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Show THE SEIIP CANAL.. Another Batch ot 1'ro tests Auiq&i Lessrps' Sclieiue- Uayes Thinbn FVo thins Kill Couits From It. New York, 7- The Sun, which announces an-nounces the opening of subscription books to the isthmus caoal bere, yesterday, yes-terday, gays: About 500 shares have been taken. A repoiter interviewed the persons interested in the scheme. Chaa. G. Lincoln, stockholder in the Panama, Baid: "We have no reason to oppose a canal, and should oue be built we Bhould certainly pieler Lcs-leps' Lcs-leps' route. If the Nicaragua or any southern route we represent, as advocated ad-vocated by Admiral Ammen and Men-ocal, Men-ocal, is built, the Panama road would loae half its traffic. If Lesaeps builds on our route he haa to buy ua out or pay ua a handsome interest on our capital inve&ted. Why then should we oppose him?" The largest stockholders stock-holders in the Panama areTrenor W. Pt, Chas. G. Fraucklyn and John R. Marshall. Most of them are out of town, but tbey are understood to coincide in Lincoln' views. Tho paper adds that the ebareB eub-scribed eub-scribed for yesterdiiy were by personal friends of Lessens. No further subscriptions sub-scriptions are expected to-day. Ine rather astonishing fact has come to the surface that while Lea-sepsis Lea-sepsis soliciting subscriptions for his Danen canal the .Nicaraguan govern ment has part of a sliip canal aioiost ready or business. The advanced stiige ol the work alot:g the San Juan Riviir and the eneryy which the Nicaraguan Nic-araguan government bas determined to put forth in completing the route between the lake and sen is an assurance assur-ance to our government that if the inter oceanic canal is to be constructed con-structed it will bo by thia route, in which the Unitdd States is as largely interested aa Nicaragua. On the ship canal the Herald Bays: The preaent enterprise of the Nicaraguan Nicara-guan government is intended only to open navigation for river steamers of light draught from the gulf to the lake; but it will probably have the eflect of calling attention once more to the feasibility ol a obip canal for which both river and lake, by all accounts, otfer important belpB, while between the western shoro ol the lake and the Paoifio ocean there ia but a narrow neck of land, thirteen miles aoroea. It will do no h rm to have several iuter-oceaoio canals, and Lesaipa will probably stir up intereat in other nroieeta bpsidpn his nwn. nnri perhaps lead some of tho Central American countries to undertake a canal project on their own accouut' Washington, 7. Thorough inquiry at the state department and an interview inter-view with the President this afternoon enables the authoritative statement that no action haa been taken and no correspondence held by government either with regard toDeLeesepa' canal scheme in ita relation to our foreign policy, or with regard to the further exploration oljtbe isthmus by another government expedition with a view to the organization ol an American canal company. Aa frirasDeLessepa acheme is concerned both the Prosi dent and secretary of state aro firmly convinced that no exigency is likely to arise which can cause disquietude dis-quietude or make it necee&Hry for government to take steps for the protection pro-tection of American interests. They believe DeLessepe and the Paris con-gresa con-gresa have selected an impracticable route, and that DeLeaaeps' scheme will eventually fail through lacK of financial support and for want of American cooperation. Admiral Ammen is very anxious that a commission com-mission of American engineers should be appointed to make a careful examination ex-amination of and ofiicial report upon tbe whole subject of an interoccanic canal, with the view of further eur-veys eur-veys if necessary. Aa yet no action bas been taken by the government upon Amnion's proposal, but there is little doubt that it will be favorably considered and that & commission of United States engineers will he op-pointed. |