The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-14


sion Of blood. Give Brigham Young and his
chief conspirators no promises Of mercy; but
leave every avenue open for their peaceable re-
treat to some other part Of the world, and let
them CO. Should they pass over into the do
minions of Victoria, let them go-for the most
Of them will thus be returning to their first al
legiance. This news from the Sweet Water is
good news, as it indicates an early removal Of
the Mormons beyond our boundaries.
The New Expedition OF Walker 70 Central
America.
The telegraph has advised us that General
Walker left New Orleans on the 18th instant,
on board the mail boat from that city to Mobile,
with come three hundred followers, and that the
party were afterwards embarked in the Mobile
bay on board the steamer Fashion, and pro-
ceeded to Central America.
There is no doubt that Walker has again gone
to Central America, and we shall probably next
hear Of his landing at Greytown What his
available means and force consist Of is not pub
liciy known, for his secret has been well kept.
II is evident, however, that they are not large,
for the carrying capacity Of the little steamer
Fashion, in which he is said to have departed,
is very limited. Besides, Gen. Henningsen and
Capt. Fayssoux, who are in fact his military
and naval arms, have remained behind.
Whether this new expedition of Walkers has
been gotten up like the second expedition of
Lopez to Cuba, of inferior materials to his first
one, and as desperate resort; or whether Hen
ningsen and Fayssoux have remained behind in
order to follow with more men when Walker
shall have effected landing is not known; and
the latter superstition will probably depend upon
the success that attends the desperate leader
That he has little or no connection with or
favor for any of our New York steamboat Com
modores is pretty evident.
The state of things which he will find in Gen.
trail America is most heterogeneous. The Costa
Rcan forces guarding the lower part of the
San Juan river will probably have gone up to
attack the Nicaraguans in Fort San Carlos, and
Walker may come just in time to save General
Martinez and Nicaragua from being overrun
by the forces of President Mora. At all events
it is evident that matters have not improved
since he left that country, and the course which
ture has not tended to raise them in the estima-
ton of the world. IfWalker succeeds in getting
another foothold in Nicaragua we hope that
unlike the Bourbons on their return to France
he will both have learned and have forgotten
many things.
Some of the journals are disposed to censure
the administration and the federal officers for
the departure of Walker. But any one at all
acquainted with the state of public opinion in
our Southern and Southwestern States well
knows that it is beyond the power of the
federal government to stop small expedi-
ton like those Lopez got off and this
which Walker has taken out. The manner
in which it is done is as follows:-A quantity of
arms and ammunition, such ~ will abundantly
equip 800 men, is placed in security fifty or
sixty miles below New Orleans on the bank of
the Mississippi; the steamer that is to take the
expedition clears at the Custom House in bal
last, and in the present instance was searched
by the Marshal; nothing is found, for there is
nothing on board of her, and no one except a
few of the trusty initiated know where the arms
are; she starts ut nightfall, rs do all vessels
leaving New Orleans, so as to reach the bar at
the mouth of the river by morning. On her
way down the few boxes containing the outfit
can be taken on board in an hour, and at day
break she is at sea. The next day Walker and
his men embark on the mail boat or any other
boat on Lake Pontchartrain as passengers and
without arms the Fashion is met at sea, the
men are transferred to her, and the ex-
petition is complete. Lopez pursued
similar course with his first expedition,
and, as no military organization was made
until after he was out of the country, no jury
could be found to convict him on his return.
As for the federal officers in the South, no one
will give them any information of what is going
on and 80 strongly does public opinion set
with all parties against their siraining to carry
out our too strong neutrality laws, that when
ever one Is found willing to do It, he is met
with insult in the public places, and covered
with opprobrium everywhere. Thus law which
endeavors to enforce our neutrality, by con-
ferring too great degree of power upon the
government, overreaches itself by the reaction
Of the public mind The administration Is,
therefore, as powerless to defeat small expedi-
tons in the South, as it is to catch runaway
slave in the North. enforce unpopular laws in
Kansas, or restrain the rangers Of Texas and
the miners Of California.