The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-04-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
SALE OF THE "UNIoN.r / General George
W. Bowman, at present Sup erintendent of the
Public Printing, has become sole proprietor of
the Washington Union newspaper and will
take full possession of the establishment on the
llth day of April next, when he will make his
own announcement of the course he intends to
pursue.-U Union.
Items telegraphed abroad from this city:
Washington, March 30.-A report prevails
here, founded ON private advices, that General
Miramon has negotiated secret treaty with
France and Sardinia, by which France is to
furnish funds to carry on his war, and Miramon
cedes to them the isthmus of Tehuantepec,
etc.; but our Government, for reasons entirely
satisfactory to itself, does not attach any i'm
portance whatever to the rumor and regards it
as too ridiculous to be believed, especially in
the present warike condition of Europe.
The Postmaster General has addressed a let
ter to Colonel Schouler, on the part of the re-
monstrants, In which he says the question to be
determined is, what shall be the amount and
form of the indemnity attending the removal of
the Boston post Office back to the former build
ing? The indemnity must assume such shape
as will secure beyond doubt, the payment of
the rent of 900 for the Summer street Office,
as it shall fall due; and to that end deposit
in the Sub Treasury of that sum, to the credit
Of the Government be made.
The Post Office Department has dispatched
two agents to the South, with instructions
promptly to report all the causes of the repeat
ed failure of the mails to connect with the in
complete railroads in Mississippi, the object be-
ing to remedy the evil, and enforce compliance
with the contract for conveyance of the mails
between New Orleans and Washington within
schedule time.
Advices from Fort Yuma give very dis
couraging accounts of gold gathering in that
vicinity.
! According to letter received from Lieut..
| Burk, commanding the United States schooner
| Fennimore Cooper, now engaged in surveying
the route between San Francisco and China
and Japan, the guano island taken possession
| Of by him contains, at the least calculation,
! $4,000 tons guano. The results of the survey
thus far, Notwithstanding the smalness of the
outfit, are regarded of high value to our COM
mercial marine.
| ! Washington, MoUch 3l.-From all which
| can be learned, it is not unsafe to say, that if
the statements relative to Sir William Gore
Ouseley's action in Nicaragua are correct, he
has violated not only his own instructions, but
the solemn understanding between the British
| Government and that of the United States. If
the facts are as stated, the President WILL it is
said, Notwithstanding the refusal of Congress
to grant him extraordinary powers to protect
the rights and property of citizens of the United
States and exact conformity with whatever
may have been the written stipulations between
the two Governments respecting Sir Ouseley'
mission.
/ THE WAsHINGTON STATES on THE PREsI-
foIa
Gle on Nicaraguan affairs, as follows:
"His diplomacy is triumphant, but his pledg-
es-what of them? The story is already told.
| Suffice to say in recapitulatiOn, that by the
conventions which Gore Ouseley has negoti-
ated, so far from renouncing England's preten-
sion in Central America, he has secured its
confirmation. Neither the Mosquito protecto-
rate nor the Bay Island colony is abandoned
while, to aggravae the injury, the Cass rissarri
treaty is rejected, with every circumstance of
contempt for the resentment of the United
States. Ignoble contamination Will the
country submit to so shameful sacrifice of its
right Does it feel no blush at his truthful
picture of its humiliation
SAT the hazard Of tedious repetition we must
entreat the public to recollect these facts, that
Mr.. Buchanan once advocated the repeal of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty; that he subsequently,
on the basis of perpetuating that engagement
that he refused an assurance from Lord Napier
of readiness on the part of the British lega-
ton to annul the Clayton-Bulwer compact, and
gave all his confidence to Ouseley, who desired
nothing much to consolidate English
usurpation on the Isthmus, under cover of that
convention.
These are facts of which we defy contradic-
ton. And, pray, in what an attitude do they
place the Administration? We pity the weak
ness of Mr. Buchanan. The utter humiliation
of American influence on the Isthmus, the COM
mensurate elevation and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
European interests-the rejection of the Cass-
Yrissarri treaty, the triumph of Ouseley's Mach
iavellian policy-the principles accorded to
England of interference by arms to repel the
incursions of flibusterism, the establishment
of French force in a position to command
communication with our Pacific possessions
these are deplorable consequences indeed; but,
in mitigation of the popular Indignation, Mr..
Buchanan is entitled to plead the mistakes OF
too credulous nature"
Mission TO BoGOTA-Hon Geo. w. Jones,
of Iowa, who recently declined the mission to
Bogota, telegraphed, Monday, Withdrawing his
declension. He has been notified TO report
himself at the State Department.
Charles A. Appleton, of Maine, committed
suicide Monday by drowning himself He has
been subject to fits of mental alteration. His
brother, Mr.. Appleton, Assistant Secretary Of
State, took charge of his remains.
Tie associated press telegraphs abroad as
follows
Washington, April 1.-The Navy Depart
ment has named the new third-c steamers
as follows: That at Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, the "Mohican )" that at Boston, Mar
ragansett;" at Brooklyn, Z" Iroquios; the large
one at Philadelphia, Wyoming" and the
small one, FPaEpee;" at Norfolk, e Dacotah u
at Pensacola, Seminole +" and the one at
Mare Island California Saginaw"
From official advces received to-day, it APP
pears that the steam frigate Minnesota reach
ed Bombay on the 10Th Of January, having on
board ex-Minister Reed, who left on the 18th
for Suez. The frigate had visited Singapore
and Penag, and several ports in Ceylon. She
occasioned everywhere expressions of surprise
and admiration as she has ever done in the
East. In few days she was to leave for Mus
cat, in Arabia, passing from there to the Cape
of Good Hope, and probably touching at Fan
zibar.
A letter from the commander of the Savan-
nah. dated Vera Cruz, March llth, confirms
the former report of the defeat of Miramon and
the success of the Constitutionalists in the in
terror, and their advance on the city of Mexico.
it is probable that ex-senator Jones, of Iowa,
will withdraw his declination of the Bogota
mission.
There are at least twenty applicants for the
| vacant Commissionershins of Patents and In