The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, _NOVEMBER NEW YORK HERALD{| Spatn and the United States—War BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR = No. 325 Volume XXXVIII............... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. sQUTMPIO THEATRE, “Broadway, between Houston 4 Bleeoker sts.—Rir Van WiNKLx. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston ats.—Tux Back Crook. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Ours. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broad lway.—Tux Wickep Woxtp. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Viorims—Sovon Suixduz, Afternoon and evening. ACADEMY OF MUSEC, 14th ‘street and Irving place.— ratian Oren a—RicoLr BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 78 Broadway.—Tux New Magpatun. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third st—A Fiasu or Licntsixc. BOOTA’S THEATRE, Sixth Bevros; ow, tux fart oF FAROE nd Twenty-third sb— a THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall— @ Fanon METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vantery NTRRTALN MENT. Ei MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Wituas Tet1—Biack Evep Susan. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanixry Enrentainment. ive GERMANIA THEATRE, Ith street and $4 avenue,— Die Durnsteotes, &c. TONY PaSTOR’S OPERA HOUSE, No. Wl Bowery.— Varurrr ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—NxGro MinsrRe.sy, &c. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth Conceut wy THe Hampton SincEns. street.—GRanp COOPER INSTITUTE.—Lavcaine Gas anv Macicat ENTERTAINMENT. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Nov. 21, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES—WAR THE ONLY POSSIBLE ISSUE!"—LEADING ARTI. OLE—S1ixtTH Pacs. WAR INEVITABLE BETWEEN AMERICA AND SPAIN! IBERIAN ARROGANCE MUST BE AVENGED AND IMMEDIATE REDRESS GIVEN FOR THE INEXCUSABLE BUTCHERY OF THE VIRGINIUS CAPTIVES! OUR DE- MANDS! SPAIN ORDERS HER IRONCLADS TO CUBA AND IMPUDENTLY REFUSES SATISFACTION! WAR PREPARATIONS— SBVENTH Pa$x. LEADING AMERICAN STATESMEN ON THE CUBAN QUESTION! VIEWS OF VICE PRESIDENT WILSON, SENATOR STOCK- TON, GENERALS BUTLER AND NEGLEY | AND OTHERS—Fourta Pace. HAVANA CAN BE TAKEN! HOW THE BRITISH TOOK IT! VULNERABLE FROM THE LAND SIDE! ITS DEFENSIVE WORKS AND GAR- RISON—FovrtH Pace. A SEVERE BATILE BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND ASHANTEES! SIR GARNET WOLSE- LEY'S FIRST VICTORY! 47 KILLED AND WOUNDED! WHITE TROOPS DEMANDED— SEVENTH PAGE. HOLLAND'S WAR UPON THE ACHEENESE! THE DUTCH EXPEDITION ON THE WAY FROM BATAVIA TO ACHEEN—THE WEATHER IN RUSSIA—THIRD PAGE. THE FRENCH MINISTRY TENDER THEIR RESIG- NATIONS TO MacMAHON! THE CRISIS PUSTPONED! DIPLOMATIC GRATULATION TO THE PRESIDENT—Tuirp Pace. PIO NONO TO THE FOREIGN RELIGIUUS STU. DENTS IN ROME! AMERICA AND GER- MANY COMPARED—TuIEp Pace. ENGLISH DISCOUNT AND MONEY RATES! BUL- LION MOVING TO THE BANK AND 10 AMERICA! COTTON QUOTATIONS—Tairp PacE. the Only Possible Issue. By the remarkable disclosures of our special Madrid despatch, and by the fact that our gov- ernment, to be prepared for any contingency that may arise in consequence of its demands on Spain, is making every warlike preparation to which it is constitutionally adequate, it is made evident that war is now the only honorable issue to the present compli- cation of our relations with the Spanish Republic. It is clear from the course of the government that this is the con- viction at Washington, and in view of the haughty and arrogant attitude of the Spanish Ministry and their insulting pretension to judge for us whether we have any ground of complaint—their assumption that an Ameri- can ship on the high seas is subject to their municipal laws—we believe this must be the conviction of the whole American people. ‘The President demands the formal delivery of the Virginius to officers of our government ina port of the United States; the release and restoration to our protection of the sure viving captives; a money indemnity to the heirs of all taken from on board the Virginius and put to death; the trial and punishment of General Burriel and all other responsible officers; the immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery in Cuba as the source of all pending difficulties and complaints. Such is our position in the case, and the position of Spain is, that so far from her having any dis- position to accede to our demands she actu- ally refuses to hear our Minister discuss the subject, on the impudent and ridiculous ground that there is no case whatever in in- ternational law—that it is altogether included in her local and territorial jurisdiction, as if the high seas were her dominion and ships SHARKEY’S ESCAPE FROM THE TOMBS! THE “WOMAN” THAT LOOKED LIKE A MAN PROVES TO HAVE BEEN THE NOTORIOUS EIGHTH WARDER! TWO WOMEN AND A KEEPER LOCKED UP FOR COMPLICITY— Firra PaGE. “PULLING THE WOOL OVER THE EYES” OF JUSTICE! TWEED, THE CONVICT, PER- MITTED TO ROAM ALMOST UNMOLESTED! THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS HE SHOULD BE IN PRISON! THE SHERIFF'S ACTION UNPRECEDENTED—Firvn Pace. AN INSURANCE OFFICER “DEFAULTS” $175,000—, THE BUSINESS AND BANK STATUS AND OUTLOOK — PATERSON’S POOR — EIGHTH Page. RECEPTION OF MINISTER BINGHAM AT THE JAPANESE COURT AND RETIREMENT OF MR. DE LONG—THE HARLEM BOILER CASE—GREEN’S QUARTERLY SHOWING UP—Eiguri PaGE. ACTIVITY UF THE FINANCIAL “PULLS!” MUSIC IR OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE LEARING HOUSE! SECESSION OF BANKS—NInTH Pace. COLLECTION OF DIRECT TAXES—A BIG HAUL OF UNITED STATES SECURITIES—Firta Paar. “Yus, [ HAVE SOMETHING MORE TO SAY. Turner 1s Cuna—poor, strvuacrrnc Cuna. I WANT YOU TO STAND BY THE Cunans. CvuBa MUST BE FREY. HER TYNANNICAL ENEMY MUST BE CRUSHED. CUBA MUST NOT ONLY BE FREE, BUT ALL HER Sis IsLanps. Tuts Repusiic 18 RESPONSIBLE YOR THAT. I AM PASSING AWAY, BUT YOU MUST LOOK AFTER THIS. WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER; NOW You MUST LOOK TO rHs.—Dying Words of General Rawlins to Sec- retary Oreswell. Taz News reom Asnaw Sir Garnet Wolseley has already shown that his expedi- tion against the Ashantees is quite another affuir than a pleasant promenade from the Red Sea to Magdala, like unto that enjoyed by Lord Napier and his troopers at an expense of forty-five millions of dollars to the British Treasury. ‘The special Heratp despatches from the Gold Coast this morning show the severe character of the expedition. In a con- flict with a heavy force of natives the British soldiers, though insignificant in numbers, not only held their own in a bush engagement, but caused the enemy to retire on their capital. The despatches state that the English lost forty-seven killed and wounded, but we are not informed of the losses among the Ashantees. The cry still comes from Oape Coast Castle for more white troops. The Ministry should not be slow in responding to the call. We Horr Our Govenyment will not make the mistake of delaying a naval demonstration on Cuba until the arrival of the Spanish iron- clads. Let our own iron-clads and other war ships go to Havana at once and take it before the dons arrive, under our flag subject to her Sovereignty wherever taken, The deniands of our gov- ernment indicate the outline of an ample reparation, and are equal to the utmost re- quirement of the occasion. In the few dis- tinct points in which the case of the nation is there laid down we see the natural energy of the President's character asserting itself once more in its legitimate sphere. It is a revival of the old “unconditional surrender’’ style, when Grant was great because he was in sympathy with the spirit of the people, glori- fied by patriotic ardor, and was the incarna- tion of their heroic purpose. And in propor- tion as this style gives emphasis to the de- mands it formulates we miss the hazy rigma- role of diplomatic prolixity which has clouded and blurred and smothered in its multitude of words the few and small thoughts that our Washington functionaries have had to put forth there several years past. Barbarossa sleeping under the mountain has heard the sound of the battle-cry and the bugle, and dreaming Achilles in his idle ease has caught the gleam of a sword blade. Doubt- less the whole dose will be hard enough to swallow; but it was clear when the Virginius was taken that some one would have to eat humble pie, and we are of opinion that that sort of diet will sit better on the Spanish stomach than on ours. It will be hard to re- trace the miles of that triumphal procession of the Virginius into the harbor of Havana amid the barbarous festivities of a population rejoicing in butchery; it will be hard to be compelled to do honor, in restoring them to freedom, to those poor wretches who were thought not worth the killing; it will be hard for Spain to pay even a pitiful sum in the actual state of her finances, and hard to punish Burriel, for justice is not in favor with the Spanish people; but herder than all these together will be compliance with the last de- mand for the unconditional abolition of slavery, and on this demand the whole case will so turn as to result in the discontinuance of our present relations with Spain, and prob- ably in the occupation of Cuba by the United States forces. Spain, as our despatch hints, has some definite objections to our demand, which is natural enough; and one objection probably is that the fifth requirement involves an act beyond the competency of the Spanish gov- ernment. Already the Cortes have declared against the abolition of slavery in Cuba. Pretentiously this declaration was made on a point of honor that Spain would not proceed to legislate reforms for Cuba till the rebellion was put down; but in reality it was a conces- sion to the slave owners. Naturally the gov- ernment will tell us it has no authority against the legislative power and will endeavor to put us off with some of Castelar’s magniloquent phrases. It may even go to the unlikely extreme of calling the Cortes together for advice, when the only answer vonchsafed us would be a delnge of But whether it Jastelar who pleads his constitutional in- parliamentary rhodomontade, be capacity or the noisy lunatics of the Cortes who thunder at us in salvoes of flabby rhetoric, we shall in neither case get a practical answer to our demand. What then? It will simply remain for us to occupy the island of Cuba in order that we may make practical provision for that security which Spain will not guaran- tee in the required way. Upon this head we shall hear much whining outcry over poor Spain and poor Castelar and our duty to republics, for which outcry the keynote has already been given in that spirit of sham philanthropy and maudlin humanity which regards the perpetrators of outrages as the only people entitled to pity. Our eae is less for poor Castelar than for poor Jack “against the slaughter house wall ;"" and as for the poor Spanish Republic, our opinion is that it is so poor it is not worth saving ; and that, as Spain cannot, even now, control her own authorities in Cuba, she has only a nominal dominion there and will suffer only a nominal harm in being altogether thrust ont; while we believe that a govern- ment which cannot govern its distant depend- ency and yet will nct assent that the people of that dependency shall govern themselves, is not entitled to the sympathy ofa rational people if it has its eyes somewhat rudely opened to the untenable nature of its position by a power that suffers from that position as from a constant state of war and an unrecog- nized hostility, all the aggression of which it must accept, but against which it cannot defend itself by arms. We therefore will also welcome war, as we are informed by our despatch that the Spaniards will welcome it; but we trust for a different reason and in a different spirit. With the horrors and the cost of war we are too familiar to enter upon them lightly and in the vein of bravado; but we will accept them as the shortest, readiest, satest and only practical issue from a position in which our tranquil- lity and our trade, the lives of our citizens and our sailors, and indeed our national honor are daily at the mercy of a set of irre- sponsible underlings whom we have hitherto respected as the officers of an established Power, though they themselves do not recog- nize or respect the decrees of that Power. We will welcome war as the solution of a diffi- culty that has troubled our statesmen for generations, and as the legitimate means of inflicting a righteous and merited punish- ment upon a barbarous foe; and as plucky Ola England goes all dhe way to > Ashantoe to punish “the murder of people * catitled to her protection it will go hard if we cannot in- flict a similar punishment in our own waters and in the very sighs and sessed of of our ar People. eer, ag ‘opESON has done his duty well thus Mz. far. Now it is time for Mr. Belknap to move. What says the Secretary of War? “For MORE THAN A YEAR A VALUABLE PROV- INCE oF SPAIN AND A NEAR NEIGHBOR OF OURS, IN WHOM ALL OUR PEOPLE CANNOT BUT FEEL A DEEP INTEREST, HAS BEEN STRUGGLING FOR INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM. THE PEO- PLE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED Sratrs ENTERTAIN THE SAME WARM FEELINGS AND SYM- PATHIES FOR THE PEOPLE OF CUBA IN THEIR PENDING STRUGGLES THAT THEY MANIFESTED THROUGHOUT THE PREVIOUS STRUGGLES BE- TWEEN SPAIN AND HER FORMER COLONIES IN BEHALF OF THE LATTER.”—President Grant's First Inaugural. We Must Au—democrata and republi- cans—rally to the support of the administra- tion now. The French Assembly and MacMahon’s Triumph. The perseverance of MacMahon has at last been rewarded. After a stormy debate— stormy almost without parallel in the history of the present Assembly—it was agreed that President MacMahon’s powers be prolonged seven years, independent of the adoption of the constitutional bills. The amendment which made this provision was moved by M. Depeyre, a member of the Right, and, in spite of the vigorous opposition of such men as MM. Laboulaye, Grévy and others, it was adopted by o majority of sixty-six. A motion subsequently made on the part of the Right—that a committee of thirty be appointed to report on the constitutional bills—was car- tied by a majority of sixty-eight. Both these votes show that the conservative ranks in the Assembly are as yet unbroken. To the royalists in the Assembly, who constitute the strength of the conservative Right, the late manifesto of the Count de Chambord must have been discouraging in the extreme. What effect it may ultimately have on the conservative section of the As- sembly it is difficult to say. For the present it is quite clear it has not altogether destroyed hope or created indifference to power. It is with their consent and throngh their influence that the President's powers have been pro- longed; and it is reasonable to take it for granted that they will obtain the controlling power in the Committee of Thirty. We are not disposed to make much of the resignation of the Ministers. It is but little likely to lead to any radical change in the method of con- ducting the government. It was 2 wise and politic step on the part of the Ministers, as it showed they had no desire, by remaining in office, to embarrass the President in the new position in which he found himself. It will be well for France if all parties continue to exercise a little self-denial. The failure of the attempt to restore the monarchy has given the Republic a fresh opportunity. It never had such an opportunity before. De Chambord must now be counted out. It is next to im- possible for the monarchists to unite on the Count de Paris. The Empire, during the minority of the Prince Imperial, is not to be thought of. For five years to come the Re- public seems to have the field to itself, Every- thing, however, depends on the support which it gets from the solid conservative classes. If the old noblesse, becoming dis- gusted, retire to their chateaus and leave affairs to take what course they may, the Re- public may prove a curse rather than a bless- ing; and, at the end of five years, the French people, tired of anarchy, may call for the restoration of the Empire. It is not our opin- ion that President MacMahon will willingly betray the interests of the French people. Wr Horn “Our Government is satisfied now that there must be war. No delay should be permitted in hurrying forward preparations in the military branch of our forces. We must stretch things ao little, All available forces must be hurried to Key West and other convenient ports within easy reach of the Cuban coast, Five Huxpnep THousann volunteers can be counted on from the South, 21, 1873.— —TRIPLE SHEET. Military Picnasnalans unteers. A war between the United States and Spain is imminent. Congress can scarcely avoid a declaration of war, so flagrant have been the Spanish outrages upon our flag. It is likely that a proclamation calling for volunteers will be issued in a very short time. In case of a war between the two countries no other course is open to us, for we cannot depend upon our small establishment as au army of invasion. The invasion of Cuba and the capture of Havana, Matanzas, Nuevitas, Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos will be the first necessity of the struggle between the two countries. An army of volunteers will be the best force for this purpose, and it is best the country ¢hould look the necessity in the face at once. Ifa call is made it should be responded to at once. Delay can only work harm. Many of the veterans of the late war are anxious to punish Spain and the Spaniards in Cuba for the wrongs they have long heaped upon the American people. Especially are they anxious to capture Havana and teach the proud hidalgos of that metropolis, more Spanish than Spain herself, the lesson they so richly deserve—to humble the Havanese as the English once humbled them before. The necessity and opportunity of the punishment are at hand, but the swiftness of the retribu- tion depends more upon the people than on the government. Military preparations for the impending struggle should be made at once. Let a regiment of volunteers be organized in every city, and a company of veterans be organized in every town, ready to offer their services at the first intima- tion that they will be required. In this way the struggle will be decided long before the winter is over or the wet season begins in the tropics. A war with Spain, which is prac- tically merely a war with Cuba, must be quick, sharp and decisive. It must not be delayed a moment beyond the time actually necessary to capture and hold the island. To do this itis requisite that when the call to arms is heard it should be immediately answered. Immediate organization will enable us to do this, call for troops with a newly organized force and teach Spain and the Spaniards the power of a great people insulted and outraged but determined to punish the wrong and the wrong-doer. A war in Cuba means a word and Biblor “ys Sehiles ite ee ec H AS. “Wail Have Bonnz patiently insult after in- sult from the savage Spanish rulers of Cuba. Our citizens have been arbitrarily arrested and put to death. Our ships have been stopped and boarded on the high seas. Our consuls have been snubbed and ignominiously expelled. Our flag has been spit upon and trailed in the dust. Now let us show these hot-blooded dons what Yankee temper is when roused. Piceuney vale Let There Be No Delay. President Grant is perfectly right in his de- termination to take no step that he is not au- thorized by the constitution to take without the previous action of Congress. He cannot declare war or make reprisals of his own will. But Spain has virtually declared war against us, and if wedo not regard her as having done so formally it is only because we have been disposed to look upon her action with a lenient eye and to hope that returning reason might lead her to wisdom and justice. It would, therefore, be madness for President Grant to delay those steps which are justified by the Cuban atrocities. Cuba is without law, without government; a nest of pirates and murderers preying upon our commerce and upon the lives of our citizens. We have de- tected these pirates red-handed in their offences. It is our right to seize their strong- hold, to take back what they have stolen and to punish their crimes. This is not declaring war, for we cannot declare war against a col- ony of felons. It is simply enforcing justice. The President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and it is within his power, as it is his duty, to protect the national honor and the lives and property of our citi- zens. He cannot do this without occupying Cuba, and he should see to it that our ships are in the harbors and our soldiers on the shores of the island without a moment's un- necessary delay. Tue Marynanp Line Movine.—The great mass meeting in Baltimore on Wednesday night in favor of free Cuba and national inter- vention was the largest and most enthusiastic held in that city since Kossuth’s reception. A single note from Graut’s war bugle will bring thousands of brave Maryland volunteers into line. We Must Por Our Orrer on ANOTHER Basts Now.—‘Tur Untrep Srares, IN ORDER TO PUT A STOP TO BLOODSHED IN CvuBA, AND IN THE INTEREST OF A NEIGHBORING PEOPLE, PROPOSED THEIR GOOD OFFICES TO BRING THR EXISTING CONTEST TO A TERMINATION. THE OFFER, NOT BEING ACCEPTED BY SPAIN ON A BASIS WHICH WE BELILVED COULD BE RECEIVED py Cupa, was wituprawn.'’— President Granl’s First Inaugural, Tae Unrrep States to Great Brrrain 1842—‘‘In every regularly documented Ameri- can merchant vessel the crew who navigate it will find their protection in the flag that floats over them.” The Virginius, it is stated, was a “regularly documented American vessel.” Ar Last !—‘‘Yes, I have something more to say. There is Cuba—poor, struggling Cuba. I want youto stand by the Cubans. Cuba must be free. Her tyrannical enemy must be crushed. Cuba must not only be free, but all her sister islands, This Republic is responsi- ble for that. I am passing away, but you must look after this. We have been together—now you must look to this.” These were the dying words of General Rawlins, as pure a patriot and as sincere a man as ever lived. Poor Rawlins! the fulfilment of his noble wish has long been delayed—longer, probably, than it would have been if his life had been spared. But the time for its accomplishment has come at last, and the savage and lawless acts of the tyranny he go detested have wrought its own | destruction, Drevomacy Is Praven Oot. Fish dict is done for. Give us a little iron tonic. So says one of our exchanges, and we say, Amen! New Jersey 1n Mortoy.—A company of the Sixth regiment of New Jersey has been offered to be merged with the first Pennsyl- vania troops for Cuba. The Jersey Blues will be all in @ blaze when the roll for Cuban volunteers i@ called, Indictment of America Against Spain. The overhauling of the United States schooner Lizzie Major on the 26th of March, 1868, upon the high seas, by a Spanish frigate, and taking two passengers from on board to Ouba. Proclamation of Captain General De Rodas in May, 1868, authorizing the search of vessels on the high seas, in defiance of a treaty with Spain. The seizure on the 2ist of January, 1869, of the United States steamer Colonel Lloyd Aspinwall, while in use as a United States despatch boat, by the Spanish man-of-war Hernan Cortes and her detention for ninety- eight days. Spain paid the owners $19,702 50 in gold. Outrage to the flag unatoned. The seizure of the United States schooner Mary Lowell by the Spanish war steamer Andalusia in British waters, March 15, 1869, Attack upon and stabbing of Messrs. John- son and Foster, citizens of the United States, in the streets of Havana, February 6, 1870, by a Spanish mob for the ‘‘crime’’ of wearing blue neckties. The murder of the German citizen Greenwald, at the same time, for being in their company and on suspicion of being an American. Insult to the American flag in the outrage upon United States Consul Phillips, in March, 1870, at Santiago de Cuba, by a Spanish mob, and forcing him to fly. The confiscation of Consul Phillips’ estates. Murder at Santiago de Cuba of the seamen Speakman and Wyeth, citizens of the United States, who were shipwrecked on the Cuban coast and guilty of no crime. Embargo and confiscation of the property and estates of American citizens in Cuba under Valmaseda’s proclamation in April 1871. Inhuman proclamation of Valmaseda in April, 1871, ordering every male over fifteen years of age in Cuba found away from his habitation, and not having a sufficient motive therefor, to be shot. Diabolical proclamation of Valmaseda in April, 1871, that every unoccupied habitation and every house not flying a white flag should be reduced to ashes. Execution of the eight boy students at Ha- vana in November, 1871, by orders of a court imartial, upder the bloodthirsty | dictation of the Spanish volunteers, for an imaginary in- sult to a Spaniard’s grave. Condemnation of the American citizen, Dr. Honard, in December, 1871, to imprisonment on false charges and sending him to Spain in chains. Summary arrests and imprisonments of American citizens, military executions with. our pretext, arbitrary embargoes of property and other acts done by the Spanish authori- ties in Cuba to the persons and property of citizens of the United States in violation of the Treaty of 1795. The butchery of the wounded and prisoners of war and mutilation of the dead in encount- ers with the Cuban forces. The repeated murders of Cuban women and children suspected of sympathy with the Cuban forces. Seizure of the United States steamer, Vir- ginius, on the 31st of October, 1873, upon the high seas, taking her to Santiago de Cuba and there butchering the citizens of the United States and others under the protestion of our flag found on board her. Tho Cau tae Row From Mainz ro Texas, PROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE Pacrric !—Rally for liberty in Cuba and atonement for Span- ish perfidy ! We Saaut Szz to Tus Now.—‘WHEN THE PRESENT RELATION OF COLONIES CEASES THEY ARE TO BECOME INDEPENDENT PoWERS, EXERCIS- ING THE RIGHT OF CHOICE AND SELF-CONTROL IN THE DETERMINATION OF THEIR FUTURE CONDI- TION AND RELATIONS WITH OTHER Powens.’’— President Grant's First Inaugural. An American Army Ovaut to be in Cuba within the next ten days. If our regular troops are not ready to move, let volunteers go there with such arms as can be supplied to them, and land under the guns of our ships. They can make a junction with the revolu- tionists and speedily clear the volunteers and Spanish officials, with the bloodthirsty little Burriel at their head, out of the Eastern divi- sion of the island. Ir Prestpenr Gnant stretches his authority a little by issuing a proclamation immediately calling for one hundred thousand volunteers the country will back him up: Tux Bicopruimsty Bunrren is a hero of five feet two inches in his high Spanish boots. Measured to the top of the feather in his Span- ish bonnet he may be five feet three anda half. His sword is long—too long for the con- venience of his little legs; his spurs are mag- nificent and his bow superb. Now that there is to be a war in Cuba, he will no doubt gal- lantly lead the Bossiall forces—back to Spain. ble of Castilian pride with cast steel. Tue Broopy-mixpEp Spaniards in Havana celebrated with the humane amusement of a bull fight the arrival of the hero Castillo, who captured an unarmed vessel and won a blood- less victory. We will now give them some different Agung to ‘occupy their time. Tae Spanish insults. make even the Quakers disposed to fight. Wuen ovr Crvm War Was Over ve com- pelled France to leave Mexico. The attempt to establish a French monarchy there was the act of a secret enemy, committed while our hands were tied. Spain was our enemy during our struggle for national existence, and it would have been well if we had sent her to Europe at the same time with the French troops. She now has notice to leave, and her stay on this side of the Atlantic is not likely to be protracted. Whar Arr Wx Gore to do about it? ‘We propose to move immediately upon your works.” ENoianp Gors Aut rae Wax to Ashantee, as she went all the way to Magdala, to punish the ignorant savagos who had murdered her offi- cers or committed outrages on her citizens, Can we notgo to Ouba, a few miles distant, to punish similar atrocities ? Axa, Over tax Sourn tho war spirit will be aroused as in days of yoro when volunteers for frea Cuba axe oplled fom The United States Navy—rne impora- tive Duty of Secertary Robcsom and Congress. In this supreme hour, when the defiant attitude of Spain brings us to the verge of war the reconstruction of our navy becomes a duty and a pressing necessity. The deeds of this branch of the service during the late war were so brilliant and decisive, when scope was offered for important operations, that we have no hesitation in saying that the public may have every confidence in the squadron now gathering in Cuban waters. We have an immense number of trained naval officers, and if we are at the present moment the tenth naval power on the schedule of nations we know that it is our own fault—rather tho fault of a Congress which has long been governed by local interests because our marine leviathans cannot navigate the prairies of Illinois and Missouri. We owe it to ourselves, however, to examine the future with a view to the practical naval issues which seem im- minent, for the outgrowth of the news which we publish this morning will concern: the United States navy more than any other arm of our public service. If war there be, we should not enter upon it with “a light heart,’ Ollivier-like, and there is no use in declaring to the people that there is no necessity of ‘even a button,’’ Leboouf- like. The truth is, we need an immediate and gigantic naval armament, and we propose to show how it can be done. The Navy Department, after thirty daya’ preparation, will only be able to gather in Cuban waters a squadron consisting of the following vessels: — Tons, Guns. 45 95 10 39 90 « 45 99 ok BJ B28 8 5 BB 8 3B 5 6 3 695, 6 2b 726 6 23 410 3 2 410 3 20 8: 410 3 br 518 Ly ‘DS. 16 550, 2 15 550 2 7 150 2 ih 560 2 7 550 2 12 250k i im i 10 2300 6 u 30 CO Total number of guns. 630 Whatever war may nie ates will bo fought in Cuban waters and on Cuban soil. Our interests lie there; our reparation must be obtained there. Hence we need a fleet of iron-clad cruisers to meet the emergency. They cannot be built in America. Melancholy fact! Shipbuilding is dead and time forbids. What we want, then, is an iron-clad squadron of the type developed since our war closed im 1865, and of the same system adopted by the naval Powers of Europe. There is but one way in which to acquire such a squadron, and that is by purchase from the naval dockyards of Europe—from England, France, Russia, Italy or from Turkey, if need be. Secretary Robeson has, therefore, a simple duty to per- form. He should call about him the ablest officers of the navy, the best seamen, the most valiant fighters and those who have made what little naval literature hag grown up since the war. Let him appoint a commission, consisting of the officers best informed on such mat- ters in the service, together with the heads of bureaus at Washington, to con- sult and immediately determine upon the best means to augment our navy by the acquisition of foreign iron-clads. Several of these officers have recently returned from European stations and are familiar with the armament and construction of the different navies abroad. The next practical step is to have a report ready to present to Congress on the first day of the session. We feel that this is the moment for work and for a kind of work which in Western phrase “means business.” We are proud to commend the untiring activity of Secretary Robeson thus far, but he should remember that it took a long time to produce a Stanton for land war- fare, and, now that our principal enemies will be on the sea, the opportunity of his life has come, and that ‘economy’ should not be an obstacle to the making of a brilliant record. “Ler Us Have Pract.’’—Not only a piece, but the whole beautiful island of Cuba. Aut tHE Spanisa Inon-craps in the Med- iterranean, it seems, have been ordered to Cuban waters. So much tho better. It will be easier for Uncle Sam to gobble them up. Cuancr or Base.—The Providence Journal is now of the opinion that ‘‘our flag was a great deal more dishonored while flying at the mast- bead of the Virginius than in being taken down by the boarding officer of the Tornado.” Probably the noble Senator who edits the Journal has not heard the latest news from Madrid, or he would probably change his base of action on the Cuban question. Let Us Have a war meeting in Union square like that of '61. Solid men, to the front! Copa, on Wan, on Bots. —‘‘The war cloud,” remarks the Richmond Enquirer, ‘may be made to disappear without war, but we are at a loss to see how Spain can make such amende as will be satisfactory to our people with safety to her own government, and if that cannot be done we must have Cubs, or war, or both.’’ Let Us Have a universal uprising through- out the country to-day. Tue Lirriz Huro, Burren, whose sword is longer than his body, and as bright as a now dollar, bas done his killing heretofore by proxy on helpless prisoners, blindfolded and shackled. Our soldiers and sailors will give him something to do to save his own miserable life, already forfeited to tho law, unless he flies from Cuba, as is most likely, before our forces reach tho island. Turret Has Been Somm Tauk about reviving spanking in our common schools. What we want now are “spanke on the ocean, THe Sympatny or Aur “Givin Nations will be with us in a waragainst the Spanish rule in Cuba, because the insolonce, intolerance, lawlessness and barbarity of that rule have excited horror and indignation throughout the world, Wax ‘rum Luoxp ASPINWAtt, ‘vas seized by the Spaniards President Grant was in favor of reprisals. | Unconditional-surrender Grant has an opportunity now. Lot him order tha seigure of the Arapiles.