The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-01


to put the government upon sure and solid
footing ut home and abroad. Some of these
scbeming demagogues may now be running for
Congress in Connecticut and the conservative
people there should look after them; some Of
these Congressional mischief makers may be up
for re election in Virginia, and they should not
be overlooked by the friends Of law and order in
that quarter.
Let the people of Connecticut administer, on
Monday next, a wholesome rebuke to the lactious
confederates of Mr.. Grow, and the people of Vir-
GINA will be very apt, in May, to attend to some
of the Congressional disciples of Toombs and
Mason. This last Congress may be justly set
down as public nuisance, and as far as the
guilty parties connected with its shameless
squads and factions of scheming politicians can
still be reached by the people, they should be
repudiated by the people. On the other hand,
those men who have supported in Congress the
wise and needful measures of the administration,
regardless of Presidential cabals or sectional
leaders, deserve the cordial approval of the peo-
pie, North and South. In this connection, we
hope that the result in Connecticut will show
that other and more important issues have, in
that quarter, superseded the dead and buried
LecomptOn constitution.
European Intrigues I'm Spanish Americas
Why Congress Should Assemble ON the
First OF October.
We published yesterday fifteen days later
news from Nicaragua, which presents another
change in the kaleidoscope of the Central Ameri-
can imbroglio, but one which is only temporary
change, for it contains not single element Of
stability in it.
The present position of the dissolving views
in Central American questions may briefly be
summed up as follows England has obtained
by treaty the right to send forces into the interior
of Nicaragua on pretence of protecting the
Transit route, without giving up the Mosquito
protectorate; and Sir VIM. Gore Ouseley, having
cheated President Martinez, has gone to Costa
RIGA, ostensibly on temporary visit, but really
without any intention of returning to Nicara-
qua. Sardinia is making similar treaty, and
will be followed in the same key by France.
Nicaragua, confding in the European protection
asked for in the Mora-Martinez manifesto, and
accorded by England, France and Sardinia, has
clearly thrown out of consideration all friendly
proceeding in American questions The Glass;
Yrisarri treaty has been finally and cenclu-
siyely rejected, and the claims of the
American grantees to the Nicaragua
Transit route have been completely set
aside by public decree opening the Transit
route to all nations, and their property seized.
This is the present appearance Of the Central
American kaleidoscope.
But other changes are close at hand. We re-
print in another column remarkable article
from the Granada Centre americana, on the free
transit question. That Journal which is the
organ Of President Martinez, proves that free
transit on the Nicaragua Isthmus is fallacy
and humbug 1t shows that the river and
lake navigation may be thrown open, but that
the ten mile isthnns which separates Lake
Nicaragua from the Pacific Ocean must be
crossed by roads which cannot be built by
everybody, nor made free to everybody. 1t
then proves that the government cannot build
and work the necessary roads, nor can it be
done by native capitalists; and that conse-
quently grant to foreigners, and the employ
ment of foreign capital to build railroad
from Virgin Bay to San Juan del Sur is neces-
sary. Now, with our experience in Spanish
American diplomacy, we read this matter this
wise: Mr.. Manning, British Consul at Leon,
claims from Nicaragua some two hundred
thousand dollars Sir VIM. Gore Ouseley pa
raded this as one of the demands which England
would require to be settled; during his stay at
Nicaragua he lived in Mr.. Manning's house at
Leon; Mr.. Manning pulled the eide wires in the
recent treaty making; curiously enough
Mr.. Mannings great claims have neither
been settled nor pressed, and yet he is perfectly
satisfied; and the river and lake navigation has
been thrown open. President Martinez's organ
proves that European capitalists must build the
ten mile Transit road, and the next thing we shall
bear will be that Mr.. British Consul Manning
has an exclusive grant of this privilege,
THERE'S another little point in the Central Anne
rican imbroglio which is very plain to us. The
old Chatfeld game of Selling Tiger Island, in Fon-
SEGA bay, played by the British in lS49, is to be
Aepcoleu, out euis uuc pOo Wy JOuu Dull, ulb OedI
ally, France, is preparing to establish her Pacific
naval station there. There is a good deal more
in this Anglo-French game in American politics,
and the scheme of Intervention embraces far
wider range than is at present seen. Cuba is to
be converted into negro empire, like Hayti;
Mexico is to be reconstructed as monarchy; the
whole of Central America is to be worked into
European protectorate; and even New Ora
NADIA is to be turned against us, driving our in
fuence from the Isthmus of Panama, and defeat
ing in the Bogota Congress, next winter, the re-
Gently ratified convention for the payment of
American claims. Thus in consequence of the
supineness Of Congress we are drifting into war
with England, France and Spain.
The President saw these things clearly, and
asked Of Congress the necessary power to pro-
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