Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-08-03
}AsH1NGToN NEWS AND GOSSIP

sucn as W uoiaJ luz any conslderabie time the
final ratification Of that instrument of 20 great
Importance to the future of our intercourse
with the possessions of the United States ON
the Pacific side, as well as to our relations with
Central America generally. The impression
that General Irisarri has resigned is mistake,
evidently. He doubtless signified to President
Martinez that he regarded not only the perma-
nent and true interest of Nicaragua as being in
volved in the contamination by that government
of the treaty that had cost him so much labor and
anxiety, but also his own honor, as pledged in
a measure to this Government; and under the
circumstances of a rejection by Nicaragua of
the policy with reference to the United States
that he had initiated and advised, he felt it to
be his duty to withdraw from her service
Such, we believe, to be the origin of the story
of his resignation.
1t is very certain that the new commissioner
has come not only to negotiate with the Ship
Canal Company, alone having bona fde rights
of transit across the Nicaraguan isthmus, hut
also to urge on General Irsarri the Importance
Of his remaining the Minister of Nicaragua
accredited to this Government, in which latter
errand he will succeed, beyond doubt for
the last dispatch of General Cass to Minister
Lamar, (the tenor of which was first noticed in
the Starr opened the eyes of President Marti-
nez to the fact that President Buchanan has,
indeed, initiated a distinct American policy
with reference to the future of our Intercourse
with the other Governments of this Continent,
which it is the purpose of the United States to
carry out infexibly; because, while it propo-
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our relation TO Central America, it also pro-
poses to exact nothing from them incompatible
with their honor and true interests, and at the
same time to guarantee the cffectually against
further molestation from American iibusters-
the plain duty of this Government. General
Irisarri certainly has full knowledge of what
President Buchanan thus proposed to initiate
in making the Cass-Irisarri treaty, and his ex-
perienced and enlightened mind assured him
that nothing could be better for the future of
Nicaragua than its eventual consummation or
he would never have consented to it. 1t is
thus, in fact also his policy for the advantage of
Central America, as we'll as that Of President
Buchanan for the advantage of the United
States. We therefore conclude that the special
commissioner will find little difficulty in indu-
cling General lrisarri to continue in the man.
agement of Nicaraguas share of the negotia-
tions with reference to the treaty yet to take
place.
We may not be accused of egotlsm, we trust,
in here calling the Stars readers attention to
the accuracy of our expositions of our foreign
relations, as made manifest in what all the
world now comprehend to be the condition of
affairs between the United States and Mica
ragua, which Government has at length, as we
predicted. sent back the ratified treaty and
acknowledged the binding force of her grant to
the Ship Canal Company; while the United
States, acting through the State Department,
has signifed to Nicaragua her intention of ex-
acting the performance of every stipulation Of
the treaty incident to the due protection of
every American public right it secures, and
also every American private right secured by
1t, the due enforcement of which is necessary
to the security of any American public right
The REMAINS OF WAsHINGroN-The North
ern press are busy in circulating a surmise-
for it is nothing more-that Mr. John A. Wash
ington designs, ere conveying Mount Vernon in
fee to the Ladies' Association, when the latter
shall have paid for it, as per contract,) to re-
move from thence the remains of the Father of
his Country! The idea of such Yankee
trick is worthy of it's paternity Those who
know John A. Washington, Esq, are of course
well aware that it is not his; but theirs. When
he takes advantage Of any flaw in the contract
OF sale which would legally entitle him to re-
move the remains from Mount Vernon after
having sold the place for q public purpose.
those who do not know him personally may rest
assured that there will not be a single honest
man left in all the nation
If ever gentleman was cursed with good
fortune, that man is this same Mr.. John A.
Washington, in his inheritance of Mount Yer
non, which brings him no income to speak of
and yet subjects him-upright, diffident and
sensitive man as he is-to more violent system
, tic abuse and villifcation from the sensation.
re. than was ever before bestowed on a pri-
ate Gentleman.
The 'ublic seem to feel that they have a
igbt. not only to the free use, but also the un
ontrolIed huse Of his property; and because
,e does not see fit to dedicate it wholly to tho
ratification of tb Q wonder mongers Of the hour
without compensa. ion for the pecuniary loss
% be thus devolved N him, the sensation press
nalign him at every t, Urn, without stint. We
rust his hide has become As tough as sole lea
her by this time-if but -i>T the sake Of the
,quanimity of his temper.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM Mons tEUR ToNsON.
Monsieur at the Springs The Trip-Going
through the Tunnel Adrice TO Conr ting Char
oeters-Th, Montgomery White-Da eng, &c.
CorTsspondene> of The Star.
MoNTGoMsRY WHITE SULPHUR SPRISos}
Montgomery CO., Va, July %, '5s.
Once more among the mountains. surrounded
by all that Is lovely, all that Is beautiful and an
that is pleasant. From my North Carolina home
arrived in Petersburg on Tuesday afternoon,
where tarried all night, at Jarratt's Hotel, than
which better can be found nowhere On yes
ierday morning, at six O'Clock, our party found
SEATS on the cars Of the South-sid Railroad and,
with some hundred or two Of others, were soon
speeding away through the valley OF the Apo
mattoX.
At BuIksville the junction Of the South-side