Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-04


ises, we have come to the conclusion that though
the English government did not at once accept
the modified treaty, (which could not have been
nationally expected,) there is no evidence in
Washington of its rejection. On the contrary.
1t is believed among all the diplomatists here
that the English government at latest adyices
held 1t under advisement, and we're apparently
disinclined to its acceptance.
The news by the next arrival, or, il NAV be
subsequent ones, will be required to settle the
question whether the treaty as sent back to
England has been rejected
HE AMERICAN GUANo CoMPASY's SUCCESS
The news of the success of the operations of this
Company, coming by the mails of the Illinois,
gave rise to no little excitement in official cir
cles here, because demonstrating the correct
ness Of the representations made by its agents
to the Government, which induced the late Adj
ministration to strain points in order to aid its
(the Company's) efforts. The Pierce Admins
tration, keenly alive to the Importance of secu-
ring for the country a supply of guano indie
pendent of Peru, aided with its countenance the
enactment of the law to protect American dis.
coveries of guano deposits, which this Company
asked ere venturing upon the heavy expendi-
lures necessary to bring into use the deposits of
the New Nantucket groupe. They also assisted
the Company's operations with a vessel of the
Pacific squadron. Or, rather, they essayed so
to do; the faur pas of her commander having
greatly embarrassed its operations, instead of
aiding them. We refer to Commodore MeS-
vines return from his discovery voyage with
out effecting landing on New Nantucket
Island, with report that the representations
inducing the Department to order his ship on
the service were but Interpretations
The agent who succeeded in obtaining the
hundred tons of the staple, a considerable por-
ton of which reached New York by the steam
ship Illinois, was the person who accompanied
Commodore Mervine upon the voyage to which
we refer above. To his enterprise and energy
much, indeed, is due. A man of less force of
character and confidence in himself would have
abandoned his task under the chilling effect of
such report Commodore Mervine made.
Had he succumbed to the circumstances then
surrounding him, the valuable deposits of the
American Guano Company would have been
lost to the United States. Successful a. he has
been at last, he has proved public benefactor;
for the quantity of the staple there is immense,
and 1T is of a description calculated to do more
than the Peruvian staple, ton for ton, for the
permanent improvement Of lands to which it is
applied.
We witnessed the result of the application of
samples of it to the production of Indian corn,
side by side with that of Peruvian guano, and
know that pound for pound, its effect is much
greater in increasing that crop. This is owing
to the fact, that, while it contains all the ammo
MIA necessary to start it vigorously forward
and to afford the requisite supply of organic
food which that most voracious feeder of all
American field crops requires, it is richer by
far, than any other fertilizer, in phosphates-
the inorganic substance of plants in which our
lands are most deficient, which is, at the same
time, most difficult of obtainment in a suitable
combination for application upon the soil. We
believe that the difference in the comparative re-
results Of the two descriptions of guano to which
We refer, pound for pound applied, and dollar
for dollar expended, will, in ten years after the
application, be much more than the cost to
him OF both. Our experience with the Peru
Wan guano (and we have applied it to all varie-
ties of crops grown in this section, for seven
years past,) is that it rarely affords more or
ganic food than the single crop to which it is
applied requires. That is, that the rest of its
ammonia usually evaporates ere it could other
wise furnish food for a second crop; that it so
stimulates the soil and plant as greatly to ex-
haust the former of elements of fertility LAYING
dormant in it when it Peruvian guano) is ap-
piled; and, further, that it contains little else
valuable than concentrated organic food-am-
monia.
While the New Nantucket island 5 guanocon-
tains sufficient ammonia to supply the demands
OF every condition Of soil, as is the case with un-
fermenting stable manure, it has not 50 much
as to burn the crop under any circumstances of
the season, and the main element of its compo
sition is phOsphatic-or, in other words. the
substance most needed by the prudent agricul-
turlst In this country, most difficult of obtain
ment, and at the same time most permanent in
Its effect upon all soils-resultng in lasting i'm
provement, whereas, as all practical agr:cultu
rists know well, that, to use Peruvian guano.
except with wheat, to get crop of clover to be
turned in to enrich the soil, is to create a ne
ceSSity Tor Its continued annual application at
an enormous expense, if enc would reap any
remunerative return whatever from the land
The INDIAN TROUBLES IN New Mrx,co-
The last mail from Santa Fe brought to Wash
ington official information of the outrages com.
mitted by the Indians in that quarter, to the
3lst of March last. 1t seems that in the counties
OF Valencia and Bernalio the depredations there
committed are charged on the Apaches and
Navajoes The state of Indian affairs in the
Territory is very gloomy, as those two tribes
and more particularly the Membre band of the
Alphabetically evince a strong disposition
to 60 regularly to war upon the whites. 1t is
Judged by the United States authorities in the
Territory that the murder last winter of Co.'S
tales and another Membre Apache, and also of
an Utah Indian and his wife (the last mentioned
in February, are at the bottom of all the
troubles These murders are laid at the door