The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1873, Page 8

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To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “BUCHU DIPLOMACY! ITS BLUSTER AND ITS WEAKNESS"—LEADING ARTICLE—EIGaTa PAGE. THE LOWFRING CLOUD OF WAR! SPAIN TO BE HELD DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTION OF THE BUTCHERS IN CUBA! THE OFFICIAL CORRESPO! NCE, EXCEPT THE ‘MOST Til DE- SPATCHES! STORMY INTERVIEWS BE. TWEEN GENERAL SICKL! AND THE SPANISH FOREIGN MINIS SICKLES UNDER MOB SURVEILLANCE PULSING TO THE CALL OF NAVAL MOVEMENTS—Turzp Pace. THE WAR FEELING ON ‘CHANGE! GOLD AND ALL CLASSES OF SECURITIES IN THE ASCENDING SCALE! THE BNTH PAGE. BLOODY COMMUNISM IN CART. THE JOHN P. HALE OBS Pace. PRUBABLE REORGANIZATION OF THE CABINET TO-DAY! RESIGNATIONS DRAWN—NINTH PAGE. BRITISH COMPLIMENT TO COUNT CORTI—BULL- ION MOVING FROM ENGLAND TO AMERI- OA—NINTH Pace. NONE SO POOR TO DO HIM REVERENCE!" WILLIAM M. TWEED SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY AND TO PAY $12,500 FINE! A WITHERING JUDICIAL REBUKE! STAY OF EDINGS DE- NIED! INTERVIEW WITH TWEED! IN THE TOMBS—SiIxTH PAGE. 6HARKEY'S REL! E! FCRTHER BY TWO WITNESSES OF TH. THE CELL ON TE JOURDAN’S REQ' CLOTHING—SE PROMINENT PLA STAGE—IMPO! NINTH PAGr. AMERICA HONOR— EVIDENCE E AT ND TIER! MAGGIE FOR WARM BED ENTH PAGE. METROPOLITAN ERAL NEWS— ! TO BE PRO- AND LO OPERA ! LONDON—LITERARY CRITIQUES—SEVENTH Pace. TAINTOR, THE DEFAULTER, D TRIAL! JAY COOK oo. ! OTH OF THE TH PAGE. FINANCIAL AND BANK AFFAIRS! PORT OF THE UP TO 110yj—S THE OUIATED BANKS! RE- GOLD THE SECE: A OBICAGO CHURCH—THE LABOR TENTH Pag. to Our Deatanns are built mainly on the allegation that the Virginius was not an American vessel. The form of these objections will be found elsewhere, but their only point in favor of Spain is that to con- sider them would necessitate indefinite delay. was not American when she actually was so, in no way justifies the Spaniards for seizing her and murdering those on board. The position of parties in Spain renders the tenure of the Castelar Min- istry very unsafe if it consents to yield to our demands, and if the objections it has sent are the best that it can do to meet the case war is certain, ‘Taere w a Great Deat of talk about our sympathy tor the young Spanish Republic ; but have we nota nearer interest in the people who have for five years been struggling for a republic bef our own doors? Our State De- partment is very anxious not to hurt the honor of the Spanish Republic ; but docs it not re- Gord as its first duty the defence of the honor of the American Republic? Tar Four Huxpnep Tuovsaxp Sta’ of African descent are the secrot of the Palin| slaveholders’ ferocious despotism over tho island of Oubs, The four millions of emanci- pated slaves of the United States should do Deis whole daty upon this quogtion, ’ BANKS—Etkv- | | some innocent little requesis which he called NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 187% Buchu Dipiomacy—its Biuster sed 16+) namely, patience. It putson a solemn face, Weakness, The galaxy of contemporary quackery would be incomplete without the portrait of the Buchu diplomat. He is the product in diplomacy of an epoch which has created its gods out of blatant false pretences, and which, becoming convinced of the unsounduess of the material, is throwing the idols one by one on the dust heap for the great Board of Health, over which Common Sense presides, to cart away into oblivion, The Buchu diplomat still remains on the pedestal, but his Dies Ira is coming; and, when it has come, every day thereatter will be a dies non to him, We all have a fair notion of the old time diplomat, whose kitchen was an auxiliary to his brains, whose suavity was as studied as his prudence, and whose greatest object in life was to gain a stealthy advantage over other suave, prudent and reserved diplomats, while apparently ¢on- ceding everything to them except the suit of clothes he wore. Their studied insincerity to the majority of the world was relieved, how- ever, by fidelity to their masters. They were the outgrowth of ages of obsequious- ness, and served as lubricants between the various despotisms by which » the world was governed in their day. That they were as artificial as their business is not sur- prising, and that they burrowed like foxes in their haute politique is not to be wondered at when their masters hid their projects from their own peoples as jealously as from the peoples of other masters. Indeed, the people had little to do but fight and pay for the fighting, and ‘the reason why” was a ques- tion on which a trayful of crowns, a trunktul of diplomatic uniforms, the selfishness of half a dozen men and the ambition of a couple decided. We claim to have changed all that. Where the people are competent to judge, and where they are acknowledged as the sole source of power, the little dinner table trickeries, boudoir blandish- ments, statue-faced mystery and diplomatic secrecy are as much out of place as periwigs and shoe buckles are out of date, only a little moreso. The great Buchu diplomat is a cross between this old mystery man and the blatant quack whose nostrum is placarded on every dead wall, and who lives on the eredulity and fdlly of weak-minded humanity. It was a difficult combination to make, for one-half of the man should be mystery and secrecy and the other half blatancy and brag. The cross of the two is the masterwork of false pretence; the result is that Buchu has its pedestal in the State Department. It is neither sound democratic flesh nor trussed royal fowl—it 1s Buchu fish. The Buchu diplomat is hardly pressed to keep up his mysteries. Let him have a first rate ‘‘difficulty” with astrong Power on hand. At one end or the other of the cable his “scercta’’ leak out, and this brings him into difficulty. It can scarcely be otherwise, for with the Buchu instinct he tells to the first sympathetic ear he meets that he has con- cocted a wonderful plan, which will sat- everybody, and that when it has reached . its inevitable result the nation will ring with the praises of the Great State Secretary Buchu. But when the “secreis’’ have been well aired before the | berate like a | quack whose patient has recovered in spite world Secretary Buchu is found to have been the parent of some timid little complain- ings which he called an emphatic protest, peremptory demands, and some vapid little generalities which he called—the voice of international law. As fastas one false pre- tence is discovered he proceeds to concoct another, and the nation finds that Buchu is on the top of the popular wave in another wéek, to be down in the trough of the sea the week after. The misery of it is that the national dignity is dragged up and down | along with him. His binstering and swagger- ing is for home consumption, but, like Boab- dil, he takes a craven’s sword and a servile tongue abroad, when the Power he has to deal with is one not to be trifled with, That he should flourish and prosper on this Buchu baseness is humiliating to national good sense, but in the age of Buchu is it not fitting that the exemplar of quackery should be found in the State Department for a while as well as everywhere else ? It must not be forgotten that he has one lunster card, which he always plays for a trump. ve himasmall, weak Power that cannot nt, and give him the shadow’of a pretext for despatch writing, and heavens! how he will m the eagle sercam! Then he teems with genuine emphatic protest, peremp- tory deraands, aud his ultimatum will rever- | of Himalayan thunder. No will extol himself end his nostrum like unto Secretary Buchn, when he has extracted an apology from a twentieth rate Power. There is, however, a case in which Secretary Buchu’s fine quack frenzy transcends itself. Give him of the medicine | some meddling five feet two foreign diplomat, who has ned the misfortune to see through the | Lumbuy of Buchu, and to say so, and earth | affords no finer spectacle of a convulsion of nature than Secretary Buchu on the war- path, worrying the remains of such a pitiful foe as C It is not heroic; it is very ridiculous; but the fantastic tricks of the | clown turned pedagogue is the heroism of dip- lomatic Buchu. Buchu diplomacy has its record, which it is | blatant to call attention to, but little willing to Tho Spanish presumption, that the vessel | exhibit. Like the ‘wonderful enres’’ of the quack, its record is referred to in that delight- | fully vague way which satisfies only those who try very hard to believe, Like the quacks, also, never hear any- | thing of the cases that died on its | hands. If it did not exactly come in with the | present Secretary, Buchu has blossomed under | his careful nursing. In nothing has it been more successful than in the men it has chosen and those it has rejected. It sent Cramer to Copenhagen; it sent Bingham to Japan; it sent Motley to vegetate; it sent Sumner to opposition. Among its achievements of which it can speak with pride is that it sent Little Emma to St. James’, Little Cata- cazy to Elysium and Private Secretary Buchu to St. Domingo. It would, indeed, have we made the Private. Scorctary bring back | seen what shape the constitutional bills will all, the corner lots in St Domingo for the Buchu coterie, with all the other lots (natives included) for the nation, if the dose of Dominican Buchu had not been too | no longer be possible for Gambetta, Favre, much for the couritry to swallow. It has | Simon, and the rest of them, to remain pas- barely tinged with a deprecatory smile, when the nation is unanimous in its demand for justice, and says, “We must wait,” when national honor and dignity and human right call for energy and despatch. It flushed itself into a towering passion when the Lloyd Aspinwall was seized by the Span- iards; but it waited as placidly as an oyster when it had blown off its first indignation. It said every now and then that its patience was about to be exhausted; but ninety days after the insult to our flag found Buchu waiting patiently still, It foams with rage when it hears of the Virgmius outrage and then says to Spain:—‘You have insulted our flag, captured a United States vessel, butch- ered our citizens and those under the protection of our flag, and you must set about preparing to consider that satisfaction is due to us."’ A little more, evidently, and Secretary Buchu would have demanded satisfaction point blank. To the indignation of the people of the United States over the outrage Buchu bristles all over with bayoncts on Monday, but slides down to the soft woolly exterior of a four weeks’ lamb on Wednesday. When Consul Phillips was degraded and our flag insulted Buchu could do nothing; he had to “wait for facts.’’ If our Minister at Madrid was assassinated our discreet Buchu would bluster along the Potomac for an hour and a half and then sit down and wait for ‘official information.” This is not what America wants to-day or ever. By taking the reverse course to Secretary Buchu, by acting with promptness and energy, by saying what justice demands and then exacting justice, by keeping the same front to the strong as to the weak, and by giving up mystery on one hand and bombast on the other, our State Department would be worthy of the nation. ‘ Condemnation of Tweed=The Moral of the Story. At last the portly potentate is fallen. The mighty man of municipal polities is down; surely at the lowest ebb of his fortunes, sounding very legitimately all the depths and shoals oi dishonor; an object of pity even to the paltry wretches who but a short time since rejoiced in gathering up the crumbs of his plunder. ‘It is like the sound of the. fall of @ mighty oak in the stillness of the forest’’— an occurrence that has its impressive side, and in that direction may easily run into mis- taken sympathy and pity; and its moral side, as it tells well for the public sense of recti- tude that punishment was possible. It is in the constitution of the human mind that the fall of whatever has any attribute of great- ness, and is not altogether horrible, shall be regarded with mingled emotions of surprise, pity and regret. And all these in varying de- gree will be excited by Tweed'’s fate, even with persons who can have no possible sympathy with his crimes; for there was an attractive splendor in the magnitude of his misdoings, there was a kind of rotten glory about him that made him loom as a Seventh ward Rob Roy. In contemplating the un- finished side of that new Court House one cannot but fancy that the audacious avarice that grasped a million on the contracts would, on another field, have divided laurels with Warren Hastings, or belittled the story of that Roman Varres who lives in Cicero's amber. But they were magnates when they began, and this was only a mender of old chairs. That is the little addition our repub- lican system makes to the universal story of official theft—an equal chance to become.an illustrious rogue is open to all, and the humblest cannot complain that even this pos- sibility is closed against him. But is official robbery in any way peculiar to republican systems? Is such corruption found only or mainly where the people endeavor to govern themselves? Is it just to use such facts as especial arguments against a government like ours? Assuredly not. Our opinion is that such occurrences are only possible in propor- tion as a government has ceased to be repub- lican. In proportion as the people of a city, a State ora county have reached that point where they no longer actively concern them- selves in their public affairs, where they do not care what becomes of the body politic, im just that proportion it will fall into the hands of thieving oligarchs, who may do what they will with the publie purse. It is because every republican principle has been knocked out of our city rule by laws con- trived not for our good government, but to secure party supremacy, that Tweeds are pos- sible. But the promising sign is that we can punish our rogues. We can revert to ele- mentary republicanism as occasion requires upon the spontancous impulse of the whole; and that Tweed, with all his power to browbeat justice—with all his plunder to purchase im- munity for his crimes—that such an offender goes to Blackwell's Island for twelve years is an irrefutable evidence that at the core we are still politically sound. And this we take to be the true moral of this great event. Although our people have suffered from political dis- gust, although laws framed at Albany have crippled an honest community and given power to the worser sort, there is a people here that means to make its upright purposes felt as it getsachance, and that by falling back upon the primitive and simple machinery of justice can and will resolutely punish its criminals however politically great or rich or meretriciously important they may be, The French Cabinet. The latest advices from Paris announce that the Ministers had withdrawn their resig- nations, which were tendered to the President on the 19th inst., so we may presume that the public crisis has been conciliated. The Duke de Broglie, according to report, will re- tain his position as Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, Magne will remain Minister of Finance, and the Public Works will remain in the hands of M. Desseligny. Under the new arrangement, as under the old, affairs will be completely within the control of De Broglie and the conservative Right, and France will bg a Inoharchy without a monarchical head. In spite of the prolonga- tion of MacMahon’s term of power the As- sembly is still sovercign, It remains to be take, If any attempt is made to make Mac- Mahon independent of or superior to the As- sembly we shall look for revolution, fot it will faculty which it uses when its bluster is | sive. The discussion of these bills must tako voghed atand which deserves roroxmitionss | plageimmediately. Until thoye bills gre. diss cussed in committee, and presented to the As- | The Hessian Presse-Special Pleas for the | The sembly, itis impossible to say what is to be the immediate future of France. The mon now in power are not without skill and cau- tion; but it is possible they may so trip as to bring the pure republicans to the surface. « The United States Navy—A Grand and Immediate Armament De- manded, Although the preparations already made by Secretary Robeson have bsen as complete as the material at his disposal would allow, they are far from satisfactory on the threshold of awar with Spain, This is not the fault of the efticient Secretary; it is the fault of a penurions, short-sighted Congress. But we prefer not to dwell on the shortcomings of that debauched body, which closed its session amid the execrations of the people, and we only refer to it in order that a useful lesson may be taught the Forty-third Congress, At the outset its legislation on naval affairs must evince a broad catholic policy, and the spirit of infinitesimal meanness which has always entered into the Congressional treatment of marine matters must be peremptorily squelched. As the anticipated war with Spain demands immediate and bold action the first question that ought to be presented is the swittest possible means to purchase a powerful squadron of iron-clad cruisers in Europe. We assume that Secre- tary Robeson is alive to the importance of this fact, and that he is, through his subordinates, thoroughly acquainted with the invulnerable engines of war which can be put under way for Cuban waters without a moment's delay. We observe what we regard as an over con- fidence in our ability to defeat Spain on the sea on the part of some authorities who should be well informed as to naval affairs. We regret this, because to convince ourselves of a deception is to go into the struggle neither forewarned nor forearmed. It was the “sixty days” business of Mr. Seward which contributed largely toa long and expensive war against the Southern States, and that war would have been much more protracted had it not been for the amazing energy and creditable boldness, not unmixed with ex- travagance, pursued by the vigorous Cameron. Every Southern man who was in the confi- dence of the Confederate authorities says to- day that ‘Mr. Cameron whipped us 1m the first six months of the war.” We believe that we should not only draw from our own experience, but from the disastrous haste which caused France to surrender a million of men to a foe scarcely her superior in population or military renown. The con- dition of our navy, such as our navy is, was never better. The personnel is exemplified in a class of officers enthusiastic for war, closely trained in all the specialties of their profession, and competent to take command of any piece of marine mechanism that can be devised or constructed. The torpedo system, which has been developed after years of conscientious study by probably the ablest ordnance officer living, isa combination of the best features of the European navies, strengthened by the latest inventions of our own mechanics and officers. Harvey & Fish torpedoes, stationary cylinders, and subterranean’ projectiles are ready in a finished condition in the hands of officers who understand the use of the danger- ous missiles. We will not indiscreetly disclose any information concerning these weapons, but we,feel sure that if favorable conditions should arise for their employment against the: Spanish iron-clads a few spars and smoke- stacks, like sticks shooting from the train of fire of an exploded rocket, would’ plunge - into the sea, witile our vessels could move off in search of other prey. Our monitors, with their heavy smooth-bore calibres, are superior in their peculiar powers of offence and defence as stationary engines of war to any craft the Spaniards can send to Cuban waters. Our wooden ships are not inferior in kind to the wooden ships of other navies; but it must be admitted that, in an engagement with the iron-clads, they would fall to pieces like scaffolding under the blows of the sledge hammer. Admirably provided, then, as we are in some respects, we lack the Uilima Thue of neval warfare—iron-clad cruis- ers. While all the Powers of Europe have been building on the principles developed by the revolution in naval warfare, as evidenced | by the operations of the Rebellion, we have made no progress whatever. We have retro- graded rather than advanced. ‘The dock- | yards along the East River, which were once the scene of the proudest art of our city, are now repositories of lumber and the haunts of midnight river thieves. The few skilled me- chanics who remain in the country are em- ployed in other branches of industry. What, then, must we do? We must go abroad as buyers in the market. Secretary Robeson should, without delay, obtain the refusal of a strong fleet of iron-clads, and present his detailed statement to Con- gress on the first day of the session, and de- mand the adequate appropriation. The entire nation will sustain him in vigorous action, and we call upon him not to be fettered by consid- erations of petty expenditure, for by such a course he would be unjust to the navy, unjust to the country and unjust to himself. Vigor, boldness and rapidity of execulion should be the policy of the Navy Department at this moment. Tonprpors.—The approaches to our harbors are to be protected by torpedoes. The engi- neer department of the navy will at once pre- pare torpedoes with the needful electrical in- struments and wires, &., to be placed at proper points along the coast. It is believed, too, that our torpedo boats will do splendid servive at sea, when called upon to prove their destructive power. In the late Franco-German war the splendid navy of France could do nothing along the German seaboard, on ac- count of the terrible torpedoes with which the Germans had lined all the approaches to their harbors and coasts, We are far ahead of Spain, and even of Germany, in this tremen- dous weapon—the torpedo, It is an American invention. Tne Anmy—Tre Wan DepantMEent Guertixa Reavy ror Actiox.—Under the directions of the Secretary of War the national arsenals are rapidly being placed in a condition to supply, if needed, the wants of an army in the field, The seaboard fortifications will soon be ina good condition for warlike work in defence of our harbors, and, in a word, the army will be in readiness with the navy to respond to tho signal for was. -QUADRUPLE SHEET. | Spanish Butchers. The American jonrnals in the interests of Spain—fortunately for the credit of the Ameri- can press they are few in number and unim- portant in influence—beat about ina fog of their own raising and touch every point except those really at issue between the United States andthe Spanish government. In all instances inspired, and in some written, by Spanish counsellors, their articles are designed to con- fuse the question and to divert public atten- tion from the actual offences committed by the buccaneers and murderers of Suntiago de Cuba. At one time, under cover of a pretended in- dictment of the administration for alleged neglect of its international obligations, these organs, which ought to be published at Madrid instead of in the United States, drag before the public a long list of accusations against tho Virginius and the unfortunate victims who were butchered in front of the “slaughter house wall,” intended to excuse or justify the piratical act of Costillo and the felony of Burriel. At another time, taking their cue from the insolent Span- ish officials they assail with coarse invective the ministers and consuls of the United States who, in the discharge of their duties, interpose to save the lives of American ‘citi- zens or demand satisfaction for the outrage committed on the American nation. On one hand they craftily seek to embarrass the proof of the nationality of the Virginius by covert threats that the owner of the unfortu- nate vessel may be subjected to punishment under our neutrality laws, thus hoping to in- duce him to repudiate the ownership. On the Other, they make stupid attempts in their edi- torial columns to discredit the Hrratp’s im- portant special news disclosing the insolence of the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs and the outrages on the American Legation at Madrid, while in their telegraphic columns they are compelled to publish the confirma- tion of our momentous and exclusive intelli- gence. The character of the Virginius and the nature of the traffic in which she was engaged have nothing whatever to do with the question at issue between ourselves and Spain, pro- vided she was an American vessel. If, as charged by the Spanish-American organs, she had landed a dozen cargoes of men and arms on the Cuban coast, she was not liable to seizure on the high seas in a time of professed peace, or even to visit and search. She might have been a hundred times a filibus- ter, and the outrage on our flug, the gross violation of international law and treaty obli- gation, would be none theless when on the high seas she was chased, captured and seized asa prize bya Spanish war steamer. She had a right to carry what cargo and what per- sons she pleased to any port of Cuba or any other country not in an acknowledged or. recognized state of war, subject only to the penalties imposed by municipal laws when within the jurisdiction of the country to which she traded. But if the Virginius had beena Cuban insurgent vessel, sailing with the papers and under the flag of the Cuban Republic, the lives of the Americans on board were sacred until, after a legal trial, conducted in presence of their Consul if they so desired, they had been found guilty of an offence punishable with death. Their murder with- out trial, without the privilege of seeing their | Consul, is the foulest act committed by the Spanish cutthroats, and the crime is the more heinous since the cruel butchery was perpetrated more in contempt and hatred of the United States than as a punishment of the helpless victims. The noble-hearted Fry, and the poor men he so generously but vainly strove to save while disdaining to beg his own life, were slatightered because the Spanish out- laws in Cuba detest the American Republic and burn to heap insults upon our nation. The blood that was shed at Santiago will lie’ at the doors of our government unless full atonement is demanded of the murderers ; yet the special pleaders for Spain ignore this im- portant issue, and endeavor to befog the pub- lic mind by learned essays on international law, the duties of neutrals and the wicked character of the Virginius. If we could believe that these Hessian or- gans advance their arguments in the laudable desire to avoid a war consistently with na- tional honor and to hold inconsiderate passion in check, we should respect their motives,’ however poor an opinion we might have of their wisdom. But when it becomes ovident that they plead in the interest of Spain and for the dishonor of the United States we con- demn and denounce them. The Hxnaxp has advocated prompt and decisive action in this Spanish infamy as the surest way to preserve peace. No nation is so well protected against war as one that defends its own honor with spiritand dignity. We have deprecated the timid, uncertain, hesitating policy of the ad- ministration in all our former difficulties with this insolent Spanish-Cuban Power as well as in this last outrage ; but we have never urged President Grant to do an act in usurpation of the constitutional powers of Congress. We recognized the bold disregard of law and treaty, the insult to our flag, the | seizure of our vessel, the murder of our citi- zens, a8 justifying such immediate measures as were demanded for the recovery of our property, the protection of our citizens and the vindication of law and national honor; and we hoped to see our government take such speedy action as England adopts for the prompt righting of her wrongs, for the swift vindication of her honor, for the protection of | the life of her humblest citizen. To this end we have urged the immediate occupation of Cuba, not as Spanish territory, but as the refuge of a nest of pirates and murderers who defy the authority of their own govern- ment, disregard treaty obligations, violate law and prey upon the lives and property of their near neighbors. ‘This would not be war, unless Spain chose to take up the cause of pirates and murderers and declare war against us. Let us see whether the pigeon-livered policy of our State Department will in the end succeed in preserving peace without paying for it thé price of national honor. Spanish Spres Apovr.—Read the report of | Captain Worden of two mysterious and sus- pected visitors claiming the right to inspect the monitor Dictator at New London, Goop News rrom tan Enme Canar—Whe news that at Schenectady an ice-breaker in the canal is opening ® passage for the freight boats, and that hopes are entertained of get- ting a large fest throwwh, | ernment to be destitute of all spirit. Religious and the Quast fle ligious Press om the Topic of the Day. Among the quasi religious press that seizes the present complications with ‘Spain as a matter of comment we may take the views of the editor of the Golden Age:—‘‘No matter,” says the editor, ‘“‘who these men were; ne matter what offence they committed; oo mat- ter what provocation they gave to their ene- mies; no matter how they abused the Ameri- can flag or the Spanish authority; no matter if they had been individual pirates on the high seas; no matter if they had been a ship- load of prison convicts condemned for mur- der; no matter whether any or all of this was true (anda small portion may have been), nevertheless the massacre at Santiago must excite the horror, the scorn and the rage of mankind. We would be willing to see the whole Cuban question remitted to Charles Sumner and Emilio Castelar, fecling sure that by these two statesmen it would be settled prompily and settled right.” Thus does Theodore Tilton express his views. The Christian Union (quasi religious) de- cleres that a great outrage against humanity has been committed in Cuba. ‘The burst of indignation which has greeted it is the voice of honest human nature.’’ So does Henry Ward Beecher pen his thoughts to paper. The Christian at Work affirms that ‘our re- lations with Spain have been a perpetual and astriking illustration of the tyranny of the weak over the strong. Asa virtue it is mag- nanimity; pursued too far, it becomes abject- ness.”” Of such is the opinion of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. «fhe Cuban massacre !"’ exclaims the Inde- pendent, ‘Has the world no redress for this horrible act of barbarity? We think it has,. and that it belongs to the United States to de- mand it.” Thus speaketh Henry C. Bowen, not a clergyman himself, but the shepherd of clerical writers. “If, without further bloodshed, our governe ment can obtain what may be regarded as security against the repetition of such out- rages, every Christian heart will rejoice. Strike the deathblow to slavery in the West Indies.” Thus speaketh the Rev. Dr. Patton in the Baptist Weekly. “Aside from its intrinsic barbarism and bloodthirstiness, the act wasa defiance of the nations and an outrage upon the race. We trust the government will take such vigorous steps as will secure protection to our citizong wherever they may be, whether on land or op sea, and as will prevent a repetition of this injurious insult to our flag and nation.’* These are the views of the Christian Jntelli- gencer. “The cruelty of the Spanish character an@ the impotence of the Spanish Republic have been strikingly as well as shockingly dis« played in the affair of the Virginius. When Spanish officials in Cuba defy their own government and refuse to regard international or any other law they shall be subject to the prompt and vigorous discipline of the United States.” And thus speaketh the Rev. Dr. E. Chapin, editor of the Christian Leader. ‘That such outrages can be allowed te occur without rebuke is to suppose our gov- We trust that ships of war will be sent at once to Cuban waters in such force as to protect American citizens on that island.” And of such is the gospel of the Evangelist (Presby- terian). “What is needed at this hour is statesman- ship and common sense,”’ aflirms the solid old Presbyterian organ, the Observer, “and,’” continues the editor, “while we resist and denounce the great wrong which has been perpetrated by the authorities—a wrong which, we doubt not, will be as deeply regretted by the Spanish government at home as it is by us—let us not do ourselves the great injury. of complicating our foreign relations by @ sndden movement for the acquisition of pos- sessions of which it may be truly said the more that we have of that sort the poorer we are.’” The Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic) de- clares that the United States will never have a better chance of winning glory at sgnall risk than that presented by the Cuban outrage. “The acute mind of America,”’ says the editor, ‘quick to see a good thing in war or bargains, recognizes the fact and cries out for war. It is the story of the big schoolboy and the little schoolbgy over again; only this time the little schoolboy began the quarrel and richly deserves « sound thrashing.”” The editor of the Pilot is, to quote his own words, “quick to see” anything good in war or in peace, The Baltimore (utholie Mirror is inclined te the opinion that ‘the capture of the Virginius was a breach of international law, and that atonement should be made by the infidel rulers at Madrid, as well as by the butchers in Cuba.” And thus endeth the first lesson. PERSONAL INT&LLIGENCE. Dr. F. M. Dearborne, United States Navy, tw quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Lieutenant Dawkins, of tie Coldstream Guards, British Army, is at the Clarendon Hotel. State Senator Isaac V. Baker, Jr., of Comstock’s, N. Y., 18 again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman C, L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y., is registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. United States Senator Cragin, of New Hamp- shire, is staying at the Westmoreland Hotel. Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel yesterday, Judge KE. H. Rosecrans, of Glenn’s Falls, N. Y., is among the recent. arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. ; Lieutenants W. F. Reynolds and B. H. Randolph, United States Army, are quartered at the Everett House. Mr. F. B. Brown and the Misses Osgood and Kelly, of this city, are at the Grand National Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla, Baron Kilduff, of Kilduff, is the new title in the peerage of Mr. James Moncrieff, the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, The harnoss for the horses of the legitimate king, now Count de Chambord, Is, according to the 41” Sivele, being made in the Rue Pagevin, Parla Each set is handsomely ornamented wivn gold and the fleur de lis A delegation of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, who have been making their peace with the Great Father at Washington, arrived atthe Grand Cen. tral Hotel last evening. They are accompanied by Indian Agent John D, Miles. M. Rubellis, an artist, recently dined alone in one of the principal restaurants of Paris at a table on which had been placed covers tor 13 persons, Ho is the only survivor of @ party of 13 literary men and artists who arranged 20 years ago that its sur- viying members should dine once @ year, and that the places of the dead should be conspicuously vacant, Among the members were Alfred da Mussot, Theopbile Gautier aud Count de Fiehac. aX