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.

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 author of certain letters, calling attention to the weakness of our coast defences.

On his arrival in Charleston, Señor Sobrai chartered a boat and went over to Sullivan's Island, where the new forts are being constructed, and spent the day examining them.

He was not admitted inside the works, and could only make his observations from the outside. A new regulation has lately been made by the War Department, forbidding any persons to inspect the new defences, except American army and navy officers.

When Lieutenant Sobrai heard of the accusation against him, he protested against it vigorously. He said that he had not made the slightest effort to inspect any of our Southern forts or coast defences.

He declared that he had been in the South on a confidential mission from his Government, and that his visit to Sullivan's Island was merely to escape the intolerable heat of the city.

Whether his statement be true or false, the scare which he caused will have the good effect of making our Government still more careful about admitting strangers to our forts.

The reports from India are not as encouraging as they were last week.

There seems to have been small foundation for the statement that the Mullah had ordered his followers to go back to their homes, and had disbanded his forces because of the refusal of the Mohmands to join him.

It is true that the Mohmands have not risen, and that the British have little or no fear that they mean to make trouble; but the Afridis are just as troublesome as ever.

They have now been joined by a new tribe called the Orakzais. If these people are as terrible as their name, they must be an unpleasant enemy.

The news comes from the hills that these two tribes now represent a force of forty-seven thousand men, and