Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1873, Page 2

e . " CUBA. Tts Climate, Productions, and Population, Why the Cubans Rebelled--Thelr Leaders and Strong- holds. The Spanish Volunteers, and _Their Conduct in Cuba, Battles Fought Since the Insarrec- tion Commenced, General ! Description of the Campaigns. The nocompanying map will givoa cledr idon ¢ the rolativa position of Cubn to tho United Htatos, and will undoubtedly corroct tho orrone- ous. opinions 08 to its aizo, conformation, and distanco from our coaste of many porsons who hava notrecently looked up its correct geograph- teal position ; it will bo goon that the noarcst point ot our torritory ia tho low chainof keys upon ono of which i situatod tho town of Koy ‘West, Tuis distanca ia about 90 miles, and thoss brilliant stratogists who talk about the guns of Fort Jofferson commanding the Straita of Tlorl- dn would do well to mention what kind of gun thoy proposo to uso for that range. TILE 18LAXD OF QUPA s of very irrogular shspo, oxtonding from lon- gitudo 74 dog. Tmin. V., to 84 deg, 67 min. W., and its grontest longth through the centro is about 793 milos. Its greatost width is nbout 127 milea moasuro at about 50 milos wost of San- tingo. Togothor with its surrounding islands and koys, it containg 48,480 squaro miles, tho gronter pact of which is highly fertite. Tho ‘mountains contsin gold, lead, aud antimony in 'moderate quantitics a8 far as known, and copper hias baon oxtonsivoly mined noar Santigo sinco the soventoonth contury. Among tha most val- unblo productions ato tobacco, sugar-cane, codar, mahogany, lignum-vitm, cotton, and coffoo. and iv is.thought that ita productivo capacity of many of those articles could be increased ten- fold under & good government sud & more culti- vated population. THE OLIMATE jsavery equablo one, the tomperaturs vary- ing during ono year only 22 dogreos in Havana and only 14 degreos in tho interior. Tho range of the thermomotor for threo years in Iavava wos botween 61 ond 86 dogroes. Thero is but ono record of snow Laving fallon_in Cubs, that instanco bolug Dec. 24 and 25, 1850, tho fhormomotr boing at 43 degrocs, tho loweat over known thero, Enrthqiakes somotimos oc- cur in tho Western District, but rarely in tho ‘Eastorn. ITeavy hurricanes aro common in tho fall manths, particularly along tho coast, but thoir approsch is foratold for somo timo provi- ous, and thoy are no longer much drondod ex- copb at gca, On tho completion of the tole- aph-cablo to 8t Thomns and tho Windward slauds, theso torrifio storms can bo signalod ‘sovoral 'daya in sdvanco of their arris THE POPULATION in 1563 was 1,459,242, divided as follows: Whito, 804,754; freo colored, 225,938; elaves, 308,550, The freo colored includes all Chincso, Indians, and froo blncks, and as the majority aro coolies, and wro roally elaves under s difforant name, tho total slave population may bo considered ns chout 550,000, Tho whites are mostly doscond- ants of Spanish ancestors, but they aro divided into two classes: the Creoles, who, by renson of their doscout from propriotors of tho laud tirough €ovoral genorations, considor them- ‘elves the nntives parexcellence, and who have nothing in common with Spain nor the later Spanish immigrants. The othor class are tho lnto immigrants from Spain or thoir immediate descendants, and, as have but little intorest in the {sland excopt to moko monoy out of it and to hold offico, thoy look down upon the Creoles as an - iuforior raco, ond A littlo attention to their wishes, it clags being moro rough and bold {han tho mild, easy-going ustivc, whom generationu of oxpostiro to thio encrvating climate have made carcless of thoir rights, hea always maintained the supremaoy, and tho probabilily is that noth- Ing short of & completo soparation of the colony from its dependence upon Spain would ever roimn the Cubans, as a whole, to act for thom- selvoa, - g THE SYSTEM OF PROTECTION bas nowhoro been_so faithfully obsorved as in Cuba, nor in such fallncss of measuro, Tho au- thorities hav proceoded on the supposition that, it o small impost would givo protection to tho intetests of any country, suroly s largo tax ought to be so much mora boneficial. Tho im- ort duties on four, for instanco, in 1860, woro £5750 por bavol when braught in Spanieh ot Cu- han vessels from Spain, S8,50 when so_brought from avy forcigu country, sud $9.60 whon brought by a_foreign vessel, In 1857, tha ro- colpts wova: From customs, 810,405,838 from faxes, £5,186,400; and from tho Jottory, 31,031 4105 "making total of §17,363,658. Ovor four- Aiftlls of tho rocoipta from customs wero received on imports. In tho middle of March, 1809, Capt.-Gen. Dulca isated a proclamation making important changes in taxation. Tho dircct taxos on plan- taions, cattlo, sud country real ostat, sud tho war-ta¥ imposed upon uicrchants and trades- smou, wero reduced 60 por cent, and no Govern= ment contribution lovied in tho lust quartor of tho flacal year 1603-'69 was to bo collected. Tho Sovano thus lost was mado up by impoting tha following mew export dutias : *On Muscovado sugor shippod under the Spanish flag, 16 conts, 204, under a foreign fng, 20 conty por 100 Iba ; on gvory box of suger.under the Spanish flag, 75 onts, and, uader & forcign flag, 87 contu; on ovary ogslicad of s 1 and $1.75, rospoct- . ivoly ; on molangos, G conts por Logslioad, sad, on run, $1 per hogshead. "Tho Budget for tho flscal yonr 186860 osti- mated tho exponditures of tho island §24,025,217, and tho rovenuo at $90,164,062. The cxports of sugar for 1868 wero 611,822 cnaks or liogshieads, and 650,748,400 Tbs in boxes, of which 59 por cent wont to $ho United Slatos, 97 por cout to Oroat Briluin, and only 7 per cont to Spain, iho romaining 8 por cent going to othor countrios, 'Cho exports of molesnes amountad to 380,078 barrols ; of cigara, 179,902,000 wero_oxportcd, and 22,200,876 of tobaceo In othor forms. TFor the samo yoar, the pumber of American ships trading in Cuban ports wore 721, with a fonnago_of 878,616 ; En- Elish shippiog, 124, tonnage, 124524 i Spanish, 674, tonuago, 142,330, The exports and imports {rom Havaua alone smounted to over 40,000,000, SLAVERY HA8 EXISTED it Guba ovor aiuce 1634, whon Spanish officials anplied Lo tho Vicoroy for loavo to introduco 7,000 nograes to Lecomo nured to labor boforo the Tndiuna ceascd to oxist, Tho slavo-trado was continuod oponly, in spitc of all oppusition, and notwithatanding Spafu's trony with Greab Priloin In 1820 (o put o stop {0 It until 1845, whon o law was passod making tho introduction af sluvos p rlminal ofeno, 'Tho surcoptitious introductiln of slavos, by counivauca with tho officinls, continued uutil the overthrow of Quoon Teabolla in 1808, Ainco wihich time, 5o for ag 1s knawn, only tio cargoes Lava been fanded, and the negroos fn botl in- etancos woro uhortly aftorward tuken possosion of bytho Govornmont aud casriod bok to Afifes. Recontly tho aholition of slavery has beon do- oreed both by tho panith Governmons and_tho Qubgn insnrrectionists, but ok theBpanish slave- Loldors do not rogord the decroo, oud s the Cubans can ouforco thelr authority over only n Yory limited part of tho istond, it would hnrdly bo corvect to say that slavery doos uot exist in ubs. u’J'hfl Covornment of Cuba has boon adminis- terod through an AUTOCRATIO VICEROY of tho Spanish Crown, cslled tho Oaptain-Gen- oral, whoso authority wos, in fact, mero than that of lis sovoroign, having no Corten to restrain Lim, nor Ligher powor to conflict with bis will, untll a couuter decron might bo obtained from Spain. A number of endouvors Lavo beon made Ly the United Btates to obtain pownossion of Ciibn, It boing ono of tuo pob rojocts of tho elayeaoracy in years past, to ex- Foudd our torsitory in any diroction that vrould cor- ———— BsBanto.Domi| TITTLE UAY. PAAN D CAY: A@ H| RAND MaNALLY 2 COuMm BA AND ITS grind in Docomber, 1868, one close by Santiago at X1 Cobro, and the other at Tunns, The noxt month was passod on botk sidos in proparation, Gens. Arango nnd Gastillo bosieg- Ing tho Spanieh garrison [ Puorto Principe, and holding ancther_force in cheek at Tunag. Tebruary, Gon, Dulce rolioved Lorsundi 6f his Yico Rogéncy, and ab tho gamo timo large yoiu- forcements wero sent out from Cadiz. thon that the Yolunteers bogan to settls, like o flight of locusts, upon Cuba. TIESE VOLUNTEERS wero tho worst characters that Spoin oould tarn out. Tho ides firat originated in Cadiz, where tho vilost chinractors of one of the nastiest citios in tho world had becomo turbulent snd ungov- Thoy wero givon the alternative of oing to Cuba or of goiug o tho galleys ab ‘outa, and whilo on_ono side was presonted o prison aud prison labor, on tho other was o prou- poct of pluader and i witiily oxplained SURROUNDINGE. Dbattle at Altagracis, which was drawn, the loss VY. \yulmusudn issned, April in-law, Mrs. Matilds Brown, and tho Rov. Will- inm Whito La Barto, all of the Church of Eng= Tov. Froderie Scotson Olarke chargod thnt tho Rev, William Whito La Barto had to- coived the confession of his wife, and had in- duced hor to join the sisterhood of All Saints, St. Margarst atreot, London, *whilo Mr. Clarke \va puréuing bis musical otudics at Btutigart; and that his _mother-io-law, moved and o devil, Ind aided and abotted thore- a5 doutod, ond o violent altercation enetied, in_which tho Rov. Frodorio Scotson Clarko ‘was tho agrossor. bim £6 for striking tho for atriking his mother-in-faw. SAMUEL BOWLES. His Declination of an Invitation to HBocomo o Cnndidato for Mayor of springficld, Masw. A fow dayu ago, lnrgo numberof citizens of Springfiold, Mane., addressed & lotter to Mr. Samuel Bowlos, auking him to aceept an indo- ‘pendont nomination for Mayor. It was pretty well understood that had ho accopted {he nom- instion he would heve baen eleoted; clined it in tho following lottor : BrrovoriELD, Nov, 16, 187, Gexrresmy: Your invitation, with its signa- riso and embiarrass me. ly absorbing and satinfyin affording an abundant sbaro in_publio aiirs, hns loft no room for dosiro of officinl positiors. Told responsible for tha daily criticiams of o journal, at longt freo in its opinions of mon, aud Inensures, aud portics, it bad nover scemed to ma likoly that tho leaders of local opiniou would find mo an syailablo candidato, or that the popus lar voico would eall me to publio oflico. not, therofore,soccur to mo that the nto fro- nent and flatloring presontation of my namo for the Mayoralty in ono of our daily journols ropro- sonted more than tho gonerous Teoli Bonal frionds nnd old associates. ing of thoir suggestions into your letter, with names reprosouting all pactics, intareats, and fous, sud commanding, it is 10t prosumptu- Lo suy, by their numbors and influonce, tho oflice thoy offer, forces tho question soriously 000, but_tho offor was chago Cuba for $100,000 i sin hina shown rojeoted by Spain, In ost o desiro to hol Wo havo to get it from hor, and asked tho United States to_join the s in gusranicoing Lo ber its undis- {urbed possession, Varioua attempts been mndo by ¢ every instanco an both sides being hea From Bayamo, 4,1869, tho following proclamation: Inhabitanta of the Country : Tho forces which I expocted bave arrivod, With then, I will afford protection to the marily punish ail th ment of tho motronol hias, on_tovoral 00d, and sum- ta obtain indepondence Liave who rebol ngainst he Govern- o Cubans thomsolvos 3 but in thoy bave failed from' lack of or oxporienco, and tho leadors pators have bLeen shown no mercy. nited States havo boen uearly DIAWN INTO HOSTILITIES with Spain_owing to acts committed in Cuba, tho first bsing tha oxecution of Critlendon aud & number of other Kentuckians who had mado descout upon tho islaud ot Dabia Honda, un- dor tho command of Lopez, & Cuban, The ox- citemont at thiat timo, Auguat, 1851, was intense, and probably much greator th over tho maasacro at Rantiago, e other acea- Sion was tho firing upon tho Awerican morchant steamor Black Warrior by o Spunish man-of-war "I'ho colebrated QSTEND NANIFESTO eared shortly ofter this, that document tho rosult of somo unoflicial doliberations of Measrs, Buchanan, Soulo, and Magon, Un Statos Ministers to London, Madrid ,and Parisre- In thiis document, being tho produie- reo elavooorats, it wag get forth that Cubn naturally boloiiged to the United Slates, on cartaincontingoncios, such ns tho in Cuba, it would bo tho Lt of thin country to take forciblo possossion This_manifesto coused on im- meiso, sensation in diplomatio circles at the ut_no official action was takon considered the act of tho Ministers g als, and not as oftlcial, Tn October, 1868, tho successful revolution ainst tho Bourbon dynasty in Spain embold- d tho leadera of the Cuban_ patriot patty to attompt tho ovorthrow of sll Spaish suthority on the ialand, eapecially a8 Spain was then in & stato of internal warfaro horself. Accordingly, about thirty of these Jeaders, mon of adueation, reflnomant, and wealth, igsucd, on tho 10th day pardoned {bose who hovo gainat g, armod ; thiat your wives, mothers, tobs héve, 1o mo, found ihe profceticn thoy ad- ad and whicls you rojooted ; kuow, also, that nany pardoned bavo turned ‘ngaiust me, ~After all thiene oxcosses, so much ingrntitudo and such villainy, it is Inposeiblo for mo to bo tho man 1 eccplivo neutrality {8 no longor 4013 wwio 4s not with mo is against m thiat my goldiors may know how fo Tiearken to tho ordors glven thom ¢ ‘man, from {ho ago of 16 yoars upward, found ‘tho limita of bis farm, shall bo shot, unless & Juatification for bie abacuca Every hut that 15 found v o (raops. Bivory hamlot whero a white fiag {8 not holsted, in tokon of a dosiro for poace, wil be educed {0 ashs, Ko wopaoh who afo not now n helr roapective dnialling oF thoso of tholr ralatives wil Tolurn o tho fowns of Jiguani or Dayamo, whoro thoy will bo duly rovilod far, Thiso who full 0 o 8o will bo taken S compujsion, - Thoso ordors wil bo eaforced on and afior tho 14th fnst, / Tho forogoing 18 only o samplo of the manuer 1n which tho Syanisrds have conducted the war from tho start. To April, roprescntntives from all pasis of the Island mot at Quaymnro and formed tho firs Toglelative body of tho CUBAN REPUILIO. Cespodes was olectod. President for alx_yoars, and Quosada \as appointod Gonoral-in-Chiof of tho Guban forcos. Tn May, tho Spaniards wero badly_defeatod ot Quesada_occupicd n_stron Dosition, and had posted abont 400 Amerioans in Tear of Lis nativo traops with ordors to firo upon "Tlio Spaniards mudo to ‘bitt wero dsiven buok by tho Cuibans, and at tho third sttaoks, Gon. socing that the Cubaua wera wivoring, ordorad up bis rosorve, and the Spaniards wora ropulsed With o lous of over 60D ‘Soon atter, Gon. Cospodes was roluforeed ut 1 ‘which ho had rotakon, by 300 men wnder omns Jordan from tho Unitod Statos, Ho alao brought atorgs, munitions, and sapplios for 6,000 men ; also twelve fiold-piecos, to of which woro capturod by tho Spaniards. During the summer the Spauial troops BUFFERED TERRINLY PROM OMOLERA, while the Cubans wers comparativaly freo from it InJuly, Gen, Caballoro do Itodas, “ tho bitohor of Cadiz,” rolieved Dulco s Captoln- Ciougral, the lattor Liaving beon doposed by the ust Judge Sucd distinguish you, an'at this timo acait wall bo burned by As ono of thom tho writor, who found doing an oxcollont business a8 & ehop- keepor in Havana, " Thoy offored me s choico of uniforms, and I proforred tho ono which was The numbor who wora will- tho jaunty white shirt, rod snsb, and low hat with its long black {=athor, which form parts of tho Voluntcer's uniform, in proferouco to tho yellow and gray of tho convict dress, was, of courso, Jargo, sud they were sont in trans- porta carrying about 1,600 anch. in rapidly got rid of fomo 40, birds, Cuba ws equally rapid "o paraphraso a note Spaniards filled thoir regiments, but they ROBUED THI GALLEYS and the joil to do it. Many of thee Voluntoers never went ncarer tho Cuban ingurgents than Tiavana, and, oon finding themsolves in powor, thoy settlod’thoro In_busines us shop-keepers, -chandlors, pawnbrokers, sud recoivers of T varlous ways many of them havo scquired largo means And omo aro tho nominal owners of great wealth, That is, thoy titlos, by conflacation enlo 000 of hor jail- {ures, both sm over-run with emancipation of slaves the lattor if tho ran. Dayonot charges, tious on tho island. Thoy aro indopendent Spanieh forces, and oftan-tinos show their total dlsrogard of discipline, Count Valmanoda, whilo Captain-Goneral, nttempted io_roviow about 15,000 of {hese pot-lambs ono Sunday in 1870, but was informed by tho Yolunteer command- anta thiat o must chinge bis yegular uniform to that of o Generel of Voluntoers, and tho thront was oponly made in tho hearing of & group of American naval officors thiat his mon would shovt him if hie appoared in any but tho Volunteer upl- form, It is bardly necessnry to stato thut bo did g0 dress, and was loudly choored by hig evor-loyal A PRONUNCIAMENTO at Yara. The roatons nlleged for throwing off ance wero, that they bad been political, ' civil and roligions that thoy wero not allowed to ‘hold publio meetings, nor to write upon political top- ica; that they wero oxcluded from 21l share n the Governmont and wera plundored by tho wish,_ofiicials; that thoy woro griovously 4 without vopresontation ; that restriotions ig instruction ; that they of on immenso standiug army, whoso cost thoy wero abliged to pay; au tion was_restricted and tho If thoy asked tho the Spanish allo doprived of ul 1 have, thorofore, to way that I would rather Spriugflold tlsu bold apy other aftico i the gilt of my fellow-citizens. graatly liko to nolp administer tho publio affairs f my natiyo olty, of which, year by year, I moro proud and fond, and to” como ‘Into cfoser clation With ita peoplo and ita instis tutions, Further, I recognizo the obligation of ovory citizen to answer tho call of his fellow- vitizens for his sharo of the common duties of tho publio service. Againat thoso _considorations, Lowover, are, firat, the conviation that, with ail sunal eacrifice, I could not give to tho offica_the time nud strength that it juatly domands of evory conscloutious oceupant; and, second, Lho fooling that nny ono baving the opportunity and ebaring tho awbition of modern journalism ‘ean beat servo tho public iutorest by undivided servico With my inexperionce in tho wero placed upon publi wore ab tlio morcy In Janunty, 1870, tho Spanlarda woro dofeatod at Nojuss, snd agafn ot an atteck w Dan capital, Gunymaro, losing 436 in killod alone. 'Tho whold your iau 6 ropotition of tho many small alirmishos taling Placa, i which tho Cubana_ woro genorally dis- only to reappons ugaiu elsewhero. ‘obruncy, 1871, tho Gubans succossfully rosited an_attack ‘on Moyari, Dodition which Janded ot Gliantansmo was d by tho Spaniards, and Gen. Quesads ind Figuorodo wora takon to Suntisgo snd shot. Do Rodas was relioved about tho ond of 1870, by Couut Valoinseds, but ho wa# no more suc- cassful than Lis prodecossora in quolling the Tn Fobruary, 1860, o decreo was iasued abolish~ 0 little froedom of tho press that remained, tablishing trial by conrts-martial. Durivg tho wholo of this year tho Cubaus wero_very ac- tho railroad avd telograph lings, de- gosand burning pluniations right up Gen, Quesnda, Wit 000 men, attacked Puotto Principo, but was lsod. Oen. Valmaseds succecdod in taking Bayamo from the Cubans, but_was contipually attacked and annoyed. Two Bpanish columns ‘morching from Santiago to_ Jiquani, and from Dayamo to Mlanzanillo, sulforad sevoroly. 'Tho Spanish woro budly dofeated ot San_Oristoval only UG milos -from Havans, i Guanajs, only 33 miles distant. The Cubans aleo captured Lo Gununja, & seaport, and forti- fied it with brass fleld-piccos. drivan out by » Spanish oxpedition of the AISY AND NAVY COMPINED, the navy first shelling the fors and the army At Las Lujag, tho Cubans ¢t home-guurds and took their arms oud horwes, but thoy wore thomselvos twico routed at Banta Cruz, and iu the Province of Sagun In Grando, In March, 169, from Spain, and ti thety lucome to the Governmont. adyanced from Lo Cusuaje toward Puorto Trincipo, and found sbout 4,000 Cubang en- tronohed In the mountaing of Siorra do Cubitas. THE MEAVIEST ENGAGEMENT of tho war thero took placo and the Cubaus wero Luth uidcs losing beavily. Ceapodes, whils organiziug hia foroes at Mlayarl, wus roinforced by an expodition which landed that while immigrat slave-trado _oncouraged. Governmont to reform any abuso, thoy wero thoir poraons woro imyrisonod hoir proporty conflscated. Tho Iamntion was therefore issucd to all frionds 'roo Cuba o unite in & common caugo and drivo out tho Spanish parasitos that had go 6 blood of the native patriots, not mere adventuress, having to gain, but wero Aost notablo ireatod ag robels, or banishod and t) to tho walls of I long lived upon ¢ "The signors woro > nothing to lose and ovorthin, all men of iutluonco and woelth, i hin profession. dotaita’ of mumeipal admintatration, the hoealth io porform tho duties of this ofica us I shouid want to and vould expect me to; and, wero this othor- 1 doubt tho wisdom of turuing asido from my ‘already somi-public dutics for a personal share in the local Governmont. rathor than the merc personal loadors party administration, I f influonce in both Hociot; in the education snd CANLOH MANUEIL CESTEDES, 2 owning large catates in alawyor and planter, 145 man of finp to Uauzauvillo, ant Tho coat of tho war far 1870 was statod, in tho An d to tho Spaniuh Cortos, to awauut to §62,000,000, The uumber of troops wont to Cuba sinco the outbroak of {ho insurreo- tion I8 u littlo over 80,000, Alnrch 5, 1872, the Cubnna took the town of aud Juno 29 thoy dofontod en, Arango, Marquis of Savta 0 Principo, was another, ¢ Gen, Quesads, or of Layamo, Tiicia, nativo of Puort Tater thoy woro Some bf the othor signers wort Gou. Marmol, Gen, Aquiloro, May and Gen, Castillo, all of whom have gorvice in tha patriot oau ho Captain-Gi di, ono of Queon Isah not & favorite with Sorrano, Topeto, and Frim. fow avarlablo troops in tho Lastorn D hold tho larger citiss, the tho fortitied conat towns afford proteotion, and the fon of nourly tho wholo ast becoming tho great and govornmont ; sud, rootion of that agono only o vatuablo ally 28 it is, and independent of any porsonal sharo in tho dotalls of tho adminisiration Hagua do Tabunian & largo foreo ut Iolzuin. Juue 80, Count Vsimaseda was rolieved Ly Gen. Coballpy, snd tho samo cruol polioy as bo- foro was coutinued. A DIFFICULSY DETWEEN SEAIN AND THE DNITED t this time was Loruun- Teaholio's appointecs, the now Governl These reasons constrain me above the tempta- troops continued to mrive tion and tho duty which you 8o genesouely placo q_olorgy offerad one-aixth of owing to tho treatmiont of Dr. oward, was aet- tled by the rolozse of tho prisoner and the ro- turn of hus confiscatod g Tu Murel, 1873 nonr Jigusni, and woro forced to occul whare the nayy coul Cubans soon had possossl of tho eastern part of tho islnd ex large placon liko Puort and Nuevitas, 1 cannot think thore s any such oxigonoy in a8 to make my doclination in ublic dunger or cmbnirassmont.; her work ; and our local affairs aly sonEo o tingllold lias mon n plonty for ove men aho is rarcly endowed, in her liberal and working elorgy of all branohes of tho Chrls- tinn Churely, In hor schools and thelr teachors, i hor numerons local soclaties for public discus- wion and culturo, in hor noblo clrolo of women W as in hior proas, with pauincds wore dofonted wm nosr Holguin. end of darch threo rogimouts of homo guards, oalled * Civil Guards™ by the Bpaniards, rebolled ngalnst thoir ofticors, and DESERTRD TO THE CUBANK, taking tholr arms with thom, Binco' then thero Javo hoon fow ougugements, aud tho’ troops on both eldes havo boon walting the returh of cool ‘Mo lnsurgents aro just about s 8 doplorablo, ~ 1f tho Thoso placds thoy eous tnckod and haraesod by tho Onbaus, TACK OF ANMH they wera uaablo to gnin any declnive sucooss. ed with plonty of tho urma tho commioncoment, iiblio eharities and the ho divect them, oy woll the Iustrumentalitios for d dlvooting that micl) blic opinion by whicl tions avo finully soitled, Do not, howavar, rogard mo ay, in auy indifforent to tho compliment yoi pay mo honor you propose for me. other compliments and honors of my lifo, 'and will bo gratofull ued wemories, of rillew, wovoral fleld 10,000 ball-cartridges, A bod; ubans was routed at Mucacs, aud Gon, Villesca wovoodod in driviog Gen,’ Coapodes out of Mayari, Another Cubandotaohmont was whippod and atill anothor at C(luaracabuya. wat s badono for tho Cubans, a force of 3,000 being alko badiy dofouted nt Potrarillo. ‘Phio Bpanisrds bad curdontrated over 10,000 mon araund Vills Ulara, but tho; Targo towns, and all smll off. ‘The Cubuns lost 1ttlo iu thoir dofeats, as thoy Lind only » slirmithing organization, ‘aud whan one command was disporsad {hio mombers joined the nearost ond” tat broken up, and kopt Hail thoy beon suppl wiscl munitions of war at tholr indopendence would have boon ussured, thelr rough srmm, soythos, machiles, aud » fow firvarms, thoy worn ablo ta paniards In sovoral engagemonts, o that they did not suticijute that tho now (overnment would ack with so much mytiinde inronding fobward roinforcemonts, 16 thoy thonght that affairs in Bpain would o 80 strong us to soquirs the prosence of all tha army tharo, At any rato, the flrat throo months pnssed—the goldon OpROFtUNILY to gait posKons= 1on of & woll-Tortifled seaport was ost it,all liope of recognition of helligs since, oven with atronyy a4 st tho hoglunin {ho condition of tho uinn Jnto outyage upon humanity doos nothing olso, 1t ily call the attontion of the civilized tho utter inability of the Bpanlish elther ta conquer tho Cubaus, to control the Vol- unteers, or to carry on warfaro according {o the futes of the civilizod world, Rl e, A Olorical Row he ey, Frodorio Bootuon Olarke was tried at Whoy trankoond all aould only hold tho )y trousured o lotachmonts wero cut i its most val- L am, yours truly, o AsturL Dowres, To Danfel L. Marris, Ean,, Ay, D, I, Weswon, lon, wliphulot Froek, H, N, Oase, ek ingham, Oharlea L, Bl slyexpand the aren of tho slavoholding l[;m :.dhl)‘% )lflcfln Presidont Polk offored to pur- Wilkiam M, Fomeroy, Kev, Alszsudar Durgees bv iy of tho wroat bowors, Lo viotorlen woro | Dusiva Avifl littla waa doua oxset one piteled | Relahtan Taat ot fox aupBILIRA. Ms' Bratiiots | Moule et AR diten SIFRARRL, aud uibsri 'THE DETECTIVE FORCE. Grave Charges Aainst Oficers Slayton and Gallagher, They Are Acoused of Shielding Thieves from Punishment, The Railroads Find It Necessary to Employ Private Deteotives, Tho dotectives of tho Chicago polico fores have long boon coneldered corrupt, but a want of con- cluaive evidonce of guilt has proventod their dis- ‘miseal in disgrace. Two of them, howover, have at Inat been “run down,” and, it the allogations mado are provon to bo truo, Rouben Blayton and Michaol Gallagher, First Procinct dotectives, witl 8oon coaso making **outside money.” Throo or four monthis ogo, Tesao and Jacob Folsonthal, junk-deglors, whoso ostablishmont Is on Des- plnines . stroot, near Adnms, woere nrrostod and fodicted for buying & quantily of **car brasses,”" bolonging to railrond compa- nios. Tho caso was called for trial in the Criminal Court on tho doy fixed, anda nolle prosequi entorod by tho Btate's Attornoy. This was dono in consaquonce of Information fur- nishod by Slayton, who told Mr, Roed that the most important witnesses—tho ones on whoso toptimony n conviction doponded—wexo out of town, and could not bo reached. It was subso- quéntly ascertalnod that this information was untrue; that tho Folsonthals, as is allegod, attempted to buy up the witnesses, but, failing to induco thom to leave tho eity, handed the officers 9400, or promised to pay thom to sccure thoir roloase. 3 At tho'meoting of the Board of Polico, yostor- dny afternoon, Mr. H. B. Adams, scting in bo- half of the Superintendentsof thoNorthwestorn, the Illinois Central, and the Rock Ielsud & Pacific Railrond Companies, proferred formal charges ngeinst Slayton and Gallagher. 3 In reply to tho questions of Commissioner Shoridan, ho #nid ho had talked to Supt. Wash- burn about the matter in Soptombor lnst, and algo with Commissioner Wright. The former told him the charges must bo mado in writing, and sworn to, before anything could bo dono. Commissioner Bheridan inquired it thero wae any good reason to boliove that there was com- plicity betweea tho dotectives and thieves. Mr. Adams rojoinod by saying that the rail- road companios had endeavored to protect their property, and tho two ofiicors had apparently assisted them, DBut wlienovor a mattor was pointod out to thom thoy would dolay exccntion, and ho bad become morally cortain that the companies could not bo protected through them. Privato doteclives had, theroforo, to bo employ- ed. Ho then road to tho Board the subjoined charges: 3 7o the Honorable oard of Potics Commisifoncra : Thio following charges nre preforred for FOUF con= sideration aguinst police oflicers Reuben Slayton and Michuel Gallaghor of tho South Side forca : Furst—For corruptly ana willfully violnting their oathis 28 ofilcers of tho police forcs of ihe city of Ghicago, and conntving and endeavoring 1o defeat the ends of Justics by protecting snd aiding prisoners whom thoy lud arrested for crimo, viz.: felony, and who had been indicted for the mald offense, by falsely representing o'thio Slates-Attorncy, Gliarles 1, Kocd, that fho wit: nesees In the caso wero absent and out’of tho State, and that withont their *ovidenco tho said partics conld not bo Zonvicted of tha crime for which they wora so Indicled, which representations so mado o said Chiarles 1, Reed wero whaily and {otally false, and svere 6o known'to beat tho timo thoy 5o made said statements to said Charles I, Recd, That said O, 11, Teed, Esq., relying upon tholr statoments so mado, 1 onter a nolfs prosgnul upon, eaid_indiciments, an prisoncrsywercaliowed to depart tho Court without doy, Second—Thnt said ofiicers, In violstfon of their dufles g8 police ofiicors, and in violation of their onthis of ofice and 0a’ conservators of tho peaco, refused 1o attend and givo ovidence upon tho rearrest and oxomination of eaid porties thun discharged through their agency and instrumontality ; they Liave Ing made (ho firat orlginal arrest, and thelr lestimony bolng materlal as to certain facts, liird—That they hicve, n voltion of their catha of oflice, and in_ violation of the rules of the Polico Board of tho city of Chicago, received monoy from tho Chicago & Northwestern lafirond Company, to be uned for o certain and specific purpose in_cnabling said rallrond company to obtain property stolen from them and soeuring (1o conviction of tho receivors of tho samo, and falsely represeting that tho samo had been so Used, when n truth and in fact not one Qollar lind becn g0 used, but had been traudently aed Dy Ttonbon Slayton for bhis own uses and purposes, “Tourth—For violation of thele dutiea a3 polico offi- cors ud ns honest men, in this: By trying to pors suado ono August Gromm to go to_ Ar, 0, . Willard, thio attorney of the Chieago & Norihwestern Rallroad, and atato {0 bim tlnt lio Slaston, Liad givon to" bind 1ho sum of $35, when in {rath and in fact the eaid Slayion iad udt 80 pald Lis asid gum of $25, or uny Tt of it, S O ifti—Tha sald ofticors, in tho caso of Albert and Teaac Felaonthal, now indicted for recelying aud buy- ing slolen property, knowing it to bo stolen, and in which cawe they made the original arrest and’ prom- faed O, I, Willard, Esq,, ottornoy of tho Olicago & Nortbwestern Raliroad, to faithfully look ofter and prosecute, obiain th witnesess, &c., in violation of tholr oatlis and thelr dulies o ‘such otllcors, havo slnce, on orabout tho 8th or Oih day of Septomber Jast, Plnced overy obatruction fn thelr power towards the'ttlal aud convictlon of Aatd Albert and o Fel- senthal; (Bt thoy bavo been and aro now doing ail fn thsir power to defeat tho euds of justico, Sizti—Tiat Olcer Slgyion, on o about tho — of November, 1873, ab tio Glly of Chicsgo, fu violation of his duties b suél ofiicer, and of his outh, caused {ho arrest of ono J. 1L, Bull, while in_tho dischargo of is Quty in exccuting o scarel-warrant lssued by ouo A, ST, Bauyou, o itatics of (o' Peico of Cook Cointy and acting Justica of the Paaco in tho City of Clieng and “upon the warrant so fusiied full power and aus thority wan indorsed by sald Justicd.to snid Dull lo oxculo tho famo; and by virtuo of such authority sald Bull, with o seareh-warrant 8o issucd, searched tho premises described 1o #aid warrant, and then and {hiera found o lurgo amouut of stolen properly belong- jug to soveral railroads of {his State, and, as in° duty bonud, arrested ono Werthefuior, * th propeleor, of euid | premite, |l confeyed fin to tho police offico, aud ' thero demunded of mn oficer, then and thero nchng, that ald dacob Werlluor, proprietor of gaid iotiis, ba booked for tho offeusa of recelving stolon proporty, Knowing tho e to o beon, wlalen, Bkt e Do held in oustody {herefor, Safd Onicor Slaylon did then and thoro whlfully refuso fo recelvo ur nrrest st persan 8o charged with o criminul_offeuss, in violation of tho statiites of this State. [Seo Rovised Statutes, Gross, pago 187, Soe. 22,] Dut eafd ofiicor st only' vofuscl o Teceltu or drivit sud. prisouer 1 god, but released kaid Jacob Werthelmer, and _ar ted und frprisoned sald J. O, Iiull, beforo them antlorized to ecrvo the process of sald’ Tangon, nnd willfully aud mallcionely falsoly mprisoned satd’ Bull and proscented Lim befora_e2ld Dangon ; but, upon thio duy of trial, when sald Justico Bunyon' vius' abont to luvéatigato tho chargo o preferrcd aguinst gald .0, Bull, coused said chargo ta bo dis- ulssod; undy as moon us wuid Lull way relensed, again caused his arrest for the unme pretended clnrge, and informants thorefore uer aud chirge that Teuben Slayton has been gutlly of the erfmo, under tho stat~ tuten, of refusiug to Teceivoa prisonier charged wilh crima, and of felkely imprisoniug said J. O, Lull and, of wiffut sud orript oppression fu ofico : and ftor~ wards, I furtheruico of thio sy ableot, and (o e- ublo xald Worthetmer to secrata and {o mako way with thio proparly in- the premiscs of said Werthelmor be- longing to thy railronds, so rourrested eald Tull and proteoiied fo the premixts sud threstoned 4o srrest other duly unthorized officcrs placod at sald premises, sad was only dotorced by tho Goustabl fu clucgo that the complainauta thoreforo reprosent that sald Tonbon Slnyton did obstruct, resist, and oppons {he Bold J, 0. Bullin tho servicoof legal process, beiug thorato legally autnortzed, s violation of tho statates of Hlinols (Grost, pagy 186, Bection 11.) T nubstantisto thu charites herotofora proferrod, the Commiesioners ate reforved to Goorgo Willard, Room 10 Ashlund Blook; Gharles 11, Reed, Attorney for the fitato; Augunt Groman, No, 340 Tird avonite; Alr, Cornoll, dutective for the Lako Shore Rallroad ; 11, 1, Adamiw, Ohleago, Hoek Talnd & Pacifin Italirond 3 Willlazh Cannon, custodianof stolon proporty ; Georyo teOlellan, 1o witneshes in the case of Worthelmer avo J, 18, Tiall, Willism Turile, James Fitzyerald; Alfred Tow- urs, A, 1, Bunyon, uhid August Gromum, Accompunying tho churges wore afildavits of Ohiarlos I1. Racd, Stata's Attornoy. and August Gromm, ouo of the witnosses, who Slayton sald was out of town, Ho was not, but loro at tha time, and would have been in Court hind o hoen nolifled to uttend. Prosidont Cloveland thouglt moro allogations agatust ofiicers shonld ot be made publis. ‘Thoy might niot bo guilty, aud the pooplo should not try thom beforo tha Board did. Mr. Adams romarked thut ho proforred the chrgoa for tho SuSerlntommmn of tho rail- ronds { ho wau 1ot o dotaotive, aud did nol wish to_ba considered ono, Doteutive Blaylon, who had boen sent for at tho requost of Coinmisslonor Bhorldan, canio into tho room ot {his juncture, uud_twas ad- dvoused by tho mompor from tho South Division, Hatdhot” % Mr, Slaytan, you oyo oarged hore with complloity with partios who lud roccived stolon goady, 1 bellove 1 upolko to you in rola- tlon Lo the matter Homo two mautbs ugo, when 1 . firkt gol wind of tho afair, nud L thoiight thon from your stdtoment thut you wore &l right. Now," tho publio aro goliig to hear dofinito clinrfon preforrod against you-—chargon that show you \mmll‘l otz\mlzhu&:{l with :huu:'nl:uoll:nrs, tha! OWL SORILY4S yetting anvontinl withes ot Batone (hs Gousia aug af LamD R that you recelved monoy for tho purposs of far cilitating thelr prosecution, and appros fo iv'mni‘o\n;dlmg"l Sy proraind e 'ha Pregidont did not know whotler B h)ml beon brought in to say anything nbml:’m: chargos. . Commisslonor Sherldan kno the charges wera coming in, and ho bad sout for Hlayton in order that an ex parlo statoment should not bo given to tho public. 4 ‘Tho P’residont romarkoed that if ho was Slaya ton ho would refuso to make auy statoment une i1 ho was brought boforo tho Bonrd. Blayton sald hio wyould prefor tohoar what they had againet him before ho sald anytbing. At tho proper Hmo ho would bring In his witnesscs. Commissioner Shorldan agid” that, for some timo past, ho had noticod in tho nowspapors in- dofinito charges againgt Dalcetives Blaylon and Qallnglier, auid Jio Lind gono to work ta investie @ato thom himeelf., IIo had acen Mr. Adams in couferonco with - Commiseionor Wright- somo montha go, and, suspooting that somothing was up, although o could got no oftictal information abont it, dotorminad £o find out what was going on, o folt it to bo Ina duty to probe the mate lor to tho bottom. QGoing {0 tho custodian of stolon proporty, Lio found that ho had somo rails rond Droperty, ‘whioh had been proporly delivored. futo big hands by tho regular officors, Whon Mr, Adams and Oapt. Turtlo approachod him on tho streot and told him thoy bolioved thero woa caugo of eome..m ngalnst Bioyton snd Gale Inghior, lio told them to prosent formal charges, Commissioner Wright interrupted him by say« ing ho suggeated tho same thiog a month ago. Commissioner Bheridan continued. Ho wax gind the matior had comoup, for mnny rcasons, acaso o thought, Trom what ho bad learnod, that thora was a misapprehenalon botwoon tha authoritios of tho railronds and tho city police. 1o bolioved that 8layton' had beon doing hia duty ; but, as thoro was o doubt of tho Integrity of . $ho two oflicers in the minds of tho I‘MFroml officiats, ho wanted o thorough investigation, and, if Blayton had boon derolict, ho flslmrldnn would go for him. But from what hio had learn< od—and he had looked into tho mattor closoly— 1o bolioved Slayton would be oxonorated. Mr. Adams said ho had no malico sgainat any Ot b y ‘ rogldont Cloveland thought it *“a disgrace ta the Bonrd” tolot a thing ngl the kind gflut; a ihing that Liad beon gotten hold of by vome one who Liad been loafing around bunting Tor things, Ho heeame very indignant, nnd snid ho bolioved in secracy. 1t everything was to bo given to tha public, thoy might s woll hold theif moetings in “Tu Trmuse or Times offico. Commisgioner Sheridan moved that tho matter bo reforred to the Superintondent, snd it was sa roforred, Aftor Presldent Cloveland had ‘said that the Board ought to hold their moctings whero the ;apqrtedm could not hoar & word, tho Board ads ourned, PRINTERS? WAGES. Meoting of Employcrs Yesterday Aficrnoon »== Zho 'Typographical Urion to Be Asked to Reduce Wage TThio represontatives of tho loading job print ing firms horo which employ Unfon printers mot yeaterday aftornoon at the Sherman Houso, for tho purpdso of discussing the quostion of reduos ing tho wagos paid to their employes. -TI publishers of somo of the Chicago papors wore Ppresent by invitation. A mooting was held Mon« day, but nothing was dono oxcept to appoint g Commiitee to_proparo an addross to tho Typo« graphical Union, stating thelr viowa upon the question, g Among those present yostorday wore Mossrs, Thompaon, Jumeson, Loounrd, Clark, Huzlitt, Donnelly, Hanscumb ; Mr. Leohard prosided. o Comnittco ;‘n‘)mlttodht drsttof & con munication to the Typographical Union, askin That bady to.oo-oporata th rodusitig Wagha to the ratos suggostod in another report, boing S18a wook, and_composition to 45 conts a thousand ems, and timo pay to 85 conts an hour. Tho roe ort rofera to tho dopreesed condition of the ob-printing business noro; tho fact that work fa ieaving Oblcago for other poiats; tho Ligh ratoa paid printers hers; and tho low cost of living 3 all whicli, they boliovo, should induco tho Union to_co-operate with them in malking a reduction, Jorry Thompson did not.sco how he and oth< ors would bo benotited by the reduction of jour«s neymon's weges, Until ho did ho could nof sup« port the resolution. It wae good for tho news. ‘Paper -men, but nobody olsc. Still ke would submit to what tho omployors did. Mr. Clark wanted to know if thoy would malne tain prosent prices if wages wore cub down. Mr. Donnolly gaid work constantly went out of the city, since it could not bo dono as chieaply a1 at the Enst and West, whero rates of composis tion were less. If o slight reduction of wagex brought work here, the mon wouldbo beneflted. Ho had discharged nine mon, sinco lio had no works for them. Ho would raduce Lis . prices a little in book printing, since ho kmew ho could got moro by so doing. Ar., McClure, of Culver, Page & Hoyne, op- posed tho movemont so far as’ job printers wora concerned. Whon wages went down, the em- ployers would have to rcduce the prico of their work, Hodid not sce how tho job printors wera bonefited, : Alr. Clork thought it would be botter to re duco the hours of labor rathor thun wages. Mauy prinions wero out of employment now, Mr. Donnolly did pot boliove any one contem- plated reducing work, but thought the roductios would increase work, Tho Tr¥u;lphical Usiol was, ho undorstood, rendy to lizten to a proposi- tion for n reduction. No injustico was to bt dfis éo the journoymon, and xone wa3 contom- plated. Mr. Thompron wanted to know how far the resolution was to bo binding if adopied. If he lived up to it, would others givo old rates and steal away his mon ? Ar. McNelly did not think it would make much differenco with his concern what was done Thoy were paying, in 5omo cases, moro than the Union ratos, ‘Thoy had not in their composi- tion room two hands whoso wagos would be re duced if tho proposed ecalo was agread to. A, Jeifroy nsked goutlomon whethor thely hands wera now getting enough to support them. sclyos.” In his ~offico thoy wero moking about €14 a wook, and o _printer could livo on_that ‘Tho hours of Isbor had beon reduced. Ho did not geo whore the additional work taiked of was to come from. Tho ganoral publio alono would Do holped by reducing tho acale of pricos. The troublo was there was no work to do. Mr. Donnolly asid the representatives of news zxapura would consult relative to their composi- fon rates, and sond a sepatato commanicstion t tho Union. Mr, Hazlitt said tho Union rulos did not réo- ognizo thia cutting down of hours, Mr, Jefiroy snid his printers bad ogreed ta tho reduction of timo to cight hours, Hir. Donnolly oxplained that he wav nobop - posed to the Unlon, but thought the reduction was in tho intorest of the men. Thn7 ropoit was then adoptod--yess, 10| nays, 7. ¥ A 1t waa orderod that a copy of tho report be sont to tho Becretary of tho Typographical Union, and the meoting adjournod. Mr, ‘Thompson suggeated that ab the next mooting thoy fix o oealo of prices for thems delves, and Mr, Hazlitt agroed with him, and liopod' they would have an understanding te olovate tha businoss in Chicago. e e e NOT PROOF AGAINST BURGLARS. A South Water Strect Commission Firnvs Sufo Blown ©@pen and Rovbed. Somo time during Tuosday night, the com- mission storo of Q. Lascher & Co., No. 123 South Wator stroot, was entored by burglars, who blow open the safe-door, and obtainod $230 in money and somo yaluable papors. An en- tranco wna obtnined to tho storo through a resr window, the shutters of which wore forced opon by mosis of some powerful burglar tool. The nolo abjoot in untering tho storo scemy to have beon o gain accoss to tha {ntarior of the safo, notbiug else haviug boon molested. Tho job was ovidontly done by shilled burglars, It ape poarod that o holo was fArst drillod in tho safe door, nour the koy-hols, and filled with powdor, with which a fuso was connected. A blonket was then pracurcd, and, having boon aturated wiih water, it was hung over the front of the safo, for the double purpose of aniothoving tho roport of tho oxplosion and con- venling tho flash. ~Tho plan wus successful, the oor hoing blown o pioces, and swung Wide opon, affording tho robbory onsy aocoss Lo the valnables bohind it. These consistod of 388 in money, notos to tho value ofr %608, n cortificata of stock in the Olieugo Oty Iailivay Company, No, 1,026, upon whish teansfor hias beon atopped, und o bauk book, Tho money drawer was als rohbod of » fow doltars, The’ job was probably done shout 18 o’clock on 'T'uesdsy nighs, as # elock, on tha top of tho nafo, had utopped at that hour, very likely from tho Jar of tho oxplosion. Tho vasn wis given 10 the’ detoctives yesterday morniug, hut thera woro no dovolopnients at & Iato hous Jast evening, A e gl gou. want fo call amen ¥ bosotied uman hyena," don't go to Providenss to do Whoy Aued Lyl 400 K0T UMIG Besd M'b ik day