The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-14
CHAs. w. DAVIS,
Secfetary nf the late Rnard


the same evdsnSe and backed by certificates of character
of da%sss: s, 'sS'S' anu gwen gwen VA larger amount
| Secretary OF the late Board.
| Remarks By the Editors.-The implied CEN
sure " of the late Board of Commissioners did not,
as Mr.. Davis seems to suppose, originate with US.
We should be among the last persons in the world
| to believe that they deserve it. The censure was
| by the other NewYork paper, from which we COP
led the Tribune's article. We copied both the ar
tices under the impression that, when such cha r
| ges are thrown into circulation by newspapers of
any standing, they should be met. No criminality
could possibly attach to any board for being i'm
| posed on by forgeries but it is due to public JUS
tice that, if such forgeres have been perpetrated
the authors should be ferreted out and punished or
the innocent relieved from undeserved reproach
and calumny. 1t is due to the administrators Of
this Government, themselves men of high and I'M
mpeachable character, that they should not be
| msjudged and stigmatized by vague charges hint
ing at fraud somewhere, and leaving it to be in
ferred that high officers Of Government have moi
used due vigilance in discharge of their duty in
regard to it.
IL is estimated in some quarters at distance
| that the claimant, who fortunate enough to be
| the beneficiary of the large award said to be alu
ded to, received in reality but small part of the
amount. This, we understand, is error He
| received all the amount to which he was entitled
| He is now visitor to Europe, but will, we pre-
| sumo, soon return to take care OF his own reputa
ton, so roughly handled in the NewYork papers
From the New York Herad's Special Correspondent
| WASHINGTON, July 3.
The inquiry into the alleged fraud praCticsd b,
| DR., Gardiner upon the Mexican Commission, ha,
been turned over to Mr.. Fenda, District Attorney
for this District. Or. Charles w Davis Secretar,
of the late BOARD, Benjamin E. Green Isaac ID
Marks, A. S. Parrot, Mr.. Porte and Senior Cuesta
| OF the Mexican legation have been summoned By
the grand jury now sitting, and the three frs
named gentlemen were examined Today. Mr. Par
rott is now at Saratoga, but has been written for
He was formerly consul at Mazatlan. The fact,
developed to-day are, that Mr.. Porte, who is now
m New York, but was formerly merchant a
| Puebla, Mexico, the same gentleman who had tn,
tobacco dispute with ex-secretary Clayton sta tec
to Parrot that Gardiner had told him, just pre-
vIous 10 his SAILING, that his claim fraudulen
one, and had been sustained by forged paners go
up 10 Mexico, and that, as parties in Washington
had got the lions share out of it, he WAS deter
mined they should share the blame also A. soor
as Porte told this, Mr.. Curtis wrote TO the Presden
| informing him of il and demanded an invesliga
| tlon. The government, as yet, possesses no evi
dence beyond the alleged assertion of Gardiner
that fraud has been committed. Ii appears tina
| Senior Cuesta, interpreter TO the Mexican office
who certified to the genuineness of the signature,
| OF GARDENERS witnesses, and who consequent,
acted an important part in getting the testimony
made a draft on Gardiner for twenty-eight thousanC
dollars, to be presented in case the claim We're al
lowed. 1t was accordingly presented, and Gardi
ner at once pad it by draft purchased from
| Messrs. Chubb q Schenck. 1t appears that Gardi
ner has left nearly all his money here, in bank
taking with him but ten thousand dollars This
circumstance, and the iWprobabiliy of his having
made such disclosure as PORE alleges, throws
more than doubt upon the whole story As We,
Porte