Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-29

tract from his recent letters as follows:
I" The future of Senator Douglas is a subject
OF interesting and Rot uninstructive speculation.
party il The course he i now pursuing. He has
delibefately- rejected the policy and the great
lead ng measure of the administration. Whether
he agree with the President not on minor
question:, senator Douglas must be set down as
an anti-Buchanan man This antagonism must
soon become open and avowed. He and the
President must stand in the relation of political
opponents LetH be observed that no conspicu-
Gus man in the Democratic ranks has Joined Mr..
Douglas. The South Is against him even more
unanimously than 1t was with him In breaking
kdown the compromise. Senators Pugh, Bright,
and Pitch are against him Not prominent
democrat in public life has been found in the
great democratic states Of PENNSYLVANIA r. New
York to support him Not one. Senator Stuart
alone. representing state largely aud hope
lessiy Republican ventures to take sides with
him, and that so far only as not to oppose him,
There are several Southern Democ: atic Senators
who would prefer to evade the question: but
two that can he depended TO aid Mr. Doug
las in his present cOntnmacy.
"The great ability Of Mr.. Douglas cannot be
denied. In debate be Is the most powerful man
| ever saw. His elo1uence and renown rs al
orator will not live like Webster's and CIay's,
but in forensic conflict, In hand to hand stTug-
gle with parliamentary opponents he is greater
than either of them. He is also a man of expe-
dients and Of vast fertility Of resources Yet
outside of his party could he live statesman
think he could not Where Is William Allen,
who ten years ago had a reputation and position
as great as Douglas has now Where is Daniel
Dickinson who went into rebellion in 1853
Where is Thomas ii. Benton! They resisted
| party iictation. They lost their position ia pnb-
lie life and they died. In the South William G..
Rives, William I.owndes Langdon Cheeves
and General Houston are examples Of the same
fate. They were on the tide which In this coun-
try leads to the contamination of a politicians
hopes Yet they rejected party and spurned its
bonds. They lodged upon the shore but the tide
swept on, bearing smaller limb on it's bosoT,
and leaving them to enjoy their independence anu
| isolation Mr.. Douglas has refused to be swept
along by the current - Will his fate be different
| from that of these prototypes,
We have seen the result of just such
| test between the central power and a rebeIiious
| vassal in hundred instances. The insurrection
may, in the end, prevail so fur to ruin the par
ty against which it is excited but the chief rebel
is always crushed. Can Senator Douglas lead off
more Democrats In Illinois than Mr.. Van Buren
and Gen. Dix did in New York in Isis Ger.
tainiy not Aud suppose he took off three fourthS,
how would that help him, Itwould simply open
march to an easier victory. whatever, then be
| the Issue of the contention now raging between
Mr. Douglas and the Northern and Southern
leaders, 1t is scarcely possible that he should
cape death by compression. He will be ground
to powder between the upper and the neither
m!llstOnes.
THE TREATY RATIFIED.-This mornings
mail brought US private advices fully confirm
ing-al the particulars of the important infor-
nation from that country, which we clip from
the New York EzpTeSs of yesterday; preferrng
| to republish it as thus condensed to occupying
our crowded columns with the letters -, estea so
from our own correspondents
The new Constitutional President of Nicara-
qua, General Don Tomas Martinez, on the 10th OF
November, issued new credentials, with full
power to Don Antonio Tore de Irisarri. the Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Pienipoteutiary Of
Guatemala, Salvador and Nicaragua to the United
| states, vesting him with equally full power to
treat with the other nations who are represented
In Washington by their respective Ministers
Nj. lrisarri has been thoroughly sustained in
every thing by the People. notwithstand ny the
insidious letter Of Goicouria -
We have received the Gaceta de Nicaraoua
| the ofhcial paper Of the Nicaraguan Govern
| InenD published at Mansgua, The seat of Govern
ment, with dates of 18th Nov 1857
IL contains the official notice of the meeting Of
the Asamblea Constituents, the Constituent As
sembly, or Congress on the sth of November :;
the discourse or address was pronounced by the
Deputy President Of the Cong ress at the opening
OF The sessions of that body, and the message OF
Don GTegorio Juarez and Rosalio Cortez, who
were entrusted with the duties of the Presidency
| while the duly elested President, General Don
Tomas Martinez, was engaged in directing ac-
tive military operations against the invasion of
Costa Rica.
The Gaceta also contains a decree Of Congress
dated the nth Of November, 1857, declari Cen
eIal Don Tomas Martinez to have been dulv
elected President of the Republic by the votes Of
the people.
Under the head of "Atthe Last Moment. ,, the
Gaceta publishes the following:
The Constituent Assembly Of the Republic
has just ratified, in all its paris, the convention
made by Don Antonio J. de Irisarri with Mr.
Stebbins, President of the American Atlantic
ana Pacific ship Canal Company
Two SPEEcnEs.--On Christmas night, Sena-
tor Douglas being in Philadelphia, was .scalled
out by large meeting composed for the most
part Of active and bitter Republican party
voters in the last Presidential election. They
are sympathisers with his present position of
antagonism to the policy Of the Democratic
party On the great issue now dividing the two
great parties of the country. Of course thew
shouted over him, and also of course, he made
them speech such as induced them in reply TO
make the welkin ring. with their hosannas
Col. Forney was also Of course present, and of
course was called out at the conclu sion of the
Senators speech. We are assured by one who
knows the people of Philadelphia we'll, that the
affair was almost entirely Republican party
one Who is there that fails to comprehend
that the distinguished Senator is on the high
road to Republican partyism,
THE DIsPArCHEs.-Capt. Engle IT, S. N,
of Commodore Paulding's flagship, the Wa
bash, reached the Navy Department this morn
ing with dispatches from Commodore p. con-
corning his rescue Of the flibusters-for such
it will turn out to have been, it, as alleged by
the New York papers, he only interfered to
save them after the guns Of an English man of
war were pointed at them to dislodge them. 1t
Is understood that these dispatches were to be
examined in Cabinet council to-day And
further, that Com. Paulding had probably as
Tar exceeded his instructions as Capt Chatard.
OF the Saratoga, had fallen short of his
We are very sure that President Buchanan,
while living up to the doctrine of the portion of
hts Message treating Of flibustering, will hold
all officers under him to rigid accountability
for all their official acts; that he will insist ON
the observation of their instructions to the let
ter, by the officers of the navy Of the United
States, as we'll as by the civil officers of the Gov