The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-04
Items Telegraphed from Washington.

No treaty of any kind has been received from
Mr.. McLane, as is alleged by some cotemporary
journals. He is working upon Penelope's web.
Juarez offers us transits through the Northern
and Southern States of Mexico, with the privi-
lege of protecting them for both parties, upon
the condition of loaning him five or six mil
lions. He protests now, as Senior Mata did at
the outset, that no alienation of territory can
be made, except at the cost of the complete
ruin of the Liberal cause, and therefore says
that no such proposition can be entertained.
The reductions in the mail service have been
nearly completed, and the aggregate saving
will be ascertained next week. 1t is estimated
generally at about two millions, but this is said
| without an examination of the data.
| The public lands advertised to be sold in
Minnesota from the LIST to the 18th of October,
embrace the Government alternates within the
siX-miles limits of the railroad grants, and the
fine lands of the northeast portion of that State,
consisting of 100000 acres.
| Dispatches from the Juarez Government to
the Mexican Minister here, due last Friday
from New Orleans, are not yet received. In
some unaccountable manner they have turned
up at your post office in New York, although
addressed to Washington. What mystiGes the
matter still more is the fact that their seals
have been violated. Was it done by specu-
lators, who were DESTROYS to know the contents
Of the rumored treaty?
| This is an event which may lead to the most
serious consequences. The violation of private
letters by Cuban officials is one ground of our
| complaint against the Government of that
island. How much greater offence is that of
the violation Of official dispatches The Gov
ernment is bound to probe this matter to the
| bottom.
Washington, July 20. - Advices received
here from Nicaragua give assurance of a fair
| prospect of a satisfactory settlement of the
transit difficulties, and speak in confident terms
of the ability of Gen. Jerez to secure the rejec-
ton by Congress of the article in the Lamar
and Zeladon treaty objected to by our Govern
| ment,
| There seems to be no doubt that the mission
to Central America will be rendered to Judge
Bowlin, whose visit to Bedford is on that bust
ness, by invitation of the President.
| The balance in the Treasury on the 25th was
nearly $5,OOO,OOO. The receipts for the week
ending on that day amounted to $2,252, 900 !;
drafts paid $l,6l6,0O0, drafts issued 2,ll4,00O.
Increased amount over the former week,
| Sl38.000.
A letter from Superintendent Johnson has
been received at the Indian bureau, in which,
speaking OF the difficulty between the Pawnee
Indians and the citizens of Nebraska, he says
no white person has been killed, but the whites
have killed two Indians and wounded one, the
Indians making no resistance when approached
| by the citizens, who were more culpable in pro
ducing the difficulty than the Indians. Tb
| newspaper accounts have been greatly exa
gerated.
Mr.. Cushman, recently appointed Ministe
the Argentine Confederation, received his ~
structions to-day, and started ON his destina-
| tion
Washington, July 29.-G. R. Jerez writes
that the Nicaragua Congress, which is soon to
meet, will ratify the Zeladon-Lama treaty
| This is free from a clause about flibnsters,
which was regarded by Mr.. Buchanan as insult
ing to this Government,
The Southern Citizen is to be merged with
the New York Day Book, Mr. Mitchell retiring.
1t is certain there have been mail depreda-
tons recently between this city and Baltimore.
Washington, July 30.-The construction of
the Washington National Monument, after
suspension of several years, is about to be re-
sumed. Systems to raise funds for the prose.
cution of the work have been put in operation,
and it is proposed to request the postmasters
throughout the country to give aid to the enter
prise, by placing boxes within their respective
offices for the reception of contributions, and
forwarding the returns to Washington. A few
cents month from the thirty thousand post
offices would suffice, in a few years, to raise the
shaft to its intended height. The postmasters
of many of the principal cities, including those
of New York, Washington, Boston, Brooklyn,
Baltimore, and Charleston, have already ex-