Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The Accessory Transit Company Of Nj
caragua.-We subjOin below the letter from
the counsel of this company referred to in our
last issue. For the hundrsdth time we say
that we do not assume or presume to speak for
the Administration, which has at this point
Its credited and admitted organ, in the w ash
ington Union. We publish a newspaper, i,-
dependent in all things, and neutral in moth
ing; defending and approving what the Ad-
miDistration may do that seems to Us proper
to be done, and so doing only when and where,
IN cur judgment, it does rightly. We have no
facilities for learning its views and obtaining
information of its acts which are not equally
open to all in Washington. The truth is, our
experience and laborious efforts to sift the
true from the false floating around us, ena-
bles US to be more frequently correct in the
information We publish concerning public af
fairs, than any other journal. Thi. is our only
advantage, and it is that which has superin-
duced the public impression that we are hon
ored with a confidential relation towards US,
by the government.
Having thus corrected the misunderstood
ing as to the Importance of our views in this
matter upon which Mr.. White bases his COM
municstion, we have but " add that we sim
cerely trust that all he says of the acts Of the
Company may be substantiated hereafter
We have steadily done our best to advance its
interests, as a great enterprise Of American
citizens in which millions of American property
ID involved, and, as one, on the success of
which the assurance to our countrymen of one
ofthe most important chains of communication
between our Pacific and Atlantic regions
matter of prime national moments bound
up. We shall, therefore, rejoice, we repeat
TO find that no responsibility for the triumph
Of Walkers efforts to involve the Government
OF the United States in international Difficult
ties, such as We, at least, have steadily set cur
face against, rests at its (the Transit Compa-
py's) doors. In venturing to declare what we
believe the Government would feel to be its
duty in the premises, We were guided only by
its scrupulous and high toned integrity of con-
duct in all that it has, since March 4, 1853.
taken occasion to do with reference to fllibu.-
tiers and 6llibustering. Thus, it has steadily
treated all who have ventured TO fillbuster
from the United States, as without the pale of
its protection Tor Of its care, further than the
dictates Of ordinary humanity may warrant y
and We can see no reason why there should be
change Of its policy in this case, if, as the
Journal Of Commerce and other leading New
York papers intimate there has been that
completely between the Transit Company and
Walker, which its counsel denies We sin
cerely hope that it may be in the Govern
ment's power to make the firing into the San
Carlos 2 matter on which at least security
against the recurrence Of any thing of the
kind may be insisted on and obtained. Yet
We have no idea, judging by what it has done
against fllibustsring, that it can do so, unless
it is made perfectly clear, that in so doing it
10 not, after all, encouraging 6llibustering.
NEW YORK, Nov. s, 1855.
W. ID. WALLACE, ESQ.
Editor of ths Ecsniny Star
DEAR SIR:-ln your paper Of the 7th inst
have read the following editorial remarks.
on the cutTages recently committed on the
passengers by the line Of the Accessory Tran
sit Company, and on the property Of the
company bJ the troops Of the Government of
Nicaragua: rE
cisely how much Of Walkers late success il
attributable to the alleged recent completely
CT the Transit Company in his schemes II
Is however, very certain that the reinforce.
ment from San Francisco, that ena bled Walker
10 take Granada, came down on the Transit
Company's steamer, il is said with the knovl.
edge of She company's officers on the Pacific
SIDE. without these recruits, Walker cesld
not have possibly succeeded nor could his af-
fairs have been IN their present fourishing
condition but for the aid and comfort the Tran.
SIT Compsny's officers and boats gave him on
the Lake. The firing into the San Carlos
steamer was evidently the result Of the act of
!ne company in taking sides in the civil war
We ccnless that We have no information coming
py the last arrival except that with which ali
the 0thsr journals have been furnished; and
on thst alone We are now commenting The
most important result Of the late occurrences
there oids FAR to be to compel the Govern
ment OF the United States to decline taking
any further care whatever Of the interest Of
the Transit Company, which cannot bs .
party to the civil war in Nicaragua while
csimiDg the protection Of the Government
Of the United States. We await detailed
advices from that quarter with no little
interest. There is a screw loose in Sau Fran
cisco IN connection with this matter; else how
came Walkers recruits able to get of without
the inteiposition Of the authorities ?''
1t is not the habit Of the company to reply
to accusations made against them in the pub
lie press. Your paper, however, constitutes
an exception, as it is presumed to speak the
sentiments # the Administration at Washing
ton, ard for this reason il has been deemed
proper to contradict the statements and repel
the infersnces Of the article quoted above.
The firing into the San Carlos steamer"