The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-19

effected by French aid We do not however
believe that Napoleon will prove false to Pied
mont on this question. His continued active
preparations for war In the face of The pending
Congress prove the conviction that he entertaint
that its ultimate arbitration will have to be re-
ferred to the sword.
The Paraguay set&lsmsna-Ensct Of Mr.,
Buchansn's Policy In Utah and sout,
America.
We give elsewhe to-day the letter of Judge
Bowlin to the President, announcing the pacific
termination of bis mission, and several other in
teresting documents relating to the Paraguay ex-
petition.
There seems to have been quite contest in
the display Of official courtesies between all the
parties concurring at the diplomatic Congress,
which met at the Paraguyan capital, every one
striving to GU do the Others in his professions of
friendship and appreciation for the United States;
and the pending difficulties between us and Para
quay were arranged in the most amicable man.
ner, with rapidity that ID perfectly astonishing
when we compare it with the usual dilatory
course of Spanish and Spanish American diplo-
macy. There is only one event in the history of
recent International difncalties that can at all
compare with it. That one is the settlement b.
Governor Cara of Tampido with Capt. Topete,
of the Spanish navy. The correspondence
between these two ofidals equalled, if it
did not exceed, in politeness the intercourse
between Judge Bowlin and President Lopez.
Capt. Topete announced ts Gov. Cara that he
had been sent to settle certain Spanish claims
upon him, and with excruciatiug politeness add.
ed that bis instructions allowed him only twenty.
four hours for negotiation. Gov. CARA was
equally polite, settled at once, and of his own &C
cord ran up and saluted tie Spanish flag.
The same causes have Produced the same effect
in Paraguay. Judge Bovlin might have exceed
ed Chesterfield in politeness, but had not Presi-
dent Lopez been well persuaded that if he did
not settle the American Commissioner had Or
ders to bring the guns Of the navy at once to
bear upon his Notifications, he would have re-
turned that polteness with palavar if not with
contumely. As it is, peace and security for
American interests and respect for the American
flag have been secured in the waters of La Plaza,
for generation at least. IF we are hereafter
only decently represented in the character of our
Ministers in those regions, and do not send coun-
ty politicians whose schooling in public affairs
has been couple of sessions acquaintance with
the lobby of Congress, we shall have no more ne
cessi'y of sending out an expedition to the Allan
ia IF Cnutb -,
tional honor and to secure our just rights It
will take many years to wear off the impression
which the Paraguay expedition has made.
Some carpiDg journals, who grieve on every
occasion that our government acts with an energy
that should characterize it in all things and who
for months have been pratiDg about the strength
Of the Notifications at Humaita, the valor of the
Paraguayans, and the innocence of Lopez, find.
ing all their representations falsifed, now turn
round and abuse Mr.. Buchanan for the expense
of the Paraguay expedition. He has spent mil
lions, they say, to collecta few thousands. That
is all that their pigmy understandings can see in
the great results produced ny Mr.. Buchauan's
high policy, in making the Paraguay expedition.
effective at once. In pursuing the course he did
the President has not only saved millions to the
private interests of our citizens, involved in
every quarter Of the globe, but he has saved the
expenditure OF millions in the vindication of our
national honor to those who shall succeed him
in the first magstracy of the American people,
Utah and Paraguay-domestic dissensions and
foreign insult-have been met and mastered by
bis determination and sagacity, without the she'd
ding of q single drop Of blood. And their re.
suits will be as permanent in their good effect
upon our domestic and foreign relations as were
the suppression of the whiskey rebellion and the
Algiers expedition in the early days of the re-
public.
Gov. WISE FLYING OFF AGAIN AT TAN