The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-15
From the Ne,o Orleans Picay,.ne, January g.

Inc 1cnuaNCepeC VWeStlOn IN mc41COs
very interesting and elaborate article on the
state of the Tehuantepec question appears in the
Ell Siglo Diez Nueue, of the city of Mexico, un-
der date of the 14th Of December. 1t is remarka-
BILE for the moderation of its tone and the frank
Of it's expositions of the critical condition in
| which the government of Mexico is placed by the
action of the Government of the United States in
favor of the Garay claim. ~
Evidently the recent cabinet difficulties re-
tiremeht of Senior Yanez, and the precarious te-
nure by which the remaining functionaries hold
power-have forced upon the minds of some re-
iectins Mexicans the duty of attempting to get
rid of part of the difficulties which threaten to
involve the country in foreign war, and of these
difficulties that with the United States in regard
to the Garay claim is most pressing. 1t is not
impossible that the President, and his Cabinet
with him, may be driven out of Office soon by an
estempore revolution got up in the city, and some
comprehend here how the government has kept
together 80 long Their views of the way of meet
ing this Tehuantepcc difficulty will not be of much
consequence a short time hence; but any tokens
of disposition, represented in so able and inf1u
entail press as the Siglo, to find practical way
of adjusting the controversy. are important, as
giving promise that the last resort of force be-.
tween the two nations may yet be avoided
The Siglo does not concede a particle of the
rights claimed by Mexico. 1t reasserts the nullty
of the Garay grant. 1t vindicates the national
right to accept or reject the treaty negotiated be-
tween Messrs. Letcher and Pedraza-to grant the
right of way to whomsoeyer it pleases, or to keep
the route shut together. All this it maintains
indsputable clear as the Gun at MONDAY, and
acknowledged by all the world. But it processes
to find that the justice of the is not sufficient
guarantee for the security of the country against
the action which has been taken in this country by
our Executive, and the measures which are threat
ened by the report and resolutions introduced from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, by Mr. Mason,
into the Senate of the United States at the close of
the last session. These recognised as facts,
which have to be met. They are realities, not
withstanding the assure noes heretofore given by
the Mexican government to the public, that there
was no danger of collision with the United States.
The threatened collision is, nevertheless, at hand
and El Siglo says, frankly, it is not subject OF
pride, or of justice, but of necessty-it ia not to
establish right, but for the salvation of the coun
TRY. All the movements in the United S tates are
| announced tending to the support of the go
vernment in the maintenance Of the rights of the
Tehuantepec Company These enforce on the
course, and the whole power oirthe paper is pu
forth to counsel the adoption of that line fconduc
which will exiting uish the controversy with the
United States about the Garay grant.
Ell Siglo runs over the list of companies which
applying for concession of this right of way,
and, treating it as great political question, sire.
nuously advises the concession of the grant to the
American association represented by Colonel A.
G Sloo. The ruling idea is that this company ID
able and willing to undertake TO adjust with the
United States, OIL. with the Tehuantep &c Company
all questions arising under that claim; and that
by this arrangement, the political question will be
disposed Of at once. 1t is urged that this political
question is of much more Importance to Mexico
than any calculation Of the difference of profit tc
the State between these and any other proposals
Nevertheless, it is stated that these proposals arr
liberal and just; and, with forecast not common
| in Mexican journals, the article looks to great
| compensatiops to Mexico in the immense advan-
tages which will flow to her, politically and com.
mercially, by the completion of this great avenu.
| through her territory. 1t is held up as the com
| mencement of in the career of Mexico
for which sacrifices of punctlio may be honorably
made.
These El Siglo represents as unpalatable truths
but such as IN ust be told and must be met, i
With the reasonings of this writer we shall not
| meddle now. The American idea of the Justice O
the case, and of the moral as well as the political
duties OF Mexico, is entirely different. But it is
political fact of very great signif ,ancc that the
| absolute necessity of concession to the United
States is thus expressly proclaimed and urged ir
the city of Mexico.
HAPPY lLLUsTR ATloN.--Our contemporary, the
Courier DIES Eats Unis in an article on the calorc
chip Ericsson illustrates the operation of the wire
apparatus, in alternately heating and cooling the
came volume of air, in the following opposite man
| ner.-N Y. Courier and Enquirer.
"The great fundamental principle of the trans.
mission OF caloric cost the inventor twenty years
OF reflection to realize in this machine II consists
IN using constantly the same heat.to warm the air
which is made to enter the cylinders. The appa-
ratu, by means of which this principle Ia applied
is called regeneration, and we can form clear
idea OF il by suppcsing that a man has his mouth
! hiied with warm metallic sponge if he draws in
his BREATH the exterior air, III trayersing the pores
of the warm sponge, will itself be warmed, and
will arrive into the lungs whilst the sponge
having parted with it's caloric, will have become
cold; if he exhales the air thus warmed, this air,
| in again traversing the sponge, will again warm