New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-18
DESTINY or NICARAGUA.
The amount Of attention which has been attr

DESTINY OF NICARAGUA
1 The amount Of attention which has been attracted
towards Nicaragua by the events which have recent
had birth there, give unusual degree Of interest
to all matters Of climate production, aud politics ap
pertaining to that section of country. When Calltor
min opened its gates of gold to Eastern enterprise II
/ was supposed that Ophir and ri Dorado had been
found and that, beyond, there lay nothing worthy OF
discovery Since then the wealth OF Australia mas
4 been unveiled and mems eyes are now pesnlhihs
to see that in the glare of Californian brightness ther
/ eyes were blinded to nearer wealth-as great, as
| rich, and as desirable as thatlying beyond.
The inquiries which have been started by the recent
colonization Of Nicaragua by settlers under the com
1nand of General Walker, have been very fully and
satisfactorily answered in pamphlet which is now
before us: containing history of whole region
country lying in and about Nicaragua from its dis
covery to the present time; together with statistics
concerning its agricultural and mineral wealth, of SO
much value, interest and Importance that we in
duced to give brief resume Of the whole. The intro
ductory portion Of the work is devoted to concise
history of the country at the time when Dampier and
Morgan with their fiiibuster and buccaneer forces
made the Spanish Main chosen cruising ground ;
and when, between Elizabeth and Philip there passed
those angry words which resulted in the English
queens assertion that the Spanards had drawn these
inconvenience upon themselves by their severe and
unjust dealings in their American commerce; for she
did not understand why her Subjects Or those of any
other European prince, should be debarred from traf
e in the West Indies" Following this very brief in
PRODUCTION description of the Typographical
features of the country: its rivers lakes, mountains
ports, population, and other analogous features !;
showing the unexampled richness of the land and the
prodgality with which nature has showered down
upon it her choicest blessings The geographical area
of Central America has been.computed to comprise
1856 900 square miles, nearly equal to the six New
England States, combined with the Middle States
The entire population is estimated at two millions;
of which one hundred thousand are Whites eight hun
dred thousand mixed, ten thousand negroes and the
balance, of million one hundred and nine thou
sand, are Indians The whole Mosquito population
does not exceed seven thousand The narrative goes
on from these facts to detail the social changes con
sequent upon the introduction of American influence
the political revolutions that have been heretofore aud
that to be- in the future, inevitable by of
the progress Of the rest of the world and the stand
still of this particular section acting as brake and
clegto all those wheels of prosperity which roll by
and around it.
The desirableness of the Bay Islands, in Honduras
with regard to which correspondence passed be-
tween our own government and that Of Great Britain
is next taken up and their many advantages for the
prosecution of commerce and trade, particularly to
this country alluded to showing the efforts which
have been made by Great Britain, at Buelelds and
Bay Islands, to establish protectorae by which she
should vest in herself the power them, that
leI,o other f0rciblv
qured. A very instructive and commercially inter
esting chapter gives statement of the resources Of
the country-the mahogany and cedar trees; the dye
woods gum trees; tobacco and cotton culture; in
digo, maze wheat, rice, potatoes, domestic animals,
oysters and fish which abound there and thrive with
richness and productiveness unexampled in any other
portion Of the globe. AS all the soil is rich with lu
Der of the most valuable kinds and agricultural pro-
ducts, in superabundance before unknown; so, all
the waters teen with fish, and the air is moved by
honey-bees, locusts, and thousand brghtp lumaged
birds In fact, the narrative endorses and sustains
most fully the reports and descriptions of those who
have explored the country before and pronounced it
the Eden Of our continent. ... .a...
Following the sketch Of what the Central States
are and were the author goes on to show what they
may become under the influences of commerce, patri-
llullGy VI SoVeIHlueilt.
in 1887 Drake took possession, without even color
able title in the ofhs royal Mistress Queen Eliza
bet-an occupation not them nor ever since, objected
to by English authors-they far more advanced
and prosperous than they ever have been since that
occupation was abandoned and the interests of the
country permitted to lapse to period prior to their
discovery. "
The various schemes of colonization that have at
one time or another, risen up concerning Central
America the plans that have been born forregenera-
ting the country and making 1t contribute its share
towards the progress and advancement of the world
ealluded to in chapterrepete with interest," aside
from that which naturally appertans to the subject.
The particulars of the grant of the Mosquito King to
the Messrs Shepherd recited and the organization
and objects of the Central American Colonization
Company given in clear and satisfactory manner,
which should dsa1m objection, and as much attract
popular cement as the great colonization Of
California The various routes of transit the 18TH
mus created by our trade with the new star of our
national galaxyare ali mentioned and their respective
merits discussed. Some very interesting statements
| concerning the departure of steamships from New
York. and the arrivals there of those engaged in the
California trade for the year ending March, 1855 are
appended showing the emigration to have included
s5l persons and the gross receipts of the Panama
railway, up to October, 1854, are stated at 81 ,1S7
526 IL, giving more exact idea than could be CON
veyed through other MEANS
chapter, and perhaps as interesting as any one
is devoted to the manners and customs, the women
clergy, employment muateers, boatmen Indians and
| modes Of living in Central America, of which We re-
greet we can give no more than the outline, but to
which we shall refer again, as full of interest and in.
structon. The hopes and prospects of that region
the Importance to the United States and the conduct
of General Walker since he has been connected with
the plans tending to its improvement, are briefly but
clearly and succinctly shown-making as interesting
and readable chapter as its predecessor, and one
which rectes great deal of instructive NATTER
The expeditions of Walker, Kinney and French, an6
the warm reception they received from the clergy
and all men of intelgence-the compliments of thu
London Times-the darkness and doubts that were
the bright hopes and prospects that -ftingy con
clude an unpretending little work. that contains o.
much meat within its covers as any one have beer
privileged to see for q long time.
The outlines that are given of the new promise
opened to enterprise and energy, to labor and exer
ton in region than which no one possesses greater
natural advantages reads almost like romance, ant
shows how the riches of nature are still unexhauset
and need only to be sought in order to be found WI