The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-31

elements around him and before him without
| shipwreck. But while his aims and his policy
are for the good and the peace of the country
the people will sustain him, whatever may be
the consequences to party leaders or factions or
sections. Let him look to the people and the
interests of the country, and leave the wrangling
democracy to take care of themselves.
| The New Nicaragu. Imbrogno-What should
be done and Who should do 1t.
Our dispatches from the South to-day give
telling evidence of the excitement there conse-
| quent upon the arrest of Gen. Walker, and the
partial breaking up of his expedition. The
meetings at Mobile and New Orleans, the rapid
| enlistment of men in those places, and the re-
ported departure of eight hundred men on the
Goth from Texas, are but the beginning of
movement that will yet supersede the Kansas
agitation in the intensity with which it will roll
through the Southern portion of the Union
In connection with this subject the present
condition of affairs in Nicaragua be
comes of great Importance, and
we publish a series of very interesting
TRANSACTIONS from Central American papers,
which show that, far from being settled, the
| questions that have kept those petty States in
| perpetual broil are more irritating than ever
| All the facts demonstrate the urgent necessity
| Of the inteTposition Of some stronger influence
than is held by either of the demoralized native
governments or parties
| The provisional executive Of Nicaragua, in
the address to the Constituent Assembly of that
republic at its opening session, recognizes the
| act fhaf vhola nc tbo Cankc A
can republics are involved in the rapid vortex
Of political, commercial and social develope-
ment of the maritime and industrial nations,
and that if they do not advance with equal
step, they are in danger of being overwhelmed.
A similar recognition of one of the greatest
truths of the age was contained In the address
ofPresident Mora to the Congress of Costa RIGA.
something more than year since. The series
of translations which we to-day publish evince
the manner in which they propose to keep
step with the march of the world. Costa RIGA
claims, in virtue of possession, the province
of Nicoya or Guancaste, and the right bank
of the San Juan river; and COL Cauty, under her
flag, is levying war upon the shores of Lake
Nicaragua. The government of Nicaragua ac-
cepts the war thus virtually made, and is pre-
pairing to invade Costa Rica while both GO
vernments are negotiating with the agents of
certain shrewd spectators in New York for the
exclusive privilege of the Transit route grant,
under which the men in power all hope to line
their pockets with gold.
While these things are passing between the
native governments and the spectators Sc
ries of strange events occurs to complicate still
more the state of affairs. Col. Frank Ander-
son. by movement unrivalled for gallantry,
| decision and success, has deprived Costa RIGA
of the possession of the key Of the San Juan
| river and of the steamers upon it. One day
| more and Gen. Walker would have been on a
| triumphal march to Granada, which could only
have been compared to that Of Napoleon to Pa
ris on the return from Elba. But that one day
was fatal. Commodore Paulding. with the
strong arm of the United States, stops the tri-
umphal march of Gen. Walker. and abandons
the gallant Anderson to the power, not
| Of Nicaragua, but of Costa RIGA. The
first act of Commodore Paulding, in
invading the territory of another State,
and selling its presumptive chief. cannot be
upheld upon any principle Of international law,
| but may yet be defended under the curious and
conflicting provisions of the Clayton-Bulwer
| treaty. His second act, in abandoning Ander-
son and his gallant companions, after having
deprived them of the> chief and his forces BY
an act of war, is one of unmitigated inhumani-
| ty, and can only lead to greater complications.
BY this course on the part of the United
| States Commodore another revolution may be
created in Nicaragua. Anderson in possession
of Castillo Viejo, the strongest point in all Cen
| trail America, and of all the river and one OF
the lake steamers, may yet make common cause
with Jerez, Chillon and others. known opponents
| Of the present government of Nicaragua. who
are at Rivas with 700 men. and reinstate the
democratic power in Nicaragua. Frank Ander-
son may yet he the Napoleon Of Central Ameri-
ca, or he may hold his present position awaiting
the return of Gen Walker, which will probably
be unhestatingly demanded by popular opinion
in the South. If the reinforcements which are
said to have left Texas on the 26th should
one: If they are stopped by the Susquehanna
and the Fulton at Greytown. and sent
back still greater complications will en-
~e. Whatever course things may take.
either in Nicaragua or among the South
ern ilibusters, ii is evident that the manner in
which the republics of Central America siall
keep step with the march Of progress does not
lie in their own intestine chickering's, nor in am
bilious and avarioious squabblcs over the sale
Of the exclusive privilege of the Transit route
to a set of Wall street sharpers
There is but one way to settle this whole
question. The government in view of the
facts that daily developc themselves, must
awaken 10 a sense that this movement Is
much greater one. than mere private adven-
ture, and recognise the truth of the views 40
frequently put forward by the HERALD. II