Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-18


tons Of either one of them that may bid fair
to affect our interests favorably-the right to
levy being in the hands Of the English Execu-
tive, without previous appeal to Parliament.
These are matters which must continue to
have great and embarrassing weight, indeed,
In the future of our foreign relations.
From Central America.-We have been IA
vored with another letter from Central Amer
lea, by the very recent arrival at New York,
from ssh Juan del Norte, giving interesting
particulars of the condition of things there,
and telling the truth with reference to the
condition, acts, and prospects of the flibusters
on both sides of the isthmus. Our correspond
ent, after referring to other matters, says:
kinney has resigned to Martin. He says
he will wait until he becomes q naturalized
citizen, for which purpose he has to remain six
months, He has mow given mp all hopes o.
settling the country. His men have refuses
to work, and he now has only five. lie has
also dissolved his Council, placing his resigna-
ton directly in Martins hands. Of course.
under such circumstances, he is losing ground
very fast here. No recruits have Joined him
of late, while all his followers, who could get
away, have left in the steamers as fast as
they could get off. The five left are out of
heart, as there is I" nary red" among the whole
hve-no one has confidence in them, and
they are completely powerless for good or evil
The second number Of KS paper, printed,
as wrote you in my last, for effect in the
States, creates extrayagant mirth here from
the impudenee-unblushing effrontery with
which 1t is filled from beginning to end, with
wholly unfounded statements concerning the
state of their affairs, their prospects, &c. Its
story of "gOld'' found, is intended to bring
money from New York. But what must those
think of it who know that there is not a single
acre Of ground, within twenty miles of San
Juan, cultivated or susceptible of cultivation
the whole being morass Of all poor devils
to be pitied, those will be in the most pitiable
condition, who, deceived by the unblushing
statements of Kinney's newspaper, come out
here to cultivate land. Disappointment t,
want, disease, and death, and nothing else,
await them. The Government, the Reyo-
lutionists, and Walker with his banditti.
seem to have made common cause against
kinney schemes, though agreeing in nothing
else"
Casting from Life.-It is designed, We
learn, to use in completing the ornamental
work of the Capitol extension, bronze castings
Of various things in nature peculiarly Ameri-
can. To obtain faithful representations has,
therefore, been great desideratum, and a
search has been made to procure competent
caster from nature. He has at length been
found In the person of foreigner whose name
we have not learned, though his work speaks
trunpet-toned for him. We saw at the War
Department, yesterday, a bronze cast Of cor
psr-head snake, coiled and ready to strike,
which is the most perfect and life like castins
we ever beheld. The model was a copper
head taken out Of the Warrington canal, every
curve and scale of which is preserved with
fidelity of nature with which more art can
not vie. Besides the wonderful mechanical al
skill manifested in this work, it possesses ar
tistic merit of very high order, and should
be viewed by all who take pride in the pre-
gress of our land in the fine arts, to which the
construction of the extension of the capitcl
building is proving so great an incentive.
A Newspaper Man Elevated.-We are
gratified to see by the Indiana papers that cur
old friend Austin Ii. Brown, formerly pay
clerk of the Sixth Auditors Office in this city,
and more recently proprietor of the State
Sentinel at Indianapolis, has just been elected
auditor of Marion county by majority of 494
votes. This county was carried for the Flu
sionists last year by 600. We arc alwayl
pleased to see our brethren of the press duly
appreciated, and in this case particularly so.
The office is worth some $4,000 per annum,
and the term is four years.
Light House Keepers Appointed.-wm.
Cooper has been appointed keeper of the
lighthouse at Elm Tree, N Y, at $500 per
annum, and John B. Fountain, keeper of the
lighthouse at New Drop, N. Y, also at $500
per annum.
a Mail Route Agent Appointed Ezra NJ.
Garrett, has been appointed Route Agent ON
the railroad line from Terre Haute and Mat
toon, in place of Samuel S. Brooks, appointed
Postmaster at Cairo, Ill.
Monstary and Commercial -The following
quotations of bonds, stocks and land warrants
were furnished US to-day October 49, by
Chubb Brothers, bankers.