The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-02


lent extremes of the Northern niger worship
pers and the Southern niger drivers He
wants peace they want discord and agitation
The best course for all conservative men to
pursue is to go with him, and get this Kansas
firebrand out of Congress as quickly as possible,
and let the agitating politicians, dirt-eaters and
| fre-eaters make the most of II.
| The Last News from Central America-Where
has Walker gone tos
/, The condition of affairs in Central America
according to the late advices from there, is one
of fierce pickering and great exhaustion. Costa
RIGA and Nicaragua have shown great alacrity
in coming to blows on paper, though we doubt
very much whether it will, after all, amount to
anything more than war of proclamations
Both of these republics are too much ex-
hausted to engage actively in new contest;
and while one of them-Costa Rica-is talking
of obtaining foreign loan, in order to meet
the present great demands upon the treasury,
the other is without money or the means of
getting it, though we are told the war fever is
very strong. 1t is said that the city of Leon.
raised 1000 volunteers in one day, and that
Nicaragua can send into the field 5000 men for
the invasion of Costa Rica. All this may be
true; but in the war against Walker Leon
never raised 1000 men,. nor could Nicaragua
ever bring 5000 into the field against
him. If she can do it now against
her late ally, we must believe that
public opinion there was not so strong
against Walker as the leaders would
have us suppose. What Colonel Canty is
about is not very clear. We are told
on the I'd of November, from San Juan del
Sur, that he was on the lake, and could not
get back to the river without having first re-
dueed Fort San Carlos while on the 10th our
correspondent writes from Aspinwall that he
had been at Greytown on the 9th of October,
and had gone to San Jose, having captured the
fort.
II does not seem at all improbable to us that
the Costa Ricans are in full possession of the
river although our advices from Greytown do
not SO inform us. Be the position of affairs
what it may, there has been by this time proba-
bly, new actor on the scene, and a complete
change of the programme. There has been a
good deal Of speculation AZ to where Walker
has gone to, but we have not as yet seen any
thing that to our view fills all the conditions.
Some have sent him to Yucatan, some to st.
Domingo, others to Boca del Toro, where the
United States steamer Fulton is waiting to
catch him. while others are sure he has gone to
Greytown, and will be insontinently picked up
by the officers of the United States ship Sara
toga
We have studied the subject closely, and are
content with none Of these conclusions. Yucca
tan We do not believe in; for although the peo-
pie there have periodically sent invitations to
New Orleans for flibuster expedition to
help them, they do not even offer
to pay the postage on their letters, much
less the outfit of the fighting men.
Saint Domingo is poor field for operations of
this kind, as the ilibustcrs always look to
uniting with some native party, and that repub-
lie has not white men enough in II to form a
party That Walker has gone to Boca del Toro
or Greytown to be stopped by an American force
we do not believe. Yet all his acts tend to
show that he has gone to Nicaragua, and there
do we believe he has gone.
Three entrances present themselves to this
republic-the river San Juan, the Blewfeds
river, and the Wanks or Coco, having its out
let at Cape Gracias-a-Dios. Up the latter he
could ascend with the Fashion about sixty
miles, and then be must cross the mountains to
Segovia, in the northwest department of Mica
ragua II he takes the Blewields river he can
ascend IL nearly az far, and then cross the road
less mountains to Chontales, leaving the Eng
lsh negro flbusters to keep up fire in his
rear, as Marcy did on General Scott when he
went filibustering to Mexico. The other route
is the San Juan river, where the Saratoga lies
at anchor. On examining the chart however,
we find that the San Juan has another mouth,
called the Colorado river, which branches OF
some miles above Greytown and empties long
distance southeast from that port This river
is stated to have seven or eight feet of water on
its bar, and to carry even greater depth up to
the San Juan.
Now, Judging Walker and Commodore Fays-
SIOUX, who has gone with him, by their ante
cedents, we have not the slightest doubt but
that they will take the shortest cut and strike
the boldest blow. This will be to enter the San
Juan by the Colorado mouth, and steam right
up the river as far as the depth of the water
will carry the Fashion. According to Joe
Whites old reports about the river, IL has water
enough to carry the steamer up to Machuca
rapids at once. II this is so, Uncle Sans watch
dogs on the quarterback of the Saratoga
will wake up some morning to learn that Walker
and his flibusters are seventy miles up the river
and have taken Castillo viejo by night sur
prise This is the only course that common
sense and calm examination of all the infor-
nation upon the subject leave open to bold
man. and this is our guess at what will be done.
| We wait the issue of events
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