Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1856-02-16
From the n, Y. Herald of The 30th.
Yankee Progress Under the Tropics.

We had simultaneous arrivals yesterday from
Nicaragua and New Granada. The Star Of the
West brought news from Nicaragua to the 10Th
instant, and the Osprey sailed from Carthagena
on the 18th The Star of the West brings us
six hundred and fifty thousand dollars iii gold,
and is, usual. ahead of the Panama steamer.
Peace still rel gns within the borders of Nicara-
qua, and many false reports that have been fly
ing about the country as to the stability of the
government are authoritavely denied. Gen.
Walkers army has received large reinforce
ments Col Hornsby-Waker's right hand
man, and IL gallant oficer-has been made Gen
era of Brigade, and we direct attention to a
letter concerning him which will be found in an
other part of this paper. Mr.. Schiesslnger,
who Guided the vigilance :" of Mr.. Mckeon,
has been appointed Adjutant-General, with the
rank of Colonel. Captain Carrigan has airiv-
ed, ana is said to relish the field Of Mars better
than his seat a member of the New York
Common Council. Captain kerrigan will be
better soldier than statesman.
Yankee enterprise had already laid off the
suburbs of Granada in house lots. and business
was quite lively. We publish a remarkable doc
ument from Rafael Carrera, the Captain-Gen-
eral of Guatemala, in which he says that he is
glad to find that peace has been restored to MIC
aragua This poiteness on the part OF one who
is supposed to be bitter enemy of the party III
power in Nicaragua looks good deal like hum
bug. But the amiable Carrera will find it diff
cult to humbug the Yankee. They understand
that sort of thing much better than he does.
The present government of Nicaragua has now
been in existence since October. Itseems to be
firmly established, and the beneficial effects OF
peace already apparent With North Amer
lean enterprise, steamboats,, sawmills, energy,
industry perseverance and money, Central Am
erica will vet be one of the Powers Of the earths
The mine is rich enough to pay for working 1t.
From New Granada the accounts are cheering.
Our readers will remember that the Osprey is
the pioneer of line of steamships between
Carthagena and New York. She is owned by
| company of New York merchants, who are en-
gagged in important internal Improvements in
| New Granada, the trade of which republic has
long been monopolized by English merchants
whose profits are immense. We publish inter-
esting letters from our correspondents at Car
thageua, Santa Martha and Bogota.
! The remarkable events now transpiring in
| Central and South America cannot but lead to
most important results to US and to the States
which have recently received such a powerful
infusion of North American energy. In New
Grenada we see company of New York mer-
chants quietly revolutionizing the entire COM
merce of the country, while a railway charter
ed by the New York Legislature connects the
| Atlantic and Pacific, with its termni looking
towards all quarters of the globe. In Ncara-
| qua the North American takes military stand !;
and under authority of the native government,
preserves peace and tranquility in Il State I'M
poverished and weakened by internal dlssen-
sious But the arts of peace are not neglected.
| Business men have returned to their avocatlons,
and trade is once more profitable, because 1t IS
secure The State is congratulated by its SIS
ter republics, and has, by the aid of handful
of determined North Americans-led by man
whose ability is undoubted and whose motives
we have no right to impugn-taken a position
which would have seemed impossible six months
ago
| While the cabinets are exchanging despatch
es. writing long diatribes about treaties, and
routine and red tape, and old fogy diplomacy,
| the people seem to have taken matters into their
| own hands, and commenced to carry the Mon
| roe doctrine into effect. All these demonstra-
tons on the Southern border, are the result OF
the natural disposition of Young America to ex-
| tend the area of free institutions, and all the
Cabinets. treaties, District Attorneys and in
dictments cannot stop it. The effects of Marcy,
Cushing, Mckeon s. Co., to prevent people from
colonizing Nicaragua and New Granada, are
about as dgnfed and effective as the labors OF
Dame Darlington, who attempted to stop the
progress of the Atlantic ocean with broom.
Like the good old lady, they only make them
selves exceedingly absurd, but, unlike her, they
have not yet found it out.