Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-27
We find in late number Of the government
paper the following paragraph:


paper the following paragraph:
"The National nteligencer is still true its vocation
of guessing thngs of high importance which in the
of Transaction medtaed by the Executive De-
pamen of Government and of catching at gimpses of
those designs behind the curtain through indirect and through
unofficial channels 1t gives another notable instance, in this
mornings paper of this propensity by quoting from Wash
ngon letter of the New York Journal of Commerce some
idle speculation concerning treaty about to be made
which has been made with somebody in Mexico, which
Commissioner (Alr. Tst) recognises a Government We
suspect, with the Baltimore Clipper of this morning. that
slitte confidence is to be placed in such rumor !"
When our eye first lit upon the paragraph thus
beginning with the name of the National Inte-
gencer, &c. we supposed of course that the gov
eminent paper was about either to confirm or to
contradict something, either of fact or inference,
which had appeared in this paper. But how stands
the fact!
Looking in vain to the official paper for informa-
ton as to the actual state of affairs according the
latest official information from Mexico-whch, by
the way, the Administration seems to us to have no
right to withhold from the Public, unless making it
public might defeat its measures-it has become
duty to look to other sources, not restrained,
the Union evidently is, from imparting what has
come to the knowledge of the Executive. From
one of those sources we have received and. commu-
ncated TO our readers certain information If that
information be unfounded nothing could be more
easy for the organ of the Government than say that
it is SO. Well what says the /" Union,' after an
affectaion of derding what it preends TO regard as
ambiguous reports Does it undertake to deny
altogether the truth of those reports Not at ALL
What then Why, true to It's vocation !" Of OBJ
securing and mystfyng every thing and every action
connected with the Government, all that it has to
say is /" We suspect that little confidence is to be
placed in such rumor." Really If the gov
eminent paper had nothing more TO say than this,
it would have been more wise TO have held its
tongue.
We do not know how tmay strike others but,
to our mind, this mode of treating the rumor is as
good proof positive that it is wel-grounded, and
that, according to the latest official accounts from
Mexico, negotiation of some sort was on foot be-
tween Mr.. TRIsT and the Mexican authorities. We
would wager Thanksgiving turkey upon the fact
But, to be more serious in matter of so much
consequence, we are glad TO say the rtnmor is con-
6rmed in journal upon which the Administration
itself occasionally leans its own great for sup
port. We refer TO the New York Herald, whose
Washington correspondence, of one days later date
than the quotation made by us from the correspon-
dence of the Journal of Commerce, notices the
rumor.
Correspondents of other papers, also, known TO
be in the confidence of the Administration, SUBJ
stantialy confirm these statements of communica-
tions passing between the Commissioner of the
United States and the Mexican Government