New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-23


emf. and we have come near quarre ing
with Mexico for the sake OF few 'pecu-
lators who have bought worthless grant
Of the right of way over the lsthmuN OF
T.huantepec. AID wish to have the nation
20 TO war be ,ausc Mexico refuses to carry
ont charter long since invalid.
Upon this topic Col. Benton has al
dressed TO the people of Missouri letter
replete with sense and patriotism, as well
as marked by some touches Of his lass
pleasing characteristics. He admits the
correctness Of tie view taken by the Mex
lean Government in It's late Appeal to
Fricndly Nations ard succinct'y controvcrtS
the gross errors of the report in favor Ut
the grant made by the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations. In fact, the conclu-
sions of that report and all pretcnse tina:
the Garey grant j, valid are completely de-
molished by the Colonel. Bat as the mat
,cr has already been stated in these col
umns, ard the grant is now dead and
buried. it is not necessary that we should
follow him through his brief sledgc-ham-
mer argument against it.
To the lines of ocean steamers and the
expenditures on their account, as contrast
ed with the absence Of oil efforts in behalf
of the great railroad, the Colonel declares
himself a decided opponent. His obser-
yotiors ON this point We give at length a'
matier of Justice to himself:
an IT, nea1,ue. snd while nothing be OBJ
tanned or the inland Ar-.icau route, snd while war
a thraetcs 4 fcT the foreign MeXcau route, millions
ere lavishtd uron ocean steam lines In which neither
the linton nor the people have any interest," aud which
are inenccd 20 connect us with an part, of tuc world,
except our own. Tho suu's already Annually granted
for this branch uf plumber taking Sir Brcckrdces e.
innate fer the ba-ig Il tho calculation are ; sbofsiI
And The .rsnN afc elmer for ten years " unllnt
co. W my saley muluPiy tae annual sum ~ ter, TO
ret the io.al amount arfa0y le'isared away, mixing
80 CO., 100 Il "a fri-htully enormous blt Only tao
conn enceuert NhocNe. saN vuitJre hsht up n
dead az nt Wil cut fCeisg flock 81 thf eanr vora-
bids collected upon the PROV > Ot these
ocean steam Ines upon our treasury.
"1he success of The hrst squadron has dra"n upon
Crrarets another and 'Grrtr AZ the la6 session,
tsere were 20 less than seventeen aPpi atols Jr ne"
Ikea me of tt,m with estimates OF their demands,
the other ,lyis in blank Inc nine Ieq1fct an
"sdyarcl" Of Sr5'OotJ 10 ssstt ia building tue YES
fes ard SL.OOtOU scnuallu 10 sail them making Tor
ten years pI Boue Ct gnese enierprsiug seniie nen-
~ Ie,severng az entcrpTslf g-wl be content Rin
shouer siege ~ ,be treasury than tho Hret 70 hai Al
TrOy) the az 5000 jOt ~ 2, as Tue otnef tgn'
cspIc- be- c.msied s' thar ticse nine tie present
rev Bppc To IN thf line Of plcnoer may DO fnpu'
I'd 81 ar ihCr sam II sbout s-UUoCeO aud al tails
On the slender pfctcX Of carrying letters - i)reigh
countries (Which the correspondents have 20 pay for
bs5t snd which private eutaTpdse, or iortisu lines
would carry good terms to sle people, aud oetos
for the Government; and 10 carry passengers VINO
would be- better, cheaper and more comfortably carried
In pirate Ines; and, on tho tuIEer pretsxt 70 turn
.h.In over l. the Government (~hen about WON OUT
for war combat, vhtn We shall tlyo no war aud II
we had no naval officer would deliver, much less
ceiye brcsd.lde In Of hoss Uong vessels for less
than he would take for making voy 70 the bottom
"Severty ak million ak hundred and sixty seven
lhoussud tud hundred snt s,StTscvsn dJliars al
refds secured sgoy millions OF dollars more demand
%: snd 10, cent for road from western frontier
70 California Tao public 'ards oog bdns In a5ou, two
ull iors per alLum-s ltle over onet0udh enough TO
pfy ihtse ocean steamers. InDk oil tnat, psop3 OF
MssouIi While farmers are tnndrg thor Szgsn'es
= psy hard money 20 give FOR pu5ic iand-whiie All
eradication If price il Jeiussd-ghcn homestead bill
is rf ctet-sien nohirg can b. got for home road
20 California the whole sDuua proceeds OF all the
stds and three rfs as much more 0Gt oi the puOuc
beatuIy given 20 these cCrmCrsGt 0ceRn liuea and
whote cry 10 m thai OF the grave and Of tie horse oech
o. more, more liye, awe
O
snuaud. red upon iheGe ocean tanners would open
W .on way nom The froI tier OF Missouri 20 Cal iorna
ard hundred good labOrers, directed by practical
country road makers and guided by rnouL tain msn and
buffalo paths would open In ayesr and make IL passs
Le fer stages IN twenty dsyf for horse ltuerma In
cas- ard by tasraIh In no tlme-,ekiag tho Kan.
ute and crose Il mountains az the head OF the
AIAarsas or Del NoIte, betseen attitudes 81 aud 80
Then people could communicate could have Inter.
course Al could 20 and cone without paying enough
% an ccCsn line 10 set small farmer tkiog the
Nr,.rs India
the exposed and neglectao lnlard route.
"Then pc pie Of small means aid trayel upon their
Cgn nyey ances, Without other exp nae than the pro
vs't NJ copsumec-ihe equipment OF animals and Ve-
hiclcs being about worth their cCst either for or
dip0s cal, after n cir arrival
"Tbe cannot s,op at tie treasury ravages Of tho,s
ine, tut must 60 70 repeat what Ia currently
rumored here that there Il undue influence brought
10 beer uBCn Congress Ia favor OF these applications
on Cu'soe machinery Of Deception and seduction play
ice H. double batteries upon members that many OF
The bills Only carry then selVes through by undue
means, bBi embargo good tils until they Themselves
are passed that some are mere )bblog speculatons-
trsic IN Congress lei sron, In which company Of
ur ett0rS con Ing With $4,000 OF 800 900 u procure
NE paEage OF act, srd lhon selling Il
dredS Of thousands profit or admnsterng It st saa-
If Of eco ard S6COn OF course these large ou vs
ere 70 b. reimbursed 10 the eIormiy Of the aporooa
non and ne irtience s reported of a direct refund
ipg; the csse Of BIZ whose expenses 500 900
and $1,000 agar ilT ten yotrs added IT. amend
men, 10 refund GGat Iu Of course pre.exsd by some
ueceiily.
We do not doubt that there i, plumber
ard dishonesty in these steamer contracts,
but the Colonel is altogether too weeping
when he says the money they cost the
treasury is squanderei. To our thinking
it is spent more usefully than the millions
employed in keeping up the naval estab-
lishment especially when such propte
as Old Bullion tells Us that We shall have
no war and therefore 10 occasion for such
expense. However, we believe with him
that the Pacific Railroad is of much greater
importance than any line Of Ocean steam