The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-08

body appears so far to have lost nything.
Some probably have been despoiled of previous
profits, and should there exist " lame ducks
in the California trade-in railroad specula-
tions--in mining took operatons-in real es-
tate or other fancy speculations-the war in
Europe, with tight money market in London,
viii be sure to bring them to light.
There is probably q money crisis at hand,
which war in Europe may precipitate, but
which peace cannot avert for any great length
Of tine
The Great Twenty Million Svlndlc OF the
Gntlsslen Treaty.
During the last ten days the impression has
1ccn rapidly gaining ground at Washington,
that the grand joint stock Gardner swindle Of
the twenty millions Of the Gadsden treaty will
be Indignantly rejected by the Senate. This
will not be surprising to anybody. The only
wonder is that this gigantic plot for commit
ting burglary upon the public treasury, under
the cover Of law, has been given the deliberate
and protracted discussion which it has received.
With all the facts, all the parties, and all the
correspondence of the conspirators before it,
disclosing the whole plot in all its unblushing
impudence and atrocity, one would naturally
suppose that the Senate would have instantly
trampled this so-called treaty under foot, and
that they would have ordered such proceedings
against the guilty parties, upon the spot, as
would bring them to justice, or disclose, at
least, the precise interest of every individual
concerned in the conspiracy.
But there have been powerful induences at
work in behalf Of this corrupt and comprehen-
sive plot for plundering the Treasury Of two
thirds Of its thirty millions surplus. What
with Santa Anna, and our Mexican claim
agents and railroad stock jobbers, con-
tingent aggregate of the spoils, equal to
five or six millions of dollars, has been
under the control of the lobby in support
Of this treaty. Grand operation Worthy the
golden epoch of California and Australia
equal to some fifty Gardner claims, and fully
up to the imperial necessities Of "5enemerito de
Ia patria," General Don Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna!
Among the incidental interests connected
with the fortunes of this treaty are number
Of worthy citizens, under bona tide contracts Of
various kinds, with Santa Anna but whose
means OF payment are the fifteen anticipated
millions for the Gadsden triangle of the deserts
of Sonora. OF these bona Jfde contractors are
the Messrs. Ames, of Springfield, Mass, who, it
appears, have engaged to supply Santa Anna
from their foundries, with some two hundred
pieces Of artillery-feld pieces Of six and twelve
pounds calibre. On or about the 26th of
March last the bark Grapeshot left this ports
with cargo, in part of thirteen hundred par
cells Of hardware, bound for st. Thomas and a
market. Now, as already known these thir-
teen hundred parcels of hardware were so many
bundles Of muskets, ten muskets to each bundle,
making in all thirteen thousand muskets bound
for Vera Cruz. The venture is owned onc-half
by George Law and the other half by the Messrs.
Laurence & Co., of New London, Connecticut;
but whether the muskets are of the secondhand
stock of which forty thousand were turned
over to Kossuth at two dollars piece, or whe-
ther they are new muskets with all the modern
improvements" we are not advised 1t is
enough for us to know that the chances for pay
ment are exceedingly slim for the artillery and
the muskets, unless Santa Annals empty
pockets are replenished from our treasury.
Hence the interest of the parties concerned
in the ratification Of the Gadsden. treaty.
These military investments and others for
materials and munitions of war, to enable Santa
Anna to extinguish the independence Of the
Mexican people, are, however, but Incl
dental contingencies. Santa Anna and
his agents at Washington, the Tehu-
antepec Spectators, the Opelousas and
Pacific railroad SPECTATORS, the Gardner
claimants against Mexico, and the border Indian
bogus indemnity jobbers, are the parties that
have given weight and strength and snews of
war to the lobby. How utterly corrupt, there
fore, must this Gadsden treaty be, when, not
withstanding it is desirable to settle our exist
ing differences with Mexico in a friendly way,
and very desirable to procure new boundary
south Of the ella, this bargain of Gen. Gadsden
is more than the Senate can swallow
We have been amused at the brazen-faced ar
gumcnts employed by the lobby men in support
of this treaty, in the newspapers. The country
proposed to be coded to us is a horrible desert
waste and bowling wilderness of naked
mountains Of rocks and blistering plains Of
sand; and yet, these lobby gentlemen have de-
scribed it as new garden of Eden in vegeta-
ton and climate, and second California in its
mineral riches. And then the treaty involves
the settlement of the Tehuantepec dispute, it
settles the Mesilla valley question, it relieves
us from the duty of watching the Apa-
ches all along the line, and it settles a
lot Of Mexican claims; and it secures the peace
fr.n pIebi xnfM oil Cor ptr
millions Of dollars. The bait was tempting; but
the lobby, as is apt to be the case where the
stakes are large, have overdonc the business,