New-York tribune., 1869-03-03
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
THE CAPTAIN GENERALS LATEST oRDvpo
[FRoM OUR OWN coaREs

! HAVANA, Feb. M.-Amnesty has ceased n,d a..
CaptainGeneral announces to his volunteers th., ~
resumes war on new principles. Report is that h.
himself will lead the new campaign; but Dnls. !. -
invalid, and Havana may need his special eoveoi0-
heretofore. All told his forces for fehserye. a.
probably not above 5000 men, with the reSpfo,,a
ments coming from Spain. The loyal papers ,sn
you that the Government counts upon 70 OSo or sooo
men, but they sum up this figure from gayrison,
militia and police. Now the militia are 10 soses sr
tent, forced 20 their business the garrsons are bo
and needed where they are; and the police are no,
worth mentioning No faith, therefore, can be ei,en
to the loyal estimate. Calculations twenty or tbiv
thousand less look OverdOne even counting in ths
autoInaton militia which the officials suppose srr
protecting Puerto Principe, Villa Clara and other
! towns, snder peFsmptory eaH from tho militarv
commaDdants. You have heard that both sides ot
the Cuban question guilty Of false news; but In.
Spaniards have it all their own way now. and II
lying is tobe DONE can do it all in that one way and
with double the old quantity. So will be right 70
mistrust all Spanish news of Caba from .his date
and. as nearly all the intelligence and expires
thought of the island comes through
Spanish and in part Bourbonized press, and
is, moreover. gauntleted through q censorship.
you will have very little to believe positiyely Tbs
Captain Generals order makes it a treasonabe Of
fense to print SELL cry circulate any against
the Government Publishers and editors must not
seem, even in manner the most Indirect 10 give
encouragement or sympathy TO tho rebellion. ke-
cordingly there isbut opinion here and that Il
Spanish. DespOtIsm never went further in its de-
vices Of repression than the Spaniards do now and
they know from habit how TO cOnstrue their decrees
so az to give them an instantaneous and terTorinng
effect do not know that they will act out half tho
cruelties which their warmest enemies predict.
but If the war takes a desperate turn
they will be apt to set more savage
example than the negroes or cpeOles,
judging from the advice given them at times in their
press, if from nothing else Gen. Duces last order
appears TO caution the volunteers against excese
which he suppOses likely to be stimulated by thsr
enemies the Cubans The story runs that the volua-
teers have been moved again to demand speedy pun
ishment of some of the rebels put in prison, butcf
this there is no assurance The order itself. however
is remarkable for its confessions. append it here,
along with the Captain-GeneraPs announcement as
to the scope of his clemency in the future:
yoLUsTRERs Be deaf the advice of the maleyolent
who, contemplating already lost the cause Of the In
surrecton in the discomfort the alarm, aud want
Of confidence which they may produce in nles ths
means Of making sterile the efforts which your yaor aud
patriotism propose 70 contribute 70 the grand result
They win not succeed, for know your enlightenment
and your virtues but my duty is to warn you In tune
against their nsdiOus designs The term OF amnesty
ended action authority strengthened by the
powers with which has been rovested by the National
Government Ny decree of the 18th, emanating froa
these powers by which established the courts mar
tal in order 10 try all reasonable ofenses, viii be
executed nexorably also the penalties imposed mon
the offenders They will be Of the kind which
the ordinary tribunals apply to the oenses of which
they took cogniEance anterior 20 the publication OF the
decree Volunteers content in the recttude OF your
aims and take echo from those who presume to saH
the sacred cause all defend, with unworthy
of your cultivation aud of the fame Of the noble and
valiant whom you have known conquerors. Maintain
with admirable discipline what you obserye-order
and the laws. We 80 TO begin acanpaign active and
vigorous, against the dsturbers, who st destroy tie
fields and lay waste the territory where troops do NOD
tread or which you do not guard. Union, them and dis
ciplne. which s the law OF force aud faith In the
thOry who represents the patriotic aspirations Of all Of
you-your General, DOMINGO DuIcs.
In another announcement the Captain-GeneEJ
says:
"The period OF amnesty has expired which yas
marked out In the decree OF jan those who
with arms in their hands None aspire 70 ,hs
benefits OF the amnesty but those Of pardon extend al
ways those who abandon the flag Of the insurrctiaa
and present themselves to the legitimate authorities
with arms without them. Right and justice eHeep.
always in such cases, the leaders, the robbers the m
cendiares, and the aSsassns" u
The habit of the Spaniards being to call all the
rebels in the field robbers, incendiaries, aSssss
the exceptions here may swallow up the rule. TIE
leaders prescribed oabeclds, petty leaders a.
Gen. Duce calls them, and include every rebel
officer from lieutenant upward, If the loyal con.
mander chooses to eonstrue it In all his lsis
proclamations and DEGREES the Captain-Gen.
eral predicts swift punishment and nexorable sever
ty in dealing with fresh criminals, but takes pains
to say in the order quoted, that the penalties tS
be dealt out will he in accordance with the
ordinary laws, The ordinary laws, by the way, S1o
extraordinary. Perhaps the only recommendation
of the Cuban court martial its dispatch rs that ~
the civil tribunal in its slowness. The significant
tone of the Captain-General's last paper may be 81
counted for by the startling fact that prcca
nation has been brought to light in which the ne
groes of city and country instructed 10 rise. Tbn
may well move the fears and enrage the pride of ths
Spanish shareholders. and make the cut-and-dried
class of Cuban geDtity afraid of the islands ca1se
The papers are shocked, according to habit aEd ior
that matter are paid for being shocked every day
COncha, one of the line of bad Captain Generals
wrote in a letter dated Dec. %. and now being
printed here, some opinions noticeable TO fore
sight and worthy of respect in q military point Of
view. 1t will not do odeceiye ourselves" he SAID;
eve have before us long war. the war Of
the independence Of Cuba. This could not
begin in the Western Department. There
the Spanish element and feeling is stronger;
there it is much populated and very narrow.
and it would have been easy to yanquish any move
ment of insurrection There the peril would be tiH
complications of an immediate abolition Bnt the
Eastern department with its great extent and sInai
population. seems marked out for the moyemeDtoi
Independence The insurgents are masters of nearly
III .h +arr;tor, ATTENDING IN the Cinco Villas and t