Hall to P. S.— May 28. I have just seen in the Salvador papers a telegram from the President of Honduras to General Figueroa, offering the mediation of that Government in the present difficulty, and General Figueroa’s reply accepting the same very cordially. A similar proposal was sent to General Menendez, and although his reply had not been received there is little doubt but that he will accept the offer, and it is said that a meeting and conferences were to take place yesterday. I have every hope that it will result in peace being declared. J. MATHÉ, June 5, 1885

Mr. Hall to Mr. Bayard.

Sir: In my dispatches numbered 355, 367, and 369 I reported to you all the information I had been able to gather, up to the 2d instant, concerning the insurrectionary movement in Salvador. I now inclose copies of two letters, dated the 26th ultimo and 3d instant, from Mr. Mathé, consul of the United States at Sonsonate, which is some ten or twelve leagues from Santa Ana, the headquarters of the insurgent General Menendez. Mr. Mathé reports the capture of the place by the insurgents, its recovery by the Government forces, and other incidents of interest.

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In my No. 367 I reported that Nicaragua had sent a detachment of some five hundred men to La Union to aid the Government of Figueroa, Zaldivar’s successor, and that another force would be sent from Corinto, either to the same place or to Acajutla; the latter, to the number of six hundred men and upwards, was landed at La Libertad on the 3d instant, to which place it was transported from Corinto in the Pacific Mail Company’s steamer San Juan. It is also reported that another detachment of five hundred Nicaraguans will soon follow.

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