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Show Jetrersou.t Saiarlncss. New York, 17. The Tall .Mail Gazcile of the oth has the following: "According to a Bayonnc paper, an American skipper, Capt. John Jefferson, Jeffer-son, of the London, played a trick in the Ba- of Biscay tho other day, which will cause irritation both at Berlin and Madrid. He appears to have sent a telegram from Bilbao to the Spanish government to the effect that the United States had ordered a cruiser to sec that no American shins landed arms lor the Carlists, when Serrano immediately wrote a letter of thanks to the ministei of the United States, who replied that he knew nothing of the cruiser in question. However, before the matter could -be inquired into, Captain Jefferson had accomplished bis nefarious purpose, and, while playing the part of the United States vessel of war alluded to, lie bad, under the nose ot the Spanish Meet, landed twenty-seven guns, etc., for the Carlists. After this the London Lon-don quietly left the" port of Bermeo and vanished on the horirony' |