362 TKAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



American speculators, who undertook, in considera- 

 tion thereof, the transport of recruits for Walker's 

 army from all parts of the Union. Long and compli- 

 cated proceedings between Mr Vanderbilt, the Mcar- 

 aguan Government, and the new Transit Company, 

 in which Messrs Morgan and Garrison soon became 

 the leading men, now took place proceedings which 

 it would be tiresome here to detail, and which have 

 already cost the United States Government endless 

 trouble and annoyance. Their most unfortunate re- 

 sult, so far as General Walker is concerned, has been 

 to make for him an enemy of a powerful, wealthy, 

 and not very scrupulous man in Vanderbilt, who has 

 now allied himself to the Costa Eicans, and whose 

 daring and energetic agents have enabled those bas- 

 tard Spanish troops to accomplish a feat of strategy 

 in the seizure of the river -boats belonging to the 

 present Transit Company, of which they were other- 

 wise incapable. 



When so many events happen concurrently, it is 

 always difficult to maintain a chronological sequence ; 

 and in order thoroughly to appreciate General Walker's 

 position at this crisis, it is necessary to recur again 

 to the battle which had just been fought at Eivas. 

 A short time before this event took place, with a view 

 of conciliating the democratic party, the seat of gov- 

 ernment was moved from Grenada to Leon, which 

 had always been considered their headquarters, and 

 thither the President Eivas went, leaving Walker in 



