Nothing, however, was seen of the vessel expected from the northward and
westward, and on the 26th, the Granada again stood up the gulf. On the
27th, a bungo, with several passengers, was captured, and on the 28th, a
large boat from Tempisque was taken, and one of the passengers proved to
be Mariano Salazar. When Salazar was brought aboard the Granada he gave
his name as Francisco Salazar, but De Brissot had seen him at Realejo,
and, although not certain of the fact, told Fayssoux he thought the
prisoner was Don Mariano. In the same bungo with Salazar were several
letters for persons in San Salvador. The day after Salazar was taken, the
Granada sailed for San Juan del Sur, whence the prisoner and the letters
were immediately, on the schooner’s arrival, despatched for Granada.
Salazar was executed as a traitor on the Plaza of Granada late in the
afternoon of the 3d of August. It was Sunday, and the people of the town
gathered in numbers to witness the execution. They regarded Salazar as
the author of most of the misfortunes they had undergone during the civil
war. It was his money had fitted out the democratic bands which had
burnt the Jalteva, and robbed the shop-keepers of the suburbs; and they
regarded it as a special providence that he should be taken by a schooner
he had himself owned, and be executed by the Americans he had first used
and then attempted to betray. There was the same joyful feeling shown
by the old Legitimists at the death of Salazar as had been shown by the
Democrats at the execution of Corral.
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