The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-07
Gen. Godfden's Trcaty-ycry Lake Plum
dersng Operntton upnn The rraasury.

Inc more we inquire TITO the history, the
facts, the ntrigues, the stock jobbers, the wire
pullers, the scene shiftera, and the treasury
blood-suckers connected with that monstrous
abortion called the Gadsden treaty, the more
are we inclined to the deliberate judgment that
it is grand plunderipg operation against the
treasury Of the United States
The description which we give in another
| part Of this paper Of the God-forsaken, man
foraker, and most horrible desert tract OF
country for which Gen. Gadsden has contracted
TO pay the sum of twenty millions Of dollars
we commend especially to the attention of the
members Of ell parties of the United States Sc
nate. 1t will be useful to then in the event of
this treaty being submitted to the Senate for
its ratification. The geography of this new
territory, as it will be seen, is mnutely detailed
| from the observations Of the official chief of the
late boundary commission, Mr.. Bartlett Our
description, therefore, may be regarded as al
official account Of the country by the officer of
the government, detailed expressly for that OBJ
ject among the other duties of his commission.
II any body can tell US what we are to make
Of this new territory except a common place Of
| refuge iOT Iuc Hllal cALluCtluu VI our lHuibu
tribes by starvation, we shall be glad to hear it.
| The swamps Of South Carolina, the pine barreas
ofthe Old North State the sterile sands ofNew
| Jersey, the windy waste of Coney Island. the
| great plains which flank the Rocky Mountains,
| without tree within reach of q telescope, are
like the Garden of Eden in beauty and fertility
contrastcd with this Dantes :. Inferno" of the
Toll nj
stream, issuing from the defles of volcanic
| mountains, waters for a short distance the sell
wage Of little valley, aud then sinks in The
| absorbing sands. Here aud there, along these
| scanty streams, is a ragged Mexican settlement,
| protected by detachment Of ragged Mexican
| soldiers against the fierce Apache If there is
| gold in this territory it has yet to lie found
if there is any thing in it but starvation to man
and beast, it has YET to be discovered. Practi-
cally it would be an advantage to Mexico to
give us this Gadsden country and twice rs
much more OF the same sort, as free gift and
o good riddauce Why, then, this chuckling
among the administration journals over the
treaty which exacts an equivalent of twenty
millions Of dollars?
We shall explain First of ALL the treaty
requires that the Pacific railroad shall pass
through this desert waste Of chihuahua and
Sonora. And upon this point we find grand
combination Of railway stock obbers leagued
together in sort of holy alliance for the spoils
with one or two Of the leading spirits of the Cab
met up to their very chins in the grand specula-
ton. The ratification Of the treaty fixes the rail
road route; and without building mile, or in
vesting dollar, the parties interested may sell
out their right, title, and interest for millions
Of money. Secondly, five millions go to the
relief Of the Garay league, the Hargoas asso-
| citation, the Benjamin copartnershp and other
| Mexican claimants connected with the Tehuan.
tepec scheme and other projects. Upon this
| point we are Informed that Gen Gadsden must
have forgotten the verbal instructions of Marcy,
or that he contounded them with the instruc-
tions Of the Tehuantepec people, and that hence
the Marcy division OF the Cabinet are not salts
fed with the general result, though it is just
the thing for Davis, Cushing, and company.
Marcy appears 10 have been left out of the holy
alliance whence, we presume, the delay in
sending this precious piece Of South Carolina
diplomacy" to the Senate. Hence, TOO, the i'm
preston that Gen. Gadsden will be finally sent
back to try for more plausible bargain i for
treaty which upon its face. will not betray SO
brazcnly the joint stock conspiracy involved
against the public treasury.
The third and most conspicuous feature of
this splendid specimen of South Carolina d.
plomacy,'' so called by the Charleston journals
in their innocent ignorance of the subject-the
third and principal feature Of the cash equiva-
lent is the item Of fifteen millions FOR the relief
of Santa Anna; three millions down, upon the
ratification Of the compact, Tor his immediate
nee ssities. In respect to this branch of the
subject We understand Gen. Gadsden was care
fully posted up before his departure to Mexico,
hy Santa Annals minister and special favorte,
Gen Almonte, at Washington. Upon the whole,
it appears chat the treaty is the result Of the
joint instructions of the Southern Pacific Rail
road coalition, headed by the Davis aui Clsh-
ing section Of the Cabinet; of the Tehuantepec
holy alliance Of stockholders, (the Sloo com
pany included-their share being the sole occu-
patton of the Tehuantepec route) and of the
Mexican minister Almonte The result is per-
fcetly consistent with the schedule OF the par
ties represented. The railroad route is secured
the TehuaotcpecIers are provided for, and
Gen Santa Anna i to have the necessary means
Tor sustaining himself and enforcing the due
fulflment of all the rest Of the bargain.
But considering the desert character of the
country to lie ceded US, the bowling wilderness
for which we are to pay twenty milions-a
considering the Pacific railroad alliance, the
Tehuantepec combination Of spoilsmen and
the flcts and the nature of the subsidies for the
relief Of Santa Anna, we cannot avoid the Inn
preston that this Gadsden treaty is diplo-
matte humbug of the first water, and that it
covers string OF log-rolling schemes for ex-
tracing untold millions from the treasury or