Year: 1871




Spanish Volunteers at Havana, will once
more call the attention of the civilized
world to the unhappy condition Of Cuba
The Volunteers have gradually gained
possession of the island, and now admin
| lister affairs by mob law with military ma
chinery. Spain has virtually abdicated
and though the Captain-G General made a
show of refusing to give up to the ruff
| fans the students who had desecrated the
grave of Gen. Castanon. he surrendered
| at a moro urgent demand It now stands
on record that this brutal soldiery took
from the civil authorities eight of these
boy-students, condemned them at the
drum head and put them summarily 10
death. This atrocious murder is more
conspicuous than many that have pre-
ceeded it, but is not greater outrage
1t ought to raise an inquiry among other
nations as to the pronriety of intervening
in the interests of humanity. Civilza-
ton cannot look on calmly while these
lswless butchers rule Cuba With bloody
hand.


The big guns and shrewd ones among
the rebellious Democracy are having a
great deal to say about the passive policy.
Since the fall elections they feel that they
are past recovery, but the small fry seem
determined not only to pass but to play
it alone without single trump higher
than the knave in their hand. This bill
gave promise to be just interesting enough
10 be entertaining during the coming sea-
son. The new departure is dead as
last years almanac. 1t never did amount
to much. The passive plan re-adopts the
broadhead letter of Frank Blair and the
fry harrangues Of Bob Toombs. What
rejoicing there is in Dixie as the joyful
sounds pass down the rebel ranks and are
re-echoed from the Ku- Klux dens. Pas
siveness; yes, that's a new name for the
old rebel sell with which so many of us
are perfectly familiar. The bait won't
catch gudgeons.


The small fry Democracy take great
pride in boasting of the foreign wars
which that party undertook. The war of
1872 history records was began without
cause and ended without a result. 1t
furnished an immense amount of bum
combe but little of anything else to the
army. Lundy's Lane and New Orleans
would hardly pass as respectable skirm
ishes now days. The navy made good
record. The Mexican war was war of
conquest for the manifest purpose Of ex-
tending slavery, begun without cause and
was wholly unjusti6able except upon the
ground of conquest. 1t was a successful
war in which the army made good re-
cord. The principle war of Democracy
was the great war of the rebellion iE
which the Democratic party fought well
but finely surrendered en- naossc to the
pairiots of the north. Since that time
treason and Democracy have synonymous
terms.


The confessing Ku. Klux accuse Frank
Blair of being their Grand Cyclops in the
United States. Both mythology and
psychology prove the correctness of this.
Frank not only has but a single I in his
head, but be is very fond of drink.


Seneca county, New York, has just
brought itself within the lines of civilian
ton. For the first time since its orKkDi-
zation. it gave Republican majority
this fall.


The Philadelphia Press says the actiY-
ity that prevails in every ship-yard on the
banks of the Delaware demonstrates how
rapidly Pennsylvania is taking the posi-
ton so long held by Maine, and how iron
is superseding wood in ship building
The American Steamship Company and
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company are
buildingsten first class steamers, and the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has de-
termined on the establishment Of line of
steamers between that port and Antwerp,
and closed contract for the building of
three iron steamships of twenty-five
hundred tons burden each, to be flushed
before the first of January, 1873. This
contract has undoubtedly been secured
by local firm, and it is probable that
1872 will sec thirteen, if not more, mag
ui6cent ocean goirg vessels on the stocks.
Seven of these will be designed for the
transportation Of trade across the ocean,
and. with the vast connections and mighty
wealth Of the Pennsylvania Company
discriminating in their favor, haye the
assurance OF successful career. They
will constitute a mercantile navy of which
the whole country may well be proud.


A dispatch from Minneapolis says, on
| account of the severity of the early win
ter in the north, work on the Norther Pa
ci6c Railroad is seriously retarded. There
is about one foot of snow on level in
the vicinity of Red River. Monday
morning the thermometer was about 260
below zero at Brainard, and $50 below at
the Red River crossing. A heavy wiod
prevailed, filing the cuts and stopping
the trains. Snow rlows and number
of engines are employed to clear the track.
Construction has entirely ceased. but the
men hope to be able to resume in day
or so The cold snapped the telegraph
wires in many places. cutting communi.
cation With Dakota and Ft. Garry.
| The Senate Finance Committee is di-
vided on the question of abolishing the
income tax but the majority favor the
sweeping away of all internal revenue
taxes, except on whisky, beer. and tobac-