The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-07
A. fWashneToN May 2.4+Ths following dispatches
r5lativeto the bombArdment@ of Valparaiso have
BEEN srecet1sed BY The Navy Department: at .

IA fWAsHnseToN, May 24-The foioV1pH. .diepatohea
trslstiveto the bombardment" of Valparaiso. have
besn,f frec;elvsid BY The Navy Department: Al ~
- 49,, 81, uhtrEb STATES srEAaisaIr 'TLsDEaniE&s
@f'" r'"o ;euhHf vALPARAIso, March 81, 1861 -.
StR: have the honor to announce that upon
my arrival p this port With tss saus,dsron unaer
WHO Had informed me that he intended to prevent
any sudden; bombardment, and would only ;huffer
. To this Imade no reply, but having. considered
the matter, sought the occasion the next day to
cay that would Join him in preventing any sud.
Z assured him that the Monadnock could take
care Of the Numanca; that from target expert
that in not iess than thirty seconds, and not more
than thirty minutes, the Monadnook heraelf, en-
tirely unss.isted, would leave only the msssheads
= of the ,Numancia above water, and that: our
=, wooden vessels English and American, could look
ods for the wooden vessels Of the Spsniards -. -
fstruotions to observe "a strict neutrality acted
= upon the; s1ppostion that neutrality among the
gnationa did not preclude all well directed efforts to
BE citizen q not Obliged 70 staad by inert white
another Is entering from the unlawful VIOLENCE of
hs n a hs S.asS Ta
.example-so nation witnessing the like disturb,
lance among her sister nations need not rest nb-
solutely impassive, but with sincere neutrality
might interpose, with force il neoessary, to Keep
the operations Of belgerents at least within the
law for the protection OF neutral persona and neu
.'': considered that Spain had left her colonies
under stringent colonial policy and religious in
= tolerance. IN the course OF time. enconfaged by
the more liberal laws OF q state of freedom for
eigners had been induced to settle ih the country,
and to embark their capital in commerce and oth-
eri industrial pursuits. II Towns had aprung up
q. other material ipterests had been developed.
Ideas, as well as manufactures, had been intro
duced, the wealth and Intelligence meanwhile re-
niaining with the soregnere.'.Nl l.f-i ~ 9t,
IL At' last Chile had reached. the goal In human
progress marked by the establishment Of religious
rather than from any great political end, as I be
ievei proposes to burn the property and destroy
th H. sSs 3Ss ss Ss Sond A bhs far s4s s
shores OF the continent2 -" i."i iiNan -
The mode Of warfare which Spain proposes is
terrible, but IL seems TO me such will provoke
private animosity rather than coeroe national WILL
and therefore that it s not directed to its legiti-
mate end, and, consequently. that such warfare
I am swars that action In the premises on our
part involves great responsiblities, but had
e. reached the ooncluaion that with England as an
ally It was my duty now to show them Isentence
- I Ttoia The English admiral what have written,
and frankly added that his commerce was more
extensive than ours, and more convenient to the
coast OF Spain; but 30 te had more to suffer In
4: consequence OK ruptur. tth Spain, he had also
a. moro to preserve by interlerence-that his inter-
eats tn Chile rose to thousands, while ours were
90 with me; for plainly declared thst would not
take step without him.. Isaid that had no In.
: teaaon 81 h becoming estspaT 70 draw Europsan
i served laughing az my snged paws; while they
enjoyed the ffnits ofnny temerity.GA" nl .in va,
E1ssb Adma 70 throw
SngI eve ssa separate s
"asslSa On my pArs nSSRe A @ IS se
have used such measures as Gould TO- ibrIng