Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-20


Gen Pierce had his Cabinet advisers, he was still
the President and ruling spirit Of the Admins
tration-that he had the head to conceive and the
these furious fanatics charged in their account
against the Secretary Of War, the acts OF justice
to the South, which signalized the late Aoihinis
tration. When its weight was thrown IN s rae
scale for the repeal Of the Infamous and unconsti
tutional Missouri restriction, the secretary OF W.
was its master spirit. When negotia,ohs MeS
renewed for the acquisition OF CUBA, the siavc
power' through him, moved the machinery
When Reeder1 the betrayer, was elected from the
Goyernorship Of Kansas, the same power, they
ALLEGED was behind the throne, and again black
and bitter torrents Of free soil abuse were poured
mon his devoted head. And this food Of Adolf
ton accusation has not been arrested by the expi-
ration of his Cabinet service. Ii has followed
him to the Senate; and we suppose will be con-
tinued without momentary pause to the end Of
The last crime charged him by his Black Re-
publican accusers, In his alleged circumvention
Of Gov Geary, who unfortunately went the way
of his predecessor, Reeder, and became a plant
instrument in the hands Of Greedy Seward & Co,
and their freesoil instruments in Kansas.
The following extract from very recent let.
ter OF Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald win show their game:
Since his arrival here, Governor Geary has
been assured by ex-President Pierce that the
course Of the War Department towards him, was
adoPtea without knowledge on his part Of all
the facts and with deception in relation to others
me whole move - evidently contrivance Of
JEFF. Davis, and it brings Mr. Buchanan at once
into collision with the policy Of the Southern
hre-eaters.'
go Davis does not command the confidence and
allegiance of the South In this movement There
are many Southern members who do not believe
In his Kansas policy but believe that the true ex-
pansion OF their growth should be to the South
and southwest, IN accordance with the natural
laws that attend their progress rather than TO the
Northwest, in defiance Of nature and interest
Tits to be hoped that Mr.. buchanan will meet
n hao hao dos
for him In Kansas, with frmness and decision
The ultra Davis men are neither numerous nor
strong at the South, and II he is boldly met and
defeated now, he will lose strength largely while
should he be able to defeat Geary's policy In Kan
sas now, he will gain that strength that ALWAYS
attends success, and Mr.. Buchanan will create
faction that will give him much trouble. There
is large Southern party opposed to the Davis
policy, and they only need organization to show
how strong they are.'
"Such are the statements and such the predic.
tons OF this Black Republican correspondent 1t
turns out however that his honest, in regard
TO the course Of Mr. Buchanan were as delnsive
as his declarations touching the weakness Of Col
Davis policy at the South, are false Mr. b.
chanan SO far from endorsing Geary's reasonable
- policy in Kansas has accepted the resignation
which he had rendered to Gen. Pierce and has
appointed Robert j. Walker, a statesman who
commands the entire confidence of the South to
preside over the affairs Of the TERRITORY The
l. firmness and decision'' of Mr.. Buchanan have
been displayed, in the right quarter and the zeal
OTIS OF Abolition, disappointed and chagrined,
will renew their endeavor to strike down the oh.
Ject OF their hate by resort to some other expe-
dientn
A MIsrAKE.-A Washington correspondent
Of the New York Sun is in error in intimating
that the Government here are about to inter.
fere to reopen the Nicaragua transit route,
taking from the allies the lake boats, and all
that sort of thing. Surely, SO intelligent a
writer must comprehend that since Lockridge
took Castillo, which we were so confidently told
was the only stumbling block in the way of the
triumph Of his purpose of re- establishing the
communication with Walker, from San Juan
del Norte, and since the so brilliant victory of
Hennesen and Walker on the 18th ult. at St.
JoTJes, losing but two men and killing 80 many
hundreds Of the Central Americans as that the
labor of counting the dead was too fatipuing
to be undertaken by 80 enthusiastic gentlemen
In the hrst flush of such military achievement
the cause of the fllibusters can need no direct
interference in its favor on the part Of this Gov
eminent.
Besides If it did, there are certain reasons of
State which have been accorded sufficient weight
at this point up to this time to forbid n resort to
any such policy, and are just now more OBJ
yiously obligatory than ever before, notwith-
standing LOckridge's brilliant reduction of Cas-
tillo and the still moro brilliant victory of Hen
nesen and Walker at St Jories ON the 18th
ult: heralded in letters by the California
steamer before the last, and confirmed by pri-
vate dispatches
TEHUASTEPEc.-The telegraph Washington
news IN Northern papers announce that official
Information has been received in New Orleans
that the Mexican Government has accepted the
Tehuantepec road as having been constructed
in accordance with the contract. Simultane-
ously the telegraphic news from Washington in
Northern journals, announces that official ad-
vices to the same effect have been received
here. We are satisf i that this last statement
is a mistake. The Government here have re-
celyed no such Information; while the Mexican
legation in this city believe that the story of the
receipt of such advices in New Orleans is equal
ly erroneous.
In the mean while, according to Washington
letters, an application has been made to the
Post Office Department for contract from this
Government for an overland California mail
upon 1.-THE alleged Tehuantepec road-under
the law Of the last: session for an overland
mail from the Mississippi to San Francisco As
the law authorizing that mail is known to all
connected with the Government to contemplate
mail from our own frontier settlements, espe-
clally to the end Of afording protection to the
overland emigration, it is not possible that upon
the strength Of the telegraphic announcements
referred to above, the contract will be made for
the transportation of this mail any where with
out the jurisdiction Of this Government. The
current New Granadian difficulties, the state
OF affairs along the Nicaragua route, and the
Ramsey and Carnick troubles of the Post Of
nee Department, as well as the proverbial eau
ton, good sense and rigid respect for law which
has invariable characterized the Postmaster
General when in public life here and at home,
satisfy US that the new overland mail will be
established precisely as designed by Congress.