Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-14

the number of mouths in that surveying party,
but have been informed that they did not exceed
fifty. Yet it is surprising that the steamers
Alabama and United States, the schooners Sears
Zarabia, Almagres, and Helen Mar, and they
know not how many others, were all required,
and scarce suficient-so that it was necessary
also to send down the revenue cutter Duane-to
keep them from starving, in a country which one
of their number, Lieutenant Murphy, has de-
scribed, since his return, paradise filled with
everything which the heart or stomach of man
can desire.
| Your memorialists further remark that the re-
lease of the Helen Mar is attributed, in one
statement, to the affidavit of the captain, that,
Gin entering the port of Minatitlan he did not
know he was violating the law" and in another
to intimidation and threats made by the Tehuan-
tepec Companys surveying party; that in this
country every man, foreigner as well as citizen,
is held bound to know the law, when once made
public in the usual form; and that whether the
conduct of the authorities of Minatitlan be at
tributable to the one or the other cause stated,
or to both, it would appear that they acted with
1 great IOrDelTaHce ana ulScreIOH.
Your memorialists further represent, that the
circumstances under which the revenue cutter
Duane visited the Coatzacoacos gave that visit
the appearance at least of purpose to uatimidate
the Mexican authorities and to aid in violation
of the revenue laws of Mexico. When this fact
came to the knowledge Of your memorialists, dur
ing the past summer, one of them called on the
President of the United States to demonstrate
against the course pursued towards Mexico by
the Department of State, and especially against
the use of the government vessels for such a pur-
pose. The President replied that it was not true
that any government vessels had been sent to
the Coatzacoalcos that he knew it could not be
so, because, an application having been made by
the State Department to the Navy Department
for vessel for that purpose, the Secretary of the
Navy had refused, and on an appeal to him (the
President) he had approved the course of the
Navy Department 1t would seem that when
the President denied that any government vessel
had been sent to the Coatzacoalcos he had refer
/ ence only to the vessels under the control of the
Navy Department; for it is certain that the
revenue cutter Duane was sent, having been
withdrawn from the control of the Treasury De-
partment under the pretext of sending bearer
of dispatches to Mexico.
| As german to this subject it is proper here to
mention another fact illustrative of the Partially
at least, if not of the interested and corrupt mo-
| tives of the State Department, viz: That, under
similar pretence of sending dispatches to Mex
| leo, Mr.. Barlow, of New York, an attorney of
the claimants to whom the largest award was
made by the late Mexican Commission, and who
are also large shareholders in the Tehuantepec
Company, was sent in the Duane by the Secretary
of State to Mexico, to get up evidence in support
of that claim and that, the evidence thus pro-
cured, the claim was presented in the last days
of the session of the Board, and about one-sixth
part of the whole amount applicable to all the
claims was awarded for distribution between
those favored claimants and certain attaches of the
Department of State.
Your memorialists here refer to the letters adj
dressed to the Hon. Secretaries of State and of
the Treasury, on the 18th and 10Th March, 1850,
quoted in the memorial to the President hereto
annexed and further state, that the proposed ar
rangement for the payment of the Mexican in
demnity with which their names have become
connected, was part of q negotiation begun by
them with the Mexican government for a right of
way to the Pacific by the ella route, the advan-
tages of which to the government and people of
the United States are briefly referred to in the
said letters of the 18th and 10Th of March, 1850.
The great advantages of such a communication to
Mexico are too obvious to require explanation.
Great efforts have been made to produce the inn
preston that the route by Tehuantepec is the great
american route in which the people of the United
States, and especially of the Southern States,
are most interested, and that those who are un
willing to sacrifice all other interests to that
actuated by other than patriotic motives. But
very little examination will suffice to convince
any intelligent mind that the trade by that route
will not go, as pretended, to New Orleans, and
thence by American rivers, railroads, and canals
to New York and Europe, but to Europe direct;
and that the opening of that route is not so much
an American as n British measure, for the bene-
fit Of British interests ut home and at the Belize
lying adjacent and so convenient to that route
1t is also obvious that the opening of that
route would afford increased facilities for food
ing Mexico with contraband goods from the
British possessions ut the Belize, and give to
that nation which sent its fleets to aid in
forcibly smuggling opium into China, and has
become notorious as nation Of smuggers,
increased facilities for continuing and extend
ing the monopoly Of the bullion trade of
Mexico, which it has SO long enjoyed 1t is
equally obvious that the true interests of the
United States and of Mexico are in the route by
the Gila to the Pacific, connecting on the Rio