Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-23

The IIODOS '1SlandS sSu6SL1Ou 0SLL6d'
The Washington papers contain the following
authentic information as the character of the set
Element Of this question, recently effected between
the Department of State and the Peruvian Minis
ter
II will be recollected that Mr.. Webster, i'll mis-
letter of the 2lst of August, which was laid he
fore Congress and has been extensively published,
informed the Peruvian Charge IL A1aireS that the
United States would still consider the question OF
the LOhOS Islands as an open one, and give iail
consideration to any arguments or iactS winch
might be adduced to show the possession and Occur
pancy of those Islands by Peru, that Mr. Clay, our
charge at Lima, should be written TO for intorma-
ton; and that in the meantime the orlcr OF the 9th
of June, by which Commodore McCauley was di-
rected to protect American vessels IN taking guanO
| from the LoboS Islands, should be suspended,
which was done on the oath of August. Commu-
nIcatlons were received from Mr.. Clay IN advance
of the dispatches sent for that purpoSe and on the
arrival of the Peruvian Envoy, Mr.. J. de Ostna'
note was addressed by him 10 MIR. Webster, IN
support of the claims of his Government Fur
ther communications OF the greatest Importance
have from time to time been received from Mr..
Clay, and through him from the Peruvian Govern
ment at Lima.
The subject having been fully reconsidered, and
The arguments and facts derived from the sources
just mentioned. and from various other quarters
having been duly weighed, the President came TO
the conclusion, which was unanimously concuHed
in by the Cabinet, that it was just and proper 10
withdraw the objections taken by the late Secreta-
~ of State to the rights of Peru, and TO ncknowl
edge unreServedly her sovereignty; over the Guano
Islands on her coast and IN her possession. II
would have been in the Presidents power to Shpu-
late as the condition of this Acknowledgement,
that Peru should mike liberal provision for the A
mericau vessels chartered under the order OF the
9Th of June-but having made up his mind that
the title of Peru was clear, and that ii had been
hastily questioned by the United States, itseemed
to him right to make the acknowledgment Tolun-
tarily and without condition. r.f -..a " " 2.
1t is but Just to Peru TO say that the confidence
thus reposed in her Government has not been dis
appointed. 1t was already known, from com Z
munication Of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to
Mr.. Clay, that the Government of Peru was will
ling to freight oil. her own account the American
vessels chartered for guaHo, and that notification
to this effect, addressed TO American vessels IN the
Pacific, had been published by Mr.. Clay. The
Peruvian Minister at Washington has given elect
to this intention of his Government. He has adj
dressed note to the Secretary of State, iniwhich
he engages that the Peruvian Government will on
its account, freight at 500 per ton all the yes
sells W ich left the United States for the LoboS
Islands between the 5th of June and the 25th of
August; that the Peruvian Government will buy
at a fair price the implements and utensils carried
out BY these vessels to be used In procuring guanoj
and that vessels in the Pacific, chartered under or
ders Sert before the 25th OF August, and which
could not be counternanded, shall be included in
the arrangement, on condition of reporting to the
agents of the Peruvian Government in The United
States before the LIST of January, 1885,. aa
Such on both sides is the substance of the terms
on which this embarrassing affair has been dispos
ed of; 10 the advantage as we have no doubt, of
the partiesl interested and the honor of the two
Governments. 80 az
As our readers may regard the information given
above as authentic, wefeel at liberty to congratu-
late the Government on so speedy an adjustment
of matter which seemed pregnant with difficulty
but which has yielded to the frank and direct
manner in which the Administration has met and
treated it. t-s