The New York herald., 1873-08-23

A Young Man by the Name OF Xfmencs
Has His say-ssWays That Are Dark"-
An Excellent Argument for the Peace
CommissiOn-Lusus Naturw-A WASH
tngtOn Savage.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, August s, 1873.
Some time since your journal expressed desire
to know why the "Frontier Commissionn and the
State Department were so reticent as to what
had been done. Since it seems that Messrs. Robb,
Savage Osborne have settled the pecuniary
affairs Of the Commission, furnishing vouchers for
$ls 100 OF the appropriation. il may not be unin-
teresting to examine what good this expenditure
has accomplished. The duties devolving upon this
Commission were plain-t0 ascertain the amount
OF depredations committed upon frontier settlers
by Indians, and how far evidence could be adduced
which would render the Mexican government,
directly or indirectly responsible for the numerous
authenticated testimony, that the mode adopted
by the Commission to ascertain
THE DAMAGES SUFFERED
!ea 70 very peculiar results. About ten times as
much property as correct returns show existed is
claimed as having been lost. The entire business
Of the Commission show tne same looseness In
iacs "a IL Is put ano.nef OF what seems
cannot touch anything without covering it with
the slime Of corruption; without making job in
which they are pecuniarily interested, as witness
our recent Vienna complications
AS an example OF the
PECULIAR MODE OF DOING BUSINESS
BY these frontier Commissioners, an interpreter,
Ximenes by name, was employed at $125 In cur
rency and $31 in gold. Why this arrangement was
made requires explanation. Why not all currency
or its equivalent in coin Fer this pay monthly
Xtmenes was requested to sign vouchers. That
part OF the transaction was legitimate enough but
why
PIECE OF BLoTTING PAD
was placed over the amount for which the inter-
prefer signed does not seem 80 easy OF explana-
ton. The explanation is stu more Gificut when
the further fact develops itself that the Hon. Ham
ilton Fish desires this interpreter to rise and
plain why his drafts. ounting to the sum of $780,
were so heavy. As the amount received was but
q small sum over four hundred dollars, this query
was poser and full explanation OF the entire
transaction,
THE MODUs oPERANDI
whereby the signatures were obtained, together
with other needful information despatched to
the Hon. secretary In very well written and
lucid letter OF fourteen pages.
Prior to the receipt Of this letter rom the State
Department another letter, addressed to Mr..
received and taken In charge by Commissioner
Savage. Information to that effect having reached
Mr.. X1menes, he naturally enough demanded the
document, whereupon, in the public streets OF
San Antonio,
THE HONORABLE SAVAGE GET UroN AND BEAT
Mr.. Ximenes, for which offence Mr.. Savage was
nned as appears on record. The sole reason
assigned for this assault was that the interpreter
was communicating improper information TO the
Department OF state
II seems entirely probable that the chances OF the
frontier to obtain redress or actual damages will
be Dut very slim, a. undoubtedly the agents Of the
Mexican Government have communicated these
unreliability OF the Information furnished by the
Commission.