The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-24

The Cnbans have not fought regular battle,
! and do not mean to. The rains which are now
beginning, and which will last through the
next three months, will render the country
| impracticable for the Spanlards. Every road
will become quagmire, and only the natives
can can eet about at ali. The Spaniards will there
fore have to withdraw. Even their arrisons
Mt such places as Bayamo and Puerto Principe,
will doubtless be moved to the see coast from
the impossiblity OF supporting them inland.
Then the yellow fever will begin its work, and
the small Spanish army cannot fail to be great
" weakened by this cause in the course of the
summer. Still. we may as well understand
| that thew will not give up the contest for that
reason. They are exceedingly pertinacious,
and will fight for years after all hope of sue
cess is abandoned.
Letter from m influential Cuban--The
Island prenched with Blood--The Mob
Looking Forward to the Day OF Gem
ern1 Massacre.
The New York Sun publishes the following
letter:
HAVANA, April 1O.-I take pleasure in writing
these lines to the good brother, since, thank
God, | NAV count myself yet among the living,
even if only half alive. My principal object is
TO press upon you the necessity OF untiring
perseverance for the prompt remittance to us
of aid 10 arms and war material, because If
these do not reach Us very quickly, and in abun-
dance, we shall perish all. Against everything
Cuban there exists an implacable hatred, and
there is a thirst for blood and determination.
MURDERS OF UNPARALLELED ATRocrrY.
Assassinations multiply daily; there is not
the least personal security, and we are all
doomed to death. You have probably heard
already OF the assassinatlons perpetrated in
Macuriees by the commander of volunteers,
Durante; those at Colon, Palmillas and other
places by the sadly distinguished Chapeleor-
rs; that at Ca1denas by Don Felipe Pelayo,
after piercing him with ten bullets only for the
pleasure Of killing him, and mulatto, and
robbinr them OF all the objects OF value they
had. His Corpse was dragged to the barracks,
and there his breast was twice pierced with
the bayonet. In BeInba they killed Don Anto
nio Cadiz, Don Loretta linda, and many Others
with whose names am not acquainted.
THE ASSASSINATION OF YOUNG OLIVIA.
Ic c,nnot omit mentioning here the virtuous
and Industrious young man Don Nicolas Olivia,
murdered in Bemba IN the most cowardly and
barbarous manner. At four o'clock in the
morning ho left his home, leaving his old
mother his wife and two children, one of these
child twenty days old. de went vut to his
work to earn the bread for those beings whose
existence relied entirely upon the work OF his
hands, At about six squares from his house
he was murdered, having his back pierced with
bayonets, and he was also robbed in the name
of sacred love for Spain. It saddens the soul
to hear Of such shocking deeds, too numerous
10 relate. 1t is unnecessary TO tell you that all
this i. done by the rabble, without country,
virtue, or honor, called the volunteers, "the
supporters OF order"
THE LIVING MUMMY COVERING BEFORE HIS MOB.
Dulce is coward, who trembles before the
volunteers, and approves their acts OF vandal-
ism. Still he has been been put into such tix
by the commissions OF volunteers who have
other places, to exact from him the dismissal
OF their governors, that with all haste he Or
dered body OF artillery from the seat OF war
to garrison the Moro and the Cabana, and for
the garrison at Matanzas he called the 6dtdLton
de Napoies battalion OF Naplcs.)
TIE VOLUNTEERS DEMANDING BLOOD.
IN ,tntanzns-
They wished that on Saturday OF Glory the
Young prisoner, Don Manuel Despau, should
be given up to them tthe volunteers) to cele
bratc the Aleluya (religious fostival) by drag
ripr him through the streets. The Governor
and commander OF veteran troops who bad
charge of him III tho barracks with only fifty
men, being both honest, refused to deliver
him. The murmur continued thus for seyera!
Pays, until the Governor one day sent the prls-
,aer to the capital at break Of day. AS soon
as they heard OF it three companies of those
barbarous men went to the Plaza dc Armas "a
square in Matanzasl to demand that the pris-
oner be delivered up to them.
PINTO couRAaEoUsLY pEFRs THEH.
Seno Lopez Pinto went down to the Plaza
and tried to pacify them. but the mob did not
understand reason. Finally, losing all pa
tience, he drew his sword and told them he
would break it into q hundred pieces sooner
tlan consent to be bullied by such mob.
Tn .reupon they took their stand at the Casino,
and in The evening they came to Havana by
the train, fifty of them, the brave men, com,
manded by Tonrodon, and we'll equipped and
armed to ask the Captain General for the de.
livery into their hands OF the prisoner, that
they might take him back to Matanzas. For
tunately the live mummy would not consent to
it; but on the following day Colonels Ramon,
Herrera, Valdivielso and RiZo had to go TO Ma
tanzas, worthy chief truly OF those hordes, in
order to satisfy, tame down, and please the
scoundrels.
ADAY OF MOURNING IN HAVANA.
Yesterday was day Of mourning for this
city, not only because the brave martyrs OF
thei. country, Leon and Medina suffered
death by the vile garote land they died like
heroes, CRYING out "Long live Cuba free and
independent" but also because the brave
volunteers indignant ut such display OF cour-
age and heroism, gayo vent to their feollngs
by firing indiscriminately aud charging with
the bayonet into the defenceless multitude.
Different reports estimate the umber of killed,
wounded, and injured at from six to twenty.
The volunteers boast Of having hacked to
pieces, in his own house, an unfortunate
father of family who lived ID that neighbor-
hoed.
THE pRETENCEs UNDER WHICH CUBANs ARE
KILLED.
or course. as on other previous occasions,
they pretend that seditious cries we're uttered,
and that shots were fired from tho terraces;
but the only things to account for these acts
are the ferocity and their thirst for Cuban
blood. When I listen to the 4 to-day relating
their exploits against defencoless men, and an.
nouncing that the "great day" general mas
sacre) is close at hand, / can scarcely keep my
hands from tearing them to pieces. They
have made many arrests and will continue with
their murders.
saA1L THESE ATROCITIES LONGER BE TOLERATED
Finally, Spain does not govern here, nor
Dulce, nor the Spaniards who are established
here and have families. The country is at the
mercy of the worst kind of "canaile;;' cartmen,
porters, and vagabonds, daily excited and OK,
asperated by the newspapers; they think ana
desire only to kill us all, and afterWard dlVlde
the booty. The picture is sad one, and badly
made, but true one. Ii the great people OF
the United States do not aid us quickly, we
shall have many horrors to lamont. The in
surcents of the five cities are doing that which
would seem incredible. For the attack upon
Sieuanea alone, the government sent against
them II 900 troops and artillery. We should
mako a contract for strong loan, with
rtUony IF oil OJ1p pr0DertV.