The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-02

The ship Andrew Mauderson, from Bueno
Ayres, srrjved In New York on Sunday. with p,
| pers from Ruesos Ayres to the llth OF December
aud the latest dates from Paraguay. The new
ooniirms the reported preparations of Presideu
/ Lopez for war. letter, giving an account of tn
| defences being erected in the Parasuayan Repnb
| lie, says;
The hrst worthy of the name are two or thre
| leagues above the confluence Of the rivers Para
| quay and parsna. At what is called the Tres Roca
(the three mouths Of the Paraguay there is small
station. brt Of too little force 10 be considered -
But there TO- little higher up, range Of defence
/ called Humsita, that is intended 10 command th
river perfectly. 1t consists Of range Of batterie
| extending along the shore for distance of abou
n mile and halt, and mounting about one kuudret
/ and fifty gums. The breastworks are made of tim
her in I. ont, filled in with clay from behind MAXIM
such an elevation ftr the suas as directs them 10
waFds the middle of the narrow channel. The bans
here is about fifteeu feet above the water. AboU
the middle of this line of uusheltered guns there Il
a covered battery, mounting thirteen guns. Th.
walls aud covering are Of brick. The eDbrasures
CT openings for the guns, beveled from tie out
side instead Ct from within, making isrga taree
aT0u nd each gun and making .he wall wekk I'll 81
q cannon tall hitting Gpy here near the gun would
knock the bricks ever the heads eff the gunuers
Across the river from this line of batteries they
have recently cleared away heavy forest. and "a
that side would command tho river for create!
distance than does the one now occupied. the pro.
bnbility is that our expedition will find guna or
both sides.
The river at that point is narrow. and the chan
nei ID 80 narrow that farming round 10 cut of the
question, and close to the Humsita fort is H.
you could stand on shipboard and toss biscuit OF
shore,
Below the fort. aud an tbs same side. the
ground 10 covered with low trees and tangled
brush, almost inpenetrab!e Here and there in
this f1test, within sight Of the river little
patches have been cleared. There ia at thi:
point also suCh bend in the river that ghir
ascending does not see The fort until nearly upon
II. Rut vessels that can throw shells two miles
as GzEs can, could lie under cover Of that forest
and that hsul, aud the raHce Of batteries is guch
| that shell woud have d width of target of q
mile and half; SO that not a she'll need be lost
! Does not Lopez forcsee this and are no. these
| ps:ches Of cleared forest places where guns wifi
! Lo planted to annoy the shell throwers?
/ Back Of tho deteuces directly On the river bank
| there are placed bgeastworks at Irregular dis
! tances, aud pointing some down the river and
| others Up, with reference TO retreat from the
IiFer AIDE and to be ussd in case Of au attempted
! landi. by the attacking party.
! Th- unAter Of soldiers within easy call Of thir
| fort is a1ou; $4,000. They have not the skill OF
! power in coIast that We find in the trogps ot
the leading natio2s Of the world, bu. they are by
| far the best troops in South America Their Iib.
eral mixture # Indian blood makes them much
more formidable in bsttis than the pnre Spanish
They do sometimes get into confusion, bu. they
do rot run or retreat, unless ordered. Ne Para
Suayan leaves his post and lives another dav
kysry lance lasso or knife in the republic is com
missiored against bim ia summary execution
4hey are wanting in sxpertnes8 in using hea
Wy guns, and the foreign Instructors whom The >
have employed Will not engage in actnaI cnr fjct
teiaE released from that obligation by contract
Bat they are not wanting in savage ferocity. or in
fatal skill in the use CT the "hoiasr III. ssiasso -
or the lance, and $4,000 men can be concentrated
AZ enc point upon very short notice. For distant
o aF at
Will doubtless be detained at or below Hsn,ita
until il shall please Lopez to let a negotiation
commence The result Of il can only be- CO, lee
tGTed. The sentiment here is that be will cHer q
serious and tedious resistance.
The Sem!nario, Of Ascuncicn, edited by Lopez
himself, has several issues filled with the comirg
war and ahuee of :be United States. From tive
make the following extract, written hefo it was
known thgtau American commissioner had bee.
appointed 10 accompany the expedition:
la any event Gctive hosiiisies must be ipsy,,a.
bic, not only for the reasons We have pIyee. Int
became the Government Of the United States hax
taken decided pains that there should be 10 on.n
ing left tor peaceful solution. knowing III.
idiosy ypcrGsy and tendency of the Go7erarnTut nj
tbs n!pn, II IS ialr to presume that properly
characterized minister will not come TO Paraguay.
bat that more probably the commander ef tn.
Squadron will ae invested with this character -
The reason that induces to ttink thus is in tia
frst place, that nothing is said shout the person
to whom tnIe miseion would be con6iet and i'm
the nd place, that this is the way the North
Americans generally proceed. They prefer to send
military men, SO that they may for g,orys sake
bring about war, and with a war conquest o.
annexation. Ii is well known, from experiepce
that the Cabinet OF Washington does not look
flvcrabIy upon dipiomatists who coald arranes
peace
The indemnity which they pretend to exact
from onr government, exceeds niae hundred
4 Il III
apology TO the nag Of the United States fer the
shots that we're fred szsiust the Water Witch
This news agrees perfectly we'll With the petition
Of The Company. and with the degrading and
abusive report Of tie Senatorial Committee, Of
which our readers already are informed. P.ra2u
ay has nothing TO indemnity, either morally CT
materially. TIE amount which is demanded il
based upon imagin damages and injuries, wh; ;cL
ca essiy be demonstrated by any one VI who desires
to examine tns question in detail and with in
psrtiaIity. And regards the honorable repara
lion that is spoken OF for the shots at the Water
Witch, everybody, and even the petitioners them
selves, are persuaded Of the justice which war.
rantsd us in processing TO tho last extreme in
yiew OF such reckiesgEess, and Of such determined
and stIecIous proyocasions.
They hsve commenced by offendirg ths deco.
rum aud dignity of the government OF the Re-
pshlic OF Psragpsv-mekina demands that can ia
nowise he admitted. THO conditions could not be
more lumiiatiug and onerous. The government.
Oi the Republic Of Paraguay is required to ndeta-
uity mercantile company with the eum of uips
L9ndrsf thousand dollars to make an honorable q
reparstion to the North American ig for the shot
fired at the war steamer water Witch, by the Pa
TagEsyau fortress J;apiru; and, moreover, to ac-
ceBt aud ALLOW that the vsry persons who now
claim indemnity should return and establish their
business in toe territory Of the Republic. The
agent and his company are to do as they did years
aoue by This assurance IL disproportio1ably ir.
ritstng and ialprudent. The Senate Committee
doubtless desired to mako the Repsblic of Para.
quay the laughing stock and derision Of all the
other nations OF the world.
No q thousand times no. 4ud0ugh ace c1Hant
fasr ourse{urs Lat 1rW be Hs 1RTels Of pict.y
we can promise ourselves the guerdon which ali
the moral world coacodes to those who fall with
honor. Itis not gunpowder. is 10 not the deadly
prcisctiIe that destroys a nation, bus the oppro-
brium that falls upon her when she pusilani-
mously submits 70 humtiiGting and shameful COM
ditioDE.
The National, Of Euencs Ayres, in an article on
the expedition and the datribes of the Semansrio,
after rocapitrlating the armament Of tho Fulton.
says:
IF this is the kud Of armament carried by a
single one OF the chips Of the American squadron,
the Most ErceRent Sir President OF the ReNdstc OF
Psraeuay-sa he call. himself in the SeTanafio,
lille he treats the person Of the President Of the
United Stat-p 10 language betting the lowest day
have plenty to DO in attending TO the
sixteen vessels whose arrival is announced. tor
the cause cf civilization and free trade, on which
alone the United States can base their action, We
hope that the desire IF ererv honest nan-yhat-
ever his nationeltr-wili be satisfed with the
obstinate resistance promised by the Most Ercelicft
Sir President Of the EspHb'ic OF Paraguay"
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ENHANCED psIes OF SLAVES IN DRAzu--QRe
cause of the dsgatsfsction now prevailing between
the British contractors and the Drectors OF certain
.ines Of railway In Brazil, in the course OF con-
struction is the enormously enhanced prics oflabor
since those works have commenced. This has ei-
together disorgnuiged the planters In
proof of which it 10 enc ugh TO oorefve that when
.he Relief aud San Francisco line was commenced,
tome three years ago, the price OF slave Ia the rrt
vince Of Pernambucn was from $50 10 Gfo; ana
TO the report by the mail that reached
London on the 9th. zone could be had at less than
rom 6 700 70 $50. Large numbers Of Germans