The New York herald., 1873-12-12

Terrible Condition or ManzanilIo-How
and Slaughtered.
The following letter gives graphic account o
the state OF affairs In Manzanlllo since il was as
saulted and looted by the Cubans:-
MANzANiLLo, Nov. 90 1878.
We are fairly again under the conservative in.
quisluon. we nave gone back to the times of Am.
pudia, in which the machete was the instrument.
not OF justice, but OF shameful personalities and
hatred OF race.
The old pilot, Don Clemente Acosta. was. some
four days ago. taken to Caut0 under the pretext OF
making deposition. and without any iormality oi
law the sustainers of the Yoz de CUBA and the
constitution hacked MIN with the machete Ia
their satisfaction.
Since the attack on this place by the Cubans
Vidal Martinez, Luis Garcia and others have IN
the same way been killed by the machete In this
way the police have amused themselves by taking
people from their houses In the middle OF the night
and carrying them to the sacrifice, without any
other motive or proof than the say SO OF some
Catal0nian or Galican, who may have had some
former grudge against the victim.
The jail is again iul. OF women and children, who
in small degree supply the place OF those Cubans
who are to-day masters OF nearly all the interior.
This struggle with power that knows IL Is de-
feated viii produce, to its termination, nothing
but crimes and mslortunes irreparable as those OF
The public convict prison is kept filed by un-
happy people whose trial is finished and done by
class all power and justice to-day reside, and they
dictate at their pleasure chains or death to those
WHOM tuey ulSllkc.
think the moment has arrived after q struggle
now OF over five years-a struggle whose Darbarity
reaches further than any pen can descrlbe-!or all
with the liberal press OF any country TO energet-
caly use their influence, so that the truth OF what
actually passes in Cuba, from to-day forward may
reach the ofciai spheres OF those governments who
represent law and order
Spain, during these five years. has not been able
to suhOcate the rebellion, Notwithstanding all the
efforts she has put f0rth Notwithstanding the
600 soldiers tnat nave succumbed in the struggle
ana tn M rs sh .nat sne claims an mmuni
q state OF war in the island. Meanwhile her news
papers recount military prowess more heroic than
the passage OF the Alps BY Hannibal.
Where mas there been seen such an acuumua-
ti0n OF contradictions To erect triumpha arches
be given even the name OF soldier; to look upon
the insurrection as nearly dead or unlmporrant
and, on the other hand,
GLOAT OVER THE DEATH
OF the most harmless OF the prisoners, as If they
belonged to the race of giants OF the fable, who
might scale the arch OF heaven.
The sorrowlul, sanguinary end OF the prisoners
OF the Virginius believe, Is sufficient to prove to
the world what the war in Cuba has been and is
and how far the bravery goes OF the sons OF PeayO
And II this has happened to men who were shell
tered under the shadow Of the American flag, and
In whom it was necessary to outrage international
law in order to take away their lives, VINO has not
thought OF other epochs in the fields OF Cuba when
Spanards have been able to proceed to their entire
II the graves opened ii the shades OF the martyrs
appeared as the Scriptures say that that OF Samuel
did to Saul, 1t is certain that their revelations
would leave more terror sOwn in the hearts of
mortas than the spectre OF Charon to the souls OF
those condemned to the regions of Tartarus.
Do not think these lines either fantastic or cx-
aggerated. Blood and death need the Cubans only
hope from this race. and blood and exgOrtion are
what the Spaniards have in store for everything
that is American. And II the genius OF Spain, as
one OF their statesmen said, Is always displayed in
the immense heights of the C0rdllera OF the Andes,
could. throw wlthering glance that could carry
out the destroying wishes OF that nation, the New
World would be long ago nothing but q desert OF
calcned crags, burned up by the fire oil Its impaca.
BILE hatred.
The camp of Bueycito has recently been destroyed
by the Cuban troops. The camp of Naranjo was
attacked and Bayam0 Also The news OF the
result has not yet reached here but 1t is thought
that the operation had no other object than to OBJ.
tain possession OF the oxen and mules that are en-
ployed in carrying conveys.