The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-03

INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON.
Or.r Rsl.tsors with Central Amcrios-3hs
ARRANGEMENTS or che Nicaragua Man Css-
trscsoss - Foxney's Desperate sssussasa--
eouIs ana tho Administration, DC.
OUR srEcIAL WARRINGTON DISPATCH.
wAsulsoros, Sept ., 1885,
Professor Alex Dlmlry, our new Miaster % Ceawn
America len Washington II evening for New YoTk sss
viii SAIL h tho steamer Of the sh for Central A"er'sA
rhs aspect Of affairs Central America, 90 sr 'n0
- treaty h soaoer..o :.
hcation o. ~. 01".s ~
70 ,he .dr,,,...... -'ra. however wbich M.rl
nezs decree has given to tho ques.ia. - ~. sapo'1
Moe uanaa route, leaves m appearance or q. '1ss
u'noui'es Time, NO trust, viii solve them IN an %'s
sHuA.Osofy ".aner. Tho Instructions have bees Q.
pared By The Secretary OF state with .r.., IT,.
are firm and decided, and breathe Tia y,.at k,.x.,
spirit.
the administration have learned that The arrsnssm.,a
for the mail line via Nicaragua California ara no "a
Tar conpccd that the mails viii undoubtedly sa - N.
York and San Frsncisco the 9th or October rnis =.
cures the opening or that vore for passengers
ID rumored that General Walker 1t the nagsaon OF tN~
opponents Of this ne 10 about organizing another cxvs
dillon, with view 70 interrupt arrangements or the
COiupoDy. VIII me Hlout Ia
fully prepared to counterfeit hls movemens. the ID
minssation viii use all s power to protect The rights 4
the mail carriers over the Transit route
Mr.. Forney just now In the most pIt,able stussssa
With nothing TO hope for from the democsn party After
having been thrown overheard by the President On 90
count Of his exorbitant demands with valid reason
able for deserving Judge Douglas, that hia
prospects Frightening hei totally ct loss for "a
occasion to desert the republican ranks His case IL IN
urgent one ~ he desires TO be received into full
the republican church previous to tho Organise
ton OF the House, that he may become lsg,W
mate candidate for Clerk. BE that the controlling
influence in the democratic party must DO In ths
South, and that, whoever Of that party may 10
President Southern politicians will again suffer haa
into the kitchen AS nothing short OF chief cook
will suit him, he must seek quarters What shall
he dop
Mr. Soule is his way to New York he very bitter
against the I'D and csunos be defended
and sustained South. II Ia web known, however
that he is In favor OF Douglas.
Mr. Guthrie Agent Of the Treasury has been despatched
to investigate the affairs o. the Collectors Office Detroit
Strong efforts being made by those secretly favor
Of Douglas but who affect 10 be friends Of tina admnis
tration several Western possmssers and colec
tors and replace them by persons who viii oil taeir
influence Ia favor Of the Illinois Senator This accounts
for the persecution OF Cook at Chicago Shoemaker at
Detroit Dcke, at Buffalo, &c. AS yet there Is but little
probability OF the removal Of any Of them.
Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, s s.:. i, 1850
Senator Douglas and the Re opening Of I've Saue 1rade-
Retaliation of the Stories Concerains the Traffic in
"Sava0cs-Mr. Douglas Ether Deceived or Deciping
The Terms Of agreement Bet,0ses Wendell Banks and
DoHglas-7ne New Public Store arrangement, &c, de-
Previous to the appearance In Hayper's Maaasne Of
the article "rerritorial Sovereignty" by Senator
Douglas, that redoubtable champion Of squaer rights
and anti federal rights had perambulaed Of the
Northern and nearly all Of the Southern States incul
eating TO his friends that the real between the ultra
parties Of the Union respect to the reopenne
of the slave trade, and not Of any local Character
Mr. Douglas has stated In Philadelphia New York Wash
ington and Baltimore, within two three months thai
seventy vessels, with fifteen thousand slaves had
been landed within year and q half upon the coast
Of Florida and that twelve vesses would discharge their
swthy living freight between the ports Of and
Key West during the ninety days from OF June to
the ist Of September Of the current year. This latter a.
serion Mr.. Douglas has protested 10 make upon tina
authority Of an nteresed Southern Senator whose name
he has not felt at liberty to disclose but whose veracy
he has deemed undoubted Moreover the Illinois giant
has declared, and again. that he himself had
visited depots OF savages at Chareston Columbus and
uhuou pfOprletOra OF
has expressed the conviction that the planters and ssvs
propretors Of the Southern States perturbed and in
dgnant at tho confusion they foresaw from the moved
African invasion, and were prepared resist II to tho
bitter end BE has gone far declare that states
men Of the school OF Davis, Teombs and Mallory vera
modifying their tactics in consequence Of the universal
appropriately of the traffic. and that Senator Brown VIM
favored IT, would stand alone in the Senate Of the Unlted
States as lis advocate.
'he convictions your correspondent from this city IN
July and Angus. were derived from the unwsyerine
declarations Of Mr.. Douglas. So were those or
the correspondents Of the Tribune and the National
Era, and they were partially corroborased BIZ
curious tales of landings OF slaves various Florida and
Nisa'sspp papers hare been however, at considers.
Die pains investigate the subject and am tardy arriv
ing 1t she conclusion that what has been said IL eithsr
In the FIRST place. the coast Of Africa Is 90 Closely .so
ed and the masses Of blacks that dread the
tmes more than from i've to ok thousand nesross
could possibly be purchased within any eighteen momsha
period, so that evea though every obtained were
posperousy delivered To American owners no, over ous-
nal o. the aggregate mentioned by Douglas be A.
tanned Al least thirty per cent always de- aad this
thousand Of blacks who can, within ear and half De
got away from Africa.
H., however, -four thousand negroes we're shipped
on the African coast, then they could not
30 landed in Florida by any means whatsoever,
The nne Of western coast is so shoal that ves-
sells are compelled In ali but q few we'll kno wn aud
we'll guarded spots and nles, 70 discharge cargo a
considerable dstauce from shore and with great dan
ger And when freight Is discharged eau find no re-
cevers and the watchfuness Of mashas and other federal
officers s 30 exemplary that tsavages" would ia nine
cases out OF ten be detected and sezed Add 70 ths tnat
the charges for transport places where they could bs
advantagcouey sold are most exorbltant and YOU win
understand why revenue officers, naval officers who have
been employed on the coast survey and othera have
laughed the tales that Mr. Douglas has 20 osten
atiously gwen circulation TO- Experienced observers
who have been consulted by the President the Score
ary of the Navy also say that just in proportion 10 the
mpraccabiy Of Save traffic in Florida are the tenn.
at.ons for traders which held out by goyernmsot
and by the conformation Of the Cuba 0Ssva0ae
there not only easily and safely landed with scarcely
any rk to those engaged in the enterprise but the prcs
obtained for them averaged at least twenty Dor cent
higher than could DO got any where In the United States
Mr.. Douglas bias, therefore, been most sadly jmpoaed