Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-12-08

press our negotiations for tbs adjustment
Of seriously operating causes Ct difficulty
between the Spanish Government and thi
United States. There is reason TO Seliey,
that our Ministers viii find the presen
Government more favorably inclined thar
the preceding one. to comply with our jus
dem Inds, and 10 make suitable arrange
ments for restoring harmony and presery
ing peace between the two countries.
TREATY WITH JAPAN.
The naval expedition dispatched abou
two years since for the purpose Of esiab
fishing relations with the Empire ofJapan
has been ably and skilfully conducted to
successful termination 10y the officer t.
whom 1t was entrusted. \ Treaty open
ing certain of the ports of that populou,
country has been negotiated, and in orle
to give it all effect there, it only remains tC
exchange ratifcations, and adopt the re
quisite commercial regulations.
CLAIMS AGAINST MExIco.
The treaty lately concluded between the
United STATES and Mexico settled some OF
our most embarrassing difficulties witt
that country. But numerous claims OF
it, for wrongs and injuries to our citizens
remained unadjustcd, and many new case,
have been recently added to the former
list of grievances. Our legation has been
earnest in its endeavors to obtain from the
Mexican Government favorable cOnsii-
Grafton of these claims, but hitherto with
out success. This failure is possibly in
some measure to be ascribed to the dis.
turbed condition of the country.
OPENING OF SOUTH AMERICAN RIVERS.
By treaties with some of the South
American States, we have received the
free navigation of the river La Platte and
its largest tributaries, but the same sue
cess has not attended our endeavors to open
the Amazon. 1t may be expected, how
ever, that pending negotiation will eventu-
ally reach the favorable result.
THE GREYToWN APFAIR.
A large portion of the message is taken
up with relation and explanation of the
difficulties we have recently had at Grey
town. We can only give portion.
So soon as the necessity was perceived of
establishing inter-oceanic communication
across the Isthmus, a company was or
sanised under authority of the State of
Nicaragua, but composed for the most
part of citizens of the United States, for
the purpose Of opening such Il truinsit-way
by the River San Juan, and Lake tie
Nicaragua, which soon became an eligible
and much used route for the transportation
of our citizens and their property, between
the Atlantic and Pacific. Meanwhile, in
of the completion and im-
portance ofthe transit-way, a number of
adventures had taken possession of TIE
old Spanish Fort at the mouth of the river
San Juan, in open defiance of the State or
States of Central America, which, upon
their becoming Independent, had rightlnlly
succeeded to the local sovereignty and
jurisdiction OF Spain. These adventures
undertook to change the name ofthc place
from San Juan de Del Norte to Glevtown,
Though at first pretending to act as the
subjects of the fictitious sovereignty of the
Musquito Indians, they subsequently, re-
pudiated the control of any power; what
ever, assumed to admit distinct political
organization and declared themselves an
independent sovereignty.
They proceeded to assert mfoundcd
claims to civil jurisdiction over Punta
Arenas, "a position on the opposite side Of
theriver San Juan, which was in possession,
under title wholly independent of this,
of citizens Of the United States, interested
in the Nicaragua Transit Co., and which
was indispensibly necessary to the pros
pective operations Of that route across the
lsthmuS.
The Company resisted their groundless
claim whcreupon they proceeded to des-
troy some of its buildings, in attempts
wantonly to destroy it. At later period,
they organised strong force for the
purpose of demolishing the establishment
at Punta Arenas. But this mischicvous
design was delerted by the interposition Of
one of our ships of war, at that time in
the harbor of San Juan. Subsequently
to this, in May last a body of men in
Greytown passed over to Punta Arenas,
arrogating authority to arrest, on charge
OF murder, a captain of one Of the steamers
OF this Transit Company.
Being well aware that the claim to
exercise jurisdiction there would be resisted
as it had been on previous occasions, they
went prepared to arrest him by force
of arms. Our minister to Central
America happened to be present on
that occasion. Believing that the Capt.
of the steamer was unprepared for this, and
having witnessed the transactions on which
the charge was foundS, and believing also,
that the parties had no jurisdiction over
the place, and that when they proposed to
make the arrest, they would encounter dcs-
perate resistance if they persisted III their
purpose, he interposed etiectually to pre-
vent violence and bloodshed
The American minister afterwards visit
ed Greytown, and whilst he was there, a
mob, including certain of the so-called
public functionasies of the place, surroun-
ded the house in which he was, avowing
that they had come across by order Of some
person exercising the chief authority
While parleying with him, he was woun-
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