The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-05
rs CUBA S0UELCHED?
The Intelligence of the Collapse of the
Revolution Denied-Allcged Cnnnrds
from washington-Nyho Originated
them and Why.

Don Miguel Aldama, the president Of the
Cuban Junta. Of New York City, publishes card
In the newspapers, in which he says that he had
read with indignation dispatch from Cuba, al
lepIng the existence of circular from the Junta,
urging the Cubans to give up the contest, &C.,
and pronounces it false in every particular.
correspondent OF the Baltimore Gazette, writing
from Washington on Sunday last says:
In anticipation of the debate upon Cuban af-
fairs, which is to come on in the Senate upon the
reassembling OF Congress, the spanish agents
here and the government OF the United States,
are busy at work in the manufacturs OF disas ssnt
from this city on Friday last, which contained
"report, to the effect that in Famaseda's dist rlct
seven hundred Cubans, with their officers had
laid down their arms" and that in she district
% Remedies the Chief Coco and all his men had
surrendered. 1t is known that this dispatch, If
not altogether false, Is at least an exaggeTation.
1t is further known that it was concocted at the
State Department, with the assistance OF the
Spanish minister, and thence communicated to
the Associated Press.
Mr.. Fish ma, therefore, be set down as acting
purely In the Interest Of continued domination Of
Spain oveNCuba. What are his motives the pub
lc must inier from one prominent fact, namely,
that the administration has succumbed TO the
dictation Of Sumner, and noncompliance on the
part Of the Secretary Of State would cost him his
place.
Cuba, or what the exact state OF ailars there may
be at this moment, 1t would be difficult to state or
predict This much at least may be said with un-
disputed truth: That the "repOrts from Havana"
especially those manipulated at the State Depart
jment here are not entitled to the slightest credit.
/ have now before me Dispatch said to have
been sent from thence, giving an account OF "a
circular" received there. purporting to have been
issued by "the Cuban Junta at New York" IL Is
10 Law down their arms, giving as o reason for
the abandonment OF the insurrection, the failure
of a recent flibusterine expedition, and the In
ability Of the Junta to send more men, ana re
further disheartening action OF the American gov
ernment In permitting gunboats to sail from New
York The Havana dispatch contains other SEN
satonal matter TO the enect that the insurrection
is entirely subdued. Now, have 1t in my power
20 nail these lies to the counter. upon the author
ity OF Cuban agents now at Washington.
The canard is evidently founded upon letter
written by Cuban. Carlos de Sedano. who Is not
only not a member Of the Cuban Junta, or an
agent Of any kind Of the Cuban leaders, but las
he distinctly declares In the said letter. Is now,
and has always been, inmeaf to the lnsurrec-
tion He is what he calls 'refermer." His let
ter is we'll worth perusal, inasmuch as he proves
that the United States at first encouraged the re-
straction Of those engaged in it. Ais letter Tor
1fcircuar') Is mainly devoted to making good
these damning charges.
The circular Of Sen0r Scdano, It IS ,Enown, was
sent In large numbers to Havana, bystRe Spanish
Minister ut having been printed by his order in
New York; The objects Of the writer and the
Minister are Identical In The main. Both desire
the stranglipE OF the revolution, and both rehe-
nently oppose the annexation OF Cuba to the
United States. Upon the latter point the writer
Of the circular eXpends most OF his force.
In short, these developments show plainly that
the wretched bungling aud corruption Of this ad
ministraton has deferred indefinitely the acqui-
siton of Cuba by this country, they have not
rendered such an event altogether Impossible.
Nothing less than the utter overflow or Radical
power could bring it within the range of possi-
bility.