The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-12
BY y II E n AILB.
WASHINGTON, March

WASHINGTON, MarchlO, 1si7.
The Peace wiM Merico.
After all Gen. Benton and the President have
failed to come to an understanding. The powers
asked, either military or diplomatic, were too
comprehensive to be granted, all things consider
cd Gen. Benton has had several long confer
enoes with the President, and the President with
the Cabinet, upon the important business of an
agent to renew our rejected overtures for peace;
audit is supposed that Mr.. Walker, whose influ.
ence with the President is equivalent to that of
any man OF the Cabinet, or any other man, was
largely instrumental in defeating the project of
the expectant diplomatico generalissimo in all its
parts.
Notwithstanding all this, we expect somebody
will be sent down, and we further expect that in
formation is in possession of the Executive. def
nite and official, of the desire of the supreme au-
thonties IN Mexico to enter upon negotiations for
the settlement oil boundaries and indemnities in
consideration OF the three millions bonus or bona
fde, or D'dgnmm 6onun, whatever you NAV
please to can 1t and, what is better than all, we
expect that before three months shall have
elapsed, peace will be concluded between the
acting plenipotental functionaries of the two
governments thus closing, to the universal con-
ordinations OF the tax-paying people, all appre-
tensions as to the probable nterminable duration
the war.
BY reference to the map, which we had not at
convenient command yesterday, but to which we
subsequently referred, not satisfied with the YER
bal assurance OF friend who ought to know, we
find that San Diego and Monterey, on the Pacific,
are below the compromise line OF 36. 80, but that
San Ffacsco, as every body knows, is some dis.
lance above that line, with It's spacious capacious
serene, picturesque, and delicously practical ana
poetical mountain bound harbor Suppose we
hammer it out into a bit of doggere -
Oh! the bay Of San Francisco,
With its deep and tranquil tide
Wherein the commerce Of the world,
And all its fleets may ride,
10 bound with mountains all around
rampart old as time
Nor csn the driatic boast
moro delicious cline.
There, now we think thatll do, In n matter
Of fact dissertation small dose Of poetry is sui.
hcient ionic. We expect a peace, and we expect
,hs harbor but the difficulties Of the mountains
ana the intervening deserts cut il off from
any easily accessible communication ACROSS 10
Sana re aud the Rio Grande. Ii will have tn
90 essentially tho Pacific harbor-the half wav
mouse Oh me Pacific Iade-the wood and water.
ing depot Tor whalers from the North ard msr.
49,, . ,ps from around Cape Hon-the com.
world, opening to the broad vi .no
smut out IRON the interior co,,;nsss' IT. ~
inland communication must he 60 ~ Inc
tepec iaf 10 the soutnward, or from m. -, e,,
u .ne Ooium 10 lar 70 the northward Thai San
FfancscoAs to be ours in perpetuitv /. a. naa Dan
as that 1t IS ours by actual occupation W. M
lore speak oil 1t as question of iurs,I,c,ssieIe-
cepting IN the Formally Of a treaty. aIread, e1-
tabllshed. '""y es-
In the event of treaty in the in,er,san 3.
is probable the Senate will be called ,oga,s IN, u
Washington, for its ratification: but tha, 80 az
are now any probabilities visible i'm the futu,a 70
an extraordinary convention of Congress ,ya = 81 ~
ceiVs TO be answered by the extraordinary pro vi
ss1s mace a. the late session, in loans and tro a,
sury notes, ana also IN the extraordinary bill Of