New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-31
er's side and swimming to tho ParaguayanS shore
distance of nearly two miles across the ryer!
What q forcible eloquenco is that OF figures to be
surel Let mo jot down for you few aithmet'cai

distance of nearly two miles across the nver.
What forcible eloquenco Is that OF figures to be
surel Let mo jot down for you few anthne''ca'
Demosthenios ~. N
1--WE are entering on the sixth wear on 'ns WV 600
q on good authority find that otal oi s M
sterling, and 1s9sa0 men kiieu ID lis oos' ~ '
'nT rms cacuatcn s divided-to Brazil at the rate of
cas- 600 sterling and 100 per day to the Argen,no
Renubl,c about ss000 and ~ per day 10 the Ofu
quay sssS 1850 1 $aa da f q jS
told thai Gen Mtre had Argentines under his con-
OF these there are only asOO who returned last week
In one of the native papers published down the
river SAW last week letter from this capital from
which translate few sentences 'ljv1i.3i g II
walking through the streets Of Asciop. what do We
see Turn into any part and you Will see tho young rs
well as the aged persng the streets from starvation
stoical IS their resgns,en that TO- casual t
Journey before continuing anew fes' their Jour
ney eternity Poor people OF Paraguay much as
have suffered from tyFsRts you appear TO endure
from your proteeios, Those miserable skeletons
are lying at the Of the streets well rs In the
squares, for the contractors obliged 10 take only
certain number the cemetery every day. thus leaving
The dead III horrd desec,atlon to the public gaze The
contractors have thetr human turkey buzzards ALSO
proving about for " appears that unless from SIX 10
them burying ground tcoud not pay 10 harness
the horses 10 The dcadearaY r.-l q ..III.TJ ..f
From another paper. with date of the same day.
Sh January. and in tho same city as the foregoing,
all the world is expected to believe that III
- Latest kilograms from tho seat OF war represent
Count dEn as stu ~ s yns s ssys esSecea to
march against LopeIs last position IN the mountains
% s dSoh IT s that
have to the frontier to avoid capture Col Canele
With 20 men has been taken ~ camnre az he was
afraid TO face Lopez after his defeat nc Jeluy py Jo
Martinez Deserers the Dctators army are every
day focklng into the towns occupied by tho Brazilian
forces" '.-i.] OBJ. NJ 10 i. t'.'
On which take the liberty to observe that Count
d'Eu having been represented as IN vigorous pur-
suit of Lopez since the rOut at Ascurra on the Eth
of August may be very soon expected to double the
North Pole, and probably to be next heard OF by
telegram from Spitzbereen.
1t may appear rdiculous-but II Is nevertheless
unavoidable-thatwe in Asuncion receive good deal
of from the seat of war through the Buenos
Ayres newspapers. Without entering into extensive
geographical trainings may mention that this is
exactly as If /, writing from Baltimore Washing
ton for paper in England about carried on in
Mobile or further SOUTH was obliged to take my in
igcnce from the New-York journals. Not the less
| curious part of the circumstance to which am al
ludng arises from the fact that often hear from
Buenos Ayres of incidents which are previously un-
known in Asuncion. For example: In the Repnb-
lea of Buenos Ayres, under date OF Jan; D (this
present month";, q correspondent writing from Pa
the neighborhoOd of Lopez, observes: 81
To-day christmas Day. we have received from per
son the family OF Senior Dec0ur land VINO macu0usy
escaped from the hands Of the enemy. confirmation
of the that Lopez IS in Panadero with 1000 men,
in the garrison OF San Pedro putting them to the rout
He has still with him 50 pieces OF artillery
AS soon. however, as this item OF news came back
to AsunCion, il at once cOntradcted IN the DILL
cial organ, La degeneration, only lew days BACK
But as this contradiction was accompanied by few
columns of the usual garniture OF Munchausenlshs,
Among other bits Of brag concocted for outsiders
in the United States and Europe are statements that
81 the pursuit of Lopez victory follows victory.
that Gen. Camera had again advanced, and sent
scouts ahead as TO intercept the further hight OF
Lopez'-but though Lopez was running away, and
Gen Cameras scouts in full pursuit after him, that
ION the morning of the I'd inst. Col Silva Tanares
attacked a small intrenchment of Lopez Oh the Rio
Verde and took the place by surprise Iwenty-nlne
ParaguaYans were killed during the fight!-the Bra
zilians lost nOthingW-that the Paraguayan captain
who commanded the intrenchments and several
others are among the prisoners taken'-" that there
are some 10000 twenty thousand women all stop
ping about Asuncion in the vain hope of getting
down To Buenos Ayres or Acknowledgement that
three hundred families had recently come into
Asuncon frem the mOuntalns-dll III the most
wTetChcd state of misery $500
This is the sort OF ready -made news published in
the Brazilian paper la Regeneration and sent TO the
Outer world as intelligence of the Paraguayan war.
Now | know with reference TO one Item OF tins
wonderful medley, that If there be 5000 Paraguayan
women in the nciglbOrho0d they must be residing
under ground, IN the river among the orange
groves There are no other residences for such
number if they do exist and in this latter contln-
gency there is nothing for them to eat Is il not
fearful speculation on human faith TO have fosted
on us the news that there 10000 people existing
ia place where tho appalling fact is visible that
out OF the few hundred here half a dozen daily
dropping dead in the streets from starvation
As concluding paragraph to this letter the CON-
mon sense question occurs TO me- If the Paraguayan
war be over and the objects of tho triple alliance DO
whence arises necessity for the oc-
cnpatjon of Paraguay by Brazilian troops and the
direction of the Provisional Government by Senior
PaTanlos the Brazilian Envoyf Perhaps Gen.
Mcmahon could supply the answer.