Year: 1875

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Governor Ames promised that In view Of the state
ment made by the citizens, he was willing TO meet
their views far he could, and TO meet that end
he promised that he would order all militia compa.
mes which had been organized TO dsperse and 60 Ia
their homes without their arms. But, on further
consultation Il agreed that the arms Of the sew
eral companies should he deposited In depots In the
neighborhood where the companies were raised, and
should there he susrled by United States troops "a
be detailed for that purpose, and to he under the
control Of the Governor, and TO he removed only on
his order. Or u the United States troops could no,
he gotten, then the arm. were to he guarded by men
selected by the Governor md General George; that
the arms would not again I've delivered TO the militia
except in Of riot nsurrecion which could no,
be suppressed by the civil authorities


a Spanish Scandal.


Foreign Correspondence Of the Boston Journal.


Revolution is again imminent in
Spain. The usual precursors Of a storm
(clandestine hsndbills addressed to the
army and to the people) have already
made their appearance on the streets, and
are slyly passed from hand to hand
under the noses of the police, and in
spite of all their efforts to suppress
them. The spirit of revolution is just
now doubly fomented by a mysterious
and foul tragedy, all knowledge of which
the authorities are vainly endeavoring to
cover up. Several persons have already
been arrested and hurried off into the
dungeons, nobody knows where, simply
for having been heard speaking of the
subject on the streets or in the cafes
The newspapers have been threatened,
and not one of them dares lisp syllable
on the subject. But it is constantly
talked of in bated breath, with closed
doors; in fact, tie whole story has been
printed on small slips Of paper and Sc
cretly circulated.


The facts appear to be as follows: The
King and Duke of Sexto have been cor
rupting the wife and daughter of an
officer in the army, whose home is the
second or third door from Mr.. Cushing's.
He was in the North fighting, but hear
ing Of the Kings frequent visits at his
house he came suddenly to the city, and
entering his home late at night found the
King and the Duke of Sexto in the
house. He shot at the King and missed
him, but was himself shot dead by the
Duke of Sexto, who was behind him.
The street police heard the pistol shots,
and came running to the rescue, but were
sent about their business. The body
was given to a night watchman, who
carried it nobody knows where, and is
now receiving, it is said, four hundred
dollars a month. The maid servant,
who was an eye witness of the murder,
disappeared the next day-some say was
assassinated. But she had time to tell
her lover. When he found she was dis
posed Of he hid himself for some days,
but venturing out at last was found
dead in the street, stabbed, one morning.
The judge before whom the case of the
first murder should have come, being
man of more than usual frmness of
character, and having a knowledge of the
facts, was determined that some kind of
justice should be done. Many fattering
official positions were offered him If he
would desist from his purpose, which he
sternly refused to do, when suddenly one
of the papers announced that he had
committed suicide. The other papers do
not dare even to mention his death, or to
make any comments; and the courts
have taken no notice of the whole bust
ness, though the story is already repeated
from Lisbon to Barcelona. The mother
and daughter have been privately hur-
ried off to Bayonne.


Already rhymes like the following
have been printed and circulated in the
streets:


En- Ia doctrina Christiana


Dice el quinto, no maisr;


Pero Ia gente Alfonsina,


Por miedo de no pecar,


1iene un sepo que asesina.


Which rendered literally is


In the Christian doctrine


Says the Fffth Command n,ent, Do not kin


But the Alionslst gentry


For fear Of not SHINING,


Have sixth Do not assassinate.


As the Catholics have omitted the in
Second Commandment, the
Sixth has become their Fifth. The pun
on the Duke de Sexto's name is very
telling, as the last line may also be read
in Spanish, "Have a Sexto who assas-
sinates."


can not vouch for the truthfulness Of
all the details of this horrible story. |
But there seems to be no doubt that the
officer came home at night and found
Alfonso and the Duke de Sexto in the
of his wife and daughter; that
he was shot by one of them and his body
of secretly; that the maid |
servant and her lover have suddenly dis
appeared; that the wife and daughter
have been secretly conveyed to Bay
onne; that the judge died by violence
that there has been no judicial investiga-
tion Of the villainy; that there is intense
feeling in the community; that the pa
pers have been profoundly silent; that
several persons have been imprisoned for
'aihihb VI shc suoJeetp ehat NShoNas hei
the Prime Minister, has re-
signed, and that radical change has
been made in the Ministry in liberal
in the hope Of wardipg of a
revolution.


The young king appears to be going
the way Of his mother As is customary
in Spain, those who surround the soyer-
eign try to govern him by his passions.
So, II is said, Amadeo was ruined and
the peace Of his family destroyed. They |
SOW the wind and reap the whirlwind.
The corruption in high places and in
low is appalling. From the crown of the
head TO the sole of the foot there is no
soundness in them.


"If dogs tail is cut of entirely, will
il not interfere with his locomotionG'