Nebraska advertiser., 1860-01-12

at Washington thar England has conclu-
ded a treaty with Honduras by which the
Bay Islands are ceaed TO that Republic.
There now remains to be adjusted the
less important question Of the surrender
Of she Mosquiso p~rotectorate by Great
Britain to Nicaragua, ID compel the set
clement of the difncullies between Eng
land and the United States. growing out
of the Bulwer-C Clayton treaty, on the ba-
sis to which both governments have here
tofore agreed. Tha. Mr.. Whyke will
succeed in concluding the pending trea-
ty with Nicaragua does not admit Of a
doubt.
Helper has sent a splendidly bound
copy Of the unabridged edition Of his
Impending Crisis" to Missouri Clark,
with a letter, returning that gentleman
Lis sincere thanks for the magnificent ad-
refreshments he has bestowed, free of
charge, upon his book. He ought also to
send one, bound in gilt-edged morocco,
to old Bennett, for his services in extend
ing the sale Of the volume.
The Delegate from Utah viii, after
the organization of the House, present
the application Of that Territory for ad-
mission into the Union. They adopted a
constitution seysFal years ago, and he
represents thatf ish has a population of
100000, and that if the Mormons were
allowed to elect their WI officers they
would be almost as we'll satisfied with a
Territorial as a Stale organization, and
probably be willing to pay the expenses
Of their government besides.
The steamship Indianola arrived at N.
Orleans, Jan. 6, with Brownsville dates of
the I'd inst. Cortinas, with 500 men, took
the city of Rio Grande on the Path ult.,
killing a number of citizens. Subsequent-
ly a body Of troops and rangers, from
Brownsville, attacked Cortinas and re-took
the city after a hard fight, capturing the
guns of Cortinas and sixty Mexicans.-
Nine Americans were killed and sixteen
wounded. Among the latter was Capt.
Ford who led the attack. Cortinas fed
across the river.
A fire broke out on the Sd inst, in a
tenant house, in New York, occupied by
seven Jew families. Six persons were
burned to death, viz: Marcus Nalthancy
and two children, Emily Burns and child,
Lewis Grofender and child, and a woman
named Mary Day.
The Captain of the yatch Wanderer,
with four of her crew, have arrived from
Tenerif. In his protest to the Ameri-
can Consul at Tenerif, he swore that
he sailed from Savannah for Smyrna, with
a crew of thirteen men and two females:
that his cargo consisted of silks in bales,
and $4,000, and that his vessel was pi-
ratically run away with by his mate.
Gen. Lamar, late minister to Nicara-
ragua, died in Texas, on the 18th of De-
cember.
The President has removed Jas. Mills,
associate editor of the Pioneer and Dem
ocrat, from the Office of U. S. Collector,
and appointed E. A. c. Hatch. Cause
the Pioneer and Democrat was a Doug
las journal, but it can't be killed off in
that way.
Queen Victoria is reported to be in a
~"peculiarly interesting situation" for the
twelfth time. Prince Albert is as well
as could be expected.
A letter from Perth of the 18th ult.
says the die is cast. The Government is
resolved to adopt a rigorous policy TO-
wards Hungary. One hundred aud eigh-
ty Protestant noblemen and gentlemen
have been imprisoned for taking part in
the assemblages which protested against
the Imperial Patent in December. The
Austrian army in Hungary will soon be
$4,000 strong. Tie Vienna correspon.
dent, writing on the lst, says the danger
of a conflict between the Imperial au.
thority and the Hungarian Protestant:
daily increases.
One day last week, says the Tuscaget
(Ala.) Republican, a couple of organ.
grinders, whose conduct has been sucl
as 10 excite the suspicious of the slave
holders of that locality, were severely
whipped by the citizens of Warrior Stand
They received about two hundred lashea
each. When released they beat a hasty
retreat for a more congenial cline.
The Richmond Wing is becoming fas
tidious. Just hear it: "If Virginia an,
the South cant be saved, without being
saved Democratically, they both may b,
damned, and damned to all eternity, S
far as we, and the Southern Opposition
generally, are concerned.
Out for Douglas.
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