The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-20

! announcement that Generals Walker and Hen
ningen are about to engage in q new flibus'er-
| ing expedition against Nicaragua, and the arri-
va ct this port of the last instalment Of the
poor, wounded, crippled, moribund survivors of
his late expedition, Is very unfortunate for the
exdictator OF Nicaragua, and for the cause fill
bosterism generally. For--whatever may be said
by way Of accounting for the failure Of the late
expedition ard for the misfortanee which it en-
tailed upon the rank and file who engaged init
the broad naked fact Is ncontrovertbe that il was
| tie ruin of every one connected With it. Very
likely mary IF the leaders lost nothing by it, be-
osuse they had nothing 10 lose; but the soldiers,
the men Who invested their bone snd snew and
| health and strength in the operation, have lost
| u that they risked, and have returned to us,
mahaed, crippled by chronic diseases, and proxi-
| uaie candida es for no higher station than su
obscure resting place In come pauper cemetery.
There is 10 use in blinking toe fact-this is
| TIE ret result Of Eicsrsguan flibusterism thus
| fsr.
| OF course it's easy 10 shew that sufftrings aSd
mishsps Of this kind sre not peculiar to Mn.
raguan expeditions, or to any other class
OF flibps.er enterprises, but that they
axe the natural and almost inyariable
consequences Of war in any shapSSod under
any cImste. Our GLORIOUS" Mexican war pro-
duced mO:e cripples and dug more premature
| graves than half dozen flibuster enterprises.
Wellington and Napoleon spent their lives in
causing Just euch scenes as that which was Wit
messed GA the arrival Of the flibusters the other
| day. And, SO 10 one has raised his voice to
make this charge against these eminent Gene
Ials; IS Generals Scott and Taylor have never
beea eumlooped to tAe bar of justice to answer
for the LIE, limbs and health of the unhappy re-
cruits WHO died oil their sufesiDgs during the
Mexican campaigns; so, perhaps, it ght be un-
Just to hold General Walker to q personal re-
spoEsibilits for hsrdships which he could not
have averted.
! Civilization is vetitable car of Juggernaut;
It PROGRESSES over the bodies Of its best friends
As the country at large goes most rapidly ahead
when Individuals and corporations lose sight of
the laws of prudence and embark ia enterprises
which ruin them, 60 civilization and commerce
in the world at large, are naturally advanced at
tie sacrifice Of the pioneers who undertake to
exterd them The thousand or fifteen hundred
volunteer filibusters under Walker who have re-
TUNED to this country in the last stage of want,
suffering and i'll health, and who are probably
not for long among US. are the pledge that is
| given to the future that Nicaragua will yet be
redeemed from the black veil which hangs over it.
AS for the moral, We hope that the spectacle
of these poor wretcbed creatures will tend to re-
coDcile poor men here to their lot, and to dis
courage thst craving after adventure and mill
tsry excitement which units 80 many Of our
young men for the steady avocations of industri-
GUS life. They may depend upon it that even
successful flbuster;sm will not yield 30 hand
some return in the long run as steady, honest,
persistent toll at home; and, should it prove uu-
successful, they may learn from the SAD spectacle
now before them what would be their prospect.
No man should become soldier who eau do any
thing else. Ii is the lowest Of all trades; the
only trade in which man is self conft ssedly and
VIGOROUSLY worth less than horse or q lump
Of iron fashioned into q certain shape.
And it may be urged upon Generals Walker
AID Henningsen that II they are still bent upon
renewing their efforts against Nicaragua, they
will co well to provide themselves before they
60 With such force and such supplies as will
spare this community from a repetition OF the
s;ckenipg sights we now witness We do not
share the Indignation Of those who believe that
al this misery has been the fruit Of Walkers in
ordinate personal ambition; we give him credit
fer higher aims than personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT;
b,,tu In tht,l- hat 10 ioaxa into
Nicaragua without feeling perfectly satisfied that
| he Cannot again be driven out and his followers
left to perish, il will be very hard To screen him
from the wrath Of this community. A wilful
and reckless sacrifce Of more lives in an i'll con-
sidered st.empt 70 regain the supreme power in
that State, would justly eatitle it's author 70
shor. shriit at the hands of Judge Lynch.
FAIL PRosPECTs.-The Persis sailed yester-
Gag and took out sl742,jOI Of specie, greatly
to the Inconvenience of our banks, which have
! fer The past month pursued the suicidal policy
Of increasing their lire Of discounts without re-
gard to the deposit movement and specie pros
pect
We pointed, o month ago, to the crisis in mo-
neg matters which wes coming upon US; 1t has
now begun; and what with the demand for spe-
Gle for export to pay what we owe in Europe and
with the demand for the payment Of duties on
our fail imports, we look for very severe time
indeed during the months Of September and oc-
tober.
O1r corn and other merchants will feel it. The
late failure Of the moet prominent member Of the
Corn Exchange was not an isolated event; be
succumbed naturally to the discrepancy between
the anticipatons Of his Western correspondents
and the actual range Of prices. 1t appears quite
likely that the same causes will affect Others in
like manner The farmers, counting upon first
rate harvest have made their plans accordingly;
and the excellent prospects Of the crop in Europe
have completely overset their calculations by re-
ducing the demand to merely nominal amount