Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-04-24

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nity to reconcile such differences
/ Nv interview then With the Presi
dent commenced daily, and sometimes
twice a day. aud we're always cordial
frank. free and harmonizing. We be-
came better friends at every meeting,
tut could not agree upon all points,
Finally, it was proposed that our next
meeting should be held in the presence
OF Gen Urquiza. Gen. Gnido, his min
ster, and st. Amaral. promptly ac-
cepted. When we met, no one but
Gen. Urquiza and his private secreta-
nv were present. We commenced the
| discussion Of the points Of difference
one by one, al, as We settled them
they we're re- ced to writing. We
then drew up an agreement which was
signed by the President and myself
This was the browning glory Of the
whole affair, and in the general JOY
over it General Urquiza embraced
President Lopez.
By the agreement we make a new
treaty, with changes libersIizing it; a
convention to settle the compsny's
claim ten thousand collars to the
family of the sailor killed on the Water
Witch; receive satisfactory letter Of
regrets and apology for this affair and
the treatment of the government agents
with fnll permission to explore tho
rivers.
The negotiation is looked upon here
as an immense triumph in diplomacy,
as only lew months ago Lopez re-
fused to renew the treaty with Eng
land. He has not only renewed ours,
and enlarged its sphere, but what is
worth more than all our interests is,
that he has done it in = very friendly
spirit. When we closed our meeting,
agreeing upon the points, he made q
little speech, which my modesty would
not permit me to record. He touched
my sympathies when he spoke of Para
quay standing alone, and he tradue d
by foreign ministers, who created the
difficulties, by Withholding from him
ne respect due to his position ; and
he chcerfully and warmly gave me
credit lor treating him in all our inter-
course with the most delicate respect
and esteem, and ..id he would pay
some portion of the debt of gratitude
he felt for me for it, by informing you
of it in an authograph letter.
From the people here have met
with nothing yet but kindness, partic-
ularly after it was known that my
first interview with the President was
so agreeable. They we're very much
alarmed at our expedition, and this
news seemed to lift the burden from
their hearts. They are a simple, inof-
iensive people, governed, l should
Judge, with a despotic rule, under
which they seem to flourish. They
are livcly-sprited people, and re-
markabiy neat and clean for an Indian
mixed race. The market place in the
morning is beautiful spectacle, to see
nearly thousand women all dressed
in pure white clean dresses, and all
| refooted. To wear shoes here is a
b b mark Of aris'ocracy. You can
see every hour in the day nearly, hand
some woman, Except the tawny color)
with bright eyes and rich suits of
black hair, with Swiss muslin dresses
hounced from the waist down, walk
ing in bare feet through the Streets
The soil is very sandy, and they Pc
tend they cannot walk well in shoes.
The ideas of great wealth which
have been made to flourish so conspic-
uously, in the accounts we have had Of
them, vanish into air at the touch Of
truth. l see here nothing but unmis-
taxable evidences Of poor but hap
py, laughter loving people, made to
assume better appearance than their
neighbors from the strong hand that
rules them. Their government is Of
the cheapest character imaginable, and
the revenue to support it is mainly de-
rived from monopolies on articles Of
produce, somewhat peculiar to the
country. Their revenues from customs
must be small, as they are certainly
neither producing nor very consum-
ing people. This revenue Is chiefly
spent Oh an army and tortitications.-
AS the President is the fountain and
source OF all poxer, he is also the re-
cipient and disburser of all revenue,
which, in the eyes of simple people,
coniounding the individual with the
State, makes up the account of that
fabulous wealth about which so much
has been said.
This is small state, claiming some
100000 inhabitants, and are nearly all
Indians of the Guranee race, civilized
under he rigid rules of the Jesuits.
They are not an industrious race, in
our sense Of the word +; they are only
comparatively industrious in contrast
with their neighbors, who are perfect.
ly indolent and unambitious beyond
the necessities of life from day to day.
Such population is not likely to make
a very rick State. Their country is no
doubt very productive in articles of
peculiar and valuable character, such
as VERIFY or Paraguayan tea, and many
medicinal plants and gums, and pecu-
liar woods of the forest but that l
know Of nothing they produce superb
or to ourselves in quality, and nothing
to compare to Us in quantity, with an
equal population. They can produce
sugar cheap as the plants last many
years, and they have beautiful staple
Of cotton, but they raise neither be-
yond mere supply for their necessi-
ties.