Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-03

Themselves to some purpose, and their
achievements, as reported from Suakim
throw an additional lustre on Osmau
Dlgna's generalship in contrast with the
futile threats Of the Mahdi. The Haden.
dowas, the chief Bedouin tribe of the
Red Sea coast, have routed the Benz
Amer tribe while the latter were eDdeav.
oring to relieve Kassaha, and q force OF
rebels have fallen upon the loyal guardi-
ans Of the Roweyah salt minee, 800 miles
north Of the Kassaia and 100 miles uI
the sea from Suakim, killing
msny of them, and taking posses.
sion of the mines, while the sur.
vivors are making their way to Suakim
by boats. This is of evil omen for the
British campaign, which is now in fact
practically defeated before 1t is begun,
Gordon is safe In Khertoum, negatively
safe, but Wolseley 10 unlikely to get to
him, and the allies Of the British and
faithful subjects of tho khedive are get.
ting sadly punished with no one near to
help, The Abysslnian alliance negotiated
by Gen. Hewett was expected to protect
the BENZ Amer. but 1t was as weak a
hope az any of the others.
1t is significant of the unhappy oondi
ton of Spain that the officials Of Madrid
are worrying themselves over q rumoI
that Dor Carlos, who is now OF Bombay,
Ia to be given a series of receptions by the
Roman Catholics of India. In almost any
other country such welcomes would
scarcely be thought of a second time; but
the Spanlards are honestly fearful that
attentions paid to the Bourbon pretendei
will pr~eclpitate revolution in the Basque
provinces. The fact is that Spain Is in q
wretched plight. Discomfort and the
spirit of rebellion are rife everywhere,
and the authorities do not know at what
moment 1t may break forth into active
resistance. Yet, like the great empire at
the opposite end of Europe, Spain hugs
the delusion that the more the people
cry out the more violently should their
protests be smothered.
Bismarck Is reported as saying recently
tnat Russia can derive nothing but Mill
ism from Europe, and that her true mis-
sion is In Asia, where she can "plsy the
role of a civilizing power" England
thinks that this Is her mission, too, and in
her present excited state she will be apt
to see in this utterance even better evil
dence of Bismarck's sinister purpose to
weaken British influence In every posi-
BILE way. Indeed, she had already
taken sudden alarm at the fact that the
triple alliance was for the peace of Eu-
rope only, and ''said nothing about Asia"
and she has been half inclined to be.
lieve that Germany would not be averse
to seeing Russia extend her Asiatic do
main to the southeast.
The Cuban patriots in this country are
upon the eve of some active movement;
there is q good deal of the hustle of
preparation among them, and in southern
Florida there appears to be positive ex.
element, as though something has been
done, o, is to be accomplished. Mean
while In Cuba there is a s%currying of
troops amp a general activity among the
authorities; and the various rumor set
aloat would indicate that there had been
some sort of revolt among the govern
ment soldiery which the officials are en-
deavoring to conceal, and that revolu-
tionists are beginning to appear on the
northwest coast, In the neIghborhood of
M~atanzas. If 80, they are probably the
advance guard of q large party headed by
Gen. Gomez.