NICARAGUA.
The Gazette Official, published at Manque, of 22nd August, contains1 the following items:—A treaty of amity, regulating the boundaries of the State, has recently been made by General Canas on the part of Costa Rica, and Don Gregorio Juarez on the part of Nicaragua. Salvador has recognised the Provisional Government of Nicaragua. The city of Granada, destroyed by Walker, is being rapidly rebuilt. Several warehouses, well filled with goods, have already been established. A private letter from San Juan del feur, dated 3rd September, states that the excitement about Walker and his suspected filibustering schemes is fast dying away in i Nicaragua. There are now not more than a dozen Americans remaining on the isthumsi and if business dose not soon revive they will have to leave. As an evidence of the utter prostration of business in San Juan del Sur and the poverty of its inhabitants, I will.mention that the steamer Columbus on her last trip from Panama to that port had a freight bill of only 18 dollars to collect there, but there was actually not that ! paltry sum in the whole town! The master of the vessel was compelled to take an order on a party in Puntarenas. There seems to be a general feeling throughout Nicaragua in favour of an alliance between that country and Costa Rica. Nearly all the land proprietors favour the acquistion of the country by the United States. This is-the case to a certain extent in Costa Rica also. La Chronica, of September 2, contains a bitter article against Nicaragua, and declares that Costa Rica will not allow Nicaragua to make any cession of the Transit to Vanderbilt. The inference is that, as this paper is entirely under the control of the Government,1 a rupture between the two countries may soon be expected. A rumour reached Puntarenas just before the sailing of the Columbus that the Government of Nicaragua hstd seized the San Juan River boats in the name of Vanderbuilt. As my private advices from San Juan del Sur to 23rd instant make no mention of this, I am disposed to discredit the rumour.
NICARAGUA.
Colonist, Issue 23, 8 January 1858, Page 4
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