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water to wine, and does nos faint nt
the Wen of toddy, or, in fact, faint nt nil.
She never pees that it is necessary to go
out of town * for the dear children's health.’
It is true she follows the fashions; hut
then it is nt severed years distance. She
lms the smallest possible affection for
jewelry, and makes the sweet childrens
Jroclts out of her old dresses. She is never
•delicate,’ and would scorn to send for the
doctor because she is ‘a little low.’ She j
never tells her husband when any of her
friends hnvo got anew hat, or exclaims,
with enthusiasm, that she saw ‘such a
lovely Cashmere at Stewart’s yesterday,’
and then rhapsodize on the smallness of
the price. She never opens her husband’s
letters; and preserves her wedding gown
with a girlish reverence. She is not mis
erable if she stays in town, or does pen
ance in the back parlor if she does not go
out of town when the season is over. She
mends stockings, and makes unexception
able preserves and pickles. She does not
refttso to go out with her husband because
she hasn’t a good gown. She asks for
money sp ringly, and would sooner ‘cut.
her head off’ than make anything out of
the housekeeping. She always dresses for
dinner. She never hides the latch-key.
She rarely flirts, and it makes her too
giddy to waltz oven with a French count,
-vo The model wife always sits up for her
hnsbaud totho most unmatrimonial hours,
and etill she does not look black or say, j
‘He’s killing her,’ though he should bring
daylight in with him, or even come home :
with the ‘milk.’ She hangs over the
stove watching the inantei-pieec clock,
alarmed by every sound, jumping up nt
every cab, sleepy, her only companions
during the long night the mice in the cup
board or n stray black beetle, and her on
Jy occupation the restless fear lest her hus
band should not come home safe. She
cries sometimes, but never before him ; ;
Hud above all—hear it, all ye wives of j
Gotham—she does not Candle Lecture
him when she gets him behind tho cur
tains and knows there is no escape for
him 1”
Such a wife, wf should say, is a treasure,
and we only wish we bad one. For the
consolation of our Benedict readers, we
give an idea of what it takes to constitute
A Model Husband.
“On a week day he walks out with his
■wife, and is not afraid of a milliner s shop.
He even has ‘ change' when asked for it,
and never alludes to it afterward. lie is
not above carrying a large brown paper
parcel, or a cotton umbrella, or the clogs,
or even bolding the baby in bis lap in an
omnibus. Ho runs on first, to knock at
the door when it is raining. He goes out
side if tbe cab is full. He goes to bed first
in cold weather. He will get up in the
middle of the night to rock the cradle, or
answer the door bell. He al'ows the
mother-in-law to stop in the house. He
takes wine with her, and lets her breakfast
in her own room. lie eats cold meat
without a murmur or pickles, and is indif
ferent about pies and puddings. lhe
cheese is never too strong, or the beer too
small, or tbe tea too we:tk for him.
“He believes in hysterics, and is melted
with a tear, lie patches up a quarrel
with a velvet gown, and drives away tbe
sulks with a trip to Epsom, or a gig in
the Park on a Sunday. He goes to church
regnlarly, and takes his wife to the opera
once a year. He pays for her losses at
cards, and gives her all his winnings.
He never flies out about his buttons, or
brings home friends to supper. His clothes
ojever smell of tobacco. He respects the
eypiins, and never smokes in ti e house.
HaiSajrves, but never secretes for himself
• thy brown.’ He laces his wife’s stays,
even in the month of December, and never
fisksVora fire in the bedroom on the most
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after, Highland Mary died. I saw that
| Bible in a collection of relics of the kind,
I and read on the fly leaf a verso taken from
. Leviticus, I think, about fidelity in keep
-1 ing vows, written by Burns for Mary.
■ Fastened to the same leaf was'a yellow
; ringlet. To me it was something to see a
j lock of Highland Mary’s hair.
“ Returning to Ayr, we passed a pretty
t little residence, half hidden by shrubbery,
! in which Mrs. Begg, tho only surviving
sister of the poet, resides. Arresting our
carriage at. tho door, I rang the hell. A
pleasant looking young woman answered
it. Said I, ‘Would it be agreeable to Mrs.
Begg to receive a call from some travelers
from the United States, who wish to pay
her their respects?’ ‘O yes,’ the prompt
answer was, ‘my mint is always delight
ed to see visitors from America.’ She
ushered us into the parlor, and after wait
ing a few moments, a little bright-eyed,
quick-moving old lady camo rustling in.
I excused our visit on the ground of a nat
ural desire to see a relative of one wlios o
writings were known and admired in eve
ry part of the United States. Sho was
evidently pleased with the compliment,
and answered, ‘l’m thinkin ye ken a
groat deal about Robert in America;’ and
added that sho received more calls from
gentlemen from ‘the States’ than from nny
other part of tho world. Sho showed us
some letters of her brother, written in a
hold round hand; also an original portrait,
which she declared was a correct likeness.
Mrs. Begg is the Jenny of ‘ Tho Cottager’s
Saturday Night.”
1 But lmrk! urap come gently to the door:
Jenny, who kens the meaning of the same.
Tells how a ueebor lad came o’er the moor,
To do some errands, and convey her haute.’
“ (>ne of our frit nds made an allusion to
tho fact that site was the original of this
picture. She only laughed, and answered,
‘ perhaps the less that, is said about that
tho better.’”
Woman.
What the Sphynx was'to the ancients,
says.tho New York Sr us, woman is to
modern non. With hoops or without
hoops, there is no making her out. A
mere history of her whims would fill a li
brary ;by turns the slave, tlie tyrant, the
snare and the deliverer, she is at once tho
hope and despair of the world. In every
phase of her existence, whether ns virgin,
wife, widow, mother or daughter, sho is
a perfect study.
Despite the immense influence woman
has upon the destiny ot our race, she is,
like the insect that takes the color of tho
food it lives on, moulded by man, and in
proportion as we degrade her, the poisoned
chalice is returned to our own lips.
It is not our intention to give a sermon
on women, hut merely to introduce an
extract from an article on Florence Night
ingale, which a penred in the Irish San
of this week. It is from the flowing pen
of its accomplished proprietor, Mr. Mea
gher, and is written with even move than
his usual force and felicity. We commend
it to all who hold any relations with the
fair sex, or who take any interest in their
welfare:
“ Woman's spiritual nature is purer than
that of man; but if unstrengthened by
knowledge, it can only work by starts of
intuitive impulse, instead of regular and
direct steadiness. The animal character
which marked the relations between wo
man and man, no longer exists in its prim
itive rudeness, but as long as man contin
ues to flatter the" fancy of woman, instead
of appea ing to her mind, it must still dis
figure the communion of the sexes with its
lingering trace. The grossness of the ani
mal relation has become refined. Out
ward respect is paid to woman, but no re
spect is paid to her loftier nature, and no
homage addressed to her intellect and
mind. Hence it is, that woman does not
feel the inducement to gather up her
strength and shake off the cloud which
hangs with dull weight upon her soul. As
long as man grovels in materialism and
selfishness, so long will woman trifle life
away in silliness and frivolity. Woman’s
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drone, a thing to be cajoled and carped nt,
to be looked up to fictitiously as an angel,
to be tbe better in reality, trampled on as
a brute—to have her fancy tickled, her
sweet sinile awoke, but never to receive
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little while back were fcAd fn the faded fo
liage of autumn, are now hare and miked,
Buve where a group of pines, or some other
evergreen, varies the monotony of the
scene. The wind howls around the house
at night, slamming the window shutters
and rattling the sashes, or enters the
chimney with a moaning, growling noise,
ns if out of temper because it cannot force
its cheerless company upon tho pleasant
little circle gathered around the comforta
ble fireside.
To tho young, and healthy, and strong,
there is much to love in this season of the
year. The clear, sharp, bright mornings
brace the nerves, and cause the blood to
hound with increased velocity. There is
none of that enervating and depressing
feeling so inevitably attendant on summer.
There is a peculiar buoyancy about the
whole being, and everything looks bright
and beautiful because tho heart is in a
proper frame to appreciate it. The moon
and stars shine with an increased lustre nt
night, and the sun creates a million spar
kling jewels out of tho magnificent hoar
frost in the morning. ’Tis a pleasant
thing to bo able to wrap one’sself comfort
ably in a cloak, or overcoat, or sliaw 1, and
go forth to enjoy all the beauties of the
winter landscape, or to sit in-doors by tho
blazing lienrtb and while away the long
winter evenings in tho pleasant society of
those we love; but there are many to
whom tho season brings no such pleasures,
and when we think of these, the approach
of winter bath quite a different look, and
wo heave a sigh ot sympathy for those we
cannot aid, and breathe a prayer to Prov
idence in tlicir behalf:
“ In rich men’s lmlls the file is piled,
And ermine robes keep out tho weather:
In poor men’s huts the fire is low,
Through broken panes the keen winds blow.
And old and young are cold together,
“Ohl poverty is disconsolate!—
Its pains are many, its foes are strong:
The rich man in his jovial cheer
Wishes ’twas winter through the year;
The poor msn midst his wants profound,
With all his little children round,
Prays God that winter be not long!”
Shakspearo tells us, in Ii is descript ion of
Winter, of how tho parson could not he
heard in the church for coughing; how
red the noses of the old women became, in
the cold; and that “while tho roasted
crabs were hissing in the big bowl, the
poor birds were brooding in tbe snow.”
“ When icicles hang by tho wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom boars logs into the hall,
Aad milk comes frozen home in pail;
tV hen blood is nipt and ways be foul.
Then nightly sings the stariug owl,
‘To when; to whoo.’ ”
Wlmt these “ foul ways” were in Slink
speare’s time, an English writer informs
ns. There were scarcely any high-roads
such as are common now; but few stage
wagons, and coaches were entirely un
known ; the merchants traveled from lair
to fair and from town to town*with their
goods, tied in huge packages and carried
on horseback; and to the present day a
pack-horse is the sign at many an alehouse
in the old-fashioned count y towns of Eng
land. In the deep, miry roads, on a dark
winter’s night, could be heard the jingling
of the bells, as the sound was borne along
upon the wind, while they threaded their
way along the narrow roads and lanes
which led into the.city of London. Even
up to the last half century, bad roads, and
snow, and rain, and wind, and darkness,
were not the only things the traveler in
England had to contend with in winter,
for footpads and daring highwaymen,
mounted on fleet horses, lay in wait be
hind the dark hedges, and near the old
crosses, and guide posts, which stood" at
the corners of the ancient roads; and if
the traveler’s horse happened to stick fast
in the miry ways, or the traveler chanced
to be alone, or benighted, or to lose his
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way, out rushed one or more of these rob
bers, who usually cut short all ceremony
by exclaiming, “Your money or your life.”
In those days, villages were far apart, and
towns were dimly lighted with little oil
lamps; which stood here and there at tbe
afreet corners; and these, in windy and
tempestuous nights, were blown out, and
sail the roads that lay edging upon the
’towns, were left in unguarded silence and
darkness; for there were no mounted po
lice in those days to watch the highways
and protect travelers.
Here is ii very beautiful description of
Winter, written more than three hundred
years ago, by Gawfn Douglas, on old
Scotch bishop. Some of‘the “word-pic
tures” are so distinctly drawn that you can
almost see them, while reading, and the
wliolc-is a very fine piece of prose poetry:
“The fern withered on the miry fal
lows, the brown moors assumed a barren
mossy hue; banks, siUes of hills, and bot
toms, white and bare; the cattle looked
hoary from the dank weather, the wind
made the red reed waver on the dyke.
From the crags and the foreheads of the
yellow rocks hung great icicles, in length
like a spear. The soil was dusky and
grey, bereft of flowers, herbs, and grass:
in every holt and forest the woods were
stripped of their array. Boreas blew his
bugle-horn so loud, that the solitary deer
withdrew to the dales; the small birds
flocked to the thick briars, shunning the
tempestuous blast, and changing their loud
Hblsto chirpmg: tho cataracts roared;
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cheer, 1 stole to l.eil, ami lay
to sleep, W lieu J saw the moon shed
■(•ugh the window her t v, inkling glances
TOid wintry light; I heard tho horned
bird, the night-owl, shrieking horribly
with crooked bill from her cavern; I
heard the wild geese, with screaming
cries, fly over the city through tho silent
night. I was soon lulled to sleep, till the
cock, clapping his wings, crowed thrice,
and tho day peeped. , I waked anil saw
the moon disappear, and heard tho jack
daws cacklo on the roof of the house. The
cranes, pr< gnosticating tempests, in a firm
phalanx pierced the air, with voices sound
ing liko a trumpet. The kite, perched on
an ohl Irso fast by my chamber, cried la
mentably, a sign of the dawning day. I
rose, and half opening my window, per
ceived the morning, livid, wan, and hoary;
the air overwhelmed with the vapor and
cloud; tho ground, stiff’, grey, ami rough;
the branches rustling, the sides of the hills
looking black and hard with the driving
blasts; tho dew-drops congealed on the
a,. , bio and rind of trees; the sharp hail
stones deadly cold, and hopping on the
thatch."
President ’* Messngc.
The annual Message of President Pierce
was delivered to Congress on Tuesday the
2d. We aro unable to give more than the
following synopsis:
The President claims that the result of
the late election is a condemnation of the
sectional policy sought to bo introduced
into tho government, and a vindication of
tho equality of the States. He condemns,
generally, tho agitation of the slavery
question, and gives a history of its pro
gress. lie defends tho Kansas-Nebraska
Act and the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise. which latter, he maintains, was
no breach of faith on tho part of tho re
pealers. lie reviews the recent events in
Kansas, and says tho disorders in that
Territory have been generally exaggerated,
for party effect. The real trouble was,
Kansas was made the battle-field of tho
late Presidential election. All civil war
there, he says, is now ended. The greater
portion of the message is devoted to this
subject.
The reference to foreign affairs is briof
and unimportant.
During the past fiscal year, the receipts
from customs hnvo been over $64,000,000,
and tho receipts from all sources amount
to $73,018,000; which, with the balanco
on hand in July 1850, mako a total of
present resources $92,850,000.
Tho expenditures, including $3,000,000
for the execution of the treaty with Mex
ico, and excluding the stuns paid on the
public debt, amount to $90,172,000.
The public debt has been reduced to
$30,900,000.
He recommends a reduction of the reve
nue derived from customs to fifty millions
of dollars.
Certain changes are recommended in the
policy of distributing troops, lie also re
commends an increase of the naval force,
and the negotiation of new contracts for
convoying the mails via Tehuantepec and
Nicaragua.
A supplemental treaty has been conclu
ded with Great Britain, and tho Central
American controversy, arising out of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, finally adjusted.
The Sound Dues question, with Den
mark, is still unsettled, but in a fair way
tor adjustment.
With Spain no new difficulties have
arisen though but little progress has been
made in the settlement of those that are
pending. Tho negotiations for relieving
our commerce with Cuba from some of
its burthens, and providing for a more
speedy settlement of our local disputes,
have not yet been attended with any satis
factory results.
The President assents to the abolition
of privateering, as proposed by tho seven
Powers at the late Paris Conference, pro
vided it be so amended as to exempt the
private property of beligerents from seiz
ure, except such as shall be of a contra
band character. He hopes this amend
ment will be accepted.
He lias refused to receive either of the
Ministers accredited to this Government
from tbe Republic of Nicaragua, on the
ground that it is impossible to determine,
at present, which of the contending par
ties is the Government de facto.
The Message declares that tbe President
will resist the attempt of New Grenada
to execute her tonnage, or mail taxes, upon
the tjnited States, and charges that the
Government of that country is responsible
for tbe Panama riots. He lias demanded
full indemnity for the outrage, and pro
vision for the families of those of our citi
zens who were killed. A special Commis
sioner has been appointed and sent ont to
negotiate idemnity for the past and secu
rity for tbe future.
Have we a Newspaper among n»?
We learn from the Augusta Comtitu
tionaliet of the 30th ult. that the Town
Council of Madison hav'e appointed eight
delegates to the Commercial Convention
at Savannah. We presume, as our citizens
were first notified of the fact through a
distant paper, that the honorable body
aforesaid, or some of its officers, are not
aware of the existence of a newspaper in
their own town. We are at a loss wheth
er this latter fact results from our own
obscurity, or a certain other cause which
might be mentioned. We incline to the
latter, however, ns certain parties at a dis
tance are aware of our existence* and,
therefore, ignorance of the fact at home is
without excuse.
We shall, in futi r«, read the Augusta
papers with renewed interest, as they are
to be enriched by the proceedings of the
Town Council of Madison.
Geu. Walker and Nicaragua.
Wo invite attention to the .article, in
this morning’s paper, from the New York
Herald. The Charleston Mercury attach
es considerable importance to it, from the
fact that Walker's agent was in New York
at the time it appeared, and had doubtless
given Bennett his cue:
The Weather*
There was a slight fall of sleet here on
Thursday night between ten and eleven
o’clock. The weather, since Tuesday
night, has been clear and cold, and our cit
izens are improving ti e opportunity to
kill their hogs.
I’en-and-ScisKorlnss*
We see “a seamless skirt’’ advertised
for ladies. Good! Anything that wjll
rnako their skirts seem less will be grate
ful to gentlemen. The inventor deserves
a service of plate—if he can pay for it.
....The Governor of Louisiana has ap
pointed one hundred and fifty delegates to
the Southern Commercial Convention.
... .Major N., upon being asked if lie was
seriously injured at the bursting of the
boiler on a steamer, replied that he was
not, as he lmd been blown up so many
times by bis wife that n mere steamer ex
plosion bad no etVect on him whatever....
The Nashville Union says that full returns
from Tennessee—all but three counties of
ficial-show a majority for Buchanan of
7,426 J votes... .Dick told his wife, when
he saw her out walking in her new silk
dross, that ho never before fully realized
the force of the novelist's remark of his
heroine, “ that she swept gracefully along.”
John Mitchell lms been lecturing at
Nashville, T enn. Subject: Europe, Peace
or no Pence... .People who don’t like the
headache should never undertake to come
between man and wife while they are
“exchanging smoothing irons.” We tried
it once, ami got a black eye that cost us
six shillings a week for raw oysters for the
next two months. ...Oxygenated Bitters
—This pleasant and highly efficacious me
dicine has been fairly tested by our citi
zens, who do not hesitate to pronounce it
superior to all other tonics for any weak
ness of the digestive organs.... “ Bee here
my friend, you are drunk 1” “Drunk! to
be sure I am, and have been for the last
three years. You see my brother and I
are on the temperance mission. He lec
ture* while I set a frightful example 1”....
It is said that, the Hon. Howell Cobb will
not accept a seat in the Cabinet, hut will
prefer to be Speaker of the House of Re
presentatives A man recently hanged
iu a neighboring State, confessed that his
first commencement in crime and villany
was stopping his paper without paying for
it.... Samuel Swartwout, the government
defaulter during A an Bnren’s administra
tion, died in New York city on the 22d
u1t.... In Oregon, lately, hailstones fell as
large as watermelons. The snow-flakes of
that country are frequently as large as
umbrellas. So says somebody.... What
will cure my chilblains?—Perry Davis’
A egetable Pain Killer will do it. It is al
so the best medicine for sprains, bruises,
rheumatism, cramps in the limbs or stom
ach. It is, in short, a medicine no family
should be without... .The expenditures
of the Quartermaster's Department of the
Army, lor the last fiscal year, amounted
to nearly $7,000,000 A female school
teacher, in her advertisement, stated that
she was complete mistress of her own
tongue. ’lf that’s the case,’ said a caustic
old bachelor, ‘she can’t ask too much for
her services.’.... A Washington despatch
suites that President Pierce was so ill on
Monday, 24th, as to be confined to his
room A young lady, fond of dancing,
traverses in the course of a single season
about four hundred miles. Yet no lady
would think of walking tjiat distance in
six months....lt is mentioned as a faet
that there are more than ten times the
number of newspapers printed in the Ger
man language in the United States, that
there are in Germany.... A late advertise
ment in an Irish paper, setting forth the
many conveniences and advantages to be
derived from metal window sashes, among
other things, observed “that the sashes
would last forever, and afterward, if the
owner had no use for them, they might be
sold for old iron.”
• For the Visitor.
She is Dead.
Close the waxen lids over the dove-like
but now lustreless eyes—fold the thin
hands meekly over the silent bosom —
hands that will work no more—bosom
that will beat no more. Wrap tlie wind
ing-sheet over the still white breast, and
take thy last fond look. Place her in the
coffin gently—press thy last lias on the
moveless lips, and know that she is dead 1
Dead! Can it be, orphan that thou art,
alone in the world ? Is the voice that
murmured but to bless thee hushed forev
er? —the hand that labored but for thy
comfort, indeed cold and still ? Has the
heart that beat but for thy welfare cessed
its fond beatings? Is the face, the dear
face upon which you have pressed so
fond kisses marble-like, illumined by the
light of sonl no more? Yes, orphan, thy
mother is dead! Life is before thee--
what of that? the is no longer here to
gladden it. Y'outli is thine—what of that?
the is gone. The flowers still bloom, and
the birds still sing—the lamps of heaven
still light the azure vault, but—what of
that? The flowers bloom no more for her
—they only deck her grave. She hears no
more the birds—they only chant above the
grassy mound where she moulders to dust:
and the stars—she tells yon no more of the
God who made them, and you—they, pale,
silent watchers, now keep vigils over the
white tombstone beneath which she lies,
food for vilest worms.
Yes, orphan: she is dead now! you
must fight life’s battles alone, and—how
many grief-lines did your hand mark upon
that brow before the marble-slab bid it
forever? How many anguished moans
did disobedience cause that heart before
Death’s icy finger touched the"strings, and
said, “Peace—ho still?” Ah! yon think
of it now. How mncli yon wonkl give to
have her back once more —so you might on
your knees plead for forgiveness. But—
the it dead! Never!num: will the loved
lips murmur, ** Thou art forgiven”—neeer
more will the dear lips press a pardoning
kiss— nevermore will the soft hand linger
with gentle pressure on your aching fore
head !
Oh ; you who have a mother—love her
—cherish her—make no grief-lines on her
already furrowed sac no arrows in
her heart; for the time will some when
the remembrance of such will gnaw at
your heart; and remorse, with its serpent
fang, prey upon you like the vulture of
Prometheus!
Jenny Woodbine.
Georyia.
Report of the Secretary of the
Navy.
AA’asiu noton City, Dec. 2.—The
Secretary of the Navy in his report to
Congress recommends that the Pacific
squadron lie kept in active service—that
hereafter the gunnery practice system he
established—states that the new frigates
have realized the most sanguine expec
tations of the department—advises the
construction of additional sloops-of-war,
of light draught, capable of entering
southern ports, and urges a steady aug
mentation of our naval force—recom
mends shorter cruises, and not exceed ng
two years—the promotion often appren
tices, annually, to the post of midshipmen
—an increase in the crops of assistant
pursers—the creation of the office of
Judge Advocate—and an increase in tie
pay of of the same grade of officers.
Mr. Simmsin thbNobth. —The” Alba
ny Argus” regrets that Mr. Simms should
have yielded to clamor. Out of the rt
gioti of influence of the New Yoik city
press (which after reviling each other
like rogues who had fallen out, have
now fallen into combination to revile al]
others,) ho would have found audiences
that would have delighted to have lis
tened to him and honored him. In Al
bany at least he would have had a
kindly audience. AA r e indeed perhaps
carry toleration too far, when we sit
down quietly and hear a lecturer like
AA’endell Philips assail Mr. Everett for
not bringing the slavery question into
his discourse on the Life and Character
of Washington.
The name of AA’asbington is one on
which our patriotic citizens love to dwell;
the history of the American Union is to
them a noble and congenial theme ; and
the career of the fyvolutiquary Fathers
is one which inspires no other sentiments
than those of lore and reverence.
Mr. Simms would have been welcome
here ; as will be Mr. Everett; and if he
should come, not less so, Mr. Benton.
We need such men to speak to us at a
moment when faction and fanaticism
are weakening the faith of men in their
Country, their God and Truth.
The New Orleans Delta is out in
favor of the re-establishment of the Afri
can slave trade.
ESP” Come get up —you’ve been in
bed long enough, as (lie gardener said
when he was pulling np carrots to send
to market,
Gen. Walker and his Objects.
For several weeks past, and while Gen.
Walker \yns obtaining marvelous vic
tories over the Central American troops
that were allied agninst him, and thereby
establishing his sway in Nicaragua on
an apparently solid basis, the newspa
pers in these Northern Stale have been
publishing statements made by general
and other officer-, who had been in his
service. These statements were, for the
most part, adverse to him and intended
to prejudice his interests. It has been
represented that in his course in Nicara
gua he has been animated principally by
a desire to propitiate the sympathies and.
secure the support of the Southern por
tion of this Confederacy, and that it was
in that view he annulled the decree pro
hibiting the existence of slavery in Nica
ragua. Those representations are not
borne out by facts. AVe liavu reliable
information that General Walker has
not been operating with the views thus
attributed to him, but that he has Rad
before his mind a totally different and
moru'ccrDprehensive course of policy*—
AA e publish this mornuig several commu
nications which may serve to throw light '
upon this matter.
The scheme on which Walker lias
kept his eye steadily fixed, fiom the first
day on which he entered Nicaragua, has
been to re-organise that and the other
little Republics of Central America, ana
to form of them an 1 Mexico a federal
Southern Republic, which would act as
a counterpoise to the infinenco of the
United States. It was a grand and
politic scheme. lie calculated thereby,
and very reasonably, 100, to conciliate
France and England, and to enlist their
governments iu his support. T. at he
has not been unsuccessful in this plan is
evidenced by the good relations and kind
ly feelings that have existed between
him and the officers of the English rnan
ot war lying in Sail Juan, to whom lie
had, perhaps, communicated' illsvhsws.
It was in furtherance of that distinct
tirre-of policy that he conmiissiorild GenA
era! Goieouria as Minister to Eit'dand.
This gentleman, however, who lias gain
ed much distinction as an energetic- and
influential member of the Cuban Junta
iu th.r city, does not seem to have com
pletely understood or appreciated Walk
er s ideas. He hail gone to Nicaragua
and attached himself to the fortunes of
the revolution there with the principal
object in view of making tlint. - move
ment auxiliary and subservient to his
own plan of overthrowing Spanish domin
ation in the island of Ctilip. Mr. Oak
smith and others, who lmd also joined
Walker’s standard, had dune so with the
same object in view. But the course of
policy which Walker had chalked out
for himself had rro reference whatever to
Cuba. It was altogether outside of his
programme. That was a distinct mallei,
into which he had neither the in
clination nor the leisure to obtrude him
self. lie 1.-tt it to the Cuban fillibusteros
10 settle for themselves; and, for bis
part, he had an eye singleto thfcorganisa
tion of agn at Southern republic. Ac
cordingly, when Messrs. Goieouria and
Qaksrnith, and others, manifested their
real objects and sentiments, lie found out
that he coul 1 not lely upon them, and
thereforesujiereeded them in their respec
tive functions as ministersto Englandand
the United States. Hence some of the
communications that have been publish
ed reflecting on Walker’s honesty- and
ability.
Mr. Soule, however,seems to have fully
appreciated and chimed in with General
Walker's idea. He saw that to this
scheme alone could the sympathies and
support of the English and French gov
ernments bo secured. He is now in the
United States, engaged in forwarding
Walker’s views, and in raising supplies
of men and money to enable him to hold
his ground and establish his Government
on a firm and permanent basis. Under
the incoming administration he will
probably find no obstacle to carrving for
ward a grand plan of military coloniza
tion in Nicaragua. There is nothing in
our neutrality laws to prevent this. The
expeditions which may be sent out
from here cannot legally be interfered
with. They will not have been got up
for the purpose of making war upon a
nation with which we are at peace, but
simply as volunteer emigrant companies.
In this light, *ud with the inducements
which Walker can hold out, there can
be no limit set to the number of men who
can be at his disposal. But say that he i
can, within six or twelve months
calculate on an army of ten
men, what obstacle could he then
posed to the realization of his project
a great Southern republic ? The
governments of Mexico and of the Cen
tral American republics could offer but
little resistance to bis progress. Franco
and England, seeing in it the best means
of counterbalancing the influence pf the
United States and re-organizing Central
American society, would rather aid and
abet him than otherwise, and as for our
Government, it could have no excuse for