The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1873, Page 6

SLAVERY DEAD IN SPAIN How Emancipation Was Achieved in Porto Rico. GENERAL GRANT DEMANDS EMANCIPATION Spain’s Grievances Against the United States. A Furious Assault on American Policy. General Butler Worse than Ca- ligula or Attila. The Infamies of Lincoln Towards the Indians. General Grant as Great a Tyrant as Louis XI. ELOQUENT SPEECH OF CASTELAR A Rosy View of Our Re- public. Grant Recalling the Triumphs of Alexander. SLAVERY AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION. —_—— + Tow Great Movements Appear ai the Same Time in Different Countries. AMERIOAN KINDNESS TO SPAIN. ——- Spaniards Will Die in the Tropics for Spanish Integrity. MADRID, March 28, 1873, The passage of the bill abolishing slavery in Porto Rico is still the current theme of conversation, The struggle against the Pro-slavery League came to an end by the firmness of the government. The measure could not have been passed without an appeal to the fears of the leaders ef the league, who dread nothing more than the constituent Cortes. The duty of this body will be to enact a form of government jor Spain, and the conservatives tremble at the ideas that may come to the empire {n the upheaval of society in Spain. Any hesitation about emancipating the thirty-Ave thousand negrees in Porto Rico—a measure not originating with the Republic, but to which Amadeus was committed— would have been followed, as surely as the new Cortes met, by the most radical measures in regard to Cuba. Another incident that led te this result was the unremitting pressure put upon the Repub- lic by the United States. General Grant's instruc- tions to insist upon emancipation were sedulously followed by the Minister Resident. Mr. Castelar is correct in saying that this was mot done in an offensive manner, But the Grgument advanced by General Siekles was that Spain owed something to the United States, and especially to President Grant, for the unquali. fled and prompt recegnition of the Republic, and aniess a Republic destroyed slavery it was a mock- ery, Although the measure may seem easy enough to those who see Spain from over the seas, it was ceally most embarrassing. The reactionists, of whose manceuvres I wrote you fully, were resolved to defeat the bill, so as to destroy the government. They would have passed the bill under Amadeus. They were pledged to its passage. But the argu- gument was this:—If the Republic, committed to emancipation, does not pass the bill, it will be dis- credited among its own followers, and without its following, which in itself is composed of the most suspicious elements, easily moved to anger and apt to suspect ail élasses, the government would fail, With its fall would come strifes and civil commotions justilying the interference of the Military. From this interference would result the success of the reaction and the return of one of the princes. THE INFAMIES OF THE UNITED STATES. Ihave spoken to you about the animosity enter- tained towards America by parties in Spain. I select from the debate a singular speech of Garcia Ruiz, who is the only member of the Unitarian republican party in the Cortes. Garcia Ruiz was {n favor ef an amendment which would have taken all life out of the bill, and in the course of his dis- cussion he summed up the case against the United States in truly Spanish fashien. I translate for you from the Oficial Gazette a condensation of his views, as delivered in the open Certes:— SPEECH OF GARCIA RUIZ. Sefior Garcia Kuiz, in opening his speech, thanked Gou that in his oid age he had seen the Republic proclaimed in Spain, He had labored tor the Re- public since 1840 under circumstances of heroic valor, aud had voted against every monarch since then. He desired a republic that would be for the welfare of ali Spaniards. other kind of repab- lic would be a misfortune. More than all, he was an enemy Of slavery, and he had cursed it thirty years ago. But England had done all she could te take Cuba. ‘Thirty years ago there was an English Minister in Madrid of the same stamp as the present American Minister, and who, like him, worked in every way to deprive Spain of Cuba, By virtue of the shametlul treaty made with Eng- Jand in 1867 a guardship was kept at Havana, which served as a guard to the Mlibusters of that time. An English Consul attempted to excite mutiny among the slaves and was arrested. There ‘were republicans who protested against this, but their names were forgetten, and now we had men honored as emancipators, like Alcocer, who was a Mexican priest, epposed to the monarchy and in favor of the L gomceete He was in favor of abolition, but not immediately. He had no senti- mentality on the subject. The times of Wilberiorce and “Uncle Tom's Cabin” had passed, and in Cuba and Porto Rico slaves were generally well treated, and be only wished the poor at home were as fortu- nate. Slavery was a great iniquity; but it was the iniquity of ages, and that cannot be changed in @ day. He cursed the hour when Las Casas btained from Charles I., in 1517, privilege to take 4,000 negroes to St. Domingo, and still mere cursed the heur when, twenty-two years earlier, Columbus submitted thousands to slavery and in- troduced it into Cuba in its worst form. We had a social sore, which we must cure without per- Manent injury to the sufferer, SUPPOSE PORTO RICO SHOULD GO! The er did not think that enough care had en en to provide for the widows and orphans of slaves or to prepare the great mass who weuld become citizens to be worthy of the rights con- ceded to them. to Porte Rico, was there not danger of ite being lost to Spain’ Had there not been an outbreak in whieh men cried out “Death to Spain?” Who has not heard of the questions asked by the United States as to these colonies + We are asked to make @ loan of $7,000,000 to free slavery in Porto Rico. Suppose we lose the island, who will pay that loan’ Asto the slaves paying fer their own freedom, it reminded him of the priest who collected alms to som the poor prisoners who, according to Don Quixote, were in Algiers, Let us subscribe money to the same end out of our charity, and not by law. For while freedom is beautiful patriotism is even mere beau- tiful, and Spaniards must not forget Spain in emancipating the negroes. We should pass a gradi jaw lor Porto Rice, and then declare that Rothing will be done in Caba while imsurgents cry “Death to Spain.” HOW AMERICA INSULTED SPAIN. ‘There were some people, continued Sefior Ruiz, tisfied with the ceremony of Februar; 16, whe! ral Sickles recognized the Spanisi Republic. But he could not see that the General offered oa eae to Spain, while he de- manded the litien of slavery by steam and liberal reforms in Cuba. He regarded such a de- Dpend a6 ap insuls apd could not pardon it to the, > WEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, United States. What would happen to Spain if she demanded that England should establish libe- ral reforms in India? Would not our request de received with the greatest scorn? The United States treated us as Philip did the Greeks, Philip did not wish ill to the Greeke, but he wanted cer- tain forts dismantied. The United States say, “Reform the Antilles.” What they mean “America tor the Americans.” How was it with Louisiana ? This was ours since the middle of the last century. In 1802 James Monroe was in "is en a special mission, and in company wita Na leon committed the most infamous fraud that could be committed inst a nation, Alas! for Spain. Her King was Charies IV., or rather his favorite Godoy. Napoleon cheated them and exchanged Louisiana for the pretended Kingdom of Etruria—a kingdom that never came into our possession, In 1803 our came down and the American flag was floated. The United States paid $16,000,000, which sum Napoleon received and re- tained, Spain not receiving the promised Kingdom of Etruria. HOW SPAIN WAS ROBBED OF FLORIDA. How did the Americans take Florida? When ‘Spain was at war with Napoleon the United States took the Floridas, except the tewns ef St. Augus- tine and Pensacola, In the year 1819 Ferdinand ceded them for $4,000,000 a sum Spain never re- ceived, as the United States claimed that we owed it to American merchants and repaid them. In the time of Charles V. it was said the sun never set on the Spanish colonies. kngland can say this now. In North and South America, the Antilles, Atrica, Asia and Oceanica she has her possessions and, to our shame, Gibraltar. England does not govern these colonies in the same manner. In Canada she gives liberty, although English Canada has twice as ond Deputies according to pepula- tion as the French Canada. Im Austraila and Ja- maica the Gevernor rules, while Hong Kong and Singapore are ruled despotically, When England emancipated slaves she teok her own time about it and passed a gradual act, and paid $115,000,000 in gold, and extended the time for ap- prenticeship six years. In 1868 the radical party declared that Spain was not fit for a Republic, and now it is desired to make the negroes citizens, in other words, the country of Trajan, Martial, Seneca, and Cervantes was not in 1868 fit for a Republic, and yet the ignorant negro is now a worthy citizen, HOW FRANCE TREATS HER COLONIES, What has France done with her colonies? It was some time before the Roman Senate decreed the destruction of Carthage. Cato took some green figs and threw them into the Senate. “These ngs came from Carthage,” he said. ‘should we have a rival So near?” Algiers is within fourteen hours of France, and yet there is no jealousy, and France refuses the Algerines their liberties. The Arabians are French food for cannon. They have gone into all the wars—and yet out of the Superior Council of twenty-four there are but two Arabs. See what Helland does with her colonies—in extent thirty times larger than the mother country. She governs them by special laws, carrying civilization there little by little—enough that’ is good for the people, no more. THR OUTRAGES OF THE UNITED STATES—THEIR AVA- RICE AND CRIMES. We new turn to the United States, a nation which, if it astonishes us with its progress, like- wise astonishes us with its avarice and its crimes. How de they govern the Southern States alter uine years of peace? Do you remember how Butler ruined New Orleans—how he issued an order that any woman who insulted an oflicer or soldier shoule be treated asa public woman? Have you ever seen such a shameful document? Has its like ever come from Caligula or Attila—the scourge ol God? We hear flattering accounts of the sugar crop in New Orieans. But what has happened ? Every one knows that in former times there were always in the port trom fifteen hundred to sixteen hundred vessels. Now there are not even fifteen Before the war New Orleans exported $270,000,000, Now there is not the seventh part. And if the North has treated tne South so badly that even the owners of slaves now live in poverty, how have the Indians been treated t—the Indians who for- merly owned the lands and who are more worthy of consideration than the inhabitants of our An- tilles ? What a sorrowful history 1s that ef the In- dian? What has become of the tribe of the young and interesting Pocahontas, who saved the life of Captain Smith? What has befallen the Seneca tribe, whose chief said to Washingten in words worthy of Aristides:—“We have been told you are wise, We see, to our misfortune, that you are strong. Let us see if you are just and will permit us to live in the land of our ancestors.” What has been done with the Iroquois, the Cherokees, the Delawares? Ail have perished except a few unfortunates who wander over the Western territories 1,000 or 1,500 leagues from the tombs of their forefathers. GRANT AS GREAT A TYRANT AS LOUIS XI. We have all seen the message of President Grant im accepting his oftice. Well, 1 have looked into history, and have not seen in the tyrannies of Phalaris, Visconte Navis or Louis XI., amore bar- barous document than this of President Grant's. He says that his efforts willtend to stimulate in- dustry, manufactures and civilize the aborigines— under the mild influence of education—or war until extermination. When did such cruel words tall from the lips of a governing man? It is worse than “Delande est Carthago”—for time was given for the Carthaginians to leave. What other words of ferocity does this decument contain? We learn that the emancipated slaves are more unfor- tunate now than when they were slaves. President Grant tells us that the war freed the slave but did not make him a citizen, So you see that in Amer- jiea the slave has poutical but not civil rights. ‘That is, the Americans have treed lim; they have un- loosed him as one unlooses bleodhounds—to war upon the owner and not elevate and dignify him- self. Furthermore, the President, seeing that we will not allow Cuba and Porto Rico to be wrenched from us, Says that the Supreme Maker is preparing the werld to be one nation and to have one language. Do you know what that means? There is to be only one language, and that will be English; only one Republic, and that is the assembling of Mexico and the Antilles into one government, and the English law and language dominant. HOW THE UNITED STATES TREATED THE INDIANS. Do you know how the United States treated the Indians during their civil war? Lhave condemned the cruelties of Columbus, But to Columbus 1 can apply the words of one of our poets to Peter the Cruel—that it was God and his times that inspired his acts, not his own heart alone. But I am speak- ing of the middle of the nineteenth century, and what has been done in this century by the people of the United States? Acaptain, whose name is unknewn to history, was retreating with his com- pany, when he was followed by a small body of starving Sioux. He abandoned to them bread and food, Nextday the Indians were all dead, for the food contained strychnine, Mr. Lincoln did not chastise this man, but only transferred himto a higher post, in the mines of Minnesota. In 1864 Colonel Chirington was encamped near Fort Lyons. He saw near him a tribe of 5,000 Indians, under their Chieis, “White Antelope” and “Black Crow.” ‘The Colonel requested them to leave, and they did, and settled at 4 distance of thirty-five miles from the fort. A few months later, when they had built their homes and founded a@ village, the Colonel ene night presented himself suddenly, with S00 cavalry and six guns, and began to cannonade the village, The Indians fled in all directions, sabred by the cavalry, who did not stop until there were 100 corpses of aged men, women and children. 7 did Mr. Lincoln punish this man, but promoted m. ASSASSINATION GOD'S JUDGMENT AGAINST LINCOLN, But then came God's high judgment, I lament that the comedian, Booth, assassinated Lincola. I believe him to have been a great man and a great citizen, But must we reserve our indignation only for the miserable assassin, who plunges his poniard into the heart of a fellow being, and not have one word @f reprobation for the supreme mag- istrate of anation who sees that hundreds of hu- man beings are poisoned and does not punish, but rewards the murderers? Why is the memory of Pontius Pilate se hateful? He at least washed his hands of the blood of the Just. But Lincoin re- warded two infamous men. This only iilustrates the philanthropy of those North Americans whose invading mania, if not checked, will belie the words of our great poet, who telis us that wher- ever our Vessels sail, in every clime, they hear the language of Cervantes. Think on the fact that this language has now been pioeerines in a territory 2,000 leagues long by 600 wide; that it is no lenger heard in the Floridas, in Louisiana, im Texas, New Mexico, in Californ or even in Panama, God Gan that this proscription will not extend to exico or the Antilles! ‘AIN MUST CURB AMERICAN AVARICE. This avarice of the Americans must be curbed by the Spaniards. This ean be done with dignity, and tt should be done, for the lion is never 80 fierce as he is represented. Even if he ts we at least must learm hew to die with henor rather than live inignominy. I am sure the Americans will not attack the island of Cuba, It is said that if we do net concede to Cuba all that certain men desire the United States will recognize the rebels as belligerents, Let me ask if they can do more than they do now teward such recognition ? Nearly every day expeditions leave Key West and other peints fer Cuba. No; the danger from the United States is not im this declaration. It is in invasion of our soil by an American army. But can assure you that if sueh an army dares to do this they will, before they reaeh Havana, bite the dust of our fleids or kiss the waves that Wash the walls of Morro Castle. HOW THE AMERICANS TAMPERED WITH SLAVERY, Let us see how the United States and, above all, how Mr. Lincoln has treated the question of slavery. We have been told incorrectly that the war between the two sections sprung irom slavery, That would have been a cause; but the real mo- tives are to be found in the jealousy entertained by one section of the other. Thus, when tne slavery question was reached, there was this ad- vantage in favor of tne North. The slaves were in America, and the whites were ten times as numer. ous. In Cubathere are 600,000 blacks and enly 600,000 whites, But, with this advantage, how did the North deal witm slavery? After the fall of Sumter and Bull Run—thas great battle and reat Southern victory—Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. ayton, in Paris, that the civil war had no reason to be, and that the Southern States ought to con- tinue with their laws and wit slavery, Mr, Lin- coin himself said, in 1862, that his object was to save the Union, and neither protect ner attack slavery. ‘This was said, too, after 4 thousand batties, sieges and combats. In 1863 Lincoln suggested gradual emancipation, and yet with this record President Grant has the hardihood to insult noble Spain, In this same year there was made a law to pay fer each slave $000, no matter whether the ewners Were rebels or not, But this law, 80 great was Lincoln’s parsimony, was never fulfilled, DON CARLOS EVEN | We must therefore in Spain proceed calmly. We must not yield te momentary passions, We are impressionabie, like the old’ Athenians, and do e por quickly, We have none of" the Ro- man gravity. We have had ten constitutions io forty years. Do not let us commit the lest impru- dence, 1am a Spaniard before I am a republican or anything, and would rather see Spain in the power of Don Carlos inits unity than divided under any other power. Uniess my amendment maki: emancipation gradual is enacted the Cortes will approve a system of political government for & race entirely unprepared to receive it, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION. The views of Sefier Ruiz, here expressed, are the views of a class that is not without its influence in Spain. Sefior Ruiz himself is a political curiosity in the Cortes, He is what is called a unitarian re- publican, and, strange to say, is the only member of the party. His idea is that there should be one strong central government, like France, all power centring in Madrid, and no departmental or State governments. On this point he is alone, and does not seem to win any following. But on the question of slavery he represents a large class. The Spanish mind has brooded over what it once owned in America and what it lost until it sees in the actual possession of these lands by Americans acrime against Spain and Castilian hener, The republicans who centrol power—I mean the federal republicans—do not entertain this sentiment, and Mr. Casteiar, in closing the debate upon tie eman- cipation measure, took pains to show that the present government viewed the United States with friendship and respect; perhaps I might say enthu- siasm. This remarkable speech has made such an impression here, and went so far towards carrying the measure, that Iam sure you will be glad to have its best points translated from the Gazette:— SPEKCH OF CASTELAR. Mr. Castelar said that from the heights of the op- position benches he had formerly surveyed the realm of the ideal, but now, on the government bench, he saw nothing but hard realities that could not yield to the temptations of oratory. As a Deputy and citizen he had always supported emancipation—in the press, the club and in the Tribune, Nor would he, a8 Minister, break these | pledges. When little more than a-child he began ublic life, and his first speech, at twenty-one, was in favor of emancipation, When he moved from the press to a professor’s chair he gave his time to the study of the first five centuries of Cnristianity and the invasiens of the barbarians. In his lec- tures he had attributed these invasions to the in- fluence of slavery. The ancient world fell because, knowing not the virtue of labor, it accepted the degradation of servitude, The Christian religion, 80 comlorting to the soul when shorn of its dogmas and traditions, was the religion of the slave. “The Hebrew race,” said the erator, “prepared the way tor freedom by their grand gospels; the epics of slavery, inspired by the river that flowed under the willows of Babylon and writ- ten with hands manacied in bondage, Christ is of the royal lineage ef the old Kings of the enslaved race that has fallen. He con- quered oppression. If his cradle be the cradle of toii, his cross is the cross of the slave—the scaffold already red with the blood of Spartacus and his thirty thousand comrades. If Christianity is the spiritual religion that by its dogmas links man with God, in its social aspect it is the religion of the bondman, When I have seen in my fancy those vast hordes of barbarians advancing upon the Babylon of the West, fallen beneath the destroying flashes of the eioquence of Paui—tallen before human conscience; when I beheld the barbarians invade Rome in her feasting and scatter her ashes to the winds—I said, surely they come as angeis of destruction, They are * bondmen de- scended from the victims of the arena—descendants of gladiators—come to prove by their vengeance that God's justice shines forever in the pages of history.” (Applause.) EMANCIPATION DEMANDED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE iE. AGE. “Since then,’? continued Mr. Castelar, “I have found all social and political problems connected with the slavery question. I saw it as a question of caste with us all, The middle classes, not only of Spain but of Europe—who make laws and gov- ern—wao to-day guide our social structure, are the descendants of the helots, the pariahs, the slaves and the bondsmen. If we seek the ashes of our Jathers we fiud them in our tombs, rockhewn by the toil of the slave. The whole task of modern civilization has been the moulding of the ancient bondsman into a free and independent citizen.’’ No one could torget how Mr. Castelar had opposed M. Moret’s law of 1870, because 1t was an insu(ffl- cient law. When the vote of confidence in the Zor- rilla Ministry had been carried by acclammation, he had defended the measure as an evident neces- sity of the situation—a measure demanded of them by the spirit of the age. What he had done as deputy he would do as Minister—he would advocate the measure and demand its SPP tOral and would appeal to the patriotism of the conservatives not to delay the inevitable re- sult, lest they should draw down disaster on Spain, Democracy and the Republic were impossible without the consent of the liberal parties of Spain. They would all meet on the law of emancipation. He had sustained the radical party when in power at the risk of alienation and separation from his friends. Having taken this risk he lelt he ould appeal to the radicals mow with more than/ordl- nary earnestness. THE GREAT SYMPATHETIC MOVEMENTS OF HISTORY. Calumny, said the orator, had within and with: out the Cortes reviled and blackened all who obeyed only the promptings of po ee until one could hardly see through the thick cloud of in- Jamous accusations, heaped upon those upright men, as though to suffocate them—those slanders that came from foul air, as it were ; from the fester- ing sores deep in the heart of their beloved coun- try, the plague spots of slavery. There had been no influence brought to bear upon the slavery question. He had studied all the archives im the State Department for many years back in order that he might reach a free and fair judgment. He saw in slavery not @ national but an international question, and it could net be otherwise, When the raliway and telegrapa were unknown all the great Taovements and transformations of history came in harmony. It had been said that in Europe and Asia these mevements coincided, and these again with those of America, even belore America was known to the modern worid, There had been his- torical movements in all ages, as if one human spirit: pervaded the whele earth. Ali feudal Europe was stirred at once, and in the tenth century we had the rise ef guilds and communities. Louis XI, Ferdinand V. and Maximilian of Austria were one spirit in diferent forms, At the same time men received the mariner’s compass, the printing press and the telescope. And when the epic was completed witn the discovery of America the retormers came. | Hemry VILL, Philip L, Charles V. and Philip Il. were the types of absolutism. The liberal movement came at once with the advance of the middle clussés, the fall of kings and the suppression of the Jesmits, All this tended to show that great issnes are not in all respects national—that the grand problems of humanity have an international relation, “When I dwelt,” said Mr. Castelar, ‘upon the probable influence of the revolution of September, I was criticized as @ poet who dwe'lt in the realm of the ideal—as & man who saw in the modest combat at Alcolea an event that would transform Europe and the world. See now what has come trom that event! ‘he temporal power of the Pope over- thrown; the Empire of France fallen, with its Emperor; republics in France and Spain; Germany a unit, and ail Europe in a state of transiormation since our cannon thundered at Alcolea.” HOW THE FRENCH PROCLAIMED FREEDOM. This unity in historical movement seemed to dely materialism and show the triumph of ideal- ism, in showing the unity, the identity and almost the divinity of the human mind. ‘The true evan- gelical spirit that divides the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 1s the spirit of liberty and equality, In one day the French Cenvention pro- claimed equality, and a poor negro, who had been & bondsman and was then a deputy, said, “You have deciared the unity and equality of human rights and the equality of the human mind, Ihave a inind, thought and speech iike yourselves! I ieel a soul Within me! J have a conscience and a rea- son and yet | am not free—your boasted principles are butalie!? And then, in that great Conven- uon, Which, however it may have sinned, rose Taore than one to the summit of ideal right; that great Convention rese and said, “We will not dishonor ourselves by debating this,’ and they abolished slavery. The speaker had often thought of that scene. The doors fung open as if by un- seen hands; the negrocs entering and embracing the men of the Conventien, and failing at their feet they wept. It seemed that these sacred tears blotted owt forever the biood-stains from the French Revolution, From that day mething could stay the tide of emancipation. It swept like a powder train over the earth. Then came a man whose genius flattery said was godlike, who came to be the colossal arbiter of fortune and of war, Who attempted to destroy the work of the Convention and restore slavery in St. Domingo. Because of the pereny of this Apostate Juhan of the French Revoluuen, the worid witnessed that season of horror and strife crimes—crimes, indeed, w | nations from Spain to Russia had done in defence of liberty and independen ‘This aliusion ‘was rapturously cheered by the Cortes, “Thus, said Mr. Castelar, ‘‘was seen a strange thing. Engiand, the last democratic, but the most liberal of European Powers, was the main enemy of the French Revolution, Engiand, who fears the lower classes may come to govern her, does not blindly oppose reform. When an idea holds life and springs trom the ballot box and the people and reaches the level of Parliament, England does no longer oppose it, should warn the Spanisn conservatives not to prevent the revolution from budding and bearing fruit on the old Latin stalk of nationality, When governments lead reforms there are no revolutions, But when reforms are stubborniy resisted and self-evident principles stifted their realization is demanded in time from the crests of barricades and the seats of the con- ventions, and no one can see where such demands willend, Anarchy and dictatorship may come and destroy the Latin races, unless they see their own welfare and unite order ‘with _ liberty and gevernment with democracy, England proclaimed = Emancipation—imperiectly, it is true—but still she proclaimed ji! There- upon the movement spread to these European nations in whose colonies slavery ex- isted, and whether by freeing slave children there- after born, or by immediate emancipation, the extinction of slavery became general in almost ail European possessions. Then came another strange circumstance—that the very reverse of a revoin- tionary nation was the next to abolish slavery. ‘This was Russia, where arose a combined move- ment of literature and philosophy which power of the Uzar could not restrain, Ni rewarded the author of a romance called “Dead APRIL 23, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET.‘ Souls” with @ volume whose leaves were bank notes, The th it in that book—the revelation ol the condition of the serfs—descended and spread from the supremtty of the royal mind over all the pees ys vast domains of This thought breathed a soul into the body of the serf, and trom the Alpine pes nq desert and frozen, where thin air can scarce! breathed, flew downwards into the deep valleys, where rivers bearing the names of the Rhine, the Rhone and the Dant fi -y give to labor an . our the land the work of the Creator.” HOW ENGLAND HAS TREATED SPAIN. So, continued the speaker, do literature and phil- osophy do their work. An obscure thinker in the silence of his closet moves revolutionary tenets that sway all minds. In time tie Ozar sal serfdom should no longer be possible. soldiers had been conquered because they were not the soldiers of a free nation, ‘They had been cen- quered because they were machines—not men. In opposition to the aristocracy, and holding in his hand the sceptre of a despot, Alexander abolished serfdom and gave the serfs independence. Then the question passed to America. The United States sacrificed their citizens and their treasures, a mil- lion of men and the enjoyment of a career of boundless prosperity to redeem the slaves, In a country where the negro had not been regarded as & man—where was felt all the Saxon disdain towards inieriors—the condition of the negro was regarded as @ peril te the sublime work of Washingten. After these national achieve- ments could Spaniards maintain slavery? or could it be denied that it had become an international question? A Spanish King (Ferdinand VIi.) had agreea with England to abolish the slave trade, to permit Spanish ships to be searched, and tribunals established on Spanish soll to adjudicate upon questions arising out of slavery. Thus was ttc brand set upon the shoulders of a monarch by Eng- land, and thus it was that not a single House of Commons had jailed to protest against the action of Spain and her captains general in executing the slave trade treaty, and there had not been a gov- ernment that had not been compelled to expiain and apologize to England when she made an im- perious demand, WHAT HAVE THE UNITED STATES DONE? “But,” asked Mr. Castelar, “have the United States made imperious demands? Have tuey acted as England, even? No, gentlemen; let me here and now protest against the unseemly lan- guage—zealous and patriotic, but still unseemly — taat has been uttered in this place against the Minister ef the United States, and in regard = s = & S to the people and their President. Let me pretest in the name of this demo- cratic nation, this republican nation, that can do no less than cherish deep reverence and ad- miration fer the glorieus people that in its lifetime of less than a century has solved the problem to- wards which we have so long been tending—the problem of making democracy the twin sister of liberty, and_ building up autuority and government under the Republic. hen it is remembered that in the midst of tae general suspicion and want of contidence shown to our democracy by Europe the United States hastened to recognize us, and by the act of giving us their material and moral guaran- tee to proclaim us to the world as @ people worthy of self-government, should we not owe a debt of parte le towards that great nation that forms so igh and favorable he ala of us? And when, beside this, the President, in an address tor which he alone is responsible, and in preparing which he does not even consul: his Cabinet—this illus- trious man, who on the battle feild has renewed, in our day, the triumphs of Alexander—says :—‘I seek neither war nor military predominance nor conquest. I simply de- sire ety and democracy. I would wish to see all the nations in possession of one common right’ — should not the man who speaks thus be hailed with joy by a republican Chamber and regarded as the colossal figure in history, closing the era of con- quest and opening the era of liberty and right? AMERICAN LAWS AND CUBA. “Apart from this, the American laws cannot pre- vent Cuban associations in the United States, even as we in Spaia are not permitted in any way to interfere with associations intended to effect change in any foreign government, We cannot in- terfere, because it would vielate the constitution, All we can do 18 to prevent forcible acts or acta of war against a friendly Power, expeditions and shipment of arms. This is precisely what the United States have done to the utmost of their power. In the time of a celebrated Min- ister who sought to win the Presidency by the annexation of Cuba and Porto Rico to the South- ern States as slave States, it was easy to under- stand why the slaveholding commonwealths would aid unlawful expeditions. They did so. And then it Was under the influence of the slave pewer that the integrity of our domain in Cuba and Porto Rico was seriously menaced, But what interest now have the United States in any scheme of an- nexation? None, absolutely none! Annexation would introduce an unstable, mischievous element into the coniederation—a race that does not har- monize with the Saxon and has always been at war with races out of itsewn bieod. Annexation would perhaps compromise the greatness and power and peace of the marvellous Republic. The Americans know this well. Now, with a frontier close to ours and an insurrection flaming in Cuba, they have done as England has done—addressed us friendly and courteous advice, such as all gov- ernments may tender to one another in the grand parliament ot civilized nations.” THE FAMOUS OCTOBER NOTE. - Mr, SuaREZ-INCLAN—How about the note of Octo- r 4 Mr. CasTELAR—I shall speak of that note. In the first place, that note was not addressed to the Minister of State, but to the American Minister in Madrid, and the latter was not instructed to pre- sent it to the Spanish gevernment. A Derury—How about publishing it ? Mr, CasTELAR—Publication may have come from oversight or a breach of confidence. Only recently 1 came near being the victim of a similar oversight, and was obliged to use the utmost activity to pre- vent the publication ofa note that almost found its way into print. Although the publication of the American note may have been a diplomatic act, we never read it officially. Let us not reach such a depth of humiliation as to seek to degrade the nution to aid @ party. The Foreign Minister of Amadeus was a Minister of Spain, tis eloquence, his renown, his glory belong to usall. His good name is our good name, and, knowing his Menge we lust know that he did all e could to protect the honer and dignity of Spain, which can never be trodden under foot while a patriot breathes on our soil. No, gentlemen; the Zorrilla Ministry knew nothing of that note, were never informed of it and were ignorant of its existence when it resolved to de- Stroy slavery. 1 aim in favor of emancipation in Porto Rico; and I say this because I have net yet had a conierence with the American Minister on American affairs. I am, therefore, not under American influence or pressure. Iam for emanci- ation in Cuba, with @ due regard to all interests, am in favor of colonial reform, and of giving all liberty to Cuba and Porto Rico. if I were called upon to take this ground by a foreign Minister I ‘would say these pledges are with my conscience and my country, and a foreign nation has no con- cern therewith, And the worthy Minister of the United States, who knows and respects us, will never seek te dictate to the Spanish nation and the Spanish Repablic. SLAVERY AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION. “IT do not believe that wken some nations inter- est themselves in the futures of other nations, or when there are domestic questions that may be related to other foreign questions, those Ministers have compromised the honor and dignity of the nation. Slavery is really an international ques- tion, ag I have shown, hat would this Cabinet say ifa foreign Cabinet should ask, ‘How will you settle the question of the traditional tribunals in Galicia ? Yhat are you going to do about the ravassa mortis of Catalonia ?? No foreign Cabinet would ask these questions, because they are do- mestic, and we alone decide them, But in the slavery question the spirit of the human race, the advance of ideas and the pledges of the Spanish nation, and even her treaties, all give slavery an ational aspect. And thus it is that frank- leads me to say that ali, absolutely the Cabinets of Spain have been ap- roached on this question by England, Every recent Parliament has found fault with our Cuban administration, and every Minister has preferred some claim against us. ‘But since this question was taken up by the Zorrilia Cabinet it has not been made the ground of any diplomatic representations. No one nas requested, no one has demanded, that the Ministry should present this measure ef emancipation for Porto Kico. It was brought before the Ministry. Some patriotic men were oppesed toit, They resigned, and then the Ministry freely and spontaneously brought in this measure. But, upon this point, I will say no more. Ideem it @ dishonor and an insult to a nation to believe that any of its Ministers could bp @ foreign impulse. For myself, | can say that as long as I am Minister, if any nation, however strong, were to offer Spain the slightest insult, would prejer the destruction of my country to the loss of an atom of her honor; and other govern- ments have said and wouid do exactly the same, THE PERILS OF DELAY IN EMANCIPATION. “We have been accused of precipitation in the introduction of this me re. But we have not Lae 9 Ahi lon Ifl had a right to supplicate, [ would fallen my bended Knees and beseech you not to prevent the passage of this law; for you know not the perils surrounding Spain. Can none of you foresee the spirit that will come here in the Constituent Cortes, born of that absviute freedom which the goverament will give for the elections ? If from this soil, so thickly sown With revolutionary ideas; from this Pie bo volcano; from this land teeming with widespread agitation of conscience apd thought, where it would seem almost as if the elements and ideas of the human mind were gathered together as by unseen winds; here, on the confines of Western Europe; if jrom this fleld, so rank in all these ideas, should arise ap anreason- ing, enthusiastic and spontaneous move- ment in the future Convention, how great would be your responsibility? What acommanding argument we could then use who represent moderation and prudence, if we could say, ‘Pause and consider! Look at things in a practical aspect! Was !t not said that slavery would not be abolished in Porto Rico? and, behold! it is abolished. Do not imperil, ¥. your rashness, the lovely island of Gaba? e conld say this with authority if you now give us yeur vote. But, otherwise, I fear that future representatives will not et for any human consideration. I fear they will say, with grievous impatience, ‘All reforms delayed are lost!’ and they will do, with a spontaneous outburst of feel- ing, what you can d@ now by moderation and pru- dence. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DEFEAT. “This government need make ne pretestations in reference to the integrity of our domain, W: solemnly engage to reuouble our efforts to main- tain it wt all cout, a8 a sacred legacy Of past gener: ath which it must preserve intact and transmit to pesterity.. But do not avoid an inevitable duty. As I have not introduced this measure, 81 will say that unless you pass it I renounce before you now all responsibility for what may happen. I wash my hands of it all. But pass the law and then throw all the responsibility upon me. We promise you to die a thousand deaths rather than consent that an tom. taken trom our nation’s integrity. If ain I swear it that at abolition beings dangers to S| of Spain, will deem it an we, the Eepal honor to die in the tropics {or the salvation, for the liberty, for the independence and integrity of Spanish soll. But if you do net vote it lam ready to prociaim betore all Europe, before America and before the world, that it has been defeated because this Assembly, born under a monarch, and which, under & monarchy, proposed the abolition of slavery, has ed slavery in order to com- promise and even dishonor the Republic. This is not @ party question, nor can it be somade. It is a national question. eal with it as 4 national ques- tlon—a question of humanity. Vote the aboiition of slavery in Porto Rice, and I pledge yeu that all interests will be carefully constdered when we come to consider emancipation in Cuba. If we faii in this vote, then on you and your heads, and not op ours, be the responsibility. If we suo- ceed, I say to you, gentlemen, that we shail indeed have written a — glorious page in history. Under all aspects these are solemn and difficult moments, The satay of the country—and why deny it ?—is endangered on every side. We need all the sons of Spain, we need to forget all our dissensious, to save order; to save the principle of authority; to save the meeny of our territory; to save the Repub- lic, which 18 the country itself, Be moved by an impulse of patriotism, and you will be assured of the gratitude of all the generations to come, the penedictien of history, and, dearer than all these, the benediction of our conscience, like the peace of God, will rest upon our souls |” ‘This speech decided the emancipation measure. It is an interesting contribution to the history of this extraordinary movement, I have condensed it into a letter, velieving that friends at home will be interested in seeing how they are regarded in Spain; how dark the national character appears to a mind as sombre as that of old Garcia Ruiz, how bright and sunny and inviting toa mind as enthusiastic as that of the eloquent Castelar. “HORSE NOTES. The three trots announced to come off at Ficet- wood Park yesterday afternoon were postponed on account of the weather. An extraordinary trot for this early season of the year took place on Monday last between Tommy Johnson's bay mare Dolly and John Har- beck’s bay mare Cinderella. The conditions of the match were to trot from Truesdale’s stable in Forty-sixth street to Mamaroneck, Westchester county, a distance of nineteen miles, for $200a side, each to road wagen and to carry a companion soasto bring the weight up to 500 pounds. An early start was made, via Sixth avenue, Central Park, Macomb’s Dam, Fordham to Mamaroneck, where Mr. Harbeck arrived first, having done the distance in one hour and twelve minutes, a fine performance considering the condition of the roads, Mr. Peter Boe has a magnificent chestnut stal- lion in the stables of Superintendent Van Cott at Fleetwood Park. This noble horse was sired by Edward Everett, dam by imported Consternation, He is fifteen hands three inches in height and is most elegantly proportioned. Van Cott says that the stallion is “troubled with speed.” James Irving and his gray trotting horse seem to be one and inseparable, They may be seen every day, when the weather permits, flying over Har- lem lane, The gray is truly a wonderful road horse. Mr. Littell’s trio of three-year-olds are working well at Jerome Park. Wildidie, Wizard and Fel- lewcraft would sell well had we book makers in our midst for all their engagements. Wildidle is a re- markably developed colt and has all the requisites of the making of a grand race-horse. An extra race, and one that will no doubt be very popular at the coming meeting at Jerome Park, is for gentlemen riders, it will be open to hacks, the property of members, which have not been ina training stable this year, to carry welter weights, the distance to be three-quarters of a mile. This will be a flue opportunity for the young gentlemen members of the club to show their horsemauship. A Western party are in this es trying to nego- tiate with Mr. James Irving for his trotting horses Jim Irving and Patchen Chief, with the view to travel them through the West, trotting at the various tracks wkere purses will be given. We have been assur at Mr. Irving will not allow his namesake to leave this latitude until he makes one or two races with some of our best trot- ters. Patchen Chief would be a great acquisition to the West as a stallion, and we would not object to his going. The following purses to be trotted for at the Au- gust meeting of the Butfalo Driving Park Associa- tion will close May 1:—$1,000 for four-year-olds and under; $600 to the first, $300 to the second and $100 to the third horse; $1,500 for five-year-olds and under; $900 to the first, $450 to second and $160 to third horse; both races to be mile heats, best three in five, in harness, ‘The mare Kathleen, by Trustee, owned by Mr. Paul S. Forbes, of this city, dropped twins (a colt and a filly), by Iron Duke, at Guy Miller’s farm, in Orange county, New York, on the 12th inst. The mare and the foals are in perfect health. The Canada horses Little Angus and Caledonian Chief have been matched for $1,500 a side, gold. The conditions of the race are mile heats, best three in five, and to be trotted at Buffalo on the 12th of June, good day and track, under the rules of the National Association. The Prospect Park Fair Grounds Association is to be made a stock concern, with a capital of $400,000. Under the present man- agement the Park 1s controlled by fliteen direc- tors, Who own all the stock, Itis now proposed to issue 4,000 shares of stock at $100 each. Should 4,000 Brooklynites each take one share, and each shareholder have a voice in the management, we py the Superintendent, whoever the unfortunate individual may be. Fifteen directors have proved @ trifle more than one Superintendent could please, but when he has (o obey 4,000 orders on each race i Nee be a stout fellow to stand them long. Pity akley. Tommy Johnsen has matched the horse formerly called Harry Bassett against Mr. J, Harbeck’s blac are Wait-Awhile, for $1,000 a side. To be trotted five days after the Spring meeting at Fleetwood. The old race horse Climax, by Balrownie, dam Jewel, has been sent to Captain Cottrill’s stables, at Mobile. He will be placed m the stud, The imported Clydesdale stallion, Marquis of Lorne, has been purchased by 0. P. Chaney, of Franklin county, Ohio, Jor $3,000, The horse weighs 2,100 pounds. (he English Sporting Gazette aayee to the announcements which have already ap- peared in this journal of the forthcoming sale of the Hurstbourne stud and of the whofe of Mr. Wil- liam Day’s horses in training, fifty brood mares, thirty foals and yearlings and the stallions Came- rino, Man-at-Arms and Promised Land, we have this week to make known that Sir Joseph Hawley and Mr. Ellam intend giving up breeding. The Ley- bourne stud will be brought to the hammer some time in July, and the sale will embrace all Sir Joseph’s brood mares, foals, yearlings and stallions, In addition to the whoie of his breeding stud at the Warren, Epsom, Mr. Ellam has resolved to get rid of ait his horses in training, which make up a total of sixty, and the sale will take place on the 80th of June.” JEWISH EMIGRANTS FROM ROUMANIA, A Hebrew Settlement To Be Made in Nebraska—Flying from Persecutions in Their Own Land—Fifty Thousand Per- sons Desiring to Come—Arrival of the Pioncers. There have lately arrived {n this city several wealthy Hebrews from Roumania, who have come to the Western World as pioneers of several thou- sands of their coreligionists, resident in Roumania, who intend coming over here during the course of the present year when arrangements shall have been made for their residence in this new land, and it is considered that the exodus will probably settle nm Lincoin, the capital city of Nebraska, In modern or ancient history hardly any parallel can be found to the ATROCIOUS PERSECUTIONS which have befallen this race in Roumania, Where a couple of rs ago a large nomber of them were slaughtered at Berlad and other places, while their property was burned and destroyed to an immense extent. It is computed that as soon as their colony has been fixed upon in the United States that-Jrom three to five thousand will immediately proceed across Eurepe to Ant- werp in Belgium, where they will embark for this ort. It is reported by Mr. Jaroslawski, of 428 et Ba it aa) ie ath fifty thousand of e Jews in Roumania are desirous of pro this country, and that sheet AN ORGANIZATION OF FRIENDS has been established in this city to help their per- secuted brethren who may arrive here, Among the gentlemen who are taking a conspicuous part in the movement may be mentioned Dr. Vidaver, of the Thirty-fourth street synago; ue; Judge Jo- achinsen, Mr. Bamberger and other’ influential Hebrews. It is asserted that one of the fa reasons which has caused so many brews to jeave their homes and adopt this feune is the publication of — articles lebrew papers of Europe on the wondrous resources of the United States, and among them may be mentioned the jam: i” (or “Lec- taxten published at Lyck, in Prussia, and “Ivri Onanchi” (“1 am a Hebrew}, published at Brody, in Galicia, It is stated that @ large number of Hebrews are now devoting themselves to jcul- tural pursuits in this country, and several large plantations are now suc worked by them in Georgia, ART MATTERS. Interesting Art les. One interesting art sale closes and another begins to-day. Tne first is thatof Mr, Archibald Johnson, at No. 37 Nassau street, and consists ob nigh class modern oli paintings, about,seventy-five in number, Among prominent names are to be found those of Bellows, Irving, George Innis, W. Holburton, Casilear, T. A. Richards, Leutze, J. G. Brown, David Johnston, Keusett, Kauibach, J. H. Beard, Bricher, William Hart, Chapin, Cropsey and Sonntag. The pictures will be disposed of at noon- The other sale is that to be held at the gallery of Edward Schenck, 60 Liberty street, This will be held on the evenings of to-day, Thursday and Fri- day. The collection is made up of oll paintings and water colors, and includes nearly 270 members. Every picture is guaranteed as catalogued, There is a bit of stitl life by Alphonso Hirsch, contributed by the artist for the benefit of the Chicago sufter- ers, Mr. H. J. Elkins, of St, Louls, hag “The Falls of Minnehaha,” @ fine study of water in motion, with a very careful rendering of rocks and landscape. ‘‘Ophelia,” by R. Boos, 01 London, is a picture of a young girl wearing that pensiveness that so often ¢characterises young Rae inlove. “Near Franconia” is by Kruseman ‘an Elten, and is one of the most salable in the collection, ‘Wharncliffe Wood, Yorkshire,” is by award Percy, of London, and illustrates the breadth and vigor of the English school. “Marine,’* by Pollentine, and ‘Heidelberg Castle,” by Richter, both deserve to be mentioned as gems. There are many particularly excellent pictures in the second and third days’ collection, and to these we shall return again. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Mr. William B. Howell has some interesting pho- tographs, intended for the Vienna Exposition, for inspection at his gallery, Nos, 867 and 869 Broad- iat To-day is the last day on which they will be vi le. Mr. Louis Durr’s collection of old paintings is still to be seen at the German Savings Bank Build- ing, Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue. A fine picture byMr. Henry C. Bispham is now te be seen in Schaus’ window. It is entitled “Tha Stampede.” } Mr. Norton Bush’s “Western Slope of the Cors ailleras”’ is to be seen until Saturday, inclusive, at his atudio, 805 Broadway, corner of Eleventh street, Mr, William F, dé Haas now has on his easel two cabinet size canvases, one a “Sunset at Grand Menan Island, N. B.,"’ a charming bit of picturesque cliffs and sea reposing underneath @ glowing but very mellow Summer evening sky, with a strong contrast of cool shadows. The other work is en- titled “Fishing off Star Island.” An April shower is coming up, overshadowing the greater part of the scene, relieved only by some light in the sky and very strong, distant light in the broad ex- panse of the ocean. The hour 1s very quiet aud tender, and presents a most excellent contrast with the warm and brilliant sunset. Mr, J. F. Cropsey has just finished “The Old Bon- church, Isle of Wight,’ and a companion piece, “Hudson River Scenery in the Autumn,” and is now engaged on “A Misty Morning on the Wa-wa- gan-da, Orange county.’’ Mr. Cropsey’s studio is 200 West Forty-third street, and besides these pic- tures are to be seen there his “Ann Hathaway's ores and “Stoke Pogis,” the scene of Gray’a ‘Elegy. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. THE JuDIctaL Decisions of Chief Justice Chase, delivered in the Virginia Circuit during the last few years since the war, will shortly be published in one volume. THE Independent says:—“In naming new booka for the Sunday school the Church Sunday Schon Magazine, of England, gives prominence to Stan ley’s ‘How I Found Livingstone.’ It seems a little odd to think of New YorK HERALD correspondenta supplying our Sunday school literature, yet many earnest friends of the Sunday school would put 4 trutnful book of travel or biography above the aw erage Sunday school novel for ehildren’s reading week-day or Sunday.” A SECOND EDITION of Mr. McDowall’s “History ot Dumfries, with Notices of Nithsdale, Annandale and the Western Border,” will shortly be pub lished, Much new matter has been introduced re lating to the War of Independence and the connec- tion of the poet Burns with the Burgh. MR. GLADSTONE has just presented to the Rev. S. Baring-Gould the sum of £50 from the royal bounty for the purchase of books. Mr. Baring-Gould is at present engaged in writing “Lives of the Saints,” LonGMans have published an interesting book on Brazil, by Michael G. Mulhall, an Englishman, who spent a Summer among the 60,000 Germans who form the colony of “Rio Grando do Sul,” ta Southern Brazil. The Teuton race in Seuth Amer- ica, as in the United States, seldom or never think of returning to Europe, but become permanent settlers, build railways, make wine, publish Ger- man newspapers (of which Brazil has three) and organize German clubs. MAOMILLANS have in the press a poem by Mr, Eubule-Evans, entitled “The Curse of Immortali- ty,” which is likely to attract more than ordinary attention. CockBuRN, the Lord Chief Justice of England, has not abandoned his intention of writing upon the Junius controversy ; but, if he writes, it will not beas an advocate of the Franciscan theory. He will aim at producing a “summing up” of the evi- dence on both sides, MR. JOHN GARRETT’S “Classical Dictionary of India,” printedat Madras a year or two ago, is am inferior compilation from English sources, by a writer who had not read the best and most critical authorities on the Hindoo history and mythology. ‘The Saturday Receiver says it has “broken down in a@conscientious attempt to read through the three volumes of Buckle’s ‘‘Miscellaneous Works,’? The only wonder is that any ‘able editor” should have had the stupidity to undertake the job of Treading anybody’s commonplace books through, Mr. ©. G. LELAND has in the press a work en- titled “The English Gypsies and their Language,” consisting almost entirely of fresh material, gath» ered from the Rommany themselves. Among the results of Mr. Leland’s research will be found a number of almost unchanged Hindustani words, not in any Rommany vocabularies; nearly fifty stories in the original, with a translation, and a collection of English words of Gypsy origin. AN INTELLIGENT TRAVELLER, who has lately been among us, puts-down, as the result of his observa- tions, that “when @ great man dies in the United States the first thing done is to~ propose a fine statue in his honor; next, to raise™“part of the necessary money; next, to forget to order any statue, and last, to wonder what became of the money.”* Mr. JOHN MorEy’s two volumes on “Rousseau,’? just out in London, give a most complete and elaborate account of this wonderful writer—his training, his connections, bis confessions, his quarrels and his genius, “Ir I8 RUMORED,” says the writer of the Guar. dian’s “Table Talk,” “that Dr. Lushington’s secret about Lord Byron has not died with him and will be made public before long.” ‘ THERE ARE IN St. Petersburg ninety-nine print- ing offices, thirteen of which belong to the Crown. Moscow has fifty-seven printing offices, six of which belong to the Crown, Dk. CornpeT has just presented to the Public Library of Geneva a complete manuscript of Rous- seau’s “Emile,” with corrections and notes in the author's writing. MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, A benefit performance in behalf of Mr. Vincent, the stage manager at Niblo’s, takes place at that theatre on Thursday afternoon. It will be partici- pated in by Miss Ethel, who plays the third act of “Camille,” and by the company from Booth’s The- atre, who give “The Lady of Lyons.” We hear of a series of successes in Italy for new works. At the San Carlo, at Naples, Signor Verdi's “Alda” was a great triumph; the composer was ealled for thirty-eight times, At Barletta Signor Petrucci’s “Maledetta” caused the composer's ree appearance thirty times, At Plaisance Signor Pee drotti’s ‘‘Fiorina”’ was equally fortunate, Miss Kate Claxton, who has occasionally appeared on the Fifth Avenue stage, is to be second leading lady at the Union Square, a te Harry Beckett, late of the Lydia Thompson troupe, Is to be the low comedian at Wallack’s. We hear that Robert McWade 1s to play “Rip Van Winkle” at the Olympic next season. Mr. George L. Fox is to play comedy next sete son, and he may bo with his great character of Bottom, in “The Midsummer Night’s at the Grand Opera House, lane Drees Mme. Jenny Van Zandt is to be the principal s0l@ singer at tho musigal festival at Rutland, Vt., im io May. | —————