Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-20
CONDITION OF CUBA.
A State Of General InsoIvenoy-An I'm
poyerished Treasury-vieW Of the
Shareholders.


A State Of General InsoIvency-An I'm
poverished Treasury-VieW of the
Shareholders.
By Telegraph to the Tribune.
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER l4.-A
gentleman of large intelligence and
wide experience in Cuban affairs has
lately returned from the island, af-
ter travelling in business capacity
over nearly the entire area, except
the insurrectionary portion, but in
cluding the principal cities. He
says that all business in the islands
is in ; frightful condition. and that
everything il tumbling. The sugar
interest has lost immensely on &C
count of low prices and the many
failures. The loss of sugar mer-
On Saturday came another dispatch
stating that fifty-seven more of the
Virginius party had been condemn
ed and shot on the 10th instant. This
makes the whole number of the dead
one hundred and ten. There were
in all one hundred and seventy per
sons on the Virginius at the time
of her capture, of whom one hun
dred and ten have been shot, fifty
two are under sentence of death, or
already shot since the departure of
the latest intelligence from Santiago
fourteen are condemned to the chain
gang, and four are said to have been
released. The eighteen whose lives
have been spared are engineers and
firemen shipped at American ports,
and obviously ignorant CT the des
tination and purposes of the ves-
sci.
1t is not strange, therefore, that the
cabinet meeting at Washington on
Friday night should have been char
|acterized In the dispatches as the
most important one which has been
held during the Presidency of Cen
eral Grant, or that In every navy
yard from Portsmouth to New Or
leans active preparations are going
on. The Kansas sailed on Friday
direct for Santiago, and two frigates
have been dispatched under COM
mand of Rear Admiral Scott for Ha-
vana. With all the eliminating
force of the Santiago atrocities, the
first hasty cry for immediate and
summary vengance is giving way to
calmer c0unsels. Those who three
days ago clamored for immediate
recognition of the Cubans as bellig-
erents now begin to see that such a
course would involve serious results
without having any more certain or
desirable effect than might be bet
ter secured by more calm and con-
siderate policy. The plain facts of
the case are simple, Spain is
weak struggling Republic, racked by
troubles at home, and only formida-
BILE at sea. CASTELAR, and his minis
try are devotedly attached to the
United States and in a great degree
dependent upon the sympathy and
support of this government. The
cause of the Cubans is, as it has
been for years, not in condition to
warrant our government in recog-
nizing the insurgents as belliger-
ent power. They have no army,
not seaport, no capitol city.no cen
tral government. Brave as they arc
noble and patiotic as is the struggle
they are making, deeply as we all
admire and sympathise with them
they are not yet in condition
which can warrant their recognition.
The United States has therefore
gone to work in the proper way by
first asking Spain in the, blunt ques-
tion, Do you still govern Cuba? If
the reply comes '.yes," then it will
be to Spain that we shall look for
atonement for the insult to our flag.
IfSpain replies that she can.no long
er controiCuba, and that the murder
of the captured patriots was IN de-
fiance of her authority, then the du-
ty of this country will be plain. We
must do for ourselves and upon our
own authority what Spain acknowl-
edges herself unable to effect. In
any case there are Thousand chan
ces that the muskets of Peninsulars
at Santiago rang the knell OF the
Spanish 1ule in the West Indies, and
whether we want it or not Cuba
will be knocking for admission in
to the Republic.-CleUeland Lead