The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1898-06-09
SPAlN'S IDEA OF Us.

a Remarkable Display Of ignorance
Over There.
The ignorance Of Spain passes under
standing, says the Chicago Times-Her-
ald The proud Castillians ~ho prate
nhout their national honor have no
adequate conception of America or the
americans. In nation IS per cent OF
which is illiterate, it's net strange that
popular misrepresentation should be en-
.ertained concerning a foreign nation
thousands OF miles away: but it seems
queer that the press and the public
leaders of Spain should be SO woefuily
~ the dark concerning American mat
sess.
General Correa, the Spanish Minis
Ter Of War, recently said: THE war
will not be confined 70 Cuba What is
60 hinder us from taking our army to
zfhe United States some night and in
yesting the CAPITOL al Washington next
day 2''
One of the leading journals of Mad
rid, .iaeJmpareial, editorially remark
ed on April I'd: 49,.
It is q fact we'll known to all Euro
peau statesmen that only by means Of
armed force stationed in the late Con-
eederate States has the Washington gov
ernmentbeen able to preserve the SEM
blance of peace. EYea now the new
generation Of the Confederacy is but
waiting for the %ord to revolt When
war is declared General Lee, who has
been Consul General at Havana and
yso was Kicked out OF Cuba by Gen
eral Blanco. will raise the standard of
seyolt and the old Southern Confeder-
aay. This Lee IS the same Lee who
vas general in chief OF the civil war in
1850 TO 1856, and who surrender to
Gen. Lincoln in the last named year
broke the revolution. His acts at Ra-
Ssna were for the purpose Of plnnging
the government into war with the
Singdonn Of Spain, at which time he
and his followers would rise against
:Senor Mackindley.
Ell Eersldo dc Madrid furnishes this
valuable bit Of information concerning
the United States sroops. .
All the troops Of the Yankees are in
the far western part Of the country,
many thousand miles frem the Atlantic
coast. There are only few thousand
men, all told, and tbs5 are i'll paid and
ln-fed, and not~willing to fight To
asiiiGe this ISorce it will be necessary
20 bring it to the eastern seaboard.
---sse.ezS sSsHut one railway by which it
can be transported, snd that is an old
md poorly constructed affair. At one
place th5s railroad passes over Niagara
Falls, cataract q thousand feet high,
aeaT Labrador. At last accounts the
bridge at this place was in very dan
serous condition. It need surprise no
II still more SO. III.
El Tempo prints this special dis
patch from Havana:
Word has just been received hereth
the indians are rising against the Yam
!cees in Illinois, Ohio, and ethef places.
The farmers are petitioning the govern
ment TO protect them from the blood
thirsty saysges, who are burning houses
and killing on every side Troops are
asked for st Colorado. ip the State Of
Denver and at ST. Louis (San Luis in
Missipa. News IS brought to us: that
Buffalo BILL, notorious outlaw and
leader of band of half breeds. has
risen against the American government
and IS burning towns near his birth
place in New York. -- ....
FL Dierio truthfullv says: ''It will
40 doubt surprise our readers to learn
that toe Yankee President, Magginly,
is snaturalized Cbinaman, having been
born in Canton"
FL Pals draws this beautiful pen pic
ture of the United States.
Ehe country is not fit to live in. The
climate is execrablc, When it is not
sleeting or showing the heat is almost
unbearsble. Avalapches are frequent at
ail times and these threaten the prirci-
pal cities As for the people, besides
the few whites engaged in business
elong the eastern shore, The renainde.
OF the country is one vast plain, cover
Cd with Indians called cowboys, ard
great herds ofroamipg cattle.
It Is mistake to say. as our school
histories do, that "America was dis
covered By Spain IN 1892. Spain has
not discovered this country yet.