Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1875 — Page 10

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BT MART B. DO DO. Who Is the maiden with the cap Of gold between her finger-tips. Its tuber vintage lifted up To meet the crlmaon of her 11 pa? She pledges with a winsome trace The lovers kneeling at her feet, Who knew not, looking In her face, If snlne or shadow be more sweet. A queen, she treads the fnurrant ground With burnished sandals that a wade Responsive mnslo all around, From heart-strings broken for her sake. Both queen and woman-Ob, the pain At such expense her state to keepBetter, she thinks, tban sanguined plain, Herself beneath the sod t slep. Badly she gazes on the death Of parsing joy, joy passed away : Bees, where the future sbadoweth, The shriveled glory of to-day 1 And, fain to shot the vision oat, She weaves a film of latent sight. Drawing the gauzy veil about if er soft, warm cheek and hazel eyes. Now, all a queen, 'tis hers to smile. And, smiling, yet a kingtom sate. Though silent in her breast ths while Rise pale forebodings of her fate. Her gorgeous robes, made gayer still, Mbe'elaspe with richest jeweled bands. And, ruling with royal win, Spreads fair her benedlctlva hands. Only a little day she sways This tender 4nnt-brown, Indian queen Mysterious comes mysterious stays And leaves to gloom the fading scene. Yet holds she by the right divine Nor dares to lay her scepter down. Until her cup has spent its wine, And God recalls who gave her crown ! WISE AND OTHERWISE. The original Cardiff giant Is no more. He lell the other day and broke bis back, and now there are two of .him. Ninety-nine years in the penitentiary la what a Missouri murderer got. One year more would have made his case hopeless. A Chicago preacher has been offered more money to write a novel that his whole year's salary amounts to. Satan is always flush. Just now this week the average wife wouldn't jaw back under any consideration. She is looking for that silk dress, you know. The reduction of the wages ot telegraph operators is not particularly electrifying to them. The magnet draws the wrong way. A South Carolina paper is conducting a vigorous erusade against life insurance. which it stigmatizes as gambling against God. -. Any town in want of a good hotel should address Luther Beecher, of Detroit. He has a big one there which he could ship by sections. Troy has already gathered in a good supply of ice. It is narrow-minded, thin" waisted ice, bat good enough to cool Troy butter. Three women at Lawrence, Kansas, claim the same baby and are having a lawsuit over lt. Croup, measels and colic must be scarce In that town. William Cullen Bryant insists that men have a right to cross their legs in street cars, but admits that straight leg9 look better in church. There are no regular professional burglars in Mexico City, but each resident looks out for his neighbor, and in many cases kills him. The vital statistics of this country prove that a woman will spend more time to hide a pimple on ber forehead than she will take to take care of seven children. Mr. Paradox is not what you .may consider an intemperate man, by any means, but he calls on the old lady once in a while for the boot-jack to draw his hat off with. And still another man is to collect George D. Prentiss' jokes and publish them in book form. They were all good jokes once, but some of them have been collected to death. It was discovered in New York the other day that 1,800 pounds of coal made a too, and the man who invented that arithmetic was walked around by the ear and landed In jail. The Philadelphia Times wants some speedier way to kill off murderers. Hanging a man is slow death, to be sure, but it leaves him in good condition for the undertaker. If you want to murder anybody go to Boston to do it. There will undoubtedly be Borne one on the jury who will stick to it that your victim lell from Bunker Hill monument. A Scotchman has invented India-rubber platforms for railway cars, and instead of a smash passengers will bounce up, come down and pursue the journey with unbroken shins. A New Tork lady advertises that she wants to borrow seven thousand dollars on her good looks. Beauty is a beautiful thing, but a mortgage on real estate is more businesslike. A Boston bigamist has been "let off" on condition that he will return to his first wife. Probably the Jud.?e thought he would get his punishment in that way without expense to the state. Clara Louise Kellogg denies the report that she is to marry a New Yorker. She says it will be time enough to think of marrying twenty years hence, when she is too old lor the stage. "There are now on the way to San Francisco, by sea, 4,381 barrels of whisky, which is expected to reach there before the legislature adjourns." Either that or there'll be an extra session called. A Cleveland drunkard the other day chewed up a f 100 bill. When drunkards have f 100 bills to squander in that way, a man who has "sworn off" for a year feels a little disgusted with himself. The most reasonable theory in the Boss Tweed case Is that some one stole him away to hold him for a big reward. It doesn't seem as it a man would run away from home just at Santa Claus time. Nevada has passed a law forbidding any person practicing as a physician in that state who has not practiced medicine there for five years, or does not hold a diploma from an established medical college. A baker at Blnghampton, New York, Bent two barrels of crackers to the president, nd for several months expected to be called to the cabinet. He then discovered that the crackers had teen sold to a negro in deiauit of freight charges. A tall man is s.n Ulster looks from fair to middling, brt he should never wear a high bat. A little man in an Ulster looks too silly for anything, and is really an object of pity. Tall women in Derby hats look like dressed up ten-pins, and little women in overwhelming flare bonnets look alarmingly top-heavy. "To-day I saw old Gen. Sutter, on whose land gold was first discovered in California stepping out of a car on the avenue. A more pitiable Instance of great old age, unaccompanied and neglected, I never knew. He is now more than 80 years of age, and lives in a little cottage at Litiz,Penn., where he is educating his grandchildren at a German school. He has a claim for damages here." Washington Letter. ' :i

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Shipwreck and Rescue on the New foundland Coast. DARKNESS ON THE VASTY DEEP. LOBS OF VESSEL AND EJQHT PEOPLE HEROIC RESCUE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE STORM TOCCniNQ INCIDENT. A St. John's special to the Ne York World says: About four o'clock in the af ternoon of Monday, Nov. 29, a small coast ing vessel, named the Water witch, left St. John's bound for Cu bids, a small port on the northern shore of Conception Bay. The run was a short one, being a little over forty miles. Soon after leaving the harbor a strong gale from the southeast set in, accompanied with a dense fall of snow. As darkness closed In thecals increased in violence, hurling the snow flakes on its wings, and driving the huge Atlantic waves, with sullen roar, far up the dark cliffs. The night was Intensely dark. The little ves sel, with twenty-four souls on board, four of them women, was battling with the waves, endeavoring to double Cape St. Francis at the entrance of Conception Bay. Unhappily the captain hugged the shore too closely, and at 9:30 o'clock the startling cry from the look-out was heard, "Rocks ataeaa!" The words bad not parsed his Hps three minutes when the vessel struck against a rock with great force. The captain and two men leaped upon a low shelf of rock that was dimly visible in the gloom, rightly concluding that this was their only chance of saving their lives. The water was deep at this spot, and the vessel rounded, but was presently hurled a second time against the rocks a few yards distant from the place where she first Btruck. Here nine more men leaped for their lives, and managed to cling to the surface of a sharp slanting rock, over whien at times the waves were breaking. The Waterwltch reeled under the tremendous blow, STAGGERED BACK A FEW YARDS AND SANK, carrying down with her eight men and four women. The situation of the poor fellows who were now clinging to the rocks was terrible in the extreme. Strange to relate, the vessel had been carried into a small inlet called Horraud's Gulch, a little north of Pouch Cove. The entrance of this gulch is but a few yards wide, and had she struck to the right or left of it not a soul could have been saved, as the shore is a steep wall of rock. The rock upon which the captain and two of the crew leaped is a small projecting shelf on the north side of the inlet, while that to which the others were clinging is on the opposite side. The position of the latter was fearful to think of. They were holding on to a slippery, sloping rock, onlv a lew feet above the surface ot the water, and barely large enough to give them room to crouch on its surface. The spray dashed over them with every wave, and at Intervals a heavy sea broke over the rock as, huddled together, they clutched It for dear We. They dared not move, for the sea was all around the rock and a lew ieet off they could see a dark, perpendicular cliff shooting up 600 feet into the midnight air. Tie huge waves were thundering at their feet, and the snow storm roared overhead. A few feet from them they knew that some of their nearest connections lay DEAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. 'The position of the captain and his two companions was not quite so perilous, as they found it possible, though at a great risk, to scramble up from the shelf on which they first found a footing. They heard the voices of their companions on the other side of the gulch, and cheered them by telling them that they were about to make an at tempt to scale the rocks and bring them succor. The nearest house was at the dis tance of a mile and the men had no knowledge of the locality, but with desperate efforts they clambered up the steep rocks, forcing their way painfully through dense brushwood where there was no path. At length, almost exhausted, they reached the Bummlt. It was pitchy dark, and thsv bad no notion of the proper direction. but hearing a dog bark, they followed the sound and at length reached a fisherman's cottage on the outskirts of Pouch Cove Village and awoke the inmates. It was now 1:30 o'clock. They told their sad tale and described as well as they could ine mace wnere tneir comnamons were clinging to the rocks. Soon more than half the village was astir: ropes and other aopllancea were got ready, and a rescue party mustered to save, if possible, the shipwrecked men. The Rev. R. M. Johnson, minister of the Church of England in Pouch Cove, accompanied the party, bringing with him a "hurricane lantern," which he fortunately possessed, and which was invaluable in such circumstances, and also some cordials to revive the sufferers. The task that laid before the rescuers was a difficult and perilous one. They had to force their way through PATHLESS WOOD AND FITCHT DARKNX9S, and they could not conjecture where the sufferers were to be found. With wonder ful Instinct, however, they managed to reach the top of the cliff, at the bottom of which the ship-wrecked men were desperately clinging to the rock. Their cries for help faintly reached the ears of their deliverers out of the dark and awful abyss, COO feet In depth. "Help! help! for God's sake rope! we can't hold on much longer." What was to be done? The sufferers were not visible, the exact spot where they were could not be made out In the darkness. The wall of the rock was an almost perpendicular height of 600 feet. There was but one way of saving them. Some one must go down Into the dark chasm, at the peril of his life, swinging at the end of the rope, over the edge of the precipice, and thus try to reach the perishing men, get a rope round each in turn, by which he maybe dragged up the fearful height. It was a desperate expedient, but it was the only one, as the wretched men must soon perish by c Id and exhaustion, or be swept back into the sea. The rescuers look for a few minutes Into one another's faces. Who Will go? A stout-hearted fisherman a true hero Alfred Moores by name volunteers for the perilous under taking. Fastening a stout rope round him, he is launched Into the black abyss. Three times, however, be had to be drawn up again, being unable to get near the sufferers; but, on descending ine lounn time, no nnas slight FISSURE IN THE FACE OF THE CLIFF, down which he is lowered till he comes within thirty feet of the rock to which the men are clinging. He has a light hand rope which, after several Ineffectual casta, Is at length caught by one of the men. By means of it a stronger rope was passed down ; one of the men fastens it round his Doay, ana the word is given to haul op. Several men, supported and guided by the stout rope, at the end of which Moores is swinging, have now crept down the face of the cliff and stationed themselves so as to transmit orders and aid in passing np the rescued men. It is a moment of awful suspense when the first of the rescned men is swung off the rock and dragged upwards. At legth he reaches the top; a little brandy Is poured into his lips, and bis first words are: "That was an awful long haul, but thank God, I am saved." One by one eight are thus drawn up, and without accident reach the summit safely. But the ninth Is

knot rescued. He is a mere youth, and with

out shoes or hat, drenched and shrlvering. he is clinging to a shelving rock at a short distance from his companions in distress, Doubts are entertalnad as to whether it is possible to save him. Bat the gallant Moores makes another cast with his Trope, and the youth has just enough strength left to pass it round bis body and swing him self clear of the overhanging ciifl. lie is drawn np more dead than alive, but the brave rescuers have now the happiness of knowing that by their courage and skill al are saved. The men had been on the rock ten hours and a half, and what long, ago nizing hours they must have been to them, expecting each wave to HURL THEM INTO THE DEEP In the village to which they were borne they met with the utmost kindness and at tention, and all have recovered . A more wonderful deliverance baa seldom been wit nessed, and the heroic men who scconrplishei it merit the highest praise. The gray dawn was appearing as the last suf ferer was drawn up, so that the work was done during the darkness of a stormy night, and when the cold wss intense. Who will doubt after this that there are brave and generous hearts among the stout fishermen or Newfoundland! There is a Dar at toe en trance ot Horrand's Gulch, which pre vented the bodies of the drowned being carried out to sea, and one by one tbey have been recovered, with a single exception. The missing corpse is believed to have been carried Into a narrow fissure or cavern that runs inland under the brow of the cllffe. Some daring men will venture in even here on planks, for it Is too narrow far a boat, and when the sea is perfectly calm may succeed in recovering the body. A winding path has been cut through the summit of the cliff, and up this the bodies f the dead were carried on the shoulders ot these stout fishermen. In the village coffins were prepared, and the remains were FORWARDED TO SORROWING RELATIVES. A good deal property has been picked up, and 250 in money have been found. All has been guarded, and will be sent to the rightful owners, Mr. Johnson himself bav Ing kept a strict account ot the wrecked property. The bodies were found to be little mutilated, with the exception of one poor fellow, whose legs were torn off. One of them was fished np afterwards; the other lies at the bottom. A touching incident is related ot one of the women on board. Her husband waejwith her.and wished to save her or,rerish with her. She saw that both could not bs saved, and she urged and prayed him to leave her, and for the sake of their child, a helpless infant; endeavor to save himself. Driven by her entreaties, he loaned on the rock at the last moment and escaped. The poor mother found a watery grave: "Men must work and women mast weep. Though the harbor bar be moaning !" SYLPH'S RETURN. HIS CRONIES LAVISH THEIR 8TMPATHT ON PRESIDENTIAL THE ERRING PET OF THE HOUSEHOLD. The Washington telegram to the Chicago Times of yesterdsy says: Gen. Babcock re turned to the city to-day. In conversation with his friends he made no allusion what ever to his coming trial in St. Louis. He had a consultation with the president, but ont of this came nothing more tban a desultory conversation. The president professes to believe Babcock innocent, and until the court in St. Fouls decides otherwise, he will stand by his military secretary. A gentleman from St. Louis quotes ex-Senator Henderson in reference to Babcock. Henderson is reported as saying that if tb6re is no case against the president's right-hand man, then all el the convictions in St. Louis thus far obtained are based upon inefficient testimony. A great deal of sympathy is lavished upon Babcock by his cronies about town. They palliate his connection with the whisky ring in St. Louis by calling it imprudence. This victim of Imprudence will remain here but a short time. He will return first to Chicago and then to St. Louis in time for his trial, which can not now come off before the latter part of the month, as Con. Megrue's case is down for the first trial after the court meets In January. The government people are getting; ready fob a good habd fight in Chicago. They regard the whisky men of that city as more powerful, socially and financially, than those of St. Louis. They know also that Chicago men In a fight have better staying qualities, and that it will not be reasonable to expect that there will be any pleading guilty in advance of trials, as there has been in St. Louis. The men o Chicago are banded together for a desperate resistance, and will use every means t defeat the government. Assassination, plundering of the records and subornation of perjury are some of the items to be found in the secret records of the revenue department charged up against the chiefs of this compact band of revenue thieves. There will be made an earnest effort to dissuade Sam. Randall from pressing the resolution Introduced by him the other day. This resolution calls for all letters, telegrams, etc., in the prosecution Of the so-called whisky ring. Secretary Bristow Is very much opposed to this measure. To answer at the present time this request would call for the exposure of the most secret and valuable testimony of the treasury department. There Is at present in posession of the treasury authorities much testimony that is as yet incomplete, which, if given out to the world without subsequent explanations, might do GREAT INJURY TO INNOCENT MEN. For Instance, the department sometimes has evidence against a man that may lead to a presumption, but which is not strong enough to secure a conviction In court, but withholding such testimony until more definite Information can be obtained of the guilt or Innocence of the person in question Is determined before any publicity is given. The department also holds that the giving out of such testimony would now be highly prejudicial to the prosecution of the untried cases. It would put all on guard against whom the evidence is not as yet very strong, and would be a complete exposure to a vigilant and unscrupulous defense of the line of tactics to be pursued by the prosecution. If the democratic house insists upon having this Information there Is no question that it can compel it to be given. If this is required in advance of the coming trials and the prosecution then fails In securing the proper amount of convictions, then upon the democrats will rest the responsibility of having, through their clumsy desires, successfully aided the whisky ring thieves. After the trials are over the evidence can be better given, and even then it will involve the publishing ot details concerning men who were not guilty or implicated. For instance, many men stand as the backers of thieves and, in the sense of their being their indorsers and bondsmen, but who are as innocent as babes unborn of any guilty knowledge of the frauds perpetrated' upon the government. Now here Is something we don't believe. It Is said to have occurred in Danbury, and that is the only reason for our disbelief. A very fashionable Danbury lady tried to mount the steps in front of Merrill's grocery, yesterday, but her pull back prevented her. Several times she repeated the attempt, but without success, while an anions populace looked on. What do you suppose she then did? Retreated? Oh, no. I She just turned around aud went up the Um t-MM mm aamv Am AAnM Ym ijtsui imam vv UU ma v&9j wuiu aw

THE SITUATION IN SPAIN.

a xoucn or tne True inwardness o Affairs In that Ohaotia Country. ALFONSO OF AGE AND AT HOME. THE PEOPLE INDIFFERENT AND THE WAR OPERATIONS COOLING DOWN NATIONAL RE LATIONS TO CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES, The Madrid correspondent of the New Tork Herald thus sums np the situation in Spain : "If there is anything that the read ing world wants more than another," said an ex-minister to me yesterday, "it is truth about Spain." And be wss right. The frigid breezes from the Pyrenees have chilled the air of old Castile to a degree not equalled for years past, and the same frost that has brought down the oranges has put np the price of substitutes for drafted patriots The prospect of a winter among the fleet and rain of the Basque Province causes the patriotic pulse ot many a young hidalgo to beat much slower than a sense of duty would dictate. But there are so many otner wings "in the air" that it is difflcuu to choose one's subject. The breeze which played about the palace this after noon, during the most august congratulation oi me young King upon reaching bis eigh teenth year, was savored as much with diplomacy and bogus homage as garlic and Dad toDacco. The whole proceeding was in teresting as showing the grand total of Spain's nobility and the amount of gold lace and number ot decorations which it is possible for a single worthy breast to carry. lau men, snort men, gross and petite, pat tered along the halls, np the staircases, and then slipped down and away again. But in all the vast, not Indifferent crowd whlcn surrounded the palace, there were many curious thoughts visible on faces here and there. In my hearing one faithful subject asked, without a shadow of treason or desire for change in his voice, but in a matter o; course wav: "How long will this state ot thing last?" This brings us to the consid eration of several Important considerations which must more or lees affect the tenure of the young king and the relations between America and Spain. SHADES OF STATECRAFT. It has been asserted, denied and again re affirmed that Don Alfonso will early take the field in person at the head of the loyal forces to crush out Don Carlos in the North. The announcer önt was only the offspring of the wish with the people, and for the time they forgot their burdensome taxes, their conscriptions, their exiled friends, and, worst of all, their deferred elections, in the hope that peace would be restored and that the greater evils from which they suffered would right themselves. But now It seems almost certain that, however the king may now be forced to act, the promise of the royal presence was only a ministerial rus9 to settle a very troublesome and erave political question. The anxiety of Martinez Campos and Quesada to have the question decided as to wbose should be the honor of restoring peace and of bringing to an end the disastrous war In the North forced npon the ministry the necessitv of de ciding wnicn oi me two snouid be captain general ot the Spanish troops. This was a decision the king could not afford to make at mis juncture or analrs. The time was most inopportune: the ministry might have "split" upon this issue; and small as the question seems it was dangerous. The dil ferences ot opinion might have been greater, might have been less, than was actually be lieved, but It was counted on that a division would certainly occur. At this time the Alfonso government can not risk even a small division of its vitality. So statecraft. that misused word which Is synonymous with anything from courtly boot-licking to down -right assassination, was employed. It was announced that the young king, as nne a young lad as ever ctrried a cigar In the corner of bis mouth, would taae the field in November. Then the pressure of official duties compelled a postponement of bis majesty's departure until December and already I see that he is not li&eiy to get on before January. Meanwhile THE WAR LARS and the generals wholare fighting In the North can lengthen the campaign out until somebody will get tired. The result, how ever, Is indisputable, the question as to who shall be captain general is settled for the present, and an accident or dlptherla may complete the good work of wise states men. I believe It was Schiller who promul gated this scheme when he wrote: "There can be no jealously between the king and us, lor he is over us sivxne general impressIon among the Spaniards, as i gathered at the cafes, seems to be that ths king will merely take the field to see the end. This will give him all the prestige of a victorious sovereign. It is only 20 hours by rail from here to the seat or war, and a Herald special newspaper train could do it In eight hours without any difficulty. So may a special bearing the king. The sudden and serious Illness of Don Carlos, of which there is no longer ground for doubt, may end the war even sooner than mortal prophecy can guess. It there is any role in which I dislike to appear it is that of a political prophet. Ex perience teaches that it is a very uncertain and precarious way of earning either repu tation or money, even In America, where the blood of the nation runs smooth and cool ; but here in Spain I am doubly certain that it would be the most absurd employ ment a man could engage In. To-morrow may see Madrid in a state of revolution; a week may see either a new republic or the present king despite the doubts expressed on every hand firmly seated on the throne. Therefore. I do not desire to be regarded as speaking in the light of prophecy, but as one who. having mixed with the elements of all parties, knowing no distinction, writes what he has seen and heard. Although I am aware that the American question is of more immediate interest to your readers than the present confused state of political affairs here, I beg to be allowed . to speak first of Spain, as indicating what events at home may produce certain results in the relations of the peninsula with the outside world. A GRAND NATIONAL DIFFICULTY. However soon the war shall end the gov ernment of Spain will find itself confronted by a great issue which will require im mediate and decisive action. I refer to the elections, which, having been from time to time postponed without any excuse satis factory to the people, are now clamored for n every hut and cafe and at every street i i corner, 'ine masses, oyemuraenea whb taxes, liable to be conscripted at any hour's notice, are now inorougniy tired ot this temporizing, and have seriously begun to think that they see before them the germs of a monarchy more absolute than Isabella's. Alarmed, though not rebellious, they sigh for the lots of a Spanish liberty they never possessed. From one month to another the people have awaited the proclamation for a general election ; but no bulletin has appeared. The ministers of state, who should be- a Die to leel - the ypanish pulse, appear ignorant of the gathering storm. Indeed, indifferent. The arrest of three citizens ot Madrid for failing to remove their hats In the presence of the king at the National Opera House only a few nights ago has greatly strengthened the feeling of insecurity. It is now asserted that there were other reasons for tneir arrest; yet this does not make the affair a whit less unfortunate. I saw his majesty ride through i the Puerto del Sol, the great central plaea of

Madrid, last evening, accomr anied by the princess, and I was surprised to see that

very few persons among the throng that lined the route seemed to take any interest in the passing cortege. Not one man out of fifty raised bis hat, and there was no symp tom oi me homage which is manifested in London whenever any member of the royal lauiuj appeals in ine streets, mis in difference indicates something, and the advisers of the king ought to be able to observe It. "Confound the harper who always blunders on the same string," wrote Horace, years ago, ior the direction of others than those given to composing verses. Yet in the nineteenth century away goes this new monsren rrom "aiiegro to andante to ada gio," in the same old measure, which must soon bring him to the end ot the bail. Monarchy appear to belong to that peculiar class of people to whom neither experience nor nisbory leacnee anytning. same fine morn ing the present government may find out its mistake on waking dd to find a revolu tion on its bands In the city of Madrid, very muco use me fans commune. Already Alfonslsts, Carlist sympathizer, literals, republicans, conservatives, Serranoists, are shaking their beads and asking themselves the question, "How long do you think these wings can last, my man?" DEMOCRACY, PURE AND SIMPLE. Notwithstanding all these facts there are in Spain the germs of pure democracy Liberie, egalite, fraternlte," could be writ ten over the door of every cafe with the utmost truth. Counts, marquises and dons there sit and chat with oi Pollk. The best Illustration f what I mean woald be an occurrence which came under mv observa tion a lew evenings since. I had strolled into one of the largest cafes on the Calle del Alcala, when I saw the principal bull fighter oi jusariu approacn a marquis, and, slapping mm on ine dsck, address mm in a phrase wnicn can oniy oe translated into American as "now are you, old top?" So far from resenting this or showing any annovance. the hidalgo replied cheerfully, "Happy as a ciam." ui course I have put these expres sions in "American," so that they mav con vey exactly the same impression to the reader that they cid to the Spanish ear. But for contrast's sake. imagine a bull fighter slapping Prince t red .Grant on the shoulder ana saying, "Mow are you, my duffer?" Wnv. the scene at the Potter Palmer House would not be a comparison. I tell yon there would be murder done. Still, such la Ufa in rwir old Spain, and Spanish noblemen mature under a different air than that which blows over the region between Capitol Hill and Georgetown Heights. The Cuban question is as fruitful a theme as ever. That the im mediate danger is over unless some new outrages shall have been perpetrated in iUba l am assured on the very highest authority. The reply of GeneralJovellar may not meet with approval at Washing ton, but, lor the present, war is avoided, 1 he letter of Don Carlos, silly and imprac ticable as It was, strikes the key note of the refrain which has had frairmAnta.rv a-r latarirv in every Spanish heart for the past two years. THE DELUSION OF THIS DECADE IN SPAIN has been the belief by every one of her citl zens that the United States thirsts for Cuba and will drink the blood of the best cabal leros of the peninsula, If need be, to satisfy the longing. It is folly shear waste of brain tissue and nerve force to attempt to convince the nomadic signor whom you everywhere encounter that the United States wishes to avoid the annexation of Cuba. It is thankless work to assure the signor that Cuba is worth twice to us in commerce what she would be did we possess her: that or an tne miserable, depopulated. devastated, worthless regions on earth, the interior of that island is the worst. He Bmiles a satanic leer of doubt, slaps the end of his capa in your face and walks off. "What is the chief cause of this state of things?" I answer, that aside from the hesitating and temporizing policy which the united states has maintained toward Spain, there is only one cause, and that is to De round in Hew York, and not in Madrid. I have always admitted the absolute liberty oi ine press wnicn exists in America, and nave to regret more than ever now that the rest of the world does not understand it equally weih There exists In the city of New York, although known to onlv a limited circle of readers, a Journal wbose editor enjoys a pension from the Spanish government ot about $40,000 per year, Tnis journal Is filled with the most atrocious misrepresentations regard ing the American feelings about Spain and Cuba. Of course no harm results in New York, both from the limited audience addressed and from the understanding that ine paper is a Spanien organ. But In Mad' rid the case is entirely reversed. This lour nal is found on file at every club house, in many ot the larger cafes, on the tables of every minister and on the exchange list of every newspaper in Madrid. It is more than Erobable that this circulation is gratuitous, ut it is not surprising that the paper is re garded as one of the chief organs of Spanish opinion in New York. .Every Madrid news paper on the table before me as I write con tains some reference to or extract from this insignificant New York journal, all . ABCSTVK AND MALICIOUS. The papers of Madrid are small and cheap and their circulations are large. The people read, and reading, believe. Is it strange. then, that after a few months' instruction in such a school the Spaniards think the Americans an ambitious, grasping people, bent on wresting from them the sacred isle? Spain's worst enemy is a Spaniard who, off n new ioik, sne pays 10 junuie nres which require all the diplomatic cold water of the Madrid ministry to quench. Yet within the past week she has heaped new honors upon this man in the shape of titles, decor ations and a double pension. So she 063 blindly on until the inevitable end will meet her face to face. Irrepressible as the great American question of slavery will the Spaniards soon render this Cuban question. The un expiated outrages, the mur ders of women and children and the sanc tioning of slavery will eventually call down the wrath of God and man. I write this paragraph not to Americans, but to Spanlards, who, living in the nineteenth cenrary. orget that tne world moves on and leaves them behind. According to the last census British India had a population of 196,563,048, distributed Over an area of 904,049 square miles, or 211 per square mile. There being, however, much Jungle and waste land in some parts, he population Is in reality much denser, Bengal counting 397, the Northwest Prov nces 480, and Oudh 468 to the square mile. ncluding the states governed by native princes, India has 1,450,744 square miles, with a total population oi 238,&30,953 souls. Of the population of British India, 140,000,000 are Hindoos, 40,000,000 Mohammedans, and 9,000,000 Christians, Parsees, Buddhists, ete. The Christians number 900,000, of whom 250.000 are Europeans or of European descent. There are 26 languages spoken n Mlndoitan. As regards occupations, ndia counts 1,236,000 government servants; 629,000 are employed in religious and hos pital service; there are 80.000 fanatics and fakirs, 10.900 astrologers, 5 coDjurors, 465 ezorcisers, and 189.000 persons devoted to education, science and literature, 518 of whom are poets; 33,000 are employed in the courts of Justice, 73,000 are doctors and 218,000 are professors of fine arts, which include rope dancers, snake charmers, etc

FASHIONS FOR THE FAIR.

PRETTY PARISIAN PATTERNS. LATE4T ADVICES OF THE FOREIGN MILLINERS VARIOUS ADMIRABLE TO IL KITES PRES BNT WHIMS IN COLOR. The Paris correspondent of a late number of the Bazaar writes; Dress skirts are mads so narrow and tight that It has become Im possible to furnish them with Inside pockets whence the fashion of outside pockets, which are reckoned among the ornaments of the toilette, the accessories of which tbey match, and are trimmed with lace, galloon, bows or embroidery, according to the trimmlog adapted for the dress. Frequently these pockets are, or appear to be, suspended from the waist by a double cord of silk. Their use is oo universal that a dress with no outside pockets is considered out of the fashion. The form of waists does not vary ; it is al ways and I u varls bly the cuirass, that is to say, with perfectly plain basques, and very long, smooth and clinging. These waists are heart-shape or square for evening toilettes, or entirely decoletee for ball dresses, but In all eaes the shape remains the same. Sometimes they are closed in the back with buttons, or with lacing precisely like that of a corset. Apropos of corsets, I must mention an Invention at once very simple and ingenious, namely, elastic laces. With these laces it is always possible to breathe with ease, even WHEN THE CORSET IS CLOSED, and the figure remains supple and light; their use does away with stiff oess, and pre vents numerous maladies. With a corset closed by elastic laces, a lady is as much at ease as in her dressing-gown. These laces are covered with cotton or silk, or else with gold or silver. Among the pretty toilettes for grand dinners which are in preparation fust now (Paris is given np to dinners from now to the first of January), I must describe the following: I to be of faille ot rather bright rose, made with a fall train and trimmed with pleated flounces. Under each of these flounces is a small flounce pleated in the same way, but made of pale ecru faille. These flounces, large and small, are repeated twice in front and five times on the back breadths. The overskirt ot plain pale ecru natte silk is composed of three breadths only one in the middle, which forms the tablier, and ore on each Bide of the latter; these breadths are separate, and are held together merely by six bows, three on each side of the tablier, each of rose and ecru ribbon. Half low cuirass waist of ecru natte silk, with short sleeves, trimmed with slashings of rose and a rose plastron, crossed its entire length with horizontal bands of narrow ecru ribbon; on the edge of the cores ge is a bias fold of rose faille, embroidered with ecru silk. IN THE HAIR IS A ROSE and an ecrue plume. Everything pertaining to furniture, jewelry, and dress belonging to past ages is so much in vogne that Imitations are fabricated with an art and a perfection which could not ba surpassed. The old laces are superb but they are too costly. and, besides, one can not obtain them to the extent desired; consequently old laces are now manaiactured, wmch is done by giving them artificially the tint accumulated by centuries ot wear, copying the old designs, and preparing the thread so as to give it the Irregularities and the granulons feel ing peculiar to the thread woven with the distaff in former times. In this way admirable old laces are made, of mod erate price. These laces of yellowishwhite (the color of cream, and even of butter) are used to trim hats, and to make cans. coiffures and fichus. Formerly the fashion of adorning fichus and ruchlngs of lace with small bunches ot flowers was thought ex travagant. This season, flowers do not suffice, and a humming-bird or butterfly is perched in the bow or ribbon that trims the front or side of a late fichu. All costumes made of cloth are trimmed with faille of the same shade, and not with velvet. But if the costume is black cloth, the rale Is reversed, that is to say, the trimming is not of faille, but invariably of black velvet rib bon, in all widths, and frequently embroid ered with narrow gold galloon. Galloons interspersed with metal threads (silver or gold) are used, we might say exclusively, on dresses of India cashmere. To return to cloth costumes: Their trimmings are com posed either ot bias folds, pnffi. pleated flounces or ruches, all of faille of the came shade as the cloth ; the flounces and manes wnicn trim the cloth costumes are alwavs hemmed and never cut in points on the edges and fashion at the present decrees that the pleats of the trimmings shall be very nne and PRESSED DOWN WITH AN IRON. According to all previous indications, bonnets are growing larger and larger, and by next summer will probably have become almost sensible; that is to say, they will fulfill their mission, which certainly is to protect the heads tbey adorn from the sun or the cold. For ladies of middle age that is to say, not quite young the bonnets are generally composed ot a large crown with a broad brim, curved in various wavs and split in the middle of the back; to be sure, this brim is still turned up in the manner of a diadem, but It will probably be lowered next spring. Many of these brims are bor dered with narrow galloon Interwoven with silver or steel; a great many are trimmed with a very long plume, called Amazon, which is fastened in front nnder a bow, and curls around the brim. For the trimming of these bonnets great quantities of damask ribbons with dark ngures on a light ground of the same color are used. As to the galloons, which are used with indescribable profusion, their name is legion. All galloons Interspersed with metal threads have buttons to match. Cream white that is to say, slightly yeU low continues to enjoy extreme favor, which will be redoubled when the season of ball toilettes arrives. This tint is even more beautiful in the evening tban in the day time. The faded whit.i which we have been accustomed to has a cru4e tint which la not becoming to all faces, and has the fault o looking 6ome what gray by gas light; cream white is SOFTER AND MORE AO REE ARLE, and will combine well with all colors, without exception. For this reason all stuffs for ball dresses, such as silk gauze, tulle and tarlatan, have been manufactured In this cream white tint, with which are associated flowers in rose color, red, and, above all, vi olet, blue, etc Ball dresses will be positively loaded with flowers. I have just seen one of cream tulle over cream faille. The tablier of tulle was puffed In diagonal lines; these puffs, which were quite large, were separated by garlands ot purple fuchsias. A long scarf of tulle, puffed horizontally at intervals. was set perpendicularly on each side of ths tablier; the back breadths of this tulle were arranged in a Watteau fold, and trimmed on the under edges vitb ruches, headed each with two small puffs, all ot tulle: this trimming was set on to a depth of 20 Inches. There were three garlands of fuchsias on the tablier, beginning on the left side and falling to the under edge of the right. From the left shoulder depended a four-fold garland, which was fastened under the right arm. Liow-necked corsage with very short sleeves. Ex-Speaker Blaine was in early life pro fessor of mathematics in Drennon College, Kentucky.