San Andreas independent., 1858-12-18
LATEST FROM THE ATLANTIC

hESlDENTS MESSAGE. = The Washington
correspondent of the n. Y. Herald, under date
of 18th, says:
" 1t Is understood that the President will in his
message recommend Congress to provide for
the construction of railroad through the
Territories, to connect California with the At
lantlc States, leaving it to the States on either
side to make the connection across the cont-
nent The practicability of the Ell Paso route
having been demonstrated by the successful
operations of the Overland Mail Company.
Texas has already provided for road to Ell
Paso, and will do more if necessary.
The same authority says:
alt is understood that members of Cong
ress from the northwest will make great eff
fort this session to open mail ronte to the
Pacific, by way of Minnesota and Oregon and
Washington Territories, similar to the South
ern route They assert that the service can
be performed on that route in fifteen or six
teen days.
"The President will take strong ground in
his message on the Ncaraguan question and
the ratification of the Cass Yrissari treaty,
and no combinations of European Powers will
be allowed to prejudice the interests of the
nation who must use these lsthmus routes in
its domestic trade hundred fold more than
all the world together
SENATOR BRoDERICK-Senator Broderick. of
California arrived at st. Louis on the 18th OF
November. He left Salt Lake October lst
and encountered great deal of snow and Sc
we're cold weather on the mountains. By the
upsetting of the stage, some distance west of
Kansas City, AfrABrodefick had rib broken
and was otherwise severely bruised. He also
had foot frozen .whileEpassing through the
mountains.
SOUTH PASS wMoSs Col Lander,
Superintendent of tAs sysh Pass Wagon
and reports that the road dWS. completed to
City Rocks, Nebraska, in eight months, at a
cost of $4,000. The Government appropri-
ated $l75,ooO for the purpose sand the time
allowed was eighteen montlIsSr Col. Lander
and his party will winter 5be; and in
Spring resume their worl 80 XTh$ Cheyennes
had burnt the grass along the Platte, causing
much suffering among cattle. sMM
The State Department has received des-
patch from Mr.. Forsyth, our Ministersto Mexi-
CO, stating that he had arrived atsALohile.
The General Land Oiice has issued n pat
ent to Maria Antonio Cazares, for Rancho Ca
NADIA de Pagolimi, California, containing 8, ,7Sl
A despatch to St. louis stated mat MI. Sc
bastian had beensre- elected to the Unted
States Senate, from Arkansas.
NICARAGUA Nashingto paper contains
the followin in9reference to Gen. Walkers In
tentions:
"General WalkeraWill, it is believed, ac-
cede to the requestsof his friends that he and
his immediate party shall abstain from taking
passage in the first tripof the new line of en-
igration ships. Their object is to test in le-
gal and unmistakable manner, how far this
Government means to carry The role of foreign
police agent and inquisitor-ge general over those
of our citizens who may desire to change
their residence to Nicaragua. They desire to
know positively whether any official of the
United States will venture upon the autocracy
of refusing clearance to a ship prepared for a
lawful voyage, at the pleasure of Lord Napier
and because Senor Yrissari has not received
his passport tribute. Other people than Gen.
Walker have business in Nicaragua, and it is
time to learn who is to forbid their going, and
by what authority.
A correspondent of the n. Y Herald, wri-
ting from Washington, says:
The chief persons engaged with Walker
are Hon. Pierre Soule, of New Orleans Hon.
w. S. Yancey and Major Julius Hesse, of Ala
bama Capt. Fayssoux, who commanded the
schooner Granada, with two guns, and blew
up the Costa Rican brig Once de Abril, with
ten guns Col. Rudler, one of the original
forty-fve who landed in Nicaragua; Major
Robert Ellis, of Washington city, one of the
Lopez expedition; Col. Anderson, who cap
tured Castillo in Walkers second expedition
Col. Henry and Col Swiugle, both well known
in the history of Nicaragua filibusterism
Lieut.. Maury, Lieut.. Ray, and few others
Haskins has been declared by the Board
of Supervisors of Winchester county, N. Y,
elected to Congress by 10 majority.
Thomas L. Harris, representative in Con-
grcss from the Sixth District of Illinois, died
on the oath November.
The Senate of Indiana at the extra session
of the Legislature, has passed a resolution to
the effect that, in the opinion of that body,
the election of Bright and Fitch was illegal.
The House concurred by vote of 81 to As.
Thomas L. Clingman has been nominated
| for United States Senator for the short term,
and Governor Bragg has been nominated for
the same office, for the short term, in North
! Carolina.
Senor Antonio Jose de Yrissar, one of the
Ministers from the Republic of Nicaragua, has
sued the proprietors of the NeweYork Times
for libel, laying the damages to his character
at $25, 900.
THE WEATHER. The present week opened
at a damp, freezing, uncomfortable tempera-
ture. On Tuesday the sun shone out with his