The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-18


RICA-Accord:ng to the correspondence from
thst quarter of the continent published the otnr
day in the HERALD, the political affairs of the
General American States are hardly in a better
coalition than those of Mexico. Dsorganiza-
ton, revolutionary movements aud general an
archy prevail. The existing government of
Nicaragua is the next thing 10 no government
at all, and nobody could tell anything, one way
or the other, of the Yrisarri treaty Our new
Minister, Lamar, appears to have gone off in
such hurry that he forgot his credentials, and
had stopped at some halfway village to await
their arrival from Washington or New
Orleans or from wherever he may have left
them.
There appears to be something in the atmos-
phere of Nicaragua which more or lees adde's
the brains of white men, if we may Judge from
the foolish transactions of our Ministers there
for the last seven or eight years. The Hon.
Scion Borlsnd got into free fight" at Grey
town, and had his nose broken with whiskey
bottle. which caused the bonbardment and
burning of that unfortunate village by orders
from Washington. General Wheeler degene-
rated from az ambassador into filibuster.
under the leading strings Of Walker, and be-
came too much for the digifed stomach of
Marcy. Mr. Carey Jones, with his rowing COM
mission from Mr. Buchanan, seems to have been
wandering about from point to point, like crazy
man, withou. any purpose, and without knowing
where he was half the time, or whittier bound.
or what for. Lastly, the venerable Lamar, an
old Texas campaigner, turns up in the country
to which he is accredited without his creden-
tails In fact, the only ambassador. ordinary or
extraordinary, we have ever had in Central
America, vino seems to have thoroughly under
stood those countries, their people. resources,
institutions, and local and foreign embarrass-
ments, is Mr. Squier. His services to the
government, to commerce, to science and to
literature, under cover of his official position in
| the Central American States were of great
value; but these things appear 70 have been
entirely overlooked at Washington since his
return.
However, when Mr. Lamar shall have re-
ceiyed his credentials, and when Sir William
Gore Ouseley shall have opened his budget,
and when Mr.. Carey Jones shall have rendered
in his report, we may be able to discover that
something is going on for the permanent regu-
lation of these Central American broils We
can wait with the patience of Commodore Van
derbilt and his high imperial commissioner, Joe
White; for, since the decline AID fall of the
little gray-eyed man of destiny" and the col
lapse of Col. Kinney, our interest in Central
American stock has fallen below par.
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GRAND Srous AND PLUMBER COMBINATION TO
DEFEAT THE LECoNPTON CONsTrTUTION.-Read
our Geographic advices from Washington Of
this morning. The late mysterious and suspi
dous movements of the South Americans Of the
House upon the Kansas question, are now in
fair way TO practical solution. A sum of a
hundred thousand dollars among six or eight
desperate political spectators and their
attaches, in these days, is a temptation which it
will be difficult to resist Worse yet-if the de-
feat Of the administration and the success Of
the schemes of the patent lobby men and the
bankrupt lobby jobbers can be blended to-
gether, we cannot perceive how this joint stock
game Of public plumber and political tactics is
to be resisted We shall at all events know
very soon whether the principle or the interest
of tho Kansas imbroglio is TO control the action
of these South Americans. Meantime, can
Massa Greeley tell US whose pocket was the de-
pository Of the thirty thousand dollars which
made Mr.. Banks the Speaker and Mr.. Wendell
/ the Printer of the last Congress? Was the man
to whom was entrusted the safe keeping and
disbursement of this fund of thirty thousand
the same fnacier who acted as the go-between
in the matter Of that thousand dollar draft of
Des Moines Improvement Company?
How BANK RoGrEs ARE TREATED IN ENGLAND.
We see that six of the directors of that colos-
sal swindling concern, the Royal British Bank,
have been found guilty Of the charges preferred
against them, and sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment, according to the different degrees
Of their completely. This is all very right
and proper. We should like to know when our