Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-29
W4SHINGTON NEWS md GOSSIP


selves very much about the ground of defence
taken by Huntington, the great forser, in
New York 1t seems this man has decided
propensity to high living, rich dinners, costly
wines, sump'ucus houses, furniture, and equip
ages, and is not particularly aYerse 10 the So
oistJ o. oomeiysisdics In order to crafty
ali these excessive or ire ular propens;ties,
not having any money Of lis owo, he provides
ways and means by swindling and forging
Ihat Is wat ingenious counsel call INSANITY.
ouery-Ia rot the insanity on the other side.
on the part OF the bankers and brokers in the
ely o. Ne" York 1t would seem that they
must be stark mad, to take and cash all the
notes which may be presented 70 them, by
such a miserable spendthrift sdveDturer as
this Huntington
There is another question Of moral INSANITY
IN New York by which We are very much
puIEied. one might think that the Ferrers
Fabens, Oaksmiths, et I'd omue genus. who
nave been fussiDg and tearing about in New
fofS for the last fortnight to procure colonists
fer their cocoa plantations in Nicaragua were
little out Of order in their up1er works, and
afflicted with some want Of due sensibilty in
regard to tie moral quality of the act of
siaustteriDS aud rohbing By Wholesale tho
good people Of Central America. But a bit
OF reflection on the subject leads to some
doubt whether the menta! alteration is not
On the other slde--that Of the emizrant5 whom
there men recruit for the service Of Walker.
1t lie thoroughly settled now. by a compari-
son OF AL the late accounts, that Walker does
not Fold foot Ct ground in Nicaragua except
INIT which ais men stand Upon-a narrow line,
some dozen miles or so il length. from Virgin
Bay q San Juan del Sur. There has ceased
te be the slightest pretence that " aiker is the
ToTeILmsnt Of Nicaragua. The whole coun-
try is in the possession Of President Rivas,
Who was the Government when Father Viii
came here, and who still continues TO be the
only Government, either dc Juye or de EIeto,
OF the RePubiic Of Nicaragua Walker is A
foreign invader, at the head of few hundred
other. foreigners, who DO nothing but TO slay,
burr and destroy, and 10 render the name Of
American hateful in all Spanish America
Dung the year that Walker has been en-
gagged perpetrating all these outrages in Mica.
ra9ua ne las received between four and FIVE
horssnd recruits by means Of tho several
transit steamers from San Francisco, New Or.
leans. AID specially New York. OF these re-
cruits all have lived life Of poverty, sick
ness, Privat;on, ard military slavery withou,
parallel IN m deIn times, and four fif,hs of
them have Ierished missrably Ct country fe-
vers, camp fevera, cholera, starv alton, military
tyranny, and all the other inevitable defcien-
cies ard excuses OF mere band of marauders
undertaking 20 carry on a war of conquest.
In tie face Of all this, hundreds Of men are
still found IL New York, 20 sell themselves
no, not sell themselves, but give themselves
swaJ-to &c the WTetcLed bond-slaves Of a
neIciless master, with the moral certainty Of
dying IN few months # starvation and fever
IN the Pestiie4tial jangles of Central America
And al these poor uretches are allured 10 this
tate by the delusive promises Of a handful of
laid spcc uiatoTs, who undertake to grant
what they have not got, and are deluding 10
tneir oes'rrcuon the poor men who go to Mic
sragua TO take land ct the cost Of their own
lives, when they might SQUAT at " i'll upon the
richest lands and in the most salubrious eli
mates Of the world, without leaving the L pited
State
Does not al this render It extremely oue..
tiouabls whether, alter all, Huntington ia
more crazy than sone other PEOPLE in New
York
Ii Hultipg on is a nonomani Of forgery
are not Walkers Ieruitipg agents in New
York m1nomaaiacs Of g ibus ering' In both
cases, vhsTe 81 a W rank their willing VIC
tim Ne u?po they belong t. lat numer.
Gus aIIy, enc II, mber Of WI ich Mr.. Doe
sticks has rendered illus.rious by b. in: macy
the Dampkools
VIM z. Euzlbut has fallen very recent,
into veiy rough Asnts-into those CT J b D.
Bow, Esq., iate The Superintendent of the
Census 1t seem, that to make good his false.