New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-22


not be able to issue our paper again, until
Saturday morning.
INVASION OF SO.N0RA,
Mo i President Walker I'VE we're too
much pressed for space yesterday, to be able to
do more than give at large the details, brought
by the steamer George Law, of the operations
of Captain-now President Walker, in Lower
California. and the sudden uprise of what he
is pleased to entitle Republic: republic Of
just forty-iive men These form its army, its
navy, its civil government, and its whole popu-
lation
Hampered, as We say we were; scrubbed,
cabined and confined" reduced to silence in our
own columns; made mute by the profitable
presence of our advertising friends, we were
unable to hail, in any fit manner, the dawn of
this novel empire Of forty five persons, the rise
of this new potentate, who has not citizens
enough to organize into government, without
accommodating many offices upon each; and, in
deed, must dismiss his whole army and navy /,
in order to have any citizens at all.
As upon the sudden elevation of any great
potentate to the supreme power in a nation,
public curiosity gets upon tiptoe and stretches
its neck to know something Of his past history,
and BY what graduation he has risen to his g bad
eminence," We deem word or two anent Mr.,
whilom Captain, now President Walker not in
appropriate.
The first we hear Of the newly elevated Pre-
sident was when, as small boy, in the vicinity
of Nashville, Tennessee, he roamed at large
over the hills Of that region, unfettered by the
trammels of shoes, stockings, or unmention-
ables! twas then that he first imbibed those
fresbooting propenslties = discoverable, ORR
ginally, BY Juvenile forays upon hen roosts and
apple orchards-which were eventually to lead
to California and to glory, and to aid in in
scribing his name high on the list of buccaneer-
ing adventures! Young VIM. walker-whom
boys of low degree did not hesitate in those
days to address by the familiar speculation of
Bill-received liberal education, and an in
sight into geography, which gave him taste
for travelling. Being bent on seeing the world,
he went or was sent, to see sights in the coun.
tries on the Continent of Europe.
Having seen every thing that was worth see
ing in these Old Fogy regions, and
Travelled far and kept Journal
or all the wondrous sights nocturnal"
He returned to these United States, and light.
ing upon New Orleans, poised here his adven
turous wing and commenced casting about for
some worthy employment wherein to exercise
his peculiar genius. This was about the year
of 1919. His first idea was to practice law, and
sticking up his single, this he essayed to do
But that profession had in it too much matter of
fact for the soaring genius of Mr. whilom Bill
afterwards Captain, but now President Walker
and he therefore concluded to launch into the
literary. To this end he became associated in
the editorial department of this paper, " The
Daily Crescent" which in its days of Juvenile
indiscretion and political wild oats was of loco
focoish inclinings. Mr.-we beg his pardon
President Walker was one of the chief editors Of
this paper, the Crescent and wrote articles
that even then showed the buccaneering bent Of
his martial mind In one of his filibusteripr
articles, Mr.. WIN. Walker gave oifense to Span
ish paper published here, entitled Ell Pelago,
whereupcn FL Pelayo replied in a bold spirit
of Catalonian indignation which placed William
in ths<offensive. William being the worst
abused Of the two, Of course thought it obliga.
tory on himself to call he Spanish editor to an
account, the which he did at the end of stout
hickory stick, applied right Justify over the
head and shoulders Of the Spanish editor afore-
said. This victory served but to fan the fires
that glowed in the boiling blood of the hostile |
William, and to awaken in his bosom those de- |
sires that are only to be satisfied by blood and |
carnage.
The Californ'a excitement was started about |
that time, and there being no sufficient field for
his genius hereabout, he departed for the "Land |
Of Gold" There, for some years, he was buried |
in obscurity, and we see him no more, until
like swamp exhalation, we view him once
again, scintillating on the shores Of Lower Cali.
fornia, and making an immense commotion, like
q storm in q tea kettle
But Mr. William Walker, whilom Grill.
now President, did not make his descent upon
the benighted inhabitants of the California pen.
insula, without having first warned them Of |
his coming. This he did by blowing the fact
around, which, becoming public, was conveyed
to the inhabitants of the peninsula by a spy |
But the benighted natives, instead of thanking |
the SPY for his information, and sending him |
home' loaded with gifts, put him in Jail, on sus-
picion that he was in cohoot with the invaders
He cried "wolf" to the natives, but they
would not believe q word of it In the mean.
while Mr.. William Walker, President of the
New Republic, went there, saw and conquered,
and waved new flag over the inheritance of
the Aztec!
What is to come of all this remains to be seen.
The next mail will probably bring us informa-
lion that Mr. William Walker and his cabinet,
army, navy and all, have been taken prisoners
ana hanged, or that they have been Joined by
the natives, reinforced by other adventurous
hordes' and have established themselves on
formidable footing, SO as to give considerable
trouble to Santa Anna and his army. What
says General Pierce to this remarkable foray,
OUR En- SENATOR.
Our ex-senatorial ambassador he Of the
richly embroidered black velvet quaker.
suit'-who 30 happily, in shad-belly coat and
slim shanked small clothes, contrived to recon