Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 June 1898 — Page 3

In the following Rev. T. DeWitt Talunage discusses amusements, and applies tests by which their character be decided. The text is: And it came to pass, when their hearts were that they said. Call for Samson, that y make us sport. And they called for i out of the prison house; and he made i sport.—Judges xvL. S&. There were 3,000 persons assembled in the Temple of Dagon. They had •come to make sport of eyeless Samson. They were all ready for the entertainment. They began to clap and pound, impatient for the amusement to begin, aod they cried: “Fetch him outl Fetch him outl” Yonder 1 see the blind old giant coming, led hr the hand of a child into the very midst of the temple. At his first appearance there goes up a -shout of laughter and derision. The blind old giant pretends he is tired and wants to rest himself against the pillars of the house, so he says to the lad who leads him: “Bring me where the main pillars are." The lad doe® so. Then the -strong man puts bis hands on one of the pillars, and, with the mightiest push that mortal ever made, throws himself forward until the whole house comes down in thunderous crash, grinding the audience like grapes in a winepress “And so it came to pass, -when their hesrts were merry, that they said: Call for Sampson, that he may make sport." And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport. In other words, there are amusements that are destructive and bring down disaster and death upon the heads of those who ’practice them. While they laugh and cheer they die. The 3,000 who perished that day in Gaza are nothing compared with the tens of thousands who have been destroyed, body, mind And soul, by bad amusements and by good amusements carried to excess. In my sermons you must have noticed that I have no sympathy with ecclesiastical straight-jackets, or with that wholesale denunciation of amusements to which many are pledged. 1 believe the church of ;God has made a tremendous,mistake in trying to» suppress the sporffulue&s of youth and drive ont from men their love of amusements. If God ever implanted anything

in us, ue linpmniea mis uesire. i>ui instead of providing for this demand of our nature, the church of God has for the main part ignored it. As in a riot the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street and has it tired off ao that everything is cut down that happens to stand in the range, the food as well as the bad, ao there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condemnation and fire away indiscriminate!v. Everything is condemned. They talk as if they would like to have our youth dress in blue uniform, like the children of an orphan •sylutn and march down the path of life to the tune of the Dead March in Saul. They hate a blue sash, or a rosebud in the hair, or a tasseled gaiter, and think a man almost ready for the lunatic asylum who utters a conundrum. Young Men’s Christian associations of the country are doing a glorious work. They have fiue reading rooms, and all the influences are of the best kind, and are now adding gymnasiums And bowling alleys, where, without any ■evil surroundings, our young men may get physical as well as spiritual improve men t. We are dwindling away to a narrow-chested, weak-armed, fee-ble-voiced race, when Gpd calls to a work in which lie wants physical as well as spiritual athletes. 1 would to <God that the time might soon come when in all oar colleges and theological seminaries, as at Princeton, a gymnasium shall be established. We spend seven yesrs of hard study in preparation for the ministry, and come out with bronchitis and dyspepsia and liver complaint, and then crawl up into the pulpit, and the people say: “Don’t he look heavenlyr because he looks aickly. Let the «hurch of God direct, rather than attempt to suppress, the desire for amusement. The best men that the world ever knew have had their sports. William Wilberforve trundled hoop with his children. Martin Luther helped dress the Christ mass tree. Ministers have pitched quoits, philanthropists have gone a-skating, prime ministers have played ball. Oar communities are filled with men and women who have in their souls unmeasured resources for sportfnlness , and frolic. Show me s man who never lights ap with sportfulness and has no sympathy with the recreations of others, and 1 will show you a man who Is a stumbling block to the kingdom of <iod. Such men are caricatures of religion. They lead young people to think that a man is good in proportion as he groans and frowns and looks •allow, and that the height of a mau> Christian stature is in proportion to the length of his face. 1 would trade off 400 such men for one bright-faced, radiant Christian on whose face are the Words: “Rejoice evermore!** Every morning by his cheerful face he preaches 50 sermons. 1 will go further and say that 1 have no confidence in a man who makes a religion of his gloomy looks That kind of a man always turns out badly, 1 would not want him for the treasurer of an orphan asylum. The orphans would auffer. Among 40 people whom 1 received into the church at one communion, there was only one applicant of whose piety 1 was suspicious. Ue had the longest story to tell; had seen the most visions, and gave an experience ao wonderful that all the other applicants were discouraged. 1 was not surprised the year after to learn that he had run off with the funds of the bank with

_ sogel that you call religion— wings black, feet black, feathers black? Our religion is a bright angelfeet bright, eyes bright, wings bright, taking her place in the soul. She palls a rope that reaches to the skies and sets all the bells of Heaven a-chi ruing. There are some persons who, when talking to a minister, always feel it politic to look lugubrious. Go forth, oh people, to your lawful amusement. God means you to be happy. But, when there are so many sources of innocent pleasure, why tamper with anything that is dangerous and polluting? Why stop our ears to a Heaven full of songsters to listen to the hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from the mountain-side all abloom with wild flowers and adash with the nimble torrents, and with blistered feet attempt to climb the hot sides of Cotopaxi? Now, all opera houses, theaters, bowling alleys, skating rinks and all styles of amusement, good and bad, I put on trial to-day and judge of them by certain cardinal principles. First, you may judge of any amusement by its healthful result car by its baneful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard faces. They are a i combination of multiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an i exquisite picture they will begin to discuss the pigments involved in the coloring; if you show them a beautiful rose, they will submit it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post-mortem examination of a flower. They never do anything more than feebly smile. There are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depth of their soul in billow after billow of reverberating laughter. They seem as if nature had built them by contract and made a bungling job out of it. But, blessed be to God, there are people in the world who have bright faces and whose life is a song, an anthem, a paean of victory. Even their troubles are like the vines that crawl up the side of a great tower on the top of which the sunlight sits and the soft airs of the summer hold perpetual carnival. They are the people you like to come to your house; they are the people 14ike to have come to my house. Now it is these exhilaraut and sympathetic and warm-hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amusements. In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a strong helmsman; in proportion as a horse is gay it wants a strong driver; and these people of exuberant nature will do well to look at the reaction of all their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous so you can not sleep and you rise in the morning, not because you are slept out, bat because your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a man next day to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amusements. There

are entertainments that give a man disgust with the drudgery of life, with tools because they are not swords, with working aprons because they are not robes, with cattle be* cause they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends yon borne longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that takes poison and shoots itself, moonlight adventures and hairbreadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed victim of unsanctified pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build us up, and if they pull us down as to our moral or as to oar physical strength, you may come to the conclusion that they are, obnoxious. * , Still further: Those amusements are wrong which lead into expenditure beyond your means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away. It is all folly for us to come from a place of amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction which yielded you a hundred or a thousand dollars. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amusements? The table has been robbed to pay the club. The champagne has cheated the children's wardrobe. The carousing party has burned up the boy's primer. The table-cloth of the corner saloon is in debt to the wife’s faded dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour around a whole month's wages; ladies whose life-time busines it is to “go shopping,” have their counterpart in uneducated children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church, and that send drunkenness staggering across the ^richlyfigured carpet of the mansion and ! dashing into the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sons come home to break their old mother's heart. When men go into amusements thst they can not afford, they first borrow what they can not earn, and then they steal what they can not borrow. First they go into embarrassment and then into theft, and when a man gets ss far ss that he does not stop short of the penitentiary. There is not a prison in the land where there are not victims of nnsanctified amusements. How often I have had parents come to me and ask me to go and beg their boy off from the consequence of crimes that he had committed against his employer—the taking of funds out of the employer’s till or the disarrangement of the accounts! Why, he had salary enough to pay all lawful expenditure, hut not enough salary to meet hia sinful amusements. And again end again I have gone and implored for the young man—sometimes, alas, the petition unavailing. Yon may Judge of amusements by their effect upon physical health. The need of many good people is physical recuperation. There are Chritiam men who write hard things against their immortal souls when there is nothing the matter with them but an incompetent liver. There are Christian people who seem to think that it is a good sign to ht poorly, a ad because Richard

sponsible your own fault, and when through right exercise and prudence you might be athletic and well. The effect of the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Pat a man of nuld disposition upon the animal diet of which the Indian partakes, and in a little while his blood will change its chemical proportions. It will become like unto the Udod oi the lion, or the tiger, or the be4r, while his disposition will change and become fierce, cruel and unrelenting. The body has a powerful effect upon the soul. There are people whose ideas of Heaven are all shut out with clouds of tobacco smoke. There are people who dare to shatter the physical vase in which God put the jewel of eternity. There are men with great hearts and intellects in bodies worn out by their own neglects. Magnificent machinery capable of propelling a great Etruria across the Atlantic, yet fastened in a rickety North River propeller. Physical development which merely shows itself in a fabulous lifting, or in periJeus rope walking, or in pugilistic encounter, excites only our contempt, bat we confess to great admiration for the man who has a great soul in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle and bone of which is consecrated to right uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that men through neglect should allow their physical health to go down beyond repair, spending the rest of their life not in some great enterprise for God and the world, but in studying what is the best thing to take for dyspepsia. A ship which ought, with all sails set and every man at his post, to be carrying a rich cargo for eternity, employing all its means in stoppimg up leakages! When you may, through some of the popular and healthful recreation of our time, work off your spleen and your querulousness and one-half of your physical and mental ailments, do not turn your back from such a grand medicament. Again, judge of the plaees of amusement by the companionship into which they put you. If you beloug to an organization where yon have to associate with the intemperate, with the unclean, with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it. They will despoil your nature. They will undermine your moral character. They will drop you wheu you are destroyed. They will not give one cent to support your children when you are dead. They will weep not one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damna

tiou. lsat toe day comes when the me a who have exerted evil influence upon their fellows will be brought to judgment. Scene: The last day. Stage: The rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No crown. For footlights, the kindling flames of a world. For orchestra, the trumpets that wake the dead. For gallery, the clouds filled with angel spectators. For applause, the clapping floods of the sea. For curtains, the heavens rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of the destroyod. For farce, the effort to serve the world and God at the same time. For the last scene of the fifth act, the tramp of nations across the stage—some to the right others to the Again, any amusement that gives you a distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements? The father went off, the mother went off, the child went off. There are all arounds us the fragments of blasted households. Oh* if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word, "Home.” Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see, father, that you* children are soon to go out into the world, and all the influence for good you are to have over them you must have how? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, and, alas! if you have to stand over the grave of one who perished from your neglect. 1 saw a wayward husband standing at the deathbed of his Christiana wife, and 1 saw her point to a ring on her finger and heard her say to her husband: "Do you see that ring?” He replied: "Yes, I see it" "Well,” said she, "do you remember who put it there?” "Yes,” said he, "I put it there.” AnH all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day, when in the presence of men and angels you promised to be faithful in joy and sorrow, and in sickness and in health, by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new house, talking of a bright future; by the cradle and the excited hour when the life was spared and another given; by that sick bed, when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help and you knew he must die, and he put an arm around each of your j necks and brought you very near to- | gether in that dying kiss; by the little J grave in the cemetery that you never j think of without a rush of tears; by the family Bible, where in its stories of Heavenly love is the brief but expressive record of births and deaths; j by the neglects of tbe -past and by the i agonies of the future; by judgment ! day when husbands and wives, parents and children, in immortal groups will stand to be caught up in shining array, or to shrink down into darkness—by all that, 1 beg you to give to home your best affections. 1 look in your eyes today, and 1 ask yon the question that Gehaai asked of the Shunammite: "Js It well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it weU with thy child?” God grant that it may be everlastingly The intellect is the dignified faculty It will qpt run, but insists on marching, keeping step in orderly proceea— Rev. Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago, left well!

n* Republican Policy of Protection la Hostile to American Producers. “Farmers will vote with 'prosperity’s party,’ *’ says a prominent republican organ. Prosperity, according to the republican statesman upon whose observations it bases its remark, is all due to the republican party. To speak more exactly, the organs and the politicians think they can make the farmers believe that and thus induce them to vote for the republican candidates. The Chronicle is inclined to entertain a higher opinion of the intelligence of American farmers. It is inclined to think that they know the difference between politics and weather so far as not to accept the theory of the republicans that good crops in the United States and scant crops elsewhere last year were caused by ballot boxing in this country alone in 1896. Farmers can read, generally speaking, and in the same newspapers which tell them that they are indebted to the republican party for prosperity they will read about the enormous exports of last year’s crops and the high prices obtained from foreigners for their produce. The very organ which declares that the farmers will vote with ‘prosperity’s party** contains the statement, based on official reports, that agricultural exports for the fiscal year ending with this month “will be considerably in excess of $800,000,000, the total for the year being likely to reach $835,000,000. Never before have the exports of agricultural ^products reached the $S00,000,000 line and never but twice have they been as much as $700,000,000”—in 1881 and 1892. When the farmers read this very likely they will fail to perecive any relation between the election of a republican president and congress in 1896 and the abundant crops in the United States in 1897 and the extraordinary foreign demand for them in 1897 and 1S9S. They will not be able to see that the castingof more votes for McKinley than j for Bryan in 1896 caused our agricultural exports to be $150,000,000 greater in value this fiscal year than they were last and $250*000,000 greater than in 1895. They will fall to discover a causative relation between an American election in 1896 and extraordinary exports j of American produce at high prices in { 1897 and 1898. Failing in that they will j be very likely to conclude that the re- j publican politicians and their organs j are arrant humbugs. They are likely to conclude that men who claim that j their political policy is the cause of | abundant crops at home and short crops abroad and high prices for agricultural products the world over are not deserving of confidence.

If the farmers will consider the matter they will perceive that the attitude of the republican party toward foreign trade is strongly hostile to the int'ersts of farmers. Whatever restricts imports also tends to restrict exports. And a tax on imports necessarily prevents the producer of an article of export from obtaining the full value of his products. The republican duties on woolens, averaging more than 100 per cent,, make it impossible for the farmer to get half the quantity of woolen goods for 100 bushels of wheat that he could get if such goods were admitted duty free. And the like is true of other dutiable goods. When the farmer sees that his produce may be sold abroad to the value of $800,000,000 a year and that the republican tariff prevents him from getting more than TO per lent, of the for-1 eign goods in exchange for his produce | that he could get under free trade he will understand that the republican! party, so far from promoting his prosperity, is taking from his pockets $240,-1 000,000 a year on his exported products, not to speak of the larger amounts it j takes for the benefit of protectees when he exchanges his produce for protected home-made goods. He will see that, while the politicians cannot give him good crops, they can rob him of much of the value of his crop.—Chicago Chronicle. OPINIONS AND POINTERS -The real “lesson” of the Oregon election undoubtedly is that none of the republicans up there have left home and joined the army.—St, Louis Republic. -Mark Hanna is also in favor of laying aside sectional disputes and letting every section dispose of its> United States senatorships to suit itself.—Albany Argus. -Speaker Seed is still occasionally alluded to as the man who is likely to make trouble for President McKinley. The war, though, has had a tendency to clip the wings of the czar's consequence.—Cincinnati Enquirer. -The republicans of the senate, aided by five Or six alleged democrats, have fastened upon the country an additional bonded interest-bearing indebtedness of $300,000,000, as an unnecessary a bonded debt as was ever forced upon a people.—Illinois State Register. -*—Bonds for the capitalist, tariff for the trusts, protection for the monopolies, immunity from taxation for the incomes of the rich, war prices for bread and meat and clothing, peace prices for the products of the farm. What a beautiful system of government—Louisville Dispatch. -The coinage of the silver bullion In the treasury, commonly called seigniorage, was the tub thrown to a few free silver senators to induce them to. vote for the bond issue. These and five or six recreant democrats furnished the McHannaites the needed votes to secure the adoption of the interest-bearing bond provision of the war revenue bill* The people of the country who are thus placed in further bondage to the shylocks, will hereafter overwhelm with their wrath the men who forged their ahackles.—Illinois State Register. _

The passage of the bond issue bill through the senate draws the lijsSS of our politics for the next quarter of a century. That the bill was dictated from London, there is no doubt. Its importance in international history is so great that the Spanish war is trivial in comparison. As a measure for the collection of war revenues, the bill is one of the worst measures of class legislation ever drawn. The democrats and populists in the senate attempted to force amendments, lessening its discriminations against the masses of the people, but owing to the fact that Messrs. Gorman, Caffery, Lindsay, McEnery, Mitchell, Murphy and Turpie, elected as democrats, are controlled by the sugar trust, the whisky trust, the trunk line pool, the Rothschild bond syndicate and similar combinations, the trust and corporation forces under Hanna were enabled t o do as they pleased. What it. pleased them to do was this: 1. They voted down all amandmenta taxing incomes under which plutocratic campaign fund contributors would have been compelled to contribute to the expense of the war. 2. They voted againstallpropositions to avoid bond issues by using silver bullion on hand. 3. They voted down all amendments imposing war taxes on trusts and other combinations formed in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. 4. They voted down all propositions to issue non-interest-bearing treasury notes instead of interest-bearing bonds —this regardless of whether such notes were made legal tender or not. 5. They voted clearly and unmistakably to make everything else in the bill itself, in the conduct of the war and in the domestic policies of the country sut>servient to the interests of the international bankers, who demand the issue of more bonds and the indefinite continuance of the debtalready existing. As our politics have been heretofore, any party taking in a national campaign the attitude now openly assumed by the republican party under Hanna’s leadership, could not have carried a state south of Pennsylvania and west of New York. Perhaps the Spanish war, Hanna’s leadership and our new “world politics” of cooperation with London, bond syndicates will change all this. It remains to be seen. What can be seen already is that in one way and another —in every way in fact—the bill draws the lines for a great political revolution. Either the plutocracy under Hanna will be wiped out as the federalists were under Adams, or the United States will cease to be an independent republic of equal and self-governing states, and will become an empire with Baron Roths child as its Caesar and London as the . real seat of its government.—Mississippi Valley Democrat.

RANK IDIOCY. [ _ Republican! Display Their Stupidity and Selfishness at a Critical Time. Republican newspapers that are roariug about the partisan attitude of democrats on the war revenue bill are also demanding that “monetary reform” be pushed in congress. Stupidity and selfishness could -not go further than this. The men who urge the currency measure know that it cannot pass the senate. They know that such a bill would arouse bitter opposition in both houses. They know that nothing could more surely provoke political division, and yet they urge that this bill be taken upland passed by ; the house. What is the object of such a proposition ? Simply the desire of crazy fanatics to push the currency question into prominence. Good political sense on the part of administration newspapers would prompt them to keep the money question in the background. If the republicans gain any sort of standing before the people it must be from avigorous prosecution of the war. But the republicans are not prosecuting the war with vigor, and it is alleged that they will not prosecute it vigorously until after congress has voted to issue bonds. To sink political differences and to unite in a patriotic support of the president in the war against Spain means from a republican point of view, sacrifices by democrats and a grab at every possible political advantage by republicans. But that sort of thing won't work.—Chicago Dispatch. Treats Is Power. With absolute unanimity the republican senators have voted to tax the people and not to tax the trusts. Solid as a Roman phalanx the republicans presented an unbroken front to the democratic attempts at reaching the hoarded millions of the plutocrats. Taxes on the necessities of life were favored by the republicans. The poor man's luxuries were gladly placed on the tax list by these patnotis and noble-minded gentlemen. When at ax on corporations was suggested a howl of indignant protest was raised and the proposition was promptly voted down. When the republicans oould not argue they descended to ridicule, and pretended to see something extremely fnnhy in the idea of taxing trusts. That is just the way the aristocrats treated the demands of the people before the French revolution inaugurated a reign of terror. There will be no reign of terror in the United States, but, thanks to the intelligence of the common people, there will cease to exist the reign of trust. -Boss Hanna failed to non the odious Demas down the throats of his senatorial associates, but he is succeeding to his heart's content in punishing Louisianians for voting against McKinley by investing Demas with the power to oppress them.—St. Louis Ro

FIVE VESSELS WILL TM SPORT THEM. %s0K Ben. Merritt Will, If Pool It, Accompany the Expedition, Ltwio| MnJ.-Gon. Otia to AiTMf* the Details of the Fonrth Contiugeut nnd Brine Up thoEonr Abonl Jaly 1. ' San Francisco, Jane 1 &—Maj.-Gen. Merritt has issued an O der to Gen. Otis designating the trooj s that are to compose the third Philippine expedition, which will be co omanded by Brig.-Gen. King. The ore ar names the troops as follows: The two battalions of t ie Idaho volunteers; the Thirteenth Minnesota volunteer‘infantry; two battalions. North Dakota volunteers; the Seventh California volunteer infantry; s he Wyominj battalion of volunteers; the two batteries, G and L, of the Third United States artillery, commas ded by Capt. Ben}. B. Randolph and Capt. Wool El Birkeimer, respectively. These troops will be transported by the steamers Morgan _ City, City of Para, Ohio, Indiana and Valencia, all of which art being put in readiness tor the reception of the men as rapidly as possible, undei the direction of Maj. Long, the depot quartermaster, who is rushing the coal and supplies on board in the expectation of having this work completed by next Wednesday. The exact date oi •ailing has not yet been fixed, but it will probably be not later than the enl of next week. The commissary officer) of the various commands have been instructed to report to CoL Baldwin, chief commissary, what supplies are necessary to be taken on board the transports. Gen. Merritt and his staff may sail with this expedition. He has had the matter under consideration for some little time, and as he is very anxious to to depart, is making every effort to so arrange his affairs that he can go. Maj. R. EL Thompson, chief signal officer of the expeditionary forces, will sail with Gen. Merritt, and is now preparing to take his departure at an hour’s notice. The signal oorps is yet lacking in its required quota of expert telegraph operators, who -will perform an imfiortant part in the conquest and government of the Philippinea Fifteen are coming from St. Paul, to be followed by others from other eastern cities, Maj. Thompson will leave an officer in San Francisco to enlist men for the corps and forward them, together with necessary supplies, to Manila. V Maj.-Gen. Otis will arrange the dotails of the fourth expedition, and will probably remain here until all troope are embarked. It is hoped to accomplished this on or before J uly L CAMP MERRITT ALL TORN UP.

Excited Orer the Alleged Pnmdm mi m Ducerons Spy la the CampIronclad Orders Imaed. San Francisco, June 30.—The greatest excitement prevails in Camp Merritt over the report that has leaked out to the effect that one of the most noted and daring of Spanish spies had been captured in camp. It was reported that the man had enlisted la one of the regular regiments of infantry. An investigation of the rumor revealed the fact that the spy has not as yet been apprehended, but it is known that the government has recently re* ceived reliable information that leads it to believe that Spain has informers in Camp Merritt. ; -ISH The nature and source of the government’s information are not known to the officers here, but the war department has issued ironclad orders to the commanding officers to make a doss investigation of every man that enlists. It can be reliably stated that the government fears a certain wellknown informer, whose name for the present is withheld. It is known that the government has information that leads it to believe that this man is in San Francisco with the purpose of enlisting in one of the regiments, even if he has not already done so. The man is said to have been secretly employed by De Lome when he was in Washington. FALL OF MANILA REPORTED. If Ora. Sanders Is la Coaintd a Sortie Will Bo Attompod—.1 Special Order. ANOTHER SP/iTISH VT< ----- The Madrid correapendeat of the Temps says it is reported there that Manila has capitulated, though the ministers have not received any news to that effect. The correspondent alec says ^hat Senor Romero Giron, the minister of colonies, states that if Gcv.-Geo. Augnsti has made over his po ver to Gen. Sanders to govern Manila, Gen. ders will attempt a sortie. According to the same authority the Spanish consuls at Bong Kong, Shanghai and Singapo: > have tjaen ordered to organize, at any cost, t¥< most rapid communication with the portions the archipelago still under Spanish authority. The Kind of “Stair ti nt to Dished Dp Readers of Olelrld l ow Madrid, June SOL—Private telegrams -ceived here from Cuba say tg the last attack by he I lips upon Santiago de Oba a i lell struck upon t ie dec. of le attacking ships sweepii le men there. An other she ig to the same authority, i ranel of a cruise , doing i