Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-09

servative one. All Congressional legislation upon
the qualification of voters in the territories has
been very loose. % Inhabitants has been the
term generally used, and this with little or no
restriction to length of residence The ordi-
nance Of 1857 allowed all " inhabitants, to vote
who should own fifty acres of land. The treaty
of Louisiana stipulated that the inhabtants''
Of the coded Territory should have all the rights
In the coded Territory of " citizens. - So did the
treaty ceding Florida, &c. The Kansas Nebraska
act qualified as voters in its organization of those
Territories &C every free white male fnhabitanf
above the age of twenty one wears, who shall he
an actual resident of said Territory And the
resolution of the Democratic National Conven-
ton at Cincinnati, looking expressly to the FORM
alton Of Constitution, ran thus:
Resolved, That we recognize the right of the
people of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska, acting through the fairly expressed
mot implied uUiH of the majority Of actual res
fdents, and, whenever the number Of their inhab-
itants jusifies it, to form Constitution, with
without domestic slavery, and be admitted into
the Union upon terms of perfect equality with
the other States.
THE NICARAGUAN EMBRoGLIO.-
1t is reported from Washington by telegraph.
that negotiations tending to the settlement of
Nicaraguan affairs on the basis of the Webster
and Champion project of 1852, allowing Costa
mouth of the Scrapiqui.-N. Y. Commercial Adr.
We apprehend that the above paragraph is
erroneous in intimating that any such negotia-
tons are actually under way here or elsewhere
Nevertheless, the signs point to the fact that
when settled, the embroglio will be finally dis
posed of on the basis mentioned. 1t is clear
that while this Government cannot consent to
permit Costa RIGA to exercise jurisdiction over
the Nicaragua Transit route, it can have no OBJ
lection to an arrangement between Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA by which the free use of the
river San Juan shall be guaranteed to the latter
for all her own commercial purposes. The policy
of the United States is to encourage the use Of
that route by all nations. As, the more who
use it, the better will its facilities for travel and
transportation gradually become. Or in other
words, the more convenient will it become for
the purposes of our countrymen having occasion
to resort to it. 1t is a matter of prime import
ance that political jurisdiction over it shall be
assured to Nicaragua; as Notwithstanding the
horrors she has of late experienced at the hands
of American filibusters, circumstances make it
imperatively necessary that she shall hereafter
look to this Government as her best friend in
the matter of its preservation to her. Our ma
tiOnal interests in this matter are closely bound
up with hers; while at the same time it is no
less clearly our interest that peace and good
fellowship shall reign hereafter between the
two Governments and people bordering 1.-THE
Transit route; for, without that state of things
there the evacuation of Nicaragua by Walker
will merely have been the exchange of one set
of troubles and difficulties shutting up the route
from travel for another set to result soon in the
same way.
That there can be peace between Costa RIGA
and Nicaragua unless the former enjoys the
right to the free navigation Of the river for her
own commercial purposes, seems to us utterly
impossible, under present circumstances Our
belief is that this Government will, ere long
charge itself with the duty not only of assuring
to Nicaragua the political jurisdiction and prop
erty in the transit route which she has exer-
cised up to this time-the latter through her
assignees-but also with that of inducing Mica
ragua to remove all cause for future troubles on
the route, by according to Costa RIGA, that in
connection with it, which is absolutely necessa-
ry for the future of her commerce, which, in
being yielded under such circumstances, GER
tainly can do Nicaragua no harm.
The TRIAL OF REAPERS.-We know not what
has Of late attracted more of the attention of the
agricultural community than the trial of the
different reaping and moving machines now
contending for popular favor, that came off on
the day before yesterday at Chestertown, Md,
under the auspices of the Maryland State Agr-
cultural Society The attendance of farmers of
large means and extensive operations as well as
scientific requirements in the line of their bust
ness was very large; while nearly all the reaper
and mower patents were represented on the
ground. The entries were as follows:
1. X. Sinclair. Jr., and Co, entered Ketchum's
combined reaper and mower, Howard, maker,
draft 612
,. Rogers & Boyer, Philadelphia, their Union,
with side or back delivery, draft6i2
3. X. l. Allen. of New York, Aliens patent,
feet, draft $50 X. l.. Allen, of New York, AL
lens patent, 8 feet.
4. Thomas Norris of Baltimore, Manny's pat
ent, with wood improvement, draft SIS.
D. o. Hussev, of Baltimore, HusSev's 10 feet
sheath, draft SO. o. Hussey, of Baltimore. Hus-
sey's feet sheath, draft 527.
6. o. Dorsey, Howard county, Dorsey's patent
with self reaper, draft 500.
Z. f.. A. Greenough of Baltimore, Wright,s
patent, with Atkins self reaper, draft 500.
:. w. x w. Armstrong, Denisville, Chester
CO., Pa, ketchum's patent, with Hull improve
ment, draft sos.
0. VIM. Johnson & CO., Newark. Delaware,
Manny,s patent, with Johnson's improvement,
draft $50.
10. Mobley & Hyser, Hagerstown Md, ma
chine injured in landing from the boat before III
trial. Withdrawn
II. b. Ray, of Baltimore, Rays patent, draft
The Judges we're
Hon T.. L. Chambers, of Kent county, Md
Hon. J. Alfred Pearce, of Kent county, Md Gen
George w. Hughes, of Anne Arundel county
Md James 7. Earle, esq, of Queen AIMS coun-
ty, Md, ex- President of the MARYLAND State Ag-
ricultural Society; b. Johnson Barbour, esq =, of
Orange county, Va; Charles Pettigrew, ESQ :, of
TyIrel county, n. c.; David Brumbaugh, ESQ
ex-President of the Washington county, Md
Agricultural and Mechanical Association John
Merryman, esq, of Baltimore county. Md; f.
Law Rogers, esq, of Baltimore city; y. b Wor-
Ellington, esq, of Baltimore city; John Brown,
esq of Kent county, Md Martin Goldsborou h ,
esq, of Baltimore, and Henry Carroll, junior of
Baltimore county. MIR. NJ. Goldsborough was
appointed marshal of the Judges, and S Sands
acted as secretary.
We presume that a more competent commit
tee of agriculturalists never before met together
to discharge such duty. As farmers, they
are known as being among the most prac-
teal and successful in the country