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Show TELEGRAPHIC 'S UE CANAL. Hot? fits Americans isro i'ro-EeviiuE- Ayriiinsl EeiCH-w EeiCH-w f; Kchtiue. New York, 4 Tbe Engineering and Mining Journal priuts a fetter from 1'rote-stior Fuerth, of Cornell Uuivareity, suggesting that if the canal is actually to be built, tbe United 8tmea cannot alJord to stand hy and see it built across any territory terri-tory except that of our ally and neighbor, neigh-bor, the Republic of Mexico. He says : " We must bear iu mind that the Central American republics are v ry weak and controlled by European Euro-pean ascendency." The S'. says, editorially : " When the vote was taken in toe packed congress the American and British representatives refused to go on record because tbe' whole thiug was an organized Bnap judgment and speculation. Therefore, so lar aa the United States appeared at all in this matter, it was direct, positive and unqualified opposition. Leseepa was lully aware of tbia, having boen a personal witness of tha proceedingti, i( not their actual manager 'ihe United States will never consent that 'he abip canal shall bo built across . this continent, under foreign auspices, and to be controlled by foreign influence. influ-ence. So much is eeuled by the unwritten un-written law which all parties accept in this country. The American continent con-tinent is reserved for tho development of American institutions, in which all tho world is invited to share by adoption. adop-tion. But any nation that attempts lo enter by way of lbs isthmus with nut previous permission, and upon express conditions will find tnat door barred sternly and immovably. When Leseps assumed to tell the audience at Nantes that the government of tho United States was not opposed lo tho Panama project, ho willfully misrepresented mis-represented the truth aud evidently, with the intention ol aiding the job of which ho is the chief manager. Now York; 4. Tho jyorld eaj8 tho isthmus canal ib a thing greatly to be desired, not only in tbo general interest in-terest of commerce by all commercial natious of jthe world, but in tho interest in-terest of the whole American people, by Americans in particular. It is absolutely necessary to tho power and weli being of cue United States, however, how-ever, that such commuuication Bbouid be so kept under the control of this government aa to make it impossible that it shall ever become what the Suez Oaual already biis become fcr England in Europe a source of political po-litical complications between tbe United Stales and otner powers. It is of primary importance to this country that tho American govern menl should bo put into a position to secure tbe free use of the canal on equal termB by ships of ail nations in tbia time uf peace, and to prevent tbe use of such oanal by war ships of any nation iu times of war. THE NICARAGUA ROUTE, New York, 3, A requesH cas been received (rom Nicaragua that Civil Engineer Meuocal, United States navy, be allowed to visit that country and complete, under iu auspices, the work ou certain unfinished portiormot the survey oi the Nicaragua route for the proposed inter ocetiuic caual. Meuocal formerly did tho work under that government. The request for his aid now has boon granted by Secretary Thompson, to whom it was referred. Meuocal will shortly leave for Nicaragua. j World's v Lv.bjngloti: Meuocal iB placed on waiting orders, and will probably not o to Nicaragua before November He is somewhat out of hrmllh aud needs rest. Tbe secretary ol the ij'vy s.iya tho government, bo lar as be knows, was a uuit iu favor of Ihe Nicaragua rojio. Lessepa' scheme be iiuhesiialiugly characterized character-ized aa & "uumbtii; " He did not believe il would ever amount to anything. any-thing. Our government bud made all the surveys it desired to make, aud if any canal was to bo made it would bti on tho Nicaragua route and under the supervision of tbo United States government. londoo, 4. Tbo Observer announces an-nounces that in France the Bharea in esops' Panama canal echemo are at iwo fr.mcs discount, and remarks ih a tnere is not likely to be any demand de-mand for them in England. |