The news from Central America continues conflicting, but it is
obvious that Guatemala is not to have it all her own way in her attempt to force San Salvador to join the proposed Federal Union. On Monday it was:reported that a revolt had taken place in the capital of Guatemala, a portion of the troops having mutinied and joined a mob which paraded the streets shouting, "Death to Barillas !"—the President. At the same time it was announced that the forces of San Salvador were within sixty miles of the capital. On Wednesday another telegram was received describing an unsuccessful attempt made by an Indian to murder General Barillas. The Minister of Guatemala to France and England points out, meantime, that the only Central American cable lands on Salvadorian territory, and that, therefore, news received thereby is necessarily suspect. A few days will show the value of this explanation. In any case, it is pretty clear that the attack on San Salvador is without reasonable excuse. General Ezeta, may be a usurper, but obviously the people of San Salvador do not desire federalisation,— naturally enough, when that process would mean the domina- tion of a State so backward as Guatemala. Guatemala has vast resources, and a climate which is described as perpetual spring, and yet her condition verges on barbarism. She has over three hundred different sorts of timber-trees in her vast forests, and yet, owing to the absence of roads, imports her wood from California.
