The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-26
BALTIMORE.
SATURDAY, JUNE 90, 1858.

The barren rock of NdgusSa Tor more properly
Naraja) in the Caribbean Sea, between Jamaica
and ST. Domingo has of late given great uneasi-
ness to our European contemporaries. Strange
tidinos have come TO us, from across the water,
touching stupendous schemes of republican power
and usurpaton connected with it. Very much to
our establishment we have learned from foreign
journals that American filibusters in formidable
numbers, under the auspices of this government
have planted the flag of the UNION upon the Island
and that it is the purpose of our people TO convert
it, without delay, into naval and military rem
devious, such as Malta Gibraltar is, and the Isle
of Perrin may be. The local advantages of Ndoossd,
for such a purpose, have been fully discussed and
gravely dwelt on-its position at the Southwest
entrance of the Windward Passage, and its conve-
nent proximity to all the coveted islands, which
are to be gathered, one day, like fishes from the
sea- into the mighty net of our manifest destiny
The attention of the European governments has
been solemnly invoked, in consequence, TO our ne
farious and dangerous designs in the premises, so
that they may be arrested at the outset and before
it is too late. 1t happens, unfortunately for the
startling part of this story, that there is not at
present the remotest ground for desiring to
place Nacassa, along with Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, under the formidable protector
rate of Sardinia The tidings in question are
news to the parties most interested Not that
our worthy fellow-eo,ntry men are whit too good
for such enterprises, or our laws too strong TO
allow them 10 be carried on While Collectors,
Marshals and District Attorneys unable to keep
WALKER from his forays of plumber and murder
against our helpless neighbors, and juries cannot
be found honest enough 10 agree as to his guilt,
when he is brought home for the farce of n trial,
have right to be asonished, if our people are
suspected of land-steang, in every shape and our
government is charged with the criminal bad faith
of coverty aiding and abettng it. But on the pres
ent OCCASION suspicion seems 10 have been little
too hasty, for once. NagaSsa is sterile, worth
less rock, without soil, shrub or water Its only
production is guano, and it has never been inhab-
tied, by sea-birds until of late when some of
our enterprisng navigators discovered the excellent
deposits of guano upon its surface Under the re-
cent act of Congress, in regard to such unappropri
ated localities, our townsman Capt. COOPER; who is
one OF the discoveries, set himself to work to remove
the guano, and until few weeks ago continued
to do so, industriously, without molestation.
within the period last referred to, has suddenly
remembered or found out that Ndcassa is one of its
dependencies and has sent an armed force to assert
Its title By recent arrivals, learn that IIaytien
vessel of war has the island under actual blockade
preventing all access and egress.
Without doubt our Government will give this
matter the prompt and energetic attention it de-
mands If the Island really belongs TO st. Do
mingo, the rights of the imperial FAUsrIN ought
certainly to be respected brother though he be to
the King of Spades. But if as is most probable,
the title which he asserts is trumped up by way of
speculation, he should not be permitted to be i'm
pertinent or dangerous. The Island lies some
fifty or sixty miles from the nearest land of st.
Domingo and if, as the discoveries of the puano
must have shown, under the act of Congress. it
has never been claimed of right or possessed in fact
by SoULoUQUE or his predecessors in title, his alb
surd caricature of squadron ought TO be sent.
forthwith, about its business. The truth of the
matter no doubts, that Nacossa. like poor rela-
ton, was never acknowledged when it was out at
elbows, and is now claimed only because it is
suspected to have grown suddenly rich The
worthless iazzaroai Of IIavt it is probable would
never have known of the wealth within a DAYS
sail of hem, but for the enterprise and activity of
our countrymen, and unless, therefore, their case
be a perfectly clear one, in the matter of RIGHT
they should not be permitted to resort with i'm
punity, to the strong hand. We do not advocate
the TooMDs doctrine of bombarline the world with
the Home Squadron, on the faith of every tele-
graphic dispatch, but while the 4rctic is steamne
after the Syr at her usual rapid rate of four miles
to the hour, we think she might do good deed
by stopping to threaten SoULoUQUE with the wrath
of the terrible Senator. If there be any thino in
the sympathies or antipathes of race we are ouite
sure it would scatter the whole tribe of ragramuf-
fins to pronounce the word Georgia ~
But, be that as it may, we congratulate the
country that there is no ground, as yet, for En-
ropean war in regard to Ndcdssa and we felicitate
Mr.. BUCHANAN, besides, that he has not to add the
establishment of q national entrepot in the West
Indies to the list of naval and military enterprises
which the heroes in Congress expect him to pay
for-out of nothing in hand.