The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1873, Page 7

THE MERCANTILE MARINE a5 + NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 14, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, THE SPANISH CRIME. Herald Special Report from | CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGr, London. ‘Won-Arrival of the Stéamship | City of Montreal. Arrivals and Departures of Vessels from and | Bites, Taken the tseue ‘out’ of for the United States. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK RERALD. Tho Yollowing special report to the Himmatp has been received from our corre- spondent in the English metropolis :— Lonpon, Nov. 13, 1873. TRE CITY OF MONTRYAL NOT YET ARRIVED. Tho Inman Steamer City of Montreal, which left New ‘York November 1 for Liverpool, has not yet arrived. It is supposed that she has fallen in with the disabled steamer City of Richmond and taken her in tow. A VESSEL LOST AT SEA, A despatch received hero to-day from Manila, dated November 6, states that a vessol mamed Mindor has been totally lost at sea. [There is no American vessel of that name. Sho fs probably British. } VESSEIS ARRIVED. Arrived at Liverpool, November 18, ship Green Jacket (British), Krogh, from San Francisco. Arrived at Deal, November 13, ship Loch Katrine (British), Shaw, from New York for | London. Arrived at Southampton, November 13, steamship Hermann (German), Reichmann, from New York (and proceeded for Bremen). Arrived at Moville, November 13, steamships Columbia (British), Higgins, and Elysia (British), Campbell, from New York, both bound to Glasgow. Arrived at Queenstown, November 12, barks Marlborough (British), Forbes, from New York; 13th, Guiseppa (Italian), Rametto, from do. VESSELS BAILED, Sailed from Liverpool, November 12, ship Astrida (British), Chisholm, for Tybee; bark Froeman Dennis (British), Abbott, for Key West; 13th, steamship Celtic (British), Thompson, for New York; bark Bertha (British), Bull, for New Orleans. Sailed from Deal, November 13, bark Gerda (Norwegian), Olson, from London for Phila- delphia. Sailed from Queenstown, November 13, bark Clansman (British), Bremer, for New York. ENGLAND. Discount at the Bank—Bullion in Outflow—The Solicitor Generalship. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 13, 1873. Ata quarter past tweive, noon, to-day the Bank of England directors posted their card, announo {ng that no change had been made in the rate of @iscount. BULLION. ‘The bullion in the Bank of England has decreased #A1,000 during the past week, and the amount gone into the bank on balance to-day 1s £92,000. The steamship Celtic, which lett Liverpool for Now York to-day, carried out $15,000 in bullion. CABINET OFFICE. It isrumored that Mr. William George G. V. V. Harcourt, now member of Parliament from Oxford sity, 1s to be appointed Solicitor General. {William George Granville Venables Vernon Har- court, who ts likely to be appointed Solicitor General of England, was born in the year 1827 and graduated in Trinity College, Cam- ‘bridge, being senior optime in the first class in Classics. He was called to the bar and made Queen's Counsel in 1866. He was professor of in- ternational law in the University of Cambridge, a member of the Royal Commission for the amend- ment of the Neutrality Jaws, and also for the amendment of the laws relating to naturalization. Haroourt is the author of the letters signed “‘Historicas,”” on international law, which were published in the London Times after the escape of the Alabama and during the diplomatic contro- versy to which the event gave rise. He is a liberal in politics and a firm supporter of Mr. Gladstone's Policy.—Ep, HERALD.) Whe American System of Free Religion. Lonpon, Nov. 13, 1873, Ata public meeting here to-night, of which Mr. Edward Miall was chairman, Mr. Carvell Williams, who recently returned from America, gave an ac- eount of nis visit. He praised the voluntary re- ligtous system, and especially commended the public schools of the United States, The Vichborne Trial Progress. LONDON, Noy, 14, 1873. The report that the Tichborne trial had been postponed one year was an error, which arose from the incorrect transmission of the date by the cable, “November, 1874," was substituted for November 17, 1873, to which day the hearing was adjourned, It is now probable that there will be another postponemont, as some twenty witnesses expected from New York have not yet arrived. The Search for the Steamship City of Richmond, Lonpon, Nov. 14, 1873, Another steamer, the City of Durham, has been Bent in soarch of the City of Richmond, FRANCE. Sentence for Disrespect to the Court Martial— Specie in Outflow from the Bank. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Novy, 13, 1873. The trial Of Colonel Stoffel, at Versailles, for sing language, While giving his testimony in the Bazaine Court Martial, disrespectful to the public prosecutors, was Concluded to-day, He was found gmilty and sentenced to three months’ imprison- ment and payment of costs. OULFLOW OF SPECTR. ‘Tho specte in the Bank of France has decreased 1,000,000 francs during the past week, SPAIN. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, MapriD, Nov. 13, 1873, ‘The insurgent forts at Cartagena have opened a heavy fire both upon the land and naval forces of ‘She government, and will pursne the even tonor of its way according to law ang piace. there are thousands of ways by which individuals may aid, within the leiter of the law, the struggling Cubans Nothing which the Cuban || thorities conld have done or oi would 0 have tired the American heart as these ‘ocious acts. They are deeds, not only of desperation, but of imbecility, The Cnban assumed the crimi- ality whic! bound to prove; it has Tushed into a possible conflict tor the home government with a near and powerful neighbor; it has aroused tho sympathies of one of the most excitable in the ‘world in behalf of its insurgent tor the ple of i moment, for the great mass peo the United the domain of law and emitted it to that of popular septiment and pop: geance. But it is unnecessary to multiply these ox- pressions of popular indignation of our people against the recent wholesale slaughter at Santiago by the Spaniards as they come to us through those rellable channels, the columns of the public press, We have in the above furnished enough to indicate the bent oi the popular mind on the subject, and believe that they are sumMcient to admonish the poveceument at Washington tnat the time for dal- lance with the Spaniarus in regard to Cuba has ceased and that vigorous measures must be the creed aud the policy for the future, Comments of the Frenoh Press, The Courter des Kats Unis, in commenting on the despatches regarding the 6xecutions in Havana, say: ‘This fatal news bas thrown the wholo city into a state of consternation, The butchery ts re- garded as a defiance to the United States, and ita precipitation and barbarity are intended to inspire @ profound horror, consequently in all our mercan- tile centres and publio places there ts a determi- natton to call upon the government to demand immediate reparation, The word ‘war’ is In the mouth of overrode fud all thinking men aad that auch a resolution by the government would create a salutary reaction against the present |' fc stagnation in business and the general prostration of afairs in the country,” The Messager Franco- Amerioain says:— “The ex- planations given a Mr. Fish at the recent Oabinet council upon the Virgintus affair add but littie to the facts already known, and that according to the Secretary's idea the pirate government will not accept the responsibility of the executions at Santiago de Cuba, It ia trae that our qerorniians ig deprived of the precise details of this bloody drama, but then Mr. Fish understood that Ryan and his unhappy companions have been shot in virtue of @ former sentence rendered long an- terior to the seizure of the Virginius, This con- demnation, according to the Spanish law, remained in force against the men, and it was only neces- sary for the due {identification of the prisoners by the commandant at Santiago in order to carry it into effect. It :ia doubtless requisite to take into consideration the tegisiation of country in order to judge an act euch as that which now occupies the public mind; but the law of which Mr. Fish speaks is certainly the unhappy residue of barbarity, and it is to be hoped that the republican government of Spain will do prompt justice in the premises. in any case, it required at least @ certain procedure in order to establish the identity of the prisoners, and if it is true that the Virginius sailed under the American flag they should maintain, as we have said before, that the passengers had a right to the protection of this fag up to the moment when it should be {ndicially proved that the vessel was a pirate and {raudu- lently exhibited the American colors." Comments-of the Gorman Journals. The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung maintains that “the Spanish authorities in Cuba have taken upon themselves the responsibility of these executions, From the fact that within a few hours of the death of the military leaders the naval tribunal shot not only the civil chief of the insurgontas (Alfaro), but also the Captain of the ship (Fry) and his whole crew, it is evident that the bloodthirsty faction in Cuba treated the Virginius simply as a pirate, This was nothing more than a piece of mere Presumption, inasmuch as Spain herself has denied tudt the insurgents of Cuba amounted to a war party, and, therefore, its right of search can- not be based upon the A fh} of a belligerency, the existence of which ts disclaimed, Was the Vir- ginius Leiba ? Is itestablished that the ship had vn board filiibusters and pirates? These are all the questions in wnose answers Will lie the true point, She was no ship of neither was she armed, Even the Voz de Cuba, as we learn by cable, in tts number of yesterday, shows that Captain Fry's pal, object was to make a gvod trade and demand bigh prices for transporting the revolutionary party and effects, That the ship had changed her American owner and was not entitled to protec- tion has not been shown, She had beyond a doubt received her clearing papers from a regularly com- missioned United States Consul. Supposing this te have been a mistake in placing her under the American flag and that she misused the flag, this cannot constitute a claim that she is a pirate. It is, perhaps, convenient to misuse a fag merely for the purpose of avoiding punishment, thereby out- raging the State whose flag is s0 used, and, in this case, olearly entitling the United States to the Tight of inflicting punishment—an additional one why the authorities of Cuba should have listened to the opinion of the Union in reference to these proceedings. It is evident that the present government of the Spanish mother country is perstiem ee ah the directing fanatics of Cuba. ‘he finger of the civilized world points to the aboll- tion of the innumanity and bloodthirstiness, bor- dering on barbarism, which are seen there. It is incumbent on the United States, by her geographi- cal position, her extensive interests and through the direct provocation phe has received, to assume in this case the role of intermediary, and end this inhumanity and disregard of justice.”” The New Yorker Presse asks:—“What will the foversment of Geaeral Grant do now, after the nited States has experienced such a rebuff? Will they be willing to accept a pase | apology as sufictent, or have they already made up their minds to be contented tf Spain will only declare the whole thing ® mere misunderstanding and perhaps dismiss an insubordinate commandant rom his place, in order to replace him by others who are no better. As the fruit of a former petty and unpatriotic policy, Mr. Fish suddenly finds himself face to face with a dificulty which, we fear, can only be over- come by a disregard of many of his own views, If we had but a Seward at the head of our State Department, before whose despatches the diploma- tic bombs of @ Louis Napoleon were wont to re- bonnd, it would not have taken long to find the true way of sustaining our national honor; but from Mr. Hamilton Fish, and the other Ba Te Mr. Sickies, who has so much regard for the honor or his country near the Spanish Government, we have very little to expect.’’ Views ot the Philadelphia Press. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13, 1873. Since the movement upon the part of the gov- ernment indicates anticipation, or at least pre- paration, for the worst that may result from the recent atrocities in Cuba, a reflex of local jour- nalistic thought may not be out of place, The papers of this city, which as a rule are slow to take advanced opinions upon any subject whatever, notice this affair to considerable léngth and with, for them, extraordinary spirit. The Public Record thinks there are several reasons for supposing that our government may be able to steer its way through the present com- plication without committing any serious blunder, that the Spanish government ought to unite with our own in punishing the perpetrators of this crime and that there is no need of war. Forney’s Press says:—“In the interests of out- raged humanity, if not to avenge the death of mur- dered Americans, something should be done and that promptly.” The Public Ledger says “that no such atrocious butchery has been perpetrated in any war among civilizea nations in our day as the summary waole- sale slaughter in cold blood of prisoners taken from @ captured ship, whether she be blockade- runner, privateer or pirate. We do not see how the French, English and American governments can fail to interpose and to insist upon the laws of modern warfare being applied in Ouba as they are everywhere ¢l: in the event of 8] proving to be poweriess to control the ges in her service in Cuba, to take the case in and themselves. But, whatever the aposition of the other Powers having interests in the West Indies may be, it is specially incumbent on our government to let these inhuman eae of the Cubans understand, once for all, that it is deter- mined that ‘barbarous cruelties on our bor- ders’ shail continue no longer.’ The uirer, in an exceedingly able and spirited editorial which leads all the other morning journals in its full and exhaustive review of what it, stigmatizes as “The Cuban Butchery,’ “fhis cold-blooded, wholesale murder, by which several American citizens have been sacrificed to satisfy Spanish ferocity and a craving for the ven- geance they are unable to gratily in open fight with enemies ‘encountered on even terms, will have the effect of arousing the American people to fever heat, Already meetings have been an- nounced in every direction to express the feelin of the public regarding the execution of Ryan an the ‘ofner oficers, and this last atrocity will so stimulate that feeling that, the government, in Obedience to the united voice of the ‘na- tion, undoubtedly intends to. take im- mediate steps to secure redress for the murder of its citizens, whose execution thelr countrymen hold to be without justidcation in law or by the usages of civilized nations. Our account against Spain since the beginning of the Cuban revolution ven government seems to be powerlegs {n the 7 or is playing a diplomatic game of cuuning and foam, ore ing On paper and suffering the is in Cuba to oarry out their Boog. Programme. In either view of the Case, it ts the imperative duty of our government to interfere and compel the butchers of Santiago and the government of Spain to reapect the flag of this nation. This practice of a few men interpre- ting and proclaiming international law from the muzzies of @ score of rifles in Cube is not com- pasie with the character and s'anding of this na- jon, Spain, in the first piace, should be taught her duty, and, im the second, if Spain cannot or will not control the authorities of Cuba that duty should be performed by the navy of the United States. The point has now been reached when non- action on the part of this nation is & uational tiu- tmiliation and 4 “f The following is from the Zvening Bulletin: —“Aat resent the country demands immediate aud forci- le interference with the operations of the Span- Jards at Santiago and the punishment of those who committed this great wrong against our nation and against humanity, War with Spain or any other country ought te be avoided at any reasonabie sac- rifice, but we have conceded enough, Now Spain must be held to strict account tor her failures and her transgressions, or she must permit us ww pro- tect ourselves against her agents. If she is not prepared to do cither of these things, then we must take the matter into our own handa without her Lee rete rn _ eeemene of the AasiCn® eople, ant it will be the opinion of Congress when that boay assembles.” Such, then, are the opinions of those few who, by the medium of the public press, form and direct ¢ Opinions of the people. Taxing into consiaer- ation the atmosphere which usually pervades. the editorial rooms from which they emanate they may be iooked upon, in point of heat and vigor, as, in- deed, extraordinary, ENGLAND’S ATTITUDE. Congalar Watch of the Procsedings Ordered. = TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 14—6 A. M. The British government has instructed its Consuls at Havana and Santiago do Cuba to watch the proceedings against the captives of the Virginius, as it has been in- formed that one of them is a subject of Great Britain. PRESIDENT SEONA SEW, JERSEY AND CUBA It ts announced in Newark that President Grant and Secretary of the Navy Roneson will probably visit the Industrial Exhibition to-morrow night. The invitation was forwarded several weeks ago by President Haisey, An answer bas been re- ceived accepting, and Saturday has boon named as the time. As the mother of the President is now residing in Elizabeth with her daughter and his sister, Mra, Abel R. Corbin, he will, aiter viewing the attrac- tions at the Rink, repair to that oity for the pur- pose of spending the Sabbath with her. There are some rehensions, however, that the Spanish butchery in Cuba and the Bate jues- tions therefrom arising, may prevent the Presi- dent from visiting Newark. Apropos of the affair of Burriel's butchery tt is proper to state the heroio spirit of New Jersey has been stirred to @ high pitch. Her press and her people ccho the senti- ments expressed in the HERALD and other leading foormal demanding that the weak, Fishey policy thrust aside at once. To New Jersey belongs the first place tn the matter of military volunteers, as the following letter, addressed yesterday to Con- gressman Olark, of the Third New Jersey district, acopy of which was sent to the President, tully explains :— Starx or New Jensey, Hrapquarrens Tarp Ruaiveyt, N: G., Exazanera, Nov. 13, 1873, mos CLarK, Jr., Member of Congress, Third Dis- Bin—I have the honor to request that you tender Presi- dent Grant the services of the Third regiment, National Guarda, for duty in Caba or elsewhere, In defense of the Uberties of American citizens. Your obedient servant, J. MADISON DRAKE, Colonel Commanding. MEETING OF THE OUBAN ASSOCIATION. PHILADELPHTA, Noy. 18, 1873. The Cuban Association meet here to-night, Funds were raised, speeches in Spanish and Eng- lish delivered, ani great enthusiasm manifested. General Small, Captain F. Powers, and several Cubans tendered their personal rervicea. A STARTLING OFFER TO OUBA The following letter was received at the HeRatp omMce yesterday :— To tug Epitor or tar Heraup:— New Yorr, Nov. 1% 1873. Thave every reason to suppose that thy brother, Colo. nel G. O, Stuart, is among the slaughtered passongers of the Virginius. He left New York about the Ist of Ocw- ber, intending to join General Ryan at Kingston. He robably went under an assumed hame, 1 nown in this city and to the Spanish authorities. My brother was thirty-six years of age, six feet high and spare built He served asa lieutenant under Walker in Nicaragua, 1857; as colonel in the Confederate army uring the'late war, as lieutenant colonel of cavairy un- Hon trict der Escobedo in Mexico, 1866-7, and was induced by Ryan he Cuban’ struggle. Any information con- ub i proposition towards fitting out anoth will subscribe 000 to every $1: raise. I will do more; I will agree to ral well officered, all able-bodied, and all n ice. and pnt them aboard a suitable vessel (that the Cu- li turnish, properly equipped and provisioned), Point on dur coast that I may select. Asa guar. wi at sor antes to perform what I propose, I of , to be used for the benefit of the families who have lost their protectors by th anish butchery. If the Cubans mean business Americans should meet them ALTER STUART. But (up a fortelt half wi Yours truly, TE) P. R— My post office ‘address will be for the coming wook Youkers Nv Y.; alterwards, Richmond, Va. THE OHICAGO BILLIARD TOURNAMENT, Carcaco, Ill., Nov. 13, 1873, In the Billiard Tournament to-day the first game ‘was between Joseph Dion and George Slosson, and ‘was won by Dion in the elghty-second inning, the score standing as follows:—Dion, 400; Slosson, 296, The largest runs made oy, Dion Were 81, 26 and 38; by Slosson, 30 and 27, The winner’s average is 472-80, The second game was between Maurice Daly and John Leach dy and was won by Daly, in seventy- six innings, by a score of 400 to 329, The largest runs were :—By Daly, 60, 26; Bessunger, 24, 83, 44. ‘The winner's average is § 27-60, Both games were very slow and devoid of interest. The first game to-night in the billiard tourna- ment was’ between Joseph and Opyrille Dion, and was won by Cyrille in fifty-six innings by a score of 400 to 260, The winner’s average was 7 1-7. The largest runs were—Cyrille, 57 and 61; Josep, 389 and 17% ‘The game was un- interesting throughout, and occupied two hours. The second game was between Ubassy and Snyder, and is still (five minutes past twelve A. M.) pro- ressing. . The games to-morrow will be—In the afternoon, Snyder and Bessunger and Garnier and Siosson; in the evening, Ubassy and Joe Dion and Garnier and Cyrille Dion. NORTH OAROLINA TREASURY ENJOINED. Ra.uien, N. C., Nov. 13, 1873. In 1871 the Treasurer of the State under authority of the Legislature pppropriated to the general purposes of the government the sum of $241,978 67 that had been collected to pay the interest on the bonds known as special tax bonds, To day four bills in equity were filed in the United States Circult Court for the Eastern district of North Carolina, prayin; that the public Treasurer be — enjoine’ from paying aby money out of the treasury until he has first replaced the above sum to the credit of the fund For whion the sam owas collected, & the purpose of providing for the payment 0! interest on the bonds held by the piaintiff and all other holders who may become parties to raise suits, .A preliminary injunction was granted by Judge Bond, and the 28th inst. set for the hearing of the motion for a special injunction. While there Is a growing BA gerbera on the part ofthe people id the press to recognize the old debt of the State, the people are fixed in their de- termination to resist by all ment of these special tax bonds. disposed of steps will undoubtedly be taken to com- promise the old debt upon a basis acceptable to the State and the bondholde: THE SPRAGUE DIFFICULTY. Provipgnog, R. I., Noy. 13, 1873. The trust mortgage deed, which A. and W. Sprague propose to give to the trustees selected by the creditors, has not yet been completed. Grave dimculties have arisen in fixing the conditions which shall give to the trustees all the necessary power for the management of the property and yet avoid personal liability. Eminent counsel, iD- cluding Judge Thomas, of Worcester, and Mr. A. Smith, of New York, are engaged upon the La a with the prospect of soon accomplishing the resul which all the parties to the proposed instrument earnestly desire, The creditor's of Hoyt, Sprague & Co, in this vicinity will meet in this city on Sat- urday to consider how they will be represented at the general meeting of the creditors of that Louse in New York next Wednesday. jwful means the pay- When these are not a light one, and when once called up for tictiomenteeveral otuer items included in it will demand consideration, The energetio action of our government, upon the receipt of the intellt- nce, is fall of import, and tain fall accord with the state of the public mind. Spain will do weil to be equally prompt in giving heed to its signif. ” cance. ‘The Age asks, “What will now be the course of the government ? Will the President and Secretary Fish still rematu inactive and allow the remainder the persons on board of the Virginius at the time of her capture to be shot? The Spanish BANK PRESIDENT ARRAIGNED. RrcuMonn, Va., Nov. 13, 1873. . F, Brooks, late President of the Merchants’ National Bank of Petersburg, was brought to this city this afternoon and arraigned before a United States Commissioner on a tharge of embezzling and apprepriating to hia own use $100,000 of the AMERICAN HONOR, Lessons from History for Present Use. The War of 1812, the Caroline, Martin Kostza, Sir John Crampton, Greytown, Mason and Slidell Cases. Seenanemeadiaieaemeemnee The Vengeance of Vish on Catacazy. The war of 1812 was undertaken against England because of the repeated insults to the American flag and outrages upon our ships and citizens at sea. The impressment of American seamen by Great Britain, the searching of American ships upon the high seas, the bringing to of the Chesa- poake by the English man-ol-war Leopard, and, alter pouring a series of broadsides into her, the taking from on board four seamen and . SHOOTING OND AS 4 DESERTER, had exhausted the patience ef the Republic. Not then 80 strong materially as to-day, but having James Madison in the President's chair and James Monroo tn the State Department, America declared successful war upon the greatest maritime Power orthe world. ln Madison’s message to Congress we find words which can, by substituting Spain for England, be read in all their vital force to day, He says :— “We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain @ state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace tow- ards Great Britain, “Whether the United States shall continue pass- ive under these progressive usurpations and their accumulating wrongs, or, opposing force to force in defence of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Aimighty Disposer of events, * * _* is @ solemn question which the constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of government,’' He asks, in conclusion, for a decision “worthy tho enlightened councils of a virtuous, free and powerful nation.” That decision was a declara- tion of war on the 18th of June, 1812. On the first day of the year 1814 arrived at Annapoils, Md., the British schooner Bramble, bearing @ ag of truce, and tho Treaty of Ghent whicn followed settled the war honorably to America. In the war the rights of American ships and seamen had been vin- dicated in the only manner that an arrogant, bully- ing Power can be maae to comprehend. If the outrages On American ships und seamen nad been perpetrated by a Britigh colony instead of by Britain herself, neither Madison nor Monroe would have hesitated to deal with the colonists as they dealt with the centralP ower, if the latter proved ‘unequal to forcing reparation or unwilling to offend its colonial supporters by ‘giving up the trans- g@Tessors to the condign punishment they deserved. THE CAROLINE. In the Canadian rebellion of 1837, when that col- ony was in revolt against the mother country, the American ferrypoat Caroline was engaged in bringing succor to the rebels on an island near the Canadian shore. Had any attack been made upon her there nothing could have been said, but when she lay anchored against an American dock, and all on board were asleep, an attack was made upon her by am armed body and at least one of the crew murdered. The vessel was then fired, the hawser cut and the Caroline allowed to drift over the Niagara Falls, Immense indigna- tion was excited, and the people along the border could hardly be prevented trom bloody reprisals. Aman named McLeod was seized, tried and ac- quitted for the murder, but the English govern- ment had taken the responsibility of the act upon themselves. A timid policy under Tyler's adminis- tration allowed this question to drift into the vague ways o! diplomacy, where a timid Secretary of State may allow the late Spanish atrocity to lose itself uniess stirred by the nobler examples of our history to a contrary course. THE MARTIN KOSTZA CASE. If the adininistration should prove forgetful of the dignity which the nation owes to itself in the matter of protecting tes citizens abroad, 1t must previously wipe from the record the case of the Hungarian refugee, Martin Kostza, This man had, during a brief residence in this country, ‘declared his intention” of becoming an American citizen, and, before filling all the conditions entitling him to citizenship, returned to Europe. He took up his residence in the Turkish port of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, On the evening of the 22d of June, 1853, he was pounced upon by a gang of Austrians, and, after a brief struggle was carried on board an Austrian brig-of-war, the Hussar, The American Consul made a protest on the tollowing morning, but the arrival of the United States corvette’ St. Louie, under the command of gallant Captain Ingraham, in the harbor, put a new face on the matter, Some days passed, during which the Austrians refused to deliver up their prisoner, On the morning of the 2d of July Captain Ingraham was informed that the Austrian was about to carry Kostza to Trieste. He went on board the Hussar and saw the man in chains. He asked Kostza if he claimed Ameri- can protection. Kostza said he did. “Then,” added Ingraham, “you shall haye 1t.'? Returning on board the St. Louis, he wrote to the Austrian captain (Schwartz), giving him until four o’clock to deliver up the prisoner, and cleared his guns for action, although there were two Aus- trian war vessels in the harbor. While Uncle Sam showed his teeth on the water in this determined manner & compromise was being effected on shore, and as its result Kostza was handed over for safe- keeping to the French Consul at Smyrna, thus giv- ing the victory to the plucky American, did the American State Department ‘all behind the courage of the naval officer. then Secretary of State, and the administration of General Pierce did not decline the responsi- bility.” Koszta was released and American dig- nity sustained. In @ clear toned enunciation of the position of the government upon the matter, attributed to General Caleb Cushing, then Attor- ney General, and printed before the release, we find that the nation, when “represented by one small brig,” could compel respect, and the conduct of the gallant officer is thus referred to:—"The vigtilant dignity which becomes every American officer to exhibit in defence of those public laws, the enforcement of which is ESSENTIAL TO OUR FREEDOM OF COMMERCE and intercourse, justifies Captain Ingraham."’ These are words for the government to study to- day, when its citizens have not alone been seized, but executed; when ship carrying the American flag has been overhauled, the Nag hauled down and the emblem of Spain flaunted in its stead while the ship was being towed into a Spanish port, amid the derision and insults of bloodthirsty barbarians. THE CRAMPTON CAGE. In February, 1855, daring the Crimean war, Mr. John F. Crampton, the British Minister at Washington, perfected the arrangements for the organization in this country of a ‘ioreign legion.” Everything having got into fine working order, and when reeruits were being daily sent from the State to the rendezvous at Halifax, Mr. Crampton, with an ingenuousness and frankness that was honorabie to him, informed Lg Sere Marcy that should any persons then in the Unite States de- aire to join the British army in the Orimea they would be accepted. The wily Marcy affirmed that the matter would be all right if the neutrality of the United States should not be violated. The par- ticular law of the United States against the viola- tion of which it was necessary for the British agents to guard read :— eid erson shall, within the terrivory of the United Bintes fife or retattrany person. to go beyond the limite Of the United States, with the intent to be enlisted in the service of a foreign province, he shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor. Mr. Crampton’s secret cirouiar to his seerunae agents had denounced those of them who shoul violate Mis previous commands as to preservation of neutrality, and had deciared that the British | Si ge ‘would be compelied by the clearest ictates of international duty to roceedings, and ‘om all en, in obtainin, diers for Her British agents ity’s army,’ fands of the bank, witb, fraudulent intent, He ‘Was held in $15,000 ba). to appear for examination on the 26th inst, Tecruity, were sent to Halli omcers commissioned in the ‘fore! eee omctally sanctioned by British oficYals until Inte In dune, 1808. Then the beltisn omels4s, becoming suddenly assured that their directions Were disre- garded ‘by unscrupulous ta, who wire likely $0 cause trouble with the United Btates, ordered the cessation of the recruiting. Meantim® our government had learned of the operations of the secret agents and the connectimn of Minister Crampton and some Britta sular Oflicers here with them. Maroy, Lage) od Minister Buchanan, upon the British government for condemna- tion of the acts of the agents, and made a vague de- mand for recall of British representatives here. Lord Clarendon was handed Secretary Marcy's note in July, 1855. He then made known the pre- vious order given for the cessation of the recruit- ing. During the next five montha the correspond- ence on the subject of the action of Minisier Crampton and the consuls in New York, Phila- delphia and Cincinnati was incessant, Every argu- ment of Seoretary Marcy's was considered, Io December the revelations of a certain Strobel and Hertz, German adventurers, in the trial of the latter and one Perkins, a3 “recraiting agent,’ compelied Mr. Marcy to demand the recall of Mr. Crampton end his tmplicated consular associates, Earl Clarendon replied in refusal of the request. Finally, in March, 1854, President Pierce dismissed Mr. Crampton and revoked the ¢: furs of the consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, This act, to which our iorenamacns was compelied by its indignation at the outrage that nad been done to its laws, was received with blus- ter by the British press. The British statesmen, however, were Calmer and moro dis- creet, their valor becoming eminent this re- gard. In Parliament Lord John Russell depre- cated the tone of certain newspaper articles, which would give America an impression highly unfavorable to the continuance of peace between the two countries, and declared that he thought the Con-\, T Z| MEXICO, Herald Special Report from Matamoros. Revolution Suppressed, with Loss of Life. Parliamentary Action on the Railway ‘Contract Proposals. TELEGRAM TO THE HEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Henatp has been received from our corres spondent in Moxico’ City, by way’ of Mata- moros:— Marastoros, Nov. 13,1873- Tho Hexary correspondent in Mexico city House and the whole nation earnestly desired the retention of peace, Earl Clarendon concluded the matter by saying, In @ letter to Minister Dallas, giter remarking upon Crampton’s dismissal, “I have, therefore, the honor to inform you that, howarey deeply Her Majesty's government regret @ proceeding on the part of the President of the United States, which cannot but be considered as of an uniriendly character, they have not deemed aC phe ma. o8 Pe Sigel ener Her Maj- and me to suspen dipioma: intercourse with yon.’ my movers THE GBEYTOWN BOMBARDMENT. On the evening of May 16, 1854, alter having prop- erly protected an American citizen from arrest by the negro police of San Juan, or Greytown, Nicar- agua, our Minister, ex-Senator Solon Boriand, was subjected to aggravated insult and annoyance by the police and bepeleoe of the town. He was imprisoned in his consulate durin, the night, and through the same period ail Americans in the town were excessively annoyed. On the next day Mr. Borland, having organized the American residents and volunteers for defence of their persons und property from _ mob assaults, started for home. Arriving in Washington, bis story was immediately told, and preparations to inflict punishment upon the actious § Grey- town people were promptly made. The naval vessel Cyane, commanded by Commander + N. Hollins, was sent to compel repa- ration or to avenge the tasults offered to the United States representatives. ‘The natives were sturdy in repelling Uaptain Hollins’ demaniJa for satisfaction, Finally, on the 13th of July, he was forced togwreak vengeance upon the Nicar- aguans. He firat bombarded Greytown, and then, landing a small force, burned it. The place was completely destroyed, and the punishment of the people was, a8 Captain Hollins remarked in his re- “alternative. Nor | Marcy was | would moreover be absolved ments contingent upon the success legal means, ‘ol. Yo the advanced neceasary money, and bavches of xin charge of, British . legion,’’ ‘The%e recruiting opergtions continued, and were jisavow ad) port, “of such a character ag to sutisfy the whole world that the United States have the power and determination to enforce the repsration and re- spect due them as # government in whatever quar: ‘ver the outrages may be committed."” THE MASON AND SLIDELL AFFAIR. During the war of the rebellion no event outside of the incidents of the war itself, solely excepting the assassination of President Lincoln, caused such widespread excitement as the seizure of thé rebel commissioners to England and France, Messrs. Mason and Slidell. On the 8th of November, 1861, the American man-of-war san Jacinto, under the command of Commodore Wilkes, overhauled, off the Bermudas, the English mail steamer Trent, bound from Havana to St. Thomas and Southampton. He took irom on board the two notorious rebels, and on November 16 arrtved with them in Hampton Roads, The diplomatic correspondence, which ended in their release, 1s something of which America Wiii, 60 far as her share’in it is concerned, in time, learn to be roud. In the memorable letter from the pen of cretary Seward, in which the announcement of their surrender was made, he says, when giving the reasons for his action :—‘Nor have I been tempted at all by the suggestions that cases might be found in history where’ Great Britain refused to yield to other nations, and even to ourselves, claims like that which is now before us.’ It was a surrender honorable to ourselves, but to England it was especially 80, for there was no hesitancy in her ac- tion demanding the surrender, with war as the Had the Commander of the San Ja- cinto been a brute or a Spaniard, and had the lives of the rebel commissioners been taken by him, it is to be feared that the straita of the Union would have been desperate, and history would say de- servedly so in a mouth trom their execution. THE WAB ON OATACAZY. If our Secretary of State needs no reminder of events which appeal to an American's sense of pride in the dignity of his nation, he can recall from his own record an instance ol fierce deter- mination and unflinching pursuit of an enemy which may, by thinking it over, put him once more on his mettle. If he has bent the head and bowed the knee to third rate old Spain, has he not invoked all the thunders of nis mighty office to erush Catacazy? This pervenere: in fuil diplomatic uniiorm, did not weigh more than 108 pounds, and with his cocked hat ana feathers on stood no more than five teet three inches in lis boots. If he d: not outrage the American nation he had called im- proper names to Secretary Fish, and the latter, who may haply allow the nation to be struck at by every “puny whipster” with to his name, is a very leviathan when his personal feelings are trampled upon. Who that has heard of Mr. Fish waiting with luxu- rious espa for the Spanish government to find out whether there is any necessity for ts apologiz- ing for the feroctous murder of American citizens, would recognize in him the ruthless pursuer of Catacazy, with all the red ink of the State Depart- ment in his eye? Few, indeed. The tre- mendous picture of the inflamed Secretary of State rushing through reams of paper to the verge ofja rupture with the mighty Russian Em- pire, on account of the caperings of that littie demon of diplomatic mischief, which ‘fretted the pigmy body to decay,” in Catacazy should be the reproach to the Mr. Fish of to-day. The army and ee of the United States and all the foreign ministers were ready to be hurled at Catacazy, if he had not been recalled. The Russian Minister had meddled in newspaper writing, and then denied it. He backbit Mr. Fish, d denied it to his face. It was insufferable. The State Department writin; materials said so, the cable under the ocean sai so With flashings and clickings. Solt came about that, after having moved the entire forces of the Union to the assault with all the vim of a huge, hungry shark attacking a siu- gie herring, Catacasy was crushed and _re- called by Prince Gortschakof, and Mr. Fish retired, like Hercules after his labors, to the charm of a beatific seif-contemplation. While recalling the glorious examples of sustained national honor in our history, let Mr. Fish not omit to remember, with a prompting to energy, his own immortal vic- tory over that 108 pounds of diplomacy, Mr. Cata- cazy. THE WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, \ OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, D. ©., Noy. 14—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the Northwest and upper lakes, and thence to the Lower Ohio and Lower Missouri valleys, northeasterly to southeasterly winds, cold and partly cloudy weather. For the Ohio Valley and thence over Tennessee, low but rising temperature, southerly winds and partly cloudy weather. For tue lower lakes, northerly winds, cold clear- ing and clear weather, FoR THR MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATES NORTH- WESTERLY AND NORTHERLY WINDS, LOW TEM- PERATURE AND GENRRALLY CLEAR WEATHER. Reports are missing from the Southwest. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Pharmacy, HeRacp Building :— 1872, 1873, 1872, 18% 50 b M. 34 3:30 P. M. oa M. 83 OP. M. 9A. M. 3% 9 P.M. WM. 88 12 P. M.. Average temperature pgp aoe BBM ‘Average temperature lor corresponding date jast year.. socccccece 4K THE SENATORIAY, BLECTION IN THE TENTH DISTRICT, NEWBURG, Nov. 13, 1875. The Board %f County Canvassers of Orange ‘county completed their canvass of the votes this afternoon, @,nd did not throw out the Second dis- trict of Monroe, as had been asked by Abbott, the democratic candidate for State Senate. The oanvy.gs gives Madden, the republican candidate, 273 Yoajority in this Phy > ‘he Board of Oan- vag sera in Satitvan county, however, threw out the Ser.ond district of Falisburg and @ district in Fogestburg, which gave him a Y 32 and 43 Tiajority. His majority in the district was 40, but Ywith these two districts thrown out Abbott's ma- jority in the Senatorial district is about 40, and the certificate of election will be awarded to A -4 { Madden will contest the election on the assembliny, ol the Legislature. icici Liisi YELLOW FEVSE IN GEORGIA. Barnnnwwon, Ga, Nov. 19, 1879. Tne yellow fever has broken out again at Bain- Pre Rewtd or Me Lewis, tho Mayor 9T ho city. G udnut’s | the medical profession in 0! g wore reported Fy-day ; a18Q, forwards the following special roport, dated in the capital on the 11th inst.:— REVOLUTION SUPPRESSED WITH LOSS OF LIFE: Tho revolutionary government near To- luca, which was organized in opposition to the adoption of the National Laws of Reform, has been suppressed and all its acts quenched by the constitutional government forces, with loss of thirty-five lives. PARINAMENTARY ACTION ON HE RAILWAY OOR@ ‘TRACTS. The Commission of Congress does not ap~ prove .of the railway contract entered into. with Mr, Plumb; but the members have given President Lerdo power to make a contract with one of tho three railroad companies rep- resented, or with others, within-a space of eight days, and subsequently to report his actioh to Congress for approval. ps cine ee CUBA. ——+- Embargped Property Relieved —Rates of Ex« change. TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALD. 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