New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-02

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NewOrleaus, Sept 29, 1879
LION e.lda az ss s ii s.s sea,s 80 t
ing ordinance passed By the Board Of Assistant AAse-
en IN Wnem you are 1ssDsssay invited = ecssar
mon Council
Very respectfully, your obd't ssrvt
Warren II. PErxas, Sec1ltsry.
On motion, the Board adjourned to meet on
Tuesday, Oct. 5, at o'clock, P. n.
CHAs. CLAIBORNE. Secretary.
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Letter of Francis W. Rice, Dsfsnding his
Course as o. 8. Consul at Acapulco.
The NewYork Times contains letter from Frsneis w.
Rice, ESQ., late o. Consul at Acapulco defending his
official conduct, and in reply the charges preferred
q NswYork. which was pubisbed month or two $50.
Mr. Rice states that not fifteen Americans reside in
them. (some half dozen it sees) on friendly terms.
He has however he says been denounced BY ous Amer
er n to tss ap be .s
balance of the fifteen who barkeepers and gambler
because ne was compelled to sxpe thirteen q th.s stripe
Of 1928 aliens, without visible means Of support To
show that in the discharge Of his ociaa duties he could
not but make enemies he says. = -
have had in Acapulco, for four five months at
time from 800 to l4oo or abandoned p.ssn
these think paid large salary by the Government,
that obliged by law to advance money 70 all in
distress and Indignation meetDgs of four i've hum
dred persons at time, have been held tbs Plaza
against because could not pay them out Of govern
ment money! aS3A w q 6fe5s 3aN
Mr. Rice then proceeds to examine the conduct Of Mr.
Wilson at Acapulco. with whom he says he had
voluntarily gone before the Mexican medle with
the mattar Of the steamer Commodore Stockton and to
Wilson thereupon Rice complain Of the re-
buff but the latter told him he got what he deserved
In relation to the sale Of the Commodore Etocto Mr.
Rice gives the following explanation; & nc
- In the Codigo De co,aseo codsl ofspain,
the sale of ship The port chal tis ssre Il
Sale etc. must all be paid in full before salors vsses
and so is almost denticaly the United States law Be-
three four or five months previously living provisions
furnished them shipboard tre ii the har
Dor Of Acapulco which certainly is to be paid before
sailors wages if they were left to they could
not very well benefit by their All these things
by close calculation Of the master sailors and myse
amounted to $1,000 and this all Snyder (he repre-
sentative of the sailor required to pay he being
told by that sailors would in before any
botomry bond and on proof of sums due their wages
could be turned in for the balance of what the ship might
bring He had twenty four hours raise the money
the second sale but confesng his inability to raise
it, Of the ship sold sin He again pres
ent and could have bid again, bnt did not-and have
doubt he is liable for the dseiency in the second sar
at law; "a.
"What perfect nonsense that the sailors must pay
sold at Besides a1 the hrst sale Nj Rrst. q
Panama, bid s11 600, which he had already deposia1h
hands in caah, and $1,000 Of which would hsys Zen
paid to the sailors had Snyder bid S1 50e greater
than Fretz willing pay for the ship lay
partmen under the hands the Survey themselves
that they estimated the lowest expense Of repairing and
there 1000 instead $780, as Wilson You see
by this that the ship would have cost Fretz in San Fran
the only place whers he could have used e q the
San Francisco with coal which the only way of
bcttomry which bottomry taken the ships re-
turning to Panama in Distress after ng two days out,
sS ha nouang :. besides msss Liable an
$4,000 another bond of $1,000 in Acapulco anothse of
$1,000 TOD ". Raymond of San Francisco-makinein all
nraS tnnhf yvcaAv hS1p Kid
for that sum had she been in complete repair the port
Of San Francisco am not quite that the bottomry
taken under the circumstances at Panama quite
good az sailors wages but this not insisted by
Department that he had not dollars interest in the
sale and that he holds the receipts Of twenty eight of
thirty-one Of the sailors who settled with him Mr..
Letcher he further alleges informed him that his views
in the whole matter coincided with his and tie Mexican
Minister of Relations and the Minister of Justice
him that their impressions that the Mexican
Courts had rights in the matter but that they
enemies only in the faithful discharge the duties Of an
American Consul, Mr. Rice adduces the following Incl
dents
when first went to Acapulco requested by the
Judge to detan the papers Of the mail steamship Fre
to charge Of contraband in the port Of San Bias 10
this Immediately replied t was the second dA after
my a had sss no e comply 18th
any intention Of OBTAINING troubling ship,
necessarily bo found in the defensive This short
was replied to by the Judge, written by old Perdcn
Garay keen Mexican lawyer, who had been banished
and imprisoned in the Castle of Acapulco by Arista)
four foo}scap pagen which law and regard
to Consu quoted far back 200 years-sdvisng
me as to what my duty in the premises still pc
itey refused telling the Judge that must go according
to the law and my instructions, understood ta and
went wrong should be held to answer by the u g.
Another thing. 1 found all Americans passing over
the city of Mexico taking passports from the Prefsct
Prefect that this ought to be discontinued, was
thorzed by my Government to give passports gratis and
that the only charge he could reasonably make was Is
- theM He passpOrtS
still demanded So IL therefore notified the Americans
finally gave up the point confessing that was right
But, Mexican-ke, of course he is my enemy.
'rhen found Americans taking out cd,tds de sgui
etters of eeurity) which had to be renewed half
yearly at cost Of eight ten dollars year, besides
good deal of trouble protested against this and the
Americans refused to apply for them Thsreupon they
were all brought to the Police Court and fined 500
defended them by producing the treaty of 1884, article
think, which says that taxes, charges or impcsts
shall be laid on Americans except those levied
This year they took the course but again remon-
strated, and the cads' have again dropped through
Would you believe that while no American is thus i'm
the Mexico city papers signed by the different Minters
do not tGosct % to At Letshsrs name signed
that they must go through with this costly and
troublesome routine Well, don't suppose this made
many friends in the police department do you But
don't think it better to support the rights Of your
countryaen and not allow treaty spulations to be
nfacted than to be fattered by Mexican officials for
your suavity and laughed at behind your back r your
5ubseryiency.
detained here for? Why because her former owner owed
S9+ for meat bill contracted San Francisco year pre-
yious The Judge held that the bottom of the ship was
always good for the meat, whether purchased By her
present whether contracted in San Fran
cisco any other country showed him the law, and
y the Captain released But enough have piled III
facts sufficient to enable you to judge of my Difficult
ties in Acnpucobut do not shun the work. and as lon
remain in Acapulco. shall pursue the same course
~ | kill curc.f ~
c The PERUVIAN MIN,srEa.-Senor Don Joaquin Jose d
Isma Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleuipotentiar
of the Republic of Peru, officially presented to tn
President the 23d ult. He expressed the SINGER
wishes which animated the Government and people o
to preserve nudsturhed the friendly relations whet
have existed since the declaration of her independence
between that Republic and the United States and th'
confidence they felt that any difficulty which might ap
pear to leopard these will be removed when examined
with the mpartality and wisdom which distinguish ou
ID Government President Fillmore replied briefly, re
marking that he felt confidence that the negotiations
the Minister was authorized make must result in the
adopon of calculated to promote the harmony
and increase the intercourse between the two
Republics" !"
h aUSoLE TOM I1E Isf-We on Saturday the 18th
gentleman from Western Virginaa former resident O
this vicnity-who his way home, accompanied By
~ slave away about two years since, but had OF
meeting his in Rochester begged the privilege
a active, intelligent