The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-27
CONSUL RICE AND THE MEXICAN
AUTHORITIES AT ACAPULCO.

Tuesday MORNINGS July 25s 1897
CONSUL RICE AND THE MEXICAN
AUTHORITIES AT ACAPULCO.
Passenger by the steamer United States say
that there was much excite ment at Acapulco
growing cut the proceedings against u o
Consul Rice. American citizens touching al
hat port end il difficult to restrain Manifesto
tons OF their resentment, which could only
lead to lamenfable results. The Representa-
lives of Grea, Britain and other foreign powers
there do no, hesitate TO declare the proceed.
;nra of,hs Mexican authorities unca'led Tor,
annreceden,ed. contrary to the usages OF all
c;v;,zed nations, and deserving the most r'go
~o,. measures OF retaliation. The correspon-
denee between Mr.. Rice and AL Senior Matilde
Romero, Promoter Fiscal OF the District OF
Guerrero, Mexico, is published. Romero says
that the Mexican General Government has
nothing to do with Mr.. Rice's Imprisonment,
and he imagines il results only from private
pique Of the Judge at Acapulco. Mr.. Rice
says, in reply, that he is equally Ignorant OF
the cause ofhis detention in prison. He adds:
Yesterday, June 11th, at 81, A. NJ, guard
Of soldiers, under the command OF sergeant,
suyrounded nv house. the sergeant informing
me that he had orders from the commandment to
take me TO prison. asked him to produce
his order, otherwise that should refuse TO go
but by force. He replied in an insulting man.
ner, that il did not come forthwith he would
drag me from my house. had been SICK, un.
der the care of DR.. Drinklage, for five days, and
had ct
TO stand. Whilst was dressing, the soldiers
used the most insulting language toward me,
saving. "Let us go in and drsg him out if he
does not come soon-he is nothing but Add
Yankee" and conducted themselves in such
menacing manner, that my wife, who has been
sick for q week past, was SO much frightened
as to seriously endanger her health, if not her
life.
was marched to the Court House, by the
guard of about fifteen soldiers, and delivered
over to the Judge of the Court OF First an
stance, who refused to receive me, saying he
knew nothing of the matter. The sergeant of
the guard then produced an order from the
Judge of the District Court for my arrest.
without mentioning any cause for the proceed
ing. Upon this the Judge Of the First In
stance sent TO the District Judge for instruc-
tons, and an order came to imprison me in the
prison of the Juzgado, a little room, as you
know, of not dozen feet square, which is
used for drunken men and criminals OF the
lowest order; which has neither window nor
light, and is too filthy for any man to exist long
in, and which at that moment had people in il
that had been picked up beastly drunk in the
streets. The jailor, however, said he would
not take the responsibility of combining me in
such place, but gave me the use OF his own
room.
bo,~ Lo.o .,ya,,,, fo,,, hourr-
as yet no charge having been made agains
me, no food nor water being given me, nor BED
to sleep upon nor light The soldiers have
been all night in the door ofmy room, whistlng
singing and talking, although am now under
the charge of DIR. Drinklage, as my physician
and am unable to hear the least noise without
pain. have struck my fag-the flag Of the
United States--closed my office, and hereby
notify the military power ofthis Division, tina
l shall not open it again until SO ordered by
the United States Government.
The TEHUANTEPEC GRAETs.-The Louis
vile Times has an article on this subject, thu
following facts, in which, the editor says, have
never been made public:
at will be remembered that Commodore
Porter, OF our navy, engaged in the service O
Mexico during her revolution against Spain
and continued in her navy until the close o
the struggle. After the war was closed, Mex
leo offered him a grant of land as the reward
for his valuable services, and gave him the
selection of it. He selected the region lying
about the Gulf side terminus of the presen
proposed Tehuantepec route, which his saga
city, even at that early day, taught him would
be inevitably demanded by the commerce o
the world. Com. Porter possessed himself OF
and preserved, deposited in an iron box, wei
secured, the evidences of this grant, and at hi
death bequeathed them 10 his son, Lit. Porter
now of our navy. This box, few days afte
the death of Commodore Porter in Washington
city, was found to have been distracted from
the place where he had always kept it, ant
has never been recovered to this day. Blu
there can be no doubt of the binding force c
this grant, and its priority to all other grant
of the same ground. We presume that tn
evidences of il are in existence among the Al
chves of the Mexican Government, and W
have reason to believe that Cot. Sloo, who ha
been intimately associated with, and perhaE
il an authorized agent of Lieut.. Porter, mad
this grant the basis of his successful apple,
ton to the Mexican Government for the graz
which he has Obtained. If such grant as thu
to Commodore Porter is tn be found among til
records of the Mexican Government, and "
have no doubt of its existence, it of cours
uuihuro Ill eupse qut III sIuuto anu taxes pr
ceden.e, and our own Government, with oh
proofs Of it presented, would Of course b
compelled to withdraw from insisting upon tl
Garay or Hargous grant"
Governor Hunt, OF New York, in letter
tae Sheriff of Duchess county, declines turtle
Communication of sentence, or the pardon ,
either Ann Hoag or Jonas Williams, convicte
of murder, and sentenced to be hung on til
Both instant. The sentence WILL therefore, b
carried into effect upon that day. In relation
to the woman, he says:
The case presents no extenuating feature,
TO- justify me in releasing her from the sentence
OF the law. GA the contrary, her crime was
OF the deepest atrocity. Without even the BOO,
plea OF resentment, she destroyed kind and
conhding husband, by minging poison with
bis daily sustenance. She DESTROYED her law.
1ul protector 10 gain paramount, and obtain
free scope for the indulgence Of guilty pas.
sion. Having conceived this diaboIicaI mr..
pose, she proceeded to execute il with a degree
of perseverance rarely equalled. Failise in
the first attempt, she procured poison Of =
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