Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-20
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Recent Developments show that the steamer
Philadelphia, of Che United States mail line,
was closely connected with the last Walker
6llibustsr expedition which has so inglOriously
+bust up." The N. Y. Times states it is now
sscertained that when the Philadelphis left
New York few weeks since, she actually had
on board about LOCO stand Of atms, together
with 10000 rounds of ball cartridges aud 90
900 percussion caps She also carried from
eight to ten boats designed to convey the flli-
busters up the Colorado branch Of tho San
Juan River. After she reached New Orleans
all the other cargo was discharged, and the
arms, munitions and boats remained on board.
Yet two searches were madeby Mr. Buchanan's
over.vigilant United States Marshal, his depu-
ties and the Collector at New Oresns, without
discovering anything they regarded as suspic-
ious! -Four days after the last search, tbs same
arms were on board the same steamer 10 plain
view! 1t is alleged that the arms are still on
board of the Philadelphia, and that iii the in
tanton of Walker and his men TO depart on her
on the Goth inst for Nicaragua The Times
says:
The history of the arms thus shipped by the
Philadelphia is not without interest. They
were, in Tart, those delivered to Capt. Davis,
U. s. N, after the capitulation at Rivas by
Walker, and found their way to the Navy
Yard at Brooklyn. Others of them had for
merly been sold to Walker, but had not been
paid for; they were left in New Orleans, and
were the samo that were lent either to the au-
U;.tIau,a bo
election riots about a year ago. They were
subsequently delivered up to the United States
authorities, and sent to the Brooklyn Navy
Yard
| While they were U.us in the possession Of the
commanding officer al Brooklyn, they were
! demanded by a person who vas an officer Of
Walker in Nicaragua, under the authority OF
the owners thereof The officer in command
refused to comply until he shoull hear from
the Government at Washington, to which he
wrote. The nature of the reply is not known,
but it is known that one was received, and
that the arms were thereupon delivered up.
| Mr. Vanderbilt has bound himself to open the
Nicaragua route:-how is he to DO i'll He has
no permission from the State of Nicaragua to
cross there, and if he crosses it must be in def
ance of their authority. Mr.. Buchanan has no.
tilted the Government OF Nicaragua that he will
protect with the foIce of the United States the
mails which cross the Isthmus, and the pas
sengers that accompany them. In his last mes
sage, it is known, he asked Congress for the
authority to employ the naval and militlTy force
OF the country for the protection of American
citizens and property on the Isthmus. and as
signed as reason for the request that the
| President was without power under the Con-
siitution, and that an attempt to exercise it
might subject him to impeachment Con.
gress refused to give this authority, and the
President has no reason to euppose that a re-
newal Of the application would be more sue
cessful. If Vanderbilt has determined to pro-
tect the mails himself he may have entered
into an alliance with Walker to aid him in tue
endeavor;-and it is not impossible that the
President may have consented to this indirect
mode of doing what Congaess refused him the
power to accomplish by the direct employment
OF American troops.
We shall probably hear more of this matter
on the departure of the Philadelphia from New
Orleans. Gen. Walker is still there and no at
tempt has been made to arrest him.