Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-11
Foreign n ews.
Pro defamation by she Captain Gem
eraI of Cuba.

HAVANA, Feb. 1.-Two pages of to-
days Official Gazette are devoted TO a
proclamation of Captain General Jouvel-
lar, lately reinvested with administrator
powers. 1t gives full explanation of
the present state Of things, the insurrec-
ton and the cause OF its continuance.
1t also gives assurances that peaceable
citizens will live securely under the pro-
lection Of the Government. 1t declares
the island in state of siege, and says
tina. all rebels and persons accused of
sediiion, murder and similar crimes are
to be tried by COurt-martial. Persons
charged with other crimes and INSIDE
meGnors nre to be tried before the ordi-
nary Courts, the Captain General reserv-
! ing the right to turn them over to
Court-martial if the gravity Of the crime
requires it. Orders are issued for the
mobilization for active service OF one vol
unteer out of every ten-the mobilization
to be Immediately commenced and con-
tinued six months. All persons between
the ages Of twenty and 45 years, not vol
uneers on ths first of February, are to
be enrolled in the militia. Voluntary en-
hstments are to be for one year and
any volunteer who may enlist
tor one year will be exempt
from all future drafts. Every drafted
volunteer will receive 500 bounty.
Drafted volunteers will be allowed to
furnish substitutes, but the pay
ment OF the money to be received
for the service will not be allowed. No
one subject to the draft will be permitted
to leave the island unless he gives bonds
that he will furnish substitute in case
be is drafted. All persons over As years
of age will have to furnish for mobiliza-
ton one man out of every tenth. If they
cannot enlist sufficient to cover this de-
mand, they must pay 81 eco in gold for
each man wanting to complete the quota.
Quartermasters will furnish the necessary
accoutrements to drafted persons, who
will receive the same treatment and be
! subject to the same laws and regulations
as regular soldiers. Those who are
: drafted will be organized into bodies
/ forming two additional companies in
} each battalion Two-thrds of those
drafted will remain in garrison. The
others will take the field, accompanied
by regulars. Every six months the third
in the field will be relieved by one OF the
other two-thirds performing garrison
duty. The artillery and engineer corps
g will be reinforced in the same manner as
5 the infantry. The proclamation divides
those drafted into four classes, according
! to nge, and provides that every male per.
son of proper age shall be included in the
, militia-all being liable to military duty
e under certain restrictions and conditions
1t provides that free colored people en-
g listing in the militia shall be subject &c
D the same conditions as the whites, ant
i they are to be modified in the sam,
manner. Orders are issued that the
: owners of slaves shall give one on
: of every LOCO in the island to work il
the swamps and fortiications, and in tn,
3. trenches, and at the end of the campaign
i the Government will liberate all thes,
c slaves, paying their owners$ 900 for each
The proclamation creates Junta for tn,
o inspection of the claims for the expense
d of the war, and organizes vieilanc
a committee in the interior, who will tax
e note Of everything and furnish guides
,. This system of vigilance is to proven
Il communication between the rebel sym
O pathizers in the towns and the arme,
It insurgents, thus isolating the latter il
Al the south. All officers and soldiers ar
lie are to be paid in full, in gold or it
d equivalent In paper. Able.bodied male
Or are to act as local guerillas, their familie
d to receive government rations. Town
may be taken from their present site t
another, and new towns buit accordin
10 prescribed plan. These orders ar
published sinultane throughout Ia
island, and the spaniards suppose tina
y they will be sufficient to crush the insu,
" rection within six months.
Items Of English, French and Span
j, isi News.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Disraeli will address
y his constituents at Buckingham on Wed
nesday next.
10 The Diplomatic representatives a