The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-19

papers are incensed against the United States
for what they regard as the encouragement
given to the dynamite conspirators on this
side of the Atlantic. The London Observer
says that demand may well be made of the
American Government to change its laws so
as to reach dynamiters if they cannot be
reached under existing statutes, because 'the
main contention in favor of the Alabama
claims was that it is the duty of every gov
eminent to have such municipal law as will
prevent injury to citizens of a friendly State"
The London Times is generous enough to
express its disbelief that 1.-THE American po-
lice would connive at the sending of internal
machines across the Atlantic" but adds that
''an open crusade is preached in America
against England, and funds are collected there
fore and the things which have been threatened
have been DONE"
England has in past times stood up nobly
in defense of foreign refugees whose extradi-
ton has been demanded at her hands on polit-
ical grounds. She can scarcely expect the
American Republic to be less indulgent to-
wards political refugees than she has herself
been.
With people who rave and rant against for
eign tyranny and real or imaginary wrongs on
the part of the Government they have aban-
doned, our Government cannot interfere. Ii
any person should attempt to fit ont a hostile
expedition against any friendly nation, or to
export dynamite for the purpose of blowing
England out of the water, they would find
themselves very speedily under the restraint
of our laws. We deplore the use of dynamite
by the Celtic enemies of England as cruel,
senseless crime, for it accomplishes nothing
but the slaughter and manning of innocent
persons. Butw can only place proper police
restrictions over the manufacture of any ex-
i l. do
as the London Times seems to desire, We
should imprison everybody who ''preaohes a
crusade against England or ''pollepts funds
therefor we should have to greatly enlarge
our prisons and depopulate most OF our cities.
Official dispatches from Madrid give ac-
counts of the operations of the insurgents
in Cuba. Aguero's band of flibusters had
been augmented to 1000, and they had taken
a position near Ciego de Anila. The insur-
gents were received by reclamation in the vii
lagos, where the patrocinados freed slaves
themselves had Joined the column, after hav-
ing set fire to four plantations and sacked the
safes of the receiver of taxes. The receiver
of Trinidad, who was making his rounds from
the direction of Santo Espiritu, accompanied
by the ordinary escort of twenty cazadores,
fell into the hands of the insurgents, who
overpowered his guard and took from him sew
eral thousand dollars which he was conveying
to Trinidad Aguero and his army will reach,
early in the week, the mountains of Las Tu-
mas and of Bagamo, the old seat of the late
instruction. Captain General Castillo holds
two councils of war day. An official de-
spatch from Cuba reports that band of AZ
insurgents, under Duran, who intended join
ing Aguero, were attacked by troops and SS
men were killed.
A despatch has been received at the De-
partment of State, Washington, announcing
that, on the representations of our minister
there, the Italian Government very courteous
ly issued the necessary order to prevent the
sale recently decreed by the Court of Casa
ti0n of the school properly known as the
HAmerican College at Home"