The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-01
Washington News.

WASHINGTON, May 81.
Reliable information has been received
here, that 81. S. Sanford, the secret agent of
the Panama Railroad, has failed in the oh.
jects sought at Bogota. These were the
annullments of the Chiriqui Improvement
Company's grant, and the extension of the
Panama Railroad Company's grant to 90
years. To accomplish his ends, Mr.. SAM
ford offered on the part of the Panama
Company, the payment in cash of half a
million dollars, and the right of the Grana-
dian government to levy tax of two dol,
lars of each passenger over the Isthmus.
That government asked ss40,00O,0OO 10 ex-
tend the term to 80 years, to relinquish
the right of New Granada to purchase the
Panama Railroad for $5,O0O,O0O in fifteen
years from this time.
Lieut.. ROdman's great gun, the Floyd, is
now on her way to Fort Monroe, and was
examined with marked satisfaction today by
Prince De Joinville and others interested in
such heavy ordnance. >.
The prospect in the Senate of the passage
of the House tariff bill is more favorable
than heretofore supposed. Twenty>eight
Senators are already ascertained to be in
its favor, and Others will vote for it with
slight modification.
1t is known here that many anti. Douglas
delegates to the Charleston Convention,
have prepared an address which they may
shortly issue, proposing as a basis of re-
union at Baltimore the resolutions offered by
Mr.. Howard, of Tenn, which were pre-
viously endorsed by them. Other Demo-
Gratis regard the matter with favor.
The Japanese are still the objects of at.
tention. They have been spending the day
in visiting the public buildings. On Fri
day, the President will entertain the Am
bassadors to dinner, to which a number of
distinguished men are invited.
Our government will present to the ia
panese, among other things, with the finest
specimen of fire arms, and four sets of
Perry's Japenese expedition, the volumes to
be bound in the richest style.
Disappointment of Public Printing,
Seaman, was tried to-day in the Circuit
Court, on charge of malfeasance in office,
and acquitted.
The authorities of Norfolk intended to
subject the U. S. steamer Roanoke, to
quarantine. This would have kept her some
time out of Government use, otherwise she
would have been taken into Portsmouth,
instead of New York for repairs.
A contract is being made with the colo
nization society, for the support and care of
the Africans captured by the Mohawk, as
in case of those found on board the Echo,
and it is probable that they will be con-
veyed to Liberia in chartered vessel.
The war department this morning re,
ceived large mail to Utah. The troops
were arranging for the move to New Mexi>
co. BY order of the department, detach-
ment of 63 recruits under command of
Lieut.. O'Connell, have been ordered from
Jefferson Barracks, to Fort Ripley, Min.,
to join the companies of that place.
A special meeting of the Central Execu>
tive Committee of the Union party was held
this evening, when F. W. Walker resigned
the Secretaryship of the committee on the
ground that he cannot sincerely support the
nominations of that party at Baltimore.
He was the head and front of the new party
movement. The course he has taken is in
dicative of general stampede of the Union
party men.
There is rumor in this city to-day, that
Everett declines.
A large number of members of Congress
will leave this evening and tomorrow to
attend the Douglas demonstration at New
York, among whom are Rust of Arkansas,
Hamilton of Texas, and Clingman of North
Carolina.
The Democratic leaders are endeavering to
agree upon definite plan of action in order
acceptable to all sections of the party. Elk.
ertions are being made to have Douglas,
Guthrie, and others withdraw from the ring,
and thus remove the pending difficulties to
aperfect union upon the candidate.
Ex-PREsIDENT PIERCE and wife arrived
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