New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

the names of the insurgents and what are called
leading macontents In the province of Andalusia.
ITpon that list il is said the Council has held dis
cnsson. in which more than one member urged that
n certain number should be shot There is no proba-
biity that the Council will venture to order execu
tons in cold blood unless they first resolve that no
election shall be held. Their policy of terror has
already sdOQRled the Republican vote-for every
bullet fired, ten ballots against the Government
The business at Malaga is far from being ended by
the military success of Gen. CaballerO and his $4,000
regulars against few hundred alarmed Republic
cans ffth Cortes meet the first act of the Repgb-
licans will be to demand an inyeStlgaVQp INTO the
events Of Andalusia. The indictment drawn up by
the Republican Committee off Barcelona and pub
lshed yesterday will not be found easy to put aside
or to answer. This Provisional Government, which
is bound to he Government of the whole people,
has allied itself with party helNIonarchical and
Yields its official authority against another the Re
publican 1t has nterfered to determine in advance
questions which only the COrtes can settle. 1t makes
war on the Republican party by using the national
troops in Andalusia and elsewhere, through the
journals it controls, eliminating its opponents,
spreading alarm among property holders,
by charging upon party which resists it's despOtism
a purpose 70 Te-distnbute lands The disarmament
of the citizens wanton outrage, the alleged
necessity of reorganization shallow prcteXt III no
attempt had been made TO rob the people OF their
arms there would have been no resistance TO reor-
ganization. Prim has since pledged himself that the
policy shall be abandoned, yet IN twentyfour hours
the journals of the Government begin to hint that 1t
will be necessary TO disarm in Almena, in Alicante,
and elsewhere Not another gun can be seized unless
Prim violates his word but the faith of the Republi
cans in Prim is slender rs this manifesto coming
Of no mn
and the Madrid Committee clearly enough proves.
Are we to have an election while Andalusia is in
state of sege7 But even the state of siege did not in
timdate the Republicans of Cadiz, who outyoted
soldiers and ALL and elected, thirty out of thirtysix
municipal officers. Meantime, the Government sings
paans over Malaga as glorious victory for the
army and the BrgadieTs who told most lice in their
dispatches are TO DO made full Generals
You may test the value ofthe Official accounts from
Malaga by the dispatch of Brighten. Pavia, already
sent YOU describing an attack by thensurgents up
on boat under the American flag, affirming that IL
was done for the purpose of plunderng her passen-
gers, and narTating Ow4thelsGovernment troops
avenged{this lnsultIto the American flag" The
truth nearly possible thereverse OF this story
A letter has been shown me written by an American
who was one of the party Fand whose sympathies, l
am sorry TO say are anti Republican, but whose test
mony sure on that account not to be too favorable
to them. After the ships had opened fire on the
town it became known TO Capt Blake of the United
States gunboat Swatara, lying the harbor of
Malaga, that number of American citizens were
in the city exposed to the conflict and without means
of escape. lie sent a cutter for them under COM
mand Of officers IIiland and Newell which rowed to
the landing under across fire Of shot and shell from
the Spanish ships and castle The officers went up
to the hotel carrying the flag with them. aud offered
To fIp GxVa
tara Part went some preferred to stay and SEQ the
fight out Asthe party left the hotel with the Off
GERS and under cover of the flag small force of the
insurgents volunteered to escort them to the boat
! As they passed down the Alameda-the public walk
of Malaga-the insurgents cried, These are Ameri-
cans America is a Republic and so shall Spain
be- Viva la Republica." This" says my mon
archcal American, was echoed by a humid
red voices from behind the barbados As the
party passed the open space which gives free range
to the guns of the fort the regular troops in the fort
fired heavy yolley of rife .shot upon the party
meant for the escort no doubt-and the bullets were
expected to discriminate between the Americans and
tho insurgents accompanying them. This wanton
attack naturally provoked a return fire, and the
party made its way to the boat in these agreeable
circumstances, Nobody was hurt and once in the
boat the Americans were out Of the fire.
Now it is not necessary to say that the regulars Of
Gen. Payia or Gen. Rodas meant to insult the Amer
can flag or inure American citizens Nobody in
Spain wants 70 do either. But IL is 10 be said that
they fired upon a party Of insurgents who were en-
gagged in escortng the Americans. regardless OF the
loss their fire might inAic on the latter or Of the
suit TO the 6ag. Having committed this outrage
they then charged it on the insurgents, adding the
still more gTatuitous lie that the insurgents were
seeking TO plumber the whose safety they tried
to insure. am not aware that Cen Pavia has re-
tIacted his fasehood or that any Government journal
has confessed the truih.