The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-04-15

are fuIlv Complied with. Specnl4t,rs viii lind 1t q
hard matter 6ghsing against Walker; toe people OF
the States are with bun Rs .nO icy ber @tsss p
haze two good routes to California, aad they will
have Them. and they dislike the Panama route and
its sptecedeox The great highway 70 the gold re-
Uions If the West is across Nicaragua. Nature has
marked the road, and man canoot change it.
The Ssu Juan river will eventually be as imp0r-
tart az the North river ia to New York. for 1t COM
mspds the trade of greater extent Of country,
miles from the mouth Of the river.
When an American population shall inbabit that
country, and only one company shall have power TO
use steam OF the river and lake, the company pos.
steam lines to California together. When mines
worked, and the golden treasure has to find it's
outlet down this river, and merchandise and mach-
merry shall ascend 1t this route will attain the MILE
n'uu OF prosperity. But who will realize the pro-
fits? Morgan sbies, Garrison looks grave and says
but little, Vanderbilt is eager to clutch the prize,
although he bias had it wenched from him once. 1t
is too ROod thing, howe yer, to give up, and ne
cono settle business sooner than the Others for he il
not so timid.
Wise hes6s specializing az to prospects Of sup
Plies IN cotton and sugar, and the question Is as
Stunning serious aspect 1t is said that the reed OF
the cotton plant Ieeds renewing but tnis is an errO
DeOns impression. The answer the preacher gave
his congregation when requested 10 pray for rain,
10 appi able to cotton growers-"lt is not rain you
want here, it is manure" So with cOtton-it Is not
the seed which ia wanted but the soil Where can
sufficient lands he bad TO supply the demand for
in our possession even. il not sufficient
and Southern States falling of in their crops
The MOI b as well az the South nave a deep iD'e
rest in solving the problem Indeed, it is the rats
selile the vexed question OF slavery bet@een them,
for the North will have her factories continue
though SLAVES mus, raise the raw mate ial
Where is the cotton 10 be raised? As q natural
cor N INN N flr
lie any amount Of uncultivated lands rich as the
richest Mississippi bottom, inviting the coltvat n,
and ready TO yield countless harvess for the DOLLY
of the world. Whether saves can I've introduced is
not yet certain the reigDiDg powers have nos said
so, ana no one knows General Walkers iCeas with
regard tn il; bur, In the event Of their being bar
10 slavery, white men can raise either sugac or cot
ton in abundance.
All the low lands in Nicaragua produce sugar in
abundance, and Of superior quality; the higher
aDGs also produce very good crops. The best crops
sre found upon the highlands OF Mauagua and Ma
tagalpa, where the cane grows To an incredible size.
Sugar can be raised for five cents per pound, and
there tw) million Of acres susceptible OF its cut
uvatop, each acre producing four thousand pounds,
amounting 10 eighty millions OF dollars; there are
also four millions Of acres o. land upon which fine
cotton weuid grow. WITH all this, Nicaragua is a
healthier couotry than the cotton sugar lauds OF
our Southern States, besides being adapted IL all
the products of tropical and most of those of tenn
pera,e regions. In the Chon,ales aud Matagalpa
warer 90 for any quantity OF mills and gins,
also for mining OpeTanOns Cotton gro Ts every
where, from the vses to the bill tops, aud although
tse species grown IL not we'll cultivated Yet IL pro-
dnces the finest article. II seems 70 he sponta-
nsous production, the same seed having been used
perhaps for ages The export OF cotton from Mica
rapua has been high thirty thous and bales in
year, but on account OF revolutions il has OWN
died to the production of only sufficient 10 employ
a few indians in the manufacture Of species Of
sheeting and candle wicks. The option manufac-
tnrers Of England proUOse, in consideration OF the
anticipated scarcity, To form league for the eacou
ragemeDt Of rhe culture OF cotton. Let the United
States take the step in advance at least this
tineDt She requires but 10 say-Go and make the
copny, and it will be done. Let England look her
East lndies-America must look 70 America Let
years we shall have no clamors about probable
scarcity OF cotton. RrvAs.
THE NICARAGUA TRANSIT ROUTE.
I'd IRE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
Are not both England and the United States dis
tinctly and unequivocally bound by the guarantees
Of the Clayton Buiwer treaty to rensate the Mica
ragusn transit
The Clayton Bulwer Convention of April 10, 1850,
formally sets forth, on the part Of Great Britain
and the United States, the motives Of those great
commercial powers in entering into mutual guaran.
tees for the sgement and protection of those
contractors who might be induced to embark their
capital in opening more direct avenues to the Pacific
Ocean. The object Of that Convention is clearly
stated in these plain and binding terms
rne govern Of The Uassd sAsss ssd Great Britain
1000 nplsh particular ostscs 0at 70 establish gme
Jel ipcpe they bercbv 10 ext0nd their
slos % .Is.'y spsisnos. 70 .sy p'sosoasis oS@"ani
which eoepscts North and south America and especially
10 The inter- ocesp c,mmascauons-shouId the same
~
proposed 70 Be sssasashed Sy NE way Of PAaAms o.
Tehaansepec.
We have had an example OF the protection Eng
land affords to the Panama trsnst-so particularly
named in connection with ''the general principle Of
security and neutrality for the various Isthmus
communications which this Clay -Bulwcr treaty
processes 1t is its aim TO establish.
Nicaragua IL cared for with equal emphasis In
another clause and our immediate business Ia with
the Ncsraeusn transit. In ore,t violation Of these
treaty pledges, this invaluable highway to the Pa
cifc was plundered and suppressed last Dece nber
in the presence OF the Britsh fleet at san Jnan and
IL SILL barred 70 American commerce by British in
iuence In referring 10 the Nicaragua route, and ID
the context Of the treaty, In which fu pro cotton {,
guaranteed TO ali practical Communication acroes
the lstbmus, tie project Of an inter0cean canal
through Nicaragua Is treated In these explicit words,
in article . OF that treaty -
oousrsopg p.sss (GreAs Be'saa and un.a stsaes)
that snch canal sbail be undertakes upon
any ar and sqa,ab.e terms BY sey p.saes seyns she
authority OF Asy local goverBnent govern menss
through vhoas errtosies me same pass then ,he
pcrso, emp oyef is copsvucoo and thss proos'sy
usec thai oojsua shall be pwossoed. FROM zoe
Of said canal ~ compilation, py
Of hs Unnet States and Sresi Britain iron usjuss
detention, ooansoaeu sezare. or any violenos what
ever
In article 5th the contracting powers declare in
the most emphatic manner that, when the works
shail he completed, both governments 'engsgc To
protect II from interruption, SEIZURE nnjus. CON
Ascaton, and they guarantee the neutrality thereof
40 that II may be forever ooen and free, and the
capital invested thers in secure"
IL seemed to be the intention Of the late Dallas
Clarendon treaty to narrow down the scope Of this
convention TO q mere Anglo American copartner
ship, 70 dismember Nicaragua for the exclusive ben
eft Of Costa Rics and the half breed Africans called
Mosquito Indians Ordinary filinustering becomes
moral and praiscwothy under the ssnctionng pre-
ctdcnt OF the wholesale partition of Nicaragua by
the Dallas CLARENDON scbeme- Nevertheless even
granting that United Staes Senate might be found
capable OF ratfying that extraordinary neement,
% could not abrogate the right 10 indemnity re-
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