The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-28
BALTIMORE.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER %. 1858.

On the 10th of next month peaceful band O..
emiorants will set sail from Mobile for Nicaragua,
under the guidance of the American Cincinnatus,
General WILLIAM WALKER. A circular now be-
fore u.s. and addressed to the friends of this indus
trial movement imparts the pleasant information
that a vessel has already been chartered for San
Imam del Norte, which will take any passengers
and freight for Nicaragua that may be offered but
in order that good berths may be had for SO
delightful voyage, the charter party would be
gratifed to know the number of persons DESTROYS
of securing passage to country so nvitingly
open to settlement. We need not say that the pre-
vious pursuits of General WALKER-hs thorough
knowledge of the constituents of soils-his great
experience as analytical chemist-his indefati-
gable lndustry-his perfect appreciation of the adj
vantages to be derived from the adoption of well
arranged system of rotation, not only as respects
crops, but in the administration of his proposed
Agricultural Bureau, admirably qualify him for be-
coming the leader in so benevolent and praise
worthy an enterprise We regret, however, to ac-
knowledge that there rumors afoat which are
calculated to cast a doubt upon the nature of the
expedition to which we have referred. 1t has been
even limited abroad, by some rash and inconsider-
ate persons that WILLIAM WALKER is neither more
nor less than lawleSs llibuster, and that his de-
signs, instead of being Agricultural and Bucollcal,
are aggressive and warlike. 1t IS not, however,
for us, at this late day, TO point out how absurd
such charges must necessarily be, when they are
brought against gentleman so perfectly modest
and unambitious. and so thoroughly averse, from
principle to everything that smacks OF grim
visaged war" We admit that the previous car
goes of emirrants that went out TO Nicara-
qua. under his auspices, did not do we'll
that the agricultural implements they intro
duced into that semi-tropical region were
not exactly similar to those in common use among
the good people of the UNITED STATES; that their
pruning hooks bore a striking resemblance to
bowie knives, and that their reaping contrivances
looked very much like those tubular instruments
which our military companies handle with so
much aptitude and precision in the drill room and
on parade 1t must, however, of course, be re-
garded as a vulgar error, to suppose that WILLIAM
WALKER and his agricultural associates, were not
pacfcaly inclined, and it is, therefore, the more
to be regretted, that their philanthropic motives
were so egregiously misunderstood by the native
population Of Nicaragua. There runs an old
story, that when GEORGE |. was imported from
Hanover to occupy the English throne, he told the
people of London, that he came among them for
phatically. "Aye! and for all our chattels too,
responded cynical bystander; but history is ST.
lent as to whether any rebuke was administered
TO the sarcastic nterlocutor. Now, it may very
possibly be, that the Nicaraguans quite as errone-
ously interpreted the avowed benevolent intentions
of WILLIAM WALKER and foolishly imagined that
while he protested to have come to them for their
good-'for all their goods he had a liquorish
tooth for their chattcls also. The notion was
preposterous one, we admit; but where ignorance
prevails, such p-ejudices are easily excited and
are apt to take very deep root. We pity the Mica
nguans for their obtuseness. They certainly
ought to have known that small band of phi
lanthropists, fresh from the missionary fields of
Sonora and California-those admirable schools
for the cultivation of all the virtues-deserved
to be heartily welcomed for the perils they had
encountered, and for the good name their antece-
dents had won for them. But, somehow or other,
the natives refused to be convinced of the unanl-
bilious views of their new friends; and when a
popular election, conducted with the utmost posi-
BILE fairness-that is TO say, upon the white basis
elevated WILLIAM WALKER to the Presidency of
Nicaragua, the mixed Breeds to whose interests
he was so profoundly devoted not only had the
audacity to break out into revolt but, strange to
say, they claimed and received, for this grave act
of disobedence, the sympathy and support Of the
adjoining States. What could the ''gray-eyed
man of destiny and his followers do under such
circumstances of unparalleled ingratitude, but
seize their agricultural implements and defend
themselves as best they might? Even with such
weapons, they held their foes at bay for a con-
siderable time; but Providence was, at least in
this case, con the side of the strongest battal-
ions, and :he benevolent WILLIAM WALKER, with
the meagre remnant of his much maligned follow
ers, was forcibly compelled to withdraw from the
country he loved so well and was so reluctant
TO leave. Ever since that eventful day, WILLIAM
WALKER has been indeiatigably engaged in pro-
yding the means of transporting another devoted
band of agricultural missionaries to Nicaragua.
Unmindful of the reverses to which he has been
subjected, and careless of the danger TO which he
will be exposed on his return, he is preparing to
carry with him, once more, the implements Of his
vocation; to reap where he has already sown so
lavishly, and to fnd perhaps, after all his labors,
but six feet of earth among his friends and his
victims. Such tenacity of purpose, in the face of
so many difficulties, certainly merits fitting re-
ward, and we sincerely trust that on the present
occasion ''the gray-eyed man of destiny''-will
meet with his deserts