The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVII : AMUSEMERTS THIS EVENING. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 586 Broadway.—Vantery ENTERTALNMENT. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Guyeva Cross. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5l4 Broadway.—Vanierr Enrenrainment. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosdway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Exoct ARDEN. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts—Tux BLack Croox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tun Luar. UNION SQUARE THEATER Broadway.—Tax Wickep Woni Union square, near WO D'S MUSEUM, Broad corner Thirtieth st — Victims—S0LON SHINGLE. Afterboon and evening. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 73) Broadway.—Tar New Macparen shth ay. and Twenty-third GRAND OPERA HOUSE, 8t.—Humery Duwrry Aproap. ROOTH’S THEATRE, OruxiLo. Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposita City Hall,— Travian Orera—La Traviava. GERMANIA THEATRE, Mth street ant Sd avenue.— Die Gxscurepenes. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanuery Entertainment, Matinee at 2). BRYANT'S OPERA HO Twenty-third st. corner | ‘Sixth av.—NeGno Mist c Ce BAIN HALL, Great Jones street, between Broadway and Bowery.—Tux Picrim, STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- cunt. COOPER INSTITUTE. ENTERTAINMENT. AUGHING Gas and MacicaL RIP T New York, Tucsday, Nov. 25, 1873. F YESTERDAY. THE NEWS 0 To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE VIRGINIUS OUTRAGE AND THE SANTIAGO BUTCHERY! THREE VIEWS OF THE SUB- JECT”—LEADING ARTICLE—Srxta Pace. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Virginius Ontrage and the San- tingo Butchery—Three Views of the Subjoct. Tho people of the United States were favored yesterday through the columns of the Hmnarp with three views of their difficulty with Spain, or rather with the Spanish ruffians in Cuba, taken from as many different standpoints. One was the opinion of the London Times, the recognized organ of British sentiment, in regard to the five demands reported to have been made upon or indicated to the Spanish government as the atonement for the Vir- ginius outrage; another was tho plea of Ad- miral Polo, the Spanish Minister at Washing- ton, in justification of the acts of the Spanish war steamer and the Cuban authorities, and the third was a dissection of the case by the keen, analytical mind of Reverdy Johnson. The London Times, we are told, approves of all the alleged demands except the tirst—that is, for the surrender of the Virginius. The release and restoration to our protection of the surviving captives; a money indemnity to the heirs of those who have been butchered; the trial and punishment of their murderers, and the immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery in Cuba as the source of all the pending troubles, are demands of which the English organ approves and in which it believes the British government might well join ; but it does not consider that the United States can in justice ask the sar- render of the Virginius. In the brief cable despatch announcing these conclusions the reasoning by which they are reached is not given ; but we must conclude that it is based upon the admitted character of the business in which the captured vessel was engaged rather than upon any doubt as to her nation- ality—first, because the right of the Virginius to sail under the American flag is accepted by our government, and next, because the con- demnation of our demand for her surrender appears to be made absolute, and not condi- tional upon the proofs of nationality. We can readily understand this apparent sym- pathy with the act of the Tornado on the part of England, who still clings lovingly to the right of visitation and search, although she has long since yielded the desire to attempt the enforcement of the one and ab- solutely relinquished the other, except as a belligerent right in time of war. But the United States has written in the blood of its citizens, and at the cost of a war with England, its determination to maintain DIPLOMACY DEREATS THE NATIONAL WILL! | SECRETARY ROBESON ORDERS WORK ON | THE WAR SHIPS TO BE STOPPED! MR. SICKLES AND THE SPANISH rcMors ! | BRITISH WAR VESSELS AT SANTIAGO! | SPAIN’S REPUBLICAN AUTHORITY TO BE OBEYED (%) IN CUB. DIPLOMATIC | HEDGING! ACCOUNT O£ AN EYE-WITNESS | OF THE SANTIAGO HORROR! BOARDING THE VIRGINIUS! THE STRAWS OF PUBLIC OPINION—Turrp PaGE. AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEIR ORG. AND LEADERS SPEAKING WITH NO UN- CERTAIN VOICE ON THE CUBAN QUES- TION! THE INSULT TO THE FLAG AND THE BUICHERY OF OUR CITIZENS MUST BE RIGHTEOUSLY AVENGED! THE LaA- | MENTED CAPTAIN FRY—FovrrH PaaR. | {NTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION EULOGIZED IN THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT! AMERICAN VISITORS—SEVENTH PAGE. TWO MORE GERMAN IRON-CLADS SENT TO REINFORCE THE FLEET IN SPANISH | WATERS— CHURCH AND STATE TROUBLES IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE—Sgvesta Pacr. THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY REJECT M. LE SAY’S INTERPELLATION—BAVARIA Tae PEALS THE CONCORDAT WITH THE PUPE—SEVENTH PAGE. ENGLISH FINANCIAL AFFAIRS! FATAL RAIL WAY ‘DISASTER! A LIBERAL ELECTION VICTORY—SEVENTH Pace. | MEXICO'S INTEROCEANIC RAILWAY! REJEC- TION OF THE AMERICAN PROJECTS—Sgv- ENTH PAGE. THE STORM YESTERDAY! WEATHER REPORTS } AND PROBABILITIES—IMPORTANT GEN- | | i ERAL NEWS—TENTH Pace. THE NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM AS VIEWED BY THE COMPTROLLER OF THE COR: | RENCY—SEVENTH PaGE. TUDICIAL VINDICATION! TWEED'S COUNSEL | DISCLAIM ANY DISCOURTESY TO JUDGE | DAVIS IN THE PROTEST SUBMITTED BY THEM! WHAT HIS HONOR HAD TO SAY! THE INGERSOLL AND GENET CASEs | RAPIDLY PROGRESSING—E1euTH Pace. PUSHING THE RINGMAS tS TO THE LEGAL WALL! THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY « ING UPON THEIR WORKS!” MR. GEN ARREST, AND WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT 1T—Firri Pace. PEOPLE PERISHING OF STARVATION IN IOWA! THE GRASSBUPPER PLAGUE CAUSES FAMINE! A MOST WORTHY CHARI EIGHTH PAGE. THE CITY BUDGET FOR 1874 AND THE ALDER. | MANIC ACTION UPON IT! THE . GENT FUND HAS THE BOTTOM OUT OF IT! THE COMPTROLL FirtH Page. FINANCIAL OPERATIONS AND QUOTATIONS! THE STOCK SPECULATORS STILL RAID- ING! GOLD AN THE WAR RUMORS— THE METHODIS ‘TH PAGE. IRELAND'S CHIEF CITY! ITS AL AP- | PEARANCE AND THE CHANGES MADE IN THE PAST—Fovurta Pace. | THE EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH TO BE CELEBRATED TO-DAY— REFORM DENUNCIATIONS OF GREEN AND TWEED—FirTH Pace. A Faxing ix Iowa.—-We shonld as soon ex. pect to hear of a famine in St, Domingo, and yet it appears that in Northwestern Towa, which borders upon the arid Great Plains, and particularly in the counties of Lyon and Osceola, the suffering among the people has been very severe for lack of the actual necessi- ties of life, caused by the utter failure of grain there last summer. It is even said that sev- | eral women have died -in the destitute district from actual starvation. But those portions of Towa which are so well supplied with grain that the people know not what to do with it shonid at once send up the needed relief to the suffer- ing northwestern corner of the State. It isa crying shame to the State that man, woman or child within its limits should be permitted to dio of starvation. A Demaxp tHat Sxovtp pu Mapr raos Sram.—Many years ago England contracted treaty obligations with Spain by which her Consul General was permitted to exercise the powers of envoy or political agent. The Gov- ernor General of the island himself has since that date been delegated the adequate powers to treat with the English representative as a fully accredited diplomatist, addressing his communications to the Foreign Office, Would it not be timely for the State Depertment to the freedom of the high seas to vessels of all nations in time of peace, free from visitation or search. Spain has elected to deny the existence of war in Cuba, and she | must abide by the consequences of the posi- tion she has taken. Our government denies that the Spanish war steamer had any better right to visit and search a United States vessel than to land upon and invade our soil. | Hence we claim that the seizure of the Vir- ginius was an act against our sovereignty as a nation, whatever may have been the character of the trade in which she was engaged, and the act would be equally unjustifiable if it should be proved that the captured vessel had landed men and arms in Cuba a hundred times prior to her last voyage. The contempt shown for our flag by the disregard of all Jaws that would apply even to a legal prize, by the failure to notify the representative of the United States at Santiago of the capture and by the suppression of his communications with his own government, are only aggrava- tions of the outrage. The demand for the surrender of the Virginius will therefore be firmly maintained by our government, for it embodies a principle of wider importance even than that embraced in the demands for the release of the surviving captives, in- demnity to the heirs of the murdered men, the punishment of the murderers and the aboli- tion of Cuban slavery. While we regard the opinions of the great English organ with respect, as reflecting the popular sentiment of the nation and the wishes of the government, and while we are glad to receive the endorsement of England as to the justice and propriety of the majority of our demands upon Spain, we must repeat what we have before said, that the quarrel which has been forced upon us by the Spanish-Cuban government is one that affects the honor of the American Republic, and in the settlement of which we cannot permit any other nation to take part. We must deal with | the Cuban question now as an American ques- tion alone; as one which affects our interests and safety at our own doors, and with which, as such, we alone have the right to deal. In saying this we do not desire to be understood as indifferent to European opinion or as | prepared to treat the views of England or any other friendly nation with contempt. We simply claim that the interest of European Powers in the political condition of Cuba is distant and indirect, while to the United States it is a near and vital question. In the outrage upon our flag; in the swift murder of those under its protection, many of whom were our own citizens; in the insults offered to our representatives; in the danger of war thrust upen us without any justification, we see only | the culmination of a long series of wrongs in- | flicted upon us by a system which for five | years past has defied our national rights and affronted humanity. Now that patience is exhausted it is for America to settle the future, and to decide how her iterests are to be pro- tected in the future. In this work we accept sympathy—we decline alliance. Our com- merce and the lives of our citizens are threat- ened by men who, while nominally acting ment, in fact set that authority at defiance, and commit acts of piracy and murder by which we are made to suffer. We must pro- tect ourselves and end this forever. so effectually it is necessary that we occupy with onr forces the island held by these law- | less ruffians, and this we should do without delay. We can then receive such propositions as Spain may have to offer, and we may then be glad to consult with England as to our | future action; but at present the quarrel is | our own, and must be settled by our govern- | ment as an American question alone, The plea in justification interposed by the Spanish Minister at Washington will searcely | excite much attention; it certainly will not change or in any degree modify the public verdict against the atrocity of the Virginius outrage. The ideas expressed by Admiral Polo are those of a gentleman whose views of international law and national rights are held make a demand for the recognition of a like Quality for Consul General Hall ? subservient to the supreme will of that nation of which he ia a loyal and devoted rovresen- under the authority of a recognized govern- | To do | | hint? tative. If they appear to ua to be haughty and overbearing we niust remember the blood that rans in the Spaniard’s veins and look upon them with indulgence. Admiral Polo falls into one error which is excusable, because it is no doubt suggested to his mind by the promptings of our own officials at Washing- ton. The people who ‘clamor for war” do not, he says, represent the real sentiment of Americans at large. They regard war a8 a “good thing,"’ because it would find employ- ment for ‘‘the many idle people about New York." Now, no Americans clamor for war for the sake of war. Those who insist upon 9 full vindication of our national honor; upon the punishment of the savage cutthroats in Cuba who disgrace the Spanish uniform; upon atonement for the seizure of an American ves- sel on the high seas and the butchery of her people, whether done with or without the su- thority of Spain; those who demand these reparations, with the sword ready to their hands if they should be refused, do represent the real sentiments of the American people, and so Admiral Polo and his government will discover. The Admiral will also find that the United States cannot endorse his position that the law of evidence has no force and no bind- ing effect in the dealings of nations with one another; that ‘‘a statement of a certain fact by one friendly government to another ought to be sufficient evidence’ to justify any act; that <‘diplomatic action should not be ham- pered”’ by any of those proofs by which truth or falsity, justice or injustice, are ordinarily established. Itis this principle which induced the Tornado to invade the deck of an Ameri- can vessel on the high seas, to tear down the American colors and to carry his prize into a Spanish-Cuban port, with the Spanish flag flying over it. What mattered the insult to onr national honor, the violation of law and treaty, when the ‘mere statement of a certain fact’’ by Spain to the friendly government at Washing- ton must be accepted by the latter as com- plete satisfaction? It is this principle, advanced by Admiral Polo, which prompted the bloodthirsty little butcher, Burriel, to cut the telegraph wires, to intercept the despatches of an American Consul and to murder American citizens and others entitled to American protection, without the form of a trial, What mattered the enormity of the crime when the ‘‘mere statement of a certain fact’' by Spain to our government must be accepted as sufficient explanation of the pro- cecdings? This outrageous claim, advanced by the Spanish Minister, really lies at the bot- tom of all our troubles with his country. Spain regards her own will as supreme and haughtily refuses any other explanation of her acts than those which she chooses to give of her own free will. Early in this affair, while the slaughter house wall at Santiago was yet splashed with the wet blood of poor Fry and his fellow victims, we were told from Washington that | we must be patient; that Spain could not afford in her present condition to yield to “demands,"’ but would make concessions as a free-will offering if we would refrain from a demand for reparation. We had been insulted asa nation and our people had been foully butchered, but, bat in hand, we were asked to wait the pleasure of Spain; not to ‘demand’ anything; not to insist upon the immediate release of the captives, the surrender of our vessel, the punishment of the buccaneers and assassins, indemnity for the past and security for the future, but to be humble and patient until the Spanish government was ready to yield us such reparation as it might see fit. With all respect to Admiral Polo, the ‘‘sense- less clamor,’’ as he civilly calls it, of the American people, will thunder against the outrageous principle he lays down and against its application to the atrocities of his countrymen at Santiago de Cuba. We recommend to the Spanish Minister a careful study of the opinion of that able jurist, Reverdy Johnson, on this Virginius case. It will enlighten him on those principles of in- ternational law and national rights which he does not at present appear to have studied to advantage except from a Spanish point of view. The strong mind of the American pub- licist. seizes the case and his keen reasoning power lays its every point open plainly before the world. He proves beyond a cavil that the seizure of the Virginins was an illegal act, in disregard of the authority and in violation of the sovereignty of the United States ; that the atrocities committed on the crew and passen- gers, independent of the sacred laws of humanity, were without justification or excuse under the public law of the world. His clear exposition sweeps away out of sight the absurd “international law’’ of the Spanish Minister | and the stupid platitudes of the respectable Dr. Woolsey. To be sure, Reverdy Johnson believes that no war will result from these Spanish-Cuban crimes; but his judgment of their character establishes beyond a doubt the fact that an honorable peace can only be pre- served by the prompt and unconditional com- pliance of the Spanish government with the demands ot our outraged nation. Down Comptroller Estimates, .... Catting Green's yesterday the appropriations made by the | Board of Estimate and Apportionment Octo- ber 31, 1873, came up for action. The Alder- men were in @ very economical mood, for they cut down the contingencies for the mate and Apportionment at $500,000 to $195,000, and passed a resolution that none of this sum should be used for the pur- pose of influencing legislation, or, as Alder- man Van Schaick said, to pay lawyers’ fees. Will Mr. Green understand this significant The appropriations for the Mayor's office were reduced $11,000. Another hint to the Comptroller's friend. At the same time the appropriations for the Department of Public Works were raised $270,000; for the Department of Public Parks, $134,500; for the Police Department, $320,000, and for the Board of Education, $152,000. A motion to | reduce the allowance to the Board of Health | $94,000 was defeated, The liberality for public improvements and for preserving the peace and health of the city will be com- mended as much as the check placed upon the Comptroller's extravagance, expensive litigations and lobbying at Albany. Srxcr: Rerrencament—Tho retrenchment | of the specie payments in silver from five dol- lars at a cliv to the fractional yarts of dollar At the meeting of the Board of Aldermert | Comptroller, passed by the Board of Esti- | at the Treasury Department. This looks like progress towards the general resumption of specie payments ; but Rome was not built in a day. Mr. Disracli at Glasgow—The Political Outlook in Europe and the Coming Contest tn England, Mr. Disraeli, it would appear, has at last been able to make his long-expected visit to Glasgow. The ex-Promior, it will be remem- bered, has for over a year boon Lord Rector elect of the University of Glasgow. But for the unexpected death of Mra. Disraeli the visit to Glasgow would most certainly have been made last winter. The expected visit had acquired some importance from the fact that it had been so long deterred, as well as from the reputation of the man and the pecu- liarly interesting condition of British politics, regarding which it was certain Mr. Disraeli would have something to say. The Lord Rector is elected by the students of the Uni- versity. The office is purely honorary. Among the Lord Rectors of the U niversity of Glasgow are to be found some of the greatest names connected with the literature and politics of England : Burke, Adam Smith, Campbell, the poet; Brougham, Peel, Earl Russell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Macaulay, Lord Eglinton, Sir Archibald Alison, the historian; the Duke of Argyle, Lord Lytton and others of equal celebrity have been honored by the votes of the students and have graced the rectorial chair. To this bright band has now been added the namo of Benjamin Disraeli—a name which will not certainly detract from the honor of the office or make it less an object of ambition to the statesmen and men of letters of the future. After the ceremony of installation, which is rather a pompous, old-fashioned kind of affair, it is customary for the new Lord Rector in his robes of office to address the students. The addresses have been carefully preserved; the new Rector tries to do his best, and it is but fair to say that the addresses, as a rule, have been equal to the occasion and not un- worthy of their authors. It is also customary on such occasions for the civic authorities to present the Lord Rector with the freedom of the city and to entertain him at a banquet. It is then, unless provision has been made for a public meeting, that the great speech is made. When, as in the present case, the Lord Rec- tor isa leader in politics, he is expected in some sense to review the general situation ; and, asa general thing on such occasions, revelations are looked for. Such are the reasons which brought Mr. Disraeli to Glas- gow, and such are the circumstances in which, on Saturday, he found himself. The circumstances, it must be admitted, were favorable for a political demonstration. Our report of the demonstration, though brief, leaves us in little doubt that the ex-Premier made the best of his opportunities. Mr. Dis- meliis too old and practised a speaker to make a failurein public; and we may well take it for granted that he reviewed the situa- tion skilfully and made a good party speech and a somewhat successful bid for power. Glasgow has not had since 1832 much sym- pathy for the tories ; but it wonld not be won- derful if Mr. Disraeli has left behind him a deep impression and made some con- verts. We are told that he severely criticised the government. This, of course, was to be expected. It is generally understood that the present Parliament will be dissolved next year. It is undeniable that Mr. Gladstone is less powerful in the House of Commons and less popular in the country than he was three or even two years ago. His majorities have been gradually diminishing, and he has sustained one or two damaging de- feats. For some time past the elections, both in town and country, have been going against him. The tories have been gaining strength in the House and winning at the ballot box. It is not impossible that in the event of a gen- eral election the tories will be found so strong in the House that Mr. Gladstone may find it convenient to resign. In such a case Mr. Disraeli will again be Prime Minister of Eng- land. To this end he and his party, from the platform and through the press, are now laboring. In the present condition of Europe—in the politico-ecclesiastical conflict now going on in Germany, in Switzerland and in Italy; in the efforts now being made in France to revive legitimacy and make the Church supreme, and in the peculiar antagonisms which are now rending asunder unhappy Spain—Mr. Disraeli sees evidences of a great coming struggle between the spiritual and temporal powers—a struggle which is to result in dreadful anarchy. We are not so fearful as Mr. Disraeli of coming evils, and we question much whether he is as fearful as he pretends. It is not difficult, however, to see Mr. Disraeli’s motives. Mr. Gladstone has gone too far, as he thinks, and as many of the English people think, in the way of con- ciliating the Catholics of Ireland. It is the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, and it is the opinion of many others, that Mr. Gladstone's con- ciliation policy bas proved a failure. At the hustings tae the next general election the “No Popery’’ cry will be raised by the author of ‘Lothair” and his followers, and the con- atic of Europe will be a convenient text to preach from. What dix Digracli_ means by declaring that ‘the partisai® Britain their real designs’’ is not so clear. One thing only is plain—he does not intend to bid for support from the Home Rule party. Mr. Disraeli’s speech may wear o different aspect when we have it in full before us. Such, however, for the present is the meaning we have caught. It is one of the first indica- tions we have had of the character of the approaching political conflict in England. Unless we greatly mistake, the forthcoming general election will be one of the most excit- ing which Great Britain and Ireland haw experienced since the passing of the first Reform bill. Tur Untiep Staves Supreme Covrrt.—The latest form given by Washington gossip to the composition of the Supreme Court is one that will, perhaps, be deemed satisfactory by the country. By this Justice Miller is to be made Chief Justice, and Mr. Williams, of Oregon, will be made Associate Justice in place of Miller, while the Attorney Generalship thus vacated i orisd Leute 7 will yet unmask themselves and show Great | { | Teference to the subject. i by Williams will be given to Edwards Pierre- | pont. No objection seems to be raised to this save that it gives two places in the Supreme Court to the Pacific coast—which is, of course, worthy of no consideration How Many of the Virginius’ Captives Have Been Murdered? — Conflicting and Startling Statements. It will be remembered that Consul General Hall, in his official despatches from Havana, dated November 13, contradicted the report that more of the men of the Virginius than tho first fifty-three had been executed at San- tiago de Cuba—that is, Ryan, Varona, Del Sol and Cespedes on the 4th, thirty-seven others on the 7th and twelve more on the 8th. Now we have a statement that can hardly be ques- tioned, confirming the report that fifty-seven others had been slaughtered on the 10th, three days before the despatches from Consul Gen- eral Hall were dated. We have before us a copy of El Eco de Cuba, pub- lished in Havana, and dated the 15th of November, in which the editor says:—“‘At the time we go to press with this number we have received newspapers from Santiago de Cuba. According to these there werd shot on the 10th inst. fifty-seven (57) more of the pirates captured on the Vir- ginius, The trial proceeds with activity, and wo learn from persons who are well informed of the proceedings af the Court that only eighteen (18) will escape the extreme penalty ; some of these, for exemple, as machinists, because they did not know where they were going; others, because they were minors or were embarked by force. It is believed that but four or five will obtain full liberty.” Admitting that El Evo de Cuba went to press | on the evening of the 14th, the date of the issue being the 15th, we are led to in- quire how it was that Consul General Hall could be ignorant on _ the 13th of what occurred at Santiago de Cuba on tho 10th? ‘True, it is possible that he could not get this newsin three days. Yet Hl Eco de Ouba had time to copy on the fourth day what the Santiago papers had found time to print after the exe- cution of the fifty-seven victims. We fear there is little doubt of the fact, horrible as it is, for the Santiago papers mention the pro- ceedings circumstantially, and must have known the truth of what they published. Besides, the censorship over the press is so strict in Cuba that no paper, we presume, could publish, or would venture to publish, what was well known and of such a grave nature. The number captured on the Vir- ginius was one hundred and sixty-three. It has been admitted that fifty-three were slaugh- tered on the 4th, 7th and 8th of November. The fifty-seven victims on the 10th would make the whole number of executions to that date one hundred and ten. The press de-’ spatch from Havana, dated the evening of the 14th, quoted the Diario of Cienfuegos as saying that fifty-seven of the Virginius’ captives had been shot on the 10th. The subsequent de- spatch from Havana on the 17th, which says that the report from Cienfuegos had not been eonfirmed by latest advices from Santiago, goes for little, we think, now that the Santiago papers have made a circumstantial statement and the Eco de Cuba, of Havana, has copied it. The Havana press despatch of the 18th confirms the other statement, copied by the Keo de Cuba, that only eighteen would escape the extreme penalty; for it says, four were condemned to the chain gang for life, three to eight years’ imprisonment, eight to four years’ imprisonment and three were set at liberty. This is the precise number spoken of by the Santiago papers. Who, then, can doubt the accuracy of the account of the slaughter of the fifty-seven from such a reliable source? But there were still left, besides the cne hundred and ten executed and the eighteen which have escaped the extreme penalty, thirty-five of the captives. What has been their fate? The Santiago papers say only eighteen would escape the extreme penalty, and eighteen was just the number, as we see, that has been sentenced to the chain gang and imprisonment. May we not fear that by this time the thirty-five have suf- fered death as well as the one hundred and ten? Do we want any further evidence of the utter disregard of and contempt for the United | States government on the part of the brutal Spanish authorities in Cuba? And could not some of these unfortunate ereatures have been saved from death if our own government or its agents had acted with vigor and promptly and had not trusted to the lying Spaniards? The more the facts of this horrible crime against humanity and the law of nations are revealed the more startling and heartrending they appear. The Lice Diplomatic. “I knew,” said the learned Touchstone, ‘when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met them- selves, one of them thought but of an if—as, ‘if you said so then I said so’—and they shook hands and swore brothers;” and this, it seems, is not greatly unlike the diplomatic operations of first class governments in second class hands. One of our correspondents dis- covered that the case on which our government rested its claims in the Virginius difficulty had been laid before the Spanish government in the form of five specific allegations, which allegations he sent us, and we gave them to our readers as the “five points” of our re- clamation against Spain. As the Henaxp is the only paper that has correspondents who get fhe news, we were the. only paper that ob- | tai roundly abused for it by all the papers that a Q-- fe. 3, « : were Tess fortunate; ll pitching tito us to- gether, some ina spirit of lively juvenile fury and others in the inane impotence of snper- annuated drivel. They have actually charged us with getting up a disturbance and almost making a war, so that we have stopped once or twice to reflect whether we ourselves had seized the Virginius and killed her com- pany, or whether or no it was really the Cubans, and whether after all that first offence was not venial by comparison with the greater one of publishing all the news in Some of the fine journalists who touch things so delicately, and fancy that they serve the country well fred these pots, We have, of course, been by paying compliments to the Spaniard when | he kills our sailors and uses our flag fora door mat, have even published a positive denial of our points and the declaration “by authority” that no such demands had been made, But now it all comes out very nice! It seems our government has presented just exactly these points to the Spanish govern- ment, but they prettily qualified with Touch- stone's wonderful word. There is an “if"' in the case, Mr. Fish has made no guch de- mands, Of that wo will readily acquit him. Wo indeed might have known him too well to let aay word of 60 peremptory and virile a character slip into our columns in connection with any of his acts, Old Hickory was the stripe of mortal that made demands in any given case; Mr. Fish is one of the other kind of human creatures-—one of the boneless sardines of the diplomatic larder. But all that is to be changed in our report is the word “demands.” Our government bas presented the ‘five points” in the form of a ‘diplomatic memo- randum”’ —so it is explained from Washington; and if, upon mature and well-delayed inquiry, the government can be satisfied that the facts are as everybody else knows they are, then Mr. Fish, like Sue in the ballad, ‘‘will wave his lily hand,”’ or, like the great prestidiyitu- teur, wave a willow wand, and the diplomatic memorandum will become a demand. It seems,’ therefore, that we gave our government eredit for too much straightforward earnestness and common sense in the first place, and that the whole press was misled by the ‘lie diplo- matic’’ when it was published from Washing- ton that there were no such ‘demands,’” There are several other of these parts of diplomacy in circulation just now. It seems that somebody—wo cannot say who, but none of our correspondents— reported that an attempt to assassinate Gen- eral Sickles had been made; and as this proved a canard the government hastened to contradict it, and even went so far as to declare that there had been no hostile demon- stration; and this, although it had been cir- cumstantially reported that General Sickles’ remaining in Madrid was solely due to the active mediation of Mr. Layard. Here the ‘fie diplomatic’ seems to figure in several places. And now we have a despatch from London denying that General Sickles ever expressed the opinion that war was inevitable. We are not aware who has charged General Sickles with the expression of any such opin- ion, and therefore cannot say who may be made to feel himself an unworthy and dread- ful creature by this denial. We doubt if any such publication has been made in tho Amerie can press. Weare sure that no such allega- tion regarding General Sickles has been made in our despatches, and as the other papers | depend upon us for their news we fancy they shave not had the independence or effrontery A Sovrnxrn Propnecy.—‘Ono of the most prophetic, cautious and wary of our Georgia statesmen,” says the Augusta Constitutionalist, ‘thinks Grant will seize Cuba if the hotheads will only give him time.” It may be stated that it was the hotheads, or rather, as they were then called, the ‘‘Hotspurs” of the South, who prevented the settlement of a “‘little mis- understanding’’ in which President Grant had a hand some time ago, Nevertheless, in this Spanish matter there is no doubt but the ‘wary Georgia statesman” referred to is nearer right now than when he accepted the Vice Presidency of the Southern Confederacy. However, Congress mects in a few days, and we may then expect to hear that ‘‘still, small voice” from Georgia still proclaiming for war in the interests and for the honor of the whole Union. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. See Senator Fenton is again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. United States Senator Oglesby, of Iliinois, is stay- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Lewis B. Gunckel, of Ohio, is regis- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain J. H. Rowland, United States Navy, ia quartered at the Hoffman House. Ex-Congressman John Lynch, of Maine, yester- day arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Major M. A. Réno, United States Army, ts reno- vating his system at the Glenham Hotel. Sir Robert Hodgson has been appointed Lieu- tenant Governor of Prince Edward Island. Ex-Congressman Thomas Cornell, of Rondeut, N. Y., is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Sumner arrived at the Brevoort House last night from Boston on his way to Washington, where he expects to arrive on Thursday. Another Indian delegation arrived at the Grand Central Hotel last evening from Washington. Colonel John E, Smith, United States Army, ac- companies the party. The Marquis and Marchoness of Bute are in Rome, accompanied by Monsignor Capel. The mission of the party is supposed to be connected with the projected establishment of @ Catholic University in England. A Western paper relates as au illustration of the power of love the case of Miss Catharine Oates, of cornwall, England, who travelled all the way to Tuolumne county, California, to wed the lover she had not seen for eight years, and found him wedded to @ Mexican ranchero’s daughter and the father of only five children. Judgments amounting to $3,700 have been ren- dered against a Mattoon (Ill) saloon keeper and in favor of the wives of three drunken hua- bands to whom the saloon keeper had been in the habit of selling liquor, and who neglected to ascer- tain whether the said wives had granted to the | Said husbands the usual “permit” in such cases made and provided. wA Tama county (lowa) girl, of 19 summers, has, with her own hand, during the past season, raised 1,000 bushels of corn, 500 head of cabbage, 100 bushels of onions, and calculates on netting $500. Some impecunious and lazy Eastern youth, who has only been able to raise a feeble mustache | during his life, will probably “go West" and marry | this amazing heroine. M. John Lemoine, the Parisian journalist, is to enter the diplomatic service. M. Lemoine is said | to“think like an Englishman and write like a Frenchman,” and jor these faculties, which, per- haps, epitomize journalistic ability, he bas been | permitted to write in one column of the Journal des beéBats his personal opinions, which have lately contiicted withsthe general sentiment of the Jour- nal. Begs moe A lady lecturor has sought advice at the West- minster Police Court, London. She alleged she had been engaged by the Tichbourne claimant, to de- liver aseries of lectures upon his life travels, &c., at asalary of £5 per week. She delivered lectures and tnourred expenses, and wanted to know how she wae to get paid the amount due, £65, The magistrate could not help her further than to say she might proceed by action at law. Awonderfu? merchant has just died in Liver- pool, England, His name was Mr. Edward Gar- ston. In youth he wasagreat traveiler, and be- came an accomplished linguist, so that he acted as ineorpreter at Queen Caroline's trial, He engaged in the Greek revointion and showed great bravery. Afterwards he kept the duellists of Naples in ter- ror with his reputation. Returning to England he settied down as a merchant in Liverpool. He was, in addition to his other professions, an author, 10 show that the Emperor Wiliam has tong hea the sentiment expressed in his late reply to the Pope's letter, it is new published that, when in istance, Switzerland, two years ago, he said :— ‘I have entered on the inheritance of the old enr- perors, but f will never lead a Pope's horse by the bridle.” While the Emperor spoke he wasin tho council hall and looking at @ fresco painting of triumphal procession, tn which tie Kiaperor Sigts- mund is represented af leading Topo Marwa’s horse.