Show y erom from coryy corsy cor co x Y tribune TH expedition tf US S FLAG snip ST LAWRENCE M montevideo dec 2 1858 1838 ia now that WB e are swinging from our anchors anthe on the margin of the pa paraguayan ra J tan ten republic allow me to togo logo go over brie briefly fly as th will allow the cause and na eftie of our difficulties with president lopez lwray you may object that everybody knows all about these things long aso ago I 1 answer there are some rna t I 1 n connection with them which are very important add add and which I 1 will publish for the first time lime it may seem a strange proceeding forme for me to et tach itch more importance to the most trivial item in conne connection stion glion with this thia affair than to what in the usual course coarse of thing would ba be in reality most orthy dorthy of It but I 1 will do so because I 1 panicle tad fad rather than criticize them I 1 ty state SL ite ate by bv wy of preface that my in forma has thas not been hasuly hastily am abased ased but is the rei of careful and research phe e misunderstanding mach existed between states and para relative to the tho ty y made noade by pendleton and aud St henck deserves iffy to be menti mentioned mention omd oud td as its bearing on the it t aspect of affairs has assumed significance iby liy Y misrepresentation because I 1 liappes pen to lit ahat any american not a mer c an ti rival a pez ez could have settled it in inan an hour if ithe the unto nto the water witch was a more use ase for building a quarrel upon it was OUT goult ault auit or the tile fault of the eilicer in command gt lv essel vesel now ug this passage the ex tafou of which would be of about the same the inquisitive world as an exact estimate eft oft alsic al cl sic taic locality loca Inca lity known as the ibe five fire points in il v yok york 1 I have fa I 1 city also to submit a new out ten years ago an engish dugish brig of or empted emited to enter this chiq channel under what fl pre is not known her commander was in aw 1 as awa was way the officer in n charge of the water t that at none cone but vessels belonging belo to the gove rement aluin of paraguay were allowed I 1 wd there as 29 luvas has gas a little littfe military avenue used exclusively things between the batteries ar at one tide and the camp at the other but naval of are generally fond of violating trivial laws lowak weak powers and the brig was still kept steer PA A biank blank cartridge in probably aall fill res laeti dik Alk farto larto that which warned the tha water intrusion 9 failed to stop the eng dishma ishman but awell directed ten pound solid shot s striking dirig with wonderful accuracy about water mark was more successful and the spunky john mill concluding that discretion was the better part of hidir boiled ship and sailed out of the forbidden waters a wiser if not a better pilot the mutter matter was reported to the tile commander in chief of he tile british squadron who ordered the captain captala orthe of the brig to calk the bole and never such an adventure again indeed so just Is was the acton of the he paraguayans Paraguay ans considered that even the british admiral was not lamal ally on the subject now the uses of this little bheam have undergone rio jio change since that cimei time its dimensions have not mot increased nor has haa ahby abby circumstance transpired that would be likely to lo invest it with interest I 1 therefore consider the conclusion inevitable that the water witch was where she had no business to 10 be when she was as fired on and that consequently this clause in our list of gri grievances gris vances may be considered dis disposed posed of or now we come to what would seem to be he the not roost trifling part of the difficulty but hut which in reality as I 1 have already stated has been the tile principle incentive to warlike preparations by our government I 1 allude to the business controversy tro versy between our consul to paraguay mr hopkins and president lopez tile the current version of or this dispute is that lopez broke up the united states and paraguay navigation company that he destroyed or deprived the concern of improperly property and that he ref refuses uses to make any indemnification whatever for his alleged unjust and cruel conduct here are the facts fads daniel webster as is well known desired to see ministers and consuls appointed to foreign countries who knew something about the people and the natural features of the nation with whose government they were to represent the united stales states now mr air hopkins bad spent ome some time in paraguay previously to the year 1851 where lie he then and his knowledge of that ahat couil coun try beim belm neither very limited nor by any means imperfect and hib hip hi influence in political circles bein being beina quite alte consider considerable uble ubie it is no wonder that mr webster considered him just the man for paraguay and paraguay just the place for him accordingly mr fillmore was easily prevailed ou on to give hopkins a commission aia and the observing yankee as lopez called him was wag installed to the office of 0 united states slates consul to the tiie republic of paraguay it appears that at st thu this period lopez and hopkins were on the most intimate terms so intimate indeed that the latter aske asked askeland dand and readily received from the president a loan of 0 about toward starting tile the business bf the company above ref lef referred erred to it also appears that lopez hoped by establishing a colony of americans in his bis dominions to build up a power that mient assist him in counteracting the avaricious propensities of the partisans of the renowned rozas whose mercenary eyes wf wre re fixed steadily on the he fat fields of speculation lying iving useless in paraguay A few months however convinced lopez that he be had nothing to fear from outside sources fi f r rozas was buried in oblivion alid slid auddis his government almost revolutionized and the then it was that the president of paraguay saw what a flourishing market for making money lie he bad voluntarily given away to strangers he became restless jealous and cruel obstacles were almost daily thrown by him in the he path of the company atlas atias at last he be demanded his money which would not become fully due for about a year from the date of his application this fact was told him but he was inexorable he wanted his money and should have it the company however not feeling disposed to comply with wilh his unreasonable demand that mr alt in influence fluence as american consul might frighten him and I 1 am assured that this ir influence fluence was as exerted determinedly trivial cases of international dispute were magnified on both sides and several respectable american citizens affirm that our consul committed himself as a government in ILI many instances which have never seen and never will see the light it was at this juncture that a brother of the consul happened to be out riding with another mans wife when meetie meeting g a soldier on the road ile he got into an altercation wih with him which resulted in in getting the military man flogged and in fanning the alime of diplomatic discord with A ith fresh vigor lopez now determined to withhold certain privileges extended to the navigation company many of which w t ich it must mast be confessed were grossly abused and once more demanded his money hopkins company campat y became stiff as tile the president became urgent ind so exasperated did this stubbornness on the part of the company make nake our present enery that he broke up the entire business of the he speculators exclaim exclaiming in if I 1 cannot get my own money or rule this co country un try I 1 shall allow no yankees to provoke me in a short time lime aate aft this thu the water witch affair took radee and tha partisans of our consul did not fail fall to impute the firing into info the steamer to motives which paver vever actuated it wilm wila whim the events above related transpired cap capt A avarado hunter a renowned renow ped ded fighting figh man reckie recile ss I 1 brave and rash happened to have command an lot lof of the united stated brig of war bainbridge on the flin coast of brazil under command of commodore william D salter halter who was com mander iu in chief of the unit united ed states belzil squadron at the time the outrages on american citi cill ens by the tyrant lopez so moved the bercu lal ial ilal duelist that without orders lie he came down with his vessel vesel to rio and laid before the tho com oom eodore who w was on board the fl ag ship savanah Sa ranah an n intensely pathetic picture 0 of paraguayan despotism aal a detailed statement of the most feasible means of taking summary vengeance on tile be tyrannical lopez the alone alonz willi several dver nver craft which could ba be chartered in in backos ayres was the vehicle through which winch capt hunter proposed to pour destruction st on but hut commodore salter refused to act so han hav hastily ily lly as aivarado alvarado delmed expedient eni ent and ordered the bainbridge up the la plata again now mi mit clement Hop hoplin kins kInF who was tile the hero bero roof root 0 the difficulty with the soldier wrote an in intensely patriotic letter latter to the new york herald which signed as an american citizen if irl paraguay was conspicuously published in that journal ard aid copied into almost every paper in ili the union tile the decision deci lon ion of commodore salter was ved at the bainbridge was termed a painted hip ship s on a painted ocean and aud and aud a great many other 1 clever cleyer eyer ever things said in the communication which it 13 not necessary to recapitulate suffice it to say ibal ihal after mr clements ef efFi fasion ision had hail attained a very wide cu lation our government became possessed officially of the tho he grievances suffered sutured buff buss ered tred by the coa coo ul which were not likely to be treated as light matters by the injured party tous tons was the state of aff ina ira with paraguay and the united states slates when mr buchanan came into power and it was the famous message dies Bles saoe sage of our president that brought the matter before bedfor the publia in a prominent manner now it is in connection with this thib message 11 that my most pr pregnant nant new nev fact posses posea cs es importance when the message reached paraguay there happened to be two or three Amen cn missionaries sojourning sojo at asuncion hearing how matters stood they determined ter mined to call on the president on being bein admitted they found him with a paper containing the document referred to in in hid bid hand pacing his apartment in a very excited mood it occurred 0 o them that they had better withdraw but while they illey were deliberating on tile the subject lopez turned hastily round to them this paper sail he shaking the document edh falsehoods from it curth americans infer that I 1 am a tyrant and a thief I 1 am nt ither your steamer was in it forbidden waters but she was fired on without any cli me the navigation company shall be paid every pata pa corle corie they have lost if file the thu ihu g be left laft to arbitration I 1 am willing to pay anything that honest men say i n right except they say tay ay it i is right to pay for which were never realized ane company I 1 am informed vill v ill kli not accept compensation for what they have actually lost but they want to be paid for what they might make if business le em mIned ined good for years to come and monstrous demand I 1 will ill lii never accede to I 1 presume this piece of information has never before been published although several Ame lican licau citizens residing in brazil uruguay and buenos ayres know it to be true in every particular yet it is generally believed in the united states that lopez is 13 determinedly averse to any settlement lih ith ui h the company Co mopan having now given you ou pretta a correct account of the paraguay trouble as it looks on this side sid of the line lice I 1 wll wil wi 1 resume my narrative of 0 the amov movements e of the squadron As far as at present known this ship is to remain here or tvs ibs buenos ayres if it the commodore considers her able to go so far until the arrival cf of the dlag flag ship rafts are we understand being selected on which to place such heavy guns glins of the fleet as may be designated tua sloop of war falmouth captain farrand Fa went up to buenos ayres thedac the day before accompanied by the tile the perry is also there by this time and they will ill lii employ in exercising guns ac tile tiie steamers chartered for the expedition have not been as asyet yet jet assigned any specific auti but when they shall have all arrived a consultation of officers will be held as to whether in case of liptz copt z proceeding edli edil g to extremities it will be better td engage them in merely towing laats well manned ma tined lined and supplied wih heavy metal or iu 1 forcing a passage for themselves with regular clowa board admiral forrest is keenly alive to the he many objections which can be advanced against t ei either elther tb e r of these projects on rafts the men would have hardly any protection on the steamers if they be not strong and firmly built the forts could do dreadful execution there is not a doubt but there will be a fight if our ba be determined 0 to o ill in the demands demarkis de markis maruis which lopez so sternly refuses to comply with buenos rhe hie arrival of a brazi lin fin schooner from buenos duenos ayres on friday brings us intelligence that every preparation is being made to resist the advance of our ves vessels els but on the other hand a private letter received by one of our officers from a merchant in the same city states that if the new comma commander ader in chief chiet be a man of sense and reason 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