Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-07-18
MEXICAN Claims ON the United states.

A Washington letter to the New-York Express
says:
have seen to-day foretaste of the claims which
the government of Mexico is preparing against the
government of the United States for not fulfilling
the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hdalgo These
claims coming here in shoals, and those saw
to-day in the hands of SIM gle individuals to the
amount of $1,000. The gentleman who held them
a Mexican, and in his opinion the whole amount
of new claims will exceed sixteen millions eff dollars
They grow out of violation of the article of the
treaty by which the United States pledged to
protect the Mexicans on the frontiers from Indian
depredations and spoatons They demand remu-
neration for houses burnt, cattle driven off and
general waste, they say, to the amount of millions
The Mexican Minister has already called the at
tention of our government to these demands, and
will push them home upon this government with
earnestness aud determination. If our government
should be ultimately great loser from these de-
mands the wrong will fall upon Congress, which
over and over again had its attention called by the
President and Secretary of War to this most ohjec-
tionable feature in the treaty 1t was one however,
which the Mexicans deemed essential to their safe
ty and without it they declared they would not rat
ify the treaty.
have just referred to the treaty and the article
upon this subject in that treaty upon which reliance
placed for the recovery of losses by Indian depre
datOns. This provision reads in which
does not warrant the construction put upon it by the
Mexican authorities, those who in Mexico are
of the treasury. Says the treaty, article l
1t is olemnly agreed that all such incursions shall be
forciby restrained by the of the United States
whenever this may be necessary and that whenever that
cannot be prevented they shall be punished by the said
eminent and satisfaction for the shall be exaced all
in the way and with equal diligence and energy
the same neursions medated committed within its
own territory against its citizens,''
JENNY LIND HER HARTFORD RECEPTIoN-The people
of Hartford Con- soey wounded consequence of the
treatment Jenny Lind received there and the mob is
SAID to be ashamed The Hartford papers full of discus
sons about it. A writer in the Courant says:
She was invited to to Hartford by the Governor
the State OF Connecticut by the Mayor and others They
undoubtedly promised her enthusiastic reception; they
certainly did not invite her to entertain commonwealth
barbarians She reluctant to Overcoming hel
reluctance spite of the inconvenience of hiring special
train at her expense in order to be able fulfil her
gagemcns in Albany she here Her greeting, she
mounts the stage is such to excite hopes of being
rouy treated but, for the first time in her life she finds he
exquisite voice drowned in the abusive shouts of mob She
hures through her is then obliged escape thro
back window into back yard, and thence into a back
street. inquire the way the depot person accdent
met to sit in dark for upwards of hour to avoid the
crowd and then make almost midnight escape from
city and State We would not for ourselves dread deep
er damnation worldwide than to sit down in the estimation
OF Others where Hartford must at this moment stand in tn
memory of Jenny Lind"