New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-14
FROM WASHING TON.

Corr,spsrdsuee Of The N. Y. Trbs.A n
WASHINGTON, Nov. II, 1857.
HWalker has escaped from New Orleans wisa Z
force for the invasion of Nicaragua, it must have
been with the connivance or privity Of the UMiA
Ststes officials there. For weeks past 1t has ben
well known that recruits were enlsting in Ns~.
York and several Of the large cities, that ceaka
agency was established here, and that plans III
been concerted for another denomination. SO -
torious were these facts that the Secretary Of Stu
warned the District Attorneys some time ago kk
on the lookout, and q public vessel was statioaal
at the mouth Of the Mississippi to prevent II
threatened departure. Yet in the face Of al tn
real or pretended precautions, the expedition kn
ssihd, and the Government 10 again to be disgnci
by fragrant violatisn of the neutrality kwI
What must be thought Of our efficiency or sincerity
when these things can happen and be repeated
under the most offensive circumstances :. Just Win
the Kansas controversy was beginning to subsidA
this new fraud is opening upon the country, with q
its menacing future, for Walker now goes to Mo
aragua with the avOwed purpose Of planting Slavery
there. This movement may give new direction =
the governmental policy in that quarter, and haw
the effect OF bringing to an issue questions Wild
have been long kept suspended. II may b ucty
| for the country too, that such crew Of yass
bonds who are only fit to be food for pswder hnve
been got out of its limits with good prvsPea u
never returning to it. 30
While the policy of retrenching the public expen1
lures so far may be practicable is avowed hefa
there is NO truth whatever in the publications repro
senting that there was to be sweeping mapennoa
of the public works. No such idea was ever entef.
tanned, because, in the first place, it could nos -
carried out by the Executive Department for wszt
of power, if attsmpted and, in the next, becssse
every prudential confederation forbade it in the pres
eDce of the approaching Winter and IFS terrible ~
ticipations. 1t is competent for the Executive.
where appropriations are made for speclhc o?jecs
TO diiuse the expenditure over larger surface o.
time, or totxtend work into three years, Tor exam
pie, that might have readily been accomplished Y
two. This mode will probably be adopted thu: 70
ducDg the annual outlay. And the Secretary Of -
Treasury will doubtless recommend the casu,y
of Of all unnecessary expenditures for useless bulb
iDgs in the interior, which have been piled upn
the appropriation bills regularly since 1850. ca
tom Houses have been ordered in c0uatry TOM ,
hundreds of miles distant from salt water, withs4
the least pretense Of practical USE and only for u
purpose of rquanderiDg money. These leaks oaghe
to be stopped and they will be presented in such
| light as to render it almost inevitable. ~
The gOvernOrship OF Nebraska is in the n,srkek
and bidders will please send in their proposals before
the lat Of January, and remember to subscribe -
the test Of orthodoxy which is required OF the latin
full. In these times it will not 60 a-beggng, icf
there is patriotism enough left in the Democracy .
fob fve-and-twenty hundred year Of salary In hare
constitutional dollars. INDEX.
Fw. Oar Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Nov. IL, 1851. &
The general result of the recent elections, via
the exceptions Of Kansas and Massachusetts,, has.
encouraged the Administration and confirmed ~
Democratic party in its diffusion. Of-negroes Ps'cJ
bolder tone is observable here since the New
York election Notwithstanding our triumph
Kansas, the contest for freedom is not over bal =
only beginning. An aristocsatic party like nv
which ridiculously calls isseH the De nocntic-sa
aristOcracy, privileged order, like the slavohoA-
ing cla,s-not only never voluntarily retnqusso
power but is never cOntenS with what it hsa 81
until long and severe experience nas La'gns PRIV
ceIce and foIbearaDce. The erstocrscy OIL Fog:
ard in the course of centuries, has been soourgea
;nto moderation. In 1910 and in 1864 1t ~
ce;vsd vboIesame lessons whose teachings hare
nevar been forgotten. But our American sEis-
ocracy is arrogant with success, and haugh-
tilv trsmpes alike on its white as well as on ~
black ssrfs. 1t regards laws and constitutOos
mined 70 keep It's hold on the Government and on u
public revenue, it will stick at nothing that ma!
,ubserve that end If the people cannot DO dela1sl
by sophisms and false pretenses TO g;Fe it uaiOn4
Of votes, votes will be manufactured and retw.
tempered with, IS they have been n Minnesota ~
Kansas. In Minnet ota the fraud has been ~,
rently successful In Kansas the amount Of fsss
required was so great, and the agents TO pespeusI
it 50 bunexDg OF reckless, that it defeated Dell
Had it been little less eross, or the villains ns
more skillful, it would have succeeded. As ia
the Pro.savcry leaders are furious at the failure
their tools in Karsas, and though they may not ds
to remove Walker, they viii assu,sdly punish y.
for bis inconvenient squeam shness. Their rage sy
closes equally their policy, their hopes and thci!
appointment. Baflied ia Kansas, tho game VIII -
leopened at the fnt opportunity. -.
il is well for the country iAat the game q
aristocracy is openly disclosed and played aOs.'1
board 1t is more easily met than if i were ~
concealed as in former years. The settled po1ck
| Mr.. Buchsnan's administration is this: 10 ap
neg, es and SHAREHOLDERS over the continent ana
exclude, as far as possible, the poor whit, mss =
he ground that be IS dangerous to order ana "sF