New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-30
ANOTHER LITTLE JOB.

Even Secretary Toucey is unable to keep out of
it The President has got up Tehuantepec aud
Sonora Transit job of S4O0O,000. Why shouldn't
a Secretary 90 in with his little "fyer Of
$500, COOl Away down on the Cen raj American
Isthmus, near Panama, there is lagoon called
Chriqui Lagoon, and on the Pacific side bay, or
little gut, called GolftO. Between them is wilder
ness of high mountains and untracked forests. II
seems that one Thompson has got from somebody IN
the Government Of Costa Rica or New Granada,
(for both lay claim to the territory, the right Of
way, with untold acres of valuable land producing
4" four thousand bushels of mosquitoes to the acre.
50 and aligators for fencing, lying between
or on, or about these two wonderful points of Chrqu
and GolftO. And what is of much more cOnse-
queDce, Mr. Thompson has got Secretary Toucey
to enter into conditional contract for obtaining
at second hand, from him (ThompsOn) subordinate
right way for the United States with other priv
ileees, and all for the contemplate of $500 900
Well, we are rather in favor of this, provided the
President will foregO his Tehuantepec and Sonora
OBJ. Those are old and threadbare humbugs, while
this Chriqui scheme ia fresh and new, and relatively
cheap; and we prefer to contribute while we are
about it, TO the support of the good national family
of Thompsons, rather than to the alien one OF
Juarez. Thompson will probably spend his money
in q brown-stone front, at home, and patrOnize
Indigenous butchers and tailors; while Juarez
would be sure to squander Bis funds among his own
paisanos or else 60 to Paris and invest it in decOra
tiOns and diners at Fesse's.
But, seriously, is there not something pitiable
and humilaDg in the fact that the taiut Of obbery
has come to infect every department, from the
White House down to the Navy Bureau We had
supposed, after the enormous swindle Of the Tehu-
antepec mail contract under which il is calculated
the transportation Of every letter cost something
over $50, We should hear of no more similar expert
ments The good-nature Of the late Postmaster
General we are bound to believe, was imposed on
by the Benjamins, and other Tehuantepec specula-
tors But the Secretary of the Navy is not so very
good.natured, as to be open TO the suspicion Of
having been worked upon through the amiable
side of bis character. Thompson must have got a
held on some other trait in the Touceyan coastitu-
tioD. But be viii find, we apprehend, tbat it ii
easier to charm the Secretary than to wheeoe
Congress, as it is at present constituted. We fear
some i'll patured law gyer aud apPropraton-voter,
will take it into bis head to inquire into the exact
value of the right of wsy from Chiriqu TO GolltO,
and ascertain whether it will not be best to negoti
ate with the untamed Indians and tigereats now in
occupation Of that interesting territory. When
TLcnpson has cleared out these disasreeable ten
ants, and made il prudent for competent appraisers
to 20 over his valuable acquisitions, we may feel
disposed to look little into the question Of pur
chase. But, until then, we repeat, the apprOpTia-
ton power of the Government viii put veto on
tie transaction. The fact is, we havn't got
S3C0, eco 10 throw away on Thompson.