Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-08-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

tee that be will appoint to the paraguay MISSION
q gentleman fully competent to carry out its
important objects. =
Something more is to be accomplished, and
much more 10 at stake, than the settlement of
present difficulties with that Republic. The
expedition to be sent thither, will inaueurats
new system In our relations with the South
American States and those Governments will
learn that, while President Buchanan repudi
ates hlibustering schemes upon this Continent,
ne will yet, in the remotest parts of it, jealousy
guard the rights of our citizens, and the honor
of the United States flag
We have heretofore almost disregarded the
Importance Of proper representation near the
South American Governments. With those
States our interests are becoming annually Of
higher consideration and while we admit that
it would be unworthy of US to enforce the re-
spect OF weaker powers by system Of military
intimidation, yet, if we would assume and main
tain the position which is due both to them and
to ourselves, we must not only send as our
representatives to those countries men able to
cope in discussion and correspondence with the
most experienced diplomatists, but we must
occasionally exhibit such force as will demon
strate fully our ability to settle summarily all
wrongs of the past, should the arguments of
diplomacy fail. 1t must be borne in mind that
discussions are often brought to q close, and
justice speedily attained, by the exhibition of
a naval force capable of arresting and main
tanning both national and individual rights
Unfortunately, the resources of the United
States Navy, in light draft vessels, are very
meagre; but this want is now in a fair way of
being supplied.
President Lopez rules Paraguay as despot-
ically as the autocrat of the Russias, and is one
OF the most astute and educated Of the men who
have risen to power in Spanish America He
Is an admirable linguist-is we'll read-and
familiar with the history and policy Of other
countries; but, acting upon the example of his
predecessor, Francia, he has, until vsryrecently,
jealousy guarded Paraguay from all contact
with other people, and is himself chief me rchant
as we'll as chief ruler. He is skilled in all the
arts of diplomacy, and seeks to battle by pro-
lOnged negotiation rather than by open oppo-
sition
By the Parana and Paraguay, Brazil can
alone obtain an easy access to some of the finest
provinces Of the Empire. From this highway
she was excluded by Rosss, and after hi. down.
fall, and the opening Of the bisers'' to the
flags of all nations by the Argentine Republic,
she again found the upper waters closed against
her by the DEGREES of Lopez. She sent embas-
sailors to Assuncion, and Lopez, to avoid a
threatened invasion, sent representatives to Rio
Janeiro; and so a game of diplomacy, running
through five years-from 1852 to l857-was car.
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exhausted, and she sent so formidable feet to
La Plata, and made such earnest demonstra-
ton of war that Paraguay was forced to treat.
In former number of the Star, we gave an
account of the war-like material of the Paraguan
Republic, and of the preparations of our Gov
eminent to insure the success of the United
States expedition, to be under the command of
Captain Page, than whom q more efficient officer
could not be selected for that purpose. Be.
sides, he has had some experience in that couu-
try, and it is proper that he should be the
means which will be within reach in the we'll
provided feet, should diplomacy fail to accom-
plish the object sought to be accomplished.
TIE NICARAGUATRANsIT RoUTE.-The Star s
readers will recollect that we have steadily
urged that the real purpose of Mr. Cornelius
{" Commodore Vanderbilt, in endeavoring to
obtain the control Of the Nicaragua transit route
was simply that he might more surely continue
&c earn his per-contract bonus of some three
quarters of million dollars annually from the
lines controlling and monopolizing the Panama
route, for keeping it closed, with the details of
which the public are familiar Though the
Government here have doubtless long been
aware that his professions of desire to open il
for travel were sheer false pretences to cover
his scheme to keep it closed for his private gain,
and that Of the stockholders in the lines run
ming the Panama route, out Of Wall street few
others gave ear to that exposition Of the key to
his labors in this connection
That the Washington reader may comprehend
how thoroughly his policy is understood among
the shrewd and keen traffcers in stocks, bonds,
and mortgages in that famous pace-W all street
we quote the following brief extract from the
money article in yesterdays Herald, which
tells the tale so that " all who run may read -
/" Panama likewise continues to improve There
Is little stock in the market and the prospe of
Increased dividends from the traffic to be brought
into being by the Frazer river excitement stimu
lates the demand. IL rose two per cent tbi,
morning. Most Of the other stocks dealt in were
lower Prominent among those which declined
was Pacific Mail, which fell to as and closed
very heavy, with sellers but no BUYERS at that
hgure This is equivalent to fall Of I've per
cent. since Friday. Among the Causes which
are assigned for the decline the certainty that
Vanderbilt has not got the Nicaragua Tfansi,
grant, and the possibility that 1t may fall into
hands that may use IL; the announcement OF rival
line on the Pacific, &c, &c"
MRS. BLUST's READINGS Tonight as pc,
| an advertisement in another column of the
Star, Mrs. Ellen Key Blunt gives readings Of
the British and American poets at the Smith.
sonian Institution. The bare announcement
| OF the fact should be sufficient to insure her q
large and highly refined audience of those (o
the District Of Columbia) among whom she wa.
reared-so many of whom know her to have
| inherited large share of the remarkabl.
genius and poetic fire of her father, the lat,
Frank Key, the author of /" The Star Spanglet