Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-03-17
SAD CONDITION. OF CUBA.

The Island is literally passing through q
frey furnace. What with the rebellion,
the cholera, the vomiio, the scarcity of
provisions, the arbitrary DEGREES of the Cap
tain General, the arrest Of peaceable citi-
zens and the abolition of the freedom of
the Press, the Spaniards and the Cubans
are alike miserable. The people are de
voured by new taxes, for the Spanards are
resolved that the Cubans shall pay the ex-
penses Of putting down the rebellion
Captain General Dlilce is weak man and
by his acts is tanning into fury the natu-
raj hate of the Cubans against the Span
iards. If 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. Havana letter to the NelD
York World furnishes the following inter-
esting information
On the 18th Dulce issued a supplemental
decree, defnitiye of what disloyalty shall
consist in, to-wit treason, rebellion, insur-
rection 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 Tobberies 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 "full swing as 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 and ComitO COM
bned to the three dozen or more newspa-
papers liberal, conservative, democratic,
progressive, republican, and id ompe genus
-dailies, evening papers, Sundays, semi
weekles and weekies--lately started in
Havana and all have died with the excep-
ton of the ExpectadOr Liberal and one or
two others.
Arrests continue to be made in all parts
of the Western Department for political
reasons, and now not day passes by but
that half dozen or more citizens are
brought here and then turned over to the
cold and chilling hospitalities 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.
elta 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 as much excitement
and talk as that of Senor Carlos del Castil-
10, the President of the Havana Savings
Bank This gentleman who is worth
about $4, 800, 600, 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 Inn in the MORO for several
months. 1t issuspeCted By many persons
that Senior del Castillo is in great meas
ure the victim of business jealousies, and
that the directors of the Bdnco ESpdno
have been instrumental in procuring his
arrest, he having always been n decidedand
successful opponent of that institution.