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pero em een er SSS Ss i SS sss SE SS Ser ere eee a HIGHLY IMFORTAN®. Letter from Thomas Caute Reynolds. Esq., RELATIVE TO THE ANNEXATION OF CUBA To THE UNITED STATHsS. (Umareston, (3. U.,) March 21, 1849. ‘To THe Eprrons or THE CuanLeston Cocrigr : GantLemen—On my return to the United States, a short ume ago, I was surprised to find that, in the press as well as in private, my name had been drawn into the discussions on the Cuba question, and my course while 1 was a member ot the Ame- rican Legation at Madrid made a subject of specu- lation and comment. 4 My intention being to withdraw myself entirely from political lite, it is with great reluctance that { publish anything on this subject. But the advice ot personal and political friends, better acquatated than I can be with the degree to which public at- tention has been drawn to the Cuba question, has decided me to attempt, as far asa due reserve concerning the acts of the American and Spanish governments wiil permit me, to remove the er- roneous impressions which exist in regard to my position init. To your courtesy I appeal for the publication of the present letter. 3 My official connection with the American Lega- tion at Madrid, as its Secretary, commenced in July, 1846. Mr. Cass, in his speech on the Yuca- tan question, has disclosed to the public that the Soeninon and fate of Cuba are subjects especially commended to the atteation of thatlegatioa. In January, 1847, while at Gibraltar, I was directed 10 make some inquiries in reference t» a rumored scheme of Great Britain to obtain Cuba in ex- chunge for that fortress. In my reply, I expressed my impression that the rumor, as thus stated, was “very absurd” The important part, however, which Gibraltar plays in all negotiations between Spain aud Great Britain, induced me to examine’ in person, and as tar as my limited knowledge of military science would permit, the fortresses of Ceuta and Gibraltar, and poth coasts of the Straits. ‘That examination, and the information [ obtained from various sources, but particularly the rare an { valuable knowledge imparted me by one of our ablest and most enlightened diplomatists, the then Tepresentative of the United States in Morocco, the Hon. T. N. Carr, produced in my mind the decided snipe that the rumors of @ project to exchange Gibraltar fer Cuba should receive par- ticular attention, without being too readily or en- tirely believed. The opinions which I subse- quently learved were attributed to Lord Nelson, Earl St. Vincent, the Earl of Malmesbury aad Sir Henry Bulwer, entirely contirmed this view. On the 2d May, 1847, Mr. Sauaders, the Envoy of the U. S, near her Catholic Majesty, left Madnd tor France, and placed me, with limited powera and vague instructions, in charge of the affairs of the American Legation in Spain. During his ab- sence, I kepta close watch on the proceedings of the agent tor the British holders of Spanish stock. About the time when the late Lord George Ben- tnck and Lord Palmerston made the speeches so well known to the American public, on the subject of the Angle-Spanish debt, | learned that the ageat, supported by Sir Henry (chen Mr.) Bulwer, was urging the Spanish government to mortgage por- tions of its revenue to pay the interest on taat debt. I feared that the revenues of Cuba might be se- lected as the most convenient for that purpose. I immediately, but intormally, took measur:s, simple but efficacious, to protect the mtereste of the U. States in that event, and apprised Mr. Saunders of them. My letter brought trom him the following aye dated Havre, July 12th, 1347 :—* “Theve just received your note of the 7th. I am tad you made inquiry as to the Engiish debt. bould there be any danger, sooner than the English should get on Cuba, I would stipulate for the United 8 to guarantee im some way the payment © the debt, on having a mortgage on Cuba “If you should ascertain that there is any founda- tion for your suggestion iu regard to Cuba, you will at once call on the Minister of State, and request a sus- pension of the arrangement until I can returo, as I ‘would et once come back if any plan of the kind was in agitation.” . . On the 29th of July, 1847, { received another let- ter from Mr. Saunders, postmarked Havre, July 24th, in which he says :— “ What will Salamanca} think of the threat contained in the letter of the committee of the bondholders to Isturie? Is it porsible he bad no little epirit as to re- ¢eive such adocument? As this matter in likely to be ersed on the Spanish government, I would write Mr. . on the subject, had | fall confidence in him; bat as Lhave not, I shall reserve to myself tho liberty of act- ing on the general instructions —assuming the respon sibility of doing what the occasion may call for. | may, therefore, submit a proposition to the Minister ”? The “ Mr. B.” mentioned in that letter was, of course, Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of State of the United States. To explain the effect produced upon my mind by these letters of Mr. Saunders, it 18 necessary to revert to some circumstances which had pieviously eccurred. Iwas aware of the fact, since made public by Mr. Holmes, of South Carolina, in a epeech in Congress, that Mr. Polk was in the habit of trans- | mitting directly to the United States’ Minister, at London, instructions en the Oregon question, de- parting most materially trom the positions taken in the official correspondence of the department of State; and that on that question the late President had acted both his parts (of a49 man aad a 54:40 man,) at the same time, with such consum- mate skill, that even those in the secret were greatly perplexed to know what were his real inten- tons. I supposed that Mr. Sauaders was honored with a close intimacy by Mr. Polk, as he (Mr. S ) in reply to inquires of Captain Elliot, formerly Bntish Charge in Texas, had felt himself autho- nized to state to that gentleman, (who, as [ pre- | sume, and as Mr. Saunders himselt supposed, car- ried the information immediately to Lord Aber- deen,) that Mr. M’Lane possessed in a higher degree than Mr. Buchanan the contidence of the late President. I was aware alse, that Mr. Saunders, on his arrival in Madrid, had urged his predecessor, after the presentation ot his letters ot recall, to suggest t Spanish minister, to tender her Catholie M mediation between the United States and) Mv <ico; but in the official com | munications on the ject, to the Department of State, had omitted to make any allusion whatever to the fact, that he himself was thus the originator of the whole subsequent proceedings in the busi- | ness. I therefore felt justified in supposing that Mr. Saunders had some authority from Mr. Polk directly, in the premises. But, unfortunately, I had, in the regular dis- charge ot my ordinary duties, already written a despatch te the. Departinent of State on the sub- ject. The direction not to writeto Mr. Buchanan. implied 1a Mr. Saunders’ expression of his want ot confidence in him, placed me thus in a position, the danger ot which | immediately saw. It seem- ed to me also very possible that Mr. Buchanan migot hear, through the newspapers, of the threats of Lord Palmerston, even should Mr. Saunders not write to him concerning them. I considered that I would be acting with most propriety, 10 ob- serving the ordinary rules of diplomatic service, and therefore forwarded a second despatch, alrea- dy prepared, im relation to the Anglo-Spanish debt, and the plans ot England in connection with it. In that despatch I reminded the Secretary of State of the general instructions, in relation to Cuba, issued by Mr. Forsyth in 1840, (as dis- closed by Mr. Cass,) and ventured on expressing My opinion that the fears ot Spain on the subject | of Cuba were directed towards us rather than to- wards England. To put en erd toa question from which I appre- | hended.much embarrassimeut to myrelt as well as danger to the interests of the United States, in | democratic party, of which I ama memb: * I have never,before had oceation,in any public: A 4 A tion, to refer to or quote from eny letters, tom much | upulous in regard to their privacy than poli- | nersliy are The letters of a | herein used are not private leer ts th Darien ! but instructions to me for my light and gui. | in my official public conduct, The writer of a Jetier, or the administration or otbur individasls, | whose interests may be affected Ly that letter, cennot Fearonadly deny to its receiver the right to make enoy ure of 1t whieh may be meoessary for bit defence, pare ticularly should he have been placed in aulse position | by the public sote of the writer himseif, and ths par- ties interested in his le But wichout basing my. so fen this general nowledged rule (which ‘is the extent to which the sanctity te conversation has been disregarded, that converration secretly misrepresented, aad officint communications and public acte based thereon, both | by Mr. Saunders and the late administration, relieves me from all obligation to consider either his or its wither, interests or previous mghts, when { am forced to protret my own porition. { refer bere of course, to Ryblic attaire, and politieal or officlal positions only. be differences, if differences they may be s0 called, between Mr. Saunders and the late aduutnietration, ond myreif. have had their origin ia. and re'ated to, Fished oF political affaire, and my official rights and we rc reiastvely; they have never been suifered by Thy by Me gecehanaa, or myse'f, aud but momen. AUOders, to afectour personal relations, ity of suy kind towards him, or the OD; even the lette: if by mie are used solely in detouce et my ome pation, aud at « time when the et by slightly, {fet all” Had | eon dirposed oeeerents but shat mere defence of my own position nea jt “4 pom bim. it se evidentt hat |eould hove meee Jettera long ago to the motios of the Den Bte'e, oF even of the public, That | did at eUMloient defence of wy motives in doing Will be Ue +nough for me to enter \ato de j inders impagn the correctness of t! dopted. 4018 whole subject, in referanee as rouractiog) of the jegation, as to taose ot ders, [have emply discussed in my reply to er of the Secretary of Kate, aauounolng to me ale f hief protection ezaiast political | case Mr. Saunders should prosecute his wild scheme of pledging our natienal faith fer tie 07 ment of three hundred and fitty miilone of dollars in order to obtain a mere mortgage on Cuba, [com- municated, unofficially, to an elevated employee of the Spanish government, the detailed informatioa my despatch containea, 1n reterence to the parties then urging their claims as bond holders. He ex- pressed his acknowledgements for that unmasking ot a shameless stock-jobbing scheme, and con- curred with me in the conviction that the course [ suggested, and which has since been partially tol- lowed, would place the Spanish goverameut in a position to eheck any uowarrantable importunities on the subject. I likewise had an interview, s0- licited betore the receipt of Mr. Sauaders’ letrer ot July 24th, with the then Prime Minister of Spain, inreference to the speech of Lord Palmerston on the Angle-Spanish debt. The cordial relations be- tween or Pacheco and myseit, procured for me all desirable information coucerning his iatentioas in the matter, and { did all in my power to eacour- age amicable feelings in relation thereto., I imme- diately communicated to Mr. Buchanan, as well as to Mr. Saunders, the results of the conference, and, conscientiously compelled to differ from Mr. Saunders’ opinion, that the ‘‘ matter was likely to be pressed on the Spanish goverament,” I ex- pressed to Mr. Buchanan my conviction that no danger was to be apprehended from the question. Events have shown that my © inion was correct. But a day or two after the transmiseion of that despatch, I received another letter trom Mr. Saun- cee he eaid, (under date of Havre, July “Thave sect it safe to write Mr. B.. particularly on the subjeet of these Spanish bond-holdere—to ad- vice him what is passing in England. and what my ap- nsio1 ‘as to the possible results, and te ask for views andthat of the cabiost. In the mean time you will not fail to keep yourself accurately ia- formed of what is tranepiring. for though { have no fear of any thing’s being done immediately, | may wish to have all the facts for future action.’? Mr. Saunders did not inform me what he had written to Mr. Buchanan. But as it appeared to me to be possible that the attention of that gentle- man would be particularly directed to the subject of Cuba, I considered that I would be advancing the views of Mr. Saunders, by at ouce transmitting to the department of State all the intormation ia my hands, which could throw light on the policy ot Spam towards the ‘United States. This I com- menced doing, in very confidential despatches, de- tailing the eflect produced on the policy of Spain by Mr. Forsyth’s instructions, as shown by her con- duct, in relation to the successful interference of the British government in 1843 to procure the re- call of the then Spanteh minister at Washington, and in consequence of tie position taken by Mr. Tyler, on mending the home squadron to the waters of Havana in that year. These despatches were subsequently withdrawn by me from the archives of the legatien, and suppressed, for several reasons, but particularly in consequence of the use made by Mr. Saunders of Mr. Buchanan’s name in a con- versation with the Duke de Gluckberg, tending (af not designed) toimpair or destroy the elose per- sonal relations between that diplomatist and myselt. This withdrawal was silently acquiesced ia by tue department of State, though it never called on me to give (as I had offered, in writing, and as prepara- tory to my reaignation,) my reazons for thts extra- ordinary and unprecedented step Towards the end of August, 1847, and while I ‘was writing the despatches just alluded to, a ques- tion aroge at Madrid, which occasioned me renewed embarrassment—lese from its intrinsic difficulty, than from the measures taken by Mr. Saunders to carry out his singular plan of conducting at Paris the affairs ef the American legation at Madrid, some 600 miles off. That question was the di- vorce of the Catholic Queen from her husband, urged by Sir Henry Butler on the Goyena munistry. Ot itself it would have interested me but little; but information from various sources, and particu- Jarly the contents of an intercepted letter of Sir Henry Bulwer, convinced me that the Queen’s di- vorce was but the first step in a plan to obtain for England extended myghts in or over Cuba, in ex change for her assent to the union ot Spain and Portugal, on the proposed marriage of Isabella [I. to the heir apparent to the Portuguese crown, Ceuta and a commercial treaty being taken in ex- change for Gibraltar, and Madame de Monpensier being excluded trom the succession to the throne. {have serious doubts whether this plan received the sanction of the British goverameat at home, and | believed it would be impossible to obtuin tor at the eupport of the British public. But I never- theless conceived it my duty to aid io the defeat of the project of divorce. The firm- ness of Senor Goyena, then prime minister ot Spain, defeated the powerful combination formed togratify the supposed wishes of the Catho- lic Queen, and I was relieved from the necessity of taking tbe active and decided, but uaoffivial steps which in the conferences between the French Minister (M. de Gluckberg) and myselt, it had been agreed upon that I should take, in case the efforts of Sir Henry Bulwer rendeved it absolutely necessary to approach influences wieldiag great ower over the mind of the sovereiga herself’ But in all the proceedings growing out of or connected with that aflair, I tok care neither to exceed my powers, nor disregard the stringent and even jea- Truc instructions sent by Saunders. In respect to one of those preceedings—relative to a supposed treasonable correspondence concerning the es- tablishment of a tree negro republic in Caba—I am disposed to be silent, because the Spanish govera- ment has determined (I think, wisely,) to preserve the most profound secrecy 1n regard to it. On the 20h ot September, 1817, Mr. Saunders returned to Maorid, after an absence of nearly five months ; I, of course, reverted to my former position of Secretary of the Legation, a sinecure infinitely more agreeable and advantageous than | the Charge of Affairs had proven to be. My in- | tention, formed long betore, as was known to my | friends, without any reference to the proceedings ot Mr. Saunders, to resiga my post, and retura to | the United States, was changed for reasons, most | of which can be of no interest to the public ; but | one of them had such a direct reference to the at- fairs of Cuba, that it 1s well, perhaps, to refer to it. The instructions given by Mr. Forsyth in rela- tion to Cuba—the a existence of which I felt bound to keep concealed, until it was revealed by | Mr. Cassin his published speech on the Yucatan question, and the terms of which I have commu- nicated to no one*—were considered by me, as soon as] examined them, (in May, 1847,) to be | eminently unconstitutional; it was chiefly for this reason that I calied the attention of the D-part- ment ot State to them, in my first despatch in re- | lation to the Anglo-Spanish d+bt, though the hum- bleness ot my position prompted me to make no comments on their legality or propriety. In addi- | tion, I telt aseured that they had had the most dis- astrous effects on our relations with Spain, parti- cularly in reterence to our present and also our | poesible future interests in Cuba. These views I | did not conceal from Mr. Saunders, and | was gratified to find, betore my departare from Maarid, | that, when suggested to him from another quarter, | the latter of the opinions above expressed, was, in | practice, adopted by him. But, somewhat to my | surprise, he had, on his return from France,thought | proper to act on these instractions, although he | ed himeelt referred them back to the Department of State for revision, not because, (as he wrote to | me on July 24th, 1847,) he did not have “tull con- | fidence in” Mr. Buchanan, but because, (a3 he wrote to t_gentieman himself, on July 30th, | 1847,) he ‘had greater confideuee in the preseat (Mr. Polk’s} cabinet in regard to this important subject, and should like much to have the benefit of his [Mr Buchanan’s) views, so as to avail him- self [Mr. Saunders] of them, should it become necessary hereatter to take action en the matter.”” | T have, on several occasions, taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States, aad that of Virginia,the State of my residence, st 1 has | always contended against the extension ot Execu- tive power ; and I, myself, have always particular. ly supported that principle of the party, (expressed 10 one of the resoluuons of the Baltimore Conven- tiep,) which enjowas on all oflicera of the govern- mest, however humble their sphere, te carry out that.great conservatuve doctrine. The conscientious ¢, [felt concerning the use of these instruc: | found but litde difficuley in reconciling with conviction that a diplomatic officer of the ntis cound, while sueh, tocarry out with i wood faith, and to the best of his abilicy, the instructions of the goverament, without regard nis OWN Liews respecting theis propriety, e ency, or even their legality, Ptherefore deter. | Mined that¢il it should prove possible aad recon. cilable with the private interests whieh required peedy retern to the U S..) [would delay the ution ofmy conuection with the Levalion, untd the Depacunentot State had aa opportunity Of pacemg thatgction of Mr Saunrere in review. This { succeeded 1a doing. Reasons, uanecessary here to mention, but founded on considerations connected with the interests ofthe United States induced me to postyone all action in th y uatil Thad Jearued the result ot the Peesddounet election. Hod Mr. Case been elected, [sho iid though {[ am and always have beer a decided member of the political party which enietly sap. ported him, have felt constrained to take tae ad- vice of some emigeat counsel, learved ia the law, concerning the proper legal mode, (ifaay there be fora simple citizen of the Uawed Scates,) ot bring. ing to the cognizance ot tne House of Representa- tives an Executive proceeding, which | humbly conceive to be not only beyond the constitutional power of the President or his ageats, but violative of the constitutional rights of every citizen of the Union, contrary to good faith, derogatory t> the dignity and eminently detrimental to the interests of our common conntry. ld not, even now, ex; an opinion on wy reeall {Dea Jos do Ralemance, then Spomish Minister of 1 ot rettoved of all feelings of d o yt t that sir. Caan ehed speoch, expressed hie; 1 elaim, wit y bumble sphere, as large a liberty as any other citicon, in expressing this opimion and determination, 1) cause 1 telt entire confidence in my ability to fiad am aware that [ may be charged with greut pre- | out, ma manner which would leave me at liberty sumption in differing trom ps high aathorities | to use the information, what was the business Mr. as Mr. Forsyth and Mr. Case. {can ouly say, in | Saunders had on hand, and [ determined te remain excuse, that I do so in all humility; butthat, living | todo eo. This I did to my entire satistaction, and 10 aland et freedom, | havean incorrigible habit of | rent the intelligence to the United States, so as to forming my opioions for m: . being edu- | reach my correspondent some two or three weeks cated with little reverenee fer great names or pat- | before it reached the Department of State. No tizan dictation, I am prone to act upon the opinions | member ef the Legation at Madrid ever communi- thus form. But that those uninitiated in the di- | cated to me anything whatever of the conteats of plomatic secrets of the American government may the instructions in question, er of Mr. Saunders’ not be too readily muled by those names, [ will | action on them; nor did I ever exchange a add that my opinions are based, to a great extent, | single syllable with any member of the Spanish go- on the fact that the iastructions given under the | verpmenton the subject. The manner in whi administration of President Jackson to the United | arrived at the information in question, it can be ot States legation at Madrid, in reference to our poli- | uo snterest tothe public to kaow; 1t was perfeetly cy 1n Spain and Cuba, are such as I conceive every | legitimate, and would have been unhesitatingly citizen of this Union would endorse. The issue | used by any diplomatist in Madrid, 1s not Mr. Cass, Mr. Forsyth and Mr. Polk against It remains for me only to notiee the fact before the humble c’ n who pens this letter ; 1t 1s An- | stated, of my transmission ot the intelligence in drew Jackson versus (as I at least am content it | advance of the Legation; and I do this because should be,) whatever names may be throwa icto | while the late adminietration suffered to un- the scale against his. contradicted a sta'emeant in the press that I was its From the return of Mr. Saunders to his post, ia | secret agent to effect the annexation of Cuba, 1 September, 1847, unt'l the close of m apanettiod have good grounds to believe that there have been with the Legation, on July 22d, 1845, my duties | endeavors in some quarters, which might evea be were merely, and in the strictest sense of the | termed official, to produce the impression that [ word, those of Secretary to the Missien. I could | had had some agency in the defeat of the project not but ebserve, however, and with some pain, the | at Madrid. Neither of these suppositions 18 1a the entire fulfilment of my apprehenstous of the effect | slightest CG eg true. The iatter is in direct op- which the policy of Mr. Sauaders would have oa | position to the facte in the matter. Mr. Saunders the position ot the Legation and on its affairs. | wrote to me from La Granja for information of a This policy I could not explain without passing the | most extended nature en several matters, which line which I have drawa between the acts of the | the knowledge I already had of the nature of his government of the United States or that of Spiis, | instructions enabled me clearly to see wasto be known te me through my official position towards | used in a negotiation for the purchase of Cuba. the archives of the American Legation at Madrid, | My official conrection with the Legation had and the acts of Mr. Polk or Mr. Saunders, or the | ceased entirely ; the Secretary of State had car- acts of either government known to me threugh | ried bis caution so far as to name the precise mo- other sources than those archives, But that the | ment when that connection should be dissolved ; tree may be judged by its truit, there 1s uo impro- | | had been recalled at the request ot Mr. Sauaders priety in my stating that, on one important sub- | himself, so strenuously, though secretly urged, ject, deeply interesting a large section of our | astoplace the late President, in what his Secre- ‘Union, three notes of Mr. Saunders to the Spanish | tary of State was pleased to term the * painful ne- government remained entirely unanswered, and eee of granting 1t; yet [ promptly furnished the object of them had finaily te be attained through | him (Mr. Saunders) with all the intormation with- the influence of a private individual, a Spaniard. | in my reach, (except a portion, which I should In another case, affecting the convenience of our | have been bound to give, if an officer of the entire commerce with Cuba, an almost equal want | United States government, but which, as I was of respect was shown ; and in no case were an- | not, | was, socially, bound to withold,) and re- swers given at all satisfactory, although as the | ceived, in reply, his thanks for the data sent him. then Minister of State was perfectly acquainted | | But while I had too much respect tor the autho- with the English language, Mr. Saunders had as | rity of the government and for our laws, to attempt fair an opportunity as aay. other diplomatist of ad- | any interference with the acts of its officersabroad, vancing the interests of his country aod uvholding | [ had the fixed determination, as far as in me lay, the dignity ot the legation. The retired life led | to prevent any attempt to carry outeuch a scheme by Mr. Saunders, and his ignerance of any modern | without a due and proper consultation, not merely language but his own, necessarily confined his | of party cliques oy political managers at Washing- social intercourse to the English residents at | ton, but of the American people, inthe widest sense Madrid, and the few members of the diplomatic | of the term. I was also apprehensive that the corps, Or Spaniards, who understood kis own | question would be spruag upon the democratic tongue. The course of Mr- Saunders in reference | party, to which I belonged, and an attempt made 1o the mediation of Her Catholic Majesty be- | torun Mr. Cass in on that issue. Conceiving that tween Mexico aud the United States, was ealcu- | the question was one which should be kept apart lated to inspire the Spanish Cabinet, in view of | from party issues, I viewed such a contingeney the reception given England’s offer to the | withsome alarm. I also felt bound, as a Southern same eflect, with doubts how far Mr, Saunders | mao, and indeed as an American, to look to the was a reliable interpreter of the wishes of the | terms of any proposed annexation of Cuba; for in lute President; and it is also very conceivable that, | that event, by the decision of the United States whatever may have been the good intentions of | Supreme Court in the case of the Amistad, about Mr. Saunders, a proud and susceptible goverament, | ove'halt of the slaves of Cuba would be freed, aud such as Spain’s is, should harbor some unpleasant | as the laws of that island make no distinction be- feeling on account of the compromise of her dig- | tweentree whites and free blacks, the South and nity which might have ensued from those pro- | the Union might find in their bosom a free negro ceedings, and even that it migit conjecture deeper | commonwealth, claiming the right to send freed schemes to be concealed under them than were | slaves as Senators to our Congress, unless proper probably ever projected. The opportunity afforded | provisions were made in, or previous to the con- by the dispute be:ween the English and Spanish | clusion of the treaty, to secure the present de facto governments, for augmenting his influence, or re- | position of the white population of Cuba. I accor- covering the ground he had lost, was worse than | dipgly confined my action to the letter before men- neglected by Mr. Saunders, while the able repre- | tiuned, written, not to Mr. Botts, (whose card on sentative of the French republic reaped from it | the subject I have not seen,) but to a personal such advantages as to give him undeniably as high | iriend, whose diecretion in the premises 18 suffi- @ position m the councils of the Catholic Queen | ciently evidenced by the taet, that through him no as had ever been enjoyed by the Ambassasor of | intelligence has been conveyed or escaped to the Louis Philippe. In addition, an (unofficial) step | public, in reterence to this affair. He was author- tuken by Mr. Saunders, most unnecessarily, but, | 1zed 19 a certain contingency to call the attention ladmit, from laudable motives, at the very janc- | of the public to the matter, though the letter itselt ture of Sir Henry Bulwer’s expuls:or trom Spain, | was marked “confidential.” My object was sim- was eminently caleulated deeply to offend the | ply to aid in preventing any attempt to take what Spanish government—the more so as it was in too | 18 called a “snap judgment” from the people on the critical a position to take any notice of it, had it | annexation question, (or rather on its terms,) and been aware of it. I cordially united with Mr. | had the game been tried, of mingling this among Saunders in keeping it unknown, and in preveating | the other issues of the late Presidential election, any consequences irom it, because I feared that it | the public in forming its judgment would have might lead to most unpleasant, if not serious diffi- | been furmshed with materials, which possibly culties ; nor should [even allude to it ia this letter, | might have proven to be as unexpected by, as they were it not that from its nature it cannot now be | would have been distasteful to, the political nana- brought into discussion. The fosition of the Le- | gers who planned it. Ocherwise 1t was not my 1n- gation became, however, paintully evident to the | tention to give publicity to all the facts in enurre official cireles of Madrid, by the omission | the _case; nor do I do so now. I have to invite the representative of the United States to | confined myself to addressing, from Hava- a formal diplomatic entertainment, intended to | ra, a letter to my immediate Yepresentative in be given by the Spanish Prime Minister, not | Congress, the Hon. John Minor Botts, requesting long after the expulsion of Sir Henry Bul- | him to move, in the House of Representatives, a wer. Mr. Saunders exhibiting some feeling | call on the President for information concerning a on the subject, and endeavoring to ascertain | number ot matters, which, if given, 1s calculated the cause of the omission, I inquired of a person _ to throw great and hitherto sedulously and wreng- likely to be well intormed, and he, as he believed | fully concealed light on our relations with Spain. the prime minister to be too courteous a man to | That letter was so worded as to conceal the nature have so acted by design, conjectured that in mik- | of the intormation desired. {t was written to Mr. ing out the list of persons to be invited, the name | Boits, as my representative in Congress; but with of Mr. Saunders had inadvertently been left out, an entire confidence on my part, based on my as he lived in a very retired manner and was little | observation of his public lite and character, that known. Although the prime minister subsequently | though | am one of his political opponents, and but compensated amply for his omission, veut could an humble resident of the district he represents, ne not but feel chagrined, as an American and a would give my requests all the attention he con- member of the Legation, that the representative of scientiously could, and would support them, if the United States near the Sovereign of Cuba, necessary, with the firmness, energy, and inde- should at any time have been so completely furgot- | pendence, which so particularly distinguish him. ten in the very capital of her dominions. ButI His determination concerning them was perfectly could not but feel surprised at the apparent obscu- satisfactory to me; I, of course, am not the proper rity into which the Legation had suak, asI cou'd judge whether it should be stated here; my letter Judge of the narrow limits within which Mr. Saun- | wae, in its very nature, neither private nor confi- ders’ total ignorance of the language of the coun- | dential, and he theretore 1s, as far as 1 am con- try had confined his intercourse with those around | cerned, at liberty to make whatever use et it he him, by the fact that, in the preceding winter, he | may think the public interests require. had addressed me a formal written complaint, be- Ihave endeavored to compress this statement cause | had not gone to his house, on an inclement | within as narrow limits as poner bat [fear the Sunday, to convey him the telegraphic intelligence | muluplicity ef the subjects I have been forced, in published in extras of every jouinal ot Madrid, aid eelf-defence, to introduce, will have rendered it in the mouth of every imbaoitant ot it, that a Re- | tedious. The correction or error concerning my public had been proclaimed in France! | own acts and position has been my sole object. Fiom these facts, 1t may be judged in what state What may be my epinions on the annexation of of efficiency was the Legation at Madrid when the | Cube, I have not stated, as they cannot be of any late administration entrusted to it, in July last, | 1nterestor importance The question of annexa- one of the most important, delicate, and difficult ton has been, for the present at least, set at rest, negotiations which could be placed in the hands of | as tar 28 negotiation is concerned, by the truly re- a diplomatist. : markable course of the late administration and The statements contained in the letter of a cor- | the U. S. Legation at Madrid. That courge tne respondentof the ¥. V. Herald, dated Madrid, | public may poesibly suspect to be a successen of Sept. 19th, 1848, amount to an aseertion that Mr | adroit mancuvres; it may dream of skilful man- Polk’s administration had given Mr. Saunders in- | agement 0 palace coteries, of consultations with structions, under which that envoy conceived | important representatives of Cuban wealth, or Cu- himeelt authorized “to sound the Spanish govern- | ban interests,disclosures o’er a genial glass of wine, ment on their dispositions to sell or cede the island | ¢arnest conversations to bring over, or light jesta ot Cuba to the United States,” a: d, if so, to buy it; | toeound some grave ee or minister of that Mr. Saunders “‘m an intormalinquiry” into | Stute, and all the other dazzling accompaniments the subject; and that ccordingly, negotiations | of a racy diplomatic contest. Let it be undeceiv- with that object in view, may be said to be opened | ed: the history of the formidable instructions sent by the despatch” containing those instructions. | te Mr. Saunders, 18 as short as instructive A Ot the substantial correctness of those assertions | formal conterence was solicited, to sound the dis- I have not the slightest doubt. The Spanish gov- | positions of Gen. Narvaez. Our Envoy’s English ernment, very properly confining itself to its own | wae diluted into French for the edification of that acts, and availing itself of the careless expressioa | fiery soldier; in return, his energetic{thoughts, torn ot the correspondent, has denied that there were | out of their Castilian idiom, to be cramped up in a any negotiations on the subject; for megotia- | French dress, were again done into English for tion” is a technical term with a fixed meaning, ; the convemence of Mr. Saunders. This lingu and the Spanich governmentcould with truth deay | tic entertainment soon grew irkeome to the im ite existence, for, as I am enurely sure, in answer | tient Spaniard, and the conierence was speedily to the inquiry of Mr. Saunders, the Duke of Va- | but courteously terminated. Thus ended this ce- lencia ipa Narvaez) gave the same answer | lebrated negotiation. Whether it could have been which he gave to the inquiry made et him in the | made to reswlt differently, had the usual weapons Cortes, some months before, and which he hasre- | of diplemacy been employed, is a question into pwated in reply to the same inquiry when made of | which J do not pretend to enter. him lately, a8 published in the American papers. With thistull, avd I trust satisfactory, defense Had I had any doubt of the correctness of the as- | of my own course, | hope that I shall have remov- sertions ef the Herald’s correspondent, it would | ed the erroneous impressions existing in regard to have been aie removed by the fact thatthe | it. [have the honor te be, official organ of the Jate administration confined Gentlemen, very respecttully, itself to copying the denial ot the Spanish govern- Your obedient servant, ment; by what I leara of the matter in Cube itself; Tuos. Caurg ReyNoups. by the reasons given by Mr. Berrien inthe U. 3. Senate for his request that Mr. Maller should with- draw his resolution of inquiry on the matter; vy the tactics ot Mr. Rusk aud Mr. Foote in tie Se- nate debate thereon; and by the fact that theagh Mr. Miller’s resolution was adopted, there has been no response to it on the part of the late Pre- One Week Later from Jamatca, Inte/ligence from Kingston to the 7th inst. has been receive _The New Orleans Prcaywne, of the 18th inst . gives the pero — By the echooner D.C. Foster, Captain Canfield, we have papers from Kiogston, Jamaloa, to the 7th inst sident of the United States, unless that response Im consequence of the Colonial Legislature has been communicated in secret session of the | stopped the supplies. the Governor Samat Senate, George Grey, has prorogued the As:embly to t! Noone could have been more surprised than I was, | of March. at firs’, by the appearance of the letters in the New A public meeting was held on the 6th inat., in Kings- York Herald Butus | remembered seeing, betore | te wembers of whi. ware sepia Gunite Counc, the posh of my oa ee o oh - ‘hat pa- | por, apd are net responsible 44 ‘ pot ho er that instructions had bee would be sent to | the people, The reform si ; ft ir. Saunders to propose to in the purchas: of Li orm aimed at ie to make them re ¢ for the acts of the Governor, aad at the same Cuba by the United States, it occurred to me as untable tothe people The Mayor of the city very posable that the proprietor @f that paper had, | pretided. and there were many speeches mate. with his usualenterprise, taken measures to ascer- The roy arrived at Kingston on tain at ol the result of those instructions ; rot I end ae! had had frequent occasion to observe the " i oss the mus to great wecuracy ot the fareign intelligence of that | © hadtacacn donee ikon, the papers, journal, | wos not much surprised to find that at | yyy Vor ter uld ace syne received at the had evideatly procuted aceess to very competently ‘Th: thermometr at poet Vacs, er ee informed sources of intormarion ~ What those for the last two mornings, (the 27th and the 28th. sources were, | of covree can only conjecture, a8 red the low temperature of 62 degrees at phones f Ilett Madrid long betere the date of tnat letter. ours the cold, by the thermometer, has bien Tom unacquainted with and uuknown to agy per- grees on the tame di is ron connected woth that paper, vod kaow aothiug The Journal, of the 3d inst., says .— whatever of the correspondence wm question antl ete learn thet Py Tequteition to the Mayor is in course j oe 01 ing to take place in the Kt appeared in print. It was not my desiga to | 0 rites eee oily. eae Drnpriet 1 oadidattber'Oas mI * ity, to consider the propriety of give pu heity to the negotiauon respecting Cu rereivg @ memorial to her Majesty and both Hogi, ba, though [ fele myselt at liberty to do #0, if [thought proper. That it has brea made public, can be of no detriment to pur interests Moreover, any tenty for the sale of Csba mast, according to the Spanish constitution, reeive ws " Suma hatces of this colony funcuon of the Cortes, and, ot course, we amply ssaston. (Tam ) Sucan kev, March 2 —Barre!s discussed in that body. In’that ease, no xfl-etw | SMF #old at 16s 64. per 100 poun tion of secrecy could conceal the ma't-r. Ax! 1t18 7 mrens . already wufliviently noto ions, Lean se no imptO- Fi om Tamrie We have Tampico papers to xtending to this isinad a similar ow ponrested by the Britiah North Many person: ot opinion ble eystem of governinsut wae M a the 8d inst The subject of opening communiea et my referring to my course in coanectiont tone wath Sen Lae Foton is Tebeiving dus attean- On the 26th of July, 1848, (three days after the | (#2. | The river Panuco will be uoed as high up as dissolution ot my conneetion onlin te Uidited Seatoe it can be made naviguble, and thence a road, 1egution at Madrid,) Mr Saunders wrote me trom | K8WN as that ot det Carnero, improved to San La Granja, requesting me, tora compensauon, to } Luis. The project receives the susport of the ma convey ucespaich to tie United States, 1 | vicipal autherives, and Gen. La Vega se said to declined to do, for varioug reasons, but ehiefly be- | fvor every plan of imternal maprovement. ey Interesting from the Pacific. Mazatian, Feb. 15, 1819—2 P. M. Appearance of Mazatlan. Well, here eit myself and General Smith, at the hospitable mansion of the British Consul, M. Ta'- bot, writing letters to our beloved country. Ma- zatlan looks much like an Amercan city—that is, more American than anything I have seen since I left New York. 1 have seen the hiret carton wheels, and the first coach. There are 10,000 people here, and many of the ladies are really beauuful. The harbor, like all of the harbors I have seen on the Pacific, is very fine. Nature has done all for them. We leave in two hours for the steamer ina boat, two miles distant, and the steamer, lea immediately after. Several hundred are here, anx- 1oua to fet passage. Several veseels are in por! and all bound for California. The reports are al confirmed. The best evidence of the plentitulness of Califorma gold, being that everythin in the shape of a vessel 18 off for California. Ihave not time to say more. The mail is off at 4 P. M. Srerugn H. Brancu. (From the New Orleans Picayune, March 16.) The brig Perfect, Capt. Gardner, arrived here Serene Chagres, which port she left on the Ist. She brought as passengers Lieut. Heary Lewis, U.S. Navy, late of the U. S. frigate Inde- pendence, bearer of dispatches to Washington trom J. Randolph Ulay, Esq , our Charge d’ Affaires tothe Peruvian government, and from Commo- dore Shubrick, commanding the squadron in the Pacific ; also Capt Jno. R. Butler, and Dr. Culver. The Prefect sailed in sompany with tae brig Eu- dora and a schooner. On the 23th ult., the brigs Sarah and Sampson arrived at Chagres, and the schooner Mary Filkins. The Sarah had fifty pas- sengers, and the Sampson filty. The steamship Galveston had not arrived at Chagres from this ort. ® By the exceeding courtesy of Lieut. Lewis, we have been put in possession of a mass of interest- ing intormatton relative to the emigrants on the Isthmus, and of a few items concerning California and the position of some of our vessels now in the Pacific. That gentleman left Callao on the 13th February, on the British steamer New Granada, and reached Panama on the 25th. Here he found an immense number of emigrants anxiously waiting for means of trangportation to San Francisco. There were, as he estimates, abost 1800 persons, the whole number on the Isthmus, at Chagres, Gorgona, and Panama, being net short of 1,000. (Capt. Butler estimates the number of emigrants at Panama, at 1,100, the number on the river going up at 100, and the number who arrived at Chagres on the 28th, at 150. They were ail in health. ] The steamer Oregon reached Panama on the evening of the 23a ult., and was expected to leave for San Francisco between the 10th and 15th inst. She would take three hundred passengers on board, those provided with tickets being the emigrants cell down by the Falcon. There would then remain, with the successive arrivals of those on their way across the Isthmus, not fewer than 1500, for whom means of going forward were to be found. The brig Belfast had been chartered by a party of 200 emigrants, and she left Panama on the morning of the 25th ult., en route for the island of Foboga, where she was to take ia water. There was a whaler in the port when Lieut. Lewis left, which a party of emigrants were endeavoring to orchase, with a yiew of hastening on to San ‘rancisco. The want ef shipping was the grand obstacle at Panama. ehisheieiee , Was increasing to intensity. Intelligence of sickness prevailing on the Isthmus reached Callao on the 9th of Feb., and had thence been conveyed to Valparaiso on the 24th, which had the effect of preventing coast- ers trom being sent to Panama for the service of the emigrants. This untoward news had consi- derably checked the tide of Peruvian emigration, ao thot the British steamer New Granada took no passengers from Callzo to Panama. Reports were also prevalent at the latter port, that 1t was ex- tremely doubtful if the California would soon re- turn, as the probability was, her crew wou'd desert on arriving at San Francisco. On the whole, the prospects of the emigrants were for the moment overcast, from this unfortunate concurrence of events that delayed their onwa:d progress. Lieut. Lewis represents the appearance of the emigrants, physically and morally, as highly tavor- able Indeed, he says they are as fine a body of men as he has ever seen, and he laments the straits into which they have fallen. It would be well, in his opinion, for those contemplatiog a voyage to San Francisco, by this route, to consider maturely the prospect before them, and assure themselves of ‘uninterrupted progress before they set out. Every thing is excessively dear at each halting place across the Isthmus, and scarcity, the natural reault of continued arrivals and delays, will zo on con- stantly increasing, to the exhaustion of parse and patience. Bread israre at Panama, and enormous- ly ny Six small loaves, not larger than the fist, cost 374 cents. The expense by water, incurre: by a passenger from Chagres to Gorgona or Cruces, is from $50 to $100. Here the land travel begins, and the price of a mule from Cruces to Panama 18 rather more than $10. Lieut, Lewis paid $34 for three mules from Panama to Cruces. A bill of tare repel tt who went on by the brig Belfast, spoken of above, was stuck up at the United States Consul’s, (Mr. Nelson,) where the food allowed was beef and yams, and pork and yams, alternate- ly, day by day—but no bread. Notwithstanding Foeed, they still preserved a dauntless spirit; their ardor was undiminished. On the way to Chagres, our courteous informant states that he met the emigrants pulling up their own scows or canoes, :n their eagernees toarrive soon at Gorgona ot Cruces, the points where water 1s exchanged for la d co veyunce, and which are distant trom each other about tour miles The read from Panama to Craces was dry, but hilly. The proclamation of Gen. Smith, interdicting fo- reigners {from visiting the gold placers, had just reached Callao, when Lieut. Lewis lett. [t had occasioned a great sensation—disappointment, of course, beirg the principal feeling therein. The latest accounts trom California, at Callao, were, that recent discoveries had been made of gold pla- cers, which were of immense value; they excceeded by.tar the preceding representations of the abun- dance of the precious metal on the Sacramento. The merchants at Valparaiso had made enormous profits on investments of goods, provisions, Xe., gain of $120,000. The U. S. frigate pan peeeenoe left Calao for Valparaiso on the 10th of February; all well. The following is a list of her officers :— Com. Shubrick; Lieut Com’g R. L Page, Lieuts, C. Heywood, Montgomery Lewis, W. T. Smith. Isano N. Brown, H. A. Wise; Acting Master, Sam’'l Marcy; Fleet 8u Washington; Purser, H. W Greene; W. W. Russell; Commodore's Seore- sed Midshipmen, W. D. Austin, AF. Warley, G. V, Denniston, — Ste- lish; Midshipmen, Chandler, Hamilton vens, E. E: and Smith. gton was reported off " February, with $400,000 in California gold on board. Mazatvan, Feb. 15, 1849. I last had this pleasure, under date 10th inst. from Acapulco, and take the chances of the mai via Mexico to send you this. We have hada lon- ger passage to this place than we anticipated, and irom present appearances there is little probability that we will 1each San Francisco under fifteen daysmore, The shipis loaded down with passen- gere,and we have a variety of disagreeables to encounter, We number in all on board 400 souls —825 passengers and about 75 crew. You will doubtless see in the papers that great complaints will be made. 1 have only to say that there 13 too much cause. We find at every place hundreds of people wait- ing for the steamer, in hopes of getting passage for the ‘El Dorado.” The whole coast is cra- zy, and the Culifornia. fever rages worse here than elsewhere. The accounts of the great wealth of this country are confirmea at every step. I anticipate that there will be much excitement, and, perhups, something More serious. growing out of the tact of so many foreigners going to the place. Gea. Smith signi- fied 10 those on board the steamer, that on their arrivel they would not be allowed to go on the public lands. They are generally armed, and [ think that some serious work will take place be- tween them and the American population. We hear that the city of San Francisco 18 filled, and no jlace for people to lay their heads; that a portion of the population 1s of the most desperais character, &c. Ail this, however, 18 but hearsay. On my arrival, | will give you all particulars = 1 think ‘it doubttul if the steamer is enabled to re- turn, a8 the probability 1s that the crew will desert, The officers have but little command over the men, and only this morning, tbe firemen refused towork We leave this evening, and I shall not have another opportunity of writing to you until I arrive at San Francisco. Panama, February 24, 1319, The steamer Oregon, Cpt. Pearson, arrived on the evening of the 23d February, sixty-one days from New York. Running time, titty-tive and a halt days; passing through the Straits ot Magellan Maseachusetts, Capt. Wood, in the Straits of Ma- am, 68 apcher, on the 25th January, bounc rough. Previous to my departure from Panama, on the 25th of February, the British mail steamer ie arrived trom Valparaiso, but had not landed mail and paceearas Several persons were paring to go on board of her to proceed to Guy aquil Payias and oe. fe charter or purchast vessels to bring to Panama, to take passengers tc California. O. Dek ‘The Latest From Mexico [From th Oriea! rane, March The brig Jeannett, Capt. Brown, arrv las Bight from Vera Cruz, oaving left that port on th Sth inst. We have Vera Cruz and J lapa paper: of the 6th, and from the capital ot the 3d. The Arco Iris of the 6th has news from all parte of the country, but it can be summed up 1n a few words. There have been no more pronuncia mentos, and the cholera has not yet made it: appearance. On this latter subject Mexican: evince great sensitiveness. Tne war of castes in the south ef the State ot Mexico wears a more for. midable aepect. Gen. Alvarez was, un the 17th ult., at the head of 600 men at Chilapa, to pu down the insurrection; but he was probably ir difficulties, tor it is immediately added that Ace eand and more men had been gent to his assistance from Tasco, and it impossible te foresee the result. If the result is doubttul, with such a force onthe side of the government, the insurrectior | must be general. It was rumored on the 24th ult at Tenancingo, that Alvarez had been woundec and made prisoner; but general credit was no iven to the report. The Arco fris throws out ¢ Rice that £¢ Lorado, the paper from which it ob tains its information of this insurrection, may ex. aggerate, being bitterly opposed to the Governo) of Mexico and his poliev. The reader may recollect that we received the other day, by way of Havana, accounts of a wai ot castes in Guatemala, By the Mexixan paper: we learn that Carrera, the banished President, 1 the author and promoter of that outbreak. He is eaid te be upon the frontier of Mexico, directing the ineurrection, : We are weary of reporting the ravages of thc Indians upon the Northern States of Mexico, bu every paper has details on the subject. The time must come when our troops will have to assume the burden of chastising these Indians, and the period is not remote. The sooner the better fo: the poor Mexicans; they seem notto have the hear to Jook the savages in the face. i The Chamber ot Deputies has voted to authorize the government to borrow $1,500,000 upon the faith of the next instalment of the indemnity due by the United States. 4 There was an attempt at revolution made on the 2ist ult. in Oajaca in favor of Santa Anna, but 1) was immediutely quashed. The government 1: making en eflert so to organize the military force of the National Guard of the States, that these at: empts may everywhere be speedily put down. The New Orleans Delta says, we are in receip: of Mexican files from the capital to the 3d instant, being four days later than previous advices. | A conducta had arrived at Tamsico, from San Louis Potosi, with nearly a million of dollars. It seems an ineffectual attempt to get up a * pro- nuvciamento ” against the existing administration. occurred at Guajolote, in the State of Oajaca, on the 23d _ultumo. i The Monttor states, that in order to put a stoy to the extensive smuggling which has been car- tied on since the conclusion of peace, the govern. | ment has purchased and equipped a brigantine guarda-cogta, at an expense of nearly $10,000, as the construction of revenue eutters would necessa- my require acme time. The new Congress was installed in the capital on the 26tn ult. Joaquin Nariega was elected President ; Franciseo de Cuevas, Vice President; Villary Bo.anegra aud Perez y Ferandez, Seere- taries. A proposition had been introduced into the Le- gislature ot Vera Cruz, to request the Congress to | make the first payments, out of the indemaity to | be received from the United States, to the tarmere who are creditors of the government. The Monitor, of the 28th ultimo, again alludes to rumored pronunciamentos by the *‘Santanistas,” and expresses the beliet that they will prove as abortive as that of Marquez. INTELLIGENCE FROM T'Exas—Tag CuoiEra, &c. —The schooner Star, Captain Parker, arrived at Galveston on Sunday the 11th instant, ftom Brazos Santiago the 9th. By this arrival, the Galveston | News received the Brownsville Flag of the 4th inst. The Flag says the number of deaths trom cholera in Brownsville cannot be far trom seventy-five. Among the victims are some of the best citizens of that place. Tne disease was on the decline, and every drawback to which the emigrants were ex- | to California. One cargo had been sold at a clear | had assumed a moditied form, general reldi: to medical treatment when token in time. "The | greatest consternation prevailed at Brownsville, in | consequence of the epidemic. Most of the ci- | tizens had left the place, waich was ina great | measure deserted, and the stores closed me | accounts give the number of deaths as considerably over one hundred, which is a serious mortality in @ population of about seven hundred. At the mouth of the Rio Grande there had been several | deaths from cholera. At Brazos Santiago there | were several persons sick, and some eight or ten deaths had occurred, but whether the disease was | cholera or not 13 doubtful, Two hundred Calitornia emigrants had arrived: at the Brazoe, on board the steamer Globe, and im- mediately proceeded up the river. The government sale of steamers had been post- | poned to the 15:n inst., in consequence of the pre~ valence of the epidemic. The Mexican Senate, says the Flag, has se aside the proposition of the ministry aliswing the introductivn ef provisions, which are again abso- lutely prohibited. We apprehend th have eee ct of Saralenee the left Sete of the river, and depopuluting the right bank.—New Orleans Bulletin, March 16. 4 The steamship Palmetto, Capt. Smith, arrived’ yesterday from Galveston, having left the 13th. She aes very little local news ot interest. The Western Texan ot the Ist inst, states that a Mexican was murdered recently near San An- tonio, by another Mexican, who mistook him, it being dark, for another person. A German woman: was murdered lately near Castroville. Her body was horribly mangled with a large rock used by the murderer. A German has been arrested om tuspicion.—N O. Picayune, March 16. The Western Texan has intelligence of a party of Indians having committed some of their tnoks near Laredo aud Cuerrero. They attacked a ran- cho on the 4th ult, but the Mexicans vamosed, leaving the Indians all they wanted—the horses and mules. No lives were taken. Some weeks since, a specimen of silver ore, brought into this place by David K. Torrey, Eeq., wassent to New Orleans to be assayed. The gen- tleman who took it in charge for that purpose, writes back fiom New Orleans, as tollows: ** You will see, from the assayer’s estimate of the ore, that it 18 exceedingly rich in silver; and he as- sured me that it wus so very rich in that metal, he feared to put 1tdown at the rate which the result of bis experiments justified; and desired me to- say to you, that rhe ore was werth 150 ounces, in- etead of 100, to the ton.”— Austin (Texas) Demo- erat, March 3. The Port Lavaca Gazefte has the following :-— it is believed that on the San Pedro and Prieto rivers, branches of the Gila, ubout two or three hundred miles trom Passo del Norte, axd directly on the route to Caliternta, that we claim to be the only reasonable one, there isa territory the richest yeterscovered. Lumps of gold have been found weighing several pounds, and the lands m some of the ravines are astonishingly rich in gold. We shall look with mach interest for further accounts of these mines They have heretofore been ex- cluded trom investigation by the Indians who in-” habit that section. We should not be astonished to see some of the mules gow etarting from this section come back with gold dust obtained in this country Major Lamotte, commanding at Camp Ringgold, onthe Rio Grande, has addressed a coromuntea- tion to the Alealde, at Camargo, calling bis atten= tion to and desitiog his aid in stopping te Mexin cans from coming over on the Americaa side, and, catching mustangs and cattle to take over on $he, Mexican side The Alcalde, in anewer, claims all the mustang horses and cattle as the prodact of the cows and mares with which the Mexicans originally ae ck iy the lands, and the right to them is sremred in the late treaty—N. O. is March 17. ee ee Very Late rrom Haytt,— i tain Harper, from Port au erat lnst., ar rived at this port yesterday. Captain. reports that. not only at Port au Prioce, but all through the island, the greate+t commotion prevailed on aceount fa deeree having been recently issued, ordering: every man of color, without distinetion of or. station, 10 beer arms, and be read: forthwith to march against the Spanish part of the Population, bac geet ot President Souloque, ve + cote tell thort of an ave: i 50,000 baws were demanded of il alt oa tenth of which had not arrived from the iatenor, 4 » ¢ Fairy, Cap. in thirty 6ix hours. No vessels on the coast bound here for passen- gers; but many are going direct with cargo and passengers to San Francisco. ‘ ‘The American brig Beltast, Capt. Jordan, re- ceives her passengers at twelve, M., this day, 24th. Two country schooners are in the harvor, and will take about 100 passengers for Califoraia. Namber ot passengers actually sailed for Cal- forma, including the Belfast, about 700. Number now on the Tathmns, about 1,000, possibly 1,100, hoes Lie tad Narr nile it San ranciseo Ist February, and may rcturn here by the Ist of March, or coon after. r 4 The Oregon passed the United States steamship Were $150 currency, and — s ad (Ute pearee.— Ph to meet remittances Was detained thi irty-1 days, and with th» greatest difficulty poet cargo, a8 severn! Kuropean vessels were endeavor- Ing to get cargoes, at any rater, together with some American chartered vessels, which the chare terers were obliged to lo: i hey could procure at high pr rom hfuihcregh Ses ; American provisions could not be sol ruinous lose, ape Ag oni ie 48 the monopoliste of cofiee could not icle in retarn at | lbe., and from private hands it could wer ty ek lees tham $42 and $44 currency. Logwood wae ntly very high. Doubloons adel