The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-08-31
so,ters g. and about Washington.

Matters in and about Washington.
The secret treaty between Britain and
Spain is, doubtless, the subject of more
serious concern with -thes3pySrnment Of
the United States than any other question
now before the world. Indeed, itbids fail
to prove to be the most important matte,
handled by the present Administration.
The Hon. David Todd, of Ohio, late U
Minister to Brazil, is in Washington
He goes East to negotiate in Baltimore q
loan for the Ohio Railroad Company, Of
which he is Director.
ANOTHER HuMBuG.- account OF the
negotiation of secret treaty between the
United States and Turkey, which comes
by the Hmm5oldl, we have every reason
to believe is all CANNON. We are salts
fed. from what we have been able to gath
er. that our Government has beenengaged
in no such enterprise.
The story about the conduct of the
steamer Deuastation's Commander, in run
ming down Yankee fishing smack, not
long since, which reached Washington per
telegraph, last week, turns out to have
been manufactured out of whole cloth.
The Washington Star is of the opinion
that our Government does not attribute to
Santa Anna any hostile intentions, by his
concentrating 5000 troops on the Rio
Grande. son thecontrary, his purpose, :"
says that paper, "is probably, to break up
marauding from the Mexican side upon
our territory. and to defend the Mexicsn
territory from American marauders, who,
for the last or three years, until recent
ly, have been committing shameful out
RACES in that quarter.
On the 18th one hundred and thirteen
thousand dollars in Government stocks
were received at the Treasury Department
for redemption.
Brevet Captain Seth Williams, 1st Lieu
tenant of lst Artillery and Adjutant of
the Military Academy at West Point, has
been appointed an Assistant Aajutant-
General with the rank of Captain, vice
Mackall, promoted.
The Star says: There are unmistakea-
bic signs around us, generating the belief
that the Government of the United States
are about to take a stand in this koszta
matter, which will astonish many in this
country who believe that the Government
of the Old World can do no wrong.
A late dispatch says: The President is
inclined to appoint Robert M, McLane, of
Maryland, now in Europe, as Minister res
ident at Constantinople; but certain dis
tinguished Marylanders vigorously oppos-
ed the project. McLane, however, will
probably triumph. -
Judge Young, formerly a Senator, and
Clerk of the House of Representatives,
has been appointed to assist Gov. German
in investigating the alleged frauds upon
the Minnesota Indians Harvey M. Wat
erson of Tennessee, was rendered this place
by the President, but declined.
1t is all fudge about the Gardiner gold
mine having been found.
The Union has published a recently rat
fled treaty between France and the United
States. 1t proposes that all the States of
the Union, whose laws permit, Frenchmen
shall enjoy the right of possessing person
al and real property by the same title and
in the same manner as citizens of the Uni
ted States, and the President engages to
recommend to such States as do not per-
NIT aliens to hold real estate, to pass such
laws as may confer the right The French
Government, in like manner, but with the
reservation of the ulterior right of estab-
fishing reciprocity in regard to posses
sion and inheritance, accords to citizen
of the United States the same rights with
in its territory In respect to real and per-
sonal property, and to inheritance, as are
enjoyed there by its own citizens.-Cin-
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