Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-03-25
Dutch Interference at Ares Island.

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Dutch Interference at Ares Island.
The value Of gunno to our agricultural interests
has stimulated our enterprising merchants ~ seek
| it nearer home and under loss harasaing rsstric-
tionS than II is obtniue On the other side Of the
! continent. f#s .#e
The Caribbean sea is dotted with barren isets,
which ac barely noticed on the chaSts c,r the a.
| vuidnncc # mariners and which nre too far from
my main land to belong H. any national jarisdic-
ton. 1t occurred Ia some of our adyentu ron oit
IONS thai these might be valuable guano depsiots,
md for some years past they have been igently
explored in detail, and, of course at no small out
lay for the purpose of verifying their actual value
Tho result is. that while most Of these of these
ocean specks Of uninl,abed desert arc mere sand
wastes. ono in fifteen or twenty proves to be in
'nino ct wealth IN tho shnpe OF extensive OF saano
deposits.
| Before these islands could bc made eonmsrciaI.
ly available. it was necessary to obtain assurnn-
| crs ol protection from COVE nment. fnr without
them no man or company could venture upon the
expensive arrangements preliminary 10 working
on, and loading thcr suri-l1und ,eposits. Fl.
These assurances were given in clear. legal and
definite form and upon them there instantly arose
| now and valuable line Of trade.
| Among others tho Atlantic and Pacific Guano
| Company proceeded to make extensive explora-
tons aud purchases. and in particular made per-
manent md expensive working establishments ut
| Ares and Swan islands, whence thOir vessels are
now bringing their regular cargoes to New York.
| Baltimore, Norfolk. and Washington.
While these islands were undeveloped and with.
out prov ison for loading g,ano vessels they were
not troubled by outsiders; but t'from the time Ame-
rcnn money aud enterprise had called out their
value and made loading sntc there have been ma.
ny attempts to drive away our psople, and usurp
| the fruits Of their nbors. .s.#
| The Lieut. Governor of the Dutch island Of ST.
Eustatius, for example, sends down vessel after
| vessel and londs them at Ares in high handed
contempt Of tho protests Of their American own
using their landings .. coolly as il hs instead
of the company, had built them ut his own private
expense His colonial Excellency even threatens
to cxpcl tho Americans and tako full possession
of their island, IL thoy resist these invasiors Of
| their rights bv his guano traders who are also
suspected Of being his partners.
| The affair has not yet been brought formally to
the official notice of the Department of State but
when It IL, there is no doubt tho ST. Eustatus peo.
pie will be required to abstain from these offen-
rva acts and give full satisfaction for their past
misconduct. Washington States .ii..s..
French Canal and Coolie Speculatious.
The Frcnch canal corps are taking possesston
Of the Nicaragua transit in full fOrcs. II embraces
all the elements for thorough reconnaissance Of
the mining and agricultural capacities of the
| county. for making the canal il unquestionably
intended to cover the nr dncton Of "that cheap
labor which can compete with the slave system of
! the United States as ten 10 one"
| Our own Ell izcns were excluded from the mines
and sugnr-fcIs Of the I>hmns when the transit
was wrcsted from them, or rather they have never
| leon open 10 us.
Whether NJ. Belly succeeds in constructing his
canal or not, France and the coolie trade are now
| firmly planted on the lsthmus.
| The French tng Will c"vcr their introduction of
| NJ nr Vho
east il reserved for the use Of the new French col
| oncs in Madaguscnrthe west for the canal works
nnd the general pursuits Of French industry on
the fsthmus.
The contracts fr 1000 negroes from the west
coast of Airicn. which Prince Napoleon ZAP
! proved" in the very month in which he and the
| British cabinet amused American credulity by
announcing that France had stopped the imp0rta-
tion Of negroes from the east coast Of Africa, may
supply it, contingent to the canal and sugar spec
ulations oi Nicaragua. A French writer goes into
statistics to show TINT 200 900 Africans SOC, 900
A,atic cooic, may be introduced into the most
fertile and paying sections of tropical America at
less cost than 1000 of Southern slaves can
10 bought, lcd and employed Qand included) in
| any part uf the United States. The calculation
is finished in words to this effect: "France can
introduce three millions Of laborers. and have
them actively engaged in producing valuable COM
nodities to exchange for French fabrics ct cost
but the protection of her flag. This introduction
would relieve Europe from it's embarrassng de-
rendcnce IN the United States for the hill regions
of tropical America nro favorable to cotton, and
were producing i in large quantities whsu Oolum-
| bus discovered the New World"
The colonization of tropical America With chsap
coolies ITO relieve Europe Of it, embarrassing de-
pendence on American products," is in the dis
tinct contemplation Of the French canal policy.
England and her agents the lsthmas sfs the
willing tools of the iron Emperor, and probably
were acting under his sscret orders wksnt they
joined Costa Rica in ousting the Americans from
the transit, aud cleared the Geld for NJ Belly; bu,
did our government aud Commodore Pauiding
have no higher aim than this unfortupaAs result
of delivering over the Isthmus 70 the Frsneh
slave tradep .Y ,ss ts ..f,..-..
Can THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE MS SKlN.--A ae4,
rious case, which will, perhaps. answsr ~ query
above, Of dark mulatto changingto white man