ish consul was apparently somewhat ashamed of the part he had taken in
the matter, for when the case came up he refused to give any evidence.

* * * * *

Spain has more troubles on hand.

There has been a revolt in Porto Rico, another of the West Indian Islands
which belong to Spain.

This revolt was of no very great importance, and was very quickly put
down. It would have been hardly worth mentioning, but that it followed so
closely on the news of an outbreak in the Spanish provinces on the African
coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that it became noteworthy as a sign of the
breaking up of Spain's vast colonial system.

Spain has now five different quarters to fear, five different revolts in
various portions of her domains. Her enemies are within her own borders.

She has the Cuban war, the war in the Philippines, the revolt in Porto
Rico, the Carlist riots, and the revolt in her African colonies.

She certainly seems to have her hands full.

She has done her best to keep the African troubles to herself, but the
news has at last come out, and with it the fact that Spain cannot spare a
single soldier to go and subdue it.

* * * * *

The waters of the Mississippi are still rising, and as yet there is no
hope of the floods subsiding.

Every day news is sent of fresh crevasses formed and of more levees
broken.

While the city of New Orleans has not yet suffered, there is hourly fear
that it will be flooded. The levees are breaking in all directions, and in
the near neighborhood of New Orleans fresh breaks are feared, which will
send a vast volume of water flowing toward the city.

A government report from Tennessee says that nearly eight hundred square
miles of territory is covered with water, from three to seven feet deep.
What cabins are still standing are filled with people and cattle, crowding
the upper floors or huddled together on rafts moored to the houses.

In Missouri the levees protecting Davis Island, the home of Jefferson
Davis, have given way, and the island is submerged.

Davis Island was densely populated, as about twenty-five hundred people
lived on it. Help had to be sent for, and steamers and barges came down
and rescued the people and the cattle.

Telephone and telegraph messages are being hourly received from points
along the river, asking for boats to come and save the unfortunate people,
who in many cases are clinging to tree