Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-12-14

er Mary Loecei at one of the Baham
Islands by the Spanish authorities
Is now the subject of correspondence
between this government and thos
OF Spain ana Great Britain. Tn
Captain General OF Cuba, sabout Ma,
last issued proclamation, authoriz
Ing q search to be made ofvessels OF
the high seas. Immediate remon
STRANGE was made against this, where
upon the Captain General issued /
new proc lamation limiting the RICH
OF search of vessels of the United
States, SO far as authorized under tn,
treaty of 1895. This proclamation
was, however, Immediately with
drawn.
OUR SISTER REPUBLICS.
| have always felt that the most
intimate relations should be cultiva.
ted between the Republic of the mi
ted States and all independent ma.
tons on this continent; and it may
be we'll worth considering whether
new treaties between the United
States and them may not be protita-
bly, entered into to secure more init
mate relations, friendly, commercial
and otherwise.
THE DARIEN SHIP CANAL
The subject of an inter-oceanic ca
nal TO connect the Atlantic and Pa
clfc oceaas througo the Isthmus OF
Darien is one in which commerce is
greatly interested. Instructions have
been given to our Minister to the
Republic of the United States Of
Columbia to endeavor to obtain au-
thority for survey by this Govern
ment, in order to determine the prac-
ticability Of such an undertaking,
and a charter for the right of way.
TO build by private enterprise such a
work if the survey proves il to be
practicable.
SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
la order to comply with an agree
ment of the United States as to q
mixed commission at Lima, for the
of claims, it became nee
essary to send commissioner aud
secretary to Lima in August last.
NO appropriation having been made
by Congress for this purpose it is
now asked that one be made cover
ing the past and future expenses of
the commission.
The good offices Of the United
States to bring about peace between
Spain and the South American Re-
publics with which she was at war,
laving been accepted by Spain, Peru
and Chill, o congress has been invlt-
I'd TO Assem- ole at Washington the
present winter.
A grant has been given to Europe
ms OF an exclusive right Of transit
)ver the territory of Nicaragua,
which, il is alleged, conflicts with
rested rights of citizens Of the Unit
ID States The Department Of State
las now this subject under consider
4tion.
HE SEIZURE OF SPANISH GUNBOATs.
The Minister Of Peru having made
presentations that there was state
If war between Peru and Spain, and
hat Spain was constructing in and
rear New York thirty gunboats,
which might be used by Spain in such
. way as to relieve the naval force
It Cuba, SO as to operate against Pc
u, orders wore given to prevent their
departure No further steps have
,een taken by the representative of
he Peruvian Government to prevent
he departure Of these vessels, and
lot being authorized to detain the
of a nation with which we
re at peace, on q mere Executive
rider, the matter has been referred
% the courts to decide.
PARAGUAY.
The conduct of the war between
he allies and the Republic of Para
suay has made the intercourse with
hat country so difficult that it has
,een deemed advisable to withdraw
,ur representative from there.
,UR CLAIMS AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN.
Twards the close Of the last Ad-
d convention was sign
tt London for the settlement of all
claims between Great
Britain and the United States. which
allied to receive the advice and con-
'entof the Senate to its ratification.
The time and the circumstances at
the negotiation Of this treaty
we're unfavorable to its acceptance
he people Of the United States, and
Us provisiones were wholly made
luate for the settlement of the grave
that had been sustained oy
this government, as we'll as By its
citizens. The injuries resulting to
The United States by reason of the
course pursued by Great Britain DUR
ng our late civil war, in Increased
rates of insurance in the diminution
Of exports and imports, and other
Instructions to domestic industry
and production in it's effect upon
he foreign commerce of the country
n the decrease and transfer to Great
Britain OF our commercial marine
a the proIongation of the war, and
he increased cost, both in treasure,
and in lives lost in its suppression,
could not be adjusted and satisfied
Is ordinary commercial claims which
continually arise between CONNER
,ial nations, and yet the convention
treated them simply as such ordina-
~ claims, from which they differ
more widely in the gravity OF their
character than in the magnitude OF
their amount, great even as that diff
ference IS. Not word was found
n the treaty, and not al inference
could be drawn from it, to remove
the sense OF the LnfriendIiness of the
course of Great Britain in our strug-
gle for existence, which had univer-
sally impressed itself upon the peo-
pie OF this country. Believing that
the convention, thus misconceived
in its scope and made inadequate in
its provisions, would not have pro-
duced the hearty, cordial settlement