New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-17


fatally degencrates into a pohtico-reliGious party
manifestation Consequently. the comments upon
il which YOU NAV read in the orthodox ana Cohser-
vative Paris papers this morning, present paihiui
contrasts TO national sympathetic ana customary re-
spect for the dead in which the French are geheray
so far OUT supeIiors. W. !" "'
TIE NEWS FROM SPAIN RECEIVED IN CUBA.
EFFECT OF THE OVERTHROW OF TIE CASTELAR, GOV
ERNMENT-EMANCIPATION PoSTroNED-ihE GAP
TAIN-GENERAL's EXTRAORDINARY Po"ERs-
MARITAL LAW PRoBABLE-THE woRkiNG GLASSES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DAY IN HAVANA
IFRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rhiBohhl
HAVANA. Jan. S.-All other topics have been lost
SIGHT Of IN the consideration of the extraordinary
change IN the Madrid Government. its effect upon
tbe island and the manner in which IT would be re-
carded AZ home and abroad. particularly IN the
United States As was to be expected, II has excited
different emotions among the adherents of the sew
eral great parties struggling to obtain control OF the
country. The effect upon the Spanish Republicans
has been disprting in the extreme CASTELAR, was theH
chief and their hope. In his sagacty and patriot
ism they had the most unbounded confidence. His
eminence in his party and the consideration with
which he was treated both al home and abroad, led
them to expect that he would have q long lease OF
power, and that under his benign administration
discussions and bloodshed would cease, reforms be
introduced, and the people educated up to the
proper standard come to regard the Republic az the
very ark of liberty. With the overthrow of the
CASTELAR, Government however. all their prospective
innovations are at a standst for the present. Hop
ing for the best, they still fear the worst-the
restoration of the monarchy. The ultra-Spansh or
norprogressive party, composed of mOnarcmsts
who. having special predictions for Don Carlos,
no nj ASt or
throne are united in their efforts to crush the young
Repubic-to them the overthrow of CASTELAR, and the
substitution of Serrano and his associates portends
another and gTaver step toward the establishment
of the monarchy. 1t assures them that the reforms
in contemplation in this island to be deferred if
not abandoned.
The abolition of slavery which was regarded re-
Gently as at hand Is now so far Oft Us to furnish no
subject for uneasiness to those who are interested
in the perpetuation of the cruel and barbarous IN
stituton so much so, indeed. that, within the past
few DAYS Senior Soler now the ex-Nlinister of u
tramar informed the planters at a meeting held
within a short distance of Havana, that they need
have no fear concerning immediate emancipation,
as it was not in contemplation. In his interview
with myself, he proposed TO recommend such plan
of abolition would least injure the planters and
the island, and be most productive Of humane and
Had Senior Sober been retained in power, he would
most probably have recommended a wise plan of
abolition, bat just as his visit was about to bring
forth good results, the overthrow of his Government
compelled his retirement and the probabilities now
are that his recommendations If made at all, will
have very little weight Under the new admins
tration the slaveholding ar:sOcracy OF the island
hope to defer all consideration Of projects
for emancipation, and, IN the event OF
the establishment of the monarchy, to eX-
tiDguish them altogether. As you are already
aware, there have been numerous projects for grad
ual emancipation. These have been varied enough,
but they generally had one Objec-the protection of
Shareholders. One plan was to retain the present
slaves in bondage but TO declare all born hereafter
free. Another was to defer emancipation for from
IA to 20 years. Another to abolish slavery
mediatelv, but to retain the slaves in system of
involuntary servitude for 10 or Is years at nominal
compensation. At the end of this long period of
involuntary servitude they would be of value to
their masters having grown old, and would then be
turned out into the world helpless and moneyess,
and would be obliged 10 resort 20 disrcputablc modes
of living or accept starvation.
The granting Of the extraordinary powers asked
for bv Captain General Jovellar has given rise TO
singular rumors and it is semi-officay stated that
the island will be almost Immediately placed in
state of siege This has given rise TO alarming con-
lectures and fears Of further trouble. Those who
are yersed IN the affairs of the island say that the
extraordinary powers granted are simply those EN-
braced in the Royal order of 1926 which gave the
Captain-General the authority to suspend any act
law. or Observance for the time necessary 10 COM
municate with the Home Government. If the rea-
sons advanced by the Captain-General were not
sufficiently convincing and the Madrid Government
wished its laws and orders enforced, the Captain
General had other recourse but to obey
Placing the island in state of siege is practically
placing it under martial law. This seems hardly
necessary for if there is country anywhere under
martial law that country is Cuba. The streets are
filled with soldiers go where you will you cannot
escape them They are in the boats in the cars, at
the opera and ballroom and occasions OF unusual
soemnity they guard the portals of the church.
IL YOU enter a shop you find that the salesman if
Spaniard, has a cockade in his hat indicating that
he is a volunteer Every crime relating to the in-
surrection is tried by military tribunals.
There is some apprehension of trouble on the
mart of the laborng classes who find that their
paper dollars do not buy one-haf as much as a gold
or silver dollar and are striking for the purpose OF
getting either gold or its equivalent In paper The
boatmen who form large fraction of the industrial
population of Havana and who are indispensable TO
the proper transaction of business in the bay struck
on Monday and have succeeded in getting their own
figures The hackmen, who are on land in Havana
what the boatmen arc on the bay, talk of striking
too and the cigar-m already celebrating
as to what course they shall pursue. Should the
strike become general, II Is very nKely lhat thic
will be serious trouble.
Havana put on new look OH the 9th inst, known
here as Kings" or Devils Day" IL 1871 feast
founded upon the visit of the three kings To the
infant Savior in the manper and upon the hypothe-
sis that one of these kings was black, the ne
groes Of the island have grand jubilee
IN Ihe calculation