The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-03-07
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS
.Number Ttcenty- One.

The Oregon Question--Dignitv and Decency-Tbo
Dew Blll Tor reorganiaing the Naval Bureaus
their combined attack on the La Plata.
WAsHINGToN. March A, 1876
Dear Sir The Oregon Question continues 10
draw crowds of visters to the Senate this was
the day which Mr.. Haywood was to answer Mr.
Breese. Not having the good fortune to be pre.
sent, owing to press of engagements, canno,
have the good fortune to inform you of the pro.
ceedings of that body. In the House, a rather
{" comico tragico" scene took place; the two re-
por'ers of the New York Tribune was expelled in
consequence of bringing one of the members of that
Honorable body into disrepute 1t appears the
Honorable was in the habit of eating crackers
and ham in the lobby, and not having that need.
ful article napkin, took the primitive mode of
| making napkin of his hair the Reporters had
the imprudence TO mention it, and, in consequence
was expelled by that refined body.
l herewith send you extract Of House bill.
No. 27I entitled " bill to amend an act entitled
/ An act to reorganize the Navy Department, an.
proved August 3lst, 1912 This act separates
the Department of photography from that of
. Ordnance, and places the Bureaux of Construc-
ton of Equipment, Construction and Repairs
under Captain of the Maryland adds to this
/ Bureau Naval Constructor, Sc, &c. Tho
arrangement increases the expense of the N,yv
Department about Sl6,0 900, and adds that yerv
obnoxious feature to it, person incapable of per
forming the duties of Constructor a Naval
Captain. 1t is hoped that the Naval Committees
of both the Senate and House will try and re-
oh
Board, and not permit the same individuals to have
it in their power, under this bill, to produce their
twin vetoes.
| have looked anxously for the reasons why the
French and British Governments attacked and
forced the mouth of the La Plata-havinn found
these reasons stated at length in paper written
by British officer, herewith enclose it and beg
you will make it portion of this letter.
From the United Service Journal
Remarks on the State of affairs in The Riper
Plata.
BY NAVAL OFFICER
No. IL.
Page 496.-"The present Government of
Montevldeo has recently granted US a treaty for
the exclusive right of steam navigation on the
| Uruguay, and there are men of capital now re-
siding here who have purchased extensive tracts
of forest, for the purpose of supplying wood as
fuel, and who are ready to provide vessels, and
embark IN the enterprise, soon as the state of
the country may permit. One would imagine
that this alone would induce us to use eyery ex-
erton in behalf of Montevideo Our treaty with
Brazil expires in 1874, and at present there APP
pears no prospect OF our being able to conclude
another on favorable terms but by the free navi-
| nft riv ehe
our goods may be conveyed into the heart of
Brazil free from any duty, and .hat country, with
Its immense coast, would soon find that the ex-
pense OF supporting a general system of coast
guard would prove far more ruinOus than any APP
parent loss which might accrue from a relaxation
of the tariff. Experience has long proped that
'0'h nations, as nell as men, IL is upadpisable
TO retinquish an alternative when truing to &C
comptish an end and surely the rule is especial
y opPhcgble TO THIS country at the present mo
Page 1917" Seek for Paraguay on the map !;
see how surrounded 1t is by rivers observe its
latitude; and it requires bet little consideration
to discover that all the tropical productions will
there be found; cotton, Sugar, rtces and coffee.
would these under proper management, make US
perfectly independent of Brazil This cannot in
my opinion, be too much dwell upon; open these
rivers. as reason, justice, and humanity dictate,
anu tie iuSOleHL Save OeaTng, Bfaya 6ente
is at your feet. Deeply to be lstnented is it
amidst all the numerous theories, schemes, and
speculations of the conscientious opponents of sla
very, this idea has never struck them and would
that Lord Biougham could be persuaded to en-
plOy little of his eloquence to enable the free
grown sugars Of Paraguay, to compete with the
slave grown sugars Of Brazil. For internal
American commerce Paraguay is pre-. emnenlly
situated; there is ten feet water IN the river at
all times of the year far above hnoncioD, and its
forests abound with wood, well calculated for
ship building. The best mate Yerbe is grown
in this province, an article more extensively
used in South America, than tea in England"
Page 498.-" In the provinces of the southwark
considerable number of our counGrymen are set
Tied in estanciers or farms"
Page 499. -" An English blockade is a very
different affair from that Of our BeighboTs | Will
answer for it, that the word nefficiency would
never again be mentioned. The whole trade
would centre at Montevideo; and whilst the ruin
Of Rosas was progressing, the revenue and trade
Of England would not pereepiibly suffer
"The man who acts as if he were the enemy
Of Europeans 10 bully, and, like other gentle
men of the denomination, ever ready 10 draw in
his horns when occasion requires. Speak DOT and
abandon a waverlng policy, and he will speedily
comply with our demands. and not obiige ts TO