New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-14
Netp71ork Daily Mibn,re
FROM W.fSHING Ton.
OUR RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA
DOUGLAS AND TIE PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Oct. II, l-59.
Affairs with Nicaragua are coming TO point.
Gen. Jerez was received by President Buchanan as
Special and Extraordinary PenipOtentiary from
President Martinez. Speeches were made on both
sides, but it is very remarkable that neither OF
these official orations is reported IN The Un'on,
though such is the practice. Mr.. Buchanan said,
among several significant things, that he received
Gen. Jerez with the greater pleasure because he
was the bearer Of the treaty, concluded between
the two Governments, and as ratified BY the SUI
preme legislative authority of Nicaragua.
Previously to being received, however, bargain
was struck between Gen. Jerez and the Secretary
of State, by which the former agreed to deliver
the Cass Yrssarri Treaty ratified by the Con-
stituent Assembly, TO apologize for the Martinez
manifesto exposing the purposes and policy of this
Government TO France and England and 20 sign
convention providing indemnity for the murder of
Americans during the Flbuster war.
Now Gen. Jerez has, since entering into those
stpulations. sprained his ancle, and has not been
able as he says, TO visit the State Department but
he has been able to repudiate every Of the en-
gsgements into which he had entered He now
says his reception was wholly unconditional, aud
declares that the President, in his speech, said
nothing about the delivery of the Cass-Yrissarrl
Treaty, and that he does not intend to deliver u.
This new turn of affairs has an origin in circum-
stances which give to the Administration grave ap-
prehensions. Since the reception of Cen Jerez
he has been visited BY Col. Perez the Private
Secretary Of President Martinez, and who is APP
pointed Secretary to the Extraordinary Embassy
of which Jerez is the nominal chief. 1t Is under
stood here that Perez is appointed as spy upon
his superior end that he is III the interest of the
Belly party. As to ScTor Jerez, he has been pur
chased up by Com. Cornelius Vanderbilt OF
course, il is not for me to make myself responsible
for these various statements, but they are believed
by those representing interests opposed to Belly
and Vanderbilt.
Finding that Gen. Jerez had fallen into the slough
of fnesse Gen. Cass wrote 10 him that, unless he
performed the conditions of his reception, - his
:. mission would be- ternlnated; that is, that he
would be sent of-dismissed. To this the Plenipo
tertiary has yet made no other reply than that his
leg is very bad. Whether Cass will let HIM of on
lame leg remains to be seen. But he threatens,
and the President does the same, that, unless Jerez
comes up to the scratch he will take bodily pos
session of the Isthmus route, and enforce the
treaty which he was at so much trouble 10 make.
IN all this you will perceive a margin for a good
deal of sharp correspondence and some sharp work.
know Gen. Cass and Mr.. Buchanan great deal
better than some of the operators in Transit
do ANYTHING more serious than 10 fret and TO talk.
But | may state current expectation that
Jerez will be promptly dismissed, and that San
Juan on the Atlantic, and Raeleio on the Pacific
side, wRl be occupied by American forces within
four months.
When Douglas made his first Chicago speech in
July last The UdShingion tniOn expressed great
aetonishment that he should have reopened the set
tied issues of the late session of Congress: In this
matter THE Union was sincere for IT was aware OF
fact of which the public was ignorant. There
had been a negotiation between Mr. Douglas and
the President, in which they mutually agreed to
ignore the past. Mr.. Douglas stipulated not to
dig up Lecompton, nor attack the Administration
nor to assa the English bill; while his part, the
President engaged to let the Judge aud Illinois
politics alone until after the election These art-
cles were upon certain conditions, which have not
been divuged; but one of the conditions was viola
ted by the President before Douglas reached Chi
cagO.
The rogues have simply fallen out over the
spoils of 1861. Had Buchanan kept his word
there would have been contention between
Democrats in Illinois; butlwhat beside unadul-
teratcd and persistent treachery and bad faith
could be looked for from any source which pro-
nounced Lecompton fair and honest