The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. G, OCTOBER T. 1858

who did not get any gold at all but believes
there is gold at Pixies Peak, tho Ugh too little
to paw for the digging. L. can or y be reached
by the best machinery. According to bis state
ment, number of the companies ct the mines
we.e about disbsnding aud comm home. He
SAYS those who winter there viii have q hard
time of it, as the climate is very chsngesble,
and the extremes very severe. de instances
the 4th day of August last when ice formed at
night the thickness of the glass ef tumbler,
and in the daytime the sun wan excessively
hot.
All the other accounts continus to be favor
able and even the Democrat suggests that this
may be the story Of person sent pat by greedy
miners to discourage emigration end prevent
increasing competition at the misses.
General Cass's Dispatch to our Minister in Mic
aragua.
A letter, said to have been written by Score
tary Cass to our Minister in Nicaragua, with
instructions to read it to the Nicsraguan Gov
eminent, is published in some Of the papers.
After having admonished Nicaragua that such
an insult as was contained in the proclamation
of Mora and Martinez accusing the United
States of aiding the Walker 6ibusters) would
have called for the immediate DISMISSAL of their
representative Minister at Washington, if tn y
had been in the position of France or England,
and possessed stable Government, Gen. Cass
proceeds to call attention to the treachery of
the rulers of Central America in relation to the
Cass- Yrissarri treaty, and intimases that de-.
msnd for PREPARATION will be made and insisted
on, without regard to that feebleness which
hitherto has given them sort Of impunity. In
firm, digni6ed, and statesmanlike language, he
refotes the calumnies of the Belly manifesto,
and he points ont that those very Governments
are now in power through the effective exer-
tions of the United States against Walker and
his band. When past differences have been
thoroughly analy zed, he proceeds to lay down
important principles for our future guidance.
He says:
But the establishment of q political protec.
torate by any of the Powers of Europe over any
of the independent States of this continent, or,
in other soOrds, the introduction of a scheme Of
policy Uhich soould carry ioith II a right to tn
teytere IN their concerns Is q measure to Uhich
the United States haze long since Gvoped their
opposition, and sohieh, should the attempt be
made, they piU resist pith all the means in their
poaoer. While the just rights of SOW
ereignty of the States occupying this region
should always be respected, We shall expect
that these rights will be exercised in spirit
BETTING the occasion and the wants and cir.
cumstances that have arisen. Sovereignty has
its duties soeU its rights, and none of these
local Governments, euen If administered pith
more regard to the just demands of other ma.
tions than they hare been, scossld be permitted,
| in spirit of Eastern isolation, to close these
gates Of iatercourse on the great highways of
the world, and Justify the act by the pretensioa
that these avenues Of trade and trduel belong
to them, and that they choose to shut them, or,
what is almost equivalent, to cucumber them
with such unjust regulations as would prevent
their general use."
Railroad Accident-Fatal Result.
baltimore, Oct. 4.-The railroad train from
Philadelphia, due here at three o'clock this
morning, was detained till six, in consequence
of running over horse at Perryville, about
thirty-six miles from Baltimore. The baggage
car was thrown from the track, and Peter Nc.
Girk, baggage master, killed. Another, named
Reuben lamar, was severely hurt. The pas.
sengers escaped uninjured.
The reporter of the Associated Press is in.
debted to G. j. Gibbons, Esq, mail agent, who
was in the mail car when the disaster occurred,
for the following additional particulars
"Ths train approaching the Susquehanna,
the locomotive was switched off the main track,
while the rest proceeded down the grade. The
| mail car struck horse, and was thrown down
an embaDkment of q few feet, turning end for
end in its transit. Mr. Reuben lamar, one of
the Oldest conductors on the road, but not in
charge of the train at the time, was severely
but not dangerously injured; Mr.. Med ufie, the
| through baggage master, was cut on the head
and arm, but not seriously; but Mr.. Peter
! McGirk, the baggage agent OF the Philadelphia
and Baltimore road, was instantly killed. 1t ia
supposed that when he found the car was roll
ing over, he jumped from the platform where
he was standing. He leaves wife and one
child.
"The passenger cars, which were detached
from the mail car, passed the latter without
coming in collision.