Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-07
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

HE NEW YORK REGIMENT is expected TO
reach Washington City tomorrow morning
one dispatch states at a.. m, and another at
a IN. We presume that they can hardly land
here before the latter hour, if so early This
morning the Secretary of the Navy issued an
order for the battalion of U. S. Marines sta
toned at head quarters to participate in the
expected parade of the day
NICARAGUA.-Within the last few DAYS, we
have every reason to believe, dispatches have
gone from the State Department to the Ameri-
can Minister In Nicaragua, which will speedily
end the lmbroglio concerning the Nicaragua
transit route that has of late existed in the
newspapers, if nowhere else, in reality. We
explained a day or two since that the so.
called grant to Vanderbilt of certain transit
privileges was contingent upon the possible
forfeiture of the rights, franchises and privi-
reyes OF the American Ship Canal Company
some years hence, in which respect it is identical
with that OF Monsieur Belly. Indeed, it is not
only not to have any validity whatever, unless
the American Ship Canal Company fail to do
certain things ere fixed date in the wear 1860
but 1t is also to be imperative if the obligations
assumed by the nominal contractors under
Monsieur Belly's grant fail to do what thew
agree to do In case the Ship Canal Company do
not eventually comply with their obligations.
Ihe English of all this is, that the only par
ties having tangible, positive and conclusive
franchises In the Nicaraguan transit are the
American Ship Canal Company-those of all
others being mere contingencies-matters of
moonshine. The franchises granted to the
chip Canal Company are of equal I'm Dor lance
to the country at large as to the company
themselves; because they are assured, by au-
toorlty TO this Government to assume Through
their protectioD) the use of the Nicaraeuan
isthmus forever to American travel and com
merce, on more favorable terms than can
reasonably be hoped for in connection with an
lsthmus transit route over the territory of any
other Central American Government
We are satisfied that the administration of
James Buchanan are not only sensible of the
immense national advantage involved in Sc
curing forever to the citizens and business of
the United States the positive privileges in
volved In the charter to the American Shin
Canal Company, bat that they have taken mea
sures, through instructions to General Lamar,
70 compel Nicaragua to respect them hence
Notwithstanding the policy of temporizipg in
the matter OF refraining from interfering be-
tween the interests Of the canal company and
adverse aspirants for its franchises, rights and
privileges Though this was probably not done
90 noHl'He, 1t was, nevertheless, effectualIy
done in the las: dispatches sent to Nicaragua.
wherein the bird in the hand" was duly cared
for-not " the bird in the bush,' Vanderbilt
latest scheme for protracting the defeat in Mic
aragua Of the ratification of the Cas- Irissari
treaty, and, consequently, the preservation of
his So'ZOOO per annum Of black mail from the
an"ma company, payable to him so long as no
opposition to their monopoly shall run ria the
NIcaraguan isthmus
O'h ARMY 0ORREsPosDENcE-Th last ar
rlVai tmaii) from Utah brought US the follow
ing interesting letter from an officsr nov Nth
the portion Of the Utah army undsr .o,n.s
Of Col. Munroe:
''On the 18th Of June the men w.,.
down in the ranks, from illness caused pPP, ing
heat and when the army went into camp VINE Tue
bad TO be sent back to pick up those WI S I
been unable 10 keep on their march tbontn dd
arriving at the camping ground these WAGON
were filled with sick and exhausted soldIers
my then cdmped on the broad prairie In sivht
oil wood on the islands of Platte river tbonoh
without the means OF obtaining this wood for
SooAIhS purposes. Some Sioux Indians were
lamp SamPea % near, but did not approach the army.
SINE OF our omc~rs, while the men were resting
had gone out TO hunt buffalo though ratber a AZ
couIaging incident had recently occurred. which
cooled the ardor OF a good many as thew crossed
the buffalo tracks. young Lieutenant yvent ON,
To kali buffalo, taking with him a mule 70 h,ina
Dis game home; when three or four miles of ,,is
road thiTty or forty Indians sprung up and az
sumed a threatening attitude The officeT ~
then about one hundred Yards from the Indisn.
lie ordered them not TO approach; but they re-
En'd, IN English, that they would not 20 away
az hunter chose that discretion which at such
Odds Is undoubtedly the better part of vaIor ana
"rfl q haslY retreat. He left his mule, aud put
sIuLS 10 his horse, not giving way until he saw
Another incident had occurred to vary tho
mono'ony OF life on the Plains One of the SOL
dl-fs ran across the road in front of the muIe,
w n startled them, and In less than a minute
nity wagons were being carried over the prairfes
'hs greatest possible rate Of speed. In another