The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-23
THE JUNE MAGAZINES.
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has the following table Of contents: Thomas
Tyler's Tombstone" a tale, by Mrs. Mary s.
Walker; Paraguay and the Lopez Family,
by II. Hargrave; "HigheE and Nearer" q
poem; "The Virginia Tourist, part ii by
Edward A. Pollard; my Lovers" by Mrs.
Sarah E. Henshaw; "The Lizard Bracelet, y a
tale, by Mrs. Lucy Hamilton Hooper; "The
Revolution at the South; "Guesses and Que
ries, part ii, by N. s. Dodge; fSir Harry
Hotspur," novel, part ii, by Anthony Troll
lope; "Glimpses of San Francisco" by Miss
Annie Morris; ''The Coming Man, by Craig
Biddle; "Our Judiciary zone in Hun
dred," tale, by Edgar Fawcett; "a Feudal
Picture" poem, by Paul H. Hayne; "Book-
makers as Book Lovers" by Edward How
land; "our Monthly Gossip" Literature of
the Day."
From the paper on Paraguay and the Lopez
Family" written before the death Of Lopez
we make this quotation-
In 1914, by means of Vaccinations and in
trigues, DIR. Francia was elected First Consul
of Paraguay for one year, at the end of which
term he executed a coup d'etat worthy of some
rulers of the present day, which procured his
election by Congress. of his own appoint
ment as Supreme Dictator for three years, and
finally for life.
BY his prosecutions of his real or pretended
enemies he either murdered or imprisoned
most of the principal inhabitants, and by his
system of interdicting commerce and iso-
lating the State he ruined the country; SO
that, whilst during the Spanish rule the re-
venue derived from imports, exports, etc.,
amounted to three hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars, being more than sufi-
cient to meet the requirements of the Gov
ernment it fell during his reign almost to
zero; and, as his expenses were over five hun
dred and eighty thousand dollars per annum,
he was obliged to raise this sum by fines con-
fscation, and oppressive taxation, which the
impoverished people were in no condition to
pay. -, ,..
despotism more complete and ire
sponsble existed: it rivalled if it did
not surpass, that of the King of Da-
honey. The prisons were crowded to
suffocation, and the executioner was
weary of his task, whilst the system of
espionage was so all-pervading that the
dearest friends and nearest relatives feared
each other, and no man knew that his own
brother would not denounce him.
Amo,,:"st the victims of Francia was his
own brother; a,H.d at his death, which took
place in 1910, between seven and eight hun
dred prisoners were found in the dungeons
of Asuncion alone, many of whom had been
incarcerated for more than twenty years.
without having ever been informed of the
cause of their arrest.
Carlos Antonio Lopez, a nephew of
Francia, after having successfully strug-
gled' with his political opponents, placed
himself at the head of the soldiery, and by
their aid was nominated Consul in 1S41, win
a colleague; but in 1874, by coup d'et 1T ba
disembarrassed himself of his asso ..,,oto onS
reigned as Supreme till the day Of his death.
Inc domes.. s...o government of Lopez is
Ios-scrlped as being as strong as that of Fran
cia, though he is represented as being more
liberal to foreigners; but this assertion must
be taken for what it is worth, as, in spite of a
great parade of proclamations and treaties
declaring Paraguay open to the world, Neem-
bucu, q little town twenty leagues above Cor
rientes, was in 1852, eleven years after
his election, the only place where for
eigners were permitted to resort; and Colonel
Graham, United States Consul at Buenos
Ayres, on an official mission to Paraguay,
was himself detained there twenty days before
obtaining permission to proceed to Asuncion,
And as recently as 1855, Captain T. j. Page,
sent out in the United States steamer Water
witch to survey the La Plata and its tribu-
taries, whilst peacefully prosecuting his
voyage up the Parana, was fired into from
Fort Itaparu, having one man killed; and it
was not till 1859, when United States fleet
of twenty-one vessels arrived in the river
Plata, that he was enabled to continue his
surveys
Lopez gave to Paraguay constitution pro-
yiding for the election of a senate, which
met at irregular intervals, and only to ratify
the DEGREES of the Dictator, who held both
the executive and legislative powers in his
own hands; and also provided for the appoint
ment of a successor by sealed will, to be
opened after his death.
Such were the traditions and such was the
Government of Paraguay, when, on the 10th
of September, 1862, his son, Francisco
Solano Lopez, in accordance with his father 8
WILL assumed, without opposition, the dicta-
torial power, thus forming the second link in
that curious anomaly, an hereditary presi-
dency of republic.
The title of President is still retained for
FORMS sake, but Lopez is in reality an auto
crat, possessing unlimited power over the
lives and property of his subjects, without
appeal to any court oflaw. Senior Sarmiento
the President of the Argentine Republic, sc
well known both in this country and il
Europe as an ardent patriot, profound
statesman, the most indefatigable promoter
of education, and finally as man possessing
truly enlightened aud American view
quay as plantation, with
million of Indians instead of negroes
who consider themselves the property of tn
Lopez family" and he adds-"The triumph
of Lopez means the extension to Urugua
and the Argentine Republic of the Guaran
Indian despotism, under master who is die
tator, pope, supreme judge, and lord of lif
and property-imposing upon all those couu
tries that obedience unparalleled in the his
ko.,, of fha human raaa