Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-30

ACKNOWLEDGMENT which makes him reckless
OF the peace and lives Of Others are among them.
he possesses fortitude and indomitable Perse-
verance and self-reliance which, though PerverI-
ed, excite wonder if not admiration But, lot iack
OF sound moral sense and sober Juognien'; NY T
piteously these qualities have been wasted 10
what base and Immoral purposes have they been
devoted And whit fruition Thousands OF
lives sacrificed at the shrine OF PesdienSe anu p,
10 his standard probably not five hundred survive
at this hour; and of this scanty remnant perhaps
half are doomed to lifelong disease, and the
others are demoralized In Prlnclple, ana 1of lie
unsettled in purpose.
@ Add TO this the misery that has been inflicted
upon families, the damage done to our national
reputation and to public morals, the slaughter
and destruction wrought in a neighboring and
friendly country, and the wealth expended, with
the many indescribable evils that have followed
and will yet follow in the wake of the expedition,
and who, with human impulse in his heart can
fail to regard the whole business with horror and
unqualified condemnation? And then what has
been achieved? Not an acre of territory has been
acquired. Not cent of returns for the tens of
thousands of dollars expended. Not single foot
added TO the of liberty 10 compensate for the
unjust means employed professedly for that OBJ
is one of expenditure, slaughter, decentralization
and-utter failure.
Walker and his companions ought to be tried
and punished by their own countrymen for their
bold and persistent violations of their country's
laws but we have very faint expectation that
they will be, albeit our national reputation de-
states Government. 1t cannot now be pleaded
that Walker and his followers have expatriated
themselves or are beyond the reach of the laws of
the United states; and it surely will not be con-
tended that their temporary absence from the
country screens them from the operation of their
country's laws, now that they have returned. Ii
j. easy To see where such doctrine would lead.
But although the Government may DE indisposed
or unable to vindiCate the national reputation by
the punishment of these its citizens, we indulge
the hope that the fiiibustering proClivty of the
restless spirits among us has, for time at least,
received its quietus. Twice within n few years
has IL been proved, upon n scale of considerable
INA Intude. that flibusterism is both Improbable
and disastrous. IL was so in Cuba-it has been so
in Nicaragua. And as long as moral principle is
recognized among men, and the great law of cause
and effect remains in operation. IL must be I'M
profitable and disastrous. Nothing so palpably
initiated in wrong, and so defiant of morals, pa
triotism and International justice, can be perma-
nently successful and no temporary or partial
success should blind nation to its Ubiquitous and
unjustifiable character.
Nor with any man who retains his humanity
can the most vociferOus applause or the most Hat
terlng ovdtlOns compensate for the consciousness
OF having violated his country's laws, or stite,
in the hours of solitude and thought the recollec-
ton Of the misery he has inflicted and the lives
he has sacrificed at the shrine Of his reckless am
bition. With all the gloriflcation that greeted
the fllibuster at New Orleans, and though he
may escape the punishment his deeds deserve
General Walker is not to be cnvied neither are
those who have supplied the snews of his OPP
eTdtlOns ana Seduced men 10 JON his ranks Whose
bones now lie bleaching OF the soil of Nicaragua
The modification of utter failure cannot be oblt-
Grated from their minds any more than the recol-
lection of the fearful cost of that failure pass
from the public mind. In few months the
leaders of the piratcal invasion OF Nicaragua will
find their level in the public estimation, as have
the Cuban junta and the parties who then en-
shared so many adventurous citizens to their ruin
by the equally piratica invasion of the island of
Cuba. Time brings many mad schemes to sober
measurement, and disrObes the most teinptinyly
,-s, tESae0 49,
MORE LIGHT House KEEPERS APPOINTED
Yesterday, the following appointments were
made, but the crowded state Of our columns
prevented their publication in the Star of that
date:
At Sandy Hook, n. j.. VIM V. Beers. lat
$500 per annum; y Cedar Point, Ohio. Louis
frank, $3.50 per annum y Juniper Island, Vt,
Joseph TillisOn, 1880 per annum;) Pleasonton's
Island, La. Henry Parker, $500 per annum y
Wood Island, Me, Jos. r. Bryant. 1880 per
annum y Beauchamps Point, Me, Richard
Grinnell, $3.50 per annum;) Sheboygan, Wis,
Addison Manville, 1880 per annum y Pass a
L'Outre, La, John Peters, $500 per annum y
Huron Run, Ohio, Solomon Squire, $3.50 per
annum y Sabine Pass, Texas Benz. Granger
$500 per annum y Fort Gratiot, Mich, Elijah
Burch. 1880 per annum , Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin, (beaeon,) Lauren L. Woodruff, $3.50 per
annum y Port Washington. Wis. Bernhard
Schooner, $3.50 per annum } Foralaus, Cal.
Robert Reen. assistant, $500 per annum)
THE DARIEN SHIP CASAL.-The Navy De-
partment has received the statement OF the ex-
plorations recently made by Assistant Surgeon
III. c. Caldwell, L. s Navy, on the Isthmus of
Darien, which xploration MIR. Caldwell believes
has demonstrated
!. That the summit level of a route from Prin.
cipe northerly TO the Atlantic is within eight
miles of the savanna and would not prove insuper-
able To engineering skill in constructing ship
canal.
= That there is a lower tract of land from the
Rio Savanna TO the Atlantic than has been examin-
ed by any previous observers.
,. That there is a gap on the Atlantic coast
range near the northwestern limits of Caledonia
Bay
The NAVAL Courts OF INorIRY-Court
No. / is not sitting to-day.
In Court No. 2, Lieut. Carriers case was con-
tinued. Capt Tyler, Mr.. Jno r. Staples, Rev
Mr.. Robb, and Lieut.. Craven were examined
for defence.
In Court No. 3, Capt Newel's defence was
read by his counsel, T. NJ. BIount ESQ. and
the Court proceeded to the consideration of the
case.
The SECRETARY OF THE NAVY paid flying
visit to the Navy Yard at o'clock this morn
ing He was received by the Commodore and
officers of the station, and a salute of twenty
one guns was fred-thc Marine Band PLAYING
a national air the while. After taking run
through the several shops he returned to the
quarters of Com. Lavallette, and shortly after
wards took his leave
ACTING COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
APPOiNrED.-Charles f. Mix, Esq, the Chief
Clerk of the Indian Office, has been appointed
by the President Acting Commissioner of In
dian Affairs, during the temporary absence Of
Gen. Denver, the Commissioner, from the seat
Of Government.
REsIGTATIOSs.-PassedM idshipman. A. c.
lizard, L. 5. N, has resigned.