The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-15
LOPEZ REDIVIVUS.

From the N Y. Times
President Lopez is holding a strong position
in the Interior, with nine thousand men and
forty guns. The allies are preparing" to attack
him. such is the intelligence from the seat of
war in Paraguay, through Brazilian channels,
and il is exactly what might have been antici-
pated from the course of the Paraguayan war
since its commencement. Lopez Is periodically
defeated, his stronghOlds are destroyed his
forces are 'annihilatcd' and he himself appears
as fugitive accompanied only by lew
"stragglers.' few weeks generally elapse after
the receipt of intelligence to this effect, during
which every one expects by every mail to hear
of the CapitulatiOn of Lopez and the establish
ment of the Provisional Government so long
talked of by the allies. But after long de-
lay, IL becomes manifest that there Is hitch
somewhere. And then, with unNarying rcgu-
laTlty, there comes n despatch announcing that
Lopez has reappCarcd ut some point where he
was least expected, with force Which-assum-
ing the correctness of Brazilian statistics OF his
lOsses-can only consist Of resuscitated Para
guayUn corpscs, and that the allies are about to
commence Il great campaign instead of inaum-
rating Provisional Government. These have
been the regularly recurring phases of Rio
JaIeiro war news for years past. And rs far rs
we can yet see they may still repeat themselves
over again. Lopez with nine thousand men and
forty guns in thcnterior is rs powerful as he was
with twice that force within range of the Bra
lillian iron-cuds. And if ever there was u
doubt as TO the determination of the Plaguayans
TO rally round Lopez TO the luSt man. and die i'm
defense of his cause, II must have been dispclled
hy this time The extraordinary hold which he
possesses on the devotion OF that singular race
has already been tested sufficiently 20 show now
little likelihood there ~ OF il being lOusened even
by the extremity of rCVer-es Time, however
must ultimately bring matters to a crisis. We
may hear once or twice again of the destruction
and rcappearance of the Paraguavan army but
1T cannot be very long before the war comes 10
one of the only two possible tcrminatiOns-the
eXtemmatiou of the Pamguavan race or the
abandonment of the contest b. the Allies
SUMNER AND PEACE.
From the n. y. World
That Mir. Charles Sumner has succeeded I'm
making the calamity of war between Enpllnd
and America more probable than il has for "A
long time been, by arousng in England feeling
of hostility to this country nearly or quite as
bitter rs has ever been felt in this country
towards England, is quite certain. 1t is hardly
less certain we opine, that this was the last
hing in the world which Mr.. sumner fancied
himsclf to be doing when he wrought out his
elaborate fustian about the moral responsibility
of England for the protTaction of our civil war
Ii was said and not more sternly than truly and
not only of but to n charatan in literature who
is quite the peer OF Mr. Sumner as charlatan i'm
oratory-we mean OF course, Mr.. Bancroft-that
he had proved himself To be "mCapable of com
pretending the feelings which are aroused
in the breast of an honorable man bv
Il charge OF personal cOWardice." Mr.
George Schuyler said and printed this OF
Mr.. Bancroft, and proved the Justice of the
thing he said ana printed Ii Is Just as true OF
MIR. Sumner That he Is incapable of compre-
hendiDg the feelings which are aroused in the