The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-02-05


Branch, u in tbis that he makes the exporter psy
for smusgliDe than he amount Of par paid
governmsn mt in the regular mode ng besides,
ri to the point OF smbsrkstiou. Hos he oou,d
have fallen upon such On error, 1T loss TO sx.
plsp fcr tho duty specis tor expectation Il we'll
known 70 every MIR Tile man WAC has do No busins.s
In Mexico, any other fact nectsd with his
.n" sh so ss oyas m vi
gle, and IN sddion TO what the custom house on
T. expected 10 get sugmsnts the amount 70 much
than paid IN regular duty to the msnt. IL 10
such psipabio a. to b. detected BY
every man Of business ~ may discredit your paper
letter my psrsonsi kne wsdgs Of tho smuggling silver
In bsrs do choose to sub.oribe my but tho
name has nothing to do with the facts Are they true,
are they not! Ask Mr. H OF your city.
(Frsm the London Standard, Ian 81
Tho following official document has been re-
celved from the Mexican government, by the Com
mittee OF Spanish American B0ndholders relative
10 the appropriation OF export duties on silver from
the Mexican ports on the Pacific:-
TRANSLATION OF rHa ORDERS TRANSMITTED sv The
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO THE PORTS IN THE PACIFIC
RELATIVE TO THE DUTIES ON silver.
N. T .nc osts s.::. TO the ministers
The duties the IMPORTATION Of silver through the
ports Of the Pacific having boon mortgssed for tho
being necessary that such obligation should have tho
moet perft OF and punctusl ompeton also to avoid
Of the creditors the oeUtr.Ssnd that has
been carried In the afores cid ports In the shipment
Of silver. bis Exoslienoy the President taking into
confederation the communication which bis Exc-lsncy
Der Britannia Msjssty's Minister the 9th Of Ooto
Der, 1874 sddrtssed TO the House and Foreign Ooes
has been pleased to resolve that the commissioners Of
the maritime custom houses Of the South Sea ports.
Immediately upon receiving this ORDER shall communi
cate to the body that to be enabled 70 ship
property In Engh ships OF tho parties concerned
will require to make application to the maritime Gus
tom bouss for certificate. herein shall appear that
they have sosed the export duties pointed out by the
iaso wihou. wheh document the funds shall not &c
ce,red board Of the aforesaid pesse To that end
all persons Who may have export property shall pre-
vously to the shipment thereof apply to tho attorney
whom the holders Of the English bonds may have in
each port to sstfy the II cent Of the export du
ties correspond ding to such holders, such being the
proportion the government held free Of the Same du-
ties upon approving In the year last past of the agree
Mt entered into in London and with the receipts Of
the rforesaid attorney they sha present themselves
pay the 20 per cent remaining In the maritime
tom house. which ONCE IL to issue the regular permit
total amount Of the duties having been paid and
to which document the aforesaid attorney Of the
avoid such as might be made in the csrta
css that to be presented on board her Britannia
Msesys rhips, the commissioner Of the custom house
we'll ~ the attorney Of the bondholders, upon the
arrival port Of the said vessels to be careful
present their signatures to the officer charged with
cevipg the property him 10 take cognizsuos there
Of. The sums wh,ch the aforesaid attorney may re-
ceive shall be shipped board the very vessels oon-
signed to the house Of Messrs John Schneider Co.,
OF London having charge Of the payments Of the div
dends the contract for tae conversion Of
the debt. The maritime custom houses will be careful
that may be received by the attorney, and shall give
TO the treasury general due advice for such purposes
may concern II Which, by supreme order. state
to you for ysur information and for you oommuni-
cate the to the maritime custom houses for
observance and have the honor to insert the same
signed, "PIRRAY CUEvAS.
There il a very important point involved in the
above document, not previously understood. II Is
well known that large proportion OF the silver
annually brought from the Pacific by British ships
nj fat vne,. he Mnvo II 10 o,lUU1y
WeH k~or~ By the parties engaged IN the trade that
snSe giiWg the srcr board to Grade the duties has
hifhofo bec~ fracfised to great ertent. 1t will be
seen, however, that with the concurrence OF the
British government, provision snow made against
this evasion OF the duties; silver ID to be taken
On board our ships Of war without certificates at
testing their payment. This is a very important
question for the Mexican bondholders, and the
more especially as the officer taking charge OF the
bullion is TO bring the proportion OF the duties be-
longing to the bondholdors directly home to the
agents IN London. in fact from all that has trans
pred from the moment the Americans evacuated
Mexico, the government has acted with the most
perfect good faith in the fulilment Of every en-
gagemeHt made for the security OF the foreign
creditors.
INK CALIFORNIA GOLD srcRrEs-TuE SMUGGLING OF
TUK ENGLISH, ETC.
IFrom the Bostou Transcript, Feb. 81
Mr. Editor In a letter published IN your paper
OF Thursday evening, from Mr.. Stephen II. Branch
to the Nuo York Herald, there are some statements
should be manifested TO the public. Mr.. Branch
appears to have obtained his information from
gentleman at Panama, who was at San Francisco
In October, and had seen Suffer and the two men
who hrst discovered the mines, one OF whom had
grown nch and was boarding at the fremont Ho.
tel In Francisco. This may be true but that there
was ~ 900 worth OF gold dust carried about in
the belts OF individuals at that time, Is utterly alse
The writer possesses the most reliable information
from men OF high standing and experience, resd-
ing at San francisco at that period, who state
positively that the amount OF gold dust at tina
place In October in the hands Of individuals, did
not, at the very outside, come up TO 81 900 900;
that There were none there who could safely estl-
mate II even at that amount.
The same gentleman, also, 1t appears, stated to
Mr. Branch that the quicksilver mine was very
rich; This may be true; but that 500 men were
employed IN il is far from being correct; when the
proprietor OF this mine MIR. Forbes. OF Tepic,)
first commenced TO work 1t, he employed about
sixty laborers, most OF them Indians but the mo.
ment the discovery Of the gold mine was made
public, they nearly all left, aud in October there
were only about twenty-five workmen employed,
al tl0 per day each and, with that small force,
The mine yielded $500 per day clear profit Mr.:
Forbes is now 10 England, procuring apparatus and
means to enable hun to work the mine to much
greater advantage.
The same gentleman, il also appears. further liz
formed Mr. Branch that the firm OF Talbot u Co.,
OF the Sandwich Islands, had made most princely
fortunes In purchasing gold at % per ounce, paying
IN provisions, clothing, &c" and that they were
about retlring 10 England on their money"
Now the fact Is, that NO such firm az Talbot II
Co exists, or ever did exist, at the Sandwich Is.
lands. Al Mszatlan, there Is the firm Of Mott,
Talbot IL Co, the former an American, and the
latter an Inshman, who passed through this couu-
try IN December last, on his way TO Mazatlan, alter
an abs nee OF a year IN England and letters Of
very late date in this place, from Mr.. Mott, show
that he has made but very small fortune irom the
California gold mines.
And then, from the same gentleman, we are IA
l...I- -
tions in Mexico" He tells us that " che always
had vessels, as now, prewing about the coast un-
der the pretencc Of survey, but whose real object
was 10 smu2gle specie from Mexico, through Ma
yatlan and San Has, for the vaults OF the Bank OF
England That II 10 law 81 Mexico, that no specie
rhall be exported 10 foreign confines but that the
merchants, English, Scotch, German, &c secretly
he Up IN bags all the specie they get from the
Interior, and are favored by the British vessels Of |
var lowering OIL the coast, who take a from them,
nyipe them receipt TOR the amount, (to be can.