New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-20
EMrcRATIoN no NICARAGUA.

The Alabama Legislature, at its late session, chart
cred the & Mobile and Hicaragnan Steamship Com
pany,n enabling Il to commence Business on capital
Of twenty thousand dollars and with the privilege Of
increasing to five 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 Gulf Caribbean, from
any uort IN the Atlantic to any port in the Atlantic,
and rom any port in the Calf or Caribbean to any
port ia the Gulf or Caribbean, with the privilege Of
employing auxiliary vessels. steamer viii, we
aerstand be started by the company from Mobile for
SAN Juan del Norte on or about the LIST Of June next
and il j. Their intention 10 put the prices of passage
at low rate in order to favor emigration to Central
America. s.
The men engaged in this enterprise are men Of cap
ita energy and resolution. While they are DESTROYS
Of enargng their commercial operations and Of add
ing to the trade and importance of their city Of No
bile, they are also thoroughly devoted to Southern
interests and institutions and regard our own pec-
liar form of society that best suited for renoyatng
the tropical regions of this continent Asmerchans,
they not willing that New York capitalists shah
gather all the fruits Of Southern trade. AS Southern
men, they anxious to get the start OF the North
ern Central American Colonization Company. and to
prevent Abolition fanasicism from getting the first
foothod in Nicaragua. As phihnthropists they seek
national method by which to heal the social and
political disorder of Spanish America and to restore
the choicest portions of the continent to the uses and
I purposes Of civilization, 81 . Is,
Surely Objects such these are deserving the sup
port and encouragement not only Of the Alabama
Legislature but also Of the Federal Government of
the United States True, the present Administration
has, so far, shown little disposition to encourage
Southern supremacy in Nicaragua, and has, to all
intents and purposes endorsed the acts of an Aeri
can Commodore influenced by Black Republican SEN
timents and European prejudices. But at the same
time, the President has declared fully in favor of
peaceful emigration to Central America that it is
now impossible for him TO oppose such movement.
1t matters not, far as the organization aud ope-
rationsof fhess Mobile and Nicara qua steamship Com
pany" are concerned, whether the Yrissarr treaty is
ratidedur not OF Course the company will take pas,
sengers for San Juan del Norte without nquiring the
objects of their trip thither. It is oitte consequence
to them as merchants their passage money is paid
what the passengers do ailer their arrivalin Nicaragua
But for the benefit Of those DESTROYS OF emigting to
Central America we may state that there are coloni
zation laws in Nicaragua not denied by the MARTINEZ
or any other Government. II is true that the old
laws are not as favorable to emgrants as were the
DEGREES issued under the administration of Don
Patricio Iivas and the Laws being general in their
nature, american citizens have as much right as
other persons 10 take advantage of their provisions.
The country is it is trne,in very unsettled con-
dition and in few weeks civil war may be again
wasting the Isthmus. Recent adyices indicate that
the old parties legitimis and Democratic are more
embittered in their quarrels than ever. The late
decree Of Martinez, ained ostensiby at Walker and
his associates, is really blow at the native Demo-
Gratis for it annus all contracts and cancels all debts
created by the Provisional Government Of Don Fran
cisco Castillon. But in spite OF the petty ieuds
which desoate the country, there are regions remote
from strife where the peaceful colonist may settle
and build up home for himself and his posterity.
Such are the districts Of Cbontales and Matsgalpa
aud the Eastern slopes Of the main range of the Cor
dilleras We hope the advantages which these re-,
gons offer to the settler will not be overlooked by
the hardy pioneers of the South aud West and that
the steamers Of the Mobile and Nicaraguan Steam
ship Company = may be crowded with emigants to
the land Of enchantment which lies between the
Lakes and the Caribbean.