Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-12-16

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denotes are no longer regarded as sub
ject to transfer from European power
to another. When the present rela-
tions of the Colonies cease they are to
be independent powers, exercising the
right of choice and self control of their
future condition and relations with
other powers. The United States, in
order to put a stop to blood shed in
Cuba, and in the interest If a neigh
boring people, proposed their good
offices to bring the. exist ing contest to
a termination. The offer not being
accepted by Spain on basis which
we believe could be received by Cuba,
was withdrawn.
In is hoped that the good offices of
the United States may yet prove ed
advantageous for the settlement of
this unhappy strife. Meanwhile a
number of illegal expeditions against
Cuba have been broken up. It has
been the endeavor of the administra-
tiOn to execute the neutrality law in
good faith, no matter how unpleas-
ant the task, made so by the suffrings
we have endured from lack of like
good faith towards us by other nations,
The u. S. schooner Lizzie Major was
arrested on the high seas, by Span
ish frigate, and two passengers taken
from it and carried as prisoners to Gu
ba.
Representations of these facts were
made to the Spanish Government as
soon as official information of them
reached Washington. The two pas
sengers were set at liberty. and the
Spanish Government assured the
United States that the captain of the
frigate in making the capture had ac-
ted without law; that he had been
reprimanded for the irregulaTity of his
conduct, and that the Spanish author
tiles in Cuba, would not sanction any
act that could violate or treat with
disrespect the sovereignty of this ma
ton.
The question of the seizure of the
brig Mary Lowell, at one the Bahama
Islands, by the Spanish authorities, is
also the subject of correspondence be-
tween this Government and those of
Spain and Great Britain. The Cap
tain General of Cuba, about May last,
issued a proclamation authorizing
search to be made of vessels on the
seas. Immediate remOnstrance was
made against this, whereupon the
Captain General issued a new procla-
nation, limiting the right of search
vessels of the United States, so far as
authorized under the treaty of 1895.
This proclamation, however, was im-
mediately withdrawn. have always
felt that the most intimate relations
should be cultivated between the
Republic of the United States, and
all independent nations on this cOnti-
nent. 1t may be well worth consider
ing whether new treaties between
United States and them may not be
profitably entered into to secure more
intimate enthusiastically, CONNER
cial and otherwise. The subject.of an
interOceanic canal, to connect the At
lautic and Pacific oceans through the
Isthmus of Darien, is one which COM
merce is greatly interested in. In
structiOns have been given to our
Minister TO the Republic of the Unit
ed States of Columbia, to endeavOr to
obtain authority for survey by this
Government, i'm order to determine
the practicability of such an under
taking, and the charter of the right of
way to build, by private enterprise,
such a work, il the survey proves to be
practicable. In order to comply with
the agreement of the United States,
as mixed commission in Lima, for the
adjustment of claims, it became nee
essary to send a commissioner and
say to Lima, in August last, that no
appropriation having been made by
Congress for this purpose, it is now
aduised that one be made covering the
past and future expenses of the Com
mission. The good office of the Unit
ed States to bring about a peace be-
tween Spain and the South American
republics with which she is at war,
having been accepted by Spain, Peru
and Chill, a Congress has been invited
to be held in Washington during the
present winter. A grant has been
given to the Europeans ofan exclusive
right of transit over the territory of
Nicaragua to which Costa Rica has
given its assent which it is alleged con-
fiicts with vested rights of citizens of
| the United States. The Department of
State has now this subject under con-
| sideration. The Minister of Peru having
made representations that there was a
state of war between Peru and Spain,
and that Spain was constructing in
and near New York, thirty gunboats,
which might be used by Spain in such
way as to relieve the naval force at
Cuba so as to operate against Peru, or
ders were given to prevent their depar-
ture, no further steps having been ta-
ken by the representative of the Pc
Tuvian Government to prevent the
| departure of their vessels, and | not
feeling authorized to detain the prop
erty of a nation with which we are at
peace Oh a mere executive order, the
matter has been referred to the courts
to decide. The conduct of the war
| between the allies and the republic of
Paraguay has made the intercourse
with that country sos difficult that it
has been deemed advisable to with
draw our Representative from there.
! Toward the close of the last admins
tratiOn, a convention was signed at
London for the settlement of all out
standing claims between Great Brit.
ain and the United States, which
failed to receive the advice and consent
of the Senate to its ratification. The
time and the negotiation of the treaty
were unfavOrable to its acceptance by
the people of Il United States, and
its provisions were wholly inadequate
for settlement of the grave wrongs
that had been sustainined by this
Government, as well as 10y its citizens; !;
the injuries resulting to the United
States by Great Britain during our
late civil war increased the rates of
/ insurance in the dimunitiOn of ex-
ports and imports, and other obstruc-
tiOns to domestic industry and pro-
duction of its effect upon the foreign
commerce of the country, in the de-
crease and transfer to Great Britain of
our commercial marine, in the pro-
lOngatiOn of war and increased cost,
both in treasure and in lives, of its
suppression, could not be adjusted and
satisfied as ordinary commercial
claims, which continually arise be-
tween commercial nations, and yet
the convention erected them simply
as such ordinary claims, from which
they differ more widely in the charac
ter than in The magnitude of their