The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1870, Page 4

WEST POINT. i her, when & that his father fo tae ie ouse im im New A WEST POINT ROMANCE. | ive in 3s — that bis per-ous How It Began and How It Came to a Horrible bted his bis mother being to low an a ry ti had the story te End—An Ambition that Brought Desolation oy ty phy a the ark. od i have the Manliness to own to the Pitty toa | Aeagla pagent Bhot "| Sveaue girt wasn he. wa: "that hie tammy Deed at Parade— lew Appoint- Was in low circamstances, & mubserab © ; cality in the city—vut for as honoet ail we ments of Officers in the Cadet Corps. upright as the richest in the land. Now to mara te post. Word was Wasr Porn, June 20, 1810, | telegraphed 10 the any ty A In company with an officer I took @ farewell stroll | for the juner were to tara ont to-day in the cemetery where so many of the grad- on ie iy a ne cone ea cere. uates of West Point sleep the sleep that knows uo | Monit i « imposing character, waking. We walked from tomb to tomb reading the} Cayoty, having. only. beet * sponthes* out inscriptions that Ihave read time and time again, | of the ranks of the time of and finally gat down on @ tte mound of earth to rest under the shade of « huge tree “Do you see that spot there?” inquired my companion, as he pointed with kis cane toa part of the ground over which the grass had not as yet well geown. “That was intended for the last resting place of @ graduate of '6%, buta revelation that was made after his death prevented tne body from being brought here, Would you like to hear the story}? T expressed my willingness, and the story was told. ‘Tt was in substance as follows:— . A WEST POINT APPOINTMENT. In the carly summer of 1864 there was a ca‘let va- cangy in one of the New York city Congressional dis- tricts. When the War Department mformed the Congressman of the district of the vacancy and that it shoula be filled before the following September, that gentleman took it into his head to depart from te ways of his predecessors and give the appointment to whatever scholar in the Free Academy, or who had paased through the Aca- demy, who would pass the best examination, A day was appointed for the test, and the successful his death. A guard of houor, consisung of four oilticers, classmates of the companied the body and the sorrowing widow from the scene of the tragedy on thelr way to West Woint. The train bearing the’ corpse arnved at ‘ume In Jersey City, and as it was taken out of one, car to be placed in @ hearse the ofllvers had the sight 10 engage to take it to,the Hudson River Kall- road depot, when several persons whorn they did not know came up and pi 1D an uaceremonious way to take the body. The oiticers tuteriered aud widow WhO stood b; range party dauated, und one of them advanced and declared bimsell to be the brother of the dead man. ‘And this woman,” he added, pointing to a female clad in black at his side, who Was weeplug, “this woman was Licu- tenant ‘s wife. She was married to him years ago, and that person who claims to be his wife has no claim on this bouy.” These remarks dumbfounded the officers, and the Fifth avenucggirl was She asked tur explanations and the brother of the oficer, mollified at the sight of her sorrow, told her what her heart refused to believe. The officer had been marricd before he became a cadet and a child was born to him before he got his appointment. How he had kept the whole iatter secret and had entered the military academy bearing his own name was & mystery, aud whether he was mar- competitor a few days afterwards was sent to West | ried belore he became a cadet under ap Point. He was found fully quaiified, and at once | ®¥med name is a thing when but only a few can answer, At any rate curtain feli in the last scene of this West Point tragedy ina humble house in the lower part of the city, @ few days after the wrangle over tie corpse at ong City. The scene was a heart-rending one. A small apartment was darkened by tiick curtains hang over the windows, and in the centre of the room there was a coftin con‘aining the remains of the dead officer. On the lid was a silver plate bearing his full name and rauk in thearmy. There were sorrowing friends about, and when the face of the dead was shut from mortal view forever there was ® woman clad tm mourning who kuelt at the coflin side with her head buried in her hands and sobbing a8 thougit her heart would break, She wasthe wife of tie lieutenant of artil- lery, the graduate of the class of i868, but she was not the young Fifti avenue girl, Two hearts were broken by the balt that sent the ofilcer into eteruty, and although the one was that of a wife ana that of the other was not, the juture of both will be dark- ened by the same cloud and their Aves made full of woe by the same recoliections, As my companion stood up to leave the cemetery I ventured to ask, “Will the Class of 68 erect a monumeat here io the memory of him wio 15 gone?” pomning toa tombstone ar our very side, he asked, “What is that tmscription :” took @ high position in the class, He looked rather more manly than the rest of his class—in fact, older than most boys who were at the ume admitted under twenty-one—but no suspicion that he was really older than.e bad represented himeelt to be ever entered the minds of tne faculty, Turee years passed by and he becaine a second class man, During that ume he made the acquaintance of a young lady residing on Fifth avenue. She was young, beautiful, of good family aud lad plenty of money, snd this combination of attractions fascinated the cadet. le used to pay her frequent visks at the hotel when she came up here to remain during the June “gala days,” and after she had left for New York he kept up the pleasant inti- macy by frequent correspondence. In the matter of this correspondence he seemed to be very anxious that the letters should not miscarry, and under the pretence that he believed the Post Office folks here Bad a bad habit of opening cadets’ letters, he 21 x the iy: “Patthful often had them sent baa the river 00 | unto each,” [replied. “fhe Heutenant of arailery be posted from Garrison's Landing. Mean- }| will get no monument here,” was bis answer, gid while be studied hard and still maintained | We both ‘eit the silent graves behind us, without speaking another word. THE NEW REGIME. The third clast obtained their two months’ fur- lough to-day, and there now remains at the Academy but two Classes, the second and the jourth, of course including the plebes. Tue following Lew odicers have been appotuted in the cadet corps: Captamns—Cadets Davis, G. B.; Wasson, Hoag and Edmunds, Lieutenant and Adjutant—Cadet McKinney. Lieutenant and Quariermaster—vadet Russell. Lreutenants—Cadets Nave, Knox, Bacon, Wood- rut, T.M.: Steever, Goddard, Townsend, Moit, Pardee. Roe, Ayres and Svewar.. Sergeant Major—Cadet Allen, J. Orderly Sergeam—Cadet Wetmore. eanis—McFarlana, Wood, Jamar, Baker, Eluott, Walker, G. B.; Henely, Hatfield, Wood, A E.; Carr, Buchannan, Booth, Abbott, Watterson, Pond and Lyon. corporais—Gilmore, Dyer, Clark, ‘taber, Gardner, Hoyle, Daly, Casey, Russeil, Knapp, Holmes, Gus- mab, Blacum, H. P. Walker, H. T. Reed, Baily, La Point, Craig, Smith, Knapp. ‘rhus it wul be seen the gap made by the graduates have all been filled up and the new regime will re- maw in foree to next year uniess some ll wtnd will blow somebody out of line. ® good position in his class. He finally became a first class man in 67. He was busily engaged in his room one Gay, after he had become a first class man, tm “boring” a Knotty subject, when the oficer of the Gay entered and told him the superintendent wanted bo see him at hia office. He immediately repaired to ‘the office, and after the usual salutations had been interenangea between him and his supertor the Superintendent took from a bundle of papers on his desk @ letter, which he read to him. It was ad- dressed to the superintendent and charged that the cadet was: A MARRIED MAN before he had entered tue institution, and that Ins ‘wile was siili living. Tue letter was not signed. “What have you got to say to that, sir?’ asked the Superinvendeat, laying down the letter. TRe cadet had not changed countenance during the reading of the note, and when the question was put to him he drew bimeeif up vo his fall Leight, and, with a flush as of indignation overspreading his face, he re- plied, ‘That ts an anonymous communication and should not have received a gentleman’s attention, sir, Every word of it is false. The writer is évi- ently some enemy of mine who seeks tn tus way to injure me.” Then the interview ended and the Superintendent threw the letter into the waste basket. Tbe cadet went back to his room and re- sumed his svudies. The night that followed the day of this interview was a bitter cold onc. It was dark as pitch, and the snow fell beavily. A keen nor’easter swept over the post, and the seatinel in the woods near the barracks drew his cloak more closely about jum as gust after gust whined with a shriek down from the mountalu tops. Me had been on guard MANY Bghis beore, When the cold had made his woth cist l d tus Limbs ache with nambuesa, bat the like of this uight he kad Reyer witnessed before. Thus he thought ashe Mid fs rifle against a tree aud stooped ty gatwer a handiul of snow to rub his half frozen face with. As he did so @ keener inst of wud than ever tore through the leatless trees, making the old branches ¢rewk and groan as uf ready to break. Im a secoud he was bolt upright, with his ride tightly clutched in bis hand. His iace was pale a, and the rifle snook in his grasp, but not from cold.’ He bent his head forward as if to peer through the darkness and the biiuding sleet. The wind had lulied tor a second, and nothing WOMANS RIGHTS IN A PRACTICAL SHAPE. A Massachusetts Lady Founds a Woman’s CollegemDetailu of the Bequest, {From the Springfleld (Mass.) Republican, June 20.] The wii of the late Sophia Smuh, of Hatfield, m providing for the establishment of a college in Hamp- shire county for the higher educauon of young women, anhounces as the design ot the testator to secure privileges equal in all respects to those now afforded in our colleges to young men. Soe says:—“It is my opiuion that by the wgher and more thorough Ciiristian educa- tion of Women, their Wrongs will be redressed, their wages adjusied, their Weight of influence in retorm- ing the eviis of Society greatiy increased; as teachers, as writers, as mothers, 48 members of society, their power for good wili be incalculably emarged.” Tie lustitution is to bear the name of Smith College. If there 1s more than $80),000 leit after paying other legatecs, the whole is to go to tne coliege ; if jess, it 18 to accumulate until i¢ reacnes that sum. ‘To secure it, Northampton must make the required contribution of $25,00v within 1wo years, oterwise 1b goes to Hatiicid. Not more than faalf the bequest may be invested in butidings and grounds; the other hail is to be a permanent fund, OL which the iterest only is to be used forever, tor furnishing teachers, library and apparatus for the but the jow wali of the 1 in the discant wood | higher education of young women aud the general awoke the stiliness ne night, Scll he } purposes and objects of the institutton. The wiil stood with bis rifle trembling in his hands, Tne } provides iurther, that the “holy Seripiures shall be daily and sysiematically read aud studied in said college, and wi(hout giving the preference to any sect or denominauion, all the education and ali tue discipline shail be pervaded by the spirit of the Christian religion.” ‘he studies are to embrace “pigher culture in the English language and litera- ture, also in anctent and moderu languages, in swept down (rom the mountata top aud, t him, whizzed by again ne a Sariek , Su feariul to seutinal imvo- cpectng luatarly took » step backy “OMB UNEARTHLY THING to swoop down upon lum, f{ was this same shrick | mathematical and physical sciences, in the useful that had sterded fim. He had mistrusted his and iine avis, in intellectual, moral ana wstneiic ing befor ow he waa certain that the cry philosophy, 10 natural theology, in the evidences of wind an s0 previous Christianity, in gymnastics aud piysical guitare, in the sciences and arts that pertain to fincaton, society and government and such other studies” as coming tues may develop or demand for the educa- Tace. Lwould e education Sui tue mental and physical wants of women. It 18 not my design to render my sex any the less feminine, but to develop, astuily as may be, the powers of Womanhood and to tarnish women With the deans of usefulness, happiness and W Withheld Irom them.” ive tirst trasiecs of the college are to be Charies E. Forbes and Os- myn Baker, of Northampton; Rev. Join M. Greene, of Souci Hadley (now of Lowel). Professors W. 5. je in bis riy! gh tne unde: » sirewn hand he feit his way carely bash with witch the w slowly advanced in th enes had come. Eve sictek, more him stride ¢ gust of wind brought tbe wnd moe prereing, to Nin ie more quiel ia a WwW vent two that = awfal Jer and Jullus H. Seelye, of Amherst College, Ty whic tartied ham at first, Park, of Andover; Wm. B. Wastbura, H brought 2 pe aud ; Joseph White, of Williamstown; Rey. gave ihe challenge, The an e re. rup, of New Haven; Eaward B. and the Dgure ceived was the blood-curdung 6 er put his piece tielaé, and George W. Hubbard, of came hearer aud nearer. ‘The # Full power to increase their namber or bo the ground and graspe » by the shoulder. 518 given to these trustees, and they are hb Je ho Tesistanee, un: y fast his hoid on | instructed to invest and expend thts money to found it Le made bis way to oyht of the | and sec in oj eration this Institution as soon as may 's lanter uw White the } be ailer the death of the testaior, with full powers form of the cadet Wie c, 1 for that day | to act, excepting only the restrictions already mei- by the Superiatendent im refereuce to the anony- | tioned. Tne same provisions against confict with mous leticr. He was stark mal. 1 ga! statutes are in this will which were In that of MARRIED AND TH SHOT DE. Grest was the sympathy for the poor ¢ among his comrades When tie news @d about that be haa become insane. OF course ex- centive stuay had done the horrid Work, and the - un’ of the Academy came im Jor some very bard Kuocks atthe of the syimpathizers, Months passed by, and (he cadet Was Mliuself agaus. His tem- porary insanity had Jef no trace of ts ravages, and ‘whea the class of 168 graduatod he stood aaong the first ten. He obtained & mmission after his fariougit had expired of second Veutenaut Jn the artiNery branch of (ae service, an! was soon after- ‘Waras inarried to the Pith aveuue young lady of whom mention has aiready been made, A month or 60 after hus marriage he Was ordered to do duty at a Southern post, aud on procecdiug there he toox his and ‘beautiful bride along with him. 7ithiug went emoothiy with him for some Ume Young officer like be became a very severe duscipiinanan and for the slightest Offences on the part of the soldiers he always meted Obver Smith, The fall bequests of the will, in ad- djuion to th.s sum and the $75,000 given to Hat- field for aa academy, are as follows:—To tie American Bord of pomunteine 8 for Foreign diissiotiB, to the American Tract Society of New York, to the American Home Missionary Society and to the American Bible Society, $2,000 each; to Mrs. Electa Graves of this city and Charlotte W. Billings of Hatfleid $1,000 each, and to the latter her jewelry, clotinag and furniture; to Almira Ransom, Lucy A. Riker, Maria Storrs, Betsey Cadweil, Mary Graves, Nancy Morgan, Mary Vinton, Almira Lyman, Asenath Smith, Thera White, Lavimia Smith and Car- oline Smith $50) each; to Louisa D., wife of Rev. John M. Greene; Philura 't., wife of George W, Hub- bard: Ann Larkin, a former domestic, and Mary Harney $100 cach. The will is witnessed by Lewis Bodman, of Williamsburg, and Eleazer Porter and Join C. Hammond, of Hadley. THe FLOOD iN THE SUSQUEHANNA.—The unprece- Out the severest punishment. Cne day he bad one | dented rains of Thursday, Friday aud Saturday Of the privates of the post put in the guarthouse } caused a rise in the river which, for rapidity, has for slong period for Some trivial peg'ect of duty, | yot been equalied for many years. The tributaries and When ine man got out he, it is sald, swore he'd | m this immediate vicinity were not much swollen, get even Wilh the omeer, J was the latter's tura | snowing that the rains had spent their power along & few days alter he had imprisoned the soldier | tue main stream, On Bridey morning the water had tw aril troops in the manual, He stood ached iifteen feet above low water mark, and so im frout te company daring the fring, | sudden had it come up that large quantities of logs sod, a8 fate would heave ff, immedimely | which had peen rafted out of the boom and not se- in front of @ Suldver Whose rite was loaded with bal. | cured im basins or harbors, were broken away and When the Was given Lie oMeer fell, | gwapt down. stream. The vacuum left in the ad “Fire the bead, and im &u hour after logs had been nia Was he who had Susquehanna boom where railed out was ‘gon fied by the crowd from above, aud many logs escaped at the bottom and pussed down stream. The water reached its height about two o'clock on Saturday morning, when it marked nineteen feet nine inches, being several inches higher than the spring flood, As near as we whusnet could ascertain the following losses have been sus- looked tained:—About 7,600,000 feet of logs escaped from Bim of all evil intent, and so did & cour n the boom. Probably'the loss to the lumbermen of 1k Was fatality that had placed the officer iv cront of | this city will reach nearly $300,000, not counting the the loaded rifle, » fatality guided by Hin w arawback for What they inay recover below. Loyal- Punishes the Wwrougdoer. bg Bo g Big so-k boom fias not, we understand, caught many, officer was, of course, almost Z ¥ and it 48 estimated that §,000,000 feet passed below terrible misfortune, and her case exch ai the officers of the fort. death she telegra of whom she had that point. It was a blue day for many lumbermen, We learn (hat the Lock Haven boom ts ail safe, aud few, if any, logs escaped from it. ‘The flood at that place was novso high a8 the one here. The people aan by inforjaimng tun 01 Of Mill street had to Tesort to the second stories of AK THE NEWS ‘thelr houses to escape the Water Which Care Sec rd Mg Rag | Mow Of their first Muors.—Wusiamsport (Pa.) 9a te the oteer's fiower, wus sue believed to DO’ win wD ~~ , y NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 2), i870--TRIPLE SHEET, CUBA. UTAH | sass career enttienosnaniihnnsia We “rene could Douay ge wa With fhe bw, he A SEARCH FOR CUBAN LEADERS. | Sver Mining in the Territory—Recent Discov. | Juic® entered the front door Dix attacked. bin ES eries—Plague of Gzasshoppers—Deaths — | Sised. wilt hnh, Dix ‘hen Sutras” ya wiih Boconaowmance Over the Sierra Cubitas—Paucity Anan Talhate- Ton moRbsitos scroas inarge date thon managed to Fi wid of Resulte—Military Skill of Insurgonts— thon “toto The street, ‘ad gare tee ‘slartn. ys Saur Lake Crry, June 12, 1870. ‘The muning classes of Utah have been particularly reticent in times that are past concerning their claims, their location, the amount of gold and silver produced by them, and other reliable data upon which to base operations or encourage the invest- ment of capital by outside barbarians. Whether this reticence 1s the result of selfishness or a desire to prevent an influx of that reckless and dissipated throng so characteristic of mining towns I cannot say; but this 1 do say—the time has at length arrived when isolation is no longer possible and Utah will put on her silvery garments and march to the front ranks of these United states to fill a position hereto- fore unoccupied. It has been not only very incon- venient but almost impossible for a person residing in the Staves to obtain reliable information concern- ing the mining affairs of Utah. The mines are looming up in importance and seem destined to eclipse the far-famed mines of South America. Not afew trans- actions in the sale of mining property have already transpired, poor men generally being the discoverers and often selling out to capitalists, I may mention the sale yesterday of an undeveloped claim (a mere discovery) to Mr. Woodmansee at $2,000; of one @ few days since at $5,000, and of another just before that at $8,000, Mr. Woodman discovered a mine in Little Cottonwood only last summer that I Will venture to @ millon dollars cannot buy. crowd soon gathered; but as they entered Dix, see- ing that his audacious acheme was @ iailure, and that the penalty for murder was more’ in than itis at present, drew a pistol and blew nis brains oat onan the Lares naiae, yet A od pe Was appo! cashier piace @ unfor- tunate Parker, and, after @ se! of thirty years, naaesy fost his life im defending the property of the Cubans Accused of Poisoning Springs— Disappearance of Valmaseda—Roport from the Eastern Dopartment-- Another Gross Outrage on en Amorican Citizen. Havana, June 16, 1670, The Siorra Oubitas les to the west of the tine of ratiroad between Puerto Principe and Nuevitas, ¢x- tending to the Jiguey river, which empties into the sea opposite Cayo Romano. It is remarkable for its gloomy recesses, its dificuit passes and extensive caves, Lying, with reference to the coast, opposite the point of embarkation usually selected by the in- sargents when leaving the island, it has been used habiwually a6 4 place of concealment while waiting an opportunity to do so, As the Spanish authoritics, (her adfectediy or realiy, suppose that many of the prominent insurrectionary leaders are endeavoring to escape, it was thought that a careful and minute reconnotssance through the Sierra mentioned would be likely to result in a rich prize of prisonera, With this end ta view several columus which had peen operating over the Camazuey were combined and commenced their march from Guanaja, on the coast, to which potnt they were probably taken in launches. On reaching the mountains the colamn was broken IRISH LANDLORDISM. The System as Defended and Indicted: ‘Thomas Carlyle’s Opinion. ‘Thomas J. Norris, of Newark, N. J., defends the operation of the present land system in {reland by the following allegations set forth in his recent let- ter to the HERALD. He says:—'‘That ejectments are rare in Iretand can be seen from this fact. My late father and I were extensive land agents in, perhaps, the poorest county in Ireland—Leitrim—from 1797, when he obtained his first agency, to 1843, when [ gave up my last, and during that time only one ten- ant was dispossessed by ua.” Mr, Norris must have been very fortunate, ds was his father, in his agency experiences, The words “by us’ sound slightly Pharisaical, but perhaps in using them the gentle- man really makes a valid claim to reward hereafter. beg) Furlong, of the Catholic Diocese of Wexford, in which is situated the Marchioness of Ely’s estates, writing from Rome on the land tenure subject, states A gentleman who has some acquaintance with | that the Irish tenants need:— into several detachments, and a very minute examl- | geology si od the idea a few days since that tne | _ Firs—~The bishops desire that the bil should recognize, and nution was mace throughout the section, ‘ marmot, rigger have been discovered in | legalize for Ireland: generally (he right of # — result is furnished . | Various parts e Territory and are now bell frank A repertel te » us in an extra | Worked Pith considerable "Snerny ‘on the Sevier tion thereof unless Just cause be shown ip a ‘Land Court) ordinary issue of the Gazette, It starta off by an- | river soul the Mount east of Salt for their eviction or for the of certain improve- ments, ‘Second—That the tenant, tn case of an rent, should have the right of justment. hird—That all agricultural tenants ith, and tn Lake City, where they have gone down a consider- able distance and “drifted” in every direction for many feet without finding ‘wall rock,” where all around, above, below, on the right hand and on the Bouncing @ loss to the enemy of 164 killed, seventy- nine prisoners, 1,114 presentados, one banner, two archives, more than 500 horsea, much ammunition, attempt to raise his the ‘Land Gourt for two rafts, five boats and some arms, ‘The Spaniards } lett are’solid masses of stlver ore, are extensions of | fAFms0r holdings,» hp alpen 2 ont (om prin y Leone had seventeen wounded, two of whom hed dled from | te South American lode whicit has been worked tients task eal co be aabject tothe approval of thegandiond ‘as sen ast tage for 80 centuries and which extends the whole | or the sanction of the Land Court, as well as to the privilege ety, There was one formal encounter, } jength of the Pacifle coast on both Continents. of pre-emption by the landiord. ‘and that with a party commanded by Antonio Rodrt- The grasshoppers are causing the Saints conside- ne aca oan ‘against tilling any portion of grass rable anxiety at the present time, having destroyed vast quantities of wheat, oata, barley, onions and, in fact, all manner of green things. ‘hey some- lumes setle in great numbers on all sorts of trees, when you might exclaim in vain, “Grasshoppers Spare those trees,” Jor ln aghort time every leaf is gone to that bourne from Whence no leaves ever have leave to return. I have seen grasshoppers so thick in the air as to obscure the noonday sun. In dealing with these pests the Mormons do hot follow the precept of returning good for evil. If ihe hop- pers take their wieat the Mormons do not give them their oats also, if they can discover a way to get around it, Dr. Richards, Sr., has been trying to account for so many deaths among the cnildren last summer by attLibuting the cause to poison injected into the fruit by hoppers, and advising the peopie to use no fruit Waich has been bitten by them. Ido not regard this as good advice, ‘These grasshoppers are the locusts of Scripture, and we read of Jol, “His meat were locust and wiid honey;’’ besides it is a common thing for the Indians to eat thei, and ] am personally acquainted with a gentieman who, being on the Plains without otner food, was forced to subsist upon them for some time, ‘fake these facts with the truth that nine-ienths of the children who expire in this section are too young to eat Irmt, and that the idea of imbibing poison ‘with their mothers’ ilk 18 rather fur-fetcied, f feel inclined to advise the people to make better use of the fruit they are asked to throw away, and of whic! considering the depredations of these ruthless de- stroyers, they stand so much in need, ‘The Godbeites are coolly, calmly and deliberately pursuing the cven tenor of thetr Way on the basis of liberty of speech, &c., drawing the ‘orthodox’? frailties trom their dread abode and giving credit for some of the merits disclosed. guez, called Madrinales, formerly of the Spanish army. This party had constructed over the river Maximo a bridge, defended by many of the resources of military art, It comprised @ point of passage to the river where tt was uot fordable, [twas com- manded by a fort from which a cross-fire could be epeaed upon it, and was only approachable on three sides, by Barrow serpentine paths, through marshy ground, Within this had been constructed all the barracks necessary for the garrison, which, in its composition and thetemper of 1s chiefs, presented a cohesion, @ boldness and strategy without example among the insurgents. As says the report, from this abode, which they oonsidered impregnable, they made excursions in which were committed horrible cruelties on the unfortunates who fell into their hands, and, more than once, when threatened by the troops, they retired without dispersion, contrary to the practice of the insurgents. AS soon as the existence of this place became known the command of Colonel Bergel, which ar- rived iirst near the point, Was ordered to attack and destroy it, The tasurgents, however, did not defend tie position, but by a secret path passed to the ‘a, Whore they Were met by the marines of ue Isabel la Catolica, who attacked them, killing the chiet, Madrinales, and another, thougut to be Fran- cisco Aguero, from leiters found on his person, Aside from this party only small groups of from ten to twenty men wore seen, A list of chiefs killed on this and other occasions is given as 1o!lows:—Cregorio Loret de Mola, Manuel Rivero Arteaga, Joaquin Guzman, Francisco Castel- Janos, Enrique Loret de Mola, Antomo Rodriguez, Komuaido Sanchez, Oscar Cespedes, Luis Rivero, ‘Fith—That tenants have the right to sub-divide thetr farms in favor of thelr relatives, within such reasonable limits as the Land Court may approve, If the Irish tenants need all this in the year 1870 ey certainly did not enjoy much of itin 1797. That they do need a Land Reform bill we are assured by the receipt of a copy of alecture delivered by the Hon, Charles Gavan Duffy, M. P., in the Polytechnic Hall, Melbourne, Australia, in the present year, and specially forwarded to the HeaLp by tho author. Mr. Dutly says:— M, de Beaumont, the French statesman, Ireland in 1825, twenty years before the clared that, baving seen tbe Indian in his negro in his chains, be thought he had witnessed the depth of human misery; byt something remained worse than the state ‘of the savage or of the slave, and that was the condition of = tenant-at-will under an Irish landiord, An Kngliah political economist at the same time ailirmed that there was more misery crowded into one province in Ireland than could be found'tn all the rest of Europe put together, | Nearly twenty ‘ears Jater, and sti}l before the famine, Thomas Carlyle, in artis,” paints a scene yet more gloomy \ope jess. “Ireland,” he says, “has nearly seven millions of work- ing people, the third unit of whom, it appears by statistical sclonce, his not for thirty. weeks each year, ae many third Tate potatoes as will aufice him. It {s » fact perhaps the most cloquent that over was written down in any lapguage ‘at any date of the world’s history.” Sir Kobert Peel also, be- fore the famine, stated, on official information, that more than half the houses in fen Irish counties; containing « popu lation of more than three millions, and one-fourth of th houses in all the other counties, were “mud-wall cabins of only one room.” Such & fact carries with It « suggestive picture of the food, clothing and culture of « population vo oused, Again Mr. Duffy says:— It was the common and universal practice in three pro- vinces a8soon as a farm was Improved to raise the rent on the tedant in proportion to his improvements; or if the im- provements were good enough to tempt the cupidity of some serviceable bailiff or underiing he was rewarded by the economical device of putt im in posseasion of the ten- A BOLD RAID ON A BAYH, Manuel Carmona, Rafael Zaldivar, Fernando Pujol, CEDAR a property, It was actually the pour farmer's interest to N. Laborda, Pedro Risco, Juan Diaz Uma, Santiago ea ech ceanian encugh alone, H¢"ho logged gn witout enerpriae oF Guzman, . ie Mechani in wisville Entere ‘The death of Dr. Forda, the insargent Mimister of iis farm: but it he but or. planted, drained oF fenced, tho by Robbers in Open Day~They Chioroform the Cashier and Make Off with Sixty-five penalty was inevitable—an increased rent or an éject- ‘son re will cry; “this is Trish War, from a fever, is reportea. Cespedes is said to me wiseaci Stuart Mill, who fs not an Trish- ment. “Impossible,” have abandoned the Central Department. exaggeration.” Jphn It is stated that the insurgents are now potsoning Tuousand Dollars~Strange Sequel to the | man, and who deals with politics as e science, says, in those springs of water which the Spanish soldiers relation to the same facts, “The Irish tenant, almost are ukely fo anink, and (tial on one gccasion | TTAS00y of Tatrey Neer eee Alone) ‘among’ mankind, stood | m this position, | If * Caial ac) a (From the Courier-Journal, June 18.] mdustrious ana prudent nobody | but, bis on ee Ree mer Bheee oe hs (ae Oneof the most daring and successful pieces of | Cawld gain” | Bat ie ina i ese, Cope ‘Awramnonte i8 published, in whicn the destruo- } Villainy ever perpetrated in our clly occurred yesters | were open ant Uniet, Justice ’ Peunefather, ibimaelt Gan wor the ‘caaeficlas 48 —dicected and the | Gay afternoon. 1t was no less than the robbing of the | a iandiord, has described the law under which justice treasure Vaults of the Mechanics’ Bank in broad day- hight of a large sum of money, and the escape of the rovbers. The facts of this daring robbery are about as toliows:-—Mr. Henry L. Fope, who, for the last between the partics was administered to them with the coolness of an anatomist delivering » elialeal lecture on some one else’s dislocated Imbs, “The whole code relating to landlord and tenant in Ireland,” says the Jus “has been framed with a view to the landlord's mterest alone. ‘The in- poisoning of the spring at Savana Nueva, This charge 18a very old one, and has been miade by one side or the oiner during almost every civil war of wh.ch history speaks. it 1s easy to make and dil. Cui vo refate, As USUAL, no Oe has been poisoned, | tWenty-live or thirty years, has held the position of } torest of whe tenant neve red into the contemplation of $ex e 7 2 } cashier af the Mectianics’ Bank, occasionaily goes fo ny Me uialetran b. ry and it ts extremely doubtful if there 18 any truth 1 | MeN OC Te tte nanny cspocinny wi tow tHe | eolessBrity es ack Mieceanive eeansamiobat re oi it whatever. ” No further military operations are reported from } busy Season, to count the cash, post the books and landlord. finish up the business of the day. Yesterday the bank was Closed at two o'clock P, M., the usual hour, and Mr. Pope went to dinner, and returned to the bank a little after four P, M. He sat down in the cashier's office, looked over the daily paperagor a few minutes and then opened the vauits and cash drawers and commenced counting the money. He had been buslly engaged in tls man- ner ior some tline—how long is not exactly knowa, but the supposition is that It was about tive o’clock- when suddenly two nen advanced upon hum from behind. Mr. Pope, when he entered the building, closed and locked the front door and was standing behing the counter facing the front door. The fore- most of the two men had a hage knife in his hand, and, a3 he suddenly came upon Mr, Pope, and as that gentie@Man turned his head, made a menacing movement with the knife and said:—“If you make a noise 1 will Kill you,” and at the same time threw a lanaiul of snuff into Mr. Pope's eyes. The other man then rushed up with a heavy wool! shawl, which he had taken from the hat track in the back Mr. Duffy sums up the consequences of the opera- tion of the land system in Ireland thus:— ‘The famine raged in Ireland for three years, and killed 1,000,000 of the farmer and peasant class. The common graveyards became vats of corruption, repulsive to sight and smell, ‘The hospital tloors were literally crowded like cattle- pena with dead and dying. The Se ships, to which many fled for safety, were conver by filth and poverty into new lazar houses; and beyond the Atlantic an unknown cigease, it was said, extaled from the puirid masses of Irish dead. It killed ten’ times more men in one small (sland than the reckiess demagogues of the French Kevolution tung to the guillotine. It kuled more than the entire population of this Australian continent. And in face of this dreadful vist- tation one 8 steadily and coolly pursued their own inte- rests over the social chaos and through the ranks of death. ‘The exterminating landiords, as they came to b cleared small tonants olf their estates by thousand: of thousand Hands of navvies were employe: houses from morn til} night, I traveled genie’ through Munster aud Connaught [Mr. Norris’ favored province] soon with the most eminent Scotchman here refers to Mr. Caryle}, and ere te seatures of @ rerenllg conquered the Ceniral Department, The Fanal of Puerto Principe to the 11th contains the following ttems of interest: — On the 3d were shot I that city Don Luis Medal, Don Isidro Garcia aud Don Tomas Almetia, of tie Upton expedition, The inree prisoners recently cap- tured on Cayo Komano, and who 1 was thought had given false names, haa arrived. They had been on the Key for three mouths, subsisting on shellfish and wild irnits, They are believed to be youths of good familles, led away by the Cuban Junta in New York, The heulth of the Captain General continues good, ‘That of the Commanding General, Don Pedro Caro, who had been suffering from a fever, is quite re- stored. ‘The rains had not set in, but, it 1s claimed, mili- tary operations will not be suspended. rom Hol- guin, the 10th, it 18 announced that tranquillity reigns throughout the jurisdiction. Ferrer, who 1s im command there, reports one or two sinall en- counters of no interest or importance. What has become of Vainiaseda is @ question which is now after these events, living [Mr. Dutt we found every’ ee ‘ country. Clave was almost’a wilderness from Kilrush to agitating the public.mind. He could not say and | room, aud threw It over Mr. Pope's head. | Gorotis. ‘The desolate shores of Lough Corrib would have be said of less were he consigned to the tomb of the | The two men then seized hold of him and | resembled o desert but that the stumps of ruined houses dragged him into the back room and thrast him into asiairway leading up stairs and locked the door "They thea went beck to the front room and hastily showed that not nature, but man, bad been the desolator. Between Killala bay and Sligo, during an entire day's travel, we catimated that every second dwelling was pulied down; Capuiets or of any other famuy. A nuwber of weeks has passed without any report from him or meation of hus name in the journals. A long report ia the astern Department, wheie. 0: gathered up what money there was ia sight and | oP eon ae a toe vabeae fat toe commands, appears in the Ofleial Gazeite, made off, ‘The specta! deposits of the bank, amount: J eounty, in prosperous Uistor, upwards of eighteen hundred b reverence 18 Made to him, This report 1s not satis. | Mg to many thousands of dollars, were ranged”) humad beings were ejected by an absentee proprietor named factory to those desirous of preserving the national J upon the shelves of tne vault aud | Shirley, the tenants of whose estate, in a century and a haif, iutegrity, but ts rather calouinted 70 afford gracition- entirely overlooked by the robbers. The | had raised the rental from a few hundreds m your to 425,00), tion to the ungodly revels Wo have no pride in the nh belonging to the bank was im the ue Mausbet bones ae ean aiaenc ines ter ianee fained expression “Somos spat The rainy | cast drawer and in a sinail safe an the i ‘The town lords of Ireland pulled down in three or four. seison has set 1, and the ‘condition of | large vault, voth of which were open. They scooped | population sank along with the peasantry; the bread they the roads is fearful.’ Nevertuciess, the perse- | the smail safe clean, but when they caine to the | ate was dear; the goods they offered for ‘sale faded on their cution of the insurgents has not ceased, though ash drawer they were more particuiar, pay eupty- ansives, or mouldered in thelr drawers, without purchasers, “une: 9 4 aionnn’ e comparinents Cc is. Seri heir aavings were eaten up by poor rates, levied to suppor! ihey manage to elude the vigilance’ of our | ing the compartinents containing Jarge bilis. Scrip | geo tttonanty in the workhouse. But’ the most aecnal and one aud two dollar bills were thrown aside wita contempt. They were evidentiy in a great hurry, and grabbed up the moncy hasiily, as one package, containmg $1,000, was found lying on ile troops and to shun all serious encounter.” As none are met wiih 1a Manzauitio itis cialmed the parties there are Gitninishiug. In Bayamo vartous col- umns continue in pursuit of Modesto Diaz, but the change was in the people themselves. Mr. Norris, of Newark, N. J., after reading the above careiuily will come to know 4 littie about the precautions which tals cule! takes, the system which } fvor, ammediasely beueath the cash drawer. ‘She manner 1D which Irish landiordism ‘works” in he has of placing advance guards at & considerable | Mouey obtain was United States currency, } ireland. distance from his position, his not remaining in one { iM bills of various denominations, and i is % place more than a day or two, combined with his | SUpposed the robbers had @ caryetsack, whoa THD ROMANCE OF OUTLAWRY. great knowledge of the country, render his cap- they crammed full of notes and then leit. How the BERTI: robbers got into the bank 18 a mystery, but the most reasonable theory is that they slipped into the bnild- ing during the day and secretet themselves im tue back room until Mr. Pope returned from dinner, ‘Yney advanced upon him trom the back room, and were evidently in their stoc! feet, as Mr, Pope heard no soutid antl they Were upon him. Wheo they threw the shaw) over his head he experienced @ sense of suffocation, and immediately lost all con- sciousness. ture diiticult. ported. Dates from Santiago nba to the 8th tust. an- nounce the arrival of @enerat D. José Merclo Calvo, the new governor, Who had assumed the du- tes of us position, No miliary operations reporied. An oiticiai report from Santo Ciara, the 1s., says that after Manuel Caridad Surday had presented him-elf and, with some of his band offered bis ser- Vices to the government the o\her partes who A number of sul lights are re- Freebooting in South Carolinn—A Raid of North Carolina Outlaws—An Andacious Piece of Work. {Marion, 8. C. (June 16) correspondence of the Charleston News.) The boldest robbery uf even such times as we now live in Was committed tn this county (and only about eight and a haif miles from the village) on Tuesday were wandering through Camarones and Cumaua- ‘The tirst discovery of the robbery was made a few | night, 14th. ‘The store of Captain W. 8. Ellerbe and yegua wnited with those of Cartagenes anit mynutes before eight o’ciocK last night. Mr. W. M. | Mr. Samuel Watson was robbed in @ manner which Yaguaramus, in which parties were concen- Lewis, a young man Who sleeps in the bank, went | aimost causes admiration from the peculiar boldness trated the’ bulk of the insurrection in | there at that time last night, and wpon entering the | exhibited by the thieves. Captain Thomas K. Stan- ley had charge of the store, and was as usual at- tending to his business, when at about eight P. M. he was seized before any possible resistance could room found the gas turned down, contrary to the usua! custom. He struck @ light,and finding thejvauit door open suspected that something was wrong and Cienfuegos. A considerable force was sent out against them, which they managed to elude, and Mnally toe troops were divided into small columns aud an active pursuit kept up. in the encounters ] Went to the fesidence of Mr. Po the hier, | be made, forced to give the robbers the keys to the which have followed a attdels of both sides have | and = learning = that =he has not been safe, and, with his wife and his cook, locked in the been kuled, but nothing determinate has been ac | home since dinner, obtained the as- | counting room of the store. The robbers fastened complished, sistance of two policemen and returned | the windows securely, and, posting guards, to the bank and found inatters in the condition de- scribed above. Mr. Pope was lying in the stairway with the shawl lying partiy over him, and a boitle which had contatued coioroform. near his face. He ‘was insensible, but by the application of cold water ‘Was restored to consciousness. A large glass bottle, rly filled with chloroform, a napkin which had heen saturated with chloroform, and a huge knile, with a blade nearly eighé tnches loug, were found on the tabie. A hasty count of the cash was made, as it was 1m- possible during the hurry and excitement to ascer- tain exactiy the amount taken, but as far as could be ascertained last night, about $65,000 in currency ‘was missing. Piled tn tne suelves in boxes were the special deposits of the bank, consisting oi cash and bouds to the amount of several hundred thousand doll: which the robber’ had overlooked. — Air. Pope was made very ili by is rough treatment and had not fuily recovered up to a late hour last night. There is but little, if any, ciue to the bold robbers, ‘The attack upon Mr. Pope was so sudden and derce that he was unable to get a fair Jook af the imen, and consequently could not give anything like a definite description of their appearance. It is stated that two inen carrying @ carpet sack between them were seen to leave the bank about six o'clock. ‘They evitently left by the iront door, as they From Santi Espiritu and Moron come reports of thirleen encounters. Among some ducuments cap- tured were found some very stringent orders against presentation to the Spanish authorities or havin; any communication with the Spantards, A despate! from St, Domingo, in the jurisdiction of Sagua, mentions the capture of the chief José de la Merced Leon, known as “El Tnerto" (the one-eyed). He 18 accused of horrible crimes in that disirict. ‘rhe captain of the Chapelgorris of Macagua telegraphs of an encounter with forty insurgents, in which tive were killed and a number wounded. Dates from Gibira to the 10th mention an attack by the insur- gents on @ convoy moving to Las Tunas, in which they were driven off. in ‘Trimidad, on the 8th, was shotthe youtn D. José Verguera, for disioyaity. ‘The recent discussion of the Phillips case in Con- gress has not been sufficient to prevent a continu- ance of outrages upon American citizens. The latest case is the arrest of a young man from New York named Joseph Duany, and his imprisonment on suspicion of being the son of our Count Duany, who, it seems, had committed some offence against the Spanish government many years ago. Duany 18 about twenty-two years of age, was born in Cuba, but went tothe United Staies when he was tt years old, where he has ever since resided, There is ne shadow of charge against hin save of being the they commenced eee As a customer would come he would be seized, hts life threatened in case of outcry, and marched into this nondescript jail. Eighteen persons, including Mr. Watson (one of the owners of the store), were final thusimmured. Mrs. Stanley’s intant, in the dweil- tng house adjoining, commenced to cry, and, 1n obg- dience to her earnest entreaties, Captain Stanley re- quested the robbers to let nim go aiter his little child and also that of his cook in her house. ‘The robbers humanely granted this request, guarding the Cap- tain to the houses and back to nis place of imprison- ment. When they were ready to leave they handed the prisoners lighted candle, and after warning them they would be shot in case they attempted to come out before day, they went off, taking the horse of Mr, Watson to assist them im taking off their booty. They made directly for the North Carolina line, At Mr. Jonn H, Moody’s they stopped and took two horses and at Mr, W. J, Page’s they took two more, ‘The loss of Messrs. Ellerbe & Watson is not dednitely known, as the goods weze nearly all taken from the sielves aud strewn on the floor—the robbers only taking off what suited them, this being for the most part ready made clothing, ammuai , Shoes, &c. Lhey obtained $400 in money. Te unprisoned party succeeded at about one A. M., 15th instant, in drawing & staple gon Of @ Man he is liot. Since his incarceration he has | took the key with which Mr. Pope entered | and releasing themselves, when the alarm was been in a room containing nothing but abroken | the bank. Ail of the avenues leading from | given ana pursuit commenced. ‘The hand gee in chair, not even being provided those necessaries | the city were guardea last night, and every etfort ‘with the lighted candle was white, but the entire were biackened. The number of thieves 1s vari estimated from five to ten. Since writing the e Mr. Shaw has returned. ‘Tne horses seemed to have been turned loose, after their services were DO a ino ae Rho met et , 80 that Nuch Was saved. nd was aon le, N. C., near the den of the will be made to bring the bold Viliains to justice, | band, so far as seen, ‘This is the second attempt which has been Inade to rob this same bank in day ‘The first at- tempt Was @ highly tragical aifair, and occurred about thirty years ago. ¢ story, as well a8 can be remembered now, about as follows:—Mr, which, in all civilized countries, are accorded to the worst criminals. The energetic remonstrances of Consul Biadle against his imprisonment and treat. ment have ouly been vouchsaled the response that he could have a bed and other necessaries if he would pay for them. The young man is in an ¢x- tramely nervous condition, and the matter at the | Parker, who was the cashier of the bank, tad a traced peyond Ashpol b best inbwely to result seriously to him. Tue matter | frieud, a Captain Dix, of Mayesviile, who Was iu the | Robeson outlaws, thus leaving no doubt that they has been represented to Washington, but 1t is per- | habit se — a ee ae eee. fa were the robbers. Y c onergt vt was a “ Pe to expect any energetic action from bp eon this and New Or- Crops 1x Kentucky.—The Lexington Gazette Says — ———— leans, Mr. na 3. Fuian. ‘of this city, Was aiso au om. | Mr. ‘M. Barkley, of arg gegen | A NEW PLANT.—A correspondent from Marlon | cer of the bank, which was then located on Main | Bi heat harvest last Tuesday, Lat apes :n distri: . C., Says the Charlotte Bulletin, writes a8 | street, between Second and Third, At the dinner | crop, no one Who hay he may it est io r9 p Be foliows?--f have discovered and fully tested a new | hour Juan would go to his dinner and return ‘and | less than 30 peop ned mg cot toe? iat riyslb honey piant which abounds acre, and blooms from | reheve Parker. pon the day ip uestion | three os ge Begg aio pop, irs ~ May 10 to June 2v. It yicids a large supply of the | Capiain "pix, who had gone to the bank | Fully Lag ng », clanted, anid it is probable shat purest honey, delicious to the palate and clear as | and desperaie, went Kentucky has bee ion oan holes tue close the remaining fourth wil while Juan was absent oi the week. spring wacer. ‘he dDush is suitabie for yards as it is ary 6 afver looking over tho payers aud + very ornumental te te nn | sv. DOMINGO. The National Indebtedness of the Republic. A Few Words Regarding Annexation—Fears of the People—Stories Passing Around— General Distrust—How the Debt is to be Manipulated. Sr. Dominao, May 28, 1870. Some very extraordinary rumors are being passed from lip to ip, some confidentially, among the hitherto ardent friends of annexation, and are plainly alienating the best clasa of Americans from the cause, “Forewarned forearmcd” says the old maxim, and the HERALD may expose ‘the coming evil in time to take out the sting. In one sentence it is broadly stated, and 1s gain- ing every hour a tirmer hold on leading minds here, that the spoilsmen of Washington mean to make & money job out of annexation. A gentleman who is presumed to be the agent of these schemers has been coming and going between this capital and Wash- ington ever since annexation has been on the car pet and who passes here for the confidential repre sentative of certain speculative Senators has sald to more than one that the Dominicans would have to stay out in the cold until he and his friends should be satistied, This gentleman has never had any oMcial connection with this government. He ob- tained a kind of preatige with it from nis supposed influence at Washington. In the presumed interest of these confidential friends in Congress overtures were made to parties here to depreciate and then buy up the Dominican debt at ten cents or less on the dollar, and when tt should be bought in to have it passed at ttsface by & “picked and pliable’ commission, Severat most excellent men have privately pledged themselves to watch the progress of this specula- tion inch by inch, and to communicate the data (uames included) for publication, im the hops that a clear and timely exposition of the schema will frastrate its execution. ‘The plan of farther depreciating the already de- preciated paper of the Dominican republic can- not be managed without this government taking part in ft, and that it cannot and dare not do, even were this Cabinet and Senate to unite in the attempt, which, for many reasons, may be set down as out of the question. The “picked and pliable commis. sion’ may do much, but that presupposes an obliging Willingness not to see abuses which, up to the present, have not characterized President Grant. To return to details. It is estimated that the pub- Ne debt subject to mantpulatton may fairiy and with ey to all concerned be covered by $600,000 out of the miilion or yp rears to be soprnpriend for paying the domestic debt. A part of this domes- tie debt, including the bonds issued to satisfy or in evidence of the national obligations on the score of the war of deliverance waged for three years against the Spanish armies of occupatioy has been classified and to some extent 1 old value declared by law. ‘The hew plan fi to first reduce its market value to less than $200,000, delay action in Congress until after the recess, alarm the holders—mostly Domint- cans of small means—into realizing at any price, and then go before the commission to demand payment at par, or so near it as to swallow up the entire mil- lion dedicated to clearing otf the national debt, in- stead of the $600,000 of tt which the Baez Cabinet and every other intelligent Dominican thinks ought to take up every dollar of the government paper under a just and impartial classification. ‘nis buying up the Dominican obligations for per- haps $100,000 and obiaining something like ten ttmes the amount in gold from a picked and pltable com- mission 1s bad enough from a moral point of view to shock scores of thinking Dominicans out of their abounding faith in Washington wisdom and purity; but there is rising behind it a poiltical cloud of more dangerous proportions which is ait her unseea in the United States, Tits 1s it:—One-third, at least, of the domestic debt consists of the arrears due to the soldiers and civil wmpleados of the government. ‘These men were reconciled to the lease of Samana and afterwards to annexation by the promise of pay- ment on the recelpt of money from the United States. ‘Toere is hardly a voter in the republic who, either ta his own person or through near friends, does not ex- pect a few dollars in the general seitlement, It has always been stated by members of this gov- ernment that atter paying oif the foreign debt of $300,000 and dedur What was advanced on Sa- mana, &c., there would Cage f remain $1,000,000 for clearing off and washing out the whole circie of national indebtedness. Of this 1 repeat on the best authority that something less than six hundred lars would vi 7 oe ee — po lee paper ew oy BOW OU! Irculat yu! over the country 12 ‘adall’ Butus, as soldiers aud ot viltans had been forced to receive it in pay for thew services, their animals and the products of their farms, When this jegal tender ran down to lesa than half 2 cent for the dollar with the storekeepers wt disappeared, The.country people packed 1 away by boxfuls to wait for the day in which the govern- ment should make good its promise to redeem at its last rates of actual emission, averaging five or six cents per dollar. What is in ihe hands of the native holders, or sold by thein to resident traders, will bo paid off at those rates and will not exhaust $10u,000 of the appropriation, aud no rouble will arise on that head, neither will the payment of some $40,000 to $60,000 lent 10 gold or goid’s worth by merchanta and meu of means to assist the government to feed aud clothe 1ts soldiers on the troutier. They were to some degree forced loans, for if not granted it was to be feared that the military force stationca along the border to repress the Cacos and Cabralis- tas would desert the fleid en masse and leave the country open to revolution aud anarchy. This class of debts is expressed by vales or gold notes of a special class, and are not in market; but there is a whole family of vales and titudos forming—in fact the great balk of the domestic debt, which will be the pabulum of the new scueme of plunder. To buy them up for next to nothing, and have them paid at par, would quickly reatize naif a million of profit onan investment of sea $50,000, and to go a little farther, emgross the whole sum allowed for the complete cancelment Of aii existing Hablities of the Dominican republic, A’picked and piiabie commission might, in that, way, take generous care of its friends; bus it would’ leave nothing for the payment of we Dominican army, Which has been kept on oot for the Jast year on promises to pay up its arrears on the arrival of the aunexation money. [t will leave nothiug for the mass of the population who have ioarded up their dormant “legal tenders” for the same Jonged-for day. ‘This 1s one of the secrets of the popular desire for annexation. Show tue people that it ts a spare and @ delusion, that a few speculators are to pocket the price of their hara years of aweat and blood, and they are capable of rising in frenzy aud tearing the cummission to pieces in their cham~ ber of office, The vague icion of some kind of trick for plundering tne masses ts darkening in the air, and when it breaks out in mob action, and a military force 13 called out to put it down in blood and slaughter the fathers of the f! will say that it 18 because une masses ate violent ingrates, ‘wretches who are not worthy to share in the biesa- ings of annexation. ‘There 1g but one version—probably a hard and un- just one—of the growing belief here that Domint- can interests are to be sacrificed to a set of in~ triguers at Washington; but there is another and still hacker and, let us hope, still more unjust report, starting from Consul Perry's opinion, that the pub- lic domain should be concerted to the United States. "This last story is that all the public property of the State would be taken from it and made over to a clique of Washington land speculators. ‘This current of fecirhe may widen into an un- controllable torrent that Will overtop ail reatratt, and sweep this government out of existence 1n 036 week if the action of Congress should seem to jus tily these dangerous reports, STAGE MURDERS. i To THE Epiror OF THE HERALD:— = Not on the mimic stage for the amusement of gaping audiences, but real tragedies enacted almost daily on our public thoroughfares, Within the past month the newspapers have re- corded the sad and untimely deaths of two lasies, who but for the carelessness of st drivers night be now in the full enjoyment of health. We vail the attention of ladies to the danger of getting in or out of stages. A lady takes a stage down way. Arrived at her destination she pulls the strap and descends; she may be on the last step wnen the im- atient driver starts his horses. What is to prevent er from being thrown violently upon the pavement? there belng no hand rails by which she May steady herself. She is helpless, and, as often happens, may sustain a serious injury. ‘Thi aginary evil. Every citizen of New York can call to mind instances where ladies have met with such accidents owing to the recklessness of stage drivers and the incon- venience of st ‘as now constructed. This is but one argument in favor of the total abolition of these relics of a bygone age. Broadway stages are abomi- nably inconvenient, and thelr unprotected high steps make them particularly dangerous for ladies, It may be useless to point out the many objections to the use of stages in our city, but the ownera should be responsible for the lives of the passen- ers, : If we must have stages let them be built on the English plan, aud provided with ‘cada’ to assist ladies in and out, TROUBLE WITH THE DoMINION CURRENCY.—Tho tmitation of Dominion notes and fractional cur- rency has become very common with sinari adver- tisers, and, insome cases, has been found vo result in such bogus articles being passed as genuine. it would be weil for all those who think to push tae business in any suc way to bear in mind that any engraving which resembles, or is intenced to ro: ble any part of a Dominion or Provincial not bank note, subjects the maker and the holder ut is to the charge of felony and-fouricen years peu Uary.—Zorenta Glades !