The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-08

eaties, which, 10 me, was rather vague aAd ialfe
msrk.S an sss .A e had ssi.hed lsughias -
any Stnsr advice. the nerchant must have Ssssl
c0mnae1ce IN the transactSn. "Oh," said hs. sko
vii Vii UNI ar y my hurt; bssidsa :
! .ao.as $3.50 ~ ~n,e much, - some of these Yu1np.
their hands nnsuan' and the letter might fall iAte
few days after, he LEFT Merida for tho B.,iss.,
w;1s ~ On NUE. accompanied by his servant.
the Indian war which was raging in Yuests.' -
view Of which, observed to him that tho"vA, m
dangerous to cross the peninsula ut such time.
siness better than to modest me- besides, these Cen
trail states must eventually become colonies"
=, Some time after this ! left Merida foe
Chiapas, on the borders Of Guatemala, aud
there l found that revolution had broken out
IN tho latter place, and that Carera had submitted
to voluntary exile-ths was his story On my re-
turn to the coast, found that he had arrived 6
Laguna the day before arrived About eight OF
ten foreigners called upon him there, myself snon6
the rest. lle received Us very cautiously, bue
was somewhat reserved until he ascertaned we were
all foreigners. lie is not pure Indian, but APP
pears to have quito share Of African blood in his
veins In the course Of conversation, he observed
That he had been represented as the enemy to all
whites: but It was not so, as he was under particu-
lar Obligations to foreigners for his success; bat
that the times had changed since 3D. 40 and ha
was going TO Havana to await the issue Of events;
lndeea he mad already bespoke his passage on board
from Tabasco, and had an interview with him; the
result OF which was, the stranger returned to Ia
basco, taking Canera with him, who immediately
retraeed ms steps across the country to Guatemala,
and was there proclaimed the head d the republic:
and it is distinctly understood through British
agents, all the old Spanish families are against
him. They arc weak; but they view it in the same
light that we should, if Great Britain had the
power, and were to use it successfully in putting
down President FillmOre's administration and plac-
ing Frederick Douglas in the chair
Last March, just one year ago, British man-of-
WI urD al Inn nd IN
about four weeks. during which time the officers
made complete survey Of the port. The citizens
were surprised at the movement, as there arc cor
rect charts of the harbor published both in Lon
don and New Iork The officers, when questioned
a. to the motive of this survey, replied that
the British admiralty had ordered it, and that was
came on shore, and he had no official comm tnica-
ton with the municipal authorities. This bay ia
the only harbor along the southern shore of tho
Gulf Of Mexco-all the Other ports being merely
open roadstcads or shallow inets. 1t was under
stood that they were to survey the whole coast Of
the peninsula, from the river San Pedro to Ralize-
This port, (Laguna) it is we'll known, is the great
depot for logwood, and England alone receives
from here nearly 100000 tons annu Ally. Now.
when this fact is taken into consideration, added
the circumstance of the constantly decreasing sup
ply ut honduras, Il requires prophet to foretcl
where the British lion win next let fall his paw
am sick Of party adulation, whose only cry is,
"gleat statesman-great statesman" as if that
parrot echo could drown the thunders of remon-
STRANGE proceeding from the heart of an indignant
people, relative to our foreign relations. When
Statesmen meet together at at public dinner, and
beslaver each other like two koyesck youths it il
easy to be that moral energy is wanting t.
meet the willy diplomacy Of an INSCRIPTIONS and
graspng empire. 1t is very easy to write hcroios
to a distant hemisphere like Austria but the pee
pie, (and they seldom wrong) will question the
sincerity Of this patriotic cbullition when they be-
hold the standard of freedom striker down to the
dust on the only highway from one part of the 70
public to the other while our own citizens are COM
PEELED to PROSTATE themselves before the British
Cerberus, who lies crouching in our path. Shah
empire. The question cannot be answered too soon.
which shall cndc;tvor to show, if you think this
communication worth publishing.
An AMERICAN.