Washington telegraph., 1855-04-04
Another FillIbustering schemen
:. .h,. ,be Cuba and K,pnev exned

Now that the Cuba and Kinney expeditions are
srowing stale and dead, another, a grander and
more prodisious enterprise looms upon the Ma
touaI horizon. Jere- Clemens of Alabama, is the
| Cortez. and South America the field of his pro-
noses, vIctoriesl 1t breaks like thunder clap on
the country He tells the story himself as fol-
lows
| In 1913 Juan Jose Flores was elected President
of the Republic OF Ecuador In 1915 UrDIna got
up a military revolution and dispossessed him.
Since then Flores has been constantly engaged In
efforts to reinstate hmselfin power but the peas
antry who were his only adherents were OF course
no match for regular soldiers, and all his efforts
tailed Desparing OF success IN this way, he went
to Europe and made propositions TO an English
company: but the Eastern war put an end to his
hopes In that quarter and he returned to America
and entered into negotiations with an American
company. On part we engaged to furnish
him eighteen hundred infantry two hundred dra-
goons and one hundred artillery, with light bat
tery of six pieces and two vessels with two heavy
Guns each. On his part he cedes to all the un-
appropriated lands In the province OF Esmerabaas,
one of the richest agricultural regions IN the world
the eastern slope of the Andes-about 600 900
of acres filed with inexhaustible mines OF silver;
the unappropIiated lands IN the valley OF the Am
azon land all OF it is UnapPTOprated-l whose pro-
ductions alone cannot yield less than fifty millions
in ten wears when American enterprise and intel
Iisence are brought to develop Its immense re-
sources: 100000 in money TO be collected from
the ports OF GuyaquiI-the only one in the re-
public-at the rate of SlJO.O00 per year
The privilege OF importing and exporting all
goods free of duty for twenty-five years, and the
privilege of collecting and aPpropriating all duties
upon goods imported by way of the Amazon river
for ninety nine wears. IL addition he cedes the
privilege OF taking guanO from the GalIipago Is
lands free, which Will give to the company a
monopoly of that trade as no one paving the
heavy rates now charged can compete with them.
Business men will desire to know what security
we have that, Flores Oacein power will not an
nul the liberal grants necessity has compelled him
to makes The answer Is that our security con-
sists in two thousand one hundred American bay-
onets. with a man at the head of them VINO will
tolerate no appearance of trifing-to say nothing
of the immense emigration which the riches OF
the country must attract when it is in American
hands The power that made him can unmake
him; and | am not man 10 stop at trifies when
such interests at stake The company is or
ganized good deal on the fashion of the British
East India Company The stock consists of SIX
millions; President and six Directors to be cleo
ted annually by the stockholders; they hold their
meetings in the United States all produce is ship
ped to them. whether 1t arises from mines agrI-
culture, or the rich forests Of the tropics The
medical man is familiar with the great value and
rarity OF the medicinal herbs and plants of that
region. There are sixty varieties of the most
valuable woods for commerce in the forests The
vanilla bean IS produced in great quantities. as
well other perfumes of the most costly charac-
ter Here also is found the greatest varieties of
dyestuffs and of the richest cOlors in the world
many OF which, according 10 Lieut. Nlaury have
not yet found their wdy into the worlds traffic.
The present army OF Ecuador Is estimated at ; GOO
men, badly armed, and worse disciplined. There
is but one fortified place in the country, Guaquil,
SO that landing on the coast Is equivalent to a
conquest of the country One other question re-
mains TO be answered How are we 20 evade the
neutrality laws and effect departure from the
United Statesz The ships, guns, arms, ammuni-
tIon &c, &c, are to be purchased in the name of
General Flores loadee! openly in one Of the At
lantic cities cleared regularly from the Custom
House, without any cOncealment of the fact that
they are his; no question his right to pur-
chase from citizens anything he 2Ieases- and
ship where he pleaseS- Not man belonging to
the land expedition to go board the vessels
they are to take passage on the regular mail
steamers, unarmed- as emisraHts for California
At Panama or some other point on the Pacific
beyond the jurisdiction OF the United States, the
command is 70 be organized. 20. on board Our own
vessels (which must start lcng enough ahead to
90 TOund the Horn and meet us-l and sail down
the coast at once to Ecuador The vessels must
be steamers the prevailing Gains on that coast
would reader voyage iEs sailing vessels too tedI-
Gus and uncertain To fis Out this expedition as
it ought 10 be Tilted out 100000 viii be needed
will have nothing to do with any half way got
ten up affair ! cannot afford to risk nv Teputa-
ton or my life where there Is anv chance of fail
ure- 10 raise this money two millions of The
stock OF the company have been set apart and
besides we propose 10 cede the guano privilege
to considerable extent TO any company of IneT.
chants who Will advance the required sums Or
they prefer 1t they furnish the vessels arms
N-f.
stock Tor their advances at such rates as Will give
them larger remuneration than anv other in-
vestnent they can possibly make. The men thus
TAR engaged IN the enterprise are men of charac-
ter, intelligence and experience but thew are fol
the most part IN moderate circumstances and fee
and know that they must give up the lions SHARE
OF the profits TO Induce capitalists to invest They
expect to bear the heat and bUTthen OF the day tC
do whatever fighting Is necessary to De done and
encounter whatever peril Is 10 be met expectins
some present compensation, It IS true but look ins
to the future for their chief support We are no
without the hope that our names NAV be trans.
rnItted to pOsterity as the founders OF mighty
AngiO-Saxon empire IN the heart of South Am
erica
We look to the day when American steamer:
STALL navigate the wOndTOus Amazon. from it.
sources 70 Its mouths and the vast treasures o
that almost unexplored region will be poured int
the lap OF the land we shall love none the les
because we have abandoned it. | have told Vol
mat my associates are men of character: some o
them are members OF Congress: others among tn,
most accomplished officers of the army and nav,
Of the United States We have no mere adven
surers: and mean to have ncDe All OF us give u.
good deal. and there will be none who DO not
am to have the chief command of the forces
and all the officers are to be appointed and com
missloned by me; and am sure there will be nom
OF doubtful reputation, doubtful capacity for th
places they are to FILL The first thing to be done
however, Is to raise the money; until that is dom
VIII NOT march, cannot compromise myself, o
those who propose going with me. while there i
Hchdhce OF failure JERE- CLEMENS
Very late from Utah Territory