Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-06

'~o'oA oe'Neen tbe Atlantic states and
California by the Nicaragua route and In the
violent sciEarc Of the territory of Nicaragua
ey Americans claiming to hold under grant
from The Musqui hing which even that
person &c protests TO be void. re know tha,
paItissos IT the scheme recently proclaimed
through the columns Of the Baltimore Argus
that one Of the purposes Of the expedition
was to get possession ef the Nicaragua 18TH
mus route ab6ve referred to- We know tn NJ
officers enlisted Ia the affair, are calling
through tho newspapers for volunteers to
servo in the Sssfitary service Of the expsdi
ton Tor me year. We know that pledge of
obedience to the military head Of the expedi.
ton, as against the authority of any other
government or pswer whatever, has been sd.
minstered .
We know that the display of arms, making
their quarters look like full grown arsenal,
referred to not long since in the Telegram bic
corfeaPoadence VI the New York Tribn4e, has
o,her found. alton than The mere desire of man
ntac.urers Of arms 20 get the opinion OF al
expert" as to their reistise merits, as alleged
In the newspapers in explanation Of the fact
above stated. Because we know that yester
day ST erncon, there WAS TO have been, on tho
ouiskirt Of this city, trial of arms prepara-
tory TO ordering large number for this ex
petition. While We know. further, that some
time since an order for two hundred patent
riass for this expedition was actually given
We knox, in addition to what we state
above, that the perssns who are being enlist
ed are for the most part by no means az ricul.
turalists, but Dung mon of the eities-precise-
ly suoa as were engaged to fllibuster against
Cuba-thc very last men In the world to be
able to got living by agricultural labor,
even IL tie Eicsraguan isthmu, was not, as ii
Is, entirely overgroWn with tropical forest,
Of which one man by working faithfully for q
year, might, IL he survived the fever, put one
acre in cuItivable condition knowing ell
these circumstances, though We have not heard
a member Of the Administration say word
on ;he subject, nor have We heard Of the ex-
preston Of IAN opinion by ono OF them upon 1t,
We still adhere TO the belief that 40 tbese facts
cannot fail shortly to become patent to the
world, they will not permit any such sxpedi
ton as We conceive this to be, to leave the
United States.
The Union, We must again remind the
reader, bases its defamation to the contrary
"a We do surs, wholly on unofficial testimony.
Now, Of late its synpathies and opinions have
IN hssO b.
With those Of the Administration. While, as
all the world knows, the President was firmly
and openly opposed to the French spoliatiou
bill, the Union was doing It's best to compass
is enactment. In its number before ms We
find copied long communication, desi gned to
effect he full To establishment of the Memphis
Navy fsrd; yes 1t is vcll known that the
head Of the Navy Department. has substsn-
tally declared to Congress that no good end
could be attained by its being kept up as the
communication in question proposes The
President lie known to have been opposed to
the Pacific Rsiroad bill, which the Union
advocated We mention these facts, only by
way Of showing that, of late, the Unton's
opinions on Governmental matters here are
not to be relied on as implicitly as whom II was
in the hah;t Of rea.cting the views Of the
Democratic National Administration, and
those Of the majority Of the Democratic party
In Congress. We seriously doubt, under these
whether It's opinions Of whs,
Ray happen here in time to come, are really
worth much more than ours
For the sake Of the future Of the sreas Dem.
ocrstic party Of the country, We (the senior
editor of the Star,) long for the arrival of the
time when q dissolution of the fici al conpcc
ton Of Col John ". Rorney with the govern
nent will enable him to assume the duty Of
guarding the Unions helm OF the breakers
on 10 which tina. Journal seems jast now bent
on dashins the Interests with tia protse:i5n Of
which IL is charged; Ii being evident, to our
apprehension, tina. the present policy of the
Union cannot By any means be his
The7exas Bonds Question TO day being set
for the consideration, in the House, of the bill
sS,50O,OOo to pay the debts of
tho Republic o. Texas, zc proceed to give the
STAR readers some idea Of the facts in voIved
in this proposition and its true char aetsr.
The Congress. Of the United States, in settling
tho Texas boundary question, agreed to give
Texas Sic. 900, 600, ono half Of which was duly
paid to her, and the remainder reservsd, az
by provision in the Lew, for the payment of
the outstanding bonds Of the Texan Republic
1t was also agreed that the United States
should pa interest on this sum until they pay
il to the bond holders, which Is to be done
when they and Toxas agree as 10 its divisions
smorg them. They have not yet agreed;
most of the bend holders refusing 10 submit to
the method Of scaling that Texas proposes,
and therefore decline executing to her the re-
lease the United States Lag requires. They
club together, however, aud come to Congress,
asking that ss,sOO,Ooo shall be paid instead
Of the s., 900 900; which krss mentioned sum
is supposed to be sufficient to enable Texas to
pay nearly all her debts at psr.