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

beginning, and which will last throu. h the
improbable Tor the spaniards. Every road
will become q quagmire, and only the natives
ear get about a. sli. The Sl,auiaris viii tnere-
fore have to withdraw. Even their arrsons
at such places as Bayamo and Puerto Principe,
the impossibility Of supporting them INLAND.
Then the yellow fever will begin its work, and
the small Spanish army cannot fail to be great
ly weakened by this cause in the course of the
that they will not give up the contest for that
reason. They are exceedingly pertinacious,
md will fight for years after all hope Of sue
cess is abandoned
Island rrenChed with Riood---The Mob
Looking Forward to the Day OF Gem
eral 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, l may count myself yet among the living,
even il only half alive. My principal object is
to press upon you the necessity Of untiring
of aid in arms and war material, because if
these do not reach us very quickly, and in abun.'
dance, dance, vest we shall perish all. Against everything
there is q thirst for blood and determination.
MURDERS OF UNPARALLELED ArRoc1TY.
Assassinations multiply daily; there is not
the least personal security, and we are all
doomed to death. You have probably heard
already OF the assassinations perpetrated in
Durante; those at Colon, Palmillas and other
places by the sadly distinguished Chapelpor-
ris; that at Caldenas by Don Felipe Pelayo,
upon the person OF Don Geronimo Valladares,
after piercing him with ten bullets only for the
pleasure Of killing him, and mulatto, and
robbng them OF oil the objects OF value they
had. His orpse was dragged to the barracks,
and there his breast was twice pierced with
the bayonet. In Bemba they killed Don Anto-
Mo Cadiz Don Loretta Inda, and many Others
with whose names am not acquainted.
a THE AssAssINATIoN OF YOUNG OLIVIA. Fl
Ic .nnot omit mentioning here the virtuous
and industrious young man Don Nicolas Olivia.
murdered in Bsmba IN the most cowardly and
barbarous manner. At four O'Clock in the
mother. his wife and two children, one Of these
q child twenty days old. He went cut to his
work to earn tho 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
to relate. It is unnecessary to tell you that all
this is done by thu rabble, without country,
virtue, or honor, called tho volunteers, s'tIee
supporters OF order."
TIE LIVING MUMMY COVERING BEFORE HIS MOB,
Dulce is a coward, who trembles before the
volunteers, and approves their acts of vandal-
ism. Still he has been been put into such fix
by the commissions Of volunteers who have
come from Colon, Cardenas, Matanzas and
other places, to exact from him the dismissal
de1.d a body Of ARTILLERY from the seat Of war a
to garrison the Moro and the Cabana, and for
the garrison Of Matanzas he called the battalion
de N0potes battalion otsNaples.)
THE VOLUNTEERS DEMANDING BLOOD.
In hatanzas it wac something scandalous.
They wished that on Saturday of Glory the
young prisoner, Don Manuel Despau. should
be given up to them (the volunteers) to cele
brate the Aleluya (religious iestival) by drag
ging him through the streets. The Governor
charge of him in the barracks with only fifty
men, being both honest. refused to deliver
him. The murmur continued thus for several
days, until the Governor one day sent the pris-
oner to the capital at break of day. AS soon
as they heard OF it three companies of those
bafbarotls men went to the Plaza de Armas "a
square tn Matanzasl to demand that the pris-
oner be delivered up to them.
PINTO oouRAaEousLY DEITEs THEH.
Seno lopez Pinto went down to the Plaza
and tried to pacify them, but the mob did not
tience, he Dire Y. his sword and told them he
would break it into Q hundred pieces sooner
than consent to be bullied by such o mob.
Th sreupon they took their stand at the Casino,
tran 81 she the Brave men
manded by Tonrodon, and well equipped and
armed. to ask the Captains General for the de.
livery into their handasof the prisoner, that
tunately the live mummy would not consent to
1t; but on the following day Colone]s Ramon,
Herrera. valdtvielso and Rizo had to 20 to Ma
tanzas, worthy chief truly OF those hordes, in
order to satisfy, tame down, and please the
sooundrels. 'rHf'
DAY or MOURNING IN HAVANA.
Yesterday was o day OF mourning for this
CITY, not only because the brave martyrs Of
their country. Leon and Medina. suffered
death by, the vile garote (and they died like
but aso Because ss aDa the SrsVe ape
volunteers, Indignant at such q display Of cour-
age and heEoism. gave vent to their feelings
hy firing andiecriminately and charging with
Different reports estimate the uSnber OF killed,
wounded, and injured at from ak to twenty.
Fhe volunteers boast Of having hacked to
pieces, IN his own house, an unfortunate
hood.
THE PRETENoEs UNDER WHICH cuHANs ARE
sss KILLED. ge
. or course, as on other previous occasions,
they pretend that aeditious cries were uttered.
and that shots were fred from the terraces;
are the ferocity and their thirst for Cuban
blood. When listen TO the Il to-day relating
their exploits against aeienceless men, and en-.
,nouncing that the 'saeeat day" general mas
,sscrss is cioss at hand, I can scarcely keep my
ihands from tearing them to pieces. They
have made many arrests and win continue With
their murders. Ii AZ y s 79 # SeTs n T - ~
lsEALL TEEsE EATRoUrTIEsI.oNaER Br roLERATEDf
Finally, Spain dees not govern here, nor
Dnice, nor the 6psniards who are established
here and have families. 1he country 10 at the
mercy Of the worst kind OF sscanaille;s carsnnen,
porters, and vagabonds, daily excited and ox-
asperated by the newspapers; they think and
desine Only TO kill us all, and afterwasd divide
the nOotY. Ihe picture 10 q e ead one, and badly
made, but atrue one. II the great people of
the United States do not aid as quiokiy, We
shall have many horrors 10 lament. The in-
surgents of the hye cities are doing that which
would seem ineredible. For the attack upon
Siguapea alone, the government sent against
them u 600 troops and artillery. We should
make q icontraet for q streng loan, with
MORTGAGES ofall our property. ss,ial.Sg g
3st
The contract OF the French Government
for Virginia tobacco has been awarded ID Two
honsss IN New York. The order is for about
eight thouasnd hogsheads. Three qualities Of