Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

tee on Organization, in the course of its pro-
cee'lings, on Friday, adopted resolution de-
manding of the Government careful inves-
tigaton of the butchery of American citizens
in Cuba, and prompt vindication of the
American flag, and the honor of humanity.
The New York Times takes the ground that
Spain being unable to control Cuba, the Uni
ted States must take control there. The Post,
speaking of the second execution, says:
"Thc feeling of our citizens was raised to
fever heat by the execution Of the four Cuban
leaders, 1t will now rise to the boiling pitch.
Cuba and her friends will hereafter need mel
ther money nor men. Have these butchers
no fear of the Indignation Of the civilized
world? The report makes the blood cold"
A large Indignation meeting was held in
New York on Monday. VIM. Cullen Bryant
presided, and Banks, Beecher, Wilson, Sum-
ner, and Allen, Governor elect Of Ohio, were
prominent speakers.
In New Orleans the feeling is equally in
tense. On the 9th, all enthusiastic meeting
was held in that city, in which the Surveyor
of the Port and other prominent Federal off,
cials participated. Resolutions were adopted
condemning the barbarity Of the Spaniards,
and calling upon the Federal Government to
recognize the Cubans as belligerents, and de.
mand an indemnity and apology for the re-
cent outrages on American citizens
In St. Louis a meeting was called, in
which it was recommended that the President
shall suspend, for sixty or ninety days.. the
neutrality laws, so that the indignation of the
people can have full vent.
A dispatch from Augusta Ga, says the de-
tails of the butchery of Captain Fry and the
crew of the Virginius excites intense indigna'
tion among the people in that section against
the Spanish power in Cuba. - .'.
A late Washington dispatch says the Navy
Department is very active, and will soon have
a powerful fleet in the Cuban waters; not fol
active hostilities, but to protect American
shipping and overawe the volunteers; thus
aiding Spain to restrain them. -..'. 81.
LA4 Co1s
Official confirmation was received at Wash
ington on Monday night of the execution Of
6fty-seven more of the Virginius prisoners, on
the 18th instant, of whom seventeen were
British subjects. The British legation is in
receipt of the same intelligence. ..,~..
President Grant and Secretary Fish were
closeted for an hour, on Monday, the occasion
being an explanation by the Secretary Of the
present state of the correspondence with the
Spanish Government, which, the President
subsequently said lit would now be improper
to make public, because there were diplomat
ic usages and courtesy, which it was necessary
to observe pending the controversy; but in
due time the result would be announced
This Government had thus far acted on such
facts as had reached it, and was now engaged
in collecting from all available sources fur
ther information concerning the capture O.
the Virginius and the particulars attending
the revolving executions which followed tha
event. It was desirable that all information
should be of such character as would leave
no doubt whatever as to its reliability. Th'
propriety of this course was too evident to re
quire an explanation, the Government being
careful in what is now doing and what it may
hereafter do, to act upon facts, and not upol
assumptions and uncon6rmed reports. 1twa
essential that we should be prepared to main
tain our position"