Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-09
From the New York Express.
Relations with South America.


Our relations with several of the leading South
American States, just now, are such as excite
some uneasiness; and, if we mistake not, Mr..
Buchanan is to find ripe field for the early de-
velopment Of his foreign policy in that quarter
4 day or two since, we noticed the cavalier treat
mcnt of the Commissioners We sent to Bogota, to
demand redress for the wanton attack Upon Amer
lean citizens Mt Panama Dispatches from Bos:
ton say orders hnvo been received at the Charles
town Navy Yard, directing the razee Cumberland
to be got ready for sea forthwith, and though
her destination is not yet disclosed, we should not
be surprised if it turns out to be Aspnwall.
Tie official correspondence which we publish
! elsewhere would seem to show that, next to New
Grenada, Paraguay needs looking after. A great
nation like the United States can we'll afford to
bear and forbear with the weaker brethren of
South America, but it may happen nevertheless,
that Spanish supercilousness may be- carried to
such length as to start the question, whether
patience does not cease to be a virtue.
If they were not exceedingly annoying and des-
tructive to valuable commerce, the trihing, dog.
ged obstinacy and pertinacious assumptions of
pomposty displayed by the President of Paraguay
in his correspondence with Mr.. Marcy and Col
Fitzpatrick, would be amusing in the extreme
To sec the little dsspot of Paraguay trying to in
terfcre with the progress of American commerce
reminds one Of the warlike operations Of the Lili
putians against CULVER. In another column We
reproduce the important parts Of the correspon-
dence referred to. Divested of oil extraneous
vcrbnge, the facts in the case arc as follows:
InFebruary, 1858, Mr.. Pendlcton, U. S. Charge
at Buenos Ayrcs, received orders to so to Para
quay and make treaty. No credentials were sent
him, and no means provided for the expenses of
the journey. The Ministers of several European
powers were at the same time going on similar
crrand. BY the courtesy Of Sir Charles Hotham
the British Minister, Mr.. Pendlcton arrived Mt
Asuncion in q British steamer of war, and, having
no credentials it was only through the influence
of private party with President Lopez family
that any treaty was made at all. The draft of n
treaty was written by Lopez and signed by the
Plenipos of England, France, Sardinia, and the
United States, Mr.. Pendleton coming last of all,
and paying so little attention to the wording Of the
document that he allowed this Republic to be ell
titled the Omitted States Of North America" the
North American UniOn," &c. The treaty made,
the Ministers all leave the country. Sir Charles
Hotham was rewarded with the Governorship of
Australia; the Chevalier st. George, the French
Minister, with the mission to Rio de Janciro;
Signor Cerrut, the Sandman Envoy, with the
mission to Buenos Ayrcs. Mr.. PenIleton was
recalled, and only with great difficulty received
the necessary expenses OF his trip to Paraguay
When submitted 10 the Senate, Mr.. Pendleton's
laundering treaty was corrected. No amendments
were made,-but in thirty-two places the title Of
the United States had to be rectifed. The docu-
ments were ratified June lst, 1854, and Mr.. Buck
alew was sent to exchange ratfcations
Meantime On American Commercial and Navi-
gationu Company, under the agency of Mr.. Edward
A. Hopkins, the American Consul in Paraguay,
had been established in Asuncon, ard was pros
pering exceedingly. The surveying expedition of
the steamer Water Witch, under 1t. Com. Page,
U. S. N, had also been for some months in the
country exploring its resources. Jealous Of the
growing importance of the Americans, and afraid
of Anglo-Saxon energy, President Lopez, after
series of the most gratutous insults and outragcs,
withdrew the exequatur of the Consul, robbed him
of nearly all his own and the company's property
by ez parte decrees and finally virtually expelled
him and all other Americans from the country
The Water Witch, whe subsequently making
hydrogranhic survey of the Parana River, while
in Correntino waters, was attacked and well beat
en- by fort on the Paraguayan side of the river,
one sailor being killed, and several officers and
men wounded.
When, therefore, Mr.. Buckalew presented his
treaty for exchange Of ratifcatiops f0w weeks