New-York tribune., 1870-04-12
THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.

Later advices from Paraguay state that President
Lopez had suddenly turned upon and surprised his
pursuers, winning quite victory II was thought
at Rio Janero that this advantage would result in
an indefinite prolongation of the war.
BRAZILIAN MIsREPREsENTATIoNS-MO LIES
THE SITUATION OF LOPEZ.
fFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
AsUNCIoN Feb 6.-Among the few Canadians
English, and North Americans to be found in our
motley society at Asuncion the arrival Of news from
beyond the is very often to us matter of deep in
terest. We have had this increased more than usual
through the kindness of friend in Buenos Ayres,
who sent to me last week a few late numbers of THE
NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE, upon part of the contents
whereof-relating to our Paraguayan diffculty-I
claim the privilege to make few comments.
The pamphlet " in explanation of the Paraguayan
difficulty, prepared by distinguished member Of
the Diplomatic Corps as a defense of the of
the Governments of Brazil and the Argentine Repub-
Gc," and of which your correspondent at Washing
ton gives an analysis must be very poor attempt at
special pleading-to speak in the midest terms-to
any one acquainted with South America. Hitwould
not be approaching impiety to suppose such thing
as Joke among the members of an Embassy, /
should imagine this distinguished diplomat to be
"poking his fun" at the American people in stating
that Paraguay is no republic but that Brazil is
constitutional monarchy with free government
that this has been and still is between monopoly
and freedom" that is to say you expected to be-
ieve that the slaveholdng constitutional mon
archy of Brazil went to war with Paraguay
the holy and chivalTic impulse of crushing
monopoly and introducing freedom! This is what
the pamphlet means, if it means anything and ii is
first law passed by the Provisional Government in
Asuncon, after it had been elected by the Brazilian
envoy, Senor Paranhos, was law for the abolition
of Slavery. Fancy, coming from a slaveholding
country to abolish Slavery where such thing never
existed. Or even if it did exist let me put before
gOg an eg9FT % 9f IN the middle S 6 h
looking down to another corner he sees
the Brown household are called from their beds
and ordered to put out the fire at Smiths while their
own house is Fastening 10 desruclon-Jus as Brazil,
in the penitude Of It's argehearednesS, is doing to
On the subject of the Triple Alliance treaty, can
give the diplomat some information, which may be
useful 10 him in another pamphlet For has lately
transpired here that the original Triple Alliance had
been entered into between Gen. Flores iOrienfall,
Brazil and Gen. Mce ,Argentine at the time OF the
battle OF PanOn in September 1851. Ole OF the con-
ditOns of this alliance is now coming TO be known
as promise from Mtre TO assist Flores with bis
revolution in the Banda Oriental condition that
Flores wOnd help Mitre in concluding the campaign
then waging between Bucnos Ayres ana the Argen-
tine Confederation. 1hlS compact was made soon
after the battle of Panon, and Its ist reahzed TACT
was that Flores, wifi Buengs ATcan troops, fought
and defeated, on the I'D of November succeeding,
the soldiers of Urqu2a under Cen Virasora at Cuna
da de Gomez in Santa Fe BY Mitre and the Blenos
Ayreans, as IS Known to everybody ssslstnGe M was
Ayres TO Oriental territory in small boat in April,
1863 SO that to speak of the Triple Alliance as "a
seqltur of the offensive assumed by Lopez is throw
ing dust into the eyes of the public at
home and abroad. There is no design" says tho
pamphlet against the independence and sover-
eighty of. Pmaguay-the only object being to over
throw tyTant. whose political existence is incon-
sistent with the enlightened age" What bright,
particular star might not this humanity shine, to be
sure could / shut my ewes to the starving people
daily dropping down dead III the streets OF tins cty
DO you doubt my statementf If SO here is corTobo-
ration of il from The BuoPOs AWes Standard Of the
10Th of last month. All these bits are cut from an
editorial in that paper on the subject qf loan oi two
millions OF PGGDme WcH Seod Ded1S one one u do[r [o
to Bucnos Ayres to try and exploit ., ,u,.... .,o
sad tale of suffering and woe even III the very cdpI Oi
the country"
oTbe stories Of aesertsrs from Lope-s camp recountng
,aiercS rLch oicce The heart sink into iHSigndcdnoe
arhen compared c,H tie nhuadn sorroo of the stdpinp
de,ens Of uacon; and net that city BOASTS of orti
Jciai army trade chich croTdS he port run shiPpHg
and mast necessarily Tor the time give great employment
"There is no language to describe the msery Of Para
quay. The gaunt forms of the owners OF the so stalk
through the streets of AsunciOn, living proofs oi men
dicacy of which the world in its eyentful history can
point no parallel"
From the same paper and among the paragraphs
in the Editors Table, we have confirmation OF the
flJther effects of this war between monopoly ana
fretlOm:"
given by the unfortunate families daily Hooking into
Ancion from tho interior arr horrible and In many
cases would appear almost incredible how nature could
suppOrt such trials They often reduced TO auch
straits as Obliged TO eat the soes OF their boots
soened in %aeT m some 9l m ns eS esb and m re- ea
Dogs considered by these poor people as Cod
send whenever could by had and those who had money
paid exravagantly for small pieces of the nauseons stuff
The Indians treated these unfortunate people with Kind
the mountains and assisting them escape All the hor
caused by the war since its coIneheenet seem 10
be exceeded by the present sufieringS Oh inc rafa
That story telers onght to be consistent when they
relate q manufactured incident, may be laid down as
rule. The mother of Lopez has been imprisoned,
Tortured, and shot 80 often by her son-and has 30
frequently put an end to her own life by hanging
herself one would scarcely believe what writer in
one of the Argentine newspapers, under date Of JAN
H. tells us at the time of writing: Lopez had inst
ordered his brother 'Benigno to be shot. AT this
moment he has his mother and his sisters lnnocencia
and Rafael under torture and while the letter was
being written they had all expired in the middle OF
the most horrible torments" This was on the llth-
please Observer but in another paper OF three days
later date the 14th we are expected to beeve:
His force is reduced to J, 500 men. Romero was
shot with some other officers and We W2lhsr sna
brother Of Lopez close prisoners" just imagine
the mother of Lopez being close prisoner LII three
days after she "had expired In the middle OF the
most horrible tOnnentsw
The 1nglo- brazilian Times from which have al
ready quoted. and III the same number, observes.
"No preparations have been made for sending BACK
any Brazilian troops and it Is certain they VIII not
he Diminished till further results are obtained And
perhaps another contingency noted In me Bnen9s
Ayes Standard Of January u may explain what Is
meant by fnrtne1 TcSlllS. VIC hC rpiu fao'-
mentioned paper with reference to the visit OF Sen0r
Bedoya one Of the Provisional government, 70 9D,
slightest chance of being placed in this city nobody
will touch it with tongs. 1t is said that according
10 agreement with Brazil on the formation Of the
was reserved Senor Paranhos Is said to have as
sured the Provisional Government that In cas-, case
Bedoya could not succeed in Bnenos Ayres Brdxn
Uould send he money required" The final six words
your correspondent takes the liberty to interpret as
the last nail in the coffin of Paraguay, driven IN,