Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-04-12
NEWS AND GOSSIP

| CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE ENTERPRISE OF
| THE New YORK OPPOSITION PREss.-The New
\ York Opposition newspapers, which boast ire
quently, loudly, and often falsely OF their ex-
pedit;on in publishing news from thiscity in ad-
vance of tho Washington papers very frequent
" Get ahead of the incidents they pretend to
record For instance, the Tribnne of Thursday
! says: - ~
| - The Administration Is now crculatinethe i'm
preston that Mr.. Manning, the British Consul in
Nicaragua, has manipulated Sir Gore Ouseley into
| an abandonment Of the policy agreed upon here
and vet the President insists at the same time that
the complications are yet to be ad usted on the
basis of the American Interpretation of the Clay
toni ulwer treaty. This inconsistency is not ex-
planned.
Z" Our Consul at San Juan writes distinctly that
the seizure of. the American steamers was occa-
stoned by panic, and not by design, which was
proved by their prompt restoration Hence the
oeliicose dispatches to Gen Lamar are harmless,
and mostly intended for Congress next winter, as
animProbable contingency is contemp plated, which
the investigation must dissipate.'
Now, except in the singular particular con-
corning the letter from the Consul Mt San Juan,
the above is nero twaddle, and untruthful at
that. The Administration is circulating no
impression whatever. As it has long ago
received assurances from the British Govern
ment, through Lord Napier, that the Central
American policy of that Government will be
in accordance with the American interpreta-
ton of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, and as
no event has transpircd to show conclusively
that such is not the course being pursued by
the British Minister in Nicaragua, the Admin
istratiOn, we presume, still expects that Eng
lands avOwed intentions will be carried out.
Hence, in that connection, no 90 inconsistency
exists to need explanation Again, the dis
patches to General Lamar were surely not sub
United to this correspondents inspection and
whether their character is or is not bellicose,
was wholly a matter of guess work with him.
From all the information we can gather, the
tenor of the dispatches was that Gen. Lamar
should insist on the ratification of the Cass-
Irissarri treaty, without alteration And if it
were found to be true that the Nicaraguan au-
thOritics had seized the steamers of the Ameri-
can Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company
through any design to iniure that Company, or
that injury had resulted therefrom, that the
Minister should protest against such proceed
ings, and demand instant reparation or indem-
Infection. The instructions were such, no
doubt, rs the circumstances rendered neces-
sary.
A good deal of the fast attribute of the
New York papers consists in their ability to
misrepresent and imagine. at which it must he
acknowledged they are exceedingly proficient.
The Times. for instance, boasts recently of
having beaten all the papers of this city, in
publishing the particulars Of the Madison Place
homicide on the morning after the occurrence.
1t does not state, however, that no paper, ex-
cept the HieLifgencer is published in this city
on Monday morning; and, therefore. its com
petition was in that case only with the MfeUi-
Sencer, so far as Washington city is concerned
1t was also remarkably fast, some months ago,
in publishing full particulars of an execution
in Alexandria, one week before that event oc-
Cured. In such matters it Outstrips all the
Washington newspapers, rs signally as its
neighbor. the Trib"Hr, Outstripped them in
spreading before the world the news Of the
battle Of SlievegammOn.