an age When she could efter sixteen movius’ trial, All'ot when ie rather more commonplace than omantic Of the suthors of the above report is to cami dium meritorious instituwon. rhe object of the Sisters of Merey i to reileve Woe poor of this city a0: cor them in Wlmess, and to provide a home for irien tees yong girls of good character uatil they can be engaged an domestica tn families. No distinction is made in seot of re igioo, and the josiiution bar 9,000 each girie im various hourebolds during the lsat eight yours. fhe convent tiseif ie situated in Houston street, and ix acces sible to anybody desirous of visiting It Nova, Paarers ws ove Pune Semoout —A leotare will be delivered by Professor Iiyatt, on the useand structure of the steam engine, before ihe pupils of Ward Sebool No. 11, Seventeenth street, near Egoth avenue, thie shernoon, at two o'clock. he sul ustrated by © working model. oP. jelligence, Axon Fraaue Sc srockes.—Mary Taylor and anne Rooney were taken into custody by oMcer Browne, of the Fourth ward police, charge of having picked the pocket of Hester Newton, s passenger on board one of the Fulwn terry bc ata, Justice Connolly commitied th acoused for trial, A Pose Fiowt Parvarte.—At an early how yester dey morning Sergeant Warnock and others, of the Six teenth ward police, dispersed ® crowd which had assom Died et the foot of Nineteenth street, Norta river, ‘or the Porpowe of iaeseing rine fans one email soale, be tween two jusis named jormen ani . ; johmaey ERALD. nis they Intended joining Walker. It appears (28: | ody on doard, though the sigual of was stil fly- Carteaa ov 4 Berotar —Obarien Kelly was taken int) pt] Cg AO pt oT) hoes ing, baving beem made fast w the riggio They sup custody by officer Smith, of the Seventh ward police, on Ricans, aud were fomowhat aimilat in appearance wod | Pred) Oy tie tee a eon ised way munae | charee of having borgiariously entered the store No. 17 obaracter to the Greasers of California, All the men who Pad w rved Spy oni who camo with =e cor gers, spoke highest terms ot ot bit Conaeot “they have the greatest mate success and of the bravery and determination of {be men comprising his army. LA 4 160,000 in oete of 1864, The t ene market, and the rise in te price of felt, ere said t0 have Oocasioned the falling of. The receipts of the Superintendent for the yaar were 852,046 44, end the expenses $60,965 65—lenving a balance of $9 6 70 The amonnt of salt arrived at Oswego, in ' + ne 3.488, and at Buffalo 1,081,767 dusnois— . o08 Mt Onwego of 466,309 bushels, & si dev of $66,171, compared with , the resolution at the next meeting of the Common Coun Catharine street, for the purpors of stealing. The ao- cused, It is alleged, forced pen (be cellar door and made bie way up into the store, where he was captured by the policeman. Justice Woe1 com mitted the prisoner tor ox- i Jerscy City News. amination. Tas Gas ComPary asp Oommos Counci, —The difference Bosto: > | N Harnron.—The intense cold of last night between the Jersey City Gaslight Company aad tho Com- | bes compicvely frozen up the asrdor, and the tone non Counoil of that city, as © the terms atwhioh gas | Which Was partially opened yesterday by the tow boat shall be supplied for Nighung the streets and to private | tSe'tow beai to ettrionte bervell proved unevailing, “sie consumers, bas not yet been remains to day (rosen up tight. Ihe foe hae made still Yet deen effected for lightio farvher down the barbor, end this morning the Narrow: of the subject i@ now to bs re opened. | and Lighthoure chaneel are frosea over The ice mate ing of the Com: Councli Aloerman Tyrrell offered a | | jarrows last night euffewntly strong to allow poo Terolution reso: iq the rea rintion parsed Novem er 18, P cross over from Gallup's Teiand, and some pi ow 1861, giving this company pormission to lay their pipes im | who bad their oraf moored near the island, were seen the streets. The resolution of Aldermaa Tyrreli was laid | on the ioe this morning, walking over to the ship Chapio, yon the table, and be gave potice that he should call up | which is frozen up in the Narrows, So much ice has not + | been seen in Boston Rarbor for many years. —oson Jornal, Jan. 24, of the six volunteers sre Anderson ell, John Col- | weil, Angustus Colwell, Wm. H Fayou, Frederick Landy, Francia Greenwood aad James Jenison, { PRICE TWO CENTS. AFFAIRS AT THE STATE CAPITAL. THE UNITED STATES SENATORIAL QUESTION. The Contest Among tie Republicans. BUSINESS BEFORE THE LEG SLATURE. Movements of State Politicians in Na- tional Matters, &o., &., a. SEW YORK LEGISLATURE, Asnembiy. Ausany, Jan, 234, 1867. NEW YORK CITY APPAIKH, Mr. Pomaxoy introduced his bills relating to Now Yor, and they gavo rise ioe porfect furry among the ofty members, each one being objected to, tho roading calleé for and the reference opposed. Tao flys! bil! was the ome to provide (or the location and erection of a new City Halt im the city of Now York, It ts aa follows:— Seotion 1. Now City Hall (0 bo erocted on such site aw Commissioners may select Seo. 2. Throe comm jonors to be appointed by Ge- ‘vernor, with consent of to be denominated ‘Com- miseioners of the New Ciy Hail.’ Torm of olllce three years and until completion of mall, at Bo sanual salary of 600 each, ana with power to appoint a clerk. Heo 8. Site to be on any pevile place or square. Sec. 4. No commissiouer to be laverested ia any com- tract or Work councoted wilh the hall undor poasity of romoval Bec. 6 Fandés to be procured by tssue from time te Ume, a8 needed, of afive per cent atook, in sharcs of $108 enon, redecmabic iu twenty years, and not eacooding tm the aggregate $2,000,000 Stuck to be nold to sue bigness bidder aiter due notios, ana to bu made 4 banking bags. Sec. 6, Interest in stvok to 0@ raised by genera: tax cach year, with auificiemt sum eagh year, a8 siaki.g ‘uads, jw )ydeem stock in twenty ) cars. Sco. 7. Moneys rained upon stock to-bo doportted wits Trust Company or bank on interest aud crawn by Com- missioners. Sec. 8 Commissioners to purchase matertais, omplop workmen, &> Sec. 9. Commissioners to report to Common Counell om eaob fist of January. Seo 10. Act v0 take effect immediately. Mr Kivian moved the reference to the Now York dole Ration, Lbs wes opporoe by Mr. Poot, who movod the reference of the bili wo the Commitiee ou ities waa VE Inges. Afler a pretty warm debate, the motion of mr. Fout prevatied. Mr. Pomxsoy, then {atroduced his bill relia ing to the Board of Supervisors of the county of New York A atrogglo again easued tion tno reiereace, Mr. Wood MOVINg LAL It De Bens to tbe Committor os Miliary De fence, With instructions to report at what ume ine Legin- javure of the State intend t» bowbard the oy. Tuo re- ference ventually made 4 the Commiuwo on Cites and Villeges. The SPxakeR theo announced avothos of Mr. Pomeroy’s ) uw Dawa Mr. Giovae rose toa polatot order. [ne gentiemam from Cay vgs bad not addressed the coair ner weg bers bad, and it was neither fair nor propor t» allow a member to take advantage Of One rocognition by the er to end wu ‘hule oaigh of Dilis et one time, and thus ceprive others of tholr tegitimaie canxce of tm. Uoducing thetr bills. ‘The draskam decided that the point of order was well taken apa recognized Mr. Lavine, WOO tatrosuced @ Dub to amend the act regulating the storagect gunpowder New York Mr. omsaoy was then again recognized by the Speaker, = (ted Dill remung Ww Wwe police doparimas a New Yor ‘The reading by the title wat objected to, und the bin ‘as conseqacatly compellod to be read in full. Mr Foot Made au eilors 10 laverrups the reagiog, bus tno demo ore were resoluie, And fooirted tuo tae aw they could, waking ad’ qairieg UDADIMOWw Consent Lo Bur, ihe reierence Mr Artuur Wood ar. Mauon oud ae, James J Kowy again made aa ollors 10 co che matter into (0 bade Of she Now York doiegation, ous of coarse Withous success Mr. Woop iven rose to @ point of order. He novoad Benlewen, Da members of the House, Dovesing around Within tbe eacred preciucts Of the Dar. He calls upow he oflicers to do their duty, and Clear the iloor ¢f per sons not entilea thereto. The FraskaR declaree that a!\ persons on the floor net entitled to the priviiege, would be considerta as om Croeebing Upon the rules of Geoor A large bumver of New Yorkers were present at the time, wolucwg Himeon reper, KM Lisoutord, Alem jor Hamilwe, Jr, Moses A Griagell,) J Woeatervett Mr. Wesley of the Times, Kubard most aud otoers. The reaving Of the bili exienved uearly t» too time @ scjournmest, woen Mr. Gourge gut in @ vill 0 aoviee the ceath pepaity, and substiute Imprisonment for life Mr. Vancom endeavored to oxtead the 1m, of adjvarm Ment, bus Daif a dozen demooretic Guthamites sprucg ap with objecduns, apd tho Huse aajoarned Our Albany ( or respondence. Atwasy Jae 32, 1967, The Lobby Influence in Albany—The Supply Bill of 186e— Aluse of the Pardoning Power—United Sates Jurisdic- tion in New York, de., de ‘There is no suoh thing as retisting the lobby managers. They ar ned to every interes of afiacoce They save dolegntce trom banks,. railroads, nowspapora, \asurence and savings basks, and even tho |’rovestant church koopa lin representatives in the lobby Of the New York Leguaia ture; aod when anything like a combination of interests in be effected, there ie & moral certainty suai soy sming they mey desire will ultimately pass through both branch en of the Legisiature. Mr. Foot, of tue Hours, underwok to face this iobby in‘uerce, and thongh one of the stroag- est mon ip the House, experienced & most dirgraceul de feat He undertodk to cut dowa somo of tbo oxtravagaat &)propriations in the Supyly bill, and the discussion oom. Unaed until Rear twelve o'clock last aight, woen (he ques- Won was taken, and be only fuund cigvea members ous of the epe bupdred and twenty cigat who lolt any regard tor the protection of the Siate treasury. Tao bill pamed, And copiains more than seventy five thousand doliare, when fairly construed, is wothing less than a eye tematized scheme of legal robbery. pass, making provision for the expenses of government Jor the year 1866, There are sovern items iu thie whem ought to be materialiy cut cown, anda. ition was mage to prupe one of two, andoame vory noar being carried, when the bili was laid over aatli to-morrow. Cals ome, 100, With its half million im ft, wit! paes the Sonate ae 1 bas the House, with every ‘i’ dotud aod every “’* crossed precisely as the sharpers in the ioboy have dictated, Members of the Logis ature come t) the capt tal, montly pure and honest, but inexperienced, and, be foro aware of it, are inthe power of the sharpers oy means of railroad (ree tickets or other more sabetantiad Appliances. Mr. Brooks, with an eye intent apom ihe executive cba'r, int-oduced @ resolution tn the Senate requesting the Secretary of State to report percons irom tbe state prison granted by (h» executive during the last four years, Since the expore came out om the first of January, giving the number of convicts Governor Clark bed relossed during bis poviuoal ex ptr hours, there bas arisen quite a discussion whetner bes been more chick.» hearie or Weak neatea than hie root Seymour, Sesewr Vaausqorh was very 6 rate wie a view {AION UPON Ine SADJect Hs wok ft method, einer by aiser- , Of reileriny \ae execute the PRrcODing Yow: r, Mow One Of ths ino8i i oreEs 4 perpiexiog duties of office He wet toformed 1 Iwo thousatd three Ruvtrea appticstions tor m State prison bad Deum mate two vx Goversor Clark curing the two years of bis term Senator Noron wished tue examination of ¢ to extend back tan years, tnetes ! of four the republicans a8 having besa poliusicaiy conetitation pisces the pard power the Governor, #:\noUt aawiga- pg any reason therefor, if he chooses not to pus m record, it isan arbitary power, outirely within his ‘Will, abd to decide justiy wpoe all appiiostions wa!ch come renders it iy imy of the commission. know, Which of the aforesaid Governors have boca the most tender hearted. ‘The most effective speech of the seaaion yot dolivered was one made to-day t By M. Pomeroy, mem- ber of the Hoose from Cayuga county. it was upon the Dill granting juriadiotion to the Ui States the lands occupied by the government siores of tne At move deck, (be Assay Office and Howse io Wal street, = fg ey Poat oe site fronting the Park. Mr. P. c fd log onl) tended that the Siate of a OER enure j risciction either in otvii OF orimioa! matirs. Our citizens thovld be subject to the laws of their own Stale, with those of the United States: and in criminal cases triai aboud be had withia our Own jarsdictiom for oflevoes condemned by our laws, rather thas to avow acemed pertons to be conveyed to Virgina or suum