The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-11

Conssquences-Usw FiIibussertng EEpeai-
lions.
Our Geographic correspondence from Wash
ington, published q day or two since, gives
some interesting information in relation to the
difficulties said to be impending between this
country and Venezuela. BY an arrival the pre-
vious day from Porto Cabello we were oppOr-
timely in receipt Of two letters from Venezuela
one Gated at Caracas, June IL, and the other at
Porto Cabello, June (which we have also
published. Notwithstanding the statements
in these letters are not entirely consistent.
it ia quite evident that the present condi-
reverse Of cordial amity; but we are still of
opinion that no serious apprehension need be en-
te.tained of open war between the United States
and President Monagas.
There is however, one aspect in which the ex
istipg circumstances may be viewed that invests
them with grave and serious character with
reference to the present rulers of Venezuela.
The consequences, also, which may flow to our
government and people from the present condi-
ton Of affairs between the United States and the
government at Caracas should be we'll consider
ed, as they are not unlikely to give color to the
of repeated reproach cast upon as of being prone
to 6libustering. We.will speak more plainly.
There is at this time residing in this city dis
tneuishfd Venezuelan exile, General Don Jose
Antonio Paez. BE was formerly President of
Venezuela, and the most noted military hero of
that republic. He has many warm and Jealous
friends and partzans remaining there. With the
masses of the people, especially in two or three
of the NEST populous sections Of the republic,
hostile to the corrupt and selfish spectators who
have such great sway there, we learn he is very
popular, and that many auxiously desire his re-
turn to the country and his restoration to power.
His family connections, it is said, are influential
and wealthy, and he has himself command of am
pie pecuniary means in the United States Ba
nished from his native land by those who now
rule at Caracas, surrounded by and in close
communion with other South American exiles,
like all proscripti, he is constantly contriving
means by which bis countr! may be liberated, or
by which ne may be restored to it, and re-attain
his former political ascendancy. We were aware
some months since of the existence Of a contract
between General Paez and the two individuals
hrst named in cur letter from Porto Cabello, by
which, In compensation for sundry steamers and
sailing vessels to be supplied to him, and Cor the
transportation Of some hundreds Of "emigrants,"
and quantity of arms and ammunition, to the
Venezuelan coast, he engaged to pay some two
millions of dollars, for which the Custom House
revenues CT the republic were to. be
pledged; and in which contract also he sti-
pulated TO transfer to the parties named
all the guano on he various islands claimed by
the republic. II Is said that many of the people
of Venezuela pIShted themselves to the fulGl-
ment of this contract. We have some ground
for the belief thrt Mr.. Secretary Marcy had hints
given to him of what was going on, and that he
did adopt measures to thwart the consummation
Of the designs Of the parties who had engaged
with General Paez. In ignorance, however, Of
the names of the persons who had signed the coz
tract, the suspicious of Perce's administration
and its subordnates were directed to the two great
flibustering millionaires of this city-Commo-
dores Cornelius Vanderbilt and George Law.
Vanderbilt, upon the first suggestion of the
charge. at time when he wac particularly savage
against all flibusters, because Walker had seized
his steamers on Lake Nicaragua, Indignantly
denied the soft impeachment in the public prints
Law being engaged just at that time in providing
minies and other "seasonable hardware to
Walks and Henningsen, declined the loan or
sale on credit of single one of that ever
lasting lot Of 100000 flibustering nuskets. al
tered into mines, either to Paez, Wright
Blocker L. Co, or any other parties, till after
Walker should have triumphed in Nicaragua
Hence, and not in auywise owing to the vig-
lance of District Attorney McKeon or other fcdc-
raj officers was the expedition against Venezuela
temporarily suspended. Walkers friends were
anxious to suppress oil such schemes that might
divert men and means from him, and ffom these
influences also originated the quarrel between
him and the Cuban filibuster. Goicouria, that
broke forth last fall.
We have good reason to suspect that the con-
iidential conferences held by General Walker on
his recent visit to this city (and to hold which
was the chief purpose Of that visit) with some of
the persons above named aad others of whom
suspicion on such topics is not entertained in this
lnu tnt utAitu vi NuO-t
would cause universal as.onishment amongst our
business men, had for their object the inva-
sion of Venezuela, instead, as has been generally
supposed, renewal Of the attack directly OH
Nicaragua Walker, Henniugscn, Anderson,
Fayssoux, Ssingle, Henry and Lockridge with
hundreds of other such Glbusters are at this
particular juncture without occupation in their
peculiar lire, and of course on hand for any bold
adventure that promises reasonable reward either
in gold or glory. Until the disputes with re-
spect to the Nicaragua Transit route existing be-
tween Nicaragua and Costa RIGA and the various
competing claimants and bidders for II are ad-
justed and until another domestic row is kicked
up in that region between Martinez, Mora, Canas,
Jerez zavala and the some thirty. odd grcascr ge-
ncrals each one of whom ia striving to appro-