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El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in 1839.
The New York Times, New York, New York
December 18, 1861
CENTRAL AMERICA.
The Panama Railroad Company's steamer California, chartered in place of the Guatemala, which broke her shaft near Punta Arenas de Costa Rica, arrived at Panama on the 4th, having the Guatemala in tow. The dates from Guatemala an dSalvador are to the 24th and 26th, from Nicaragua to the 28th, and from Costa Rica to Dec. 1. There is nothing immportant from Guatemala, Nicaragua or Costa Rica. Salvador, as well as New-Granada, is the theatre of Church excitement. Sometime since, the Bishop of Salvador demanded the punishment of one of President Barrios' Ministers, for having rather freely commented -- but in general terms -- on the abuses of the Church. This demand led to a sharp correspondence in which the Bishop was plainly told that he would not be allowed to meddle in State affairs. Since then affairs have been getting worse and worse between the civil and Church dignitaries, till Barrios has been compelled to exile the Bishops, who has gone to Guatemala. Another high churchman has fled to Panama, and the priests all over the country are packing up to make tracks. Salvador has always been a good deal priest-ridden, and there would be considerable danger of a revolution were it not that Barrious is a military man, and . . . pays his soldiers and officers before anybody else is paid.
New York Times, New York, New York
Saturday, September 16, 1865
CENTRAL AMERICA.; Arrest and Execution of President Barrios Popular Resentment Against the Government End of the Revolution in Honduras.
The Panama Railroad Company's steamship Parkersburg arrived at Panama, from Central American ports; yesterday morning.
The only important item of news is, that the Government of President Duenas, of Salvador, had tried, by court-martial, Ex-President Gen. Gerardo Barrios, of Salvador, and shot him. Gen. Barrios, it will be recollected, was overthrown nearly two years since by the joint action of the rebels of his own State and the army of Guatemala, and escaped. He came to Panama and then went to New-York and Washington with his lovely wife, where they made many friends in government as well as in private circles. After several months in the United States, he returned to Panama, and a few months since sailed from here in a vessel bearing the American flag for Salvador, where he was promised aid to recover his lost power. He proceeded on his voyage, but his vessel having been struck by lightning and badly damaged, he was obliged to put into the port of Realejo, Nicaragua, for safety. There his vessel's papers, which were made by the United States Consul at Panama, were declared to be forgeries, and she was seized by the Nicaraguan Government, which was friendly to Duenas. Commissioners were sent from Salvador to Nicaragua to demand the rendition of Gen. BARRIOS, and he was given up on the express stipulation that he was under no circumstances to suffer death.
On the arrival of Gen. Barrios in Salvador, he was thrown into prison and condemned to death, on the flimsy and dishonest pretence that the action of the commissioners was illegal, as it restrained the Government of Salvador of its sovereignty. The unfortunate man was notified of his sentence on the 28th of August, at 11 at night, and in five hours after was shot, having been refused three hours longer to settle his private affairs.
In Salvador, a deep feeling is said to exist against the government for this barbarous act, and in Nicaragua the feeling against Duenas for the act, and his bad faith, is intense. The news will be received by hundreds in the United States with deep regret.
Muskogee Phoenix, Muskogee, Oklahoma
August 28, 1890
GENERAL OF DIVISION Ignacio Ballatoir has been appointed by President Diaz of Mexico as a special Minister to Central America, resident in Guatamala, with confidential instructions to act as mediator in affairs between San Salvador and Guatemala.
