Show Americans Arrested t Havana 24Capt Petersen of the Norwegian bark Waltouren has arrived here The vessel sailed from Tonala Mexico Sept 23d with mahogany freight and on the 29th was lost on a coral reef The crew escaped in boats and reached the Island of Layaranas where they found a party of Americans Ameri-cans nine in number engaged en-gaged in digging and collecting guano Two of the party Av Faulkes and 0 H Vaughan acted as superintendents The crew remained re-mained on the island until the 15th of October receiving assistance from the Americans and some days later arrived at Tampico Mexico TheMexican authorities learned of the Americans being on the island and sent a gunboat there and arrested rested the whole party bringing them to Campeachy where they arrived ar-rived October 22d The next day the Americans deposited with Captain Cap-tain Peterson various letters to friends with instructions to mail them to New York the captain however delivered the letters to the American consul here and the latter lat-ter will forward them to the state department at Washington |