The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-24 00:00:00

THE TVA R IN PARAGUAY.

The French mail steamer Guienne, with the mails
from Brazil and the River Plate, has arrived, and
letters and papers received are, as usual, very much
at variance with the telegrams published by the
Brazilian agents. Humaita, it now appears, has
been found evacuated by a French and Italian
pedlar, who reported it to the Allied commander,
and the Allies marched triumphantly in. The gar-
rison of Humaita had, since the repulse of the
Allies on the Ist of July, begun to evacuate that
place, and so completely was it done that none of
the guns found are serviceable. It is now proved that
it was not want of food that made Marshal Lopez
order the evacuation of Humaita, but it was consi-
dered untenable on account of the river being partly
in possession of the Allies. The small garrison of
Humaita made their retreat good to the fortifica-
tion in the Chaco, called Timbo, with the excep-
tion of a little force of about 800 men, who, after
several desperate fights, with twenty times their
number of enemies, have surrendered at discretion,
having been without food for six days. Without
taking Timbo the Allies will not venture to go
up the river Paraguay to Asuncion ; this is the
general belief at Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
Marshal Lopez, with the main part of the army,
said to be 18,000 men, is well fortified on
the Tebicuari guasu, on the Large Tebicuari ; but
notwithstanding this appellation it wilt not al-
'nit ships drawing more than about four feet,
and is therefore secure from any attack of the
Allied navy. We find nothing in the papers before
us of a revolutionary movement against Lopez, nor
of the shooting of Berges, Lopez's Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, for treason, but we see the shooting of
General Burghes, an aid-de-camp of Lopez, an-
nounced. The summary of the last fortnight at the
seat of war has very little in it of interest, nor has
the taking of Humaita advanced the hope of peace.
The most important news by this steamer is not, as
the telegram has it, that General Urquiza was quiet
and obeying the orders of the Federal Government,
but quite the reverse; and civil war has again broken
out in the Argentine Confederation. Gen. Casores,
who had rebelled against the Federal Government,
and kept the province of Corrientes in open revolt,
taking away all the transport belonging to the
Allies, was pursued by the Government troops into
the province of Enter Rios, where, with the help of
the soldiers of General Urquiza, under the command
of Lopez Jarvan, he was able to defeat the soldiers
from Corrientes. The knowledge of the above facts
had produced a deep feeling of uneasiness at Buenos
Ayres ; and the Paraguayan war, which, like the
Brazilian alliance, gets every day more distasteful
to the people, was forgotten in the fear of a disas-
trous civil war. It was believed that Geu. Urquiza
would take up arms against Uruguay, which means
Brazil, and declare Uruguay, Eater Rios, and Cor-
rientes an independent republic. At Rio Janeiro
the news of the fall of Humaita has, as would be
expected, silenced for the moment the peace party ;
and it was decided to prosecute the war with all
the activity and means the empire could muster,
and mediation was not to be talked of ; but at the
sailing of the French steam packet all the activity
shown was the sending " three hundred" slaves to
Paraguay.

MORE ABOUT 711 E PACIFIC RAILROAD.

( From the Anglo-American Times.)

This road has now an advocate which, though
embracing the whole Western country from Omaha
to the Golden Gate, will, we believe, be more espe-
cially devoted to it. The Overland Monthly, about
the size of the Atlantic, is published by A. Roman
and Co., and printed by Bacon and Co. The cover
bears the device of a grizzly bear standing in anger
across the track. When a member of the Com-
mons' Committee questioned Stephenson as to the
result of a train meeting a cow on the track, the
answer of the celebrated engineer was, " So much
the worse for the cow. ;" and the grizzly bear will
but share the fate of the domestic animal. The
Overland Monthly will help to teach us all about the
Western country, now that the territory is rapidly
rising into importance, but till we get this know-
ledge we will continue to gather information from
other sources. The rise in the country from Omaha
to Cheyenne at the base of the Laramie range of
the Rocky lountains is ten feet to the mile. From
Cheyenne to the summit the distance is over 32
miles, and the grade nearly 80 feet. Then the
highest point is reached on the line between Omaha
and San Francisco, being 8,262 feet above the sea
level, and 2,000 higher than Mount Washington.
This spot named Sherman is sterile, with a few
shrubs, low grass, and scattered rocks, and is wholly
wanting in the characteristics usually found on the
summits of mountains. But though itself deficient
in that wild grandeur for which people looked it more
than makes up by the magnificence of the view. For
a hundred miles the eye ranges over a variegated
country of hill, dale, and plain, on all sides
bounded by lofty, snow-capped mountains. Not far
from Laramie stands the house erected by the
company for the United States Commissioners.
General Frank P. Blair, who with -General Buford
and Dr. White are the commissioners, was lately
residing with his family at that station. One of
the accounts descriptive of this road gives an inter-
view with the Democratic candidate for the ViC3-
Presidency. " Well, Redpath," said Blair, who
had known him in Kansas times, " are you as wicked
as you used to be ?" " I guess so," was the reply,
" for, old boy, you know that it is not Redpath,
but Blair, who has recently changed his principles
and his party." A sudden shower sent the party
on a run to shelter. Blair was behind. " See,
boys," cried Redpath, " how the Democratic can-
didate runs behind."

The spoil in the Rocky Mountains is consider-
able ; antelopes abound, and elk in vast herds,
some with antlers of a dozen points. Black tail
deer are found in herds, and a wild sheep, weigh-
ing only twenty pounds, fleet, and as difficult to
shoot as the chamois of the Alps. The English
snipe are numerous in the marshy valleys, as well as
rairie chicken or sage liens. The streams are full of
speckled trout, bream, bass, and pickerel. So eagerly
do they bite that a hook baited with a worm has but to
be drooped into the stream and a trout of about a
pound weight will at once take. The climate is
exhilarating, the air been rarefied to the highest
degree. When at Om tha the thermometer was over
90 deg., at Laramie it was under G 5 deg., and
double blankets were necessary, while the heat on the
plains was uncomfortable at night. Consumptive
patients are cured if they can endure the increased
action of the pectoral muscles, if not they grow worse
and quickly die. It is said that the builders of the
road at first intended to scamp their work, making
as much as possible out of the contract, and then

to leave the line to the bondholders. But whether
this be a slander or not, no such intention now ex-
ists. Experience has shown that the railway will
be one of the most profitable works ever undertaken,
and the projectors are too keenly alive to their own
interest to lose such a chance. Although they push
rapidly own and build flimsily in their eager haste
to secure the Government subsidies, after parties fill
up deficiencies, making the bed solid, erecting more
substantial bridges, and in every way construct-
ing the works so as to last. The correspondent
of the Watchman and Refl ctor, writing of La-
ramie, says it is 572 miles from Omaha, and
had, when we were there, about 2,000 inhabitants,
made up of frontier merchants, gamblers, liquor
sellers, and harlots. A portion, say 1,000, had
moved off to Benton, which, being a city of later
days, was an attractive position for the worse por-
tion of the community. These " plain" cities are
supported by " bullwhackers," the labourers of
the road, and a general mixture of fellows who
have nothing to do. The goods shown us at Lara-
mie were of a first class quality. The people want
the best, and are willing to pay for them. The
" flush times" are at Laramie, Cheyenne, and Ben-
ton. The Railroad Company are erecting a machine
shop, a blacksmith's shop, and a round house at
Laramie. They are good, substantial buildings, and
such as will serve the company for years. The
climate of Laramie in the summer averages about
65 dogs. This is too cold for corn and the smaller
vegetables. Since the settlement it is said that rains
have been more frequent than in former ye::.irs.Laramie
beats the world on thunder storms. When the light-
ning comes there it comes in balls of fire and drops
around promiscuously. The rain, when it does
fall, falls in torrents, and the people often think
that their city is the central magnetic attraction of
the universe. Laramie has a future ; at present it
excels Cheyenne and Benton in having more gam-
blers and harlots, but it is gradually decreasing in
this pre-eminence as Benton grows. It is singular,
but it is a fact, that the " loudest" and " vilest"
places are at the termination of a railroad. If La-
ramie was not controlled by a Vigilance Committee
it would be pandemonium. As it is, the Vigilance
Committee make it only New York on a small
scale, with all the viciousness thereof displayed 14
daylight.