The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-05
THE FURRY AT SAN JUAN

THIS rs the appropriate Ae c.
1onrnal of Commerce to the ahair al 90"
Juan. The plain history ofthat ana''-s"o"
g. the real motive Of the authorities OF san
In alas Grevtown-is jast this. "hen the
-, ~ the Vanderbilt line of steamers APP
.1;ad - those authorities for site on wnich
70 mild depot, they refused one on the same
s;as of the river with the town Du' granted
-. IN the opposite side, called Point Arenas
oe sand. which forms one side OF the
-, There the company, thus excluded
So ,bs ,owu. built their depot and wharf;
"a s,t;ng deeper water than was on the town
side. and possibly from their experience, pre-
ferring that their passengers and crew should
he detached from the town, there they were
DESTROYS OF remaining.
Rnt the Juans, in course oftime, finding that
their piekings from the passengers and the
comnany's crew and men, were not SO great
as thew could wish, and nothing like SO great
as taey would be if the company's establish
men, was on the Juan side Of the river, they
ordered the company TO remove their depo's
and ybaryes to their side. This expense and
trouble, with the Disadvantages OF the change'
the company had no idea OF mourning, and re-
fused to comply with the imperious mandate
of the Juans, Just in the "nlck OF time AS
The officials of the grand officers OF San Juan
were about to demolish the company's estab-
Eshment, Captain HoLLISs made his appear
ancs, and put veto upon further proceed
ines against the company. The indignant au-
1horities of San Juan resigned their Offices
and not only did they resign them, but ten
6ered, the possession of the place to Captain
HoILIys, which, not at all desiring, that gen.
sIenan refused, saying that he only desired to
protect the property Of American citizens. In
1his he no doubt obeyed orders. But the
Juans, anxious for national sympathy, make
very formal and solemn protest against the
act which estopped their arrangements, with
1he view to bring the business of the Transit
Company and their passengers TO more con-
yen!ent position for their plundering opera
lions. The fag-the Mosquito fag-which
had been hauled down, was re-hois;ed on the
l4th, after the return of the British Consul
# ON Blewfelds whittier he had gone no doubt
for purposes of consultation.
tits the opinion of some journals that this
occurrence will embarass our Central Ameri-
can relations, and our negotiations with Great
Britain thereupon. The Journal Of Commerce
attaches very little importance to the affair,
and anticipates no embarrassment from it. 1t
says:
Their tthe Transit compauy's) title of occupancy
they obtained in the first instance from the Nlcaraguau
government, and secondly from the agent OF the Mos
quito King This 'poteEtate 1t seems has lately been
induced to withdraw his permit, which leaves the
companys title resting upon the grant from the Mica
Iaguan government, and brings up the mooted ques-
ton whether San Juan is independents as claimed by
the inhabitants by virtue of grant from the Mesqui
TO king whether it is still under the jurisdiction of
Nicaragua. Our own government has been disposed
TO regard the claims of the Mosquito king subordi-
nate to those of Nicaragua just as the Indian title to
the sovereignty ofthe soil OF the United States any
part of it. is subordinate to that OF the United States
government.
The surrender which the Juan authorities made or
wished to make, to Captain Holins, not at all
matter of necessity, but of choice. He did not mo-
lest the at ALL but confined himself rigidly to
the protection of the company's property the op
poste shore In this he obeyed orders, and in
eined to think the orders were correct The nature
of the government established at San Juan was not
of that settled, unquestonabe character which re-
quired u S. ship-sf to look and the prop
srty of American citizens destroyed by that gov ern-
ment. 1.-THE title of Punta Arenas is In the govern
Kent of Nicaragua, then of the u 5. Govern
nents responsible to Nicaragua tor the act of Capt
Hollins in landing there and not to the village
of San Juan. Nicaragua will be much obliged to him
for the service.
The San Juans Tor rather the few Americans who
have conrived to be its ruers seem anxious to make
it appear that Great Britain will be dlspleased with
the course of Captain HolIins. We doubt 1T very
much. On the contrary, having withdrawn her own
protection from the Mosquito territory we are lncn-
ed to think she will be happy to see the American
Government indirectly dscountenancng an lnclplent
Texas game in the same territory Give to Yankee adj
Tenturers the village of San Juan for oothod, and
all the adjacent territory would under one preext Oh
another be in due time annexed as matter OF course
Now we understand it to be the policy both OF Eng
land and the United States to seek advantage ovel
each other, in any arrangement which may be made
for the government of Central America, the prose
cution of the Canal. The arrangement mutually as
sented to by Great Britain and the United States
the 9Oth April 1852, for the adjustment of Central
American difficulties, conceded San Juan to N!cara
qua But Nicaragua did not consent to the arrange
Inent having objections to other features of it
and thus it failed. The pretensions of San Juan tc
independence date from the lst of May, 1852 Just
day after the conclusion of the arrangement aforesaid
between Great Britain and the United States, which
arrangement only defeated by the dissent (no
Bong since ascertained) of the State of Nicaragua