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Webstcr, soon after this seizure obtained a grant from Costa Rica to open said line, assuming that Costa Rica had such right He went to the US to raise funds upon the strength of said charter. offered it to Vanderbilt, who rejected it; doubting its validity as his Agent Spencer had said nothing about it; then to Garrison for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Garrison & Morgan agreed to ncgociate if Webster could get the charter modified and made more liberal. The charter in the mean while expired by limitation. - Webster & Harris then succeeded in obtaining a second charter from Costa Rica, offering to pay half million dollars. This charter expired also - Webster, and Allen, in the em- ploy of Vanderbilt applied for a third charter fro[m] Cos - Ri -:-- While the nego[ · 80 ] on, Irrisari, repre- senting [Ni]caragua, made a contract with Stebbins & Co-- On hear- in this Webster [ 80 ] Costa Rica to war against Nicaragua an[d s]eize on the Transit; the meantime did what he could to defeat the treaty in Washington City. Failing in all, Webster is now in Managua pretending to have bought said boats from Costa Rica for Vanderbilt. [Endorsed] Information respecting the Nicaragua Transit Fr[om the] beginning to the present time April 1858 No. 2625 1858 ,~lay 4, J[OSE] DEBRIN, MANAGUA, [NICARAGUA] TO B. SQUIRE -CO'l'REL[LJ, SAN JUAN DEL NORTE, [NICARAGUA] Lamar's receipt of despatches from Cotrell; thanks for information; plans; the prospects of the treaty; personal messages. A. L. S. 3 p. Ko. 26:?6 1858 May S, J. L. COLE, LEON, [NICARAGUA] TO M. [B.] LAMAR, ~L\NAGUA, KICARAGUA" 1 Lion J[ay 8th. 1858 His Excellency l\L Lamar Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States ?!Ianagua N ica- Sir - Solicited by some friends- one an expresid~nt - to call your attention to a few facts in rela- tion to the efforts now being made to co11solitlate the Central Ameri-
""Illegible where clorument is torn. "A. L. S.
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