The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-06
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WAS uTNGTnN NEWS
WASHINGTON NEWS.
CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRs-PoLITICAL-M MEXICO
AND TEXAs-UTAH.

CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFArRs-PoLITIcAL-ME
AND TExAs-UTAH.
The treaty which Mr.. Wvke, the British Minis
ter has Just concluded with Nicaragua, relinquish-
ing the Mosquito protectorate, and providing
servation and annuity for the Indians, after the
manner of our policy, substantially and satsfacto-
rly terminates the long deferred and complicated
Central American question, so far as any coDtro
versy is concerned between the United States and
Great Britain. After ten years of contest and ir-
ritating correspondence, which more than once
threatened serious consequences, the principles of
adjustment, which were proposed by Mr.. Clayton,
have been indicated, and are now accepted &C
cording to the Interpretation of the friends OF the
treaty which he made with Sir Henry Bulwer in
1850. 1t is only proper to say that the President
has consistently upheld the construction OF the
CLAYTON Bulwer treaty, which its well understood
purpose at the time of the negotiation authorized,
and that General Cass has faithfully and zealously
labored, since entering the Department OF State,
to bring England to just recognition of its spirit.
The present arrangement only differs from that OF
1850 in the fact that the Baze boundary is adjust
ed with Guatemala, the bay islands are receded to
Honduras, and the Mosquito Protectorate is rein-
quished to Nicaragua instead of being Incorporated
in one general settlement. Now that this difficulty
is removed it is to be hoped the Administration
will direct its efforts to the opening of the Nicara
qua route, and thus furnish some competition
against the monopolists who have combined to
turn the travel and transportation In one direction
The correspondent of the New York Herald
WTltlDg IRON w Ou SATURDAY,
large number of deleg ates from the Pennsylvania
State Convention have arrived here. They state
that there are, out of the ftyour delegates, for
tv two who uncompromisingy opposed to
Douglas Their preference is undoubtedly for
Breckenridge; but they will 90 to Charleston per-
fectly prepared to accept any sound national Dem
ocrat upon whom the whole party can unite.
One thing be relied upon in regard to Sena-
tor Douglas position at Charleston. If he is NOM
mated upon his own popular sovereignty platform,
ha will and that event there will be
a bolt of the South. If he is not so nominated, and
is placed upon any other platform, is repudiated
he will denounce the platform, and there will be a
bolt of the North. / have the best reason to be-
lieve that the debate in the Senate before the
Charleston Convention takes place will verify this
prophecy.
Advices have been received here from Vera
Cruz, with dates to the 18th ut. Nothing was
known as to the whereabouts of Miramon. 1t was
believed he had left the city of Mexico, and was
somewhere en- route to Vera Cruz He had issued
proclamation ordering the submission and eyac-
uaticn of Vera Cruz. Active preparations contin-
ued, both at Avarado and Vera Cruz, for putting
those cities in the best state of defence. Much anx
iety was manifested in regard to the fate of the
treaty. The intelligerc e which had been received
bv the Juarez Government from reliable sources at
Washington, stated that the prospect of the ratif
cation of the treaty was fattering Itappears that
the salvation of the liberal party depends in great
degree upon its ratification.
Intelligence received here this morning from
Austin, Texas, with dates to the 10Th ult. The
Indians on the upper or northern frontier of Texas
have commenced an open war upon the people
numbering women and children, stealing property,
and committing every other outrage that can be
imagined. 1t will require all the available United
States troops, and even the volunteers of Texas,
to suppress the difficulties that exist there and
on the Mexican frontier.
The House Committee on Territories have under
consideration the subject of reorganzing the Terri
tory of Utah so that voting therein will be based
upon legal votes, instead of inhabitants, which will
give Ueutfies SLOW or IaIrness. auuLner pro-
ect before the committee is to divide the Territory
of Utah so as to reduce the Mormons to a state OF
necessary inferiority, territorially, and compel
them either to abandon the soil which they now
inhabit or obey national law.
Gov. Houston's dispatches conflict very materi-
ally in some respects with the information COM
municated by our army officers on the Rio Grande
as to the complexion of the alleged invasion, and
to the character of Cortnas band.
The Roanoke, now at Pensacola, has been order
ed by the Secretary of the Navy to proceed at
to Aspinwall, in time to take the japanese Com
missioners and bring them to the United States.