The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-03

mOet OF toe p1O4nnoSAs CAhcs VI VIC oV9NN. .
General Walker has again turned bis stop
southwark During this journeying repeated
occasion las been given him to make some pub
lie exposition of his policy and Of the cause he
claims to represent, and the public has expected
It Of him. But be has given voice to none Of
those ringing utterances with which those who
are truly representative men are wont to sweep
Az ay Misrepresentation and set forth their prin-
o;,a. In clear and unmistakeable terms. We
tnou . little now of the views that animated
h;,, a. We circumstances that shaped bis acts
IN N;co,.,c> as we did when, surrounded BY
danger his e,a uies were reviling him, and those
uho n,a;mea .~ n. his friends were injuring him
with their mistaken ZEAL WIN the eA0ep.on %
some few commonplace sentences ABOUT amer
can progress, he has to4d us n0'nins ~ 70 No. no
proposes to assist that prA 'e'e' ~. 80 :.
bare claim to the Presidets, Of Nics.ssua, nc
has told US nothing Of the pOse, o. as1'A'
who asserts q purpose to regenerss% ...'..
In this omission Gen. Walker haze n 'oA'N s'0.
bis want of capacity as civil leader ss a 80. :.
his career In Nicaragua has exhibited Ills n 20
of military genius and enterprise. The par -
had to play there did not cali only for thrt stu
born and logged power of resistance which he
displayed in an eminent degree-it called fcf a
rapidity of conception and execution that shouR
have seemed to confer upon him ubiquity. The
men that composed his forces were vastly Su-
perior in activity, endurance, courage and skill
in the use of their weapons, to the antagonists
they had to contend with and had Gen.
Walker kept them in active service in the open
field, doubtless they would have achieved very
different result When he determined to concen-
trate them on Granada, and afterwards on Rivas
and abide the results of siege. the very charac-
ter of his men was against him. Requiring
excitement, they sought in liquor that which he
failed to supply them in the open field
With the means of locomotion that he pos-
sessed and the limited extent of country
he had to guard, be should have ex-
hibited greater physical activity himself.
His personal presence in the North, with
q small body of men, would have combined
and strengthened the native partisans he claims
to have bad there, 20 that the allies could never
have concentrated there. A flying examination
river, which was the key to his position, would
have saved that artery to him. A strategic me-
mace of Costa RIGA, from San Juan del Sur or the
southern shore of Lake Nicaragua, might have
prevented that invasion; and the mere fact of his
giving his personal attention everywhere would
have made his name tower of strength, more
respected in his absence than In bis presence.
In all this he failed; and we are told that he
failed because those who backed him here were
urgent that he should keep his forces near the
Transit route and protect that In this our New
York Commodoree have displayed as much in
capacity as they have in their dissensions and
plottings against each other. Among them all
Vanderbilt, Morgan, Law, Garrison, and the
whole lot-there. eeems not to have been one
comprehensive mind capable of grasping
all the great issues at stake and
moulding them to success. After cut
ting each others throets, as they have done,
they are now engaged in a miserable strug-
gle over the broken remnants Of the Nicaragua
Transit route; now imploring our own govern
ment to protect their claims; now endesvoring to
cajole the petty governments Of Central America,
and now again trying to cheat each other into
some bargain and compromise. The last batch
of filibusters and the New York Commodores
have displayed their incapaciy and want Of CON-
prehension of their true mission, and we have
still to wait for the true representative libuser
Passing events in Central America make il not
unlikely that il may again become the scene of
intestine disorder and invited enterprise.
The SPRrTuALIsT CONTROVERSY AT BosToN.-
The spirits have been badly beaten at Boston
The editor Of the Boston Courier offered $500 to
any mediums or spiritual performers who would
perform feats that could not be explained by well
known agencies; the challenge was accepted by
some Of the most prominent spiritualists; a jury
was appointed consisting Of the following gentle
men Prof. Agassiz, Pref. b. Peirce, Prof. Gould
of the Observatory, and Prof Horsford. The
day Of trial came of; the spiritualists mustered
in great force; Prof Agaxiz was as jolly as usual,
Prof. PIERCE looked terribly severe, the other
two jurymen were uncommonly sharp; and, as
might have been expected, the experiment was
an utter failure; the spirituallsts could neither
read thoughts, nor communicate with the dead,
nor move inert matter. So the jury met and set
to work to demolish spiritualim and spiritual
ists, which they did in report in the iconoclas-
tic style.
We notice that the New York Tribune Is dissa-
listed with the award, and compares the four
professors 10 that scientific body in France which
reported against mesmerim century ago or
tbereabouts Still, notwithstanding the 7t1Junes
censures, we incline TO the belief that Professor
Agasiz and Professor PIERCE are honest men,
and that they would not say table had not
moved, If II had.
Experiments Of table turning and spirit rapping
have been very common for several years now;
almost every one has at some time or other seen
an experiment which was considered successful.
We exhort the public to believe that In Mt least