The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-07

| Fifth aveloe chambermaid would not associate
with him. He picks up Ills few dirty dollars in
the dirtiest way, and his information" is as
false and distorted as the kennels from which he
drsgs it IF some of the gentlemen who conduct
country papers could have glance at their cor
respondents they would be ss thoroughly asham-
cd of their personnel as they are Of the miserable
!stuff which they write.
The Existing Dangers In Spanish Amera-
can Relations-LOuas Napoleon Aims 20 be
| she Arbiter Of America.
The adjournment Of Congress without acting
upon the special Message of the President asking
for the necessary power to enforce our claims on
some Of the Spanish American States, leaves our
relations with several Of those countries in the
most critical condition. and renders three or four
petty wars almost inevitable.
Throughout nearly all Spanish-America there
is singular activity and pertinacity in the
treatment of public questions In manner hostile
to the interests Of theUnited States and with an
evident disregard on the part of those countries
for the maintenance Of peaceful relations with u.s.
Paraguay has forced us to demand PREPARATION for
gross national insults; with Chill, the Sportsman
and other recent seizures are unatoned for, while
that government is Oh the verge Of revolution;
! Peru has not paid the admitted claims for the
| Lobos island affair, and has two American ships
ard several of our citizens now in her clutches;
Venezuela has just acknowledged her RESPONSE
bility in the AYES island matter; Costa RIGA and
Nicaragua refuse to treat with us, while both
have made most obnoxious grant to French
subject; and the latter Power has recently made
transit treaty with England, said to contain
several articles that will be obnoxious to the
| United States, ard is now engaged in negotiat-
| ing other treaties with the British Envoy, Sir
VIM. Gore Ouseley. Mexico is prey to contend
| ing factions, and the government which our
Minister there had recognized has driven him
out with oontumely and outraged and pundered
our citizens on every side. Spain is making cx-
| traordinary efforts to prepare the abolition of
slavery in Cuba, solely for the purpose ofmaking
that island an undesirable scc:. &c: sr the
United States, Her Cortes has lately resolved
/ to permit the introduction of thirty thousand
Chinese laborers there as preliminary step to
emancipation and the final destruction Of the
| island.
| Within the broad scope of this desert of our
relations with Spanish-America but one oasis
presents itself Our diplomatic relations with
New Granada have been suspended for two years,
in consequence of the utter ignorance and incom-
| potency OF Minister B0wlin and Commissioner
| Morse. Gen. Horran succeeded in making
| treaty at Washington, conceding to US naval
depot OF Panama, and the appointment Of a COM
| mission to adjudicate and pay all the claims of
our citizens against his government. Owing in
great measure to the want of an American
Minister at Bogota to support the treaty, and to
the irritation caused by the undiplomatic course
Of Bowln and Morse, the New Granadian Con-
gress rejected the concession of a naval depot,
and only consented to pay the claims of our cid-
zens who suffered in the Panama riot through
| the extraordinary exertions Of President Ospina.
That treaty is now before our own Senate In ex-
ira session, and, strange to say, though its only
| results are to cause the sufferers by the Panama
| riot to he paid at an early day, and to reopen
diplomatic relations between the two republics,
the Panama Railroad Company has it's agents at
Washington who are using their utmost efforts
to prevent its ratification by the Senate. New
Granada is to-day the leading Power of all the
Spanish-American nations No revolution has
ever succeeded in overturning its constituted
government; il has abolished the connec-
ton of Church and State, proclaimed re-
ligious liberation, has now several Ame-
rican missionaries preaching in its cities, is
governed by federal representative govern
ment has trial by jury, perfect freedom Of the
DreSs and does nil IL IN c,r
immigration. Its government entertains the best
disposition towards ours and towards our citi-
zens and yet certain shortsighted and selfish in
terests are endeav0ring to reduce our relations
with 1t to the lamentable state that charac-
terises all our relations with the other Spanish
American countries. Should the Senate refuse
to ratify the Cass-Herran treaty, the New Ora.
madam Minister, now SO well disposed, will have
no resource but to ask for his passports and 20
home leaving the United States to take the |
initiative In resuming diplomatic relations when
ever it may see fit to do So
In all these things the open and active inter- |
vention of France and England, under the con-
troll Of Louis Napoleon-for Great Britain is now |
only secondary Power in Europe-is evident.
He controls the policy Of Spain in sending thou
sands Of Chinese apprentices to Cuba;his Admi-
raj dictated the terms not long since to menace
Venezuela; his agent, Mons. Belly, is recognized
by Lord Malmesbury as the valid claimant to the |
Nicaragua transit route, and Sir VIM Gore
Ouseley is nothing more than o. French agent TO |
carry out Louis Napoleon's views in Central |
America Ills Minister, Gabriac, ia the true
ruler of the central government of Mexico and
Mr.. Otway is nothing more than his lacquey,
who ut his command ticks the hand that lately, on
two occasions, threw British subjects into chains |
at San Luis Potosi and defcd the British Minister
Under the direction Of Gabriac the allied fleets |
at Vera Cruz have made the greatest effort to |