The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-26

| - From la laire, July -
! The North Americans appear DESTROYS OF recon-
mencing, m the nineteenth century the sometimes
briliiahe, often odious adventures of the Spanish
captains of the sixteenth century who get out to
9uer Kingdoms and empires Of which they made
themselves governors and yiceroys certain Of return
ing At a later period to die in want and oblivion.
The Fernando Coltes, the Pizarros, the Almagros,
have today as imtators the Lopez the Walkers, the
kinneys: These also attempt gigantic enterprises,
with nothing for capital except an immense amount
OF aEdacity and the firm resolution OF retiring before
no obstacle until attaining 10 the desired wealth,
power, and snbsidiarily glory. These Know Nothings
oil nibnstcrism are generally the object Of the sym.
rathes Of the American masses, who, besides. are
nrectly indifferent to whether they be hanged or
stfangled a. soon the regular authorities Of the
country which they desire to revolutionze annex
conquer offer successful resistance 10 them. But
IT Is the common destiny of every pioneer Of adven
lures who has not large battalions behind him to
sustain his pfetensi0ns That il q truth ever since
the time OF that pirate. the scourer Of the Egcan
sea, who replied 40 boldly and so truly 10 Alexander
the Great and il will Doubtless continue to be truth
80 long as the reason Of the strongest will continue
to lie the lest
Some time ago the journals OF the United States
informed us Of plan of libnsterism in conjunction
elaborated and combined by Colonies Walker and
Kinney, to Ieyoatenize Nicaragua by attacking 1t
at Two points ut once-thc Atlantic and Pacific.
Colonel Walker i an old acquaintance of our readers.
II Is the same who, year ago. undertook to conquer
the provinces of Sonora and Lower California, and
OF declaring himself president Of them by his own
ahtIWTil, certain OF negotiating AT future
Their annexation to the American Union, in case Of
the maintenance Of an Independent authority be-
coming TOO onefois charge Tor him. The Sonora
expedition failed, but Col. Walker, who appears 20
be u man fertile in resources not discouraged
by that; he reunited the fragments Of his troops
and proposed TO them to attempt the conquest OF Nj
cafagua. This proposition was adopted by acclama-
tlOn
Col. Walkers troop Il composed of about fifty
men. With that handful Of Adventures he depart.
ed IRON San francisco aboard the brig Vcsta. The
American journals, which arrived by the last steam.
er, inform Us that the expedition entered into Rea-
LEGO without opposition There the Yankee colonel
appears to have found an accomplice in Spanish
general named Mnnoz, who gave him reinforce
mebt OF about two hundred men, at whose head
Walker SET OF for san Juan del sur and discmbark-
cd 81 EIeto little port situated mt fourteen miles
from san Juan. The latest news from the expedi-
milton stops there. Oar readers Will recollect that
the party was defeated and dispersed at Rivas-ED.l
but whilst Walker is invading Nicaragua by the
west, Col. Kinney, who according to the plan con.
ce1ted between them, was TO operate simultaneously
on the eastern coast has at length succeeded after
thousand obstacles in slipping between the fingers
Of the administration Of the United States, which
offered some litigi0s objections in respect to the
legality Of the prepared expedition. Kidney has,
therefore, departed; but II is not known whether he
has been able to collect sufficient number Of his
partisans on the shores Of Nicaragua to go to meet
Walker without having to blush too much for the
fmallness Of his escort. The next mail will doubt
less give ns news OF them.
We need hardly say that we do not experience the
slightest sympathy for the enterprises Of the Wal
kers, the kinncys, and consorts. Still, If the
government OF Nicaragua were forced 10 capitnlatc
before mere handful Of five hundred good for
nothing wretches, we could not but acknowledge
that II well deserved its fate how hard soever that
fate might be. because the primary condition Of
regular government il to be in condition 10 resist
a conspiracy, particularly when the conspiracy il
prepared above board aud announced for six months
past by the thousand tongues Of the American and
European press.