The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1872, Page 4

“TMME SITUATION IN’ SPAIN, The United States and the Spanish Nation. THE HUMILIATION OF AMERICA. 4 General Review of Spanish Poli- tics and Diplomacy. WILL GRANT ABOLISH SLAVERY IN CUBA? ode a Ses What the Republicans Are Doing and How They Are Doing It. THE CARLISTS AND THEIR CAUSE. An Interesting Interview with King Amadeus. A REPUBLIO IN THE END. Mapai, July 18, 1872. Political affairs here are centred in the relations of the United States and Spain. The accession of @ liberal Ministry to power has brought them into @ more prominent position, on account of tho rumored desire of Zorilla and his Cabinet to carry out the Moret law against slavery in Cuba, a matter the President is said to have seriously at heart. As you know, this famous law passed in the flush of the Mberal uprising, and, meaning to ultimately emancipate the West Indian islands from the su- premacy of the slaveholding interests. has been * regarded asa dead letter, in consequence of the antagonism of Sagasta and the progresistas, who have striven:to maintain power by the assistance of the slaveholding interests. In addition to this, it is understood that the United States government did some time since mean to impose a new policy upon-the Spanish in their colonial possessions and may do so again, The demand for the release of Dr. Houard was in some respects the beginning of this “policy,” while at the same timo it post- poned it, The American government couid, per- haps, have made a demand for the re- turn of the body of Dr. Houard in such @ manner as to make his return impossible. ‘There might have been an issue which would have led to war, as the Spaniards are very sensitive upon American and Cuban questions. But our government really desired Houard. He was in ‘Cadiz, in ill heaith and suffering from the depress- ing effects of a warm climate. He had been debill- tated by imprisonment and the illness consequent upon imprisonment, and if he were to die in pri- son or before he was released the effect upon America, especially during a Presidential canvass, would be unfortunate for the interests of General Grant. So all the negotiations with the Spanish were with the view of really securing Houard’s re- lease, and all concessions were made to that end. In fact, the American government sacrificed its case to secure the release of the Doctor, and when the history of the correspondence between the State Department and the Madrid Embassy comes to be published it will be found a painful chapter in our diplomatic experiences, MOW AMERICAN PRESTIGE WAS INJURED IN SPAIN— UNWHOLESOME DIPLOMACY, While the release of Dr. Houard was, therefore, accomplished, the effect of the negotiations was to injure the prestige of the United States with Spain. The first note sent by our Minister, demanding the release, was peremptory in its nature. It was the direct instruction of President Grant, who, in con- versation with the Minister during his stay in America, directed him to begin a new policy. He had tired of singing songs and lstening to Spanish promises. Instructions were, therefore, prepared by the Secretary of State and addressed to the Minis- ter directing him to demand the felease of Houard; to insist upon a new policy with regard to Cuba; to demand indemnity for the past and security for the future, so far as relations between Spain and American subjects are concerned. Fatling in any or all of these demands, the Minister was to with- draw his legation, place his affairs in the hands of a Chargé d’Atfaires and withdraw from Spain; saying to the government of the King that the President could not with self-respect continue an embagsy at a court where American rights were so constantly violated. WHAT VIGOR WOULD HAVE ACHIEVED IN SPAIN. The effect of this policy would have been disas- trous to Spain. Spanish credit 1s low enough in the money markets of the world, but its Ministers are making a strenuous effort to restore it. The one thing that would have even degraded Spanish credit would have been any alienation or embarrassment with the United States. Such alienation would in- @vitably have led to war, and war to Spain would be bankruptcy. This was seen by the wise men of the King’s government—by men like Serrano; and as soon as the American Minister sent in his note on Houard’s case, and {t was learned from Wash- ington that the President had directed our Minister to begin his campaign against Spanish aggressions, the whole tone of the Spanish Ministry changed. The King was profuse in attentions to our people. Serrano went out of his way to volunteer the warm- est expressions of friendship towards the United States. Houard would be released immediately, nd President Grant would have no reason to com- plain that his just demands had been ignored. Spain was wiliing to make any concession and to atone in the largest sense to the wounded dignity of the United States, HOW THE STATE DEPARTMENT SURRENDERED. Suddenly a change took place. While the Ameri- can Minister in Madrid was carrying out the firm and resolute instructions received personally from the President, and Spain was promptly ylelding to the pressure, a despatch was recelyed by the Span- ish authorities from the Spanish Minister, inform- ing the King’s Minister that the American govern- ment was not serious in its policy of pressure ; that, no matter what Presidert Grant may have sald to the American Minister, and no matter how strenu- ously that Minister might carry out these instruc- tions, the Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, did not con- cur with the President and sympathized with Spain, and would at the proper time instruct the Ameri- can Legation to change the whole tenor ot tts policy. Instead of demanding Dr. Houard as an American eitizen unjustly imprisoned and deprived of his property, his pardon would be sought as an act of clemency to a convicted crimmal graciously ac- corded by the King to the President. When this news arrived from Washington thore was a sudden change in the Spanish manner. MR, PiSH A “GREAT STATRSMAN.”? Your correspondent remembers one conversation with a Spanish journalist very close to the new Ministry:—"Well,” said he, “after the bluster of your government, Houard will ‘only be released as au act of grace on the part of the King.” Your correspondent ventured to ask the reasons. “Well,” he replied, “the truth is the United States are afraid of Spain—very much afraid, They dread our navy. They do not want to seo our corsairs upon every sea. We drove the French out of Spain by guerilia warfare. You Americans don't know much about that, perhaps, But as soon as the French made a military occupation of Madrid and shot the insurgents on the Prado—thelr monu- ment stands there now, peering over the trees— every Spaniard vowed vengeance; men and women became soldiers ; every Frenchman was declared to be an enemy and an outlaw, and whenever we met there was war. By night, at the theatre, in the forests (we had trees then), wherever we met a Frenchman we killed him. Oh, citizen, that was atriotism! Perhaps you may have heard of Auinalacarregul ? ou may see his coun. try tom the car windows a8 you cross tho foot of the Pyreneean bills on your way to-France. Ho was the great, the world- renowned guerilla, He followed Napoloon over his whole course when he came to Madrid to see Joseph. If he could have caught him a rife-shot would have anticipated Waterloo, This great man showed mankind how Spaniards fight. He and his followers swarmed tn the hilis. They kept in our highlands- When the Frenchmen came tn force they melted away. Thoy hung upon his flank, his rear, his army trains, his garrison outposts; and it was war, war, war! You sce this is our policy now, Your President, Grant, does not know this, nor your General with the one leg who 1s Minister here. These men are only soldiers, who don’t read or know much, like our Serrano, whe is always swearing, and Topete, who spends his holy Sab- baths at cockfights, What do men of that kind know about history or statesmanship? Nothing. You cannot expect tt, But your Secretary Fish— your Prime Minister—is a great man; he knows his- tory. We were all distressed in Spain when we heard that Stokes had wounded him in a duel; for he knows Spain, He has pretest fold your President about ipkceenrirelie That is tho roa- son you changed ground on the Houard case. Bless you, we knew all about it at the time. When your one-legged Minister was hurrying about from ilar to Rost. from Serrano to Martos and from larton to the King, we knew there would be noth- ing of it, for your great Secretary of State had said to your soidier-President, ‘Beware of Spain! Do not offend the just pride of thar ancient, honorable and valiant race. member that by Epain Napo- leon fell; and sho will attack you en the Beas as she attacked him on the land. Her corsairs will swarm around your coasts. Not a ship can leave New York or Chicago or New Orleans or Delaware.’ And go the President paused, and we were informed that we neod pay no attention to your Minister, as he would have 4 different kind of instructions in a few days. Seilor, your Colonel Fish is a great states- man and knows Spain, and happy should America be to have him in her Woy CENTOS id ai SPAIN CHANG r . M i alah Trend was correc fa his facts so far as the United States were concerned. The instruc tions which oar Minister brought from the United States, and in pursuance of which he made tho peremptory demand for the release of Houard, were supnlessentod by a letter from Mr. Fish, di- recting him to ask for the release as an act of clemency. So what had been communicated to the Spanish government by its Minister, and £9 on to the newspapers and the club houses, was in time confirmed by Mr. Fish himself. And then came the sudden change in the Spanish mind and manner, General Grant was really afraid of Spain, All that had been said by our Minister was merely soldier's bluster, a soldier President playing with diplomacy through a soldicr Minister, and only saved from bringing unspoken calamities upon the country by the wisdom and the knowledge of the great Secre- tary of State, HOW AMERICA MIGHT SECURE FREEDOM IN CUBA. 1 do not think you can exaggerate the evil etfect of this Houard business upon our relations with Spain. The Epapierde are &@ proud people, and have all the evils of pride. They are convinced that the Unitea States are afraid of them. The last revolu- tion upon the part of the Americans would have compelled the King to change his colonial policy. This would have been especially grateful to the United States in the matter of slavery. The United States have abolished slavery, and yet its near neigh- bor—a colony to whose wealth and prosperity it contributes in a large degree—is a siaveholding Power. So long as slavery remains in Cuba it in- directly remains in the United States. While we abolish it at home we support it abroad. There- fore, no policy has been more earnestly urged upon Spain than the passage of some law ex- tinguishing slavery. Spain knows that apart from the moral and economical advan- tages of abolition {t would be en. act Sepectally pleading to the United States. Well, when liberal ideas were in the ascendant at the outset of the revolution, a law was passed by the -Cortes under tho inspiration of Sefior Moret, Sefior Moret is a celeprated member of the liberal party—a type of the best statesmanship Spain can produce, and as now Minister to London by the anpointment of Zorrilla, The intention of Moret's law was to secure gradual abolition. Its passage was regarded as a great concession to liberal ideas upon the part of Spain and a compliment to the United States. But the Moret law was no sooner passed than it was suspended, and slavery is no nearer abolition in Cuba than it was before, There can be no doubt that if Spain were to feel that it was possible for the United States government to be tn earnest for @ month this law would be put in force. There can ia 4 no reasonable moral doubt that if the policy which the American Minister in- augurated when he returned from Washington had been allowed to bear its tull and natural fruit it would have enforced the operation of the Moret law. This was a part of that policy. It was something near to the heart of President Grant, You will re- member that he made a reference to it in one of his messages If the United States could do any- thing with Spain it could induce the enforcement ofa law already passed and only suspended be- cause of the royal decree. And yet Spaniards sneer whenever it is ated that the law should be enforced. e do not mean,’ sald a prominent member of the Cortes, with conservative liberal tendencies, to your cor- respondent, ‘to dissarrange our economical ultra. montane policy to elect General Grant. Americans want the Moret law because it will in some = hes Grant the glory of having freed Cuba. ‘e should like to have Cuba a free colony, But we must frst conquer rebellion.” I ventured to suggest that Grant had assumed a great unpopu- jarity by his forbearance to Cuba. “Forbearance!” was the reply, witha most majestic shrug of the shoulders. ‘Nothing is easier than for naval Power to forbear with another—a naval Power which has six ships to its one.” In other word: you-cannot take any shape of this question tha’ does not show the universal and firm belief that the United Btates {s afraid of Spain, and is deterred from any development of a liberal policy by the in- fluence of the Spanish government, WHAT THE CARLISTS REALLY WANT—THE INQUISITION, This may be attributed to ignorance, The Spanish mind is under a cloud of ignorance and superstition that no revolution has spel saae The eloquence of Castelar, the fortitude and courage of Mayal, the incessant propagander of the republicans, have done much to elevate Spain. There is no Inqnisi- tion, and no longer @ supremacy of the Church, And yet no one doubts that, if the ‘toultural population was thoroughly canvassed, they would vote for the return of the Inquisition and the su- remacy of the Church. There is nothing of Carl- Em and those occasional eruptions of insurrection and war in the Basque provinces and Catalonia, but this clerical influence taking form. I hada con- versation with a famous Carlist the other evening who was prevented by his years from having an: active part in the uprisings. ‘Of course,” he said, “Don Carlos is only & leader, He means true legit- imacy. By the old Salle law debarring females from the throne the crown came to Don Carlos. If he is not King of Spain then never did king reign by God’s grace and hereditary descent. Those women, Isibella and her mother, were im- postors—and see what came of it.” “But your opponents say,’? was ny observation, “that you mean to restore the supremac; of the Roman Church and to reopen the Ingutsl- thon.” Why not?’’ was the response. “You throw up your hands fn horror at the Inquisition and re- gard it as the embodiment of cruelty. In earlier years the Holy OMce may have been unusually se- vere in its discipline, just as in your country we have heard that you hanged old women for witch- craft, and thatin England they burned bishops. Qur ancestors, most excellent Sefior, were no wiser, no more humane, no less inclined to punish sin with pala than yours. The Inquisition does not mean the rack, the pulleys. the erence wa- ter, the faggot and the stake any more than the punishment of treason means all the horrible forms written tn an unrepealed law of apn nen eee gib- bet and the.quartering block and bleaching heads on Temple Bar. We need the Inquisition in Spain; We never needed it more than we do now. Soclet seethes in corruption. Look around you, This is the largest and finest café in all Madrid. That clus- ter of persons yonder ts composed of bull fighters; they are the heroes of this gathering. That lady yonder with her friend, sipping ‘agraz,’ is the vory respectable and wealthy Seforita + whose amours with the bull fighters are the talk of Spain, This tall, crate focning: over-dressed youth, who pretends to sell you a history of the world, really deals tn prints and books of the most loathsome and obscene cnaracter. Oh! my friend, we breathe per- dition in the very air. We cannot open our eyes that the soul does not find offence. Go with me into the Calle San Geronimo, and stroll. the early hour of the evening—neither sun nor sun- Set, and every fair face you see is painted and the eyes of every woman look lustfully upon you. We are festering. That woman, who was Queen—why her palace was of evil fame, and I hvar is no better on the avenue of the King of Rome. We need tie Holy Office! Far from it, to bring cruelty to Spain; but just, searching punishment; we crave an need it. This will come only with Don Carlos. God go with him many years. This Italian here ts an infidel. His father is up in arms against His Holiness, He is excommunicated, What good can come from that lot? I tell you God has cursed them. And yet this young venom-headed boy, with his garters and silk stockings, and his fend neckties and his eye of a calf, you would have him save Spain. Let lim begin by saving himself and abandon La Favorita, who lives near the Duke de la Torre, Don't tell me about virtue with that lot. The blood is bad, It has conspired against the Lord's anointed, It is an allen upon our noble throne—the throne of Philip I. and Charles v. Santissima Maria | how thelr bones would rattle against their bronze cofins in the Escurial could they but see this scene! Their descendant, the pious and good Don Carlos, wandering in the mountains, and this horse jockey of et sitting in their palace. You can only purify Spain with fire; you cannot coax social depravity and crime and it patriotism, male of &@ republic! You might well make public of wild buiis and have a © pull-pen up yonder. Cortes in t ‘Take these re- ublicans ond they would rather have Frascuelo for ing than the Duke of Aosta. Why Fras- cuelo? Because he can sit on a chair and throw the darts into the bull's shoulders, and put the sword in without stepping from his pocket handkerchief. But this Duke of Aosta got sick at Valencia and did'nt want any more horses killed. I tell you repub- ‘canism here means Frascuelo, the buil-fighter, bee Yresident, avs all vanity. God 1s God, and the king is the king, and He appointed him to reign even as He reigns umgol | ju heayen, and - NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, It is now | there will he la__until Don 3% what does the republic mean? Here and now, republican simply means patience, Ever since the accession of Zorrilia te wer, the republicans have piven a tacit assent the government. They believe in no dynaat Amadeus is no better than Isabella—no worse. is simply the amiable son of a brave king,— a oxinciene of Eats ie wanes ribbons =~ es, elr mission re @ republic, go, from town to town, ‘rout p rovince toy province and instruct the reels. rest will come in od time. eT are in no hurry, They ve essemial liber now. They can talk and instruct, and print newspapers and caricature the King and ta—and they want no more. Abbreviate these ta, and thon the barri- cade, So, while preaching republicanism they sup- port ‘Zorrilia and his Ministry, who are the next ré- move from republicanism, In this the; double purpose. If Zorrilla succeeds Sp; process of reformation that makes republicanism easy and natural, If he fails then he and his follow- ers must unite with the republicans and have com- mon principles. ‘Do you see any signs of a a lic now?” I asked One of the leaders, whose name ig known over the world. ‘We do not desire it now. An imperfect republic would be worse thana monarchy. If we fail, we fall for a generation. The world responds at once that we are not fitted for a republic. You cannot build mountains in a day, This earth is a series of [ eae ire formations, Jt had to under the ire and ice and ages of darkness. Your own Amerl- can republic was not born in Aaeheraiion. It 8 only the other day that you had the labor-pains of war and slavery. What you had to do rmg upon siavery hi to warrli upon the Ohurch caste, property laws, Aaristocracy—embossed with tnatitutions and customs and traditions ag old as Cwsar. Basen with us, citizen of the happy United states—with your timber lands and rivers, and wide, open countries, with corn and cotton, and Europe reinforcing you from her best and most en- terpri sons at the rate of.a thousand souls a aay Don't be impatient with ns. We are comin; toit. We do not want to fight. Liberty never hi @ true pap! ‘ism in blood. ie sword is more apt tobe tl Instrument of the despot than the op- portunity of the freemen. Look at ce. Her republics have been scandals thus far—premature formations running into the guillotine and the coup d'état, We can fight, That was shown inthe Plaza Mayor, and mane a i ie in the Puerta del Sol. We are ready to fight at a moment's warn- ing. But of what avail? Citizon Amadeus does no- body any harm. Ho 1s personally a8 democratic asarepublican. He don’t lic, He says when we don’t want him we can let him know, and he will take his passport and go, Well, we moan to give him passport and his pay to date, and his passage to Turin, Shoot him like Arch- duke Maximilian? Of what good? Spaniards are not Mexicans, like Escobedo, or Indians, like that stony-visaged Juarez, whose face makes you shiver, I tell you Rory does not need the sword, except to defend itself as you did tn your war, Your Juarez neighbors show that. A pretty time he and his people have shooting people to make them republicans. No, citizen, friend and brother; our republic shall come as the vintage comes—in God’s good time—by happy, peaceful, natural influences; and itis for us only to labor without ceasing, and gather the harvest when it ripens, and the grapes are rich and fat and ready for the pulling. And that is what the republicans are doing now,” AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN S?AIN—WHAT AN AMERI- CAN THINKS. Between America and Spain business relations are in the main confined to Cuba. You see little American influence here—three or four business men, who trade in agricultural implements and Gey ing machines and a couple of dentists, for den- tistry 1s the profession that we have carried over the world. There is not even a Consul at Madrid, and no American colony outside of the family of the Minister. Spain only knows us through Cuba, At one time sho feared us and was disposed to pay us due respect and honor. But now, by our tortaous and inscrutable diploma- cy, we have no more influence than Greece or Tur- key. An American resident in Madrid, whose posi- tion makes direct personal reference improper, discussed this whole matter the other evening, when I said that the HeRaLD would like his views ag a representative man with representative inter- ests. ‘I am very glad,to speak to the HERALD,” he said, “for in a certain sense I feel that I am talking to the American people, What these Spaniards want is a ruler. When they want they cannot be in a@ worse condition, Anybody can govern a na- tion that is fit for self-government, for no amount. of misgovernment can undo a truly great and self- reliant people. But Spatn is neither great nor self- reliant. She has merely ignorance and pride. You hever saw a poorer country than Spain, and yet her natural resources are only surpassed by those of the United States. Take that world-barometer, the money market. Brazil can borrow money at ‘four and a half per cent and sell her bonds now for 90, Even Bolivia is only asked to pay six per cent, Guatemala bonds are 45, and Turxish at 69; and yet Spanish bonds quote at 28 The trouble is, the Spanish Treasury {sin the hands of the pawnbrokers. When the country wants money the Finance Minister sends for 80 aud so, ‘bankers’ and pawnbrokers, and pays anywhere from twenty to thirty per cent. The uicksilver mines, the richest possessions of the Jrown, are mor gaged, and although the bonds pay five per cent and control a mi ficent se- curity they are only quoted at 80, hy? do you say. Beoanse no one has any confidence in public order and public morality, In the mgtter of money alone see what they do, They give King, who by his marriage with the descendant of one of the middle age merchants and bankers, who did busi- ness with Shylock and Antonio on the Rialto and controlled the commerce of the world, is among the richest sovereigns in Europe; hay Ep) him one million and a halfdoliars a year. what is more, they say the Suny young man duly accepts it and sees that it is well invested in other coun- tries, So the money not only goes out of the Treasury, which is something, but it goes out of the country, which is a Rowan England is no poorer because she pays Queen Victoria tour millions a year; for the money remains in England and is a part of the national wealth. But here the money goes away and remains away. And-Amadeus only oes what the others did before him. Oid Christina in war- do in always sent her money out of Spain and made large investments in America. James Robb, the old New Orleans banker, made many investments for her in the South, and they say she lost immensely by selling them ina panic and at a sacrifice at the outset of the war, Still she has money enough to live in that gaud; lac in the Champs Elysées. Jsabelia has money an pk also, Old Montpensier has a great fortune, but none of it isin Spain. That Orleans family like better security for their possessions than Spain or even France can afford. But, as 1 was showing, the Shae of these enormous sums by the Treasury joes no good to the country. Montpensier even sells his oranges from his Seville estates like a market gardener. And while depleting the Treas- ury in this incessant manner there is no economy. Look at the civil list. One duke had certain priv- fleges about hanging people in the Middle Ages. They were coun inded by an annual pension, which is still paid, Families after families receive from Spain annually large sums of money for waiving rights as absurd as this, And when a reformer proposes to abolish the payments he is told that he means to attack the foundations of stable government and the sacred cause of property, Not many years since a family was com- peiled to pay a tax to the government because a century ago its ancestots had been burned in an auto-dafé, and as the estate could not pay the expenses of the execution it was transformed into an annual tax upon his descend- ants, Spain likes nothing so much as a moss forma- tion. She worships the ivy and the cypress, That gloomy and damp old Escurial is simpiy a monu- mental Spain. Philip II. believed in San Lorenzo and the gridiron, and so built a ntic ere in granite, costing millions and millions. ain 18 insolvent because she mistakes dishonesty for ride. Look at her hold upon Cuba. Do you know hat I believe Spain would make another religious war to hold Cuba. Prim wanted to sell it, but did not dare, Spain holds on to Cuba like the Irish landlords, with their Castle Rack rents before the Encumbered Estates act. We want an international encumbered estates act. When nations like Spain can pay and will not they should be compelled. Cuba, one of the richest spots in the world, with infinite orn. for gov- ernment and prosperity, what is it? Think of the hundred thousand Spanish men who havo dled he vain eifort to conquer freedom. It would be better for Let for Cuba and the world that the island should belong to the United States. In the first place it is a great drain upon the na- tion. Then Spain 1s crippled to advance Cuba while Cuba is paralyzed to aid Spain. For instance, Spain raises no tobacco, Wh, Because the cul- | tivation here might affect the crop in the colony. Cuba is under commercial restrictions with the United States and other Powers, because freedom of commerce would interfere with the home rev- enues. What isthe consequence? The only lively business imterest in Cuba is smuggling. The lanters mortgage their estates, the merchants can barely do business, the smugglers are prosperous, Yet at one time the Buchanan government would have given three hundred millions of dollars for Cuba. Soulé offered the money. Three hundred millions of dollars properly expended would save Spain from bankruptcy. But the trouble is the money would have gone to Queen's favorites and impatient soldiers, whose valor needed gal and would now be in Bishopsgate street or Broadway, drawing interest, Cuba was worth three hundre Million dollars to Buchanan, because he wanted to please the South. The Southern people wanted a slave nursery to offset Kansas and Nebraska, and Cuba would have satisfled them and perhaps avert civil war, But now Cuba is worth no such money, They say that our Minister offered a hundred mil- lions for it when Prim was alive, or rather to guaran- tees Spantsh loan for a hundred millons provided Cuba was made over as collateral. That is to say, the United States would take a lien upon the reve- nues of Cuba and collect them as se pel) for the loan; and in the event of its not being paid at ma turity we should, of course, have the island, I told that Prim thought well of the suggestion, t\ would have found some way of getting hold of money, That would be along and roundabout \* ness. In anegotiation ofthat kind, witha people as suspicious and uncertain as the Span oad with a government that changes so cap,qciously, there would be no assurance that whan you game to& settlement there would not be rgr, by that plan you would po ea Rd mi'rons and have to figh in tlre end before you wers repaid. You must take Cuba in a miore direct Way, Have no dealings with tho | Spaniards except fF cash ayd immediate delivery, Ana before cash and alwa; # a ys have a dicker. Go into that buydfan. You will be fi than Trade he 4 amply nd a suits the "Zpantardaeeto a stand over counter and olga Our rioge are ralnioues to ‘and badge: = one price to smother, I tell you. ey ter from like it. a8 peaanre Like Deliaentine 5 sort recognized mendacity, find in the Cuba matter. ‘Goes not rant J because tl lard matter was @ dik havior in that affair will settlement of the Cul estab! ment of any satistactory relations with Spain about her colonies than you can eamene You paid Spain her price, When a man does to ® Spaniard he is regarded aga fool. In this case the price was national humiliation, What a chance Grant had, and how absurdly he threw it away! No wonder Po? Spaniards think that Mr, Fish is the greatest vi Statesman, the only statesman who truly a rr tes the giory ni peeves: of Spain. We ericans owé @ duty fo ourselves and man- kind in that Quban business which can- not be overlooked. All these embarrass- ments and Bogctiations between Spain and Amorica are 30 di le, because Spain cares ee! nothing for us. ‘the aniard looks upon the Americans very much as the Grapes regarded the fox when he complained of thelr sourness, He could not reach them. So Spain says to Amorica virtually, ‘You thief, you bandit, you overgrown, imperious, rowdy nation, with no ‘church and no crown, and only rich now because you have robbed the Indians, as our ancestors of pious memory did in Philtp’s and Ferdinand’s times; you would take Ouba—the one ger, in our maritime crown—our ever-faithfal island, We know you wan’t Cuba, We know you are quite capable of climbing over tho walls and taking {tas you took California and New Mexico, for you are heretical thieves and rob- bers, with no religion, and, therefore, with no con- science. But you are afraid,’ id that ends it, And, what is more, we submit this treatment, and call it statesmanship. We B that we keep the peace and pay our debts. But sometimes peace {s 1a0st disgraceful, and even debt paying the worst kind of bankruptcy. And if good . Fish does not discover this some other Minister will.” SPAIN AND FOREIGNERS GENERALLY, Tt is dimicult, with these feelin, for Spain to have any satisfactory Telations with America, The Spanish mind broods over the thought that America was discovered by @ vessel bearing tho Spanish flag, that Spanish enterprise and valor conquered tts fairest portions, and that nothing remains but the language. They see that while we look with contempt upon Spain’ we have a childish, unmanly sensitiveness about England. I can Taibeine no relations of honest friendship between Spain and the United States, And this is aggra- vated by the relations that Spain insists upon mai taining with other Powers. In many respec Spain is as exclusive as China, The foreigner {3 not wanted here. It was only within a few years that an Englishman could find burial in Madrid. No cemetery would hold his unconsecrated and polluted ashes. He was put away at night, under & pavement ofa brewery. The customs regulations are almost tragical and would fill Mr. Greeley’s soul with delight, ‘ery impediment is thrown in the way of travel and trade. I presume two-thirds of our diplomacy in Spain consists of Cus- tom House questions, While trade is kept out by these laws, navigation {3 in- terrupted by quarantine laws and port charges. Every effort to establish steam communi- ¢ation between America and Cadiz was stifled by the rapacity and ignorance of local officials. Tho attempt has begun again, but no one thinks it will last a year. I have spoken of the natural resources of Spain, These naturally have tempted outside capital, Englishmen, Frenchmen and Germans have a fondness for putting money in Spain. They built the railway through the wild, h iy Basque country, with its hundred tunnels and Its diMiculties of engineering, and which must have cost as much money as Erie. Every obstacle is thrown in the way of the investment or capital. In the Northern regions and in Catalonia business is suspended on account of the Carlists, An Englishman who con- trolled the gas supply of Bilboa complained bitterly of the losses which the Carlists had cost him. While there is not enough of a rebellion to affect eee authority there is more than enough to lestroy all business certainty and prevent any quick returns, So we have revenues badly col- lected, taxes badiy paid, deficiencies in pubile ap- propriations, and dealings with the pawnbroker as he last resort, 2 AN INTERVIEW WITH AMADEUS—WHAT HE THINKS OF A REPUBLIC, The young King sees all of this in his dull, frank way, and if he ever feels that he can sit upon his throne without slipping from it he will probably begin some reforms. But what can you expect from a King whois every now and then gravely lectured by the press upon the fate of Maximilian; who never goes out for a morning stroll or an even- ing drive without a cloud of detectives hoverin over him; who never goes upon the Prado without seeing the bullet-holes and scars upon the walis of that fatal corner at the Calle Turcos where Juan Prim was shot to death one twilight hour. A Mariner does not think much of improving the rig- ging of his vessel when engaged in palling out the water from the leaking hold. And so with Ama- deus. AsI said in a letter printed some time since in the HERALD, I have a maney for Amadeus, There 18 a little of the king about him, so much of manil- ness and personal valor, If he were an ambitious or even an able man you would have another feel- ing. But he looks out at you with something of ox-like fidelity and frankness and honesty in. brown and he rides 80 well you- hat a born captain of dragoons you have before you, and what a pity to spoil his usefulness by making him king, and, of all countries in the world, King of Spain. the young man knows quite well his position. He is oe oo quite approach- able, He does not speak English, or, in fact, very much Spanish. His wife, who is sald to be a quite superior person in every way, and whose face shows courage, kindness and sagacity, speaks quite fluently, The King is fond of unbending his mind, which he does when he has no Spaniard cour- tier for an audience. To the Spaniards the King is generally as reserved as President Grant, Some ‘ime since, during the crisis, he had an interview with an American, who took a deep interest in his dynasty and hig success. The mi Ose compli- mented upon his course in dissolving the Cortes and appealing to the country. “Yes,” sald the King, “I was surprised to sec the impression made upon Europe by the change of Ministry and the dissolution.” z VistToR—It was pleasant as an evidence of Your aoe desire for liberal institutions. ‘he Kina—Of course I feel that there can be no real monarchy that does not rest upon the will of the bg The traditions of our house are all liberal, have sworn an oath to support a plainly written constitution, and I would be recreant to my oath and false to the traditions of the House of Savoy were I to have done other than dissolve the Cortes and change my Ministry upon the issue presented by Marshal Serrano, Visiror—Does Your Majesty see in Zorrilla and his friends an assurance of power? The Kin@—Seiior Zorrilla has never been anythin, but a movarchist, From him I formally receive the Crown, VisitoR—Did not Zorrilla make an alliance with the republicans after his retirement from the | Cortes in May. The Kinc—I don’t know and don’t care. Sefior Zorrilla would make no alliances unbecoming a subject of the Crown anda Spanish gentleman, [ have never held the republicans in awe, nor have I any fear of them. The republicans of Spain would support Spain as promptly as the monarchists. And, to my mind, whoever supports Spain supports the Crown, Vistror—Does Your Majesty have any relations of @ political character with the republicans? The Kinq—tI can only have political relations with the Ministry. Ihave and cultivate personal rela- tions with all parties. The republicans have never given me an opportunity of paying them any atten- tions, I would be glad to see Sefor Castelar at my palace, or any of his associates, His genius be- bic, to Spain as much as that of Cervantes, IstTOR—Casteliar has a great fame in other countries, The Kincg—I have heard wonderful things about his eloquence. But he and his party feel that they cannot come to my palace, VisiTOR—Have they @ — Mv! Ad The Kinc—An active and growing party. I do not know how strong Shey cial to be. I have never been better treated than in republican sec- tions. reception in Valencia, @ republican tronghold, was most ratitying. IT am always frank with fot) ba did “not seek the Span- ish crown, nor did I destre it. wi It was brought to me by Spanish representatives. I felt called upon to reign, and have never swerved from my oath. As to the republicans, I. have never sought to interfere with them. They have the utmost freedom of discussion in the press. We have more papers in Madrid than in any other European capital, and they say what they please. Whenever pat wants a repub- le and duly expresses that desire I can go to Italy. I mean to hold the crown without dishonor and to surrender it coy to Spain. I can defend it against mutiny and faction; but yon cannot call revolution amutiny. We mean to have a thoroughly fair elec- tion this time. The other elections were said to be fair, but unfortunately there was a great scandal about them. All I know of this or can know ts from mere rumor. I am most anxtous for fair elections, When a ruler knows the real will of a people there ig no trouble in obeying {t, Most European revolu- tions came from rulers misunderstanding the spirit of their age and the desire of their people, I mean ear my father and grandfather and avoid that mistake. VisttoR—As to coe does Your Majesty appro- hend any further trouble ? children I like a horse, and you can sow I Viow the cruel and merciless destruction of tones t takes place in all running down, Spain will outgrow her bull or change @ bull {s.@ noble and useful an Spain has the best breed of isn tho world. It would be better, iowever, to Improve the breed of bi some otlier way than and would ike’ car peop pnh wot to our tate Still they make the argument that aatty in killing. bulls there is no more inhumanity than in killing foxes. These are customs, how- en and no custom can be changed except by the of public opinion. A REPUBLIC IN THE END, Jam afraid I have written you a very long letter. There ia so much worth stad, in this strange country; 80 many features of an old, illustrious and a ing ct; tion; 82 many new phases in the on, that no bon and silent revolution now going rican can pro} reciate the marvelious rly @ events now transpi ra without ving them an in- telligent, patient and conscientious examination. leus and his struggies to xeep from slipping are really the smallest events in at drama. Can Spain redeem herself? Can horoughly break the chains of the Church ¢ she accomplish that emancipation of no true emancipation, yey nd. ve no honest and be- Reficent revolution? I'am not one of those Spanish people. Bho look with contempt upon the seo their faults, for the first thing a foreigner sees in any country are the people's faults, You see them in Germany, England, France—even in in- comparable aud perfect America. 1 have given you, briefly and as clearly as Jour space will per- mit, tho views of all ciasses, There is a great movement working its destiny, I am con- vinced it will come toa republic. Had Prim looked m his country as something higher than a ribbon or a dukedom, had the partners in his reso- lution been more Paseions than ambitious, they Would have declared for a republic when Napoleon- ism fell at Sedan. But Prim wanted to be a duke and Serrano a pritios, and an endless following of ambitious adventurers were striving for place and yorer, and so the republic was postponed, Still seen moves to the hour, and the hour will THE PUBLIC HEALTH, Interesting Charge of Judge Bedford to the Grand Jury—Fat-Boiling Establish- ments and Othcr Nuisances to Be Abated=The Grand Jury Called Upon to Act. The- August Term of the General Sessions was Opened yesterday morning, City Judge Bedford, who appeared to be in excellent health, presiding. Assistant District Attorney Fellows will represent the people, and, as usual during the month of Au- gust, none but prison cases will be tried, The Grand Jury was empanelled without delay, Mr, James Davis being selected to act as foreman. His Honor Judge Bedford then proceeded to deliver a brief but deeply interesting charge, which will be read with eagerness by the entire commu- nity, especially that portion of our citizens who reside in tenement houses, The City Judge embraced the earliest opportunity afforded him to call the attention of the Grand Inquest to certain manufacturing establishments within the city limits which are deemed nuisances and are Prejudicial to the public health. His Honor’s sug- gestions to the Grand Jury upon this important matter were listened to with interest, not only by those gentlemen, but by the citizens who were present in court:— -___ JUDGE BEDFORD'S CHARGE. Mr. FOREMAN AND GENTLEMEN—In charging you to- ony I cannot let the present opportunity pass by (for Isincerely believe it to be a most fitting occasion) without speaking frecly in regard to a subject not only of vil importance to the present and future welfare of this peaeropes, but one in which every citizen necessarily takes a very deep interest, At this dangerens and sickly season of the year Mees against the public health are matters which should be looked to at once and carefully guarded against. And I do in the most emphatic manner declare that men who, for their own pecu- niary advantage, rob their neighbors of health— men who, by persisting in a business deleterious to health, cause the aged, THE INFIRM AND WEAKLY tosicken, and, perhaps, consequentially die, are burglars and homicides in point of ethics. From the recent message of the Mayor and re- cent debates of the Board of Health I infer that the civil arm of the law is, perhaps, technically weak to romptly punish these health invaders. I, there- fore, ask your especial attention to cases which I believe the proper authorities will bring to your notice, of offenders against public health, and, at the same time, I invoke, in all earnestness, the arm of the criminai law. Whatever is a nuisance is unquestionably abatable by THE STRONG ARM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. The authorities are oftentimes justified in foretbt; abating imminent nuisances. While I would not, except under urgent public needs, pull down by latoons of health inspectors or policemen, bone- ing and fat-melting establishments, candle fac- tories, rendering houses and offal depots within the city limits, I would, however, plac tally ald you in immediately ping any indictment found, on due evidence, against offenders; and THE PEOPLE MAY REST ASSURED that on every proper and. legitimate conviction each and every reckless invader and offender against public health will be summarily dealth with according to law and their nuisances af once abated. When His Honor had concluded, there was Marked approbation manifested by those in Court and some attempts at applause, which, however, were speedily suppressed. The members of THE GRAND JURY pald strict attention to the Judge’s remarks. They were directed to enter upon their duties after the Court had finished its address, BURGLARY IN WASHINGTON STREET, A Bonded Warchouse Entered and a Large Amount of Silks Carried Off Recovery of a Portion of the Stolen Goods. Sometime between eight o'clock on Saturday night and Sunday morning the bonded warehouse 603 Washington street, near the corner of Spring, was entered by burglars, and twenty-five pieces of silk, valued at between four thousand and five thousand dollars, carried off. The property be- longed to Messrs. Escher & Co., of 473 Broome street, John Welsh, the private watchman employed by the proprietors of the warehouse, discovered the burglary and reported the facts to Captain Garland at the Greenwich street police station. Detective Von Gerichten was detailed to work oP the case, and proceeded to the the warehouse, accompanied by Welsh, and com- menced a thorough examination of the premises to ascertain from what portion of the building the Vet a had entered. They discovered nothing to excite their suspicions until they reached the top floor, where they found that the iron bars placed over the scuttle had been forced off and the scuttle torn to pieces in their anxiety to get at the valuable THE CONFEDERATE ARCHIVES, Their Importance to the Government “fhe Authority for Purchasing Them. a: TREASURY Dep: 4 . vaugust’, Tere} Daan\Sir—In answer to your letter of the 2th ultimo, F\have the honor to inform you that the rebel arch‘ves lately procured by the government were purchaved for the e: used ag evidex in silmn agalaa the States, I exact ity wi the prov an r dane 10, t tion of the act follows:— = wae Lod retary of the’ asTagnas the Sacatery of 8 Prunny. calet cap: to collect, procure and irve fil vouchers, Pal records and evidence, and to take mony as to cl against the United States, to be pald only upon the ce cates of the Commissioners of inka 2 trundrea fifty thousand dollars. cn’ You will perceive that the money, therefore, to be paid only upon the certificate of the ‘Commis. sioners of Claims. These commissioners, after » careful examination of the pepere: made the fol- lowing report and certificate to the Secretary the Treasury, and in accordance with that cer cate the papers were purchased as the law cot templated :. Wasmrvatox, July 3, 187% To THE Secretary oF Tax TREASURY Sin—The undersigned Commissioners of Claims havi been called to examine certain pe ors turnishing @ dence as to claims against the Unil ed Statos, beg leave accompany their certificate with a briefreport in regs These papers purport to be a portion of the archives of the State Department of the confederacy. We have no doubt of their genuineness. ‘he appearance of pa and thelr contents furnish ample evidence ou ven if there were doubt (a1 Know ot no reasyn for uy) ante the erodibility of tse ex ior any) a o ternal ovidence in regar HE them. 44 The ‘inventory of the ty of the dey gtment dated Dopartient of Rate Richmond, Marg Me cal ue of 1888 rs, ant 1o papers men- gone Ay fle inventory are ail here,” as verified Oy Com- hese papers contain the names of thousands of persons Trbo have been in the service of the Confederate States oF hi dealings with them, so that from their trans actions they must bo regarded as disloyal—such con- teunporary written evidence sometimes furntshi ample Proof of disloyalty at others the means of avestiga ind ascertaining’ if becomes very valuable, as in the Japse of time the death of witnesses and the’ unwilling negs to give information against one's neighbors make are ly difficult for the government to procure During the brief space of fifteen months in which the Commissioners of Cains th ing Against tho government, they have teusd the psec the ra Cap tured at Richmond, and now in the T: under” the head of “Rebel Archi ag eee use, archives have bet 0 rel ing to over two hundred thousand doll: at have been conclusive in defeating the claims ‘of dialo : Persons to an amount nearly, {f not quite, equal to price which we understand you expect to pay for thea papers, When we consider the vast SUDRRE. of claims against the Eersrpens betore Congress, the depart- ments, the Court of Claims and the Commissioners of Claims, we deem it very desirable to secure these papers and all similar contemporary, writ- ten evidence furnishing proof of the disloyalty of clalm- ants. One can never tell what claims may bo made upon the government, or from what source they may spring, and such preparation for the defence of the Treasury within reasonable limits, as essential as to sustain a navy or an army for the contingencies of war. Of the value of these papers ina erery Ge historic; Point of view to which Commodore Selfridge refers is report) wo say nothing, having had no time to ex- amine them for that purpose. We annex hereto our certificate in compliance with the act of Congress, ‘We have the BS pad to be, with much respect, your obedient servan ‘A. O. ALDIS, Commisetoners ORANGE FERRISS,§ on Claims, Tho United States to John T. Pickett, Dr. :— For certain valuable papers, records and vouchers, furnishing evidence as {fo claims against the United States the sum of seventy-five thousand, jolla: 90 see Ore, We hereby certify that the above account is correct and Proper to be paid, A. 0, ALDIS, ORANGE FERRISS, Wasnrxcron, July 8, 1872, Commissioners of Claims. It is the opinion of those who have examined the td ae that they will furnish evidence sufficient to defeat claims against the United States to an im- mense amount. Very peat WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, Acting Secretary of the Treasury. Will the Pablic Suffer a Further Infliction Oross River, N. Y., August 1, 1872. To THE Eprror OF THE HERALD:— Our government has recently purchased the archives of the Confederate Department of State at considerable expense. It is rumored quite ex- tensively in various journals that the Union Repub- lican Committee propose to publish certain of these documents disclosing Mr. Greeley’s connection with the Niagara Falls meeting, his alleged cortenpone: ence with Southern leaders, &c. Without insinu ing that members of the committee mentioned are unscrupulous, yet certain exigencies might develop &@ disposition for interpolation, substitution, &c., which would materially alter the character of the documents, We are not afraid that the piileasion of Ln a of injure the prospects of the documents will palpably the liberal candidate; but we desire to have them. pubiished as originally written. I oneness that they be placed in the hands of a committce com- ed of disinterested gentlemen, who will offer em for publication. J. DE WITT MILLER. THE FIRE FIEND IN CONNECTICUT. Total Destruction of a Large Amount of Property in Westport—The Fourth Fire Within Two Years on the Same Spot— Supposed Incendiary Plot. WESTPORT, Conn., August 5, 1872. Another disastrous fire, the third within a few months and the fourth since 1870, took place on the grounds of Mr. Stephen H, Alden this morning, at half-past twelve o'clock. It broke out in the large farm barn, distant from Mr. Alden’s residende about one-third of a mile. Connected with it were numerous sheds, stables, grain lofts, dwellings for men working on the place, carriage houses and other structures, making altogether quite a yar. In the main barn was stored over eighty ons $3, of hay, and the granaries contained worth of oats. On discovering the fire an alarm was sounded, and the village engine was soon on hand, but everything was so combustible that all the engines in Fairfleld county would have been powerless to stay the flery fiend. CN ge fog hung.over the river and village, and it ese the dead of night great dificulty was had in getting re out vo aid in saving property, only a few trifling articles being reclaimed. Ms All the buildings and contents were totally de- stroyed. Among them were eight splendid car- riages, worth $1,500 each; one valuable horse; an Alderney buil,’ which’ cost $600 to import from Europe; all the farming utensils, oor and — grain, whole valued at $b0, the 5 & portion of which oy was covered by insurance. j it is Just eleven years ago to-day that barns.on’ the same sites were burned, them owned by the late R. H. Winslow, of New York, and it is bub six weeks ago that barns and stables near/Mr. Alden’s house were consumed, the loss the! eing about $15,000, Fires eceyrring 80 stp me one man’s pre! 4 make if apparent t incendiaries are abont, but why they should wreak vengeance om thia;cltizen, the largest taxpayer in town, is Indeed & DLystery. goods contained in the building. Thus having full access to the building, they had no obstacle in their way to prevent their entering the building and passing out the silks. Adjoining the warehouse is a large tenement house, which Detec- tive Von Gerichten panty concluded might throve some light on the missin; After makiy On Sundays and Pattery the shore son. gin The sar Ly dive The King—rhe Cuban trouble began before I came. to the throne, I must defend Cuba as I defend i \ crown. Nothing else is possible. When the island is thoroughly pacified we can extend the coustitie tion to it. presume Your Majesty likes Spalny 5 4 Saat Big equnt the ING—I was in Spain before I thoughy feptine the throne. I was very much intesw be It i a Lee Seaaety a ‘ne ‘1stTOR—I see Your Majesty adapts your peculiar customs. You were at the aay? dae’ The King—The bull-fght is ab inst tion, Teo'to it I & matter that Interests thor sands of my people. " ‘Visitor—Foreigners find ithard4, appreciate a bull ight. i Comprenenttce bull ights as most forelgmers ghts as most foreigners’, put they belo: the institutions, and as 1 d¢ynv, make the inetiine J tons 1 can guly regtot tb" m, Next to my wife and of as -Sted in felt and feel about ) four minutes had e 8 property. his business known to the housekeeper, he as .;- tained that two qosng. men, named Ja’ nes Howard and William elly, had renty, a9 vious, On going to their room: the found them quietly Tenor ing in the $ Morpheus, and placed them under arre jt, Upon eect the room eight pieces of the ty’ ,gsing sil valued af over $1,000, were found caref ily stow: away between the mattresses of their to, the roof of tho tenement, house a5 wenuay ded warehouse, * 4) ores, 2 a Fp He pt found @ handsome kit but u Were confiscated, and are fife es Be hibition at the Greewwich 4 streot station house. cr tice Cox, at Jefferson Mr ,j - ing, and remanded to the’ Fi Loves im order 00 allow the detective to ma’ <e further investigations, “hand in it,” and te f re their arrest and recover the eer orn RES” oRED TO LIFE. Drowned Child. afternoon the children of the Francis on families, in East Marion, went down went beyond her depth and sank. eams of the others brought the miller from yase, When he learned of the drowning he aute’s search brought the body to the surface, aving found it fat on the bottom. Fully three or japsed ; yet notwithstanding this room on the top floor a few om r supposed to have opened the eo Ad In” their room was The — prisoners were signed before Jus- Mant Confident ther “were others who had @ The Remax apie Resuscitation of a to water mill to bathe, The Patter+ d into the water, clothes and all, and after a jut One hour. , life was restored in AOOIDENTS IN JERSEY. In Edson's factory, on Ward street, Newark, Charles Littell, @ young man employed there, fell | through the hatchway from the third to the first floor, He struck head foremost, sustaining fearful injuries, which may prove fatal. His head and shoulder were bruised shockingly. , While digging a well on the property of Mr. Van Vieet, at Montclair, last Saturday, John Turney fell in, fracturing his limbs and bruising his body. A comrade, in trying to rescue him, was prostrated at the bottom of the well with the foul atr, Others, however, succeeded in rescuing both, Turney Ungered till miduigh* and *“¢n died DESTRUCTIVE FIRB IN TENNSSSEE. NASIVILLE, Tenn., August 5, 1872, The saddlery warehouse of Messrs. Burns & Co, and Compton & Garrett's grocery store on Market street, and D. Loveman & Co’s and Otwell & Brother's dry goods stores were destroyed by fire this morning. The fire originated in Compton & Garrett's store at three o'clock A. M., and extended to the others. The stocks are nearly all destroyed. The loss is estimated at fbout -_ and ta ie origin of covered by an insurance of $72,400, the fire was purely accidental. AID TO THE BURNED PROTECTORY. A meeting of the Catholics of Fordham, West chester courity, N. Y., and their friends was held at Kearn’s Hall, on Union avenue, Sunday evening, 4th inst. Judge Dennis R. Shield was called to preside; Messrs. Charles Black and John Fanning, secretaties; Rev. ©. Petit, treasurer. The brasa band from the Boys’ Protectory was in attendance. The object of the meeting was to contribute toward the reconstruction of the girls’ edifice destroyed by fire on the morning of July 25. The meeting was respectably attended and the response to the call was harmonious and spirited, Eloquent afidressea were made by the chairman, Hon. John B, Haskin, William Coddington, Fred. C, Berte and William Clinton, The following amounts were sub- scribed :— ' Hon. John B, Maskin.. John Busing... rahe sh Yee The Catholic Benevolent Association of Fordham. The Young Men's Catholic Club of Fordham eter Cummings (a workingman) William Clintot John Dyer. Thomas Gafi i John ©. Berto: wo And many other subscriptions of amounts from # to $5. Total amount subscribed, $609, of which 371 1s already paid, DEATH OF ORRIN TAYLOR Wesrrort, Conn., August 5, 1872. On Saturday Mr. Orrin Taylor, a native and former resident of this town, took the New Haven cars at Twenty-seventh street for Westport. A few miles out of the city he complained of feeling til. Conductor Lockwood procured brandy and water and gave it to him, but feeling no better the sick mam conciuded to leave the cars at New Rochelle; He aid so with help, and while ascending the stairway which leads to the depot dropped dead, An in- quest was held, his friends in New York and West. port notified, and arrangements for the burtat made. it wiil take viaca at Greenwood Gometery on Tueaday,