The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-06

lions made by J. R. BARTLETT, late Commas
sioner, and A. B. GRAY, late United States
Surveyor of the Mexican boundary After an
Executive session, an adjournment took place.
Inc intelligence received by the Arctic
saVors OF saltpetre. Turkey, irritated by the
| repeated demands of her aggressive neighbors,
mas cared to show her teeth to Russia; ard
no" iaiis back on France and England to avert
the consequences. The subsequent naval
movements, viewed in conjunction with this
occurrence, seem to have produced marked
| impression at London and Paris, although at
! the latest date hope was cherished that the
| difficulty may yet be softened or averted with
cut fighting. -.e
We publish the contract entered into be-
| tween the government of Mexico and Mr.. A .
G. SLoo and his associates. in relation to the
| construction of road across the Isthnus of
Iehuantepec; and also the correspondence of
that government with the United States Min
lister, Judge CoNKL1Ne, in reference to pro-
posed treaty to guarantee.the neutrality of the
road in time of war.
The merits of particular companies that have
been organized in view of this great undertak
ing are minor matter in the judgment of this
country. The desire has been and is to secure
an early and adequate interoceanic route
without regard to the conflicting claims of
rival interests; and there appears to be no
reasonable ground for impugning the sufficiency
OF the contract that has been formed by the
''MIxed Company" of which Mr.. SLoo is
the head. 1t provides for the rapid con-
structIon of plank road, connecting the
Atlantic and Pacific, and for the SUBSEQUENT
construction Of a railroad, on terms that will
be alike advantageous to Mexico and the Uni
ted States. Of the ability of the company to
perform all that they have undertaken there
can be no doubt; while there appears to be no
plausible Pretence for supposing that the right
OF transit will not be conceded by Mexico on
the terms indicated. President CEvALLos-
President ad interim-had ample power, de-
creed to him by the Mexican Congress, to make
the contract, which does not now depend upon
any further action on the part of Mexico. TIL.
last news from that country, received yester
| day qua New Orleans, embraces a statement
that the SLoo company had paid other
$4,000, being the March payment, into the
treasury, and that two Mexican commissioners
had left Vera Cruz formally to deliver the line
to the company.
Although the treaty of neutrality was not
completed when CEvALLos vacated the Pres-
dency, his successor in office, General LoM-
BARDIsI, appointed two commissioners to nego-
tiate with the American Minister on the subject.
and it is believed that such treaty will be
soon sent to our Government for its approval.
SANTA ANNA, with all his anti-American an
tlpathles, would scarcely venture, had he the
power, to obstruct an arrangement with which
all the interests of Mexico are identified, and
which has moreover received the sanction Of
all parties In that country. We cannot select
better testimony on the latter point than is af-
forded by journal politically, and therefore
bitterly opposed to CEvALLos. The Siglo
Ures q .Nueoa of the LIST ultimo, commenting
on his administration, remarked:
sin the last moments of his administration he
performed great service to bis country, settling,
as he did, the important question of Tehuantepec,
adjudicating the opening of the road to the mixed
cha companies have united, having as partners
the States of Oajaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas''
On the o.her hand, there is well-founded
assurance that the contract with the SLeo COM
pany, and the contemplated treaty, will meet
with equal favor in this country. Judge
CoEKLING's despatch to the Mexican Minister
shows that under the instructions given bv M.
FILLMoRE's administration the arrangement
was regarded by him with unqualified ap-
prevail. The course pursued by the Senate, in
permitting the Tehuantepec resolutions to fall
to the ground, exhibits the prevalence of a kin
dred feeling in that body; and SO far as ii re-
| fleets the altered views of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, may be supposed to indi-
cate the disposition of General PIERcE's Cabi-
| net upon the subject
Chow the ofhce-seekers will lose their NUT
tom" is the pregnant heading of an article in
Mondays National Democrat. The article
itself is curiosity, emanating, as it does. from
MARCY sheet, and hitting so exactly the
position at this moment occupied by the Demo
cratic factionists in New York 1t reads as
follows:
"Some Oh our southern exchanges are not with
out fears that some of northern Office holders
may prove recreant to the Administration, and
drive away into the bye and forbidden paths of
sin. But it should be remembered that when
men are in pIcce, they not half go likely to
be troubled with moral convictions' as when
out Of place The ins are always more peace
able than the outs 1t seems to be the la of nature
for them to be So Philosophy teaches us that every
particle OF matter in the universe is restless and
uneasy until it inds its own place in the general
system; and this is especially true Of those particles
OF matter called poitieia.s-however restless thew
may have been, they generally subside az soon as
they ind their place. We have. therefore not much
ear OF any disturbance from the ias QuarreIline is