From the United States we have " startling intelligence," but
not more startling than Republican intelligence should be. Go- vernor Geary has begun his administration of the government in Kansas ; and, finding himself in the midst of turmoil, he has fallen back upon the old resource of governors in difficulties- " energy." His plan is a vigorous enforcement of routine ; and in this natural course of a red-tape militant he suppresses the Volunteers, calls out the regular Militia, and declares in force the Territorial laws,—statutes ludicrously tyrannical in their nature. Yet Governor Geary is the third Northern man sent to attempt the pacification of Kansas. In the North, of course, they are furions that the Governor does not begin by upsetting the Go- vernment.
Mr. Amos B. Corwine was a gentleman sent some time back IA inquire into certain squabbles between the plotting, sneaking, slow and sulky Customhouse and local officials who attend upon the transit across Panama to California, and the insolent, supercilious, revolver-and-bowie Anglo-Californians, who think every " dark " skin, whether Negro, Mexican, or Spanish, equally to be despised. Mr. Corwine sees no mode of stopping the disorders except an occupation of the transit, or the whole Isthmus, by the American Republic : but it is not probable that President Pierce's Government will attempt to convert Mr. Cor- wine's report into a statute of Congress.
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