The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-02

prices; the aucCon sale OF New orleans went Oh ht
full prices-Messrs Stuarts quotations for refined
are given elsewhere. Coffee was arm, with mo-
derate transactions. Freight engagements were
less active and shippers Offering less for grain
10 Liverpool while 500 bales Of cotton engaged
ut ID.
Important from Nacaragua-Nar with Costa
Rsca-General Walker fn the ~teia.
The telegraph news from New Orleans is ey-
ceedipgly important. Col. Schlessinger had
been escorted out OF Costa Rica, and that re
public had formally declared war against Nj
deld, at the head of q force Of about six hun
dred men, and proposed to march at once
against the Castle of Guamo. 1t is alleged
that the Nicaragusn army had been reinforced
by 80 Americans, making, according to the
most reliable information, an active force of
about sixteen hundred men. The military
force OF Costa RIGA is composed of 800 regu-
lsrs and 5000 militia men.
We thus have the nominal array Of the two
Powers. They are in collision; an event pre-
cisely what, it is believed, Gen. Walker most
desires. We shall now hear of the total over.
throw OF Costa RIGA and the other States OF
Central America, and the establishment Of
confederation under the auspices of the Walker
men. Viewed as mere military operations,
these events are of little consequence; but re-
garded in the light which is reflected over up
Oh them from Texas and Calitornia, they be-
come matters of the profoundess interest and
magnitude. No military man acquainted with
the powers and energies of the conflicting
forces in Nicaragua and Costa RIGA can fail
to foretell the complete triumph OF tue former.
The arrival at Granada of Major Hsiss, with
dispatches from Washington, and Of peace
ambassador from San Salvador, are significant
Of the course of events in our Cabinet, and OF
the smaller States Of the Isthmus. 1t is pro
bable, indeed, that Pierce is prepared to re-
cogDize the Rivas government, and that San
Salvador will be found on the side of Walker.
1t is, then, highly probable that within
short period, under the force of arms, the
American movement will become permanent
power in the Isthmus States which being COO
solidated, the left flank Of Mexico will have
been turned, and that republic placed literally
in the hands of Anglo-Americans.
THE CLERGY IN Politics AGAN.--In the
New York Tribune of yesterday appears an
other letter from a clergyman, signing him.
self Willard Jones, on the slavery question
Like his three thousand brethren of Massa ,hu-
setts, this reverend Jones has the bLasphemy
TO claim to be a special mouthpiece Of Goa,
and to WELD the thunders OF the Almighty
against all who do not agree with him ia OPT
DION. STATESMEN" says this reverend, may
see what seems to them the best political po-
Icy: but the men who take Gods word for
their guide, see what is right Addressing
the advocates o. slavery in Kansas, he adds:
"The Almighty, with his principles of moral
government, is against you" Again, "God is
waging a conflict with this nation, God marks
out line of duty, and those who walk in it
and serve God occupy an honorable positions"
but those who uphold the wrong aud fgLs
against God will be like Ahab," &C., &c.
What the reverend Mr.. Jones means by fight
ing against Gcd is lighting against Jones: SO
far as he sees, Jones is God, and God is Jones.
or at least they are SO closely allied, aud it is
so utterly impossible for Jones to be wrong
in interpreting Gods word, that they may De
used as convertible names When Jones wants
a thing, Jones says that God wants it; God
declares, if Jones is baffled, or kept waiting.
or otherwise annoyed that He is az ainst thosc
who thus battle or annoy His servant Jones'
at least Jones says so-and woe to the perverse
mcrtals who thus war against God" All
this is as old at least as the Oracle of Delphi,
There never has been so poor knave who
could not somehow make out that God was on
his side. and that his enemies were inspired by
the devil.
Religion, Master Jones, had better be u
alone by politicians, Preach it, practice i,
honor it; but do not try to use it as poli,
cal argument 1t cuts on both sides and on al,
sides, and infallibly ends by doing most mis-.
chief to those who first appealed to it. At all
events, if you must talk about religion and
the priesthood Of God, wait, for PHYS s.ke,
till good east wind has dissipated the .filu-
via of the Cox trial.
GREAT WnIs.-We publish elsewhere three
great wils--that of the millionaire Henry
Parish, that Of the late Nelson Robinson, of
this city, and that Of Frenchman na nel
Michel, which latter has been bonae fortune
for the lawyers of Paris. Mr.. Parish died
worth some two millions. He left over mil
lion of dollars, including fifty thousand to
charitable Institutions, by various codicil
1t is alleged that these codicils we're mao
when Mr. Parish was so enfeebled In bo0J
as IN no npabla IN aion hia pama ond fho