The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-16

will state the substance Of the stipulations.
The President informs Congress in his animal
message that the United States have purchased
the two Danish islands OF st. Thomas and St.
John; but in point of fact, a bargain has been
made for three, the third being the island OF
ST, Croix, to which France has right Of pre-
5mptioD, the completion Of the purchase Of
this last depending on the French Government
waving its claim. The sum stipulated to be
paid for the three is s11, $50 900, Of which
$1,000, 900 go for the two islands Of st. Thomas
and st. John. Thus far all is simple and clear,
and If there were nothing more than appears
on the face of the transaction, we should be
content to leave it to the decision Of
the Senate. But it has been arranged
that the payment shall be made by
the United States placing in the treasury of
Denmark 20, ,000 900 rix dollars Of the Danish
coin of the realm as an equivalent for the
$11, $50 900, or (in case France uses her right
of pre6mption) 13, 333, ,333 rix dollars for the
81, 800 0O0. Now the difference in value be-
tween the purchase money in United States
coin and the sum in rix dollars which is to be
paid into the Danish treasury is 100000,
which Is a loss of that amount to Denmark
and no gain to the United States. 1t must of
course go into the pockets of persons con-
nected with the transaction.
Now, who are these persons They are,
first, Secretary Seward himself; second, Mr..
Yeaman, United States Minister at Copen-
hagen, who had an active hand in the ne6o-
tiation Of the treaty; and third, a party,
equivocally described as the "United States
agent at Copenhagen, and meaning the
Private Bank in that city. We are able to
state, on authentic information, that the
Danish Finance Minister knew nothing of this
strange feature of the transaction, until the
facts we're laid before him subsequent to an
arrangement made without his privity. This
large sum of $400, 900, lost to the Danish Gov
ernment, and not saved by ours, must go into
the pockets of Mr.. Seward, or into the pockets
of Mr.. Yeaman, or into the Golfers of the
Private Bank, alias "United States agent" at
Copenhagen, or else it is to be divided among
these three parties. We trust the Senate,
before ratifying the treaty, will look into this
part of the transaction, and ascertain for
whose benefit this handsome sum of $4,000
was taken out of Our Treasury, and withheld
from that of Denmark.
The facts that the conveyance of the pur-
chase money is to be through channel diffe-
rent from that through which the Danish Gov
| eminent manages its financial buriness; that
| the arrangement was made without the know
ledge of the Danish Finance Minister; and that
the Private Bank of COpenhag is described
| by the strange title of "United States Agent
| point clearly to an American origin for this
remarkable transaction.
One of the most esteemed journals of Co.
penhagen discusses this subject in an article
of which we have printed a translation
The translator's knowledge Of the Danish
tongue is superior to his command o.
the English; but the views expressed are in
| telligible. They are in the same vein as ours
though sense of international courtesy re-
strains the Danish journal from our freedom o.
censure. .-