New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-12
SOUTH AMERICA.
COLOMBIA.
ACosIA PROVISIONAL PREsIDENT-CoNTINUANCE or
TIN CIVIL wAR--DIsPATCH FROM DIR. SEWARD.


TIM CIVIL wAR-DIsPATCH FROM sIR SEWARD
Fge@ special Correspondent
PANAMA. July q 1867.
Owing 10 the blockade Of the port of Santa Martha
Ivy Colombian precious little intelligence has been
Oeived here from the interior Mosquera still pris
OF State, and AcOsa the State General who effected
ais capture, and all along friend and partisan
of tho exDictator held the rens Of Government In his
nroolsmation, dated May 49, Aoosta announces his
Sumption Of the Presidency and has called together the
Congress which summariy aud unconsttutionaly
dissolved by the late Grand General He has also formed
y Cabinet and apparently working IN right
sestOre order and tranquility IN the public mind But 1T
Is clear that In this good work his efforts doomed 70
be frustrated for only does IL appear that there is the
greatest excitement prevailing at the capital but it
tosr are as Intense their loyalty their old but
imprsoned, leader, as ever before Beside which the
the Onion In the State Of Bolivar the MosqueIa party
and WI no other cet b"d T of
1fsqseFa Is stn President Notwithstanding his capture
eitoSs asking it to declare the power exercised by
Aoose iegtmate and The petitioners point 20 the law
Ehsy contend that Aeosta second DesgnadO only
as.ame Presidential functions ~ case Of the death Tes
ident On the other hand there Is the faethe undena
able fact-that MOsqueTa had acted unCOnsuOnaly in
heoArDg himself Dictator IN precpitang the Union in
state OF war ang 10 dSsoving the Congress at the point
R the 5ay0net In this Anomalous position, Bolivar had
1stermRod to maintain her rights, not only as soye-
reign but independent state until the restoration
s,oarchical state Of things confined to Bolivar.
IN M6gdai5aa the MOsqueriser Gen. Lopez Is carry
s sr ssotb@ odg Of ops Who do1 e0 their
9repd General" and with the n use Of s hHfo 0i
his march, and is doing efectualy Fighting IS re-
is more than probable that the entire State has been
fSsrsi party is the chief political body who are
aental keeping together the socalied prerogatves
OF the Dictator MOsquera and this party are strong ana
Influential The States II in consequence OF
their aid and counenance that Lopez Is SO successful IN
me- aaIar laap Yal
sraegehcaIy situated on the river has fortified and elt
handful Of men to defend H. %cn eS can ana e9s n NV.
ceeded his march, determined upon the conquest al
she State Nor there be any doubt of his success
The Government Of Magdaena cannot make anything
like effective show OF resistance Ihey are Onl % arm
wanting in that morale and esprit du corps which stamp
Is but lawless mob. Ana, as II 10 adu 70 theH ms
Fortune a vessel laden with arms ammunition &C. hhu
bearing important dispatches to the Governor OF Magd9
PANAMA was captured by the Colombian and every hg
dent however sti ongs tenaeousy TO his elfassuned
position Of President Of the Union although no Is De-
Eeged aud Is hardly able to hold his own ground
July SThe latest accounts received IRON the INTERIOR
Ses iS1 s S to CashsSen If was SUPPOSED for Ne
Endorsements, while Herrera IL rs reported hed IN
are Mosauerstas-the latter not Gen Reascos, GOV
Of ksgdalena, and who 1t will be renleabeEed haa
hrrOgated himself the functions OF Union President at
the cO,p6'Sta had addressed note 10 Lopez llayn4
m 60 suspend hOses in view of the sad events at the
capital Lopez refused that - he consented Du under
conditions too humiliatng TO Riascos The consequence
Is LAT
The resident foreign Consus at Santa Martha have
unanimously resolved 70 ignore the blockade OF that
port AL the CQnsus except the French had forwarded
the following note TO the commander Of the bioekadg
'''""''' OO'O''''" "sAErA MARTHA, 18th June. 1861
'I having come 70 the knowledge OF the undersigned
members of the Consular body resident In this city, That
tina atsamer Colombia under your command, has pre-
vented tho into this port OF several merchant
vessels tearing foreign nag we nave hougH. ~ s ~
commerce 10 address you the present communication
with the view Of convincing you that
5itl,atOn OF this Republic
< Granted that Gen Rudeendo Lopez Issued at 3arra
cs 81 the 18th q May last decree declaring the port
OF Santa Martha state of blockade aud closed 1t 10
ton but subsequent the publication OF said decree
the political circumstances OF the country nave uuct
II Gen Lopez wishes to establish bloeKads OF uiis
Srsd by his own win and only virtue OF order TO
That ensOt from the President Of the COi0nblan Union
decree of GEN Lopez the undersigned Informed and
30 certainly must you yourself be well by the Og,eia
ress extngushng the naval force aud providing that
SAe President now aceldeiaiy exercising hHeeHSc S
Tests Of ali Colombian ships Of war And lastly the S
tbs rscutiye Federal Power assumed since the 23d Of
May 10y Cen Santos AcOsa according 70 the accompany
eng proclamation, has ordered the steamer colombian 70
be placed the disposal and under the orders OF the
state Governmental Magdelena, resident IN tins city
"Wo presume that you are " ignorance q loe N4eE
which we have stated above Upon any other under
standing must only suppose the steamer OF when you
tho commander IS not Colombian vessel Dnt SNIP
sailing tho without manifest, and without has
n
have recourse but to warn our RESPECTIVE
against the acts you have performed OF may perform as
the acts Of pirate, because spo1war %lihot depGD
denOe commands from constituted authOflt5 2
whether il be night or wrong Is in reality but general
enemy of civilization.
Snfed With the facts and statements contained IN the
nresent note which wiz be delivered 70 you by the CON.
Longer continue harrassing foreign commerce borne TO
ths friendly port by foreign vessels against whose
snd egress Ne do not believe in the existence oil any
s,Saed by the Consuis Of Hamburg Italy the United
States. aud The Vice-COnsul Of Great BritainI
Ts following dispatch has been addressed by secretary
Eeward 10 the United States Minister ia Colombia;
~ PsrHa y sSLIiTAS eq Mi3is,,5 Resident Of United stap'
Rspubk CoOBoto and % ne sterei Coass &c c0V
Dispatches have been received from the Minister Kesl-
Dent aud from COnss Of the United states IN the EePp
&c of Colombia Prom these dispatches II appears tnat
the Presdent OF the United states OF Colombia mas az
solved the National Congress and proclaimed te kepuD
lie TO he In condition OF civil war Clvh WI i mere
Understood 10 be actually existing In that country On
Gal Information has been received that the authorizes OF
the state OF Panama Of the constituted states OF @
RepniJc OF Colombia actually levyng and demand
ing extraordinary taxes from the cIlIels V4 t f@t
Including domiciled United States citizens with Tho
purpose of using the thus obtained
10 carrying against the hitherto recognized aut0
tics Of the Federal Government of that Republic The
Department is further advised that not only such
demanded but the payment thereof although they
arc levied for future period required IN advance
United States citizens who menaced with this extra
ordinary taxation have applied 70 this Government iCf
protecti9D against the same
Pahana, and within the Republic OF Colombia, have no
lawful exemption from ordinary aud equal taxes which
tiona purposes by the authorities Of the Federal OF state
Governments Of that country II by no means clear
legally or Justly be subjected to the payment OF extraO
binary taxes contributions to the government OF
state for the purpose OF resisting, and as " would seem
absolutely Overthrowing the Federal Union OF Colombia
70 which Government the United states are Dounu 20
with the UnitAd States OF the international railroad
transit IN Isthmus Of Panama AZ the same time