Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-27

VAGHuaT0N Exws AND GOSSIP.
r. burning Of arsytovn, or San Juan del
|D5ftsRt will be recollected that very short.
y afsa i1eoination reached Washington Of
The SGkraee perpetrated on Mr. 1mlasa
Aeri Minister to Nicaragua e Sn Jun
de- Nofte, we stated the probability that j
dee rspsfstion failed to be msdssQn demand,
the place would be reduced to ashes BY COM
mand Of the Government Of the United States.
Our prediction has been fulfilled; and, rs q
matter Of course, its ful6llment is the, signal
fer intense bowling on the part Of those Jour.
nails 30 welded to party, that they mako il a
rule to growl a. everything doneby those nov
in charge Of the Goxernupsat Of ths- United
States, right or wrong. The New York Com.
nssreisI ADVERTISER, and the Evening Pest o.
that city, have. Of course, opened the cry in
this case. Both these journals,b by way Of in
venting an ex :uss for their condemnation Of
the act, misrspresens OF falsify the facts
involved. The Advertiser admits that Cap
tain Smith (of the American steamer plying
on the San Juan RIVER killed the native pilo,
in self defence, but sets up the plea that the
act was done within the Jurisdiction Of the
self-constituted sovereign city of Grsytown-
tchieh IS not trme. The Epenixg Post-doubt.
less moved to Islander the authorities of iii
country concerning this affair, by the fact tina,
the so-called Marshal Of Greytown who at
tempted to arrest Captain smith Mt Pant.
Arenas-entirely ont of Greytown jurisdic
tion-was a negro, goes albcw.shot beyond
the Advertissr, 10 order to seem to have reason
for its unjusti6able remarks, and boldly as
serts that Captain Smith DELFT srately .auydert d
the pilot; in the face Of the fact that every
one Of the many. passengers on the steamer
who Witnessed the whole affair." testify that
the act Was one Of clear and unquestionable
self defence, the man being shot ia the act o.
raising his gunto kill Captain g., in accord
ance with his previous Unrest, which he had
only been prevented from carrying out few
minutes before by woman on board his boat
who, seeing him about to attempt to commit
his oft-threateped murder, struck his gun up
and wrenched IT from his hands. /
The Post further conceals from its readers
the undoubted fact that the safety of the lives
of all on board his steamer, rendered 1t I'M
perstive on Captain Smith 70 remain in po
sition Gn the wheel house, where he was
exposed to be shot down by the man he
killed. That is, that the loss of his steamer
would probably have been the penalty if he
had left the wheel house to place his person
beyond the reach Of the shot of the pilot.
The Post further intimstes, falsely, that the
killing occurred within the assumed jurisdic.
ton of Grey,own, and that the attempt to
arrest Smith was alec subsequently made
within the same jurisdiction. Both these acts
occurred on Nicaraguan sell, as guaranteed by
this Government in the Clayton and BulWer
treaty. 20 .' - T2@'f-
Now, We have further to say that the popu.
ls!ion Of Greytown were notoriously as villain
Gus gang of freebooters, buccaneers, and
river pirates, as ever congregated on the coast
point, only with the view Of robbipg more OF
less of the many thousands of Americans who
cross the isthmus there annually. The firm
ness and energy displayed by the American
Commercial Agent at that point, and the Amer-
loan company doing the isthmus transportation
there defeated their purposes. So, they burned
and destroyed that compary's buildings Oh
Punta Arenas, for which act they should
have been punished precisely as this Govern
ment was forced to punish them, when, embol-
dened by tho leniensy with which their FRS.
glazing act Of war or rapine On American pro-
perty Was treated, they deliberately took OF
themselves q commission to rove over the guar,
aateed territory of Nicaragua, to attack Ameri-
cans and set at defiance The protection of OUT
dag In the hands Of an American Minister
Pienipotentary. "a. > ss aE .t.-r.,It.t
3D.: If this Government had done less than
promptly punish such series Of outrages as
those freebooters committed, after they had
declined even to apologize for them, the pro-
lection Of the American flag would not be
worth pinch ofsauff any where that it might,
BY any possible chance, be needed. 80 :"
As bitter as we know the hatred ofthe COM
nseretaf Adps-tissr and Evening Post to be
for the President and Secretary Of State, We
arc really astonished that their Identification
With tho heavy transmskins commercial inter.
sst Vt New York; has not eouasellsd them to ap.
plaud, rather than to faIsify and nslign 3 Gov
Ornamental act, which, in the present tendency
Of our commerce to seek markets in the far
thess' and most uhcisiiized corners of thu
world, must necessarily have an effect worth
more 70 our commercial future, than pen can
express. .o'i ~ ,''',7- @ l..t y'll.
We mus: not forget to mention that every
effort to obtain reparation, or even an apology
for, their qfense against the authority Of the
United: States. was met only with fresh in :
suits ,9iri,j 2'ioc2 as6t bus .uoilogrrs,
The Wing Party.-Finding the Viii party
papen Of the North and South engaged in dis
eussing the question-"Havc Nc n ill q Wing
party among us'"-we may not improperly
state what appears to be the condition Of that
party in. Congress, and, as far as we are able
20 learn them, the views Of ia members in
Congress upon the question of its future as a
national party. Thus, We find that the north.
ern Wing members, Of the school of Messrs
seward and Campbell, are understood no. to
lire in hope Of longer political connection With