Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-01
Presidents Proclamation against Fnlbus-


dition against Nicaragua, foreign State.
with which we are at peace. In order to
raise money for equipping and maintaining
this expedition, persons connected Herewith,
as | have reason to believe, have issued and
sold bonds, and other contracts, pledging the
public lands in Nicaragua and the Transit
Route through Its territory as security of
their redemption and fulhlhnent.
The hostile design of this expedition is rem
dered manifest by the fact that these bonds
and contracts can be OF no possible value to
their holders, unless the present Government
OF Nicaragua be overthrow by force be-
sides the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of that Government in the
United States has issued notice, in pursu.
ance of his instructions, dated the 27th inst,
October forbiding the citizens or subjects
OF any nation, except passengers intending
to proceed to Nicaragua over the transit
route from ocean to ocean, to enter its terri
tory without asregular passport, signed by
the proper Minister or Consul General of the
Republic, resident in the country from
whence they shall depart Such persons
with this exception, will be stopped, and be
compelled to return by the same conveyance
that took them to th4 country.
Faom these circumstances the inference is
irresistible, that many persons engaged in
this expedition will leave the United States
with hostile purposes against Nicaragua
They cannot, under the guise which they
have assumed, that they are peaceful emf
grants, conceal their real intentions, especial
ly when they know in advance, that their
landing will he resisted, and can only be ac
complished 10y an overpowering force.
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previous to the last expedition, and the yes
sci in which those comprising it were convey
ed to Nicaragua, obtained Il clearance from
the Collector of the port at Mobile AL
though, after careful examination, no arms
or munitions of war were found on board
yet, when they arrived in Nicaragua, they
were found to be armed and equipped, and
Immediately commenced hostilities.
The leaders of former illegal expedition
of the same character have openly expressed
the intention to renew hostilities against
Nicaragua One of them, who has been
twice expelled from Nicaragua, has invited,
through the newspapers, American citizens
to emigrate to that Republic, and has desig
mated Mobile as the place of rendezvous and
departure, and San Juan del Norte rs the
port to which they are bound. This person,
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to the United States, and claims to be Presi.
dent of Nicaragua, has given notice to the
Collector of the port of Mobile that two or
three hundred of these emigrants will be
prepared to embark for that port about the
middle of November
For these and other good reasons, and for
the purpose of saving American citizens who
may have been honestly deluded into the be.
iaf fbot tbot- a oh
qua as peaceful emigrants, (if such there be,)
from the disastrous consequences to which
they will be exposed, J. James Buchanan,
Pros dent of the United States, have thought
it fit to issue this, my proclamation, enioin.
ing upon all officers of the Government civil
and military, in their respective spheres, to be
vigilant, active and faithful in suppressng
these illegal enterprises and in carrying out
their standing instructions to that effect; ex
horting all good citizens by their respect for
she laws and their regard for the peace and
welfare of the country, to aid the efforts of
the public authorities in the discharge Of their
duties
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States 10 be affixed to these presents
Done at the city of Washington, this, the
30th day of October 1858, and of the indie.
pence of the United States, the eighty-third.
JAMES BUoHANAN.
BY the President,
LEWIS CAss, Secretary of State.
THE ELEcrIoNs.-The great, the all-absorb-
ing and almost the cnly topic of conversation
and centre of interest here now is that of
the elections which took place yesterday
Illinois, New York. Massachusetts Wiscon-
sim Michigan, New Jersey and Deleware-
New York has beaten Parker, Democratic
candidate for Governor, about 10000, with
Morgan, Republican. Massachusetts, has
gone overwhelmingly Republican, of course
Michigan and Wisconsin are also numbered
among the Republican States, though with
reduced maiorities as faras heard from. Suf-
hcient returns are not yet in to base any
opinion on reference to New Jersey. Del.
eware has elected the Democratic State tick
ct as well as members of the Assembly.
which secures the return Of Democratic l.
5. Senators. But these pale their Intellectual
fires before the solicitude felt in the struggle
in Illinois They are hard working, enter
prising people, the Suckers, but are extreme
ly slow in counting votes or sending in re
turns. The doubtful counties have been con
sdered to be Sangamon, St Clair, and Mad
ison. The first has been heard from entire
and gives an average Democratic majority of
300, electing two Douglas Democrats, which
is gain of two for that party. In st. Clair
and Madison the vote is so close that the
official returns will be required to decide the
result, on the question of Representatives
At present it looks as if Madison would de
clare for Douglas, while in St. Clair there is
a probability that Chandler, Democratic, and
Scheel, Republican, will be the fortunate
ones. From the meagre reports received, the
indications are pretty strong that Douglas
has carried the State. The Administration
party are "nO where" it being doubtful
whether their poll will amount to 5000 in
the entire State, fact which will be apt to
astonish the President, as he has been made
to believe, by persons who subserved pr-
vate considerations in so doing, that the
DANTE" ticket, as it has been ncknamed,
will poll at least 10000. The Representa-
tion in the Lower House of Congress. from
Illinois, will be about as heretofore. None
but an ambitious, daring, resolute, persistent
man, like Douglas, would have essayed to
stand up against, rot only the unit-d effort
of the regular opposition but also the strong,
revengeful arm of the Administration, its
power and its patronage. The Little Giant
has been bold and independent, and whatev-
er the final result may be- whether favorable
or disastrous to him, his name will not ever
be forgotten, nor his merits overlooked.
BY the next mail hope to put you in pos
session of satisfactory returns of the election,
though it seems like, the more one is in
hurry the tardier it makes those on whom he
depends BY that time, at any rate sutfi.
cient will be received on which to base salts
NoU. 3D.
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