, 1859-10-14
ARRIVAL 0E The PANAMA.

The mail steamship Panama arrived at
Browns wharf on Monday morning at 6
O'Clock, 10 days from San Francisco.
We are under obligations to Wells, Far.
go & Co. and Freeman & Co. aud j. w.
Sullivan, for files Of late papers from San
Francisco to the lst inst, and from New
York to 9Th September We clip the fol-
lowing summary of news from the San
Francisco Herald:
The Government has been advised by
Gen. Harney of his proceedings in taking
possession of the island of San Juan, and
the steamer of September will convey to
him reply. From what has here trans
pired, it is reasonable to infer that the po-
sition of the Administration admits Of no
compromise, it being fully satisfied that the
island belongs to the United States.
Official notice is given that in all cases
in which pre-emption declaratory state.
ments, founded on bona:t :tde actual settle
ment and cultivation, made prior and up to
date, and filed by settlers before the 9th
of October, the registers and receivers are
directed, where the pre-emption claimants
are unable to, and do not prove and pay
for their tracts at or before that time, to
withhold such actually cultivated tracts
from the public salesfn Minnesota, to take
place in October and November.
The Secretary of the Interior has in
formed certain memorialists in 81 Louis,
who asked that the public lands Of Kansas
and Nebraska beswithheld from private
entry after the close of the pubic sales,
that the President is Of tue opinion that
the law invests him with no power to grant
such requests.
The State Department has been informed
by Mr. Wright, Minister to Berlin, that II
is not true, as reported by many Ameri-
can newspapers, that there are several
American citizens in the Prussian army;
he knows of none.
The Department of State is officially in
formed Of the ratification by the Govern
ment of Nicaragua of the Lamar-Zeledon
treaty, the obnoxious clause objected TO
by this Government having been previously
expunged.
The president has accepted the rcsigna-
ton Of the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks,
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
who is now a candidate for the Guberna-
torial nomination in Indiana.
Gen. Lane, in private letter, says, in
relation to the Presidency, be is content to
place himself in the hands Of bis friends,
and will take no steps to bring himself be-
fore the people as a candidate.
Lieut.. Beale, who returned to his home
at Chester, Penn, on Monday, Aug. 30,
has been absent ten months, during which
time be has opened l400 miles Of wagon
road, and Travelled about 5000 miles. He
reports an abundance Of wood and water
west of Albuquerque, aud says there is a
dividing ridge between the waters Of the
Pacific and Atlantic, so easy OF ascent,
and so free from obstruction as to be ira
versatile in fifteen minutes.
Mr.. Douglas is invited by the Ohio De-
mocratic State Central Committee, to ad-
dress the people in that State, and he
leaves Washington for Chicago, and will
speak several times. This signifies, says
the W. Y. Herald, that he and Pugh have
coalesced to carry Ohio, and re-elect Pugh
to the Senate and secure Ohio delegates
for Douglas at Charleston.
The aspect of affairs in Central America,
so far as the ratification Of the treaty is
concerned, is entirely satisfactory to tine
Administration. The form, however,
which Martinez decree has given to the
question of the supposed free transit route,
leaves an appearance of still lingering DIFF
6culties. Time, we trust, will solve them
in on equally satisfactory manner. The
instructions have been prepared by the Sec
retary of State with great care. They
are firm and decided, aud breathe the right
kind of a spirit.
The New York correspondent Of the
| Charleston Mercury has the following piece
OF news:-Senator Benjamin, Of Louisiana
! has succeeded in negotiating loan oil Sl,'