The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-13
ANOTHER F1LIBUsTER ENTERPRISE


ANOTHER FILIBUSTER ENTERPRISE.
The following dispatches to the Northern jour
nails from this city, under date of October A,
make it certain that Walker has made another
piratical raid upon Nicaragua. We trust that
he viii not come off as easily this time as he
has heretofore done. If there is no law in this
country for the punishment of piratical invaders
of our peaceful neighbors, it is to be hoped that
they may meet, at the hands of those whose
rights they invade, the retributive justice which
we withhold.
Washington, Oct A month ago, informa-
ton was received in this city, of flibustering
movements against Nicaragua. Although the
statement was not fully credited, it was deemed
of sufficient Importance to justify the issuance
of instructions to the proper Federal officers to
exercise more than ordinary vigilance, the Pres.
airy measures. The recent advertisement in
the New Orleans papers of a steamship to start
| from Mobile for Chiriqui on the first of October
added to the other accommodating suspicious cir
cumstances attending the alleged contemplated
invasion of Nicaragua. But on inquiry of the
collector at Mobile, nothing had been heard to
confirm the truth of the report, so far as that
| post is concerned.
Within the present week, reliable information
has been received here, as stated in the general
newspaper dispatch of yesterday, that large
number of strangers were in New Orleans, in
Guiding many prominent persons known to have
| been heretofore connected with ilibustering en-
| terprises. And this, together with other cir.
cumstances, excited a suspicion, in the mind of
| Collector Hatch, that they meditated an unlaw-
| full expedition. Late last night one hundred
Id. ra1 av,1 &c al 1.c4 Il.
the presumption being that they had gone to
the Balize to await a vessel.
| A clearance had been asked for the steamer
Philadelphia, professedly for Chiriqui, but which
| Collector Hatch refused for the reasons above
stated. The agent of the steamer was persist
ent, and again applied for clearance, but met
with no better success than at first OF these
facts our Government is informed and proba-
| bly, they are the only ones from an authentic
source in Its possession. 1t is believed that
this subject was to-day matter of Cabinet
consideration. Orders have been dispatched
| by telegraph to the commanding officer at Bat
on Rouge, for concentrating and holding the
Federal military in reserve, to be used if ne
cessary, as a posse eomitatus for the enforce
ment of the laws.
| 1t is believed here, and the facts which have
| Just transpired seem to warrant the conclusion,
that the filibusters arranged their plans as to
avail themselves of the advantages afforded BY
the reopenipg of the Nicaragua transit route
| for the accomplishment of their designs. The
Administration is determined by all the means
in its power, including the employment of the
land and naval forces, to compel respect to the
neutrality laws.
The instructions to Minister Dirnitry are par.
ticularly with reference to the reopening of the
transit and as both Governments have assent
ed to the Lamar-Zeladon treaty, it is supposed
that Nicaragua will offer no obstacle to the
passage of the mails.
The presence of the Postmaster General in
New York, in connection with the last named
subject is expressive of the interest the Gov
eminent has in the fulflment of the Johnson
contracs.
FILrBUsTERIEG MOVEMENTS = SAILING OF
GEN. WALKER.--Nele Orleans, Oct. 4.--Col
lector Hatch has refused clearance for the
steamer Philadelphia, for Aspinwall, it being
alleged that the steamer is engaged to take
General Walker, the fhbuster, and two or three
hundred men, to Nicaragua.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Ne1o Orleans, Oct. At has been ascertain
ed that General Walker and his men got off
last night. They sailed from Berwicks Bay
this morning In their own steamer, without
clearance.
The New York Times of the 9th says
"There is little room for doubt as to the
successful inception of fresh piratical expe-
dition to Nicaragua. The United States off,
Gals at the South admit their defeat. The ex-
act numbers that have made their escape from
Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, and perhaps
from other points, is still matter of conjecture;
but there is reason to regard the estimate of
1000 as not excessive. Against any such force
of Anglo-American origin, it is, course, vain to
expectlany valid resistance from the united eff
forts of the Central Americans. They are, how
ever, to have the aid of a powerful auxiliary, in
the shape of the English Government, which is
resolved to pursue and dispense the marauders,
even at the cost of invading the soil and SOW
ereignty of Nicaragua. Lord Lyons yesterday
had an interview with General Cass, announc-
ing this intention, and found the American
State Department disposed to acquiesce in the
proposed measures. The Secretary, perhaps,
found It difficult, on the spur of the moment, to
eyade the precedent established by Captain
Pauldihg and, indeed, after the culpability of
permitting the escape, this Government was
scarcely in position to oppose any corrective
presented by the English Envoy. Dispatches
went out by the Aspinwall steamers Yesterday,