d the Cubans try to do the same toward the Spanish. Between the two
the island is being laid waste.

General Lee also says that he has distributed about $15,000 of the
$50,000 appropriated by Congress for the relief of the sufferers. He
says that there are very few native-born Americans among those who
apply to him for help. They are mostly Cubans who have come to America
and become naturalized.

Considerable anxiety is being felt on the score of General Woodford's
mission.

He has been presented to the Queen Regent, and we must now wait
patiently to know how the Spanish Government will receive the message
which he bears from our President.

There are new rumors of a Carlist rising.

It is stated that Don Carlos and his advisers are still waiting for a
favorable opportunity to come forward and press their claims.

Don Carlos is still afraid of prejudicing the people against him by
coming forward and trying to seize the throne at a moment when the
country is in so much trouble. He is hoping that the new leaders of the
Government will make some mistake which will render it possible for him
to come forward and declare himself the only person who can save the
country.

It is stated on most reliable authority that the Carlists have secretly
established an elaborate military organization. They have, so it is
said, made lists of all the men who are willing to fight for Don Carlos,
and have arranged and mustered them in troops and companies, posting
each man as to his place and duties. When the time comes that the
Carlists unfurl their standard and revolt against the Government of
Spain, they expect, by these means, to have a well-drilled army to back
up the claims of the Pretender.

Arrangements have been made for the Carlist leaders to meet at Lucerne
in Switzerland. They are to discuss the situation. Many of them think
that they have been passive long enough, and that it is now high time
that a decided attempt should be made to secure the crown for their
candidate.

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A flutter of excitement was caused in this country the other day by the
news that a Spanish officer had been inspecting our Southern coast
defences, and had made sketches of some of them to send to Madrid.

Our Government ordered the matter investigated, and it was found that
the man who had apparently been spying on our forts was a lieutenant in
the Spanish navy named Sobrai. He is known to us as being the