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

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., WHICH makes hlm FCkIt%
Of the peace and lives of others, are among them
he Possesses fortitrde and indomitable perse-
verance and self reliance which, though pervert-
ed, excite wonder il not admiration. But, Tor lack
OF sound moral sense and sober Judgment. now
Plteously these qualities have been wasted 10
what base and immoral purposes have they oeen
devoted. A I'd WIN fruition thousands OF
lives sacrificed at me shrine of pestilence and pi-
ratical warfare For of the thousands who focked
to his standard probably not five hundred survive
at this hour; and Of this scanty remnant perhaps
one half are doomed to lifelong disease, and the
others are demoralized in principle, and for life
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 Undesirable evils that have followed
and will yet follow in the wake of the expedition,
and who, with human impulse i'll 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 a single foot
added to the area of liberty to compensate for the
unjust means employed professedly for that OBJ
lect The history Of tho expedition from the first
is one of expenditure, slaughter, Decentralization
and-utter failure.
Walker and his companions ought to he tried
and punished by their own countrymen for their
bold and persistent violations of their country's
laws but we have 4 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 L nited States and 1t surely will not be con-
tended that their temporary absence from the
country screens them from the operation of their
countrys laws, now that they have returned. 1t
Is easy to see where such a doctrine would lead.
But, although the Government may be indisposed
or unable to vndicate the national reputation by
the punishment of these its citizens, we indulge
the hope that the flibustering proclivty of the
restless spirits among has, for time at least.
received its quietus. Twice within few years
has it been proved, upon scale of considerable
ma nitude, that filibusterism is both Improbable
and disastrous. Ii was so in Cuba-it has been
In Nicaragua. And as long as moral principle is
recognized among men, and the great law of cause
and effect remains in operation, it must be UNI
profitable and disastrous. Nothing palpably
initiated in wrong, and so defiant of morals, pa
triotism and international justice, can be perma-
nently successful and no temporary partial
success should blind nation to its Ubiquitous and
unJustifable character.
Nor with any man who retains his humanity
can the most vociferous applause the most fiat
tering ovations compensate for the consciousness
OF having violated his country's laws. or stihe,
in the hours of solitude and thought the recolec-
ton of the misery he has inflicted and the lives
he has sacrificed at the shrine of his reckless
btion. With all the goritication that greeted
the tllibuster al New Orleans, and though he
may escape the punishment his deeds deserve.
General Walker is not to be envicd, neither are
those who have supplied the snews of his op-
erations and seduced men to join his ranks whose
bones now lie bleaching on the soil of Nicaragua
The modification of utter failure cannot be oblit-
Grated from their minds, any more than the recol-
lection of the fearful cost Of that failure can pass
from the public mind. In few months the
leaders of the piratical invasion of Nicaragua will
hnd their level in the public estimation. as have
shared so many adventurous citizens to their ruin
by the equally piratical invasion of the island of
Cuba. Time brings many mad schemes to sober
measurement, and dSrobes the most tenptingly
MORE LIGHT-ElOUSE 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;) Cedar Point, Ohio, Louis
frank, (S450 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, $3.50 per
annum y Beauchamp's Point, Me, Richard
Grinnell, $3.50 per annum y Sheboygan, Wis,
Addison Manville, 1880 per annum y Pass a
Outre, La, John Peters, $500 per annum y
Huron Rum 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 y Milwaukee, Wiscon.
sin, (beacOn.) 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 CANAL.-The Navy De-
pertinent has received the statement of the ex-
plorations recently made by Assistant Surgeon
III. c. Caldwell, L. 5. Navy, on the Isthmus of
Darien, which exploration Mr.. Caldwell believes
has demonstrated
l. That the summit level of a route from Prin.
ciPe noItherly to the Atlantic is within eight
miles of the savanna and would not prove insuper-
canal.
g That there is lower tract Of land from the
Rio Savanna to the Atlantic than has been examin-
cd by any previous observers.
3. TLat there is d gap on the Atlantic coast
'ange near the northwestern limits of Caledonia
Bay,
The NAVAL COURTS OF IyQuIRY.-Court
No. IL not sitting to-day.
In Court No. 2, Lieut.. Carter's case was con-
tinued. Capt. Tyler, Mr.. Jno R. Staples, Rev.
Mr.. Robb, and Lieut.. Craven were examined
for defence.
In Court No. ), Capt. Newell's defence was
read by his counsel, T. NJ. Blount, Esq, and
the Court proceeded to the consideration of the
case.
The SECRETARY OF THE NAVY paid n flying
visit to the Navy Yard, at 9 o'clock this morn
ing. He was received by the Commodore and
officers of the station, and salute of twenty
one guns was fred-the Marine Band PLAYING
a national air the while. After taking a run
through the several shops no returned to the
quarters of Com. Lavallette and shortly after
wards took his leave
ACrISG COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
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.
REsIGrATIoSs.-Passed Midshipman, A. C.
lizard, L. s. N, has resigned.
Capt. p, NJ. Henry has resigned his Office in