The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-15
SPAIN.
What is said About the Possibility of n Var
With the United States.

What is said About the Possibility of a War
With the United States.
AS an amusing specimen of the style in which the
Spansh-Cuban papers speak in regard to the contin-
gency of with this country, we translate the
follOwing:-
Great, indeed, would be the sovereignty which the
United States would exercise the with pre-
sent naval forces!
Let suppose that war should really break ont
with Spain and that the latter power send one or
two iron-cad frgates blockade New York. another To
Boston, and another to the Delaware-to up Phila
dephia, where those tubs called monitors IA
the Mississippi and two with six eight wooden
vsssels tany of them great deal better famous
Contoocook to be ready wherever they might be
needed.
What would the United States do then with it's AFRO.
gance boasting? Get into passion spit good deal
invent every kind of torpedo and other tomfooeres such
the Spanish sailors used to laugh make noise
and buster, and We going this and going to
do that" and wind by doing nothing; invoke the fame
of Admiral Farragut the malevoenoe Spain Vice.
Admiral Porter, and the snub that Commodore Rogers
received from Mendez Nunez; and finally many CONNER.
cal houses would break, whom boastng and bravado
would be unable to from inevitable ruins the com.
of the country would lose at least thousand mil
lions of dollars and the United States wishing to seize
the sceptre of the too would Immediately it.
And all this for whay For the Island Cuba; for wa
could not lose more in any event.
Therefore, from whatever side view the question: or
however much may examine it, in reality it bears but
little importance.
Note.-Anticipating that it may be said that if the
United States do not have ads large burden
it could have them, would that these ara
things which not improvised and in the interim we
should who would suffer most in the we
are provided already and everybody knows, He who
strikes first, strikes twice.
Gunboats for the Spanish Government.
The Spanish Government is busy engaged in
making preparations to prosecute its designs In
Cuba, and with this intention has made contract
with the Delamater Iron Works, OF this city, to build
30 gunboats of 200 tons burden each to be launched
part in 60 and part in 30 days, and be completed
within two months afterwards. These vessels are
designed to act tenders for service in the shallow
waters along the Cuban coast and in the rivers,
and are to be not over five feet draft and
OF speed of twelve knots per hour. They are to be
schooner-rigged, with tuTnscrews, and win cost over
$4,000 EACH Each one is to have 100-pOund Parrott
gun mounted forward on pivot. the Delamater
Works have transferred half OF their contract TO ship
builders in Mystic, Connecticut, and will furnish the
other fifteen themselves. 1t is stated that thirty
other gunboats are being built in Spain and will be
completed in time for service in Cuba about the lat
ter part OF June These, however, will not compare
in excellence with those which to be built in this
city, as the Spanish shipbuilders are far inferior tn
our Own-N Y. Tribune.
Charges Against Admiral HOn.
The Washington correspondent of the Herald saws.
cess OF the Cuban cause that Admiral Hon, who
commands the American squadron stationed at
cuba, is more friendly to the Spaniards than his
duty as an officer requires him to be. In proof OF
TINS they point to the fact that all his dispatches to
the Navy Department are full of statements calcu-
lated to impress our people with the idea that the
insurgents are constantly defeated, and have no
reasonable prospect of success. His despatch re-
celVed to-day for instance, is of the most gloomy
character for the Cubans, predicting their complete
sublugaton in a few weeks The authorities here
explain the course OF Admiral Hotf by saving that
necessarily all the information he gets comes through
Spanish sources, and that he has means OF learn
ing what Is going on in the interior of the island.