The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1868, Page 6

AMERICA, e SOUTH ~ Oficial Report of the Gunboat Recon- noissance to Asuncion, The Allied fron-Clad Sqnadron Attacked by a Fleet of Small Boats, f the Urugtiayan Revolt. Details 0: The Assassination of General Flores at Montevideo. BRAZIL. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE QF THE HERALD. Sho War in Paraguny—Desperaie Boat At= tack on the Brazillan [:on-Clads—Four Mandred Killed—Rumored Capture of One Tron-Ciad—Position of the Allies=Coal Wanted=Dissensions in the Tinperial Family—The Comte d’Eu~Baptiem of a Privce—A Brazilian Patriot—Change Gose sip—American vs. Brazilian Engipeers— Abduction—Diamond Mines Rio JANEIRO, March 26, 1868, By the English packet of the lth I sent you an ac- gount of the successes which the Brazilians had obtained in the Paraguayan campaign. Since then sho people remained for several days in ay extraor- dindty state of excitement and upliftment, heated by, Unexpected and ¢xaggerated wiumph, and by, as it proves, an illusory e¢fpectation of tho jmmediate fail of Humaith and of the conoltision of the war. Evérywhefe preparations were made to dress out and illuminate the city at the earliest notive, bands were engaged, the speoches ready, the processions organized, the deputations Bxed, the toastg arranged, thé whole programme published, and at every water tap and grocery sinail moba were practising vivas in every kef, Imagine with this superheated state of pyblic feeling what ‘wasghe excitation of the populace when the Hm- pefor's carriage was secon dashing tato town on the morning of the 12th and it became known that he had recelved a felegram from Santos stating that two steamers frém the south, all decked out with Haga, were passing by tha! port. East, west, north, south, the people poured into the streets where tho newspaper oiUces The newg that took two steamers to egrry must be extraordinarily good nows indeed, and the word circulated with lightning speed that Lopez himself was on board one, of perhaps both, as he was too gfeat a man to ‘be Contained in one, Business was no hore thought of. The crowd indulged in anticipatory cheers to keep their uroats tg order, Evéry cye wag straining to catch the first glimpse of the anticipated bulletin, An hour passed—two, tiree, four, ive—no dressed out steamers ygt. The Santos steamer errives at last, “What's the news? where are the steatagra bringing itr’ “What news? what steqmers? We only suw two vessels signalling tg each other.” Ayd@ so itproved. Tho operatot af Santos wig so full of victory that, although that port is not in the course of vessels from the Plate, he saw two deca rated steamers in two selling vegsels asking “How are you!” with Marryat’s signals, Among foreigners generally the same hopeful feel ing 1s not entertained as to the carly termination of the war as obtaing among the naiives. The former have been gre impre sed by the perseverance of the Pardguayans against odds which should long ago hae crashed them, and it must be confessed that | the Marquis of Caxias’ geueraiship ts not favorably regarded by then, Thus everlasting afe the discus- sions gping on in the groceries betwrodn the Portn- guoge abd their shop boys with their Brazilian cus- tomers, the latter blowtng off and the former main- talning Giartie Pareguayans are only letting Caxias and the feet get make- ‘8 victories in order to atch them in a trap. ugh the merchants do to tpat extent y Say that with POmMa. -chief ag Caxias tho 4 La Sot Apafo him to an 1, a ‘ tivity is spasm, for rt or tivo 1} Out, ant he must rest | s hen wanting to sts and éackles is Uke ive ) lier mind to the jump. Fal the Care and f is of tho Sword” to put aa end | Mg art u ita, Luvee esta 1 pore we to Bianco, ub the oily has take it 4 below. t coum) to dew this mornin ‘ ourrence volleys of nius the moti Plied with fusilede ana of ours were Wou's t Bio. Grande. Th giving acon Of the manner in which my pre fulfilled, [ arden'ly nat te approval of your ve in cur ear are he Marquis de C: hy HC. Onlel, ey AF pita CARLOS DE CARVAL ‘The place called Laureles, witeh I mei tying above Humaité, was occupied almost without teflstagce as soon ag the gimboats got back from Asguncion, It fo pro the river side, the Prague teebeed 1 = e it, and ue foW mon loft in it 4 eae ing thelr eit : iy tan hwe at once a board. Four hia and two In . y dnty, was merit may God ti Exccileacy, Whom xias, Comman ‘in nbs ayes Carupalty batteries snd those of For some aeys before desortets word Gala GY LTet res preparing come | and many of egg expedition, for he had been forming a corps of men ! of bis want of loyalty or his inaptitede” Pinalty the | disagreement between the Goute d’Ru and the Km. | picked from all his army and all good swimuners—of Whom there is pe Séareity, for Parag mostly ¢xcellent divers and swimmers. No heed was taken lo the deserters? tales, as they delight to cram their listeners with all kinds of reports. So about 1,200 Paraguayans were got unobserved into boats, | hidden in the reeds of the river bank, opposite where e of the iron-clads lay, These boats were oun- ningly covered with branches, and thus, whlie in “a body, looked exuctly like one of the floating islands mpich come down th pie gf " pes, Just beford the dark and drowsy hou! ich précedes the first dawn of day, the boats were paddled without noise towards the | iron-clads gf the other side and wou'd have sicéced- ed in catching the Brazilians napping, with hatches and ports open, if, fortunately for them, & guard boat not happened in the dark to strike st the fictitious island and discover theruse, The as- tonished Brazilians were nearly taken in their stupe- fieation, but recovered just in time to back oars out of reach and make at full stretch for the nearest iron-clad, the double turret Lima Barros. Off went the branched and away went the Paraguayans in pursuit, and between their eagerness in the chase and the strength of the ‘current the original plan Was lost sight of, so that instead of eight boats going to the simultaneous attack of cach iron-clad as ar. ranged, fourteen dashed at the Lima Barros and twelve at the next (the Cabral), while sixteen pulled down towards Curupatty to take the two lying just shave, aud the remainder made for the Silvado and Hardly was the aiarm given to the Lima Barros be- fore the Paraguayans were on them. Helter-skelter rushed the crew to get inside the coverts and cigse the hatches, Before this could be done entirely the boarders jumped on the low decks, and most of the Brazilians yet outside, including the commander and his first leutenant, who, like the brave men they are, were the last to look for shelter, were cut down. A desperate and bloody tight took place for the pos- session of the towers; inside and outside revolvers were discharged and the farce Myebry used with con- siderable effect the grenades they nad provided to throw inside. On the Cabral @ like scene was going on, but there the crew had had time to get in cover. Neither of these vessels had steam up, and ¢o1 ently were unable to throw hot water on the assailants; and it can hardly be doubted that had all the iron-clads been attacked at once, as was in- tended, the greatly superior force of the Paraguayans would In a short time have destroyed the defenders and have obtained the victory. But fortune again saved the Brazilians, as she has done in many a criti- cal position of the preseut war.’ The two nearest vessels, the Silvado and Herval, hauled upon their lines so as to get a chance at the boats, and the Sil- vedo, which hed steam up, poured grape among the boarders with excellent eifect. The ten gun iron- clad Brazil was further off, lastily got up steam and, as daylight came, ranged up past the Cabral, hurling grape umong the boarders of that vessel us she slowly passed her, laying herself alongside the Lima Barros, swept herdecka With awful effect among the dense mass of Paraguayans, and crushing men and boats 1ikd eggshells betweeh the colliding huils, The game Was up then, and all the Paraguayans, savo the dead upon the decks, leaped from them to swim or row to the shore, and the Brazilians could breathe again, The boats that were descending the river stopped short on seeing the Mariz e Barros getting under to getinrange, The Brazilians made only fifteea prisoners, They had five killed on the Lima Barros, including the captain, Costa, and three on the Sil- vado, besides sixty wounded. The following is the Aamiral’s report:— The assailiug flotilla was composed of forty- eight boats, lashed two by two, and with twenty-five men in each, in all 1,200 men, Each group of eight boats (four pairs) was commanded by a captain aud Was destined to board an fron-clad, including those anchored in Port Hilsarlo, The groups of boats lost their order at the first shots, from which re- sulted that fourteen boats fastened to and boarded the Lima Barros and twelve the Cabral, oihers going down stream and othera being sunk by the Silvado and Herval. During the fight on the attacked tronclads some canoes returned to the shore, carrying wounded, dead and tugi- ‘ves, The boats intended for the assault on the als at Port Elisario did not go on because they saw the movement of the trov-clad with the Admiral, which was the Marlz e Barros, wich, how- ever, did not prevent the litte steamer Lindoya throwing some grape among them. We threw lio bodies into the river. The Herval and Stlvado k'lled many in the river who had thrown themseives in when I got alongside the boarded iron clads. I tried to save some with the boats, which left all the vesse's with this purpose; but our assistance was rejected jm were drowned. 1 sent the Co- lombo to the Super side of ed river. Ihave taken eleven boate, besides one of ours which had drifted down, made a disembarkation upon a guard which was firing briskly froma covert. Their huts were destroyed, and many killed by grape have come doin. Gur loss in killed and wounded was thirty-two, | few being wounded severely. The oMicers are doing well, and there is hope of saving all. I calculaie the joss of the enemy in 409 men. On the morning of the 3d the wooden steamers Magé and Beberibe passed by Curupaity, being noticed only when already above the stockade. ‘To the tirst shot fred at them they replied hard and heavy. Only one ball struck them, causing the wounding of One of the crew and a dent in one of the pieces. z BAKON DA INHAUMA. Only thirteen prisoners weré taken, among them & Neutenant. Five men were killed on the Lima Bar- ros and three ou the Silvado, Nono were killed on board the coe, Se warning reaching her in time for her crew to ebter the casemate, Captains Costa and Garcindd, of the Lima Barros, Were severely wounded. This vessel received some injuries from the Brazil when she ran alongside, A rumor prevailed in Buenog Ayres and Monte- video that in aor er gssault on the frou-clads ane was captured, and several merchants have received letters here stating positively that such had hap- pened; still, can find no dednite anthority for the report, for no steamer had come down from Para+ nay e the usual packet and the news could not ome overland tn FO short a tinie, The Vassinon | arfived heré yesterday, but added nothlag to What L have detailed, brought by the regular mall. ‘The position of the ailies in Paraguay ts not altogether | Satl though the ng of the river per- mitt tada to get past Humaitd, has ans oulof the strong batter inundated the road in has in ¢ tits q ae lad division is covered 32 vessels yedition ithat t captain, 100,009 to an Admiral 1a Cargo al Ce oceet fit 0. fteu th Which Caxtas | 3 ning up to suuch nn has not | y . Without the gunboats it could fact, ular, Wit was ever t abandouel, f dare not tau loved to» nt hnen ast at Tebic Wo oF tures riding to his From the roof wguayan then dropped 1 lying on a bide huag BO’, t here 8 not acting as tf at once, for it is stiil nt seven handred mea will go @ he sept i a lown, having béen trom It since the cay ad tiousand men of those that were tn Nox ofight the Parnguayans, ' litary ootonists, but the foot not Lke foreigners ccapted the oer. 2e general feeilng of the of foreignera, whose naa eaore They want honor tn their fe *lgners every ion of aad, The hanisome, chatty, 1 enngrants of the to see & pore ' ‘and danghters they can whooe vy vill repia the slaves, su ket in dest ond bond to them H an estancieros manage with AWoll kind they do not object = rm, to bay thelr worn-out! ve in the art,!? as Rio ss There Is no doubt ra is at the root of the jal family, which rave been den ed Duke de Saxe, of Tie of Coburg and Gotha, who / oda, the younger prin- | c going, soelabie yount | fellow, — whose dedant seems to to | get hold of some ty mr and enjoy chat, beet and pipes together. ills pursuits, therefore, Br don't tread on the corns of t ian ollgarehy, but the Count of Bu, married to the Princess Impe- rial, Isavel, 19 & horse of another color. The grand aon of Louls Philtype of Vraace. and a soldier Who. fought im the Spantsi-Moroccan war, te is aman of ambition and ability, and he is not wiliing to remain | a nonéntity in Brasil. As the linsbend of the heit apparent he was made Marshal of the army, but would not receive Presidency 4 Ba apf icy that of ty of the tary Gounclj. Since the war began he hi contipually Boch isting Meitectunily ow uh the p Ment and the Emperor to teke an ve part it, eve as an tnieftior comy er, to tt the “Seis! , the oat Trost lel nh ian armament, he a i it it knew moro of dd that was not rain ville and ane 9 to leave and reside ag ope, or be as @ priace In South tol te person In oe 3 that ho “was no longer & persecuted Brastitan Frenchman, but o with fail powers to do good to Brasti, and that would ca) itm severely (7 account If pre had earn $0 comptetny ayans are | poror and government reached such @ ween that ho resigned his appointment aa President of #the Military. Conual: gold his horse broke Gp his hossehaet a inet that ed would vores’ fn th Packet, Princess mperial doh si tuat, althouge She did not wish him to 2 Frou eee lot with ha maka aafght be But up the pS re i the Hy i in Pai eu was rmitted to go {0 the Sanip on any protanes,. the 10) and his ministry refused him permission clther to go to Paraguay or Sees out of thy country, and tt {s suid strict orders wero issued to stop any vessel in which he might embark—he by his Marriage contrat bolag: bound Cae in Brazil unless @ leave of be granted to him by the neg removed to Tetropous giving up evry emo), Petropo: ving uj loy= ment, honorary or oficial, and altho . 1 he. ope aia Stier ies er Ee pass aeeueton td ol Ww OCO| a prerocens u the cing or auiolal sciaadlga March was the Empress? birthday, and ‘Was chosen for the religious ceremony of making a Christian of the second son of the Leopol- dina, Duchess of Saxe, born three months and who received on tue gocasion @ name of tolerable teeath, namely:—Aug$sto Leopoldo Felippe Maria Miguel Gabriei Raphaei Gonzaga, the last of which is the family name of the Emperor. The baptism of a prince Is of course not 80 simpie an aifair as cutting a hole in the ice to dip a hardsaell in; and as i sup- pose your readers would like to know something of how it is dove in Brazil 1 will give a short summary of the operation, On at morning the imperial family left their private suloon in the cily palace, the child held by a lady of honor, proceeded through the tunnel to the door of the Chureh of Our Lord of the Footsteps, where four geatiemen of the Chamber were holding @ palliun, and under it, two other oMictals holding it, ihe lady, with the child, were conducted to a bed, where two others took it and held it while the Jady Jaid down the child, Whose nurse was waiting it sit- ting on two velvet cushions and with a velvet bag, holding various little requisites for babies, placed on a tuble beside Ler. During this time Monsenhor tie Vicar Cupitular besprinkied the Emperor and the other members of Une imperial family, and they re- moved to te Chapel of the Most Holy Sacrament to Ling ‘Then the Vicar Capitular purified his hands with holy water and the lady of honor went for the child and brought hun, still under the pallium, but this held by two other officials, in a little procession (thus:—The King-at-Arms, the Herald, the . suivant, then the persons uplifting the insignia, then the lady beneath the pall) to the place of baptism, about wich thrones had been placed for the Kimperor, &¢., and while the three first stopped. outside the square those bearing the insignia passed jin with a bow and ‘atid down the insignia thus escorted, and retired, Then the Comte d’Eu and the Princess Imperial, as representatives of the godiather and godmotier, Who were the father and mother of the Duke its father, were asked the usual questions, and with the crosses upon the breast of the chiid as the formula was pronounced, the ffirst part of the ceremony was over. Next these moved to the mid- die of the church, aud the Vicar Capitular pro- nounced the Jngredera in Templum, after which they all went into tie main chapel where religious service was held. Then the child was” laid on another bed while the Vicar donned his white robes and the mitre, on which bein, done the representatives of the godparent were examined as to their bellef, and the conc: is religious ceremontes of putting sait in the 3 mouth and of anolating hiin were then performed, the act of baptism read and the Ze Deum sung amid the pealing of bells and the discharge of rock I may say that the baby behaved like a brick and nog a squcai Was heard. ‘he chapel was beautifully deco- rated and adorned with festoons, really looking very beautiful, although its style of ornamental frippery suggests hoiling of that reverential feeling inspired by the chastened solemnity of Gothle churches. However, it was a pleasing sight to see it thus with its galleries lied with the gorgeous uniforms of the reat oficers and representatives of the State, the diplomatic ORD the consuls and the military and naval oillcers interspersed bee | the splendid and Jewelled toilets of the upper ten of Rio. Of course General Webb was there, dressed ont in the major general’a uniform which he wears as Minister, Wo had auother little scene on ’Change which guve the lookers-on considerable fan, ‘The week be- fore ja3t, while the excitement of the people over the war nows was sull unabaied, a tittle Brazilian Tusied into the room wavlag a fag over his head and vivaing in a little shrill trebie for the thirty or forty things What Braziliaus delight in cheering for when they get a start. Probably the little patriot had been in hiding 80 long from the Panesd for fear of belug taken as @ soldier, that he feit his patriotisia must burst bim if he didn’t give it vent. lowever, he went at the vives at a 2:30 pace, and made his sumanibulate his head with inexpressible Finally he tired the merchants, Who had efor a week past, aud wanted to dis- st scandal and the gold losses, 80 a few of them clubbed enough to fee a policemaa outside to come in and pretend to conscript him, La Comes the policeman, aad just as a viva was under way taps him on the shonlder with are the very kind of may we need for Paragaay; come along with me.” Down fell the flag, his eyes and mouth opened together, and he could hardly stam wer out— “But 1 dou’t wat to go to Par y.” “No maiter for that,” says the policeman, “you will have to go now.” But the Lite feupy Pi dn’t go; he pros tested, he gcstleulafed, he flodrished ils Lands around, he caicd upon the grinning audience for proteciion, aud finally laid down Oa the ground eg: alos chat he “had @ cousin thy 10 hos pital, and would not go there to die.” At last th policeman could contain himself bo ionger, aud let The cat out of he bag by laugiting, so due little stand ard bearer piexed Mimself Up aud went iy way a “sadder bat a wiser man.”? < There ix, eup B Kreat Many losses on 'Change in goid aid e&chan, peculutions, Within a montit gold and bills oa Europe have fallen twenty-eight cent, And as great Speculation arose jus when pei were highest the losses have veen correspond- i ‘One {8 said bo lay : ¢ $60,000, 73 820,00 each, aod an Ame eported «4 broke” by bili and other ») Anotier American has just made bi a3 tae Colonel Stuart, of the months ago, with magniticent connection WIL Wei Known up here # monster daily tue paper f ng y heavy. st $00,000 On woud, anotin tie talk. He came he Lagi aad expensive lag in part of the city, and visite tutions to seleet one for tie 4 ory, Dut did not fad one to suit. Finally, as al dis prospectus remained in expectative, it be tk oul the wouey wae the trouble; and now it is found stil worse—that fe had been getting money on forged New York credits from sunt houses here, some of which bore Horace Gieciey me, So now bubble is burst and he is suv 6st come-ct-idus, as vhe Spe ompany have at last come toan arrangement with thetr siippery agent Mackay, by Which they get about £15,000 cash and his bills foe nore, Whtea | hearlily wish they may » best they thas lose tawny thoasaud doi- 3 Who bought the concession of an savarbs called Botafogo arden are still stalled by that most boards of “City Fathers,” the Mu- vipal Chamber of Rio Janeiro, whic to run round, and not through, t tie ouly good of which would be omuoibuses ty keep up competition road omntbuses and maintain & uttisar Another American company have got a concession for alive to the suburb of San Christovam, where th will be allowed to ive years hence. a lesson to and prob ue, say Emperor li it down sou Some American settiers have Jusi giv the Brazilians, Dr. and Mr. Miler & «some land not far from the captial of the provuice of Parana. They lic about ten miles frow the roal below down to the port, but by the ordinary way tuey bad to go round some thirty miles pf bad road, for a timbered monutain lay in che straight tine and was judged im. passable. They had got The land very cheap aud had some money leit aud thought they would lay tt out in tnaking ar actoss the mountain, The n= ment engi deciared it could not be done, but the President finally agreed to aid them with some money, But the ordinary obstructive and dilatory action worrled Uicm so that they — pitched tue nivent grant aside and went at ito their own hook. Fer about fifty days they Vuried Themselves tn the woods, cutting pacha for exploration, and now, to the astomish- tment of all the people of the piace, they have not only made a good direct road across and down the mountains to the lowlands, but have made iton & trace which will hereafter serve for a ratiroad to the plateau, without expending 4 their cash, and adding & fivefold value to their land and other tracts they bought along the trace, Suc are the kind of American emigrants that Braziians need amon thom, just to show the!r white landed, parrot-nailed, useless litte snobs they call engineers what an engineer fa, and to tesou the Brazilian piauters how Americans do when they need 4 row, i Tho telegraph between Riv Janeiro and the capital of Rio Grande do Sul ts a4 good specimen of Bragitan engineering. It was sterted two years ago, with the idea of being wseful in this war. it was completed year azo, and the « ov General of Tele- fea mis whose Brazilian birth seeins to have stulti- hia tutellect and turged the son of the clever German Schnity Into the «clentifle charlatan de Cay nema, noted only for a hatred of his fath oouul- trymen, made a report to ive government showing, by his ‘account, most cicarly that wader hfs man- t it had cost less the mile thaw ta any other country. But it has never yet tranamitied @ singie Message through, nor even for # hundred myies, & week ot # tue? Posts tumbled, Insulators smashed, ligntning tore it \o pieces, the pieces of cable shut up, and now me whole affair has to be gone over again ftom end to end, The same is the case with the spipping teles which ander him is always getting stopped. e Public, offices ‘one aS A = acarcely ever will 3 age iM Yonge work are those on the raliways, wich aie taken thelr managers. As with the telegraphs that ro of All the constructive Lan ol the ry a Ratiroad, which "abeway cepa in ane e and works cheapiy. chief tl rab failure of Brest as “ Ss ies ea a justiy rem: ange et an, of bal ing. thetn ‘in ot ve ‘ot-nall Which is worn @a & testl. A want of Rattroad reminds me that the gentleman who frat, sted it and obtained & concession 18 ab his Mo- entin Miding to prevent his imprisonment on & charge of murder committed not less than tl ty-tiree years ago. The party in question is & Well known and much resi citizen Rio, an Englishinan by birth and, I belleve, by citt- xenship still, although married to a Brazilian lady and domiciled in Brazil, According to a letter pub- lished by him the chi rises out of an occurrence which took place w he was residing at Guara- tingueta, in the province of San Paulo, in 1835, He had then been six years there, practising homeo- pathy, but wing toa quarrel ye iB, infuential party there ad aay! by the chiof authority there, the Prefect, to remove to some other place, He set out with & camarada, a sort of guide and companion, and on the way two men, Sent, he bea by his enemy to give him a beating—a not uncommor way in Bi to have revenge—rushed at him. *He was unarmed, but his eamarada drew two pistols, a ball from one of which wounded one, but the other missed fire, On seeing this the other man pulled out a knife, but the camarada also had one, and in the fight Killed the other, Dr. Cochrane looking on only. On seeing the COSMAS, the Doctor told camarada that he would have to return and report the circumstance to the Prefect, This he did, but the camarada would not put himself in the law's clutches and’ vamosed, @ Prefect heard the Doctor's relation, and lent him a slave to go instead of the camaradd, It seems & judicial investigation was not made, and now, after thirty-three years, a judge at Guaratingueta sends on a requisition for bis person, and an order has been issued for his arrest, Dr. Cochrane is a public character from his connec- tion with the Pedro Segundo Raliway, the Petropoila zigang and other useful constructive works. He is also the author of several works on homeopathy, 80 that it is evident that the revival of such a matter after thirty-three years Is the work of some enemy. The doctor would, I understand, have at the worst an acquittal by’ prescription, but he says Brazilian justice is so slow in its operations that he might have to lie in prison for a year or eighteen months, and the inside of a Brazilian prison in the provinces, boxed up with niggers and mulattoos, is not Bugenia’s boudoir in the Tuileries, : The Brazilians have adopted the new code of signals for vessels in place of Marryatt's, which was in use generally. If with the signals, a untyersal me- ridian and @ universal currency a universal language was also adopted, what a comfort it would be to your unfortunate correspondent, who has been try- ing for the last fortnight to get at the Deaning: of some of the magniloquently patriotic poems witc! must have made the presses and the writers’ friends groan in unison! I fatter myself I am some puinp- Kins at understanding prose—provided the new editor of the Diario do Rio has not written it—but the tallest ladder in the world, which I believe is in @ Mexican aiiver mine and is half a mile long, wouldi’t reach the root of the lowest epithet of most Brazilian poems. A new ferry company has Just been organized in Nitherohy, the provincial capital, situated on the other side of the bay, te oppose that managed by Dr, Rainey, whose name stinks rather in the nostriis of the Nitherotienses, a to the former great irregu- larities in the service. It is most probable it will come to nothing. - Copper being very scarce, silver invisible and change not to be had, as the government cannot see the advantege of a fractional paper currency, Dr. Rainey, like a man up to the times, has issued some 200,000 ferry tickets at ten cents cach, and, it is said, Clears at the rate of $100 a month by losses of them, “Another smail monitor has been launched, all sianding, together with three sinall vessels, from the government yards, The monitor carries a seven inch rife, throwing a 160 pound ball, of Whitworth’s make, which is the kiad used inthe Brazilian mariue. The sides are fourteen inches thick, of wood, covered with four and a half inci fron, The turret 1s of like construction; but, where the port is, has six inchea of iron, ‘The turretia moved by hand, She 1s called the Cearé, and Is of a ciass of which a fleet of about eighteen are to be built, six of which are now launched, intended for rivers. Some Irish emigrants have arrived, and a vessel with 336 is on the way, Whose passages the govera- ment has agreed to pay, although it says the Brazil- jan promoter had no authority, It seems, however, determined to go the whole hog now with Lrish- men, and has an English agent to send thei on, paying about forty dollars towards their passage. i ag already far outrun my limits, t will give you, in my next, my views on Lunvnigration here, in gen- eral, and especialy on what is called here North American immigration, 1 do not hear @mything from the provinces that 1s worth detailing. They have been too busy there in shouting and letting off crackers to do any of those uncomfortabie things that make history and delight newspaper readers, In San Paulo, however, a bold ntleman carried of alady from the theatre door in @ carriage, ‘T) ¢ spouse aud the police caught them hext ay trying to take French leave by the railroad; but the lacy was shniling so sweetly at the soft nothings of the Brazilian Paris that Menelans dismissed iis army and told her in epithetical Portu- guese that she might go to the other side of Jordan tor all he cared. Another diamond region is reported to have been found in Goyaz not to the uprooting of a large tree. L would not, powever, advise any one who has good prospects of pushing a compensation bili through Congress or of becoming the director or cashier of a National Rank to abandon it to take to the new diamond washlug. Ne _. In the northern province of Cear4, a provitite that dries up évéry two or three years and slarvos out of it half the population and ell the cattie, there have been some disturbances at Crato, as usual, between recruiters and the friends of the conscripied “uribuie of blogd.” Ip this case a regruting major and a national guard colonel quarreiled about the seizing of some of the lattor’s regiment, and both par- tes asombled their respective friends and dependents to fight it out, However, the respective chiefs agreed to refer the matier to the Chief of Police; but pposed parties not Jiking to be defrauded of ejusement Went at it with fists and sticks until uiicelt number of cracked heads existed and the whole-skulled yemainder got out of breath, These are getting such Common aulrs in the northern pro- vin Where there 18 & great number of “poor wiites (1) and a few siaves oniy, that T am begin- ning to believe the authorities’ secretly eucourage thom In order to cateh m wen, Whom they could not yet at in any othe y than as “resisting a drafi.? At Teité, on the Amazon, a party of men, at the order of an “influential person,’? surrounded the house of # citizen, tarred it, and then set fire to it, wiely the owner re nd tat bak the annive ne of the y th asi of at holidays. stitution, and fort xeluausge lias ran drafts, and to 20d, for 1 As for cofee and other prc rin up ai down willy goid. Cotton hh risen about $i the arroba of os, in consequence of the last pews irom Kurope. ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. SPECIAL COMRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Strategy of Lopez—Defeat of the AlliosThe Ships §).d. the miirels for bank is? bili, Gola ts i2 Presidential KiectionAttitude ef Urqniza=_ Colonel Church at Colonia, Buenos Ayes, Feb, 27, 1463, For many months we have been expecting news of the promised raid on Asuncion. it was the plan of President Mitre, when he was commander-in-chief, to make this raid, and when compelled to re- turn bythe death of the Vice President his successor, Marshal Caxias, promised to carry out the plau. Recently the plan hag been aunounced as changed, and a combined attack on Humaita was the order of the day, So I wrote you. It has no doubt gone round the world that on February 15 Humaité, the queen forivess of Para- guay, was to be attacked. The time drew near, and the plan changed again (o a monster raid by General Osorio on Asuncion, with sixteen thousand men, The bridges, provisions, horses, draught catile and inci. dental delays will put this raid into the future, The troops intended are Bravitiana The road to Asun- clon crosses a formidable river, Tebicuart, beyond which there are fortifica!ions, and this stream cannot be recrossed in haste, as it is wide, deep and rapid. ‘Thus far, on equal terar, (he Braziiien soldier cannot stand before the Paraguayan. The skill, persever- ance, patriotism and wnioa im fecliag of the Para- guayans compare well w those qualities In the yeomanry of the American colonies when they united in 1774, The Paraguayana are even more united, for there can hardly be a op found In all their coun. try. The allies havé not forgotten the fortress of Tfumaité, and are Breparing to take advantage of any weakening of 1! furees; but any grand attack now seems distant. On the morning of Febrnary 17, while 9 squadron of cavairy of the allies Was out reconnoitring, they fell into an ambuaseule of the Paraguayana The Ninth regimes went to its reitef and was cut to pieces, Twelfin regiment, under Colonel Man- silia, Went to help, and after a severe contest tho Paraguayans retreated with very little loss, The al- lies’ joss is said to be very heavy for tho numbers engaged. This is the kind of war that tho Para- giiayans make, et do not offer & general comage- ‘nent, They choose tueir tine and place, with small forces well Suppor compelling n degree of tion on the part of the allies never practised by im South America. engagomenls wear ‘ont the ailies, Wasting men and tine aid retarding movements, On other vovasions ihey act strictly on the defence. in anou pednn mAs ge an account of the flereriy attempted revolution at Montevideo. It is beh & token of the genera! dissatisfaction telt towards the tripic alliance. We are e i & Most unproft- ab¢ war, as one ‘velleves except aiew t- ested, and ita ia mot yet. ‘A decree haa beew at tasuest tal law for sixty daye the of for moe iron Ap a wy "aad fa dune toe eloctors witt ‘meet. ocour on 3 12 ihe ‘now President will assuine Gi NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNRSDAY, APRIL 22, 1868-QUADRUPLE SHEET. os ruler, General Urquiza, We always holds is hands the this republic, But pay ec 2 8 8) gi Sehr ag General Urquiza, 60 far from pe ye is unruly one and show Hg an exauipio of indusiry worthy of universal Southern Bolivia bed spool ending 7 m, © over fift; . ‘The Boli- via gotervens Waa" Gnatea"'’privoge of to years for its preparation. The Indians of on se Tew peerlenmn in lamps of clay with a wick of Sone a is AG. a cm een Oe tanning wo ining sugar. Paraguay river is 129 leagues, and to that aver costa is transportation five dollars, hi All the in- terlor proviueos wil bo suppl witht this article, and as soon as the Paraguayan war is over this will open up & new trade, Wool has improved in price nd demand for the Antwerp market, Eneee are sel at low rates in almost every part the country. When hens sell for fifty-six cents, we can bi by the flock for forty, The a oo ‘and Ping ge Th low price ff Wools have effected this, Colonel George E. Church, of New York, has arrived here in charge of the works of the Navigation ana Marine Raliwi ompany, located at Colonia, tn the Bauda Oriental, and they are not at all disturbed by the political convulsions of that country. The har- bor, the charter and the altogether form a foundation for one of the most extensive enterprises in South America. Colonel Church’s distinguished abilities as an engineer and a man of enterprise led him out as the best man to initiate this due worl Exchange on London is down for this packet at 48 '¢d. for the gold dollar. The cholera has abated in nearly all this country. Occasional cases are occurring. LATEST NEWS. Tho Blanco party, the revolutionists, made a stand at the town of San José, near Montevideo, aud cut the telegraph, but were driven away. On the ni aes of the 19th of February forty-three soldiers and eight officers diea at the barracks in Montevideo, among them a brother of General Flores, At first it was called Shera, but since a daughter of General Flores died, and all the family are ill; it is believed to be poison. it caused great excitement, URUGUAY. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Reyolution in Urnguay—General Flores Ase sussinated—The City Under Foreign Frotece tion—Ex-President Berro Executed—Over Three Hundred LExecutions—Order Re- stored. BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 27, 1868, This whole country has been startled by a most spirited and tragical attempt af revolution at Monte- video, the capital of Uruguay. Hundreds of lives have been lost, and all business was suspended for Many days, and foundations were laid for fature strifes that years of peace will hardly remove. General Flores, the Dictator since i865, had just resigned the supreme power, and had voluntarily retired from the dictatorship. The Congress was pro- ceeding quietly to provide a constitutional Executive, when on February 19, at two o’clock P. M.,a number of coyspirators with dirks and revolvers attacked the government house and drove away the sentineis. In possession of the State House they thought thetr work dome, and men were sent in search of Mr. Villalba to shoot him. This was the man who three years ago surrendered the city to the party now in power when the Brazilian fleet was ready to open fire on the defenceless town, While looking for him they lost (ime and Colonel Solano was gather- ing a force to expel them, Meantime General Florea, in poor health, started in a coach with the Minister of Foreign Afiairs and the clerk in that department, and they were met by five assassins. coachman refused to stop and was shot and fell, when the coach Was stopped and the carriage was attacked. General Flores said, ‘Assassins, you seek my life; take it and do not harm my innocent friends,” They stabbed him Ove times, and even.then five balls were needed before he fell, aud he was supported a moment by a passing priest, who hac barely time to whispér abso- ution before the Dictator expired. These assassins are known, although they were disguised. an in- were cle , armed bands ice fo the government, fi in a fw how 9 thousand Italians were armed, officered and stationed, The foreizn vessels of war at onde sent a force of five hundred meu to take the Custom House and keep it. Lawless shoot- ing in the streets occurred everywhere, until as the fruit of the day about one hupdred and dfiy dead bodies had been collected. Bernardo ?, Berro had r+} the forces that took fhe government house, and Was arrested soon afier his men were dislodged. le be. fore a commit of a written guarantee Dictator, who had just urdered, Was exasperating. He wag regarded as the chief conspirator, and he was immediately shot. With him fell some fourteen others, well known as havir plotted with him not only a revolution, but a general massacre of tho part t, in power, as Barbot, Bastarrk ca, Grane, Lengu: Lujan, Castillo aud many othera, During the 20th and 2 over three thousaad men stant shops and dwell beeen. to asaerible to yiler un Lit He was ure a. a produced of ety from the bee! This were under arms, most of whom were ei from foyeiga men-of-war in the harbor, or were subjects of other countries residing io Montevideo, Until the 2ud there perished from all causes three hundred and fifty men. By most timely and vigorous action the wide spread conspiracy was pat down, although half legalized iaurders are still occurring as the re- sult. lt was this sanre Flores who in 1343 crossed the Rio de la Plata with two oti in revolution in taat country whi from the lowest rauks to absolute po firmly, and seetmed to be really bent on of the try. He had oid be rewarded, bat he punished enemies, He had just resigned powers, and was about to retire into private life eu by him in 1863 was turned at invasion was ihe real ommencement of the present Paragu. Lep by step events followed until the triple treaty bouad three nations to extewminate Lopez ot Raised from the deepest self face to face with g t, for which he w ai s were not above those of tu ef for the day, but his desires rked jndefatigably for the hour and of his own country, snd expectally Witea the 8% against himsel!. out, | fis prinelp! Amerioan oni for capital; but wiser heads mistook themseives when the Triple Alllance Treaty was | made. No higher honors awaited hit. ever rises through more grades of pri otal powers by common cons wo the chic he was the one ntry lu that tempting and delicate posi- tion and gave up his authority voluntarily. Congre has already decreed him a monument, but & better found in new government buildings, ex- . lmproved commerce, in railroad rbor improvements, He was great, ne points weak, earnest, patrtotic, modest and ambitious, He.feti loth April by masked wssasgins in daylight, between lis house and his cap- itol, in the sére: In three hours the conspiracy was put down, and tn three days, by various viodes, over tiree hundred conspirators met their fate. charters and valiant, at 9% Order Restored in Montevideo Diticuitics of Couling the Advance Squadron=—All Tuings | Not Favorable to the Allies. Buenos AYRES, March 14, 1568, Affairs at Montevideo are becoming more Presiteut Battie ts gaining friends every day, aud his chief competitor who lost the ciection by the speaker's casting vote warmly supports his More successful opponent. The Congress lias a @ bill giving the President a salary of $1,000, gol’. ‘The atiack on tie iron-clads by the Paragosyans was a more serious affair than was at first reported. ‘There were sorty-clght canoes with twenty-five men ach, two canoed lashed er. ‘To each gronp of eight canoes (two hundred mon) there wits a cap- tain, and each group waste attack and hoard one frop-ciad, throw bi es down the tower and the chinne By some mistake only two trou. clada wero attacket—one of them was surrounded by (weive canves and the other by fourteen. Other fron-clads caine near and dashed In among tio @imall boats, and the men who succeedod in boarding wore treated to hov water and steam by the t ple damage 1 of thelr settled. chinery. The Paraguaygns did considera’ lad aud lost over one Lundre: ation concerning the Presidential election 1: is imposible for a forckguer to pre tict > modes of work are beyond his kwowi- lve. Tt how been feared all along that Geral quiza would procisim, hungelf a candidate. This morning {t is stated tn the Triduna that a formal pn. hotncement of nis neroination will be made fo a Tow days, All the other candidates belong (0 (iv sane arty —ti 7 Pete est “above Hensel tA Is getting scarce of con and $200 in gold, are enerea bee ten. Oite venture some steamer is gol ey, i, taking coal wad a 50 dry goods for ‘ssaneton. tis & great Bsk, bub a company here tas imsured her against war risks. The tuteriot provinees ard nob i a satisfactery mato of eee roga'ar Mont Business @ traproving in Buenos Ayres. Money is stitl iear. Baak rates are just Now advalioed 2 per cont. ‘Tue report of the loss of the British war steamer Saturn o@ Montevideo Was.a!l boak. No such ship eee pommnmanione Ovsa AD Rox. boy named “paning: itten bon of fp Ail banged himself (a his (J miles sgn fourm ia . work of 8 tt < a POLITICAL OVTET..'GENCE. The Presidency and the Democrat? Policy. The St. Louis Dispatch (democratic), a, tl 1, although avowing fts intention to Support the nls nees of the National Convention whether they shall be war demoorats or peace democratd,’ favors, on the score Of availability, the selection of @ civilian as the standard bearer next July, The Dis- patch argues that the radical candidate will neces- sarily represent the past and‘misrepresent the pre= sent, and unless the glare of the former can be made to throw the latter Into obscurity and darkness there 18 no good reason to infer that’ he can be el ‘The radical policy is a continuation of the war, their representative man must personify that and the perpetuation of war passions and rad enmity 7 Wide DANOG. SBIR DEY me Be and haa an ce] manent resul le how pce apd will that it shall be dstablished. The eo seems ocralic: petty a a us, carer avol ndemnation of the war in vuaking ite platform or its nominations. At Chicago it condemned the war and nominated a war democrat—an inconsistency that rendered defeat inevitable, There Is no d: of such a blunder this time, but itis not im; that one just 48 fatal may be made, So person. come plicated 1a the smailest degree by. oemp hy with the “Jost cause’ or with its surviving [dea—the pays ment of the Confederate debt or the repudiation the nationaidebt as an alternative—should be thor of in conngction with the democratic nomination, We mut decline to mect the enemy on thei chosea ‘ound and on questions already decided in favor. We must direct the eyes of the peopie not to the pust, but to the pressing questions of the present but the background of the picture must such a8 to show our candidate in @ fair light and in the midst of unobjeciionable accessay rica, * * * Our own preference, continues phe Dispaton, ig for a civilian—for a statesman, not @ professional soldier. With such a caudidate as dus, if indeed he be Wesmian, ali the vulgar Dioddes red glare of military glory would pale its ‘‘uueifectual fires.” But we only instance him to tilustrate our meaning, Without being in the least inco! those men and the smali bat distinguished ol which they belong to will be found to have harmony with the revolution; while thelr p. opinions are, we may say, an in’ t—a guiding insptration- the counter-revoiution or reaction which is now in full swing. in our ju the class in which all the elements o! exist, the only class in which they can all be foun and ol uently the class front which the demos cratic standard bearer should be taken, —. ‘The Cincinnati Commereciat (radical), referring to the democratic nominee, April 18, has the follows ing:—The Dayton Ledger’, Mr. Vallandigham’s organ, expresses 118 willingness to support Peudiel Seymour, of Connecticut, or soldiers like Hancoel and Buell. “Copperheads,” it says, “tho vital and numerical strength of the party, will have this or nothing.” The St, Louis Dispatch wants a war deme ocrat, such as Governor English, of Connecticut; and the National Intelligencer goes for the most available man—Mr, Pendleton, in its opinion, being decid not that person, ‘The Macon (Ga.) Zelegr thinks Hancock and Adams would make & ticket, a ee} the pames, because they have @ “revolutionar, javor. 4 In commenting popen, the Lege) aah ries pigiige i oar April says it “has expressed no op! 0 Mr wag any other candidate, It only insists upon nominating a man in whom the elcments are su made up that bis name will command the moas votes und ensure success.’ Connecticut Politics. The Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard raises the ticket U. S. Grant for President, Wm. A. Buckinge ham for Vice President or any other office. Licutenant Governor Averill, of Connecticut, gave a supper to his friends and constituents at the Turner ’ House, Danburf, last week. Speeches were made om the subject of the United States Senatorship, pressing a decided preference for General Ha’ Messrs. Averill and Carley, representatives from. town, said they should cast their influence and ve for General Hawley. The New Haven Palladium out in favor of Orville H. Platt, of Meriden, for. positiou, claiming that it is due to the Second gressional district. This will prove an objection ex-Governor Hawley, who Is a resident of Hartforty ‘The Litchfield Sentinel tuinks the democratic play of roosters over the ro-clection of English shite ies appropriate, as that result was obtained by fout play. f TMtnois Polltics=The Democratic State Nome neces. John R, Eden, the democratic nominee for Govere Nor of Illinois, 13 a native of Bath county, igang where he was born February 1, 1826, When he quite young his parents removed to Indiana, and was in the latter State, we believe, where be Feel his education, r finishing his studies in the mon branches of tuition, he read law and began Iinols, He was accounted an ex vocate, and from 1356 to 1809 he wer oe omice State's Attorney for the Seventeenth district. 1862 he was the democratic nominee for Congress the Seventh district, composed of the ties Champaign, Coles, Cumberland, Dor Ford, juols, Macon, Moultrie, Platt and Vermil lion,’ Though Lincoln tad carried thig disttict by majority of more than two thousand, Eden re’ the whole thing, and defeated his oppohers bya jority of one thousand three hundred and fifty-eight, thus making a gain of over three thousand, " William H. Van Epps is credited to Lee county as the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Vam Epps has been 4 member of the Legislature, though hot representing the people where he now resides, He is believed to possess reat iluence aud popae larity in the northern portion of the State, 4 The candidate for Secretary of State, Mr, Horte beck, of Ci'nton, ts represented as every way qualified for the duties he bas been designated to Mil, He wiik command great siveng.b among his .Gerinan fellow cilizens, For State Treasurer Joase L, Philtips, of Tittshore ough, te the nomined, ral Phillips is a vereran domocrat a3 well 23 a veteran soldier, He entered the Union army as @ captain in the Ninth Minois, (ter elected major, and daring the notion. sume nomination two yoars age. fepublioan says:—Mr. O'LTcn 18 one St. Louis 1 Leo, witty, forcible, seme To Tun Boiron or tur MeRaLp:— a inquire orally in to-day's Hmnan “iow Conkling vote on tho impeachment ques | | ngv to consider a few facts, When the torship of this port was made vacsat by the th of Mr. King it will be recollected that there tamperle of the politicians for the place, Mr. ng, tea a Nopresenta: in Congress, pre on to President Je narkde vies A Dana (now e@litor of the ug for the Co! rebip of the fork. Mr. Dana was then residing im Iil., editing the Republican, Mr. Dana sale Jored that fact an advantaze to him, inase as ithad removed t ipadng ia, politics plication Slate. “He sired President Jobngon to Mr. Stanton as an jence of tis qualifications for Collector of thie port! I nt Johnson said he thought sone roan might be found in the great State of New York without got all the way to fltnots for him, Accordingly the Presiden’ did not appoint Mr. Dana, a the result? Mr. Dana proceeded to pitch ‘ou in hia Repubdlicen, and Mr. Conke ‘ceeded to pitch into. Mr. Johnson in Cone The Sun shines for Conkling as much a3 18 for Dona, Conkling and Dana want the New York Cnatoni House as badiy now aa they ever aids They know they cannot got it next Narch under Grant if he ts elected, aad they are very certain that they will not get if should the democratic party triumph in tke Prosidential election. Thetr only hope is in the conviction of Mr, Johuston, As goem Daua so goes Conkling. Dana says convict Johnson. Now, to You ak “How wil Mr. Coukling vote om | the fimpoachmeut question itr Politica) Miscetin: the et tons in New Th ¢ tho resulta of | Jorsey during last week, in the prizcipal towns and | cities, wilt the majorities: — | Democrat, Rarticat, { 400 00 13 : #00 oo | Brunswick . 10 “0 Morristown . y Hovoken.. 400 oo Paterson oo bree ee b- 4 bredgewater Pilaceton. 00 in the Fighth District Convention of Massachts setts, held in Worcester yesterday, W. W. Rico, of, Worcester, and G. W, Johnsoa, of Brookficid, were chogen delegates to the Chicago Convention. Majom E. P. Halstead, of Worcester, and John §, Mead, of Milford, were cliosen as aliernates, hundred) and seventy-three delegates were present, represen tag twenty-four towns. al ‘Tho Lawrence (Kansas) State Journal makes @ strong appeal fo tho erection of a monument the remains of Lane, resting in the ‘ adjoining city. A call bgt jastied hy the Virginia Conse’An» tive Sta Commintes for a Convention, to be, held in Ricjmond on Thuraday, May 7, for the of ‘haminating candidates for State officers. ‘the Michighu Demooratic State Conve, wit be hold In Detroit May 27, to appoint Colegates to tha National Convention in New Tore,