The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1854, Page 4

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Revoil, No 17 Fhe Reropean maila will cl to three o'clock to-morrow Tae Waaxry Hnaty (printed ia Freash and Kaglish) will be published at naif-past ning oe lock to-morrow morning. Single copies. lo wrappers six pence. 19 Sxtharine at 8 Plane de la Rourse & Bangue ata quarter acon. x News, The wreck of the steamship San Francis’o con- tinues the leading topic of discussion among all clarses of society, not only in thi y but in every quarter of the country where the telegraphic wire have cissemivsted the information. While depior- ing the ‘ate of the large nber of those who were Bwep a warery grave {rom cn bourd that un fortunate vessel, ail rejoice that the survivors who were rescued by the bark Kilby and ship Three Bells have » attention ns made as pos from the resis ¢ ipon their late terrible suffer: ings. Their companions who wore taken off by the ship Antarctic, bound w L. ly arrived at this port, where every has ber tor ‘ito their wants, and exer- verpool, are believed to have bad abundance of both provisions and room and therefore have not undergone tb Isbips of those ©: rd the Kill ‘ e Kilby was seen in tow of the steanshiy York, on her way to , #0 tt elsewhere publish all the addit bos beew received relative with corrected lists of tb Jost. A disp m New Ort Minister Gadsden left that city i Friday evening. ‘or the parp 1 President ta person th tiated with Mexico. Our Wash srrespondent write: he administration has heard the and that the fact gan yesterday 1 week ago most strenuously denied, by that a hi treaty bad becn cor ted. We learn ton correspondent tha all is yet in Goubt and confasion as to the result tae contest for the Ux Mississippi. Gov. Foote, bis way to Ca) A. G. Brown received the ination in legislative canens he has e 1. Davis 4 that he has beer » information re ceived tended to confirm beiief. It is woe stood ¢ hould Mr. D. leave t ‘ar Departin and go the Senate Mr. Guthrie will seiz he y to resign his post of Secretary of the sury, in which event Mr. Cushing will t moted to one of the vacancies. Hc d ridge, of Kentuckey probably be a torney General, and Mr. Wise, of V possibly into one of the berths. Alabama, it is pow not upon any consideration. interesting letter wo By the very publish from our Erie correspondent, i that the arrest aud committal of Marshal and deputies + has temy the erily caused the withd tection of the general government cers from the road company, and the cons quence is that the latter will not probably be ¢ the proceed with fear of being afiected rn in agsaulted by of Erie, it is reported, bave e¢ an intention to harass the officers by saits in low: di the United jadi ciary being thus brough m, th cispute is now narrowed cowu to a gq vf na tional or State sovereignty e Southern people bave rights, n few of the ital deter ined to test their practical , The examination before a Cincir Judge Spoover and the entire snotbern concluded, The ing been engaged ina riot on Christmasc at which time they arrested a lar rman of committi bo iy of ( supposed to be on the sonal outrage on the Pop day evening, a telegraphic despatch remarks, the testimony was decidedly against the accused. The evidence elicited in the case, published in another page, reveals some very curious facts connected with the state of society in that city. The details of the last news from Havana, ss nished in the various letters from our correspondents, We are now wr wil! be fonod unusnally entertaining. beginning to arrive at something mc views entertained by the new Captain-Genera’, what will most Likely, constitute a partion of potiey of his administration. It «will know no Jaw which does not eword-militant digest. and aringent orders have dee landing of slave 1 couform to his Great reforms are promised isened against the smaggling, « ani thus fur the offic'al pronanciamentos have reflected honor upoa the new dynasty as compared with those of the old, although it is stated that no less than five cargoes of negroes bad been landed upon the isiand with ten days. Governor Pezuela refuses to tiberate the three American seamen who have been s long, and, so unjastly imprisoned; and this cir er joto trou h ta pore rinent + letters. we insert » waebun vi te crue déevlemog Wc Cuan ci as ia bedieved, ad e wi a yet } addin | pados free, and 2 {4 weport of thefaarket. Bierop | of a treaty having for its object the addition of | Hoghes was i “favana. two new slave States to the Union would rouse Tis sable majesty, the Rmperor ot Hayti, has | gp excitement far greater thon that of 185 recently Tefarne’ to bis capital, after a grand tour | mye anti-slavery agitation would revive ‘aore throup'a @ portion of bis domin’ ons, as will be seen angry, more inveterate than ever. A tre by Woe letter fr m our Port au Prince correspondent, AdGok “onenattl mld meet the ‘There was nothing stirring in the high political and mendous SpROME OF aver ‘ a4 | military circles of the empire, aod no atiewot had | Por@l to give to the Seuth the ae | recently been roade to subdue the waite inbab'tanta | #tr¢ ngth of two new States. As em’ rodying of the Dominican or eastora portion of the islaud, | an eesential principle of our national politics, The yellow fever was cowmittieg dreadfw havoz, | the Gadeden treaty would obtain the suppor particulary among mariaer ‘The attention of mercha ing with Mexieaa ports is dirested to the letter from Captain re in another o ich be com ns of the annoyances to whic’ American vessels are subjected at the harvor of 4 a he rials? betare’'a enol Lagu lt appears that that port is open to ex: a7eP. AND POW, EPL. Meas ‘ P portation but not importation, and im order to be Ca inet and a free soil admiuistration, will be able to take ina cargo there it is necessary to first | foreed to return to their natural allegiance and proceed to Cempeacby aud pay tonnage datie to demand the confirmation of the treaty. On siter which vessels are put in quarantine for thirty | both sides the controversy will be warmly and Sand shipowners trad | the North who are imbued with constitutional loyalty. ven those papers and politician: the South who have recently exhibited more of the split of their own negroes than of while en i fore they are allowed to load at Laguna. bitterly conducted. Neither of the op- Aceording to the levter from our Key West corres: | posing parties will lack determination poudent, tiventy-cight yeesels were wrecked on the ikle’ at violenode Batwedn’ alle two the Eee the last year, and teeaty nine | contest will throw far into the shade the Ne- arrived in distress. The estimate jae of these : pa ; : a . braska discussion, the fugitive slave topic, and veesels and their cargoes was $2.0: 0, of whieb will even efface the recollection of the world- wide compromise law. A treaty which would give to the South more than an equivalent of if not in Cong at least in the Sena- 0,100 was the lors underwriters. 50, and for Hisasters, $1 For accounts of Salvage wa 750. and other interesting repairing, &c., $ ioformeatiog, see the letters ’ and extracts under the marine head aud in the sews body, will not be confirmed without a columns desperate struggle. € tthe New graph line to oping interest of re the tacts as known at present, and such the inferences they suggest to our mind When further intelligence reaches us it will Jy Hook magnetic rs aed the wh York and Sa the nnderar le the city, ha mW inate, withn the past jen wacey neh that chavnel most taforma | doubtless furnish food for new comaeat, on has heen conveyed froai ste: els iu the by een conveyed from straaled v he The Loss of the San Francisco, Sandy Hook to their owners aud under. The city has not yet i caused by the San F awiul a calamity it bas not core for many a day, its horrors who have covered from the which ; Me probal Me property have been ly org od ts aitentive manager, Mr. been our lot 0 re- + but partial as y aniz for business, but we trust Those slone can realize themselves stood on the Lewis, may ré » support from the un- derwriteraand. et ippi erchan's of ty, to | Ceck of a doomed ship, when the masts were ena im toe 1 arrangemen’s for | snepping like reeds, when the sea was sweep- working it In the most efficient manner, ing over the bulwarks with infernal vorieity, | TeeC teainship Ruropa stly overdue, | avd the stoutest hearts and wisest heads could ith t ate from Europe. She bis | offer neither hope nor comfort, From the con- (Pa: io “lee y sixte templation of such scenes it is a relief to turn the Mextean Gur telegraphic intellige dispel all the doubts which may bave been en- ter reaty. | tothe noble conduct of the vessels by which San Francisco y succored, T manity and courage their captain crews cannot be too highly extolled will > hue ce the ned respecting the aceuracy of our state- | ment concerning the Gadsden treaty with | tives cannot convey an adequate appreciation | Mexi Even the Union has at length been | of such deeds as that of Capt compelled to-admit the truth terms of | remaining by the San Franciseo in the 1 the treaty which Mr. Gadsden is bringiag home | the storm, when his bomanity placed lis own in person are stated to differ in some unim-; fate in jeopardy, and it needed all tho exer- | portant particulars from those published by us | tions ot his crew to counteract the leak which ome days since: but, in the main, they agr@ substantially with the project as we gave it. The leading ture of the treaty, | land by Mexico in consideration of » sum of money by the United St f Conflicting accounts have | reached spect to the details. The threatened his own destruction. We are not surprised to find that his splendid devotion is being appreciated hy the people. The tone of the meeting at the Exchange on Saturday wis worthy of our merchants. They mast not for- get. how , that this is a case which evils for something more practical than fine species or extent old seems to be in dou complimentary resolutions. Some substanti § snd the qmouut to be paid for it has been v'¢| token ot their sense of the service Captain ly stated at from twenty to fifty millio.s | Creighton has rendered to the cause of hg - Onone hand, we are told that the | manity and our countrymen must be tendered zaray grant is positively contirmed: we hear that its validity is only recognized hy | the payment of an indemnity to the graniers | sale of ment of als is common to both. us W ter tory on another, thy of don Whatever and recipients. New York may think fit todo. the or its abrogation; and again, it is ass that | duty of the President and Congress til! | the Stoo, not the Gai i, is the one | more precise and un quivocal. This city ma which is ratified by the treaty. On this, as on | and we doubt not will, maintaia its character | other masters of detail. we sball not ree for liberality, and such men as Messrs. How- more authentic intelligence than tbat of which | land & Aspinwall may do honor to the verean- ur readers are already in possession until the | tile community and to themselves; but their ie lt is made public, In point of fat | exertions by no means exonerate the vovern- y matter very little now that the mais point | ment from its share of duty. It is rod to wvcerning the proposed purchase of Mexican | act promptly and energe ly ia recompensing tervitory is confirmed, This is really the most, the saviors of our count ne as well front important step that has been made in our from broad uational grounds. In foreign since the present gover it will }o merely took « It ca. not fail to produce as won ineurre | tion throughout the length aa towards one who saved lives of ge nut Jand. t le | bers of the United States troops. ‘The latter cannot he people and | were the the thorow i tration is bound to ev 8 much In the tirst pi t is but ude for their preservati any other should be rendered to the negotiator of the | waster would under the like etvamsta: treaty on our behalf, Mr, Gadsden is the only | In the second place, the President and Con- one of our foreign enve who from the tirsé | gvess represent in this matter the people of the devoted himself thoroughly and in a statesman- | United States. They personate the humanity li amet to the discharge of the duties of his | and geperosity of the country, avi the whole office. He now returns home. a | world looks to us through them to reward the months absenc the wain object of | it act of this British sailor. Should they m nd the truits of bis ene jail in discharging this sacred duty, the people stand convicted of noble tar his pocket. What a contrast do of the United States will he blackest ingratit s other envoys of ours spending » towards their in time stu of diplomatic | of an act which no European sation would dress, or pick sand fighting duels | sufier its rulers to perpetrat But we with titied personages in order to get them-| cannot doubt that the President will selves into notoriety ! once see the necessity of forestalliny We have already stated ot | public sentiment by prompt aqtion in tI } moti which induced ave He has y of us still recollect t | | matter. tf preeedens to go tiate this he case of th treaty. tated by the stringent nece is posi- | nerva. That vessel sailed frou York tion. His predecessor—Arista--maintained lim- | New Orleans in October, 1831; was wrecked self as President of Mexico just so 1 on the Great Isaacs. on the Baboma reef, | continued to meeive an indemnity trom the | her wW, under; all the nti United States; when that ceased he fell. Now | of a ticipation, were Jaally reseacd Santa Avna stunés in a position of equal de- | by a Spanish captain, Soto de Benardo. and pendence on foreign aid. He has an enormous | carried in safety to Havana. ‘he event cre- | | | | | | | debt to contend against; no adequate rev ated some excitement in this country, and the no foreign eret 1 even lacks the fer popular voice fully sustained the President ary to pi in recommending to Congress io present the | captain with a sum of $100 ch was imme- diately voted, The two cases are parallel in | a sale ofa p a of his northera terri- | every respect but two. In the former, the | sfor just as much money mid | tierd had but a short distance to traverse | support him for a few years. 1 has done: | with the shipwreeked Americaus, while th | and, mean aseulmed the Three Bells had some six hundred miles to Mexican pride by protesting travel with our countrymen. It did not appe: hatred to the Ur ted Sts moreover, that the former ran any rek ia witi that he would not part with achieving his deed of merey. while Captain | Mexican territ When the nis about to | Creighton risked his life and bis ship by cling- be fulfilled be will be in a ion to » | ing to the San Francisco throughout the storm sile where consent might be wantin Per These circumstances would scem to suggest thermore, it not improbable that he may | such an increase in the amount of the reward endeavor to allay the public anno as may be deemed proportionate to taeir im- portance. ig intrigue ame me henrecky Saxare America, ani attempting to compensate v at, Evrcriox.--The Hon. northern loss by an accession of territory ov | John J. Crittenden, after a recess of several the south. years, has been re-elected to the Uni States So far as we are concerned the treaty pre- | Senate from Kentucky. Thisis a gond move It would add wo States to the Union: and there cannot be a doubt that they would seek admis- States. Their admission would give a decided preponderance to the South and the siave in the national Such a prospect may well cause General Pierce. Mr. Marey, aud the other Wilmot Proviso con- sents two important aspects. for the whigs, whether they intend to aitempt a reorganization upon the remains of their old platform or upon a new one, for Crittenden has proved himself a good manager in the mat- ter of Presidential elections. At this jancture, too—all the old whig aspirants being out of the way—-Mr. Crittenden is himsel{ one of the most available candidates of the remains of the old whig party, and perhaps their most availa- ble man, for the succession. He will be an ac- quisition to the Senate, bat we presume that his pr‘sent re-election to that body is rather with reference to the campaign of 1856 than on account of his skill and ability in debate. Nearly all the candidates for the Presidency are just now in the Sevate, and they may safels regard the return of Crittenden as one more added tothe number. Among the democrats there are Cass, Douglas. I on the whig side the question lies between Ey erett aud Critieuden, Whe comes next? or three new sion as slave interest councils spirators of 1818, to pause, hesitate, doubt and tremble. ‘Their organ may well deny the truth of the treaty; it will reck little for its own loss ofcharacter provided it can, by throwing doubts on the revelation, afford its masters an opportu- nity of strangling the Gadsden treaty in the some dark and secret lor cradle, or deteating it by mieans. late, such manwuvre; the treaty mast see the light, it is now too however, any and the President and his Cabinet must face the danger To the country that danger wears a most for- midable aspect. Tue presentation to the Senate Tne Last Humbug-The Great « Mo:quito | Shepherd & Co. hurried to Cape Gracias Grant.” Dios—where the mighty Robert Charles Freder- ‘The public has Jately been assailed, in athou- | je held court, au naturel, in a hammock sus- | sard ways. with the information that a part of pended between two trees, while his fifteen wives | the famous “Mosquito Kingdom” has been pur- caught fish for his sustenance— and straight- | chased by a company of American speculators; way procured from him, through means of the and certain wiseacres of the press have in- | y.ua} appliances, a revocation of all the grants | dulged in profound conjectures as to the proba- | made by his predecessors. This revocation was ble effect of this circumstance on the future of the whole South, and of all those men in | lim at once, and we trust it will be alike wor- | | politics and relations of Central America. The ! systematic manner in which the affair has been | dinned in the public ear has alone been sufli- cient to convince all, except the most intensely verdant, that the pretended purchase, with its dependant grand scheme of colonization, is mere moonshine, of the least tangible and most difuted kind. It would be giving the matter far more attention than it deserves to devote avy great space to its exposure; still. as there may possibly be persons shallow and stupid enougb to be taken in by the engia- eers of this fraud. it is only our duty to put them on their guard. We do this on the same principle that our city reporter exposes over and over again the trick of the drop game. aud the mystery of the mock auction: for the reason, in short. that the fools are not all dead, and that while they live knaves will impose upon them. Now, every man of ordinary intelligence knows that the so-called “* Mosqaito King dom” is a fiction, and that the whole the territory which England bas, from time to ime, for purp ses of ber own. claimed on be- half of the harlequin“ Mosquito King,” belongs Central America, viz, Nicaragua and Hondu- ras. This august monarch has, therefore. no territory to dispose of. His serene father, ne- vertheless—to whom the Kaglish agents gave, simultaneously, a pair of breeches, and the sonorous name of “Robert Charles Frederick” — conceived himself a mighty monarch, when he was drunk, which he always was when he had the wherewithal. Jamgica rum, it should be premised, is aroyat luxury in “ Mosquito;? aud to obtain it, the potent Robert Charles Fre » Esau-! sold out his kingdom. This was not done at once, but piecemeal, as the rum ran and the monarch waxed thirsty. The sales, or rather grants, commenced in 1838, The first was to John Sebastian Rennie “for and in consideration of the sum of €1.000." and professed to convey to this gentleman abso- lute sovereignty over a section ofcountry within the jurisdiction of the State of Honduras, and where no Mosquito Indian ever lived, except perhaps in the capacity of aservaat to the Spani: The “ cousideration” of low, ish inhabitants. one thousand pounds, being interpreted into English, means divers barrels of rum and a bale of red check cottons! As this grant is the model on which all the subsequent ones w: made, changing only the designation of tervito- ries and the names of the grantees. we insert it in full GRANT TO JOHN SEBASTIAN REYNICK. Be it known by these presents, and by vosterity, that we, Robert Charles Frederick, Kiog of the Mos: quito be made to us,and to oor naton, by John Seles tian Revnick, of the city of London. merchant, and in consideration of the sum of £1000, whieh sad Revuick has paid us, and the receyt of waica we ledge, with our own free will, we grant end convey by the same, under seg Kingdom, in tavor of said John Sebastian Reauick, rs sod representatives forever, all she river located between 15 ¢ez. 48 mn. N. lav, te distance o v k of said river, from its moush as far ) Kuaits, (according to,the map of Com. the cultivatab!e lands, meadows, pate Oven) vich lis heirs and vemesentatives sla | pocsess seid lands and prop ith | incabitunte of save lands, & right to Hl to go in or m, aod to id waters inor 29j the pars of our and all aid dis And the all have the nircbuitons, taxes, awd thout tet or hin « ‘y may introduce forei, » ani col &e., sors, | subjec © sad Renivick, tas hers o right to umpose and recevve | dutios, such ws they shell deem proper, upon and | from the nialatants of satd district, and upon goods “which moy be imported or expurted, avcordng to the | mse and cwstoms of European nations. And, { lastly, we renc or all future tome, th t to | impose dutus or taxes of every hind «, | haodtants of said district, the persons or property, | end upon oods which may be wnported or ¢ ported, §« ‘ And we. all our subjects, bind our | make good this our will. Done, and sealed with the seal of our kingdom, the 20th cay of September, 1835. OBkRT CuaRL¥s FREDERIK. Signed snd sealed before the witnesses, who | equally bave signed, James Bowben, | a R. Baown, | Geo. Papoin, | Kowanp Davis. On the 28th of January following, (7. ¢. Jan. 28, 1899.) the mighty monarch of Mosquito. tor ations, ‘granted and conveyed” to Samuel Shepherd, Peter Shep- herd, and S. T. Haly, Jamaica trade an- other large portion of his pretended dominions, embracing atl the country between “Great river and Blewlields river, and beiween Blewfields river and the Rio San Juan,” including the port of San Juan, then, and from time immemorial. in the occupation of Nicaragua. Another grant was soon afier made, to the same parties, of all the country south of the San Juan river, includ- halt of Costa Rica, and extending into the territories of New Granada; and, finally, Feb. 1 1889, all of the islands of the coast were grant- edaway—and if another barrel ot ram had been added, no doubt “King Robert Charles Frede- rick” would have granted the State of New York to the Shepherds and their associates. Of course, the Jamaica trailers, in their new capacity of sovereigns, were not slow proving advantages of their new | equally potent the sition. They subdivided their t¢ converting their titles sort of transmissible paper, some of which wa actually negotiated in Belize and Jamaie: on the ‘Change of London. The credit of this peper was, of course, not very high with those who stopped to inquire into its origin: and the standing of the Mosqnito monarch amongst the potentates of the world, was not particularly calculated to inspire confidence. Nevertheless, a considerable number of British subjects be came involved in the speculation. and for awhile talked much of the Isthmus of Nicaragua aud the immense value of the desert sands which border the Mosquito shore. Indeed, so far was the delusion carried, that a large sale of the sranted lauds was made to a Prussian company, which proceeded to establich a colony on the coast, at the mouth of the Blewtields river, where the wretched victims of the fraud soon ound miserable graves. Before the bubble burst, however, it was found that “George Frederick,” the father of the liberal “Robert Charles Frederick,” had previously shingled over his alleged dominions with grants. The holders of these, finding the Shepherds making a noise in the world, hunted up their old papers, and, in virtue of priority, claimed the whole “kingdom!” Horcupon, of to the sovereign and independent republics of ation, considering the services which may made May 25, 1841, Not long after Robert Charles Frederick died in a drunken frolic. and Pat Walker, the British agent on the Mosquito shore, set up in his place “George William Clarence.” better known as »Gallinipper the First.” Gallinipper is the ebony youth who now wears the imperial purple of * Mosquito.” Almost the frst act of Gallinipper the First, in obedience to orders from England, was to revoke the grants of “Robert Charles Freder- ick,” in manner the same as that worthy bad revoked the grants of his predecessors. Now, as the grants then revoked are precisely those which certain adventurers, (having received an assignment of half of them from Peter Shepherd, who lives in miserable poverty in San Juan,) are now endeavoring to palm off in the United States. we insert the “ revocation” by “ George William Clarence,” otherwise Gallinipper, in fall -— RKVOCATION NO. If. inasmuch as it is votorious that almost all the ces- sions of 190d mde in the kingdom of Mosquito, and, probably, ail of them, have beea inpropciiy obtarey ed Irom the lute King; tnat no equivaleut whatever for them, vor the promised services bave bean lest; and, inasmuch as many of tue cessionaries have cb tained such cessious from the late king wea he was not in hes seund juagment, (i.e. orunk.) snd as gad cesstons despoil the sucvessor of the late king of territorial juri-dictin in his kiogdom, aad of his “hereditary night-;” and, Inasmuch as sui! cesona ries have oofained said ces-ions, not for the porpase of colonizstion and improvement of the couvtry, but mere y to spec wate with thea in London and other places; y gist! Ana whereas, the greater part of said cession is actually in the possession of poor, insolvent men, and inreal distre i s never having fulfiled their daty of occupying said lands, though the most recent of said cessions bears dute Jaly 27, 1541; and as the acknowledgment of the validity of said ces | sion uld be subversive of the just rights of the | present king, and destractive of the inter f the | comry, and may cause to the deceive higrants preater sufferings even th those thet they have | hitnert experienced—Therefure, tt is necessary and | cowvenrent for the seeuruy, honor and welfare of this | kingdom, that said cesstons be annulled” and’abol- | ished. Re i | ties of land, agreed and obtained previous to the | Sth ot Ocwher, 1841, are forever avnulled and abol- | ished, ke, &e. ed ) 3x0RGE WiLLtAM CLARKNCE. his revocation, as we have said, was ordered | from England. In the report drawn up by | Macgregor for the British Parliament, and printed by its order, he observes that certain English traders had “acquired such an influ- | ence over his sottish majesty,”” (irreverently | meaning thereby King Robert Charles Freder- | ick!) that they had obtained grants from him of “about two-thirds of his whole territory. Miese grants,” continues Macgregor, “having | been extorted from him when he was in a state | of mind incapable of judging right from wrong, | were very properly disallowed by the British government, as ‘guardian of the young King George William Clarence.” Ever since this revocation in 1814, Peter Shepherd, the only survivor we believe of the has been swinging in his hammock in vn de Nicaragua, and talking constantly | of his precious grants. He is blind, and in | great poverty. fs We now come to the pith of the matter. | About a wwugo an American speculator, iv quest of adventures, found himself in San Juan, minus cash, credit, and eosmetics, He beard Shepherd's story, and the old man grasped | eagerly at the adventurer’s proposal to revive therefore deerced, that said concessions and { Sand tits, waters, woods, forests, streams, and water | his claims. A bargain was soon struck—and falls, firhernes, duvies, aud ri, belonging to said | this is the sole and only basis of all the rubbish | le 1 . Said Ho . * Jeng, orany part of them ver, Fea—Said Kom | with which the papers have teemed on th: ject. The adventurer and his associates }) that a crisis is approachivg in Centra! Ameri and that the various questions there must soon he brought to some sort of an adjustment. Aud when the general clearance takes place they hope to realize something by the vehement prosecution of their claim. A Washington cor- | respondent very naively remarks that it “does not require much capital to secure an interest in this scheme,” and we believe him. The whole aflair is a palpable farce, and its prose- cution is the most audacious experiment on the publie guilibility which we have ever been called upon to expose. The country geographically known as the Mosquito shore falls entirely within the terri- tories of Nicaragua and Honduras, and all grants of lands made there, whether by Gaili- nipper or his predecessors, revoked or not re- voked, are worth precisely as much as if they had been made by the monarch who figures so conspicuously in the sea canticles as “ King of the Tongo Islands.” Tuk Wasurseton Union ann tHe Sovne Doris.—The organ of the administration comes bravely up to the rescue of the younger Soulé and the elder Soulé, and puts their vindication upon the broad American doctrine that— When there 's a lady in the case, Of courre all other things give place. ‘This doctrine is older than the Monroe doc- trine—older than the resolutions of 98 and *99— older than Father Ritchie—older than the con_ stitution of the United States—yea, it is old as the hills. 1¢ goes back to the first principles of Adam and Eve. {t is a doctrine which has stood the test of all time. and which cannot be upset. Here in the United States it is the su- preme Jaw the land. The defence of the Soulés is impregnable--it rests upon a rock. The younger Soulé. then, in calling out the } Duke of Alba. did well—in fact, he did very well. Ue isa chip of the old block—he is a trump. ‘The elder Soulé was not far out of the way in puttiog a bullet into the leg of the French minister. Ina word, the vindication of our government organ is satisfactory—highly satisfactory. The younger Soulé has done very well; and the elder Soulé has done well. “All's well that ends well.” Let us hope and pray, then, that we bave had the end of this contro- versy, and that, as soon as possible, our chival- rie minister will proceed to open his negotia- tions for the acquisition of Cuba. No time to be lost. Having had the pistols and coffee, now let us have the island. of One of the most | remarkable collections of Egyptian anttquities | in the world, (collected by Doctor Abbott.) is now on exhibition at the Stuyvesant Institute. It contains articles of extreme rarity and great value. Every department is good; and yet, strange to say, this exhibition is entirely de- serted for such ones as nigger concerts, Uncle Tom’s Cabins, woolly horses, “General” Tom Thumb, and others of Barnum’s humbugs. If you visit the hall in the daytime you may find a solitary individual wondering at and ad- miring the remains of a great people who flourighed three or four thousand years ago. In the ev¥ning be may be reinforced by two or three OWtors, And such ie Now York taste! Post Orrices ann Mam. Roppenes.—It was stated by the Assistant U. S. District Attorney, on the late trial of Rossie, for robbing the New York Post Office, that these robberies were be- coming slarmiogly frequent. Within a few years past we ourselves have had some sad expericnce in this line, quite a number of re- mittances said to have heen made to us from different points having failed to reach us. We are inclined to think that this compara- tive insecurity of the mails arises ina great degree from a failure to enforce the lawe thorougbly when detections take place: a mis- taken eympatby arising in behalf of the ac- cused, extending sometimes, we fear, to jurors themselves. The penalties provided by Congress. are severeenough perhaps, though not so severe as they are in England and many other couns tries, where such offences are of very rare oc- currence, and where punishment is sure to follow detection. Another fruitful source of these crimes in this country is the frequency of the exercise of the pardoning power by the Executive of the vation when convictions are obtained. It is very seldom that a person sent to the State prison fur mail robbery serves out his sentence, and in some instances within our recollection a pardon has been granted even before sentence was passed, and in many so0a after. Now this is all wrong; and is not only un- just tothe public but to the thousands of young men employed in our Post Offices, and sur- rounded by strong and constant temptations, unlike those of almost any other business em- ployment. Let it once be understood that every Post Office clerk. or other mail robber, when detected, is to suffer the fall penalty, and the correspondence of this country would be comparatively safe-- much safer, we think, than it is at present. There should be more care taken, also in the selection of persons for such important and responsible places of trust, A post office is the last place that should be used for the reward of political services, which use, we fear, is too often made of it under the present system of party politics. If there is. any branch of the public service where the Jeffersonian text of honesty, faithfulness and capacity, ought to be strictly applied, it is this, for the facilities and temptations for wrong- doing are vastly greater than almost any other public occupation, And we are happy to state that Judge Campbell, our present efficient Postmaster-General, requires a strict adberence to that test, on the part of his Deputy Post- masters, in the appointment of their assistants: and clerks, In conversation with one of the eeial agents of the Post Office Department recently, we were somewhat surprised to learn that a good share of the losses by muil complained of in the large cities are traced to the dishonesty of porters and clerks employed in conveying letters to and from the Post Office. 11 appears that within the past year quite a number of detections among this class of persons have taken place in this city; but the parties gener- ally being young, and not connected with the Post Office, the matter is usually treated as a breach of trust, and left to be settled between them and their employers. We are inclined to think that the Post Offices have had to be answerable for these depredatione by ontsiders toa greater extent than has been imagined, and that merchants aod others are by no means suficiently careful as to who they entrust with their valuable correspondence. We know of several firms who have been the victims of numerous losses by mail within a few months past, where the agent of the Post Office Depart- ment has succeeded in finding the rogue among their own employes. Others should § profit by these discoveries. Errect or ‘tim Recent Drsasrer ox News- rarens.—-We have seldom seen the public avi- dity tor news more strikingly manifest than since the intelligence of the loss of the San Francisco reached the city. Peculiar cireum- stances enabled us to give much faller narra- tives of the disaster than any ot our cotempo- raries; and in consequence the demand for the Herat has been so great, that had we been able to print one hundred thousand copies a day we have ‘no doubt they would have been sold; as it was, our sales nearly reached sixty thousand on Saturday, and fifty thousand yes- terday. We republish this morning the main points of the news contained in yesterday’s issue, in order that those who were unable to procure a copy of yesterday’s Herat may be posted up. Apropos of this subject, the course pursued by our cotemporaries illustrates the principles on which they are conducted, and supplies a point to their assumptions of peculiar morality and rectitude. On Saturday morning our ac- count of the disaster was twice as long and as fall as any other, and comprised a narrative by a passenger which was extensively read. On Saturday evening this narrative—which we published exclusively—appearcd in the Times, | Tribune. and Express. The Tribune had the honesty to append, in almost im- perceptible characters, the word ‘Hwerany” to its extract from our columns. The Times and Express stole it without a word of acknowledgment. They transferred to their columns our intelligence, which had cost us exertions and money, and passed it off as their own. Now, we don’t want to interfere with our cotemporaries, or to cavil at their mode of doing business, but we must make one sugges- tion. Our correspondents object to figure as correspondents of the Times, Express, or any other second-rate paper. For their sake, there- fore, and to spare their feelings, we will make a proposal to the Z'imes and Express. The next time they want to give as full an account of passing events as the Hrran, let their editors call at our office: we will lend them fifty or a hundred dollars, (it shall be a present to the Express.) and then they may farnish their readers with news without stealing it. Weare ready to make this sacrifice for the sake of public morality alone. Lecauization or Axatomy.—A petition has been sent to the State Legislature, signed by Dre. Mott, Paine, Bedford and others, praying that the practice of dissection be legalized. We cannot conceive how the Assembly and Senate can refuse so reasonable a request. There was a time when doctors who cnt up dead men’s bodies were regarded as a species of ogres, whom a sort of timidity in the courte alone preserved trom condign punishment. The means by which they obtained corpses was confounded with the use they made of them; and @ body snatcher and a surgeon became in many places almost convertible terms. Simple people forgot that all that was really criminal in the surgeon's act was the necessary conse- quence of the illiberality and stupidity of the law; and that, in point of fact, the benefit con- ferred upon humanity by the dissection of the