The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-13

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A bill to incorporate the Manchester
and Augusta Railroad Company was
postponed.
bill to alter and amend the charter
and extend the limits of the city Of
Charleston, and provide for an election
OF Mayor and Aldermen of the same.
was read the second time and ordered TO
be engrossed.
A Senate bill to incorporate the
Charleston Water Company, of the city
Of Charleston. State OF South Carolina.
was postponed.
The committee appointed to enume-
rate and destroy certain bills of the
Bank of the State of South Carolina,
reported that they had met, counted and
destroyed 81, 1884, 392 of said bills
Cuba's Struggle for Freedon-AlIcced
Decline OF the Cause.
In his letter of the 9th instant, the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald asserts, that the only infer
ence to be drawn from dispatches receiv-
ed from our agents in Cuba and from
private letters is, that the revolution of
the patriots is on its last legs
Their forces are reduced to nero
handful of armed and unarmed men,
who are carrying on q predatory warfare,
merely prolonging the struggle in tho
forlorn hope that something may yet
turn up to help their cause, and that
then their little family may DO made the
nucleus from which will gather the dis
pirited patriots in every part of the
island. The revolutionary party is now
driven out Of every stronghold which, n
few months ago, it possessed. It holds
not a single town on the island, and is
compelled to confine itself to attacks
upon the Spaniards along the narrow
roads and bride paths. Further, inter
cepted letters show that the Junta itself
is badly demoralized and distracted by
internal dissensions, which call all its
expensive efforts to aid the patriots to
eventuate in failures and disasters.
Worse still, some of the Cuban Generals
write to their friends in New York, that
they have no confidence in their men,
and one of them proposes a surrender to
the Captain General
AT the State Department, the failure
of the Cubans is considered to be due to
tho inefiiciency and blundering of the
Juntn. at an early stage Of the revou-
tlon, Senior Lemns, in an interview with
Secretary Fish, was informed that the
Cubans might purchase from our Govern
ment oil the arms they could pay for;
further, that they might ship such arms,
as merchandise. to any place in the world,
In American ships, and would be pro-
In any place, except within the marine
Jurisdiction of Spain "You may buy as
many arms rs you choose, and YOU NAV
ship them as you would sugar or cotton,
and we will protect you" said Secretary
Fish; "bnt when you get into Cuban or
Spanish waters" added he, "you must
look out for yourselves; there you will
have to take the consequences; but on no
account will we permit you to organize
an expedition within our territory. You
may send passengers to Cuba, but YOU
must not put arms in their hands, nor
send them away from here as regularly
organized forces. You have our sympa-
thy. We would gladly see you win, but
you must remember we have duty to
perform in executing our neutrality
laws" Instead of taking this advice
strictly. the Cubans not only bought
arms, but organized armed expeditions
and sent them away from our shores
The whole number of men thus sent, or
sought to be sent, would not amount 10
one full regiment, it is estimated, so that
they could not have contributed much to
the cause, even had they all succeeded in
making safe landing.
Secretary Fish thinks TIM Cuban Juntn
In this respect evidenced their lack of
sound judgment and business manage
ment. BY attempting to send away
organized expeditions they forced our
Government into an attitude of hostility
to the patriots. The administration felt
constrained to enforce the neutrality
laws against its sympathies and feelings
and the result has been thnt nearly all
the expeditions have been crushed by
our officials. Secretary Fish is of the
opinion that the Cubans have not sent
away single cargo of arms unaccompa-
MED by organized companies of flibus-
ters He also states that both the Presi-
dent and himself were as anxious to sign
proclamation in favor of the Cubans
should be issued; but he declares that
the reckless management of the Junta
deprived them of the opportunity of
doing so. AT one time the rebellion
seemed to be gaining strength rapidly,
and proclamation was actually drawn
up and ready to be signed by the Presi
dent, but disaster after disaster followed,
and the President was reluctantly COM
PEELED to withhold his signature to the
proclamation.
The fact that such n largo army was
sent from Spain to suppress the rebellion
IS explained upon the theory that
cholera, yellow fever and general sick
moss did more to kill of the Spanards
than the Cuban bullets and sabres.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.-The freight
train on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, on to-day or to-mor.
row, will be changed into dailylfreight
and accommodation passenger train.
This train will leave Augusta at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, on the arrival of the