The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-01
SPAIN AND GERMANY.
IMPORTANT ALLIANCE.


IMPORTANT ALLIANCE.
THE REPORTED ALLIANCE BETWEEN GER
MANY, ITALY AND sPAIN-HOw THE RECoG-
MILTON WAS BROUGHT ABoUT-A SECRET
DIPLOMATIC SERVICE : SECRETARY FISH
AND HIS CONNECTION WITH SPANISH INDE-
PENDENCE-PoRTo RICO AND ITS HISTORY.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Telegraph, writing under date of the 5th
inst, gives remarkable inside view of re-
cent important diplomatic schemes: A
week ago, while the Due Decazes was medi-
tating over the conversation he had had
with Prince Hohenlohe, he received formal
note from M. iii Nigra, the Italian embas-
sador. This communication was to the fol-
@Sn was Of onn oS tbas tbs te
had come for the French government to re-
move the French man-of-war the
0renOque, from Italian waters, where it had
long been considered by the Italian people
as standing threat, humiliating the
tional dignity. The Italian cabinet was firm
ly resolved to exact, if not the immediate
withdrawal of the French ship, at least the
promise that it should not remain in Italian
waters beyond stated time to be agreed
upon by the two governments. 1t is needless
to say that, although this request was made
with great firmnesS, 1t was formulated in the
most friendly terms. When this note was
read to the council of ministers, it gave rise
TO long discussion. No decision was ar
rived at, and time had to be gained
by means of an evasive answer. 1t
has since been decided to withdraw
the Orenoque not later than at the end of
the present month. The German request
has been the cause of great division of
opinion among the members of the French
cabinet. Indeed, a ministerial crisis was
imminent, as two of the members belong
ing to the Right NM. Cumont and Tail
hand, were more than once on the point of
sending in their designations, and the
members of the Extreme Right who had
not yet LEFT Versailles expressed their in
tention of interpellating the government on
its foreign policy. Despite the opposition,
however, it was decided that as soon as the
Assembly had entered upon its vacation,
important re-enforcements of troops should
he sent into the departments of
decided to recall the Royalist Per-
feet of the Upper Pyrennees, M.
de Nadaillac. In addition to this the French
government has already compelled the wife
of Don Carlos to leave Pau, and has dis
solved three committees for the enlistment
of Carlists. 1t has also been decided that
passports between France and Spain should
be re-established. have now put you in
possession of the facts which preceded the
above mentioned negotiations As they are OF
the highes: interest. it is necessary that /
should repeat what said at the beginning
of this letter, that place reliance on the au-
thority from which the statement is derived.
For the last three months a eonven-
ton, 1 am told, has existed between the
Emperor Of Germany and Marshal Serrano.
The terms of the cOnvention are very SIM
pie. Prince Bismarck has promised the
marshal, in tha event of his finding himself
powerless to suppress the Carlist insurrec-
! ton, TO help him secretly with funds or
openly with an armed intervenfjop, as cir
cumsfances MAY require. In return for this
assistance nothing has bean asked except the
marshalis signature to an alliance offensive
and defensive with Germany when ever she
goes to war With France. Moyennsnt cette
consideration, Germany has undertaken to
get the Spanish republic recognized by all
Der friends and allies. Italy has an alliance
with Germany which dates much further
back. She also forms part of the secret al
lance with Spain. Meanwhile the non-in-
tervention of England is taken for granted
and the Intervention of France is rather de-
sired that dreaded.
THE DOG INTHE MANGER.
The New York Sun contains a recent
editorial with the above title on the relation
of Grants administration to the Spanish re-
public. The following areits leading para
graphs: We believe it is no secret that after
L0e IdliuI6 Oh OeU. UrdUb 10 carry bDIOuS0
the project of annexing San Domingo, the
company of private spectators in this city
and San Domingo, into whose hands Baez
put the virtual control of his country, en-
tered 1to negotiations with the German
government with view of selling San
Domingo to Germany. 1t came to
nothing, but the. San Domingo Company
never entertained doubt that Bismarck
would have bought them out but for fear
that the government of the United States
might take umbrage at the transfer of San
Domingo to a European power. 1t is also
no secret that since the first of December
1 last, an agent of the German government
has been engaged in visiting the Spanish
West Indies-that is to say, Cuba and
Porto Rico-upon some mysterious err
rand; and this fact tends to corroborate the
statement of the Freeman's Journal re-
specting the proposed sale of Porto
Rico to Germany, with the offer of Cuba to
the United States by way of getting our con-
sent to the transformation of the former
island into a German colony and naval sta
ton. Secretary Fish loudly denies that
| there is any foundation for this report, even
going so far as to say that the statement OF
the Freeman's Journal is falsehood. and
and that ''any man is damned fool" who
believes 1t. In regard to the Spanish COLO