New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-29
AFFAIRS in NICARAGUA.

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AFFAIRS IN NICARAGUA
From Our Own Correspondent
NICARAGUA, Aug. 23, 1859.
Let Mr.. Csss congratulate himself first on his
own wisdom, and then on the soberiety, modera-
top, and diplomatic skill of bis ministers and agents
Had one more month elapsed before the assembling
of the tucuIent Congress of this troublesome State,
or had the news that Napoleon had made peace with
Austria arrived thirty days sooner, be might have
again received unratfed treaty with new clauses
and pretexts for delay. 1t the farof blasts Of
European war sounding in their ears, that brought
this Yankee hating Government To submission. The
prompt reputation othe Ouseley treaty by the Earl
of Derby, Fastening, as be viewed the gathering
storm over the Continent, to avoid all dispute with
"Our transatlantic cousins, and the distraction of
NapOtO and all France in the Austrian war, which
took away every prop upon which Nicarauga leaned
in her defiance of the Government at Washington,
and left her no safety from the piracy of fill
clustering but ratification. OF the feeble, rot
ten, functiOnless Government of the United
States, this country has never been afraid.
But fllibusterng, the individual American specula-
ton upon their weakness, is an everpresent specter
at every feast these people hold. The President of
the United States, unable to use fleets and armies
against his annoying enemy can be equally inpo-
tent when emigration is proposed from Mobile
or New Orleans. So, in her last extremity, Nicar.
aqua hastened to conciliate the people she woul1
gladly defy, hoping by her humiliation to purchase
immunity from robbery and piracy. There is no
doubt but that they now bitterly regret the hurried
step they have taken, hoping that Napoleon may
turn again TO his first lOve-his prison dream of a
passage through the lsthmus. With the transit
question the Congress refused to NEEDLE; it stands
as betore-as pretty mess as ever was seen IEe
world msy navigate the st. Juan and the lake, but
Belly holds the road. To build new roads is out of
the question. The Stebbins White" or "Peroy
YeyeIton," or "BOdy Jerez," or whatever that
wIonged and injured Company may choose to be
called, seem to have given up the hopeless business
of trying to sell stock and bonds, and subsided into
clainants-OfhOw many millions ist !-againstpoor,
stripped Nicaragua. thrust they may get enough to
pay the employees who have charge of the steamer,
and half the said COMPANY claim on the river.
We suppose, here, that Mr.. Johnson has subsided
into his original position, the force of gavanlsm be-
ing exhausted. Where, then, is the transit Qnien
sabe? The Panama route is the best one, and
actually the cheapest to the traveller. With good
opposition on the public can ask nothing better.
Nicaragua really better of without the Transit
she is less liable to fllibustering, and escapes the
demOnlizatiOn of large part OF her people relying
upon peddling and traficking with passengers for
living IfNicarsgua ever works out of her ignorance
and poverty it will be through her enomOussgricul-
turs resources A State where the sugar-caDe lasts
fourteen years without 'eplanting where lndigo and
cotton grow wild, and that produces the best coffee
ard cocoa known in the world ought not TO look for
riches in the business of hiring out mules and re-
taihDg oranges and pneapples to Californians.
The Government see this, and are doing more
than any preceding Administration has ever done TO
encourage agriculture. A large bounty is given to
cofee.growers, by law allowing ten dollars deduc-
ton from duties ON goods imported, for each qunt-
al of coffee exported by the same person. Though
this law has been made but few months, it has
already operated as a strong stimulus, and during
the coming year more than halt million of coffee
trees VIII be growing. A decree allowing the im-
portation Of coolies is expected to be promulgated
labor being the great want here and if We are spared
from invasion and revolution for while, Nicaragua
NAV again regain some of her ancient wealth But
/ will conclude with Nicaragua by telling yOu-what
/ might have said before-that the ex-Minister 10
the United States, General Jerez, found himself
without a party in the Congress. The Government
had stolen his thunder, the delegates had made up
their minds, and to the intense disgust of the Cen
eral be had no one to oppose; not man stepped on
his coattal. As to bis plans for revolution, they
seem to have fallen TO the ground
That quiet little coffee estate which foryears past
has belonged TO the mora Family"-I mean Costa
Rica-hsd comfortable but thorough revolution
the other night and the little villain Juan Rafael
Mora. the Dictator. and his family sre ignomini-
ously expelled let us hope never to return. His
house was visited by delegation of the people at
midnght-so rams the story; he Was put under
guard, taken TO Punta Arenas, and shipped on the
steamer. He will probably consign himself to
Carera, the tyrant of fGuatemsls, whose example he
endeayored 10 emulate, or 60 to the United States.
His brother, Joaquin, and his relative Caias, were
with him.
The causes of this revolution are many. For
the honor of the people of Costa Rics, who have
always been superior to the remainder OF Central
America, am sorry not to DE able 10 SAY that 1t
was the accumulation Of Juan Moras crimes that
caused bis downfall He has been the kind of ty-
rant that can only be made cut of Mexican or
Central American-vcious, bloody, and treach-
erous; mean 10 the last extremity; seizing upon
the Offices and enoluments Of the State for his
own benefit and the aggrandizement Of his family
and seeking the advancement of the country only
to profit himself. In the other States OF Central
America, this sort of rulers quickly deposed by
q people who seek every pretext for strife and
| blood; but the inhabitants Of Costa Rica have a.
ways guarded against lterrecile difficulties, and,