The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-06
The Mission TO Bogsta-schemes to Get the
IsthmuS.

We learn from Washington that the new Com
missioner to Bogota has been loaded and primed,
and sent Off by the steamship Illinois, which
sailed yesterday. The instructions are remark
ably peaceful in their tone. Please to pay VIII
you owe us; what will you take for new postal
arrangement; and how viii You secure the liz. 8
and property of our citizens against the black
rascals of Panama? are the sum and substance Of
their tenor. After the clustering of the Message
toward New Granada, we could not expect any
thing different from poor Pierce; and even for
thus much Marcy is greatly indebted to the
HERALD, for il is doubtful whether, five had not
taken up and elucidated the questions pending,
Mr.. Commissioner Morse would have got any in
structions at all. Since we have shown how to
pay WITH there is chance that the Panama suf-
ferers will get some reparation.
A curious fact has leaked out at Wash
iDgton, however, in connection with the 18TH
mus, which, perhaps, may have had some
thing to do with Mr.. Commissioner Cor
wines grand filibuster recommendation to
seize it. Mr.. Hoagly has more peaceful iaten-
tons than Mr.. Corwine. He attends church re-
gularly, and perhaps thinks il not strictly moral
to run the trains on Sunday. So he wants that
Marcy should buy the Istbmus, pay five or ten
millions down, and call it Uncle Sans halfway
house. This would be capital scheme, only it
won't work. Let US see The Panama Railroad
Company has some seven or nine millions invest
ed there, and the stock is at CIT has risen q
little since the publication of the Message-but
if this government could be brought TO bear the
expense and responsibility of keeping the mig
gers quiet on the Is.hmus, who knows how high
Panama stock might not gos Moreover, the
company hold large grants of land that are now
absolutely worthless, but they would make an
excellent speculation il the United States could
only be induced to seize or buy the Isthmus.
This Panama scheme is Wall street
idea, and exhibits all the points of a
Wall street plan. 1t is only a prelude
to the coming battle between all the
various interests Of the Isthmus routes
which now centre in that delightful locality. Mr..
Hoagly is marshalng the forces of the Panama
route; Garrison and Morgan are backing up
protected by our old friend George Law: while
Col Sloo and Major Harris are recruiting for
Tehuantspec. Among these contestants for the
travel and trade between the Atlantic and the
Pacific, Com. Vanderbilt seems just now to he like
an Arab, his hand being against every man, and
every mans hand against him; but he il an old
Wall street schemer, and will fall into line some
where before the fight is over. We have every
confidence that he will come in for a share of the
spoils.
We hope they will all have good time, and
particularly that they will reduce the fare to
California, which is rather high for these hard
times In the meantime we will inform Mr.. Da-
vid Hoagly, President Of the Panama Railroad
Company, con6dentially, that he won't succeed
in getting either Marcy or Pierce up to the stick
ing point Of buying or flibustering the Isthmus
Of Panama. We have taken their measure long
ago.