The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-04-14
No. GAL.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


III. correspondent of the Tribune writes
e.,m this city as follows:
ifter further consideration, Postmaster
,,.usral Holt has determined to reduce the
S.,,osit money required preliminary to change
- location Of the Boston Post Office to
40 600. The State-street interest will proba-
81 mar this sum, and triumph over Mr.. Capen.
:. The principal difficulty in concluding the
.-.,sfar of the Union has been the fear of the
p~s.;dent that Congress might order an invest
l,,;,p which would show that he had pledged
ain patronage as a consideration. new
n.,,ocratic paper is contemplated for a keen
0faVr. Bright has announced his purpose of
.-.ance against the Administration for the
...,5yal of his brother from the special agency
:: ,ba Post Office Department. AS Mr.. Bu-
Is,,n breads his hostility in the Senate, he
IN rrobably order a restoration. Mr.. Holt
iaen visited with storm of Democratic
.o{yuation for displacing seventeen agents,
- only pretence of duty was political. He
r.,isted so far, but has to encounter the
p-ss;j-nts weakness in yielding to outside
elamor
h. ,.It on the first of July, when the audited
limits of the last quarter are payable but
f rle spirit exhibited so far be continued, no
saror, difficulty is apprehended.
~ The Administration is now circulating the
;-,.r..siou that Mr. Manning, the British Con-
III IN Nicaragua, has manipulated Sir Gore
or.ales INTO an abandonment of the policy
creed up,n here, and yet the President insists,
:, m, sane time. that the complications are
I'm. L, adjusted on the basis of the American
;,,.qr.tatiou of the Clayton Bulwer treaty.
Tb:, inconsistency is not explained.
Our Consul al San Juan writes distinctly,
d,, the seizure of the American steamers was
REASONED bv panic, and not by design, which
"a, proved by their prompt restoration. Hence,
d b-llicose dispatches to General Lamar are
-ple,s. and mostly intended for Congress
I-.i winter, as an improbable contingency is
cet.mpated, which the investigation must
ts.pa,e.
4. Dudley Mann, it is stated, is about visit
fr Bremen. with a view TO induce the steam
..s company of that thriving city, whose ves-
ST., run 10 New York, to allow one of their
vessels to alternate its trips from Bremen, be-
tF-sn Norfolk, lVa.) and New York.
TRE PARAGUAY DIFFICULTY-ITs SETTLE
gryl.-ltappears, from letters in the NeW York
ia,-ment has. in a measure, been accomplish
o.. Through the friendly offices of President Ur-
laa. chief of the Argentine Confederation.
The precise terms upon which this settlement
4. a,ed have not been made public; but it is
sad dat an indemnity of $4,000 is conceded
% the family Of the person killed on board the
Waller Witch and $4,000 to the company rep
resented by nr. Hopkins. President Urquiza
la, published a long account of the part he
took in the settlement of the affair, and speaks
ia the highest terms of Judge Bowlin, the
american Commissioner, who, although he de-
Glued ali offers of mediation, accepted his per-
eouai intervention, and manifested every DISPOSE
lion 90 arrive at a speedy and peaceful result.
The Judge. he adds, - interested himself in
behalf of peace, like man full Of humanta-
aan feelings, of liberality, and of progress"
h Is asserted in usually reliable quarters,
that. after the 30th of September next, the
mails will be carried between New York and
San Francisco bv the Nicaragua instead Of the
Panama route the contract TO continue until
thc 30th OF June, 1860, the end of the present
fiscal wear. leaving Congress TO determine,
meantime. what shall be done after that date.
The authority for this contract is claimed I'M
der the law Of 1915.
llrIs TEIEGRAPHED ABROAD FROM THIS
TIM Washington, Ap,U lit is stated
nat the Cabinet have unanimously agreed on
strong measures for the solution of the Nicara-
guam entanslene - and that the Paraguay
squadron will he employed to force the rein
statement of our transit rights with the same
vgor with which our claims on the Parana
have been settled. The American mails and
passengers will, if necessary, be protected from
.ea 20 sea, and, until complete guarantees be
obtained from Nicaragua, the Administration is
determined tn keep the route open.
The Post Office Department, in recently in
yung proposals for carrying the mails from
Nea York and New Orleans to California left
The selection Of the route to the contractors,
aud IN view of the abovenamed assurances of
protection, one party has already engaged to
n.e>tablish the through line to San Francisco
Wlimn three months.
The Juarez Government having been recOg-
Missed at Vera Cruz, Senior Mata, its Minister to
the United States is said TO be on his way back
IRON the South to Washington.
Lord Napier will probably leave for New
lork tomorrow, and thence proceed to An
nap,lis 10 embark on the steamer Curacao. 1t
IS understood that Lord Lyons has rented the
house formerly occunied law Lord Nanier