New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-10
WHO .eAps rHE ADVANTAGE I.

WHO EsEAPs THE ADVANTAGE
There is a beautiful and familiar ballad Of S)uthey,
in which, under the form Of simple narration, he
argues with hume.felt truth against the uselessness
and crmiuaity Of war which the delusiOns Of men
had long surrounded with the halo Of renOwn.
little child finds in the garden the skull of soler
who fell ut Blenhem, and 'vainy questions his grand
father as TO the cause of the battle which had left that
white and polished relic. The old man cannot answers
1t is new suggestion to him, and be can only repeat
that all he id heard knew of il that the gen.
erals won glory and that their victory was famous. 1t
was the natural reply Of unthnkng peasants one OF
the class especially consumed in such Victories audit
presents in hemost impressive ghtthe odiOu5 charac-
ter Of the in question, and, indeed Of most wars.
Quite as much embarrassment would be felt by the
most intelligent friend Of the Federal Executive who
shoud attempt to tell what advantage reap from
the late achievement of our arms in Central America
Certainly the United States are gamers from the
victory for we have abandoned the locality without
carrying of dollar of public booty, and without hay
ing acquired any territory We hate a stout bill Of
damages to pay, but nothing to show for it. 1t does
not seem either that the Transit Company in whose
behalf San Juan was destroyed is likely to profit
very greatly by the operation. The managers ofthat
institution very probably supposed that if they could
GET the town out Of the way they would have freer
time of it, and might control the river and the bay in
their own fashion. That event accomplished, there
would be no longer any power to restrain their en-
poyts from indulgiDg in the pleasures of shooting
pilots and breaking the heads of boatmen; indeed it
seems that since the bOmbardment, the notorious
Smith whose killing of Antonio the occasion for
tbo has the fearless
OF all punishment for his act. But all these calcua-
tons are proving their futility The Jurisdiction Of
the town is again asserted them by the British
Commander who has taken possession there, aul as
the place is built up again aud its political orglniza-
ton restored, all of which WILL from present appear
rnces, soon be accomplished, the Company will be
required to submit to an authority they have now
temporarily got free from at such positive expense of
character and such prospective expense of money to
this country. They are then, gamers from the
overthrow of the town. In truth, suppose that
they must eventually be as great losers any.
Still less ia anything gained by that other body of
spectators known ss the Central American Land and
Mining Company, the worthlessness ofwhose titles 30
the Mosquito Coast we have already had occasion to
expose This Association, it appears has entertained
O scheme to colonize the Mosquito Coast which they
claim by virtue of certain annulled and reannulled
deeds of drunken Indisn, for which consideration
was given, and which the British Government has
repeatedly refused to recognize 1t was at any rate
an impudent speculation. fit 10 be generated amid
the corruption of an inflated and artificial prosperity
and which the financial crisis, which to all appear
snces is only just begun could scarcely fail TO
gulf in that bottomless limbo where sbortive stock
jobbng humbugs and swindes sre forgotten forever
Still there was chance for the realization Of even
such project, had money continued abundant and
nothing happened to disturb the tranquility of the
Coast. In that case, this noonshne enterprise
whose ghost we now call back TO the light of day
might, with good luck and BY bold but conciliatory
policy on the part of its directors have been carried
through. Any number Of honest colonies planted at
suitable points on the Coast, would doubtless have
been quietly tolerated by the British Government,
which would not have inquired too closely into the
validity of the exploded grants under which they
cuped. But to this end it was necessary 10 concili
ate all parties in that quarter, and TO bully and dis
gust none. The contrary course was however,
adopted, winding up with the burning Of the town.
Now, England is there in force and all is hostility
to our SPECTATORS, from their supposed share in
bringing on the bombardment. Their title deeds
thus nndered more ridiculous than ever, and if they
had the means of planting fifty colonies either with
or without slaves, not one of them would be allowed.
Accordingly, it is not in the treasury of this Company
that we are to lock for the profits of the brief but
peculiar campaign conducted by Commander Hollins.
Quite as little does Nicaragua derive any benef.
from that eminent commanders triumph. A; least,
she has not gained anything yet, while the protest
which her Minister at Washington has just made
against the whole transaction adds new element to
the embarrassing complications for which Messrs
Pierce and Marcy now have to find solution. 1t is
true that we have not much to fear from that little
State, without an army or protector torn, too as it
s BY the throes of civil war; but its protest gains i'm
portarce from the fact that in the earlier stages of this
amentabe business. the United States pretended to
be sustaining the rights Of this very Nicaragua against