army left."

The American vessels have taken no part in the fight between Spain and
the insurgents; Admiral Dewey has contented himself with superintending
and insisting upon proper conduct of affairs. The news he sends is
exceedingly cheerful, and he seems to be quite confident that he can
hold out until reinforcements arrive; he anticipates no trouble in
capturing the city of Manila.

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Lieutenant Carranza's missing letter has been found. You will remember
we told in our last number of the arrest of a Montreal detective who had
been arrested and accused of stealing it. It was not taken by the
Montreal detective, but by a secret service officer of our Government.
It seems that the Spanish officials at Montreal have been very carefully
watched for some time, for it was known that they were spying upon our
Government. The detectives had followed Minister Polo and his staff ever
since they left Washington, and had secured absolute proof that Du Bosc
and Carranza were collecting information and forwarding it to the
Spanish Government. On the pretext of purchasing the house, they were
shown all over it, and succeeded in securing a number of important
letters, cablegrams, maps, etc., which were forwarded to the Government.
The letter which Carranza has made so much fuss about was stolen in a
very clever way. The detective took a sheet of fly paper, and in a
careless way dropped it over the letter; then took up the fly paper and
the letter attached to it, and passed it to another detective, who at
once forwarded it to Washington. Part of the letter has been published.
It is addressed to his Excellency Don Jose Gomez Imay. In it Carranza
expresses his regret that Imay was not appointed to command the Cadiz
fleet; he speaks disparagingly of Camara and highly of Cervera; most of
this part of the letter is in reference to his personal employment by
the Government, and he expresses great anxiety to be away to the front
and in active service on the fleet.

Speaking of his spy system, he says: "We have had bad luck because they
have captured our two best spies. The Americans are showing the most
extraordinary vigilance. I shall be extremely gratified to have a ship
or a torpedo-boat to run the blockade, or anything rather than playing
second fiddle." These quotations go to show that Carranza was not
over-pleased with the work of conducting the spy department in Canada.
He takes the trouble