The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-04

Interesting froa Central America.
OUR NICARAGUA ooKEzsrosDEror
LEON DE- NICARAGUA, Nov. S, 1854.
Mcorarxa as she icas and is-HevP aa and Presemt
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Of the SOD sad Faults Of
the Comm<reiai Imp~tGxes Of her Posi-
tio~-SAaH Emgiamd and France aUal Themselves
erI?-Progress Of The Revofutiom-C Chances Of
Casseiisa AID CA4mmorro- Sympathy ofthe other
Sfates-A6aivs at Gyvytown-Defence Of the In
hsbtfsnts.
This time, dear HERALD am satisfied. am In
advance Of the mail, for there is no mail but your
correspondent, during al this month from the soi
disant capital Of Nicaragua Ny letter TO you win
necessarily be long ono, for have promised to
tell you all saw and heard and remembered, ard
now for it, "Like the voice." then, of one crying
In Ne Wilderness" my greeting to you and to your
readers goes mp from this far on land. say viii
delness," aye, 1t Is go or worse-a bowling wilder.
ness"-or more still Qor all good purposes), and
socially and morally (absolutely) an arid desert, so-
lated barren, desoate, and yet physcaly-that is in
soil, climate, vegetable and mineral products, geo
graphical formation, and geological formation-Ns-
turs never did more for any country. It's physique
Is beyond all compare. Its lakes are opal set in
emerAld it, savannas are beautiful as imitless its
ancient phmsvd virgin forests arc wild, gloomy,
magnifcenty grand. Such is its unexaggerated
physical aspect, while mentally (by which mean
In respect to man, in al his endowments) It il
cursed with race which (for all purposes Of true
civilization we learn from history, we're originally
inbecile and am satisfied from observation, are now
eete. II ID SAID to be better in some Of the other
States but this L. Of course, comparative and that
with what could mot be well worse. The best sum
ming up Of the whole which can make under pre-
sent circumstances, and faithfully, according to my
observation, u this
TIE population Is absolutely and completely An
indiscriminate intermixture and amaleamatioa Of
their very organization, therefore, they are low,
miserably low in the scale Of intelligence and
energy. Added to this they have been as COM
petey prestridden as it is possible to conceive Of
during what ie to their time immemorial To this
again, until thirty years ago. they were politically
the verjest footballs Of Sp lash inqusitorial despo
tism the shuttlecock between the battledores Of
nitgassd tyranny in the old and bsrbarc tendencies
time were suddenly, and without struggle
through which any aspirations they might have
had could be disciplined to selfc0ntr0l, and their
were by circumstances thrust into the fun blaze Of
entire, personal freedom ard thus dazzled, more
than half blind ed, indeed their minds most naturally,
grew dark with excessive light In this most un-
understanding nothing, they sought to itame and
admin lister democratic g0vernment-lke ours !!
Never, perhaps, has the NEUROLOGICAL fable Of
Pbeton, in his wild essay TO drive the chariot Of the
Some there sre Who Know this, and confess It; but
they arc few indeed" r0rt nantes In gusgite
vasto." Imagine, then, such people, on q soil Of
ncaiculabe and exhaustless fertility, to which are
~<sw AL ~
thing which may be deslred for the comforts and
necessities Of animal ife the wants Of Life less than
in harsher climate, for clothing and shelter are re-
duced p cipher; and any and all of these %
had for the gathering. Issy imagine such people,
under such influences, with such antecedents!
What wsu!d you expect to find just Whist you
Do fnd--isnorant, superstitious; indolent, poor,
than all Others together, as predicate Of hope for
their selfimpfovement -contented with their coua-
try (Which Is natural), with themselves, and their
condition.
As Ills, then, this Is the poorest country in the
world. Az it might be, under the control and In
the possession Of people worthy Of it. capable Of
approaching and properly developing its wondrous
in the world Take map and look At it Look at
il actually and relatively! It stands between the
old world Of Europe and the older one of China,
no longer barrier 10 that dreamed Of passage, Of
IIdiai Steam, the giant civizsr OF the nineteenth
century, has breathed but single breath from his
iron lungs, and that barrier tottered and fel
The two oceans in Nicaragua we'll nigh meet, lad
brother Of the eastern world who, after rolling his
blue wave over the sands of many strand, has ONE
to beat against this long soughtfor gateway Of the
Open unto mel come laden with the treasures OF
the elder continent abundance and en-
lights nment are in my wake-I would fsin pass be-
yond you to that new light, whose birth glim ner
we have seen just dawniog In the East And shall
il pass Shall the oceans kiss each other In com.
mercial union? II So what then becomes the future
OF Nicaragua! Her rivers p0Dulous with steamers
their banks whitened with towns and vilages--her
lovely skies blackened with the smoke Of the mes
senger Of commerce, and her coasts whitened with
the million sail that gather to her shores No longer
the despised Of Europe-the plaything Of British
Cabinets caprceathe cringing mppliant for pro.
toll gatherer of them ALL the pathway Of nations
the birthplace Of the worlds millennium and the
entrepot Of all Its action!
Again, take the map and look ct her formation
the Pacific. Her mountains TEEN with the richest
Ores Out of them rails may be fashioned, and her
splendid savannas need NO grading. Fuel for her
axe, and in her hills but the miners industry Her
lakes are inland seas. Her ports are harbora. Her
forests are the birthplace Of the mahogany and the
cedar, and her soil IS virginia vegetable loan
Her wtods are itch in the wealth of the pbarma.
copia. Her superabundance comprises the luxu
RES Of the North, while that same North's necess
ties are fere Of spontaneous growth, or when cared
for are mot Of twenty but an hundred fold" Hum
boldt, the great Prussian high priest of nature,
once said Of venezuela:-"He who stcops has
enough whereWith to sustain lie, and he who
labors becomes rich" Infinitely more so is it so In
Nicaragua, while the inducements in the latter are
immf asurably greater. Such, then, ID the scenery
on this Central American stage.
The play ers are fast assuming their parts. Eng
land has chosen hers already. She would fan be
player ard prompter too. What part are we to s.
sumo in this great drama CT he commercial world
say asspme for surely the progressive spirit Of our
country, age will not await until one Is assigned
US nor is the word conservative known in the voca-
bulary of our excellent President. II Nicaragua is
the gateway Of the nations, and will not open to us
to US, her laborera and prototypes in the canse
OF repuhliC anism-Why let ma break down the rate