Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-08
From he ". 7. Herald.
Central American A6afrs-The True
State Of the Case.


The various cliques of spectators, stock
jobbers and flIibuste-s, which for the last
twelve months have been plotting and coun-
terplotting to secure the rich monopoly of
the Nicaragua Transit route, are still, by all
sorts of devices and through every available
channel, supplying the newspapers with their
idle reports and bumbugging' inventions.
Among the latest of the hnmbugging exper-
iments is the report that England and France,
through their representatives at Washington,
have,taken stand in favor of the Monsieur
b lily contract, the only existing Transit
arrangement which comes within the demands
OF the ClaytoR-Bulwer treaty. and that the
enforcement of this contract is the real pur-
pose of the. Ouseley mission to Nicaragua.
Now, we are gratifed tn he able to state
explicitly. cmphatically, and from the most
satisfactory authority, that this report con-
corning the Belly contract is filibastering
czn0rd: that, on the contrary. the British gov
ernment~ has .signifed lis APPROVAL of the
Cass-Y risarri treaty. and that the opinions
expressed by the Freuch Minister upon the
subject are decidedly i'll favor of the policy
of the administration, which rs based upon
this treaty. We are assured that the admin
istration Is perfectly conscious of its position
in reference TO England and France. and that
this tangled web of the affairs of Central
America is smoothly progressing to a salts
factory solution. Nothing in the shape of a
new transit contract has been submitted to
onr government. The administration recog-
niZes the White g. Stebbins, contract as the
existing contract in connection with the Cass-
Yrissarri treaty; but some rival spectators
have entered into another arrangement called
the Van Dyke contract: hut whether this or
that contract, or any other, shall secure the
monopoly of the Transit route, is question
which belongs to the absolute jurisdiction of
Nicaragua, subject only to the general stipu-
lations of international treaties
We may safely declare, then, that the eX
pcctation of grand blow up of the Cass-
Yrisarri treaty from an explosion between
our government and England and France,
has vanished into thin air, and that all filibus-
tering attempts and intrigues to bring about
a rupture with England and France upon the
pitiful squabhIes of these transit jobbers have
failed, and will sgnally fail to the end of the
chapter We suspect that the peculiar friends
of General Walker would be pleased above
all things to make the administration the tool
of their designs in fOmenting a war with Eng
land and France; but Mr.. Buchanan's policy
lies in quite another direction. as these filibus
tiers will perceive from his late proclamation,
intended for their special benefit. And so
they may as well give up their plots, their
intrigues and ridiculous inventions, for their
game is irretrievably lost. -HsfsFt o. 't-
In this connection, we commend to the
careful study of all parties concerned the
warning letter, in another column, of Senior
Maxine JereZ, in reference to the proposed
sailing of the steamer Washington with
passengers for California, via the Nicaragua
route