has changed, until it is now several miles farther south than it was in
1858.

Costa Rica claimed that the boundary should be the spot where the old
channel was; Nicaragua, that the treaty called for the channel of the
river where it emptied itself into the sea, and that therefore the new
mouth of the river is the boundary.

It is a serious matter for Nicaragua, for the opening to the Nicaragua
Canal on the Atlantic Ocean side is through the Rio San Juan del Norte.
If Costa Rica were to own the mouth of the canal while Nicaragua owns
its body, there would be no end to the complications and troubles which
would arise.

The matter was therefore submitted to arbitration, President Cleveland
appointing the arbitrator.

The decision has just been rendered, and is against Costa Rica. The
arbitrator decides that the old treaty holds good, and that the boundary
line of Nicaragua is the channel of the river as it flows into the
ocean, and that no matter how far the Rio San Juan del Norte creeps down
into Costa Rican territory, Nicaragua will always own to the channel
where it flows into the sea.

Costa Rica is of course angry that the decision was against her, and she
may try to secure her lost territory by force of arms.

This is the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican trouble. The disturbance in
Guatemala is in the shape of a revolution, which, if the accounts we
hear are true, is of a serious nature.