The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 1

LAST EDITION. HrTU mm ITU VOL. XLIII. NO. 142.

RAIiEIGH, N. THUBSDAT MOItNIKG, FEBRUARY 17, 1898. Leads-Jail Other North Carolina Dailies in Both News and -Gelation. ewe TIE COAST DEFEHSES De LOME Qtl DISASTER it would, hare to pn-pnre It-lf to tukt" part in the affair of the world. He only wanted to proTld the hip, bot b'lievM in wending them wbero thy were needed for the protection of mxr people, and occaknilIy to place wlwre THE MAINE'S MUTE STORY IS TOLD BY 253 DEAD SAILORS di'taater I the sreab-t of the kind In Naval hi-tnr Hie aiiikia of the IJjr Hritinu a rhip Victoria by eob linion iru the Caroperdowu in the Mcliterranenn.

off Malta, Jane, 18tX Ily that accident tW Britbh Admiral coiunntHliiijr. tweuty-itrw officeea au4 thrw hundred a-t thirty-U men loet their Uto. Officers Jenkins and Merritt Among the Dead and There Are Only 96 Survivors. OPINION NOW LEANS AGAINST i THE THEORY OF SPANISH TREACHERY MEN EXNIKSS THEMSELVES AS flEUEV. HUT SOME PROMINENT INC THE WOItHT SUSnnONS fF TORPEIOES.

SEEM THAT THE CAUSE WAS ACCIDENTAL "DOWN WITH AMERICANS" CAPTAIN SI3SBEE ANO SECRETARY LONG CONFIDENT CIRCULARS OUT SAYING: TUB OLIVETTE AJ.RIVES WITH SURVIVORS WHO ARE INCENSED AGAINST THE HAVANA PEO PLE. THE SAILORS INSIST THAT IT WAS A DEEr LAID PLOT AND POOH-POOH THE IDEA OF AN INTERNAL EXPLOSION-A SUS-i PICIO FROM SIG-SHEE. i i i i CALMNESS AND COOL JUDGMENT ARE COUNSELED A CoreressionaJ Invcst'ptioJi to be. Intituled, but Congress for th Moment is Appalled Into Sijftic--Senaiar flutter Doe Not Adopt the "Accident" Thwy- Magnet all Closed "st 8 O'clock and Key Turned Over to dpt. SIpbee--Graphic Details of Men in the Skip at ths Moment of tha rxpbsian-The Pretidt Qout the White House Against Fuec-tkws--H'r)h Spanish CfHcials Rush Eagerly Into Sympathetic ferry Botts Did Not OTer Aid Amor the Sunrhrori Are North Ciralnians as Follows: TrubJc finch, FaleigV; John Moss, Oxford; John Warren, Randolph; Henry WI3ums, Eilnbeih City- neraJ Lee's Metsae-Southern Men en Board -Sjrnrtptthy fro-n MiJ'J and tendon.

With a Hint of Suspicion rora tj Pepadiaied Wirt. Emphasis-Washington Fhp at Half Mast-The President Bp Until Wu Second taploiion-Gustas Dressier Uses Both Eye Secretary Abref Silent 600 Pounds of Gar. Coton Exploded and There Was a Second Explosion. 1 i1 It Is Terrible, but No Spaniard Did It. 1 SAYS HE LOVES AMERICA ItrXWKTS KKKNLY THK I'NFOUT UN AT 1-3 LKTTKH INCIDENT.

SAILED ON BSITTANIC fOH LIYERPCCl Says There Will te No War Between America and Spain. Complimentary Resolutions Presented on Board Delegv I tion cf Spinirds. New York, Feb. 10. nor, de Lm hc'ard the new of the diaatler.to tlie Maine at tb" Hotel St.

Marco thia morninr. At hrrt bt refned to rrcdit It, init a hen rbe truth dawneI vpon him. he aaid: I 'It ia terrible. I pray Cd tl new Ift exaKgtratel. Vou may te atrre of one thinjr, howevtr, no Spaniard AV tb'.

IJke mytef. all Spaniarda of cutertniii friendly feeling toward tHJ country. Tbr-re will no war; be re Van no war bet ween America and 'KtAiin. "I nut fent il to now by tliia terrible affair wliat I ahould have lrn re-ctndeil from luyinr lefore. There i no in the wirld that lore a I do America.

I J.ire the country and the kiHW, and it with th k-net re-r-t tliiit 1 take my leave the reanlt of thi unfortunate letter Incident. Nearly all prominent SiianJard4 aud totu of ia-'Haence in my country ahare uty tlew in regard to AiiK-rka." DW LOME SAIL. New York. Feb. Duiviiy de lune, Miciter to Wa.Hhinrt, ileil oil tle P.rdtuunic for Ijt'n'xl today.

reotiioti were preented to Li in on IhmcI tklcratioo of Sj Tlwre wa no inutile demowtra-tiu of any kind. A RAILROAD RATTLE. The Southern HuiUIiiijr a Switch in Nirtit Time: Hh kory. FeU Kk UD I hi Monday iiijrht tlie Southern Railway ent crew of Iatrr-r to Hnkory from Moranton ami coOKtrncted ft awiUh a. rtMH the nvuiu Hoe of tlf CU tw.

il and North Wewtern railway la tlie Wewtrru jrt of tow u. The itwitcli waa Imilt to get aiding Hit-kory Manufacturing ('oniiiiry ho and Wnru Work. President Ilnrpec 'nTiatendent nnd Attorney Jone tf the (. anl N. burritl tre, when they 1 umd of the S.ithcnrt tut ion.

Tbe tCnitheru b-ft large crew litji in the near, tlie a witch. Tucwlar niicht, ab.iit twelve o'ch k. Um (. mikI N. ent iii a ganr of hand who lir.in tearing up the track.

AbtMit three n. the Sontherii" men hurried to the place and I eguu iitting li tbe rail-. Tlx- gaurtt atrnggUl tsretlcr till tiK-uiie. the Southern retting of (he awitchc Imck they lutd more nwu. Tlie aituation lcKiie action.

men wrestling over the track, throwing eat other off the witch and neiaing cnn-r Itira. A ireucral fisht wu Imminent. Mr. Htifhaui. Mayor, whh thirty armcl went to the eene and nnnoune.

cd tl-tit the law wmiM cnforetHl nt nuy cwt. The conf rndinr ran? fi-? bat tlx atxl N. W. on one m.le of the nitb. tlie Southern mi the other.

The nrt ot-enpying tht ith nnd all nnii are watching eacM other, but ther ia no trouble. Heven o'clock 1k Soulln-rn rcit ivetl a cor load of rcinforcemeiit. Ri inforeemcnta were dent by C. nial N. frjm Ix-nolr nn.l Cranite on wtigorm and ear.

After aome tli-pute tin ninf N. W. poenger train brmnd for -noir wna al'owcd to m. further ditnrbance, bnt ell haixl are on the' l.x.k outt Alwwit three o'clock p. Nfcliola ot the C.

nnd flink I toad Slaater D.krn. of Mm Soiit.wrn. aad nnnoimcttl ti tlndr men that Um difficulty, bad lt-n ettleI. Tlie railroad men and rtepmlc k'avlnr the rround and there I gnat excitement over tlie1 affair. All I nuiet now.

Tlx Southeni bn-1 aUwit l.V men end the C. and N. W. alut U). TK Southern clnimcd the awittb a on their -rirbt of way.

Tlie tcrnt nf act lenient eoukKnot I-e Jerne. bnt operationa all aiiw-einletl tintll IVel.lcnta Si ncer an I Harjer can confer. HELPINC THE CUBANS. Durlmiu. N.

Feb. few dam a(r, the lVe-ident the PitrwHinire nnI Home Mixtion So- eiety of Trlnitr churili. reeeire.1 a letter from the niMion ot of tin? M. 11. church South, at Tanim.

atatinr that there were aoine ChIhio rt fu- i rec at that plnee wbti were in a wrH chetlly hetplcM condition, nnd uppcalii' for liefj. Tbee jar crtilurr williotit tdotlnng oc brend. and the iuiM-iok nt ht Triuity Hun'Luy iimc touched a tender chord in Durl lg IitarteI ajple. Thi evrJiiui Sttliern Esprtt l.re from tblf thri larre Kxe filled with c. and material clothing to ttke a of 10t or over.

WaablnctuD. I). Feb. 10. Sawyer baa I H-n appointed a flaa tmaaler at tlteir preaence wa dcrnarxVd the in- STr.

tut, the aptr- priation for the? constnution of euwalla and enylmtkmctiTa waa lucreoed from si0.000 to I Au amendment off'red tiy Mr. Chau-dlcr Increasing the amount aipropriated for iwwtlera and proJctile for a renerve anprly for armament and forriftcatlon from GTiJ.01H to flOO.GlM wa nccepte.1. Thia completed "tin omkleration cf tbe bill and (t pued without diviiu. At o'clock the Senate adjourned. AN OCKAN DISAKTKU.

Tli of the TraiuMttlantique a Total Wreck nnd Only Twelve Per-r Were Tenereiff, Canary Feb. 1(L -Tlie Omiirni Jeiiernh-- TranHatlan-tiOiTie Une Fluchat. tionml from for wa totally wrecked eu Annga Point, thi iahind, at 1 o'clock thin morning. Her captain, second officer, eleven of her crew nnd one pn.nicer were iwved. Thirty -eirht tliL crew and forty-nia paitrcnger were lwt.

Tl FlaHiat 'waa built at Stockton, Knichind by IVariM ami Company, in Jsm, She wai utern crevr, iron rental ton net. and 2,175 toa rrraaj r-Kitcr. She wa feet lnr by .10 feet beam nml feet depth of hobl. FOIt lit I LN IXC A (SIN HOl'Sli John Hr.rwrll nnd Wife. Colored, CoiivicJeil.

TarlfnN N. Feb: 10. tSpeekil.) Jdin llxaawell and wife, iIrcl. were today ctnrlctel of burning tlie gin hint and 100 bale of cotton oh the tlar Tnh farm In thi eouaty. Thin crime w-n committal taut NovemljeT.

Tlie jury remained oat only a little i.le. Several hundred cord trf.wool were luirnei near. town laat night by foreat fire. A td acco Iwrn of Dr. AV.

P. Mercer, wn.4 liurne-J it nlgnt. The innnter cae of atate againat Wil li-t Ie! will lx tried tomorrow. HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION. Senator Morrill Say it Would te (Jooit Policy and Traditn Wa-hiuirton.

D. Feb. lSenator CT)jlul. rt i inif in i ikt arK 1 1 1 i in Hwa iiui ai rivn tim tat tpeeeh ofl mg-ti rtinenrkia of the Hawaiian annexation treaty. Mr.

Morrill' preh wa Intended to jow that tlte acijuioitioti nf the- Ha wnii.iw Ixland wnlt he agaimst ljth grMMl Klicy and the tradition of thia country. CKNKltAL ItHVDY. He Wite That hi Service ore at Dipoal of hi Couiry. tbe Wahing1on, F4. IU.

tenet 1 Joili Whteler, tin ex-Confelerttte calvary ctnutna inter, now a mcmlrr of the IIhihc from Alabama, nent the f.il low log im- aage to the Prtwtilrnt tht ftertHon: tlte Houonible, th Preuteut: la cae or any troif wiih bjaiiii. retiietnljer tlwit tu- tetnlcr of i on file at be- War 1 eart meut. WIIKELEH. UNION PACIFIC SOLD. Alrbi W.

Kreeli Ifetreenting the lUt.r ganiznl Conimittee the Purchatr 'H)e prb-e Pakl Wa n.ta ro. Tojfka, Feb. 10. The govern Lieut Iii-u Jn he I nt. ui etiie wa wnd ut today at the Unfcm l'acitic uta-tion In thi city.

The Kui Pacific f-Ntd ttaa iKiucht in by Alviu W. Krecb, ri rctentinr tlx rcorganiaatioii -inuiit tee. for 0HKl.t0. There wa uy i-wui-titlon at the ulc. THK VST WAS IlEMOVED.

M.nianu- Sarnh IWrnhardt wa Oirated 1'lNMi SuiT-efullr. Pari-, Feb. 10. Ma.rune Sarah Bernhardt wa oiienited npoti thi rairuing at Dr. 'Porxi' Hospital.

'The cyat wna rmvetl with einkte nccerrf. Ir. P.ixzl hojK- tliat Mine Dcrnhardt will le uMe to remne her irofeaional work April. V(N 1KU A HE STILL IN Piltburg, Ftb. 10.

Von iVr Ah at ill in jail nnd it 1egin to look tltoux-h tin offer of the kttgiio magnate to get him out of IjtiIki bad a atrinr to it. IteiMkrtM are U-inr circulated that the It-agu in consideration for It coming to Vtm Dut Ahe' relief require that the Kt. Ini man renew the offer be made- onte' tinw airo to ell the fran-thine of tlx Krown. Thi ottltmle of 41m h-flgiirt cannot 1' vouched for but a hitch lit the pn-eetlinm me. 1ere.

Ireidcut Watkina wa notified jetenlay by National lreident Young to ettire Von Der Abe" ndeae, yet no action waa taken to-day. HtXiAUDED AS CLOSED. MjdiKI. ltL-El (rreo. tlM a.

v. eminent organ. annoutMi that I nitetl Stiile Miniter Wofulford to-uigit re-roived Sj jin'a eofttx-rning the- I)e Ijoiim letter, and it add tlvat tbe incident i regardeil a a tenniuatetl. FIRE THIS MORN INC. Thi morninr at an alarm fire wa turned in.

It turucil out Vi be a wtol house back of the tarn occupied by CoofM-r. near the Hock church. 13t ltak-irh. The greatest damage. don wa tti of ahe fire tKJd ia- the hou T.

Engaged the Attention of; the Senate. ADD TO APPROPRIATIONS TUB MA INK IHH.VSTHIL ACTION. THE HOUSE EXPRESSES ITS SYMPATHY TVler Alludes to Cubm. Situsiisn -Our Duty taSieptothe Front and Tell Spain to Let the Consequences i 1 bs Whit They May. Washington.

D. Ft Hi. The de-bal on the Bankruptcy bill, which to eo0tinuj until Saturday when a vote rill be taken, ojiened In the Houxe tday, but it attractet little attention, the iBeret of he member being enirely al'iKntd by diaster to the Maine. At the rime the hall of the Hoo wa atnx-at d-rrted; the niemter leing con-gregated in the loWjie or cloak rooitM V-iiitliig the nnd peculating Sf'H' it prolnble connequence. Jut le-fjpe the Heue adjourned Mr.

Itoutelk', caii'icnn of he Naval Committee pn-eented the following rclut ion which unauimonttly doited: "I-eolved. That the Hone of Ilepre-amtatirea haa learned with profound am-row the great eakinwty which haa the detnu-rior of the State MaiiM nnd the ap-palliug km of more than 2.V) live, and tae wonmling if niauy oftn-r of he arallant defenders of tmr flute aixl that the ilwtiae rxprre it ayuipathy for thi tnjnred and it aincere condolence with the famllhw of th.e w1k have loaf their live in the ervice of the Dnii.m." Won the neutron put, Mr. i'mley akei Mr. lVnleMe If hi com-BvUt wm la iii of any infonnu-tln w'hleli shrew any light the e.ra of the aetident, I regret to nay that we have no infor- inatji. reljei Mr.

IJontelle, -iin i. i mi wbb-h may not Ik- of 1 The apeakcr on the Itankrnptey bill were: In fafor of the ine.iAure, Mer. llend- rrn, (HiiiiMKaii. 1)nI: Iinluini. lenKcrat.

Texawl. and (Oeino-crat. Texar; in oi rwaitMrn it, Mer. rnderwooI. tlVmocrat.

AlalKinm): Ilell, llVTUlift. Cljrado; Henry, Texa: MdUe, 1 1 eimx-rat, Ar- kauai, and Co-hran, IK-mcrat, Mi-ouiit. At 4 o'clock ik the Houe ad-j jumcd. SKNATK PlUH'KKDlNtlS. VvK 10.

A diamwion rijn coaat defenae Ma the iuterciit-inx feature or thi toilay. Maoy Senator took tht ground that the ai-1 Toprwuion brjuld be for the full a-inount of the eatimatiw by the War Dc-partuteat intead of ouic four millioha In tho early jrt tlx day there wa a dicuwn of the' Kana Pacific Uailrond anile but action waa taken. At liCt p. m. the Senate went into executive Mwim.

(jieu tMPion wa rumed at 3:15, when the Fortification Ainropr'ationa bill waa taken tip. Mr. Perkina, in the counw of a atato-meut oncerning it, aid th Commit-t on I Airopriatitia wa unanimous in it action In increasing tlae aggregate nu appropriated by the IIoue bill. Every luraln-r of the committee waa iu faror of but all rtalired that the be way, to prrerve ieace wa to be prtlareil for war. 'Mr.

Stewart thought that Ukv appropriation Hboukl Lw increanetl eo that there aboukt no more talk uUnit tl. dTnele condition of the vtita. Mr. Chandler, (N. wanted an In-crccH9 made upon powder and projec-tikw which could be imine-'iatcly arailn-ble.

Mr. Corman oppoed the iucreaae. Baying the eHintry could not, in view of the present condition of the finance and for other reaaone afford tbo increase. Mr. Stewart aaid we did not carry on negotiation with forngT govcru-nicnta in a proper manner becani our reat Htien were nt protected.

Mr. Hawley favored liberal iroiria-tioti, Mr. IxIgo advocntcil a ateady policy to the defense of our aea run at Htie. Sir. Teller oppoaed tho proiHcl Increase, faying it waa better to b-nvu tb amount a fixed by tbe committee, lie Agreed with thoae who tiki not con-aidet war among tht? twrly prolaliIi-tie but that time of pcuce wa the tinw to irepare for war.

Still the Indication were wtruug for a ireueral war; and i while the United (State might e-cak l-T dm wing It liead Into it tcil like a turtle, till we a great nation boukl to prtparetl for any emergency. Hen Mr. Teller timdo an evident al-lnin to the condition of affair In Ciiba. raying it wa otir xluJn duty wlx-n a nation wn ei-ndncting a war upon our larder ctntrarr to interna tkn4 1 law and the rule of humanity to tep to the front and tell that nation it imi.t Wit, k-t the eonaetjueneea be to xim what'tbey might. Mr Telb-r aIo apok imidentally of ii.mniiMn oueation.

aald that If ITnited Maie wanted to became nnythiiur more tlan a hermit nation end ecavv.tvar only by to inult I I i t- A CHANCE ACCIDENT. The lcratioa wi early -iU of the horror Captain O-ucral Illanco, who vxprcwaed hm profound re-B-ret and ad.Wd that the occurrence chance accident, the undoubted canae Icing- an exploaion of the boiler (ft the dynamo. Thb waa the only upecitk coilp awitrned from an official aoarce durinjr the' day. Scnor l)u Boac, the fHfinlah) Clmrge Affauw, callei at the State Department to expreaa hla profound rea-ret, and tbe entire Spaniah Maff left rheir card at the Navy Department a a nmrk of ieronaJ coado-b-nce. At al! of the foreign eatattiah-meuta thcrt won the deepwt Interest and Hlicitude over th affair, and dorina; the day AmbaiadoT Cambon of France, Sir Julian Panncefote, of the BritUh Ecibaaay, ami other foreign repreeen hitivea called on the Preaident or at Ui State Ieiiartinent to exprewa their regret.

The di-water' ia remarkable in that only two officer lot their lives and bene were of Junior graib. They were Lifiitenant Friend W. Jenkin and Aa-Utant Eivjrineer Darwin 'Merritt, Tb former waa but IcaTea a mother aud aiter. The latter, it I thought, alo wa unmarried Imt tbv department wae nnadfiaed concernlnj hi family. Mr.

Jenkio wm bom in Alleghany City, no 20,1805, and was l-lnteil Naral Cadet JVptetnber 28, lWZ. by Thomaa M. Ilayue, of tlie twenty third Oongna- LMatrict. After a tdiort eruiae en th Atlanta be waa graduated June 1SNS after which tn aerreJ atlccewivery uu the Catena, KearMtrge, aud Swatara. lie wa next attaclicd to eoaat war-rey and crvcil with it nntil February, he wae again ordered ty-aea, Xbo lpnboat Benjifngton." From ane, 1SH3 to September, 1STX5, bn waa (Ordiwcc doty XWal pror- A Lmiiiii at.lUaf.

liieal mn tntvmber 18, 1M3, he wa ordered to tin Iwttlevbip Maine and ha aince been attached to that reel witli the exception of a abort intcrral in tb pving of 1S1H. lie reached hi prewent arrade of juuWr January, 1SU7. He had mauy frw-nd in thi city and waa regarded aa a moat capabie and efficknit oftivr. THK TWO DKAD OFFICKItS. Kugiueer -3Ierritt vm lorn IU-d Dak.

MontgiHiicry county, Iowa. April 12, IS72. He wa "pointed to the Naval Academy Septculr 10, 1891. graduatinr at tie bend of hi i-iaa four year later. lh went to wa on the Auikhitrite and wa MulxtcHruently to the Indiana, receiving hi final rradnatioii July lt, After a hort aervh-e at 'th' New York Navy Yard he wa onbivd to tiKr battlenbip Maine iVptem Ur 10, 1 a nd baa yhice been attached to that ill fated rea-ael.

Althoug-b hia Naval aervice baa lxen fchort it i nkl at tbe deiHirtment to linre bw-n extremely creditable. Captain Dickina. chief of the Navign-tiou Dureau, exprewed the opinion today that the exploaion took place in the magazine of thf Maine. lie a id that thi wa evidout for the reaaon that the ahlp wai afloat for an Inmr after the exploaion. Had a toriw-oo been fired under tbe battletdiip abe would have aunk aImot immediately.

Secretary Long, for tlie President, haa aut thi telegTam to Captain igliee: SJghce, U. S. S. Maine, Havana. "The Preklent directa me to expre for and the ieople of the United State hi profound aymimthy with the iffic'r and crew of tlx Maine and de-lrebat no expenae 4e apared in providing for the aurvivor and the care of the' detaL (Signed) "JOHN D.

IXN(J, "Secretary." The Prcviileut 1xm recalled hU invitation for receitloii thi evening and to-nwfrow owng to rtbe faster which ha befallen the Aukerican Navy. Tlw President mihI evcral of hi Cabinet aioiociatc held an extehib'd -onfer-rm-e a 1 tout noon. It wa jxit it Cjtbincr tm-eliiig. no notniw had lieen aent out, nnd only Secretary of the Navy Ixmz, Se-retary Attorney fleneral lriggM, ptwtmater CeiHTal lary and fonner tttorney Coin-mi McKi-uua were Th diaaatcr to the Maine waa rl; trt nmaHlercil. Alout 12 oi kk tln Cabinet officer came.

fnm tbe lnilMit'i oflh-e. (hie of tlieta atatol tliat the President had given that all official Information relating to the diater hou)d 1m given to tl pnUie. A neaHage waa re-teived laUf.in he day alatiag that tin t(ntiiiui-o4evtnt Feb. 16. After "a day of lutctie cxtiUuient at the Navy lVpartncnt and elaewbere growing out of the tjewt ruction of tbej battlcwhip Maine a Hstiiui Wbor laat night, the.

Uuatiou tonight after the exchange of av number of cablegram between Wal-ington and. Havana can be fcuaimed up In the word of Secretary Long, wivo, when asked, a be was abort to depart for the day whether he bad reaaou to upcct that the. dbtaater waa the work of an enemy, "I Jo not. In that I a iu influenced by the tact that Captain Sigabe ha nut y-t reported to the Nary Department the ciw. ia erklently iraitina: tak nf a torpedo or tbe eaploidon of a to write a full report.

8o Jonf: aaiie miue beneath the ablp, Tbe larre tua-doea not expre himself I certainly can-J Jority of narnl offkvrn are Inclined to not. I ahoukl think from' tle lndica- tho belkf that the eiiI.ioii rcflulted tiooa, bowtrrer, that there wti an aeci-j dent that the magazine exploded. How rhut came about I do' not know. For tbe present at leaat r.o other war ship will be ent to HaYana." The aipalling nature of the diaaiter and the gravity of the lt nation that Would arim abould invetigation give a tin! for the nnderenrrent of auaplcion of treaebcry and fool play than ran through all bad a aoWring effect on pnblle men' of all ahadt- of political otjinloo. The fact eian.1 forth Ihe Tim tie 8 iiforpei' -Ik.

C-t tb regulation tbe Navy dcuiaiwl fcl.all bo made iu tin of the Ion of nblp. It i exierted that tbU work will take Dome tlnie, a ud white "there ar 'officer who any that In their opta-i'xi It will not be piMwiMe, owipsT to the probable dtMmpted cfMditlm of the hull, of tb nhip to nwike out the mu-e of the expIuMiuti, the opinion the majority tlvat the yaUioii will b- siilr met-ikd by thtainiple jtertati.n of the eoitditkm of the aliip'a boll pbtU-M in the of the bole hit-h uauk hvr, wliether or pot they are bulged out, a won' be tbe' cae if tin? eauie from inMide, or wnlirttn they were drircn ia, a would rewnlt'from tbe at- from apontaneoua coinbustion of a coal uunaer, in. ovcrueaung or ine iron jr-titiona between the'boikra and tbe magazine or from the exloiu of a boiler, tbng-b the lat theory fiutl little ai-port. Tlie UU of aarrirora that came to the Navy Iepartnient fhi afternoon in answer to te terra ma, wa inaccurate and made out the lo of life eight more than the aummary originally riven by Cnptain Sigbe in an earlier tejegrara, mo Pecretary Ixng telegruj4ed for another corrected lit, and alao one that tlfe flag. Tiiey wiy that while lu i a hi; whip Other iw large' bare been raided, ami at Havana, the new floating dry would n--elvc her if nhe would otiff gotten above the Water.

Cajn tuiu Sigl-e la evidently taking nu ln-tcrtjt in the future of tin- ahiivfoe he nt'nt telegraiu to tVniiuiauder Forny-tiie at Key Vtt. that wa tniniiiitted to Secretary Iahi jcre-t I hat a hgt liue vifiM or ome aueh mall craft Ijc' ntnTknie! in har-lwr to over tle wrei-k. The latter, even If leyoml "n-urrectl'n. cou-la'n valuable ordnanc and otlier prof- erty tliat hubUea inn be aecurod diver. ll ia naid at ilicNay Ieprtmeal thsvt And ia HUk? than retnarkaMe that ith.mld abow wlio were and who were not a alngle waa introduced not wounded of the aurviror.

It waa or a pech nwde in either hoie found ue-rary to do thi owing to tbe of Oongrca bearing on diter great numlier of pitiful aiial fur In-navc one of condolence with the families formation a to tle'iufety of nmie uu-of tboae killed, effered by Boutellc. fortunate 'm tbe Maine that runic frtmi and adojted by the Houae of Itepre- all iarii country. aentativea, Public toea ex preed their. MAINU MAY UK RAISKD. opiniou with rraerve when: Piwoachedj Xar.l con.ructor.

in th- light for tntcrva-w, but every b-re there wa' flf the diMMitthe tbtot far My a demand for. on investigation and full tiiat it by no in-un certain that the detail in the'light of which the horror jaine cantwt be and again carry may le viewed. HTetary Long undoubtedly aumniarlzed th gciH-ral of thv 'liinlnritr of Vmil cxiert" in flndinglt imooMii.le )ut now to atate the caue of dfttnictkta of the Maine. DIVIJIW INVlTJtJATK mere an- -u great nuuuer oi tnc-or. iii n)otnf then are of a character lhat make il ta prutr Jhrnaby.

a inik' lnve ligation l.y a direr. Hee-lary Iiitf ba taken 4muediit teiw to make thi ittrevlixu-tioii. loiter thw afternoon lx- teiegiraph-ed to Admiral Sicard at Jiy Wert to apt't loanl of navaf officer to prtceeil at rwe to Haranaj employ-dVf era m.l gtnrnlly to maktt auci imjulry i.