The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-11
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the Peruvian flag VIII - permission 70 use
bo &c .bout as - Il is our opinion will
s,o.mor "a -avts use in protecting the
CO. - wet dish cloth. Our reasons
do saytrg are easily given Senior
" Js.na, who is now the Minister at
Washington from Peru, is shortly to leave that
post, hasing been transferred to London. Sc
nor Tirado his successor, is daily expected at
our capital. He was recently removed from
MS Office as Minister OF Foreign Affairs in Peru
( q appease Brazil, whose Emperor was very
much annoyed that Senior Tirado had given
encouragement to the Americans to come up
the Amazon; and he was appointed as Minister
to the United States, where it was supposed he
would be popular for the same reason, and be
enabled to satisfactorily settle the Chincha
Island difficulties. Peru is republic of expe-
dents. Her word or assurance is not to be
trusted for five minutes; when she wishes to
back out from solemn promise, she expels the
minister who gave it. So it will be in the case
OF this new expedition, if undertaken under her
flag. The steamer will be stopped at Para by
the Brazilians and the parties on board will be
| sent to prison as American filibusteros Peru
will deny having authorized the use Of her flag
and not regard the course of Brazil as viola
| ton of it, and there will be the end Of the cx-
| petition and OF those who go out under such
a miserable protection as is afforded by the
| Peruvian flag.
| Under these circumstances, we frankly eau
ton our friends against embarking either their
money or their persons in this Amazon expedi-
| ton. No good can come out Of it. The time
| has not yet arrived for such an undertaking.
| 1t must be made under more favorable auspices
| We must wait until our government has made
solemn treaties with Bolivia, New Granada,
Ecuador, Paraguay, or other South Ameri-
can republics whose territories are contiguous
to the Upper Amazon, by which our citi-
zens are authorised and invited to emf
crate to or make trade with those countries, by
the way of the Amazon. Then our vessels and
our citizens can 60 out safely under the protec-
! ton of their own flag, and not under false col0rs
| Brazil will never give us willing permission to
enter the Amazon; but with such treaties with
| her neighbors as we have alluded to- we can
| defy her, enter the Amazon, and take the lazy OF
| nations into our own hands-Brazil will be
slenced, and before January, 1855, the navga-
| ton of the Amazon will be made free to vessels
of the United States and open to the rest of the
world. "Wait for the wagon"
PROGRESS OF PArENTEEs AT WAsHINGToN.--
There were many people who could not see
why the President in derogation of the usage
followed by his predecessors, made special and
favorable mention ofpatent rights in his mes
cage 1t puzzled them; and even now, when
the large sums Of money at stake in the con-
tests for the renewal of patents are being
talked of. they still wonder, and fail to connect
two circumstances obviously springing one
from the other. Meanwhile, we see that
the patentees and their friends, such as have
been rejected by the Commissioner, are Or
ganizng with admirable system, and OPEN
ing campaign which promises to be brill
liant. Some others, such as Morses telegraph,
still entertain hopes of renewal Of their
patent rights from the Commissioner others,
like Mr.. Colt. having been foiled in that
quarter, are turning all their attention to Con-
gress and the lobby. Bills introduced by friend
| y members, fav orably reviewed by kind commit
ees, and hustled through Congress by strong
force of particularly disinterested supporters,
to atone for the unjust and spiteful rejection
of their claims by the Commissioner of Patents
Confident in their sense of right and perhaps,
also-but of course in very secondary degree
relying upon the aid Of their lobby friends,
the defeated patentees are thus preparing to
retrieve their past failures.
The Colt patent, we understand, is likely to be
successful. 1t has already made considerable
progress, and large portion Of the House seems
disposed to view his bill with favor. The re
port of the committee to which it was re-
ferred, which we give elsewhere is an interest
ing-a very interesting document. 1t does con-
flict, certainly, in some very material partcu-
lars, with the judgment of Commissioner Ma
son, published few days since; and we will not
say on which side the most logic and reason
appear to lie. 1t does appear, too, very sin
gular argument for committee Of the United
States Congress to use, to say that because
Mr.. Colt has spent large sums of money in |
establishing factory in London, therefore he |
ought to be permitted to levy tax on the peo- |
pie Of the United States for seven years longer |
II is useful, no doubt, to know that Mr.. Colts |
English factory has exhausted all the surplus |
which had been accumulated in this coun-
try, and is even now constant drain on |
the resources and energies OF the inven- |
tor;" and we cannot but regret that Mr.. |
Colts speculative mania should have led him |
to engage in enterprises beyond his means
and which were not likely to prove remune-
rative. But why, in the name of common |
sense, should we be called upon to compensate
him for the losses of his London factory? Why |
should the people Of the United States be taxed |
to nay for Mr. Colts losses incurred in endea-
voring to perfect the equipments and arma-
ment Of a British army? There may be some
reason for so unusual proceeding-in fact,
there must be reason, or OF course Com