New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-13
NEW YORK.
War Ships at Key West

NEW YORK.
War Ships at Key West.
New YORK, December IA Key West
dispatch says there are seven war ships
there. Sufficient naval stores have been
received there to supply 10000 men for
three months.
Property of British Consul Destroyed.
The officers of the Wyoming report that
the estate of Books, acting British consul
at Santiago, was burned, probably by the
volunteers.
A JeweIer Warned.
A Swiss .jeweler was warned to leave that
city or decline to trade with American
naval officers.
Life of American Consul in Danger.
Consul Young says the life of Schmidt
the American vice consul, would not be
worth cent if there were not American
war vessels in the harbor.
The Liberal Republicans on the Chief
Justiceship.
The Liberal Republican general conven-
ton. after stating the qualifications for Chief
Justiceshp, resolved as follows:
In the judgment of this general commit
tee, the gentleman who has been nominated
by the President and Senate for this high
and important office does not possess the
requisite qualifications, and his nomination
should not be confirmed.
The Colorado.
The Colorado sailed to-day
Raid on Gambling Houses.
The police raided on gambling houses,
but Morrissey' S apd number of other big
| establishments had a premonitiOn, and were
closed.
The Ernest olori,z Arndt.
~, ID. .IA.. ~
afternoon no news had been received in re-
gard to the accident to the Ernest MOritz
Arndt. The coast near the scene of the dis
aster was said to be very rocky and the
| weather foggy.
The ThorWaIdsen, steamer in the same
line, went ashore in that neighborhOod
about year ago. The cargo of the Arndt
consisted chiefly of provisions, of which
about One-half was discharged at Havre,
where che arrived on the fourth instant
after good voyage. She had on board
twenty three passengers tor Copenhagen
and Sottin.
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The activity IN the preparation of war
vessels con tinues at the BROOKLYN navy
yard. although a second detachment of men
will be discharged tomorrow from the Ell
gineering department Sixty-seven We're
discharged on last Saturday
Hhe SGnken coal barge.
The wrecking company began to-day the
work of raising the sunken coal barge in
front of the dock gates.
Cuban Jfass Meeting Mt Cooper Insti.
tute-Speech of Rev. George I'll. Hep
worth-lslem0rial Read and Adopted.
A great mass meeting was held at Cooper
Institute, tonight, to protest, in the name
of humanity and justice, against the bar.
bar tad hyrt tho do in
Cuba. The meeting was heralded by large
posters headed: No more war on women
and children" and calling for the accord
| ance of belligerent rights to Cuba. The
meeting did not commence until after eight
O'Clock, but there was an immense crowd
outside of the doors since seven, and in a
few minutes after the doors were opened,
every seat was filed. The audience were
fired with patriotic airs before the procee d.
ings commenced. Horace Bernard pre-
sided.
The first speaker was Rev. George H.
Hepworth. He said
america has made demand. after the
late news from Cuba which looked under
the circumstances, like an apology; but it
would have complete reparatlon. The next
message ought to be in the shape of a bomb
shell. TCheers. The American people say
what they mean, and mean what they say
[Cheers
"The reason why such atrocities could be
committed by any nation living under the
light of the nineteenth century was this:
The vast majority of the inhabitants can
not read or write; thousands of the mayors
of cities can not sign their names. 1t would
be well if some of our public officers could
not. [Cheers and laughter Spain has no
interest in Cuba but that of dollars. The
aboriginal population has melted away as
the iceberg before the sun, and for
generations Spain has filled the island
with men. women and children com
PEELED to work under the fear of the
0verseer's lash and the owners pistol.
Then there was no protection for a Cuban;
he could not arm, but one with the blue
blood of Spain might arm cap a-pie The
two evils OF Cuba were slavery and the ex-
istence of Captain General. The speaker
declared that be loved every people who
| love liberty. and they would have his help
| so far as he could give it, no matter what
| their religion or what sun they lived under.
| [Cheers.l But for generations a change
| was coming. The Cubans were aroused by
| the royal press of onr own native land and
| the great measure of success OF Mexico and
| other American republics"
The speaker reviewed the career of Lopez
| and declared that his dying words, Il die
| for Cuba" cannot die. "For the last five
| years. he SAID, ''the struggle has gone on
! in Cuba, and the voice of Americans goes
| out with such thunder tones to Washington
now that even the Secretary of State had
| to speak"
He hoped now the Cubans would gather
themselves like tidal wave for the last
| great effort, aided by The sympathy of this
| great people, who, having reached the
| height of freedom, desire to stretch out a
| helping hand to raise every other people to
the same level with themselves
Mr.. Elwood l. Thorn, the secretary, read
| a list of $50 vice presidents. The following
| memorial to the Senate and House of Rep
| resentatives was then read and adopted:
The undersigned memorialists, residents
! Of the city Of New York and vicinity, re-
| specttully show that for more than five
| years there has existed state of revolution