The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-03-12
SAD CONDITION OF CUBA.

The Island Is literally passing through
frey furnace. What with the rebellion
tho cholera, the Uomiio, the scarcity o
provisions, the arbitrary DEGREES OF the Cap
tain General, the arrest of peaceable citi
zens and the abolition of the freedom o
the Press, the Spaniards and the Cubant
are alike miserable. The people are Idle.
voured by new taxes, for the Spaniards are
resolved that the Oubans shall pay the ex.
penses Of putting down the rebellion.
Captain General Dulce is q weak man and
by his acts is tanning into fury the natu.
raj hate of the Cubans against the Span.
iards. II the former should obtain one
good seaport, strongly fortified, and Eng.
land should concede TO them belligerent
rights, Spain could not put down the in.
surrection. A Havana letter to the Neu
York World furnishes lthe following inter
esting information:
On the 18th Dulce issued a Supplemental
decree, defnitive Of what disloyalty shall
consist in, to-wit: treason, rebellion, insur.
%reotion, conspiracy, sedition, reception of
rebels and criminals, intercourse and com
munication with the insurgents, coalitions
of workmen or laborers and leagues, sub
versive and seditious expressions, cries
and cheers, propagations of alarming
news political manifestations, allegories,
and other ends that may be thought ealcu-
lated to disturb the public tranquility or
order. or may in any manner attack the
national integrity. Acts of highway rob
berries and city robberies committed by
more than three persons acting in union,
and the carrying of concealed weapons of
all kinds, are also specified in the supple
mental decree as subiecting the offenders
TO trials by military commissions, so these
have now about as 'fuil n swing rs they
had under the Lersundi administration.
General Dulce's withdrawal of his decree
giving the liberty of the press has been
more fatal than the cholera aud UOiRitO COM
bined to b ethree dozen or more newspa-
papers-hboral, conservative, democratic,
progressive, republican, and ia omne genus
-dailies, evening papers, Sundays. semi
weeklios and weeklies-lately started in
Havana, and all have died, with the excep-
ton Of the Expeetador Liberal and one or
two others.
Arrests continue to be made in all parts
Of the Western Department for political
reasons, and now not a day passes by but
that half n dozen or more citizens are
brought here and then turned over to the
cold and chilling Inequalities Of the COM
manders Of the MORO and Las Cabanas.
Among the late arrivals are two brothers Of
the name of Quintana, belonging to one of
the wealthiest and best families of the W.
eta Abaio, and Professor Esberel, the
Principal Of the High School in the neigh
boring town of Regla, who was arrested
with two other citizens for being engaged
in an unauthorized reunion, and for hav-
ing concealed weapons about his person.
In Havana, the political arrests made since
| last wrote are also numerous. No three
Of them has caused az much excitement
and talk rs that Of Senior Carlos del Castil-
10, the President of the Havana Savings
Bank. This gentleman, who is worth
about 81, 600, 900, has been rather unfortu-
nate in his political relations with the
governments of Cuba, this being the third
time he has been imprisoned for political
motives The second time was during the
Lopez expedition, when Captain General
ConchA kept him in the Moro for several
months. II issuspected by many persons
that Senior del Castillo is in q great meas
IRE the victim Of business ~ioalousies, and
that the directors of the Bdnco Espdnol
have been instrumental in procuring His
arrest, he having always been a decidedand
successful opponent of that institution.