American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-22
The Mexican Commission,

> The Philadelphia North american Of yester
day contains well-elaborated article upon thi
subject, from which we quote the following
paragraph:
"Justice and the law requires US to believ,
the indicted innocent until they are proved
guilty; and the general surprise at the actor
of the grand jury is an indication in favor O
the GARDENERS, which must continue to hay,
weight until stronger circumstances appear be-
fore the public than have been yet exhibited
against them. Neither of them has acted lik,
guilty men. The one in whose name the claim
was admitted went to Europe some time after
the adjournment of the Board and the paymen,
OF the award, leaving the bulk of his funds in
the hands of bankers at Washington"
"Leaving the bulk of his funds in the hands
of bankers at Washington" About this state
ment of our Philadelphia contemporary we have
some doubt. If DR.. Gardiner did leave the
bulk of his funds in the hands of bankers al
Washington" we would like to know, and SO
no doubt would the public like to know, the
amount of that " bulk" We hear from various
sources, that Mr.. Corcoran, the banker, has
declared his knowledge of the fact, that DR..
Gardiner deposited some hundreds of thousands
of dollars with bankers in this city But we
have not heard Mr.. Corcoran himself make such
declaration, nor have we seen any statement
of the fact with his name to it, either in manu-
script or print. And further, Mr.. Corcoran was
before the Court, in the case of John Carlos
Gardiner, and stated the fact that Dr. Gardiner
had left ten thousand dollars on deposite in this
city to the credit of John Carlos Gardiner, but
not one word did he utter as to any other funds,
or the "bulk of his funds, which Dr. Gardiner
had left in the hands of bankers at Washington.
This is the piece of information that the public
are curious to know, and that the Government
ought to know; and yet Mr.. Corcoran did not
divulge it, nor do we know that the vigilance
of the prosecuting officers and the Court caused
either the one or the other to ask him any lead
ing question to draw from him the fact, whether
he knew or not that DR.. Gardiner had left "the
bulk of his funds in the hands of bankers at
Washington"
1t seems to us, if the Government has evil
dence that the Gardiner and Mears claims were
spurious-and the awards on them, amounting
to upwards Of half million of dollars, were
wrong-the fact as to where the "bulk" of
the funds SO awarded is deposited ought to be
ascertained as speedily as possible, SO that an
injunction, or attachment, might be forthwith
put upon it.
We have it from what we regard as good au-
thority, that if there has been fraud connected
with any of our public affairs, there is one man
who will omit no possible means of bringing it
to light. That man is WILLARD FILLMORE.
We spoke Of DR.. DAVIS yesterday and it
would perhaps be well to explain that our pur-
pose was not an unfriendly one. We have been
informed that the papers relating to the sus-
pected case have by order of the President been
placed in the hands of the District Attorney
| and that others remain in the keeping Of DR..
Davis only for the purpose of being put in per-
feet order. They are not, however, in the STATE
| Denorfuenf