The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-19
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
The Rumorcd Negotiations for a Triple
A11tance-Presllen nat Grant I'm favor OF
a War-Cn NADIA aMd SAN Doming0

AAo AAWMA9TCU kOr u ATlple
hIliance-President Grant I'm favor o,
War-Cn NADIA aad SAN Domingo
Bnez I'm Favor OF Annexation.
Washington letter, Of the 10th inst, to the
Baltimore Gazette, says:
The report of the triple alliance is regarded
by the Cabinet as stock jobbing report. Gen.
eral GRAFT himself would bo rather please d
with the idea, for it is very evident that he is
IN favor Of a.. war He is convinced that in
and have its commerce destroyed. Some o
the members Of the Cabinet are anxious to
know what part the Southern leaders would
take in case of rupture. There is decided
Domingo. Contracts have recently been en-
tered into for line Of steamers running from
New York to Samana Bay. An effort is being
made to run a railroad through the richest
part Of the island, and it is expected that du-
ring the year there will be considerable white
immigration. Baez. it is said rather favnrs the
projeot. He is mulatto. educated IN France,
and is deslrous OF more lntimateassoclation
with whites. His great AMBITION is to come to
Washington as United States senator from the
State Of Domingo.
Instructions OF Mr. MotSry-ChanginE x
the Names OF War Vessels-The Span
Ash Mission.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes
on the 10th instant:
Secretary Fish yesterday Informed lead
Ing AlcLlU0I VI Gll0 EOT0lRu AudlTS committee
that the instructions to Minister Motley were
about completed. 1t appears that in the d.s-
cusslon in the e~ Cabinet meeting. last Friday.
respecting those Instructions, the reported
course, as here is no Official notification o.
such alliance, there ls for the present to be no
change in the determination OF the govern
ment touching this question.
SO far as concerns the reported alliance it
has been given out that the instructions would
be based upon points made in Mr.. Summers
speech, but it is known that Secretary Fish is
opposed to taking such bold ground. There
is assurance that our minister will be very lit
tie restrained at the outset in his actions, and
goes to England somewhat as did Reverdv
johnson, with general instructions only, and
free to act upon his own best Judgment,
and commencing diplomatic negotiations de
mOuO.
An order will shortly be issued by the Score
tary OF the Navy changing the names OF large
nun ber OF ships in the navy. Under the law
name all vessels Of the frst-c ass after the
states, The second-class after the leading ties
or rivers in the Union, and the third-class was
left to his taste and discretion. Secretary
Welles, it is alleged, disregarded the law and
named the vessels as suited him and the de-
partment. In reorganizing affairs the new
Secretary has decided to carry out the law of
Congress. and accordingly large number of
the names OF vessels Will be changed
President Grant stated some ten days ago
that there would be no appointment made to
the Spanish mission for some weeks as Minis
ter Hale's resignation. di not take effect until
the tirst of July. No new minister will be
sent out there until after that time The st te-
ment, therefore, that General Sickles was
shortly to be commissioned must be prema-
ture.
II In Q Alleged Trtpart1te Negotiations
Again"-Was shington officials Troubled
About the Matter--The Monroe Doc.
trtne sO-canetl--Its Purpose and Mean-
ing.
Another Washington d d'spatca says:
TIE New York Gribune,s re ark of xeatar-
em els ssasad dseuDsson isDsasn
ssa its d s t..s sa.s as. M.
nj must vastly affect the populatty OF
effect OF going off half-cocked, under the igni.
ton OF Summers extravagant rhetoric and
Chandler's braggadocia.
In truth, the whole course Of the Senate, and
its blind endorsement by the Executive, in the
haste displayed in the recall of Minls-
ter Johnson aud otherwise, have placed the
people OF this country in an entirely false posi-
ton. 1t was attempted some months ago by
the Radical press to show thai the so.called
monroe doctrine" justified propagandism on
the part Of this government. 10 intelligent
readers II is unnecessary to Say that it meant
precisely the reverse. The passage in the
which is popularity known under this name,
was inserted in consequence of the alarming
doctrine of the right Of intervention" in the bf
fairs OF individual nations and their appendages.
by the combined absolute govern
ments of Europe. known as the "Holy Alliance"
The invasion Of Spain by France In 1898 to pre-
vent the establishment of @ constitutional gov
ernrhent, to which King Ferdinand had consent
ed. and to which there was little or no opposi-
tion in Spaio, was an example OF the applica-
ton Of the pernicious principles asserted by
these despots. MIR. Monroe, in the message
referred to, protested against this doctrine be-
attempt on the Eart Of European powers to ex-
tend the system Of national Interference" for
the purpose of controlling In any manner the
governments of this hemisphere. (which had
established their independence" would be con-
sidered as the manifestation Of an unfriendly
disposition towards the United States.
This is all there is OF the Monroe doctrine,
and it will be perceived that the absurd con-
duct Of Congress, as body, for the past few
its individual members, have notionly placed
this government in direct antagOnlsm to the
principles thus .avowed in 1895. bnt given the
governments OF France, England and Spain
principles against their threatened vioiltion on
our part. A time may come, and doubtless
will, when it will suit the interests and senti-
ments OF all parties, that the present colonies
Of European powers on this continent shall
either torn themselves into separate republics
or become absorbed IN this; but the policy iii
such it can be called) ineugurated by the Radi-
Gals, and In the process OF being carried out by
force. must, in the nature Of things, immeasur.
ably postpone it.
THE FREEDAKRN,S BUREAU.
Its Condition. Organisation and Opera.
ttons Under tho New Order OF Things.
A Washington correspondent Of the Boston
Advertiser sends to that paper the following
account Of the present condition and organiYa-
tion OF that famous institution, the Freedmen'a
Bureau:
The Toward University buildings are admi.
rably situated on the hill north OF the city
and the view from the front entrance of the
about Washington. The Freedmen's Bureau