New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-10


Pnaed Of quicksilver lille they had been working
Ihs @ @ y to ye th mprs;.on that the owners haze
gIots q gpklst d be .ppropri,ed ssy s1asso-
a. much any would FER the nine with an indie
u he oay sees ee H DrS es O. 1 a 700 de-
e snonu inms sey CsfGDisns know Of instances
thousands Of dollars Of pablo god and yet al the end Of he
appropriation have een bankrupt have not the sctaal a
well SHOWN In California; bot estimates have been hsJ
here snd not gaiDaysd, hoS1 hsi tie o. An.d
had hen tbsr Original cash that nine snd had
sp o., on so1d s9d California Instead o. .nkinsis
IN ,hs ns at The ne tb, aid they would h,ye had larger
mining sss pot~ b'tsndIs the mine happened 10 surp
AZ soon a. tbe nine, under the impulse Of The o,,.,
lnvsst9eDt in csornis and s energetic sSns
neehboicg raucheto named Berreyesa brought M, oen H.
tho round tia, It within biz boundaries an @ os y on
granted g ore Juo Lsos who odd to drove ess Critically
E Sfs OF sa sG te Of snd s co Cha. ssa e Mr.
10 Edidge nod LsW@nce the posessors unds Fosss,
c,m oTr Aosden and decision Of The ID ss. D.r
Court Judge msn hes been obtained extending 30 a. 70
embrace hs inc This claim e~hee you stated 70 be-
indpusoe ~ to title though dsPud to boundary en-
tension t. retisted by the owners OF Alnsden
The real cobtes 10 the ownership Of Amadeu Hes between
ths present under Ca.iIlero Co. oaDd
der the Fo.tt caO One Of these aitei Mr Elddssj hss
mogsged the fossAtt lain including" be states the
be IN po'sesionl TO John Collier Of Binrh.mOn, Y 70
familiar moneyed and influential around SewYork and
denly in The fs and sse8 for an SncoS :. 's
strain the worIing Of the mine pending the controversy as "a
tween the owners Of AHaden and the Of adjoining
The United States pleaded s paramount title as owner IN fee
Of the soil and It's right 10 possession Of the mine Tho
the mine entited an biuucticn 10 stsy ss, 5
tie peRbospey 81 the Infection ard that mining Of
The stat q Gsoroia Tas equally perPeIed aou.ssd
sud father the quarrel one against The ober va
mysterious Why the United should IL sovereign
this single while It LEFT hundreds thousand. Of miner
throughout California in undprbed possession was equally
lands wis had The Goyrmep 20 DO wtS ,ss@ p s
did the Government wish 10 restrain snns on public anasi II
the latter then the whole business Of California which consisted
ni dnd DC pJOn lind no &c Sc Il Government it, OPP
emf IN it or him. under plea of M paramount title who safe
who du 1t offend The AttoneyGene who burst against
the Government which held such terrific option over the
per' Or gas ths Ansden mine Composing i 70 be pdb
nereuce) restrained at instance because
fond and worked it before the United States acquired Cali
foEia vas because large had been invested
ply this sss or.gn investments ancient and preserpt
Ave ssa bs sn the
tn seqgl strati0n of the fruits o, their industry,
hse the common right and title Of toe California er under
ard by which d. the vast mining properie. California Ore
spaa roag VIII a so oeenpy
ie Sn nps o 90 a II man nm
wei This popular right has since the acqui
void bring chaos During year. large pc pason Ss:
ectou and the Government has recognized by its silent
sent during that period with the sole exception of
suppcsins the lands to be public then whatever right
work any mine public land the Of Amsden had and
have with til. rights the oldest in
the country Discovery, oceSaton and working with them
commenced in lSi5 and has Continued until you stopped her
mine.
Second They had the right which announcement. and posses
sion under the Spanish and Mexican law themwch hight
argument before United Board Land Con.
Government the law nations and h provisions Of the
treaty BY heh the United Stat CURED California and which
Of equitable rights arising theIeon by American law
them the working and pOss ssion O. their mine,
IA,s They have these grants Of land from the Ms1ssn
an unTed .aj yOn assert Is fraud Il wers Ten time.
fraud would furnish for ntenuptng their mining,
grant. which hey wpai prosecute United
The land claimed lard Of the United States
si the clearly and he
former will the Government restrain mining IN the
Of these while permitting the entire population Of Caor
MIA citizen and len Caucasian MoDgoian and to nine
But Almsden that the Mexican
they present hOy and etyey They may not be
Purport be ara made in Mexico
pended to them The title Mexican te mus. be SUB
tanted or conrove Mexico oy evidence from Mex
to send to Mexico to take testimony and search the
archives They applied he United States Court in Fran
cisco commission the Court refused IT, To Congress for
law authorizing such commits at direct request the
the President Mexico copies under
the greet seal documents and Of the archives. byyOuE
President asking them to select acOry 70
hem end Mexico Whose expenses these would
in the City Of Mexico b.ore Mr. = United States Con-
sui John Black having notified the Attorney General to send
deputy and by authority Of general statute Of the United States
passed 1850 proceeded to cal evidence for in the United
States Court In California The Consul refused 20 take The tes
oay and produced letter from the Hon. Robert McLane
nited States Minister nstructDg him refuse These
uctions traced through the Hon Lewis Cas to yoUs
Your object to close the mine This accomplished by
unswon and improved allegations Of maud In ate not neces-
TO these mining possessions Having accomplished this OBJ
ec refuse carefully and with the uuos. vigilance to
vent them bringing before the United States Court evidence
bung your allegations In the tue, you with diff
Guilty restrained BY the counsel for the owners Of M%sden from
isising the apf al from the decree Of the United States Dis
met Court, which confirms TO the Fossatt claimants their title by
1opT dnies including Almaden You say in effect Il know
get but still assert the title Of the Government for the
pose Of sustaining the injunction Doubtless were the EOsat
boundaries you would discover that the United States longer
Robert Walker ak an E S DC "qo John h
Collier and certain Influential parties round Washington
hese mines which they did not dis open nor Sok whose
he Attorney General viii canddy aknowe ige that the United
States longer need enon their working Unfneniy
will probably that you have merely acted
nend" the Fosatt claimants through all this extraordinary
action and that your public zeal has been harmonious
The names employed by you behalf of the
United States in the suit which closed Almaden the ground
bat public Land the property OF the Government. dis
the fact that action has taken for the benefit
counsel cf those claimants in Washington and Edmund Ran
oph snd is their standing couns. Ia California They
retained by those claimants to obtain from the United
heir private clients snd the District Court approved that claim
he very gentlemen employed by you and paid by tho
Of the United States rer iuing the Of Anaden
rom working because the mine belonged to ne publ % e
s pleaded that BELONGED to Fossatt aud sustained their plea