The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-12-30
The New Treaty with Mexico.

The New Treaty with Mexico.
The N. y. Picayune of the 2lst gives the
following synopsis of the new treaty with
Mexico, negotiated by Mr.. McLane:
THE MoLANE-oCAMPo TREATY.
December IA, 1859.
This treaty comedies to the United States,
or citizens thereof, the right of way, in per-
petuity, for three great transit routes across
the Mexican Republic:
l. The right of way, in perpetuity, for a
railroad or other communication across the
Isthmus of Tehauntepec, from ocean to
ocean.
2. The right of way, in perpetuity, for a
railroad from some point on the Rio Grande
across the States of Tenaulipas, Goa hula,
and New Leon, Durango and Sinaloa, to the
port of Mazatan, on the Pacific.
8. The right Of way, in perpetuity, for
railroad from the Territory of Arizona,
Guaymas on the Gulf of California.
4. The right to erect warehouse at the
termini of all these transit routes, and freely
to navigate the water with which they COM
| municate.
S. Tbs right to transport goods and mer-
chandize, destined for Arizona or California,
or thence back to the other ports Of the U.
States, free of duty, by each and all of the
routes across the Republic, whatever may be
their description or of what country.
6. This article provides that these yoods
may at any time be entered at the Transit
warehouse, for sale and consumption in Mex
! leo, on payment of the duties,or may at any
time be withdrawn ard and shipped to any
other country than Mexico free of duty the
warehouse regulations to allow no charges
on the goods but those OF carriage and stor-
| age
| Z. This article provides that large list of
| goods and merchandise, being the natural or
| manufactured product of the United States
shall be admitted into Mexico at the various
termni of the Transit routes on terms of per-
| feet reciprocity, the Congress of the United
| States to determine whether they shall be
admitted free or at a fixed rate of duty. This
| list embraces manufactures in cotton and
leather of every description.
| s. The treaty grants, moreover, the right
| to transport the troops, military stores, and
muzitions of war of the United States across
the Republic, by the Tehauntepec and Sono
| ra transits, on the same terms as those of
Mexico.
8. 1t comedies to the U. States the right,
| with or without the CO operation of Mexico,
| to protect, by force of arms if necessary. all
| those transit routes, their property, and
rights of way.
| TO- L. guarantees religious freedom to cit
| liens OF the United States in Mexico, and the
| right to worship in churches or private dwell
lings, according to the dictates OF their own
| conscience.
II. No forced loan, whatever be its nature,
| shall be levied on citizens of the United
| States, resident in Mexico, on any pretence
| whatever. Citizens OF the United States,
| moreover, shall be free to pursue whatever
| business or profession may seem to them tit,
| without restraint or restriction whatever.
SUPPLEMENTAL CONVENTION.
To the treaty is also attached special
supplementary convention between the U.
| States and Mexico, which comedies
|. The right to the United States to inter-
vene, by force of arms, if necessary, to pro-
tect citizens and property of the U. States in
Mexico, and to enforce the same treaty slip
| ulatiOns.
2. In compensation for the duties, above
mentioned, as released on goods passing
| through the Republic, and for consumption
| therein, the United States stipulate to pay
! to Mexico four millions of dollars, two mil
| lions of which are to be reserved for the
payment of claims against Mexico.
letter from Jalapa, where Robles PeZae-
| la, late Mexican Minister at Washington,
| commands, says that when the news of the
| conclusion of the treaty with the United
States reached that city, expresses were at
once sent forward in all haste to the capital,
| where, as at all the other cities on the route,
| the news created the greatest excitement
| among the Reactionists. The letter adds:
Poor conservatives! they are dreadtully
| frightened, but they scarcely see the begin
| ming of the drama yet.
| Above all the handful OF officials, That we
1 have here, in wrath at the arrangement We
4 have effected with the United States, breathe
! the direct vengeance against 'the traitors at
Vera Crse." They do not say this openly,
| but at light as they perambulate the streets,
| in order to show,l suppose, that Don QulJSte
| still lives.
| As to the effect of the treaty, their cannot
4 be a doubt that now it has been concluded.
\ England will also recognize the constitution
| al government. 1t is not possible for her to
| take any other road than that worked out
| by the Republic of the North-above all sc
| can no longer continue her protection to the
| vandalic faction of Mexico.
| A letter from the city of NJ exico says:
s'The military evies continue here with
1 unabated violence. The members of the
| commission penetrate even to the hearth
| stones of the unhappy citizens, and seize them
| in the bosom of the families and hurry them
4 off to the army. A few days since poor
1 shoemaker, living on the road to San Die
| quito, was seized by one OF these man-hunt-
| ers, and, On resisting, was struck with me-
| chete, and in this horrible state was con-
| Quoted to the hospital, thence to be impress
| ed into service when he shall have recover
| ed"
| Another letter from the capital records
the death, in prison in that city, OF Gen.
| Vicente Tapia, who was wounded and taken
| prisoner at the battle of Queretaro. The
| letter adds that he died in the greatest suf-
ferin. nor was he permitted to see his family
who sought admission to the prison. Such
is Mexican warfare.
Shocking A.fair.-A most frightipaii occur
renee took place in the town Oh ioome.'