New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-09
PARAGUAY.

BRAZIL AND THE REPUBLICs-THE PLANS OBJ
DOM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF HIS AL
IJEs-A STRANGE STORY-HOw THE PROyIs-
. IONAL GOVERNMENT is ADMINISTERED ATT
ASUNCION-BRAZILTAN CRUELTIES-PRISON-
Frs SHOT AND LANCED.
MoNTEvIDEo Oct. I4.-The uneasiness OF the Ar
gentines and Uruguayans respecting the ultimate
designs of Brazil in the present war seems to increase
from day to day, and the press of both the former
countries is clamorng loudly for rupture OF the
alliance before their independence is hOpeessy COM
promised. The Brazilian Ministry lately made an Off
cal announcement in the Chambers that the war
with Paraguay was ovcr yet the War Office
has just called for 10000 men, and we in
the neighboring Republics are inQuiring
what they are wanted for. There has always been a
strong party opposed to the war, but all classes
seem to have taken the alarm. Ell Mercdatl del
Plata of this city says Even the journals which
sustain the government of Sr. Sarmento are at last
obliged to confess that the alliance is covering with
lasting infamy in the eyes of history the powers
which have combined and participated in tho great
crime of DISCRIMINATING with fire and sword brother
people, That the authority, born in crime, which
calls itself the Oriental Government, and which Is
merely the expression of the will Of Brazil should ac-
cept and continue the policy of the alliance, is easy
enough to understand; but that the Govern
ment of the Argentine Republic. which purports to
tarly accept the legacy of Mtre and declare itself
the successor of that political traitor, is thing
which can only be explained by the corruption of the
dominant party IN the republic" FL Rio de la Plata,
after denouncng in unmeasured terms the in
reference of the allies with the affairs of Para
quay, and observing that the Paraguayan peo-
pie received them mot as hberators, but as
soldiers of conquest" warns il readers that strict
compliance with international law is the only guar
anty which weak nations possess against tho
aggressons of the strong. What resistance" it goes
on to ask can we oppose to injustice tomorrow,
if wa have violated the principles of right which
might have been appealed to in our favorf
Grare dangers menace u.s. Let us try to avoid
them in time" Stop the war, and break the alliances
this is the almost universal cry.
In the midst of this excitement queer story comes
to light showing how Brazil has made herself the
supreme ruler of Paraguay while pretending to In.
trust the administration to Provisional Govern
ment at AsuncioD. 1t seems that when Lopez eyacu-
ated that place. his brother Venanco took with him
to the mountains a handsome prostitute with whom
lie had been living in concubinage; and she, tirngof
tolsome yagabond life, recently left him,
came within the lines and presented herself once
more at Asuncon. Here she claimed possession OF
the property of her ex-lover, including several
houses one of which had been converted into hos<
,al Of course the Provisional Government at once
rejected such preposterous claim. The woman APP
pealed TO the Brazilian Minister ST. Paranhos What
arguments she used don't know, but the Minis
lister issued peremptory order to the Provisional
Government to comply with her demand and even
went the length of sending file of soldiers to dis
possess the inhabitants of one OF the houses forth-
with, and put the lady IN possession Ihls extra
ordinary affair has created great excitement tina
newspapers are full Of it; and everybody Is asking.
the mountains only to put Dom Pedro IN his place
Brazil seems to have taken full possession OF ona
PROSTATE Republic; whose turn Will IL be next
The condition of Asuncion under the new rule Is
horrible beyond description. The Paraguay COR
respondent of II Mrognm declares that the whois
city is nothing better than house OF prostitution;
The widest license runs riot In the streets day and
night; scenes are witnessed at every step which
dare not put on paper; the seven Plaques OF Egyp,
pue of All Rnyo this s0 IS ascSed
a. course Of nG Brazil Very OS mention the fact
to show how the great slave empire is becoming
feared and hated by its helpless allies. AT the same
time get horrible stories of the atrocities OF the
Brazilians to their prisoners, and dare say they
may get a reputation after while not less shocking
than that of Lopez himself. FL MercanH quotes from
FL Concrete an article which condense as follows;
by the side of the magnanimty of our soldiers OF
the Army of Paraguay amarked contrast presented
by the conduct of the Brazilian soldiers toward the
unfortunate men who, fighting in the ranks OF tha
tyrant Lopez taken prisoners III the latest bait
ties The correspondents of the I6uRa 1.-THE official
paper of Monteyideol and other testimony tell tales
of horror at which humanity and civilization must
cry aloud Shooting and lancing deenseless prison.
ers is the work of none out towards. Lopez in the
midst of his barbarous executions often respected
the lives of prisoners and in all the list of his VIC
tins there is not the name of single chief shot aftor
a battle What right what law authorized Gen.
Camara TO cut the throat Of Col CdbaIlerO, Paraguayan
officer Immediately after his surrender In the
name of what principle did Gen. Vctorino cause the
officers of the enemy who surrendered at the combat
oft ha m he ilesp
of the awless and bloodthirsty Brazilian sodiery,
but of their cheftains. the heads of the Imperial
army. 1t sperfectly conformable with the tenden-
molishing every obstacle to her pacific domination to
convert the Republic of Paraguay into cemetery, by
discriminating all the men, and sparng neither tho
women who survive nor the wretched huts in which
they find shelter from the weather. The war against
Lopez need longer concern us, for that is almost
at an end but the means which allies know so
we'll how to use for the extension of their influence
demand our most serious consideration"