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LIBERTY OR DEATH.

Watchword of 11 ie Cuban surrectionists.

Uayniiso and MauzaniMo Are Uesieged by tlie Insurgents The Spanish Troops Are in Starving Coiiditioii iiiid 1'iiless IJ»?lieveil Soon Will 15* Compelli'tl to Surrender—li*:cruit injf in Florida.

JACKSONVILLE,

FLA.-MAY 18.—A

ctibh^rain i'roiu Key West says: PriI vavo advices to this ciry from Havana state thai fears are omoruuued that the republican party will cause irouble in

Spain, and the belief is general that .Martinez (,'antpos will leave for Madrid in ,!uue. In the event ot' Campi.is retnrniiiLi" to Spain. (Jeneral Pulaviia will co:no to Havana as eaprain general.

ALany ynuiu nu of the best families are leaving daily vo join the in-, ,:.'nts. I Colonel (..h'i.- a. if.Hjrted wotii: in the bat tin at Caina/.au. was kill -.1. acI carding to reliable infirmation. The I insurgent loader in this battle wa: Angel tJuerra. !!ayamo and Man/.amllo are besieged by the insurgents. The Spanish troops are in a starving condition and unless relieved soon will be compelled to surrend'.'f.

On ilio 1st inst. two convoys of proI visions, etc.. wen dispatched into the interior. The one sent overland was I captured bv rlie insurgents. It was valued at £7,000.

The iiolguih '"a'ii'd Gibara Railroad I company at hrst refuse'.I to give the 100,000* demanded by JNlaceo, but has at last decided to give it.

People in the province of Piuar del Itio are waiting orders from insurgent chiefs to take up arms against the government. This move is expected momentarily.

A majority of the Spaniards oil tho iiand remain neutral, they having been assured that the revolution is not against the Spanish people, but against Spanish rnie.

Kamon Esijuinado Perez, captain of the Spanish army, but a Cuban by birth, was ordered to duty in Holguin, but committed suicide rather than fight against- his people.

Drilling in Florida.

TAMPA, Fla., .May is.—Yesterday afternoon at o'clock a young Cuban bugler, sounded the reville in West Tampa, and within a few minutes about

Cubans, representing till vocations, had gathered and marched off to a level plot-, whore they exercised themselves in regular military drill and field movements without arms. They are to practice regularly.

]\2or« Troops Arrive.

'SAXTTAOO IK Cl'isA, May 18.—A battalion of 800 troops arrived yesterday Iroin Porto Rico, and immediately left with a section of artillery for operations in the interior.

Insurants Routed by Spanish Cavalry. 11A\ ANA, May 18.—The Spanish cavby in Manacas lias routed a band of -o insurgents, who left two of their umber dead and fied, pursued by tho pauiards.

HOLDUP FRUSTRATED.

iaeij o!' Counterfeiters ?'!an to IIolj a Train.

?ji o)K|.'ii:i,!, Mo., May 18.—The facts of a nervy plan in which tJIG Burlington route's Chicago ".Eli" train, wh'i'li passes through this city at 10 o'clock p. in., was to be held up and robbed tins side of Bevier, a mining station miles east: of here, last night, by tlie organized band of counterfeiters arrested in this city last Tuesday, has just come to light. liarrv Stoue of this city, who was implored to assist in the robbery, divulged their contemplated holdup. He said that the capture of the leaders only has prevented the carrying out of the undertaking. (runs and revolvers, I seized at the time of the arrest of August Tanner, Tuesday, were the instrumenrs to have been used in case the udventure called for bloodshed, which undoubtedly would have resulted in serious trouble before tlie robbers had accomplished the end in view. Plans for this proposed project have been under way for some time.

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Wrecked with Dynamite.

MUNCIK, Intl., May 18.—At Parker, eight miles east of here, at an early I hour the boardinghouse of Mrs. John

Hewitt was wrecked by a dynamite explosion. Mrs. Hewitt and her daughter, I Susie, were taken (jut of the wreck unconscious, and both axe terribly injured.

Mrs. Hewitt is injured internally, and her daughter's legs are crushed. Four other occupants of the house were slightly injured. Mrs. Hewitt was living apart from her husband, and when he appeared at the scene of the disaster, Mrs. Hewitt accused him of causing the outrage. Hewitt and his son were arrested late last night and taken to the Winchester jail.

Conductor Arrested.

INDIANAPOLIS, May 18. "Billy" Wheedon, a conductor on the Madison accommodation of the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania railroad system, was arrested yesterday on two grand jury indictments charging the embezzlement of $15, the sum secured in two trips. Testimony was given against several other conductors, but it was not strong enough to bring about a bill. It is probable a strong fight will be made for the defense by the different railroad men's organizations.

Scarcity of Wheat in St. LOIIU.

ST. LOUIS, May 18.—There has been for some time a steady drain on St. Louis for cash wheat by city and outside mills of this state, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Thursday's sales were 550-1,000 bushels, and yesterday there was less than 400,000 of No. 2 red in stox*e. Sellers are asking 71 cents loaded on cars for No. 2 rod cash wheat and some sales have been made at that figure.

tirape Growers' LOHH.

C/LiflVICIJAND, May 18. Information from the Euclid grape belt indicates that the frost has destroyed over two-' thirds of the grape crop. This district generally escaped damage oil Sunday night, but the heavy frost since then caused extensive destrilctimi. The loss to grape growers in the Euclid district is conservatively estimated at $500,000.

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I oil to Join the Strikers. I PITTSBURG, May 18.—The delegates to the miners' district convention reassenibled here after having consulted their various lodges on the subject of continuing the strike, for (i!) cents per ton. The m-ners of the district seem to be almost unanimous in favor of keeping up the war to the end, and the convention's first work was to pass a resolution declaring for a general suspension of work throughout the district until their demand for GO cents is I granted.

or not remains to be seen and the success of the movement can not be ascertained for a day or two yet.

Struck in Sympai l-.y.

AKRON, May 18.—Twelve hundred miners of Excelsior company, ar Silver Creek, struck yesterday morning in sympathy with the other Ohio miners. The Brewster company has paid off and discharged SOi) men who si ruck, and ordered them to remove their tools. On the other hand, -100 men of the Loomis company, who struck last week, returned to work yesterday. None of the miners in the Silver Creek section are in a shape to stand out long. About 1,000 are working.

IWines Closed.

DETROIT, May 18.—A special to The Free Press from Ncgaunee, Mich., says that the group of mines in Buffalo county, controlled by Corrigan, McKinney & Company of Cleveland, closed operations yesterday. Two hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment. It is expected that work will be resumed before long with a force of about 80 men. None will be employed excepting men of families.

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yiiners llefiise to Work.

BLUEI'IHLDS, Va., May 18.—The Italians brought: here refused to work yesterday. Two hundred left for southwest Virginia yesterday. The stampede of new miners has encouraged the strikers.

UPRISING IN FORMOSA.

Riots Are of Daily Occurrence and Numerous Persons Have liccn Killed.

LONDON, May 18.—The 'Times prints a dispatch from Hong-Kong, which nays that anarchy prevails in the uortlieru part of the Island of Formosa, and ri-ots are of lily occurrence, numerous persons having been killed and wounded.

General Kit Hung. Kuk, a Hat-ta chief, has proclaimed himself king of the northern portion of the island and several thousand well-equipped soldiers have joined his standard and his force increases daily. The Chinese authorities have captured and beheaded many of his followers, but the revolt seems to be spreading, (..anna advocates he recognition bv the powers of a Formosan republic

Another Objection.

LONDON. Mav is.—A dispatch to The Times jiuni l.njit Tsiti, says that France, Germany and Russia object to any financial scheme under which China shall confer special rights of any nation. This frustrates the reported proposals of an American syndicate to advance the amount of the indemnity demanded by Japan on the security of concessions of the right to build a railway in Cnina.

CONGRESSMEN GROWING WORSE.

Kilt and Cojjvivell 3Iay Not iievuver but Secretary Cireshain Is J'etter.

WASHINGTON, May lb.—Both Representatives Hitt of Illinois and Cogswell of Massachusetts have grown worse within the last few days, and the grave fears felt that their recovery was very doubtful have been revived and there are apprehensions that in their enfeebled condition they may not bo able to much longer resist the encroachments of their maladies.

Secretary Gresham's condition is nardly so favorable as the past few days. His appetite is gaining, however, and he has been allowed to take more nourishing food during- the past two or three days than during the more serious ita^es of his illness.

Spain Replies to Secretary Gresham.

MADRID, May

18.—The Spanish gov

ernment- has completed its final answer to Secretary Gresham's dispatch concerning the Allianca incident and it will be cabled by Minister Taylor to Washington. The text of the reply will iot be given here, but it is known to be entirely responsive to Mr. Gresham's requests and to bo in a most cox*dial and friendly spirit.

School Land.

WASHINGTON, May 18. Secretary Hoke Smith has approved two clear lists of lands in the Kickapoo Indian reservation in Oklahoma, which will soon be opened for settlement. They are for school indemnity purposes and for the benefit of any state or states that may hereafter be erected in Oklahoma. Tho two lists together comprise 87,0(58 acres.

srt® Contract Renewed.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 18.—The Nicaraguan government has renewed its contract with the Pacific mail steamship. The arrangements call for an additional monthly steamer to Corinto to carry immigrants at three-fourths rates.

SAn (TiiHUccetuiful Effort

ATLANTA, May 18.—In the convention of tlie Order of Railway Conductors yesterday an unsuccessful effort was made to change tho general offices of the order from Cedar Rapids, la., to Toledo.

Confederation Impossible.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., May 18.—It is unanimously felt by all shades of public edition that confederation with Canada :."mpossible on the terms submitted yesterday to tho legislature.

Advanced Wagei*.

FINDLAY, O., May 18.—The Salem Wire Nail company and the Findlav •ompany have advanced wages 10 per jut. The advance affects 6,000 men.

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The shutdown will begin at once and all the union men at work at the union rates will be called out. It is estimated I that between 5,000 and 8,000 miners are I now at work in this district at the U'.lcent rate, but the strikers believe it is detrimental to their interests to have process of restoration must have a faith. these men at work until the demands of In tho whirlwind of revolution, the old ill have been recognized. Whether religious institutions of tho people had these men, who are now making good been abolished "As tome, M. le Presiwages will consent to join the strikers

Genius Displayed In Reforming France..

AT THE SUMMIT OF GEEATNESS.

Created Consul For Life by Overwhelming

Popular Decree—Treaty of Amiens—I!o-

man Catholic Keligion Restored—Pros

perity Smiles on the French.

[Copyright, lsH5, by John Clark Eidpath.j XIV. —THE

CONSULATE.

No question with which tho First Consul had now to deal was moro important than that of religion. France in

dent," said Naigeon in the Convention one clay, "I am free to avow myself an atheist.'' Procureur Chaumette had had his placard put over the gates of all graveyards thus, "Here is an eternal sleep. Atheism had been formally proclaimed. In the general anarchy, the Mother Church had been destroyed. Among tho masses, however, religious beliefs and hopes were not extinguished even Robespierre had had his ridiculous Feast of the Etre Supreme! Napoleon well calculated that reviving Franco must have a new religion and what should the new bo but the old?

No sooner was tho new government established than tho First Consul put out his hand with overtures to Rome. He proposed to Pius VII. a settlement of the religious status of the French. Tho celebrated Concordat, of tho 15th of July, 1801, by which tho Roman Catholic religion was restored in Franco was tho result. Tho secular pacification by tho treaty of Luneville was followed hard after by tho conciliation of Rome. The essence of tho agreement was that tho now bishops—to be nominated by tho First Consul and confirmed by tho Popo—should swear allegiance to tho Republic.

Nothing could surpass tho activity of Napoleon in tho first year of the Consulate. Tho energy displayed by tho government was astounding. Everything was in process of reorganization. True, the ancient regime was extinct. True,

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NAI'OI.KON AS FIRST TONSI L, TSV (iKos. tho France that now arose was a new France, unlike tho old. But it was the policy of llut Consulate to revive as much as was valuable out of the former estate. The people were reanimated and inspired. A 3sew life flourished on every hand. Tlie vigor of the First Consul diffused itself through all tho elements of society.

Tho First Consul was most anxious to effect a settlement with Great Britain. That dene, peace might be universal. Tint summer of 1801 was consumed with overtures i'reeiy mado by Napoleon and sullenly considered by Pitt. Oil tho 1st of October tho preliminaries of a peaco wero signed at London. Everything seemed to bo about to subside into calm. Such, however, was the political condition of Europu that the hoped-for pacification lagged and it was not until tho 27th of March, 1802, that tho TREATY

AMIKNS was concluded.

Tho parties to this famous compact, so spectacular and so specious, wero Great Britain oh tho one side, and Franco, Spain and tho Batavian Republic on the other. Of the last-named power Napoleon had been made vice-presi-deut two months previously—a fact indicative of his growing powor south of the Alps. By the terms of the treaty, England agreed to rostore all tho conquests rocently mado by hor, except Ceylon and Trinidad. Those she was to retain. Malta sho was to restoro to tho Knights of St. John. Tho French fcr their part woro to relinquish Egypt, and to evacuate Naples and Romo. Tho Ionian Republic was to bo acknowledged, and a general peace declared. For the moment it appeared that all Europe was about to omergo from the shadows of horrid war into sunshino and a new era of progress and happiness. Never was a historical situation more hopeful and hollow, more flattering and fallacious.

Napoleon showed tho greatest genius in reforming the civil and military institutions. On the 19th of May, 1802, the Legion of Honor was authorized, and on the succeeding anniversary of the demolition of the Bastile, that famous order of soldiers was instituted. Such was tho precision, tho virtue, tho energy, tho skill and force of tho administration that none might doubt or oppose it. Tho popularity of tho First Consul became as immeasurable as tho confidence in him was boundless. The industries of France flourished like a new spring spreading over May, and the funds of tho Republic suddenly rose a hundred por cent!

The ambitions of any other than Bonaparte might here have made a pause. The lust for more might here have been appeased. He was really at the summit of human usefulness—and therefore at

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the summit of greatness. His birthday in tho coming August would bring liini to tho end of his thirty-third year. He was young and handsome in person. He was warmed with enthusiasm. The bravest men and tho most beautiful wosien wero gathered around him—the jno to flatter, and tho other to adoro. If tho Jacobin was still fluid in his blood, I it 110 longer expressed itself in dernocratic mutferings and proclamations,

The long black hair of tho whilom rovolutionist was closely cropped. Tho haggard Italian face of the pauper student had given place to rosy cheek and smil- I ing lip. Except in the incongruous black cravat of tho otherwise welt dressed First Consul, tho sansculotte I was no longer discoverable at his ovening receptions!

But the project was already on for an extension and augmentation of power. Glory must be added to honor. Tho 1 "mountain devil" was busy in tho

breast of Bonaparte. In the alluring summer of 1S02 the dream had already I possessed him of a life ten tire of tho Consulate. Tho victorious general and popular chief executive would bo consul ad finem. Tho Senato concurred in tho 1 proposal and a consul turn was pre- I Spared. There was a dispute whether it should be for ten years or for life and in this form tho question was to bo submitted to tho people. A plebiscito wa3 sent forth, and the French nation was asked to pass judgment on its favorite. "Napoleon, sera-t-il Consul a Vie?"

Such was the inscription prepared and put up over all tho voting places in France. "Napoleon, shall ho bo Consul 1 for Lifer"

An extraordinary spectacle was wit-* nessed. O11 the-1th of August, 1802, tho election was held. Tho voters in France numbered 3,577,250 and of these :?,:S)8,185 voted in tho affirmative, leaving only 200,074 in tho negativo! It was perhaps tho most overwhelming popular decree ever registered by a pooplo. True, tho soldiers voted—voted for their idol. True, tho clientele of tho Consulate voted—voted for tho master. True, tho Revolution voted—voted for its offspring. True, the New Order voted —voted for its hope. But nevertheless, tho people voted—voted for their Mini! Napoleon might well mutter, "Whoso are the votes opposed to me? Those of I ideologists, Jacobins and peculators tinder the Directory!" What he said was true! 1

But not all, in the meantime, had I been well with the Republic—and with I him. Fortune in some things had gono against the French. The coveted occupaS tion of E.vypfc had tottered and fallen,

General Menou, who succeeded to tho command of tho army in that country after the assassination of Kleber, had behaved with singular fatuity. Failing to rceiv" that eccentricity is not gonius, he had turned Mohammedan, and taken tile name of Abdallah Bey. IIo sank into inaction at Alexandria and I wh.-n, in March of lsOl, Admiral Keith I and Sir Ralph Abercroniby landed at

Abonkir and came against him, I10 was defeated in battle, and the prospects of the French in Egypt woro ruined.

Napoleon heard of tho Egyptian disaster with anger and mortification. Ilis chagrin was li rlo relieved by tho death of Abercroniby, who was fatally wouuded in the battle of Alexandria, or by tho^ foolish assurances of Menou that all waa-''^ going well. It became necessary for tho French colony to evacuate Egypt, and^ this was done on tho BOth of August, 1801.

Tho year 1802 has been cited as tho, most glorious in French history. It was certainly tho most- fertile in promise. Why should not tho treat}* of Amiens become tho happy date of a new era for mankind? Franco was regenerated. England had gold and maritime glory, Italy had emancipation. Germany had I experience—if nothing better. Russia had her pacific Alexander I., her Suwarolt, and her now provinces of Georgia. *4*

Tho fatal thing in tho treaty of Amiens wa? that it promisi d—-promised, and did not perform. There were thingrK^ to bo done a?id theso wero imt done. Preternatural suspicion seized on tho cabinets of all Europe. Note tho circumstances: England in tho preceding war had emancipated the negroes of Hayti. Toussaint l'Ouverture, leader of the natives, had been made commandcr-in-chief by tho French, in 1707. Independence was reached under the patronage_ of France but when Bonaparte hccamo First Consul, an act was passed in tho French Council for tho restoration ofslavery in the island and an army under a he in a of a parte, was sent to Samana toenforco tho decree. Toussaint was put down, treaclierously seized and taken to France, where ho presently died in prison. The" civil conflict continued in Hayti the yellow fever broke out, and an English fleet appearod off tho coast. Notwithstanding tho pcace of Amiens, here wad war. 'T-i

In the meantime, Sebastiani, Napo-

leon's agent in tho East, came back to Paris, and published iu The Moniteura report in whioh thero was a hint of tho purpose of France to reoccupv Egypt Moreover, tho First Consul proceeded to divide Piedmont into Departments, after the French manner—as though tho country wero altogether French. To the complaints of Lord Whitworth, tho English ambassador, ho simply answered, "Theso things are only bagatelles.'r England hereupon—the treaty of Amiens to the contrary notwithstanding —refused to give back Malta to th® Knights of St. John. This was flagrant. She had agreod to do so and Napoleoii insisted that she must. Moreover, tho Cape of Good Hope, the "caravansary of the Indies, was not surrendered. It bocame apparent that England would not keep hor compact and this signified the imminent renowal of war. Bonaparto himself foresaw tho coming storm. In his eagerness to preparo for it—soe- 4 ing tho exposures of the French empire in North America—he made haste to sell to tho United States for 60,000,00(y francs the vast domain from tho Missis* sippi to tho Pacific.—Pitt got Malta, Napoleon an excuse, and Jefferion Louisiana! JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.