New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-19
THE MEXICAN TREATY-MOSQUTTLA.

Correspondence Of The N Tribune
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1854
The telegraphic report this morning announcing the ar
rival of Mr. Gadsden at NewOrleans with Mexican
Treaty his pocket whereby the Garay grant confirmed
and thirty nine millions Of land and the Mesila
valley" are purchased from Santa Anna for twenty
millions of dollars has occasioned mysterious shaking
of heads This is large addition to Uncle Sans farm,
and is probably intended for the production of cattle and
other cate property If the purchase include Sonora and
Lower California is important If not profits BILE &C
QUESTION prosperous farmer first expend h money aud
labor in improving and developing the resources of the
land which he already owns, before buying more; and
there are those who think Government had better i'm
prove our Rivers and Harbors and make other internal i'm
provemenis within present limits for the encourage
ment of agriculture the benefit of domestic trade and com
merce and the promotion Of the public veal before buying
up additional provinces The limitations, expressed and
implied in the Resolutions Of 49, i. seems preclude all
governmental appropriations for the improvement and
profitable enjoyment Of the lands which we pos
sess but permits appropriations Of the public moneys
for the purchase of tens OF millions of acres
Of wild land additional to the hundreds of
millions now on hand II is not much the additional
territory that wanted it is additional slave States and
slave power and against obtaining the latter neither con
stutona objections nor Virginia Resolutions will be inter
posed by this Administration More territory is wanted for
the pecuar institution at the time that the territory
which we now have and from which Slavery forever
cluded by solemn compact is to be converted into slave
soil But the compromises of 1880 which the DE nocratc
National Convention acquiesced in forbid the agitation
and discussion of this subject and therefore submit for
the present.
IL is said you know that the Bali@e domnions OF his
Mosquito Majesty about which Gen Cas- is making such
ridiculous muss have been purchased by an American
company 1t that the immediate progenitor OF his
present Majesty GALISPPER FIRST having no navy and
being DESTROYS of engaging in commercial log wood speou
latons chartered vessel two for that purpose But his
trading experiment was failure and the royal treasury
being empty he unable to pay the $4,000 for the
use of the vessels and ii remained debt incurred in
bona 6de business transaction against the Mosquito
King and the Nation Of which he was the distinguished
Head His son. "Galnipper First being honorable IS
powerful acknowledged this debt and in payment thereof
land in consideration of divers other good and sufficient
reasons has granted and conveyed the right title and
sovereignty to the Mosquito Territory extending some three
hundred miles more less along the coast to the owners
Of the sad vesses-he said deed having affixed to it the
Broad Seal" Of his Majesty and being certified and
acknowledged by the British Vice Consul General The
original grantees Of his Maiesy have sold and conveyed
TO an American Association Of gentlemen residing in
NewYork, Baltimore and elsewhere This Assoca-
ton therefore. hold the title from his Mosquito
Majesty certified and acknowledged by the official repre-
sentative Of Great Britain under whose especial protection
his Majesty has been and they have organized eompa
nv with president directors &C. about to take pos
session and work their coal mine being the only one
known in all tha; region Nicaragua claims to have an ad
verse possession claim portion all OF this territory
and an effort is to be made for its peaceable adjustment
Iunsuocessfu the Government of Nicaragua is to be for
chilly tied to the back OF mule and driven out OF the coun
Try This brief but substantial statement OF the pur
chase of the Mosquito Territory and the prospective opera
lions of the purchasers.
In connection with these foreign acquisitions the ques
ton naturally suggests itself whether in Gsdsdens pur
chase of additional Mexican territory the claims OF Presl
dent WAKIR have been adjusted or compromised II not
and the buserng President is still living and at large
war is inevitable" as Gen Cas- would say. OrsEGo