The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-22
The News from NicaraSua-The Peculiar
Position OF Things There.

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The News from Nscaragua-The Peculiar
Position OF Things There.
Our advces from Nicaragua show that the
contending parties there are fast approaching
the same state of exhaustion that our bellgerent
Commodores in Wall street reached some weeks
since. Neither party seems capable OF striking
decisive blow, and all are clamoring for rein
forcements. Walker is waiting for men and
munitions at Rivas; Lockridge is doing the
same at Carlos Island and Gen. Mora is urging
his brother to send him at once six hundred
picked men, and not to talk to him about the
coffee crop till the harvest of flibusters is
gathered The accounts from Walkers head
quarters are so contradictory that it is impOssi-
BILE to form any true estimate of his elements of
resistance to the pressure now bearing upon him.
On the other hand, Costa RIGA seems to be
carrying the burthen of the conflict alone. Her
allies are not sending her either men or money;
and Peru, the rich, that was looked to for the
sinews of war, refuses to come down with the
"ready."
1t is difficult to say how long this exhaustng
all parties may yet combine, as our Wall street
Commodores have done, and put forward some
new man. Perhaps Spencer may succeed in get
ting the "house of Vanderbilt" as Gen. Mora
calls it, TO help with their influence and the ma
terials OF war. Perhaps the new move in Walk.
er's camp may eliminate, and the gray eyed"
man be forced by his own men TO make way for
a T.. Il,
have shrewd suspicion that the % house of Law
might show its hand. and that it would become
our duty as a journalist to chronicle the war Of
the Montagues and Capulets of New York. But
whatever may be the result of the present con-
test in NcaI aqua, the final event is evident:
this calling 10y both sides for aid and comfort
from our Wall street filibusters points unmis-
takably to the realization of our Indian Empire
Who shall have it, is now the question. We
are told that new company is formed here; tnat
the head man would shrink in dismay from any
enterprise of questionable morality, and that his
name lis associated only with enterprises strictly
commercial and pacific" This is just the way to
found an Indian Empire. When that little bevy
of merchants that established the East India Com.
paDy first met in Alderman Godard's back par
lor in London, they formed company on "a
purely mercantile bottom" and ever after sent
powder and ball and men to India, merely as a
commercial speculation. The little knot OF specu-
lators that lately met in Sim Diapers back par
lor have resolved to The same effect. But who are
they? The old dodge of responsibility and wealth,
and al that won't do. Give the public their
names. We ask if the list does not include Nor
gan, Garrison, Vanderbilt, Joe White, Heiss,
Tracy. and 30 FORTH Are not these the lions and
the lambs that have lain down together in Sim
Diapers back parlor on "a purely mercantile
bottom
We have plan of our own for the formation
Of new Nicaragua Transit Company as soon as
the time is propitious. We shall recommend
General Walker to ignore all our Wall street
spectators, and form domestic company
that will put the route in order, work it them
selves and settle and cultivate the land around II
to the advantage of the State and the benefit OF
the world We shall recommend Mr.. J. n. Scott,
whose energy has nearly opened the San Juan
river to Walker, as President and Col Lock
ridge as actuary of the new company. The first
can beat six Nor gans or vanderbilts in energy,
and the latter is equal TO any number Of Joe
Whites or Sim Diapers The steamboat Com
modores will gladly run their ships TO the har-
bors OF any line across the isthmus that is man.
aged by Americans, and Walker can found his
new State on valuable domestic industry. But
we want no more Wall street transit companies to
speculate in stocks here and feather their nests
with plumber.
The danger that the Panama line is in from
our pending difficulties with New Granada rem
Gers another line across the isthmus of imme
diate and permanent necessity. II the Panama
route should be closed by any accident the re-
vulsion that our commercial interests would ex.
perence from one end Of the country 10 the other
would turn even our law abiding merchants into
ilibusters, and no one can foresee the end.