The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-31

unquestoned EXECUTOR he took what he waut spared
what he pleased. Liberty and life were at nw word
non Intercourse kept for twenty i've left hs
people unscquaned with otbers and bull. m strong
opal uiares The cir cumstances of the early settle
Dent Of the country led to mixture Of races, there
was scarcely Spanish woman in Paraguay for is first
century The native Guar Di disappeared as tribe and
mingled with their conqucrors. Rohq on, dress, and
few domestic habits show European origin; but Ian
gssge color, mental and moral hahs, are Gusrmian
They have karped TO love isolation until they have learned
to hate foreign intercourse desperately.
n 1s4l lopez the present chief officer Of the govern
ment acquired the Presidency which be made into
dictatorship, and which he still holds He is more Indiap
than Spanish, lazy, selfish, cruel and ignorant
The climate Is enerva'ing; but little clothing s need 3D.
snd that s chiefly OF cotton raised by themselves nd
woven by nerant weavers who tic Their looms TO tree
while they 90 the work, after which they re pack the
loom upon the horse and esnrely look for another jo
Lopez always has 40 600 men ready for the field, and
there s a the mouth Of the Paraguay fort which was
The whole river and monn 1Ol guns and IL 0o0 men
assigned 10 the post. II s problem whether the Un 80
states government has done wisely in sending SO small
force out upon the Paraenayan expedition To try t.
reach the capital by land would be preposterous,
well appointed fort is hard to pass.
Paraguay, once open, and given TO com etitiOn ana
enterprise, would be blessing to the wor d. Its pro
ducts vegetable and mineral Of immen ae but
tb.y are guarded by a dog in The manger.
TERRIBLE PARAGUAYAN ONSLAUGHT ON THE AMERI-
CAN SENATE, COM. PAGE, CONSUL HoPKNs-wAR
ACCEPTED.
Translated from Fl semanaro del Paraguay Of Nov. 23
for the NEW YORK HERALD
We have seen with indignation the lying petition of the
socaeo Company Of Navigation Of the United States and
Paraguay and we have been astonished that the
committee OF the Senate has taken IL for the base and
fohndaop OF s report published In prev number
We refrain fiom inserting here tins infamous pro-
ductlon, so as not TO offend our readers, who would
be az indignant ourselves to stamped there the
bSckest impostures and upbeard caumnies II appears
TO us that ne ridiculous paper to which refer
NEGOTIATED decoy on the part Of imaginary company,
Which, trusting in dreamy wealth, has broken the
refs to oecorum, to morality aud " all sinos Of
soeraons, TO alarm the Legislative Assemblies and
Or IA mn m
tee has Illuminated against the republic Of Paraguay.
We have seen among the misstatements published
IN this execTabe sheet the unbrided license of
Thomas Page, who has believed that he could
save himself by denying his public and notorious
suits and depecates the PRESIDENT Of the republic of Para
quay, TO The apparent satisfaction Of Buchanan.
We nave seen the yahcmg mposures OF the French
man Guhlepot, who, beng entrusted with French in.
trehs IN this city has been the scandal OF the people, the
play thing of - and with all this be has lent
bimself TO coDgr ratulate them.
We have seen the declarations--or, better sad the
strange impostures-of Ferguson, Boyd and Morales,
and consequently the str ange conduct of Buchanan
has horri6ed Us; and the uncasslabe report
Of the Committee Of the Senate which has repro
duced in its entirety the niqutous and daring petition Of
the before mentioned called company. IL only left
Tor the committee to copy from the petition, that would
be sufficient to exhibit TO the government Of republic
OF Paraguay the vain show Of the gdsd Of the
Americans and that the rights Of the company would be
promptly accorced.
Ailsr filling itself with injurious reproaches and
atiociOus calOmnes towards the gOver nment Of
the republic, the Committee Of the Senate concludes
that will employ force Lopez, as it says, does not al
low the American expedition TO proceed exploration
and Americans TO continue their commercial enterprises
beautiful way Of seeking hospitaityl Let Buchanan
take for certainty that Page, Hopkins his SO called
company will not conquer shores This affects the
honor and the dignity Of the repubcthe good fame and
The vndication OF the high respects Of his kxceency the
President Of the Republic.
II is sufficient TO say that the pecunary demands of the
20 called Company Of Navigation Of the United States are
babe that the American Minister who approaches our
government with reclamation 30 unjust and excessive
will receive terrible undeceivng anu IT, in view OF
documentary evidence which our government
dsspate and destroy radically the mpostures Of CON-
pany he does not wish to submit TO the dictates Of
and truth, we have no pain in asserting (because we
are well aware Of the feelings of government that
war IS inevitable
II is not possible that loyal and truthful government
which, as 1t desires that ts immunes and guarantees
should be respected has known respect opp0nens
can admit the shameful reproach Of reprebensibe pus
eyes Of our own fellow czens jealous for their honor
and their dignity.
petitioners and the ,egalty Of their pretensons when
the Senatorial committee informs them with the most
cynical eiontery that three arrived Asun
con from the United States, with great variety Of
slrumens Of American industry and that the Society
ployed more than twenty America in putting them in
operation.
The Parsguayans and all the inhabitants Of the repub
c are Witnesses Of what this badly named company
ported into a AsurcioD The inventory may be read n
did these three steamers arrive with this valuable
cargo of useful industrial instrumentsS Who has
in their enterprlsesS Who has these twenty
Americans destined to make these instruments
thousand hard dollars which the company said to have
brought Why, then, their arrival did they beg ten
thousand bard dollars from the national treasury pay
the debts with which they into the republicp
To lie so barefacedy hardhood s required; and the
mover Of this scandaous fable has proved that he pos
sesses great superabundance Of audacity.
The 30 called company Ia bold enough TO say
that II constructed wharves, and that 1t gave
beginning to steam navigation. If ii calls
VI bur
the San Antonio brook on rainy days " facilitate the pass
ing Of the Paraguayan aborers whom bad in It's
vice. it can say that it has constructed wbarves and
calls steam navigation the curious movements of the &C.
neral agent Of the company, that this ind
vidua was the first vehicle M the kind that the Paraguay
ans have seem
The so-caled company adds that II employed a great
number Of natives OF the country TO teach them the
metbodic operation OF manufacturers that when the
government sent TO close the segar mandatory had
hundred and forty workers. who made $50 scgars
per month and that they would have made million ofse
tton, should have bad fifteen hundred persons its pay
Happy accoupts That President Lopez employ the ope
faes q the company in segar factory in the name Of
thing finds room in the perversty Of this hardy i'm
postor.
1t great audacy to state in that petition that the re-
suits would be not ony to the boneh Of these operatives
but very directly TO augment the riches of Lopez The
President Of the republic Of Paraguay has thought
OF augmenng his own fortune with operations of this
knd M strives with socitude TO increase the treasures
Of the State 80 that these riches nigh, rebound the
peheht vi the country III general Hs C0nuuct Is
dent and his acts sufficiently public FOR the people TO be
Of such an absurdy and " accept sander
ous IN impostuTe against his well known probity.
The committee extended itself To say that the Pres
dent traficed In concert with the company to ex
tent What we have said respecting the FIRST OF itself
destroys the second the same as 70 suppose that the
President ntendedto induce the employees Of the country
TO leave the service OF the company and 70 enter ther
twn. There is more yet The committee afirms that
the same President induced the people Of the city TO
change their conduct which, until the company excited
their zeal and animosity had treated the Americans with
thAt great kindness which natural 10 honorable
ployers, and good paymasters and benefactors. The
documents published IN the Semdndrio-that 10 saw the
spontaneous and repeated complaints OF people In its
SERVICE ana the different dstrics-against the company
ana is agent general give testimony Of their bench ence
and of their being good pay masters.
, we have already said In former number that on
ne zn OF september 1854, the passport and permission
to embark which those people solicited were given and
mat tn ~ presumption for the aforementioned
TO aseert the contrary
for the nao Of Gnrrn nnd " '.ooe'ey "H