The Placer herald., 1857-12-19
Departure of Walker for Nicaragua


House eighteen.
Departure of Walker for Nicaragua
Gen. Walker, the fllibuser, left New Or
leans on the ] 1th of November, in the Mo-
bile packet. At the Balize, or somewhere
in the neighborhood, he was transferred to
the steamer Fashion, and is now on his way
to the field of his former exploits. He is ac
companied by about four hundred men, and
has provisions for three or four months, and
abundance of war material. The steamer
Fashion was formerly a Government vessel
and employed as a transport. She was re-
Gently advertised for sale by the United
States Marshal, at New Orleans.
A corresponds t at San Juan del Norte,
writing to a New Orleans paper under date
of the 9th of October, gives gloomy des
cription Of the condition of Nicaragua, I'M
der its present rulers. Freedom of speech,
much less of action is entirely unknown; Il
word, almost thought, visited with impris
onment or exile Several natives, who IA
vorel the Government Of Gen Walker have
been shot. Some are in prison; some are
working in the field of MadagaIpa, and many,
who were merely suspected of being friendly
to the Americans, have been banished the
country.
Orders were sent from Washington to New
Orleans, on Saturday, November 14th, for
the immediate dispatch Of revenue cutters,
in pursuit of Gen Walker. The auhor-
ties confidently expect to overhaul the fill
buster, before lie fleets a landing IN Central
America. The General WAS arrested in New
Orleans Nov. 10th, by Custom House Off
cas, gave bail, and set out next morning.
by the Panama steamer we learn that
Walker had landed at Grevtown The f. l.
lowing was tcIegraphcl to Panama, on the
arrival of the West India islands steamer
Dee at ASpinwall.
AsrINwALr, DEc. 2d, 1857.
Gen. Walker has landed at Greytown T. e
following is all that is known at present of
this new expedition: On the 2lth of Novem-
Der a small steamer called the Fashion APP
peared off the port; She did not attempt to
enter but ran down To the Color ado river.
where Walker landed 500 IN II. On the
following day She came into Grevtown at fall
speed, with only ten men on deck, ran along
side hulk, and before the boats Of the t. 5
soop of wir Saratoga could board her, WAL
ker, and his party amounting to $50 men,
had landed at SCOTS Capt Chatard, Of the
Saratoga, ordered them away from SCOTS
premises and h9s taken Grevtown and the
property belonging to the Transit Company
under his protection; he has also informed
Walker that he will not allow any depreda-
tons to be committed in either place On
the Fashions papers being overhaued, it was
found that she regularly cleared from the
Custom House at Mobile, She is now here
(AspnwaI.) We have come here with dis
patches for the senior officer of the British
fleet on his station, and also for Com Paul
ding Of the U. S. Fligate Wabash.
AsPISwALL, Dec. I'd. 1857.
Walker and 100 men have landed at Grey
town. The American corvette did not re-
vent their landing. Forty men went up the
river in boats brought out by the steamer
Fashion.
The Mormon "IDEA." The Mormons, re-
marks an exchange, are progressive people
They not only want more wives than is
wholesome, but more letters to their Alpha
bet. Letters written with that Alphabet are
as incomprehensible as the movements
of a woman or the hierogyphics of the Chi
nese and the Egyptians. The Mormon al
phabet consists Of about forty letters, which
have been so arranged and named as to
cause the greatest possible annoyance to out
siders The Saints not only to convert Utah
into an oyster, but to close the shell against all
knives except those found in the vicinity of
the Great Salt Lake. The Mormons wish to
isolate the generation of vipers" which are
to succeed them. For this reason they wish
to get up new al phabet, new spelling book
and a new language. The idea is ingenious
but it will not succeed. To get new Ian
guage in this country is as difficult as to
bore hole through the Rocky Mountains
with leather auger.
Too MUCH PAPER CURRENcY-Th Ma
tional Intelligencer has been reviving the old
expoded Wing idea of a National bank. The
following quiet hit from the Prices Current
its to the point. That journal says: "How
a monetary institution such as that proposed
by the Intelhgencer could aid in repressing
lmportations we cannot perceive, especially
when too much paper currency, and not the
acant ofit, has been the chief cause of our
late disaster'
'See what am" not "see what my father
was" is an old and excellent Arabic saying