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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

y Canaveral. A partir de aquf nos
internamos en- monies v1rgenes de
terreno quebrado, en- donde teniamos
a veoes que abrirnos paso, talando
arboles, acampando el rs en- una al
tura llamada las Raices, EN- que habia
un limpio rodeado de bosque. Nos
advirtieron los gulas que hioiesemos
hogueras en- torno del ,campamento,
pues estaban plngadas de tigres las
inmediaciones. Pronto nos prob6 la
experlencia que no SO nos habfa
enganado: las once de "a noche,
estando la tropa durmiendo nj pie dc
sus pabellones de armas, oimos una
voz penctranta, rapida Y las*imera
articular esta Erase: iFlrgen Santtsi-
nea, aanpG. 49,! y la voz qued6 sofo-
cada. Corrimos armados de fusiles y
tizones encen didos, al sitio de donde
habla partido aquelIa exclamation
aterradora. Solo encon tranos.un ras-
tro de sangre, el morton, un zapato,
una cartuchera con la correa rota,
cagtuchos rega1os y girones do ropa
enredados Ell las zarzas: en- la TERRA
estaban marcadas las anoias hueIlas
do la fiera. Un soldado habfa sido
comido viyo. Nos horrorizamos, 6
instintivamente nos pusimos & REAR
p0r su alma. Volvimos al aiborota'o
campamento, s inmediatame0te ave-
riguamos que Ia vlctinla err un hiza~
rro soldado negro, hijo de Puerto
Oaballo, qne habia heoho valias cam.
pailas con Morales y que era, ademas
de valiente nlAltar, TN buen albanil.
Una necesidad natural le habia lleva.
dp a lugar De eU martiriQ, pssde
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

Nuestro colega Eb Agente de Ne,
gocios recti6ca 81 parrafo de nuestra
correspondence inserta en- nuestro
ndmero del viernes en- que Sc dice
que los diputados de Puerto-Rico
cuando supieron que Sc habfa cerrado
ell mercado de Cuba 4 nuestro tabaco
"se presentaron al ministro de Ultra
mar, y, gracias I. $50 y & un expressive
telegrama del Gobernador General
de esa Isla, Sc ha conseguido que no
Sc lleve 4 cabo senejante medida"
"Tenemos el protundo convenci
miento, dice El Agente, de que los
Diputados per Puerto-Rico, case de
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03
Ramon Rodriguez y Pc

Nueve de estos cinco mas que
iban de San Thomas fueron los que
comctieron ell acto de piraterfa de que
tienen noticia nuestros lectores.
El17 & las diez de la manana fon-
de6 en- Cabo Haitiano ell Pizayro.
ALI conterenci6 su comandante con
el vice-c6nsul franco-espafol, adqui-
riendo una certeza Official del delito
cometido 4 bordo del Moctezun,a. Ell
vice-c6nsul habia tenido lugar de ha-
blar con los pobres pasaeros arroja-
dos en- Port -Paix, y traidos ALI por
una goleta que habian hetado las au-
toridades del dltimo puerto citado, y
ademas encontrabanse en- ell Cabo
unas pasajeras del vapor robado que
confirmaron la exactitud de 10 referi
do por el consul.
Por ell felato verbal que Sc nos ha
hecho y por una carta de un pasajero
que tenemos a la vista, parece que ell
suceso no pas6 exactamente como re-
terlmOs en- un ndmerO anterior, sino
del modo slguiente:
Ell vapor sali6 de Puerto-Plata 81 I
& la una de la tarde+<~a1a hora de CO.
faef aef, eptEe -eihco y seis y cuando AGA
baba de servirse el segundo plato de
sopa, Sc presentaron en- Ia camara tres
hombres con un revolver en- cada ma
no, un machete y un puf1aI al ciuto,
intimando la rendicion del vapor &
nombre de Ia junta ano-insurgen-
te. Ell peruano Prado capitaneaba a
los tres piratas. Ell captain, ell pilo-
to, el maquinista, ell sobrecargo y al
gunos pasajeros que estaban a la me-
ga, por ese movimiento instintivo que
todo hombre tiene q defenderse cada
vez que Sc. We atacado, contestaron
con las botellas, platos y vasos que
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

paradero y fuerzas del enemigo. Pro-
saguimos con mucha precaucion ell 19,
pernoctando en- Caigua, en- donde en-
contramos un alca|de indio, famosO
por SUI inquebrantabie adhesion q la
causa espanola, como 10 habfa de-
mostrado en- Glen combates. Tan
pronto como nos vic pregunt6nos So
llcitamente por la salud del rey, TOGO
una especie de cuerno de caza Sc
presentaron los indios de su esco,ta,
abri6 un cuarto llenO de ARGOS fle-
chas, Y mand6 4 los suyos que Sc
armasen, Y a los pocos de su raza que
venian con nosotros que Sc repusiesen
dc arlnas y ln1iniciones. Dicho alcal.
de tenia organizada una red de espio-
naje fiel por aquellos contornos; al
auoohecer llegaron dos de sus in1ios
medic desnudos, fatigados de tanto
correr.
Senior, dijo el mss versado en- la
lengua oastellaua, dirigiendose al CO.
ronel, despues DO pedida Ia venia &
su jeio, os traigo una gratlsima noti-
eia .El invencible cacique Malta,
honra de nuostra nobleza indfgena Y
el mas esforzado Y leal guerrero que
ha nacid0 en estos wales; ell caciQue
Malta, terror de los insurgentes, que
estaba yigilando ell canton de Buere,
viene caminando por sendas extravia-
das y montes inaccesibles & reuuirse
con Ia columna fsl, porque ha recibi4
do el aviso que le habeis mandado.
Con su poderosa ayuda no es dudosa
Ia victoria de Los soldados del rev,
sss!sss.al
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

Ha descarrjIado el tren corrso de
Blhao Ell 81 puente de San Pelayo,
derrumb5ndose Ia Iocomotora y cuatro
wagones. Ha fallecido el maquinista,
quedando heridos el fogonero y el en-
grasaaor. Los viajeros no expert
mentaron novedad alguna.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

Dice ell Times de San Thomas del
rs del pasado: Ell vapor de guerra
espanol Navas de Iozosa, con IA Ca
nones y 341 tripulantes, comandante
D. r. Alfonso. lego aquf Ell viernes de
Cadiz, de paso para la Habana adon-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

Ell dia s visit6 al presidente del
Consejo de ministries Ell general All
Bey, principe de Constantine, acom-
panado de un Official del ejercito fran
c6s, en- caIidad de interprete.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

Ha sido nombrada maestro de nj
flas de Manatf D. Francisco Tobias
y Galvez.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1876-12-03

Ha sido briIlantemente recibido
por la C6rte de S. NJ. ell Gran duque
The New York herald., 1876-03-04
Is tho President a Fools

We read that the President was "astound-
ed" when he heard of the knaveries of Bel
knap-that the whole thing was "a surprise"
to him, that he had never heard word
against his Cabinet officer, and that his
emotion" when the discovery became
known, was something terrible"
Now if the President had read the New
YORK HERALD of February 10, 1876, he would
have found a despatch from Washington,
column in length, reciting certain facts. he
would have there learned that his Secretary
of War had farmed cut trading stores and
posts. He would have found that the store
at Camp Supply, Indian Territory, paid ten
thousand dollars year, that the store at
Fort Sill paid six thousand dollars year
(precisely as Belknap confesses), that store
in Kansas pays eighteen hundred dollars
year, while Fort Dodge returns two thou
sand. He would have learned that one of
his wifes relations-a real Dent-has
a store in New Mexico, while a rela-
tive of Babcock controls one at Fort
Wallace. He might have gone over the
whole field and easily calculated that the
trading stores at the various forts paid to
some one very near his person at least hun
dred thousand dollars year. He would
have read the charge there distinctly made
that the recipient of this blackmail- black
mail levied upon the poorly paid officers and
soldiers of the army-was his own Secretary
of War. He would have read in these
columns the very facts which Belknap con-
fessed.
President Grant is not fool What was
printed to the world in hundred thousand
newspapers was certainly within his reach.
If he were an honest President, seeking to
do right, he would have inquired at once
into these charges. We made them because
we knew them to be true, not to annoy the
administration, which is far from our intent;
not to destroy General Belknap, for whom
we had no feeling but kindness, but to ex-
pose q crowning shame We made these
charges in the interest of the public The
President in ignoring them failed in his
duty.
Now let the President-having seen that
a part of this news is confirmed by his own
Secretary of War-refer to the files of the
HERALD and read our further narratives. Let
him inquire into the New Mexico stores, and
see how much money one of the Dents has
made out of the soldiers. Let him ask Bah
cock how much money his relatives make
out Of Fort Wallace Then let him send for
his own brother and question him about the
money that was made in the Sioux country
by starving squaws and children. The
President will find it all printed in the
HERALD of last July, column after column,
in great detail from correspondent sent
by us into that country to seek out these
frauds.
The President is certainly not fool. His
friends impeach his sanity when they say
gravely that he is ignorant of facts which,
as we have shown to-day, and might con-
tinue to show in even greater detail, have
all been printed in the HERALD.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04
Indictment and tho state Prison.

impeachment is a process altogether out
of the ordinary criminal and merely vulgar
range; it implies not simply crimes and
misdemeanors, but "high" crimes and misde-
meanors, the large offences that result when
great souls find the limits of the law too
little for the indulgences of vigorous vi
tality. In our studies it is associated with
the parade of Justice in her grandest pano-
ply. One remembers the tremendous ora
ton that drove Verres to immediate flight
and left no opportunity for the delivery of
the five others. 1t calls up the story of War
rem Hastings and revives the days when the
country was divided over the acts of Andrew
johnson. That is not the kind of process to
apply to the sordid creature who deals in q
bribery that in its last resort is taken out of
the officers and soldiers who guard our from
bribery that compels a soldier to pay
twenty-five cents for glass of whiskey
which would be dear at five. For this man in
dictmert and the State Prison-the ordinary
machinery for the punishment of ordinary
malefactors-is the only one in character.
Impeachment is moreover, conceived in the
political fabric as the means of reaching
the offences out of the scope of the ordinary
courts In England it is the only trial of an
offender at which he may not plead the royal
pardon, and in this country all the impeach-
ments have been for acts not punishable by
the statutes but Belknap's delinquency is
within reach of the commonest kind of JUS
tice. There comes sort of promise from
Washington that the President has deter
mined to mete out this kind of justice to his
offending Secretary of War The Attorney
General is to proceed against General Bel
KNAPP in a criminal prosecution and try him
in the courts for the vulgar offence of which
he was guilty. AS Marsh is to be included
in this prosecution it is difficult to see from
what source the government expects to get its
evidence for Belknaps conviction unless his
confession is alone to be relied upon. But
President Grant may be in earnest neverthe-
less. If he is we are disposed to give him
full credit for the act, and we are free to say
that Belknaps conviction and punishment
upon criminal prosecution would 60 far
to redeem the Presidents hasty and ill
judged acceptance of his Secretary's resigna-
ton. Indeed, it is the only thing left
open to General Grant whereby he can
save his own honor in this unfortunate
transaction.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

PROBE DEEP We like the resolution fol-
the investigation of the improvements of the
District of Columbia There have been more
assertions in reference to the manner in
which the improvements of the District OF
Columbia were made than of any other act
of the administration. If true, not only
should Governor Shepherd be pun
ished by imprisonment but the severest
censure should fall upon all in power
who have either shared in his rascality Oh
countenanced him in its enjoyment. But
let the whole business be investigated. This
coming campaign for the Presidency prom
ises to be rich in scandals and slanders. The
sooner we know what are really sins and
what are mere averments meant to hurt or
aid party the better for the canvass and the
better for the public sense now deadened by
this Niagara of scandal which has poured over
the country for the past few years. Let the
whole District of Columbia business be probed
and probed deep.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

THE MAcDouGAL WRIT, which was issued
on the 10th of January last, was served on
General Schenck yesterday, as will be seen
by the special cable despatch to the HERALD
this morning, when the Minister was about
leaving London on his return to this country.
The service was an absurdity, apart from
the question of General Schenck's guilt
or innocence of the charges regard
ing the Emma mine, and we are sorry
the English courts permitted its issue in dis
regard of the rights of the defendant Atthe
same time we should like to see General
Schenck take his trial like any ordinary man.
He forgot he was an ambassador when he
commended the Emma mine scheme, and it
would be refreshing to find him forgetting
il again, now that he is asked to undergo a
trial in the English courts
The New York herald., 1876-03-04
The Aoeeptane. OF tn. Resignation.

The Acceptance OF the Resignation.
The Presidents acceptance of Mr.. Bel
knap's resignation is an act worse than the
offence of the Secretary. To screen him from
the consequences Of this arbitrary interfer-
ence between Congress and the guilty otncial
General Grants friends claim that he was
not aware of the extent of the Secretary's
offences when he accepted the resignation.
But this defence will not do. The President
had been informed of the scandals of the
War Department, and besides this the very
fact that Mr.. Belknap resigned was revela-
ton enough. President Grant had no ex-
cuse under these circumstances for accepting
the resignation instantaneously and with
''great regret" but was bound by official
dignity and duty to consult with the Cabinet
and await the action of Congress.
The reasons why we consider the act of
the President worse than the offence of the
Secretary are these =
FirSt-The President has endeavored Off
cially to protect criminal who confessed to
him his crime. 1t matters not how far that
crime was confessed or how confused and
incoherent" was the manner of the offender.
The President knew there was guilt
Second-The President has endeavored to
prevent Congress from vindicating the honor
of the Republic. The disgrace which Mr.
Belknap inflicted upon the country required
that Congress should instantly purge the
government by his impeachment and con-
viction. This was necessary to the honor of
the country, and this the President has for
hidden. The articles of impeachment
adopted by the House, it is feared, will fall
like spent bullets The President has par
doned Mr.. Belknap before the Senate could
try him.
1hird-The President crowns by this act
of interference long series of acts of pro-
lection to officials who were suspected or
accused or convicted of crime. The list
need not be repeated now but the final act
casts retroactive shadow over q record
already dark and doubtful enough.
Fourth-General Grant has by this act
placed the Executive in suspicious atti-
tude in the sight of the world. What the
world may think of Ulysses S. Grant may
not be important, but in the opinion that
other nations may hold of the President
of the United States the people have GER
tainly an interest. The President disgraces
the people when he uses his authority to
protect criminals and puts veto upon their
punishment. The felony of the Secretary
of War was bad enough, but the act by which
the President removed him from the hands
of Congress, and tried to battle impeachment
and prevent the nation from vindicating
its honor, constitutes moral offence which
the law may not be able to punish, but which
the people, who made the laws, will not for
give.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

whose character it guaranteed by electing or
appointing them disgrace themselves and it
by scandalous malversation. 1t does not
acts" and individual weakness" entail no
consequences which reach beyond them
selves.
In the present shocking case, which fills
the whole country with disgust and indigna-
ton, the blame, to be sure, lies primarily
upon Secretary Belknap, but it is justly
shared by President Grant and by the party
which gave political bonds for the purity of
President Grants administration. 1t is pre-
posterous TO whine about the injustice of
other people suffering for crimes not their
own when it lies in the very nature of free
government that a political party stands in
the relation of bondsmen for the officers it
puts in power, and that the condition of the
guarantee is political forfeiture if the officers
fail in their duty. 1t remains for the people
of the United States to declare, by the regular
method of elections. that the republican party
has justly incurred this forfeiture
1t will not do to make scapegoat of Bel
KNAPP nor even of President Grant. The
republican party is responsible for both of
them and for the multitude of other officers
who have abused their trust and disgraced
their country. Senator Cameron's indignant
criticisms of the President are only half
just 1t is true enough, as Mr. Cameron
alleges that the President has caught up
obscure men of no political standing and
foisted them into the highest positions from
mere personal favoritism. But how has he
been able to do this when the Senate holds
n check on all his appointments The an
swer is easy and it lays bare the core of the
present hideous corruption. The republi-
can Senators have assumed, as one Of their
rights, to control the chief federal appoint
ments in their own States-that is, they tell
the President whom they want appointed to
this or that Office, and he complies with their
wishes. But he complies on this understood
condition: that they are not to vote against
the confirmation of his favorites for offices
which he wishes to fill himself The natu-
raj fruit of this log-rolling arrangement, by
which part of the offices are farmed out in
order that the President may have complete
control of others, is the revolving corruption
which pervades every department of the
public service. Instead of the joint action
of the President and Senate which the con-
stitution contemplates and caution requires,
the rule is kept in form but violated in sub
stance, and the President and each republi-
can Senator has a bundle of appointments
which he virtually makes according to his
own pleasure. 1t is futile and ridiculous to
contend that the whole republican party is
not responsible when all its chief members
have selishly contributed to build up the
system which has covered the administration
with disgrace.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

Mr.. MARSH Some of the "organs" assail
Mr. Marsh with Characteristic ferocity. No
body can altogether admire that gentleman's
career; but he is not, as they seem to as
and put under oath, and so the story came
out evidently not by his volition. But the
organs perhaps believe that man who had
participated in such corruption should not
have stopped at perjury. But Marsh clearly
thought he must draw the line somewhere,
and in this only showed the possession of
conscience. In any just view of the subject
it will be conceded that this wretched per-
son has at least made to the nation all the
reparation that was in his power in further
ing the ends of justice by making o clean
breast Of it
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

GENERAL SHERMAN would make an excellent
dd interim Secretary of War. His thorough
knowledge of the department and the affairs
of the army; his practical habits, and the
uncompromising spirit in which he would
overhaul jobbery, all designate him as the
man for the place at the present moment.
Why did not President Grant name General
Sherman instead of Mr.. Robson, who, if
rumor speaks true, will have quite enough
to do to straighten out matters in his own
department? If there are other and greater
abuses than this sutlership scandal in the
War Department, Sherman is the man to deal
with them vionrouslv and nromntlv-
The New York herald., 1876-03-04
Grant ON Removal Under Fire.

From the Presidents declarations it ap-
pears that he will not remove man "while
under fire." but it also appears that if man
who is under fire wishes to run away the
President will help him and endeavor to
cover his retreat. So long as allegations are
made against an officer of malfeasance or
misconduct in ofice-allegations which
seem merely to require that the person i'm
plicated should get out of Office and give
place to one who will perform its duties with
more regard to the public interests-then
the President is solicitous with regard to the
side of the case that concerns the mans
honor He will sustain him. have faith in
him and otherwise assist him to answer the
allegations from the standpoint of man in
position-which is certainly better than the
standpoint of man dismissed, and, there
fore, under quasi condemnation. There is,
in that view of the case o notion the people
appreciates the more, because it not merely
gives the man a chance to explain from high
ground, but puts him under the obligation
to do so.
But it appears that the President takes a
different view when the case is the other
way for when the charges against q man
are of such a nature that his vacation of
Office is not satisfaction to justice, but an
escape from it when the charges require an
examination while the man is in Office and
his dismissal from Office and exclusion from
all other offices are seen to be the principal
penalties that the law can impose when his
abandonment of Office enables him to slip
through the fingers of the law-then the
President, who would sustain man in Office
against accusations, does not require his
man to remain in Office and face accusa-
tions. On the contrary, he not only permits
his man to run, but takes time by the fore
lock to give him an early start, and becomes
the accomplice of his fight.
From both points of view, therefore, it ap-
pears that the President takes far livelier
interest in the fortunes and welfare of his
men in Office than in the efficient administra-
ton of the public service. If the public in
terest requires that rogue shall be removed
from Office the President keeps him there,
under cover of an epigram that seems to in
yolve principle ; and when this principle
itself is depended upon in another case to
hold man where justice can get at him,
behold the principle has evaporated, the
man is gone and the President is assisting
his escape. But the President is a man who
islands by his friends and what friends
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

THAT THE CENTENNIAL YEAR of the Re-
public should be attended by national
disgrace is too truly misfortune. But it is
also the year of Presidential election, and
it is well that the people should know their
danger. Let us have the bottom facts, that
we may vote in light and not in darkness.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

DoN CARLOS was still in France at the latest
accounts. He is man without q country,
and, like the others of his name, he will
probably die in exile. Carlism has been un-
fortunate for Spain and for the pretenders
from whom it derives its name, and it is to
be hoped the Spanish people have seen the
last of the Carlist wars.
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

WALL STREET YESTERDAY Fancy stocks,
with the exception of Western Union, were
firm. The market, however, is unsettled
and gives evidence of manipulation. Gov
eminent bonds are in good request by in
at Ia 5-S. Money was supplied at 2 8 1-2
rer cent
The New York herald., 1876-03-04

MINISTER ORTH is about leaving Austria
10 return TO this country. We presume his
purpose in returning is to make his canvass
for Governor of Indiana 1t is sign of
healthy republicanism when American states
men are willing to give up high positions
abroad for the honor of being Governor Of
pne OF the States Of the Union. and Mr.. Orth
Is to be congratulated on the impulse which
brings him home.