The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-03-03

INTERIOR VIEW OF Times IN CUBA.
The Providence Jomnoi has been
permitted to make the following ex-
tract from letter received from an
American gentlemen now in Havana:
ESQ much alarm is felt here that
Americans seldom 90 out in the even
ing, or even move about, except with
great caution. at all times. We have
little news except the rumors connect.
ed with the insurrection on the island.
The situation Of things look worse and
worse every day, and you can hardly
imagine the intense hatred that now
exists between all Cubans and Span
iards. Report says there are some
twenty-five hundred Cuhans confined
ia the "Moro," among which are many
"t the best and most respectable iyu.
pie OF Havana. These people are uf-
ten taken from their homes at nj. .ht, i,
aGd carried to prison that is, Moro
/ C"stlc-and thcIc locked up, without
having their cases investigated in the
/ least. Great fears are entertained
that there will be II serious outbreak
i'll Havana on the pa of February,
that being the day when the amnesty
expires.
''ro give you an idea OF. the savage
feelings of the Spuniards, I will mel :
tlon All event tha. occurred but yestrr-
day. a captain Of the volunteers in
a public cutc stood up before party
Of soldiers, aud taking his glass in his
hand, which was filled with liquor, he
empticd it on the head of one of tho
party, saying; CAS- baptixn you with
this liquor to-day, so will | baptizc
you with the bloed Of Cuhalls on the
22d.'
"Pcople are, with reason, getting
much frightened, and arc. leaving every
day in any vessel where they can find
passage-whethera steamer, ship or
small craft. [ am glad that our Gov
crnment has large war-steamer in the
harbor, and only wish there we're
more here, including monitor or two.
n family Of the highest respectability
told me a few days since that they
dreaded the 22d, and should seek one
of our war.ships on that day as place
of refuge"
BARnARlrY or 1orEz.-And now
comes chapter to go for the present
in parenthesis. 1t is the record of
tho unparalleled outrages and cruel
ties of Lopez before his flight. We
have no reports yet from witnesses, but
much hearsay testimony. It is alleg-
cd that his aged mother wrote him on
the anniversary of his fathers death
and besought him to libcrate his two
brothers, Benigno and Vcnancio. He
replied that they we're we'll cared for
and happy, and begged her to disrniss
all care and trouble. The next day
they were shot. That the wives and
daughters of officers who SURF endered
we're Always punished, generally whip
ped, bnt some Of them were shot, as
Mrs. Colonel Mnrtiuez, whose husband
abandoned uumaita and afterwards
surrendered that he shot Bishou Pa
lacios and priest together; that the
usual mode of conveying prisoners
from place to place was to tic them
twon aud two, and, when sinking, over
marched, they were killed with knives
or clubs.
Such arc only few specimens of
the horrible stories that find their way
INTO the newspapers here, aud by
thousand are firmly believed. They
may all he true and more. That tor
turing by various modes is common in
taragnay Is we'll known. Men are
put in stocks, whipped, tied head and
foot, stretched out by cords from each
limb, which are tied firmly to stakes.
You may reserve belief of alleged
atrocities till better proved but tn ese
tortures are not unusual in that coun-
y.-Cor ~ Y HeyaM.
Lieutenant Braine, of the Confede-
rate navy, held by the government OF.
charge OF piracy, is represented BIZ IA
writer in morning paper as u. man
without country and without trial.
lie was tall, straight and command
ing looking parsonage when in health.
but his sufteriDgs in prison have been
so lnteuse that he cannot walk without
the aid of crutch, and is pcrha, e
permanently disabled. His right foot
is much swollen from infammatorv
rheumatism, disease he attributes
to the unavoidable dampness of the
prison, and he is, indeed u wreck Of
the man who entered it nearly three
years ago. lie is only twenty nine
years age, but says that since his i'm
prisonment he has grown old faster
than with the flight Of years. With
a shattered constitution and frame
that is no longer tho subject of the
will, he drags himself about the pri-
son, and even finds it necessary to ap-
peal to the judgment of his visitors
that the reports of somo newspapers
that he has lost his reason arc untrue.
What can be the motive of KEEPING
this man untried, and running himself
and his family beyond redemption.
TIE LAST MANA strange story is
related concerning the great car,honolc