Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-03-29

The Alabama Legislature, at its Late session.
chartered the " Mobile and Nicaraguan Steam
ship Company enabling it to commence
business on capital of five thousand dollars
and with the privilege of increasing to three
hundred thousand. The shares are placed at
one hundred dollars, and enough stock has
been already taken To secure the organization
under the charter. The company have the
| right to build and own steamships To run from
any port in the Atlantic to any port in the
| Calf or Caribbean, from any port in the Allan
/ tic To any port in the Atlantic. aud from any
| port in the Gulf or Caribbean to any port i'll
/ the Gulf or Caribbean, with the privilege of
I employing auxiliary vessels. \ steamer WILL
| we understand. be started by the company
| from Mobile for san Juan del Norte, on or
about the LIST of June next. and it is their in
| tcntion to put prices of passage at a low rate
| in order to favor emigration to Central Amer
| lea.
| The men engaged in this enterprise are men
| of capital. energy and resolution. While
| they are DESTROYS of enlarging their CONNER
! cial operations. and adding To the trade and
! Importance of the city OF Mobile, they are
also thoroughly devoted to southern interests
| and institutions, and regard our own peculiar
/ form of society that best suited for removal
/ ting the tropical regions of thus continent.
! As merchants. they are not willing that New
| York capitalists shall gather all the fruits of
| the Isthmus trade. As Southern men, they are
| anxious To get the start of the Northern Cen
! trail American Colonization Company, and to
| prevent Abolition ianatcism from getting the
| Iirst ioothold in Nicaragua. As philanthro-
| pists they seek some rational method bv
which to heal the social and political disorder
| of Spanish America, and 10 restore the choic-
est portions of the continent to the uses aud
purposes of civilization.
Surely objects such as these are deserving
the support and encouragement not only of
the Alabama Legislature. but also of the Fed
eral Government of the United States True
the present Administration has, so far, shown
little disposition To encourage Southern SUI
premacy IN Nicaragua and has 20 all intents
and purposes, endorsed the acts of an Ameri-
can Commodore Influenced by Black Repub-
lican sentiments and European prcjudices.
But at the same time, the President has de-
clarcd 80 fully IN favor uf peaceful emigra-
ton TO Central America, that il is now impos-
sible for him TO oppose such a movement.
Ii matters not, 80 far as the organization
and operations OF the mobile and Nicaragua
steamship Company" are concerned. whether
the lrissari treaty Is ratified or not OF course
the company will take passengers for San Juan
del NorIe, without inquiriug the objects OF
their trip thither. IL ls OF little consequence
| To them merchants, SO their passage money
| il paid what tue passengers do after their ar
rival in Nicaragua. But for the benefit of
those DESTROYS OF emigrating 10 Central A.
mrrica We may state that there are COLOMBIA
tlon LAWS IN Nicaragua not denied by the
| Martinez or ANY other Government. IL is
true that the old laws are not a. favorable To
cnigrants as wers the DEGREES issued under
the administration OF Don PaIricio Rivas; and
| the laws being general In their nature Ameri-
eau citizens have "a much right other per-
sons To take advantage Of their provisions.
The country u, u A. true, IN very unset
! tied condition, aad in few weeks civil war
| may be again wasting the isthmus. Recent
advises indicate that the old parties, Legitini-
| ist and Democratic, are Iuorr embltter.d ia
| their quasrels than ever Tie late decree OF
| Martin z, aimed osiehsibiy AT Walker and his
| associai. - IL really hlow at the native Dem.
| ocrats, for IL annais all contracts aud cancels
all debts created by the Provisional Govern
| inent of Don Francisco Casiillon. But in
/ spite OF the petty ieuds which desolate the
/ county, there are regions remote from strife
where the peaceful eoionst may settle AID
Z build up a home for himself and his posterisy.
Such are the districts IT Choatales and Aata-
galpa aud the Eastern slopes of the main
range Of The Cordilieras. We hope the adj
! vaniages which these regions offer 20 the set
/ tier will not be overlooked BY the hardy plon-
eers OF the South and West and that the
steamers of the Mobile and Nicaraguan
st.amship Company" may be crowd with
emigrants 10 the land u enehaniment which
lies between the Lakes aud The Caribbean
" o. Crescent