Daily national Democrat., 1860-01-19
The Treaty with Mexico.

The San Antonio Herald gives the following
synopsis of the very important treaty nego-
ciated Dee 14th with the Liberal Govern
ment of Mexico, by Mr.. Mclean, the Ameri
can Minister:
l. The right Of way, in perpetuity. for q
railroad or any other communication across
the lsthmus of Tehuantepec, 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 Tamaulipas, Coahulia
and New Leon, Durango and Sinaloa. to the
port of Mazatlan, on the Pacific.
8. The right of way, in perpetuity for a
railroad from the Territory of Arizonia.
across the State of Sonora to the port OF
Guaymas, on the Gulf of California.
4. The right to erect warehouses at the
termini of all these transit routes, and freely
to navigate the waters with which they com
municate.
8. The right to transport goods and mer
chandiee destined for Arizona or California.
or thence back to the other marts of the
United States free Of duty, by each and all
OF the routes across the Republic, whatever
may be their description or of whatever
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6. This article provides that these goods
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time be withdrawn and shipped to any other
country than Mexico free of duty, the ware~
house regulations to allow no charges on
goods but those of carriage and storage.
Z. This article provides that q large list
OF goods and merchandise, being the natural
or manufactured product of the United States
shall be admitted into Mexico at the various
termlm of the transit routes on terms of per
lect reciprocity, the Congress of the United
states to determine whether they shall be
admitted free or at a fixed rate of duty.
1his list embraces manufactures in cotton,
and leather of every description.
g. The treaty grants, moreover, the right
to transport the troops, military stores and
munitions of war of the United States across
the Republic, by the Tehuantepec and Sono.
ra Iransits, on the same terms as those of
Mexico.
9. 1t comedies to the United States the
right, with or without the consent and co
operation OF Mexico, to protect, by force of
arms If necessary, all these transit routes,
their property, and right of way
III. 1t guarantees religious freedom to
citizens of the United States in Mexico. and
the right to worship in churches or private
dwellings, according to the dictates of their
own conscience.
ii. No forced loan, whatever be its ma
ture. 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 fit,
without restraint or restriction whatever.
SUPPLEMENTAL CONVENTION.
To the treaty is also attached a special
supplementary convention between the Unit.
ed States and Mexico, which comedies:
l. The right to the United States to inter
vene, by force of arms, if necessary, to pro-
tect citizens and property of the United
States in Mexico, and to enforce these same
treaty stipulations.
q 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 millions
of which are tn he resarvad for tha novmant