The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-28
No. CSC.

ring 10 leave the city for the purpose of visit
=, he summer resorts in the North.
The Prussian Minister is going TO Sharon
c.;rgs for the benefit OF his wlte's health. The
~ Ministers have already left the city.
hiring the absence of the President, regular
-.ao,;pus of the Cabinet will be held, as usual,
=, Tuesdays and Fridays.
u,tshin6ton July 2l.-Col Stambaugh, the
,.u surveyor General of Utah, is instructed to
-, the accuracy of former surveys of that
Territory
me first twenty days of the present fiscal year
are s3.O00,0O0.
oar naval commander near Buenos Ayres
....,r.sses the opinion that war will not imme-
F.r-ly occur between that country and the Ar
r.ptine Confederation, by reason of the great
drought that prevails.
hear that Mr.. Sickles has rented house
in ti4uAiin row.
.,be President has rendered the Central
American mission to Hon. ID. NJ. Barringer, of
V,rth Carolina, formerly member of Congress,
al subsequently, Minister to Spain. 1t is
,boucht however, that he will decline it,
Washington, July 22.-Commodore Lavalette
rios on the 30th June, from on board the
lrlralc w dUdou; liACotC, tildt nc 10
obou; 10 sail southwark, as there are neither
American vessels nor merchants at Venice, and
!, Trieste no American citizen but our consul.
Ialterlr. there have been but two American
r.s,4ls at Trieste. The presence Of the Wabash
and Macedonian at Civita Vecchia and at Ma
niles since the beginning of the Italian war is
held to have been advantageous to American
interests.
The President has appointed ]. A. Cushman,
,f Mississippi, Minister to the Argentine Con
Iteration, vice Mr.. Yancey, resigned.
Arrangements have just been completed for
Republication in Washington of political and
literary magazine, to be called the National
Democratic Quarterly Recieio, under the editor
ship of Col Florence, assisted by eminent con-
,-i6utors 1t is to be the exposition of the pol
az Of the present and all future Democratic
administrations.
Mr. Barrnger has formally declined the Cen
l.I merican mission. The opinion is enter
,a.ied that all the pending questions in that
fuarer can be adjusted bya propery-qualified
preventative.
lh. dispatches from Minister Mel .ane pre-
sent no striking interesting facts in addition to
Tie newspaper accounts Of Mexican affairs al
ready published.
Washington, Juiy 24.-The Liberal Govern
,.aut OF Mexico, through an agent in the United
States. has Just concluded a contract for the
~ap;,ly of Mimic and SLarpes rifles, and can
non aud ammunition to suit them, which are to
be- forwarded to Mexico by the LIST Of Septem-
ter 1t is not yet known here whether Ameri
can volunteers will be accepted, as Mr.. Lerdo
has not vet arrived, and the character of his in
>ructons, therefore, have not been ascertained
These warlike stores may supersede the neces
,ty for extraneous aid, except as to competent
Ulcers, there being a suficiency of Liberals
.-adv to take the field as rank and file.
Letters have been received here from various
quarters, the writers expressing an anxiety tC
raise volunteers for the service of the Liberals
ia any number desired.
There was an extraordinary meeting of the
Cabinet yesterday; called, it is understood, to
consider the dispatches just received from Min
i-er McLane, relative to Mexican affairs.
The members of the different legations frou
Europe have had quite a rejoicing over the
news of the armistice, and to show their appre
cation of the continued peaceful relations
among their respective sovereigns.Y The jubi
iauts. however, did not include The French
Austrian, and Sandman Minister'S who are alb
seut from Washington.
OrR GOVERNMENT AND MExIco-REcETprs
fkOM OOSIOhS.- W USftNytoH, SNy <C.-NOh
;aat reports here seem TO have raised the be
lief that our Government contemplates extra
ordinary action in respect to Mexican affairs
tut there is good authority for asserting the
contrary 1t is regarded as doubtful whether
the Senate would ratify treaty giving so higl
sum for the right OF way for railroads across
Mexico as one or the other Of her two Govern
ments might fix.
The receipts from customs last week at New
YORK were one million and half of dollars.
From information recently received in this
city, i appears that some of the Southern Rep
resen,atives, while claiming to be opposed t,
the reopenng of the African slave trade, ar,
pledging themselves to introduce in Congress
bli repeating al! the statutes upon the sub
ject leaving it, as they profess to desire, to tn
regulation of the several States. But as til,
Constitution confers on Congress the power Il
prohibit the trade, and AS death seems to b.
regard%d as too severe penalty for violatiB.
whit some consider merely a law regulatin,
commerce, it is thought that those who are OF
posed to the slave trade will agree upon
measure with view to make the prohibitiol
and abolition more effective By the certainty o
punishment, Otherwise than capital, and thu
Ihey think good will result from the presen
agI alton of the question.