The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-20

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS TO ROBERT }. WALKER
THE NICARAGUA TREATY.
The Hon. Robert j. Walker was examined at
great length before the Covode Investigating Com
mittee on Wednesday. During the examination,
the following letter of instruction, from President
Buchanan to Mr.. Walker was read:
WASHINGTON, July -, 1857
My DEAR SE:-I duly received your letter of the
2Sth ut., Friday last. l read it to the Cabinet,
then in session. The views which it contained
not calculated to assure us of your succpss
though we did not despond. Hence you may Judge
with what satisfaction received the account of
the proceedings of the National Democratic Con
vention, held at Lecompton on the Sd inst. The
point which your and our success depends is the
submission of the Constitution to the people; and
by the people | mean; and have doubt YOU
mean, the actual bona fte residents who have been
long enough IN the Territory to identify themselves
with its fate The Legislature determined three
months as the period Of residence to entitle
individuals to vote for members of the Con.
ventiOn; and if the Convention should think
proper to adopt the same period to cntitle in
dividuals to vote for or against the Consti-
tuition, it appears to me this would be reasonable
On the question of submitting the Constitution to
the bona ide resident settlers of Kansas am will
ing to stand or fall. In sustaining such princi-
pie we cannot fall. 1t is the principle of the Kan
as-Nebraska bill, the principle of popular Soy
ereignty, and the principle at the foundation of all
popular government. The more it is discussed the
stronger it will become. Should the Convention
of Kansas adopt this principle, all will be settled
tremendously; and, with the blessing of Provis
dence, you will return triumphantly from your arr
duOus, important and responsible mission. The
structures of the Georgia and Mississippi Conven-
tions will then pass away, to be speedily forgotten
In regard to Georgia, our news from that State is
becoming better every day. We have not yet had
time to hear much from Mississippi. Should YOU
answer the resolution of the latter, would advise
you to make the great principle of the submission
of the Constitution to the bona fde residents of
Kansas conspicuously prominent. On this YOU will
be insiStible. With the question of climate every
NOR is DI a md tbn
this the more will our opponents urge that we are
violating the principle of non-ntererencc at the
foundation of the Kansas Nebraska law 1t is
strange that people at a distance, who have not
practical acquaintance with the condition of Kansas.
should undertake to be wiser than those on
the spot. 1t is beyond all question the true policy
to build up great Democratic party there to sus-
tain the Constitution and the laws, composed of
prO-slavery and free State Democrats; and if the
majority should be against slavery to obtain such
constitutional provisions will secure the right of
shareholders in Missouri and other States, and
maintain all the laws guarding the Just rights of
the South. You right in your conjecture as to
the cause of Judge Williams appointments We
supposed it would be peculiarly acceptable to your
self, and that he might aid in carrying out your
policy. Colonel Cumming has been appointed
Governor of Utah. This will leave his place va
cant after the brief period required for settling up
his business and shall certainly be disposed to fill
it by the appointment of Mr.. Stevens General
Harney has been selected to command the expedi-
ton to Utah; but we must c0ntrive to leave him
with you, at least, until you out of the woods
Kansas is vastly more important at the present mo-
ment than Utah. The pressure upon me contin-
without intermission. pray that Divine Prov
idence, in which place my trust, may graciousy
preserve my life and my health until the end ofmy
term; but Gods will be done in any event.
With every sentiment of esteem, | remain al
wavs sincerely your friend, JAMES BuCHANAN.
Hon. Robert j. Walker.
Mr.. Schnabel, while before the Committee testi-
fled to the existence of this letter, and narrated
gotin Y,Iif nh Ia, L,1r
with Attorney General Black. That official, in
the name OF the President, challenged the produc-
tion of the document, and it was forthcoming.
The Republican Senators had conference on
Wednesday, to take into consideration the subject
of the Nicaragua treaty, which, it will be recO-
ected was rejected and the vote afterwards recon-
sidered. 1t is understood their object is to modify
the Objectionable clauses so that the President
not the United States forces for the
protection of the property and persons of the
Americans in that republic, without the consent or
authorization of Congress. Some of them are de-
srous of applying a similar principle to the Mexi-
can Treaty. Without the Republican votes these
treaties cannot be ratilied-therelore the Demo
Gratis not disposed to press them without afford
ing the Republicans full time to make their sunpes-
tions-The John Brown Raid Investigating Commit
tee will not report until after the adjournment OF
the Charleston Convention There is but one witness
to be examined, Ex-Governor Wise, and he will
not be called until after that perod.-The Bra
LILLIAN corvette, Donna Isabella, sailed from New
York on Wednesday for the Azores, Portsmouth
eng J, Lisbon, ,Cherborg and Cronstadt, and from
the latter place to Rio JaneirO.
A HAREAs CoRPus TO OETATN A WTE.-In this
city yesterday, Mr. j. IL. Bogart, of Missis-
sippi, at present residing here, applied to
Judge Thompson, in the Quarter Sessions, for a
writ of habeas corpus. to obtain tn person of his
wife, who alleged to be restrained of
her liberty by Mrs. G. A. Posey. The circum-
stances of the case were peculiar. The young lady.
who was the subject OF the writ, is about sixteen
years of age, and native OF Alabama. She as
placed at school in this city, and. while here made
the acquaintance of Mr.. Bogart, and notwithstand-
ing the efforts of Mrs. Posey, who had charge of
the lady, to prevent any communications between
the parties, they met on Tuesday, and were mar.
ried by the Rev. Mr.. Bartne. When her absence
was discovered the services of a detective Mr.
Bartholomew, were obtained, and the newly-mar-
ried pair traced to their boarding house, and the
young lady was Immediately separated from her
husband and given into the custody of Mrs. Posev
but by what authority it is difficult to discover.
The writ of habeas corpus issued yesterday,
and to the officer who served it Mrs. POsey stated
that she would not produce the lady for all the
Judges in the city. Subsequently, the whole mat
ter was amicably arranged, and the wife-late Miss
Queen A. ROse-was allowed to Join her husband
-Phiio. Ledger Of yesterday.
A MINISTER EXPELLED.-At recent session of the
North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, held at Mishawaka, Rev. C. w. Mil
Ter, late pastor of Roberts Chapel in this CITY, was
expelled from the conference and the church by
an almost unanimous vote. He made Il speech OF
about four hours in length in his own defence, but
the conference adjudged him guilty, and dealt with
him accordingly. The charges preferred against
him were based on improper intimacy with young
lady of his congregation, accounts of which were
published in the city papers in September last
Indianapolis Journal.
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.-On Monday man and
woman were arraigned in the Criminal Court at
Boston on a charge of adultery. The man pleaded
not guilty. and the woman responded ain the
| SIGHT of God and conscience guilty." The
counsel for the woman stated that she was laboring
under a delusion induced by spritualism; plea Of
not guilty was entered, and the case set down
| for trial.
| THE ADAMS EXPRESS RoBBERY.-The railroad track
| from New Haven to Milford has been thoroughly
examined for some trace of the spot at which the
| Adams Express safe was thrown from the car on
| Monday night but none has been found. We un-
derstand that the New York and New Haven Rail-
road Company will Immediately issue positive or
ders to allow passengers in the baggage cars on
| any excuse in the future.-N Y. Post.
firm of Savannah, Ga, has received an ordar
for two hundred thousand feet of lumber which is
| to be shipped to Beyrut, in Syria. Portions of
the cargo is said to be intended for Jerusalem and
Damascus. I'M"
Inc Republican State Convention of New York.
on Wednesday night, passed a resolution that the
hepuolcan Electors of the State of New York pre-
sent tne name OF William H. Seward to the Chicago