New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-31
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AsUNCIoN.
lPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
AsUNCIoN, Jan. 2O-Exceptng the few who are
like your correspondent, outside the pale of official
Brazanism, every one here at Asuncion is supposed
to believe the farago of news that we have from the
encampment-iti is no longer the seat Of war-pub-
lished thrice a week in La Regeneration. One of the
latest numbers of that paper is before me- and pro-
coed to analyze it. The contents are indeed very
motley in character. The Provisional Government
gives orders to the Chief Magistrates of town. the
Justices of Peace, and the Common Juntes OF VII
lagos departments to compile census win sla
tstes of their respective locales. Side 10y side WIN
this appears list of fourteen country districts rela
lively IN the neighbOrnood of Asuneion showing
total population of 81 go Paragusyans, aud IN the
same column we told that tobacco, maze. Deans
cotton rice and potatoes are growing In these us
tricts to the amount of an aggregate OF oio'' luI
rows-each furrow being 100 yards long Inc gnl-
lbes outside Asuncion are expected to believe this
industry has sprung up from tho fatheriy protection
of tho Provisional Government but your CORE
spondent believes both statistics to be shans, DO
cause in the country districts there exists exceu
tive to ascertain such details. 'I .'- '...oai O..
From the encampment at Caraguaty, under date
Of the 18th Of December, 1862 the Count dEu, Com
mander-in- Chief, writes to Gen. NictOrianO to the
following effect: ,.,,.-..r ---. .-I. ,
The valiant Lieut. Col Moura has Just returned. hav
ing with 20 men 10 The mountain sar OF ma "a
the River of Igatmi at the pass of EspadD. lie
met about 900 women reduced such state of misery
that scarcely 400 Of them able 10 rise and accom-
pany him Some Of these latter were Brazlllans ana
enfeebed that they seemed like living skeletons ana
were scarcely able TO breathe lie found the roads coy
covered expressed In the Spanish word crt0s Win
dead whose s ne ts a vsf1 e en Resey
had lG Parsguayaus who passed over TO us Tor
protection from the tSidn ana nor 10 tnas ne % o az
present near Panadeio as Wen as thal nc Is to
structcd large number OF canoes IL Is supposed tnat
these are enable Lopez either across the
River Paraguay above Apa, or to come down the RIVER
paraHa" .... ~. g.. d, . i.
desire to make a few reflections on this dispatch
before going any further chiefly to appeal to the
common sense of your readers against the " raw
Observation-Disclosures narrative of the thousand
woneu and the story of the roads covered with the
dead bodies of women with threats cut by the spies
of Lopez. Il the same thing had not been repeated
over and over again for tive consecutive years
with mOnotOny of model, such as is
followed only by the manufacturers of patent
instruments, it might in some degree be believed
The dispatch, however, makes two important ad-
missions-that Lopez has still spies even though
they cut wOmen's threats, and that he has likewise
a sufficient number of wOrkmen to make canoes.
How then can the Paraguayans be said to be crushed
and the war declared as overt
Among the ~ ParaguayanS who deserted Lopez
to seek for Brazilian protection" as mentioned by
the Count d'Eu, was Lieut.. Simon Torres whose
declaration taken before the Brazilian officials at
Curaguaty the 14th of December last is follows:
THAT he, Lieut. Simon Torres Of the 18th regiment of
Paraguay cavalry being 80 years Of age, and native
OF MsOncs had deserted from the place named Taeuat,
above Panadero and had been six days travelling ON foot
the BraZiilus. That he had been one OF the party
under command Of Col. Romero who went IN quest of
cattle in the neghborhoOd OF san Pedro That this party
composed OF five regiments Of cavalry and one
regiments cavaly with horses four horses to each
-egimeu that the cavalry armed with lance and
latter mentioned battalion the 3Oth Regiment, and
consisted Of only 60 men; that the cavalry regiments
constituted follows: The Attn had 100 the ith. 100
more While the 2sh had 100 and odd"the whole nun.
Der exceeding 500 stand Of arms"
Ii may be no harm to observe here that this was
only foragng party sent out by Lopez to hunt up
provender in the shape of live stock. Yet you are
expected TO believe that he is beaten and the wal is
over! Torres continues:
"Tbat they had two small pieces artillery protected
10y twelve nen-atarIns, aud commanded by an onical
serted they fonnd no cattle in condition to eat u that
they had supported themselves mandoca, sugarcane
by which they passed IIo stated that having
found his in following Lopez he had resolved
desert aud having induced 81 of his fellowsoders
that Is % pvates and two ofeialstO share his fate
they started in different directions the 2sth of NOvem
ber with expectation Of having rendezvous at Rosario
now occupied by the BTazhaus'
AS to the position of Lopez, lie says:
AT Pauadero the Paraguayan Chief has trench on |
the bank Of The river Araquarey extending IN the front
TO length Of beyond $50 yards and Ranked by not |
very deusc That this trench is garrisoned by
battaons Of more than 100 men each, and four
pieces of artillery though of comparatively small cali
ber This fertilization Is commanded by Col Delyatte,
with Col sOsa as the next IN command
think may pause moment here to ask you and |
your readers if Col. Romero, out on fOray with |
more than 500 men, and Col Delvalle in trench at
PanadcrO with nearly CO0-Or about 500 fighting men
still with Lopez-do not give the denial direct to the
preachment that The Paraguayan Field Marshal is |
conquered, and the Wiz is over To 80 Oh with the
history given by Torres:
He does not what ansuunition Lopez has got
that from another point lurcucd, ut Araquarey TO the
Flo Verde. he had heard 1t SAID thee five leagues
trench OF yards in length isrr1soned by
: con Commanded nv Major Molina That ION thence
to Tacuat road is all prairie. and very god that
Panadcro and the Rio Apa with the object Of comhlni-
eating 10 Nyac and giving orders 70 Romero mat wNn
he coming back and IN case OF being intercepted Oh
the road PanadcrO he should follow on to the mud
rancho seeking the cut path IN me woods IRON Pana
dero to Nyae, and that lac should follow the path The
deponent concluded by saying that he had ranked as
Adjutant of Col Romero but at the time OF his deseron
De was not holding that rank
The most striking beauty IN this narrative Is the
fact that il was dcposed at the Brazilian headquar-
tiers not less than three months after Lopez had left
or been driven from Ascurra, when he was reported
Oh the London and Liverpool Stock Exchanges to
have fed tO-nobOdy knew where, and when, as a
natural consequence, the war was over. But the
war having been declared to be finished few hun
dred times oftener than the mother of Lopez was
reported as executed by order of her son. | feel
myself justified in doubting anything so long as !
am sure the respectable Old lady is still alive and
hearty am glad at being able TO inform those who
are interested in her fate that she Is not very lar
away from her son. 1t may likewise be satisiac-
l,,,o tl,att 1o al MI
from the Rio Jornol de Concrete of 9th of August
L.. 10 ,rtrre ns rerarfls the mother and sster Of