Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-01-27
The Clayton and Bulwer Treaty,
Points Of veracity.
dence of the N. Y. Express.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is.

vi tliC i. LApLCSSs
WASHINGTON, Jan. l6.
The question of veracitv between Mr..
Vice Presiden, King, and Mr.. Ex-Sec-
rotary Clayton. is the principal topic of
conversation in the political circles here.
The health of Mr.. King is such jus, now,
that he can hardly be expected to have
that clearness of perception and recollec-
ton that he had when well. The &C.
pose of Mr.. Clayton will make a great
deal of noise here, and tend to a great
deal Of debate.
What the Union savs--that the ex-
clusion of British Honduras and its de-
Tendencies from the Clayton and Bulwer
Treaty, is now for the frs, time known,
is an assertion put forth in ignorance of
facts, for in the public documents OF
ls49.50, commended to Congress, July
18th, 1850, Is long letter from Mr..
Clayton in which is the following sig
nifcant paragraph:
"a copy of the treaty concluded be-
tween Grea: Britain and the United
States, in regard to Central America, is
herewith submitted. Its engagements
apply to all the five States which for
merly composed the Republic of Central
America and their dependencies, of which
the island of Tigre was part. II does
mol recognize, affirm or deny the title of
the British settlement at Balize, which
is, by the coast, more than five hundred
miles from the proposed canal at Nicar-
aqua. The question of The British title
TO this district of the country, commonly
called British Honduras, and the small
islands adjacent TO il, claimed as its de-
Tendencies, stands precisely as il stood
before the treaty. No act of the late
Presidents Administration has IN any
manner committed this Government to
the title in that territory, or any part of
it,"
This clearly shows that the Balize,
that is British Honduras was to be in
statu quo, Notwithstanding the treaty.
The dismissal of Marcoleta, who
makes an appeal to Gen. Pierce, and
then other documents will lead to pref
ty thorough investigation Of Central A.
merica politics, of which all our public
men seem to have been deplorabty igno-
rant.
The Inauguration Of the Statue.
A great many new words get into use
among them, this OF the Inauguration OF
Gen. Jackson's statue. A great Gro wd
was on. this beautiful! day to see the GER
emony-and Pennsylvania Avenue was
thronged with one continuous stream OF
visitors going to see the ceremony. Mr..
Senator Douglass may have delivered a
very beautiful GRAFTON, but nobody could
hear word fit, twenty feet off.
Politicians.
The Politicians are coming in here
more and more. There is to be the
hardest sort of squabble both to make
Cabinet and in the distribution of off
GERS. The Hotels begin to be fuIl--and
The Boarding Houses are filling up. BY
February, there will not be much room
left. The probability, however, tina,
Gen. Pierce himself will rot now come
on until late in February, diminishes the
zeal of the Office seekers to be here.
An Interregnum.
The great peril Gen. Pierce was in,
and the almost certain death, tina. awaits
the Vice President King, a. no very dis.
tant period, lead to frequent discussion
of who would be President in case both
should die. The President of the Sem
ate, Mr.. Atchison of Missouri, possibly
would be the man, but the question is one
of great doubt--and there might be an
interregnum. The Constitution contem.
plated no such case as recent and excit.