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Show A bi'RiKi.Ni, parallel is drawn between be-tween the course of that "high-mind" "high-mind" and "diplomatic" gentleman, Don Fish, iu the Vir-jinius affair, and that of the Spanish Government during dur-ing tho Rebellion, when the gallant Captain Hunter, lost on board the Villa du, Hacrc with his wife and daughter, captured the privateer ha-UUain ha-UUain Spanish waters, in the latter cjjC Spain peremptorily demanded that Captain Hunter bo cashiered, and the United States Government promptly dismissed ono of its most trusty and intrepid officers. To-day Burncl, whoso namo has become synonymous with dastardly and coldblooded cold-blooded butchery massacres scores of American citizens, whoio crime wan no greater than that of tho crow of tho Isabella, yot not eveu a reprimand repri-mand of this bruto ia demanded. Tho contract w painfully humiliating to the great and powerlul nation whose proud boast once- was that the Stars and Stripes protected her citizeui in nil quarters of thfl glofcc |