New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-16

=, ,ba hands az her own children, San Juan
persisted practically by the hands oil hessrs' t'efc'
end Marcy with Messrs. Hoilins aud faoen' as
prsrticiur inceudares. Those who set tue nre Id
the one case covered themselves with honor 'hose
ubo did IL in the other are saved from disgrace ani
punishment only BY the fact that they were the TOOLS
Of higher authority, which cannot smut "s iesP""
sbility upon their SD ,uldes-
Our readers will find on another page some sn'i-
tona documents in relation TO this GROWING eventoi
Mr. Pierees wardke and political career. Theyconslst
of temperate and dianifed history of San Juan and
al its difficulties with the Transit Company prepared
by the late authorities Of the town and bearing their
r,sp. ctive signatures Their statements differ
essentially from those of the Compsnys agents, and
Of the clustering and BLACKBOARD Borland. on which,
witb,ut further inquiry, our Government sent the
Cysne with bombs and fre-brands on her mission oil
destruction sud revenge bit this dlnereuce Is Alto
pether in favor of the suth' rites Is Impossible 70
weigh the representations Of the two parties against
zach other thout the conviction hat the probability
ia eutiI ely in favor Of the truth Of the papers ~e now
publish In the statement on the part OF the town
everything is consistent and all the circumstances
eob,re together: while in the documents scot 10
Congress by Messrs Pierce and Marcy, we are at the
outset confronted BY the suggestive fact that the
bombarders and burners demanded sixteen thousand
dollars as damages for alleged theft VIII n accord
ing to their own showing deprived them OF nothing
but yawl-losd of -four and meal, which could not
have been worth over two hundred dollars ms
Circumstance alone demonstrates bad dnimHs IN
their proceedings and casts suspicion upon
ell their allegations. The witness who Is
false in one point is to be dsbelle'ed In
all. and the claimant who comes before the world
with such swindle as asking sixteen thousand dol
lars for boatoad of -four and corn meal must expect
nothing but universal scorn and dstrust As for what
the Government must expect which enforces such
claim in the way this has been enforced,-why let 1t
think i,ef lucky if it gets of with revolution OF
contempt.
One or two pregnant facts are clearly establlshed
by this new batch of documents. These are that the
Transit Company had not only been compelled to ac
knowledge the authority of the town by the British
vesselof-war Express, but that American national
ships had also enforced similar recognition,
by obligng its steamers to pay port duties.
The Company had also voluntarily asked from the
Mesquite King permission TO enter the river with
their steamers; and even the local representative OF
the United States had appealed to the magistrates OF
San Juan for their official aid in arrestng deserters
from American vessels. In the light Ut facts like
these the refusal to acknowledge these magistrates
either by the Company or an American Minister be-
comes preposterous, and the Administration which
bombarded and fired the town in consequence appears
in a position which it is not necessary to charac-
terze.
I'll 81 bIa AMI, tha nntrl Ia ah
escapes danger by dsrkenpg and confusing the sur
rounding elements and on this principle the Admins
tration seems willing to sneak from the con-
sequences of its own act. Its official news
paper is now mighty busy in explaining and
deDouncng the groundlessness OF the Mosquito
claim TO San Juan and the wckedness OF British en-
croachments and Vaccinations in Central America,
and especially at that place. All this buster will de-
ude nobody. The simple fact is that the British had
actually abandoned their protectorate at least 80 far
as the town and river were concerned. They had not
only allowed, but encouraged the growth there Of an
independent city with strictly republican constiru-
ton, and population with laws, habits, tendencies
and sympathies altogether American. All that was
necessary TO Obvste any reasseron of the objection
able protectorate which just now The Union so
brayey assaults and eXplOdes, was to enlarge aud
protect that place and quietly to encourage It in
tending its influence inland, and gradually planting
American civilization and laws in Central America.
This however, did not suit the Transit Company nor
its various agents, Messrs. Pierce, Marcy, Borland
Fabens, and Capt Smith They have caused the
town to be reduced TO ashes and having scarcely fn
shed this ofense against the public law of the world
they send disgusting organ-grinder to as with
swelling defamation against wrongs that England
committed kali dozen years ago, and that at any
rate Of but trfng Importance in comparison. Let
them pluck the beam out of their own eye before set
ting up such hubbub about the mote in that of their
Ieehbor.