The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-05

pectation of a collision. The design ia to in.
timidste Nicaragua into the ratification of the
Cass- Yrissarri treaty. But Martinez knows
very we'll the President has no power to make
war, and that the Senate refused to pass the
resolution authorizing him to employ force
against Nicaragua. And he is rather persua-
ded the Greytown performance will not be re-
peated. Hence there is not much likelihood
the presence OF few extra men-of war will dis
turb his tranquility. The persuasive presence
OF few hundred Thousand dollars would CON-
mand infinitely more respect, for Martinez does
not boast any of those delicate scruples con-
corning "fthy lucre," which 60 much affect
our susceptibilities. He is an unromantic per-
son, and values dollar for its ewn sake. The
Wabash and Macedonian, which are assigned
to station near San j uan, are on their way 20
the Mediterranean. If Nicaragua ia to be
blown out OF the water, the expense of fleet
might be saved. Such outfits are only needed
for great Powers like Paraguay.
Fort Leavenworth advices of the oath, per
United States Express to Bonneville, state that
great damage has been done to the crops in ihe
interior by the late heavy rains. Several
bridges on the Fort Riley road had been carried
away, as had also new bridge across the
Kansas river at Topeka, by the heavy rise
having been detained at Camp Scott during the
winter and spring by insufficient means of trans
portation.
George W. A. Richardson Governor of Ne.
braska, not Illinois. has returned to his former
home in Quincy. His purpose is to help Doug
las to fight for "the constitutional rights Of the
South on Northern soil, as the Richmond En-
quirer calls the Dred.Scott Popular. Sovereignty
cause of the Little Giant"
Last week, on the farm Of the Hon. John G.
Davis, near Montezuma, Indiana, two large
springs burst forth from the earth, and contin.
ued to throw off such volumes of water that
large fields in the neighborhood have been
covered with standing pools and ponds.
of horse, alive, but very weak, that had been
imprisoned in stable for two months, without
access to food or drink
Among the most deeply interesting papers
read before the Scientific Convention held re-
Gently in Baltimore, was one by Professor Ed
ward Hitchcock, upon the tracks of animals
found in the Connecticut Valley. He described
the valley as classic ground for these sandstone
tracks, ten times more of them having been
found there than elsewhere the globe over. AS
to the age of the rocks thus marked, he had re
Gently concluded that portion of them, at least,
were as modern as the Liss formation. The
Cabinet of Amherst College contains eight
thousand individual impressions of these tracks.
He said that most of his time for two years
past had been given to grouping the individuals
He lad made one hundred and nineteen rpecies
and sixty genera of them. He made thirty-on
bipeds and fifty five upeds-eighteen hav
ing more than four feet, twelve without feet, and
three of uncertain footing. Upon this he dwelt
the more, because in the Annals of Scientific
Discovery he had been incorrectly reported as
giving up his theory that they were bird tracks.
Among the qusdrupeds he had concluded, but
without evidence that entirely satisfied him,
that FIVE we're marsupials-the youngest of the
mammalias. Of the bipeds, fourteen we're of
the thick-toed brds-like the ostrich-and nine
of the narrow.toed tribe. These statements
give US astonishing glimpses into the period
when such a variety of extinct monsters went
tramping or writhing up and down the valleys
of New England.
The Territory of Nebraska, which is the
largest in the U nited States, would make eleven
States, each as large as South Carolina, and
then have enough left to make State as large
as Maryland. Nebraska Is about one.sixth
the size of Europe. If Great Britain we're
placed in Nebraska, it would occupy q very
small corner.
The Scientific american gives the following
directions for making our houses cool in warm
weather:
"The FIRST necessity is q thorough draft This
can always be obtained by opening every door
aud window in the basement, the top of every
window above, and by throwing each door wide
open !; but, above all, be sure that the trap-door
in the roof is open, and there is plenty Of air
room from it down the stairs, 80 that, which
ever direction be the wind there will at least be
one ascending current of air in the house. An
other requisite is shade. Our common slat
shutters answer well for the windows, but the
most cheap and convenient shelter for the roof
is to it thickly with straw, dried reeds, or
| rushes. These will resist the influences of a
MONDAY sun, and keep the garnet almost as
cool as the basement. One of the most simple
methods, and at the same time cheapest means
of lowering the temperature of a room, is TO
wet a cloth of any size, the larger the better,
and suspend it in the place you want cooled :;
let the room be well ventilated, ard the temper
AZURE will sink from ten to twenty degrees in
less than an hour. The above hints will be
useful to many and, as last suggestion, we
will inform the reader thst, in summer, it is as
we'll to keep solution o. chloride of lime in
the house, and occasionally sprinkle it in the
more frequented parts, as the passages and
stairs"
The Richmond Enquirer puts more Pro-
Slavery Interpretation oa Senator Douglass
late speeches than we had supposed they would
bear. In its issue of the '26th, it says:
"During the campaign of 1856, and, if we
are not mistaken, in speeches delivered both
before and after that period, Mr.. Douglas open.
ly advocated the doctrine that slave labor will
and ought to be employed wherever chmatoty
influences render it preferable to free labor.
During the past session oil Congress, Mr.. Douglas
expressly argued that the attributes Of sover-
eighty belong only to the States Of the confeder-
acy that the people of Territory have the alb
solute right to fern Constitution iii their own
way, and without Congressional intervention,
only because such Constitution is intended to
express the sovereign will, 90 soon as the new
State shall be admitted into the Union. If Mr..
Douglas has occasionally employed the ex
preston popular sovereignty in any sense
opposed to this his own able expostions of the
subject are fully sufficient to demonstrate that
he inadvertently fell into mere error Of express
sion livery prevalent at this time,) while in
tending to designate the limited power of self.
government which the psople of Territory
are enabled to exert by permission of Congress.
"In his late speech at Springfield, Mr.. Doug
las distinctly admits Mot Congress has no
right to prohibit Slauery IL the Territories, and
hence the Territorial Legis ntures haze no right
to do it. Thus Mr.. DouglaA has gone to the full
ertent o. the doctrine erpoH ,ded by the Supreme
Court in the bred Scott Use, and asserted by
the President in the Sillin On letter.
with this clear and juyt appreciation Of the
principles involved, We de, not doubt that Mr..
Douglas combines an eotire willingness TO
recognise and perform whstaver patriotic duties