Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-18
THE CUBAN WAR.
JOuvellar's New Orders for Its Sup
pressiOn-The Whole male Formulation
Enrolled and a Ora # Ordered.

Jouvellar's New Orders for Its Sup
pressiOn-The Whole Male PoDula ton
Enrolled and Draft Ordered.
/ Two pages of the Havana official
Gazette are devoted to proclamations
Of Capt. Gen. Jouvellar, lately reinvest-
ed with extraordinary powers. The
first gives full exposition of the
present state OF the instruction and
the causes of it's continuance also as
surances that peaceable citizens may
live securely under the protection of
| the laws. .Tia,i |f.' ""t ~ al ..t
The second declares the entire island
in state of siege. All rebels and 9th.
er persons accused of sedition, murder,
and similar crimes, are to pe tried by
court martial. Persons charged with
other crimes and misdemeanors are to
be tried before the ordinary courts, the
Captain General reserving the right to
turn them over to court martial, if the
gravity OF their crimes require it.
The third orders the mobilization for
active service of one volunteer out of
every ten, this mobilization to begin
immediately, and continue six months.
All persons between the age of 20 and
As years, not volunteers on the LIST of
February, are to be enrolled in the
militia. Voluntary enlistment is to be
for one year, and any volunteer who
may enlist for one year will be exempt
from all future drafts Every drafted
volunteer will receive 800 bounty.
Drafted volunteers will be allowed to
furnish substitutes, but the payment
of money to be relieved from service
will not be allowed. No one subject to
draft will be permitted to leave the
island unless he gives bonds that
he will furnish substitute in
case he is drafted. All persons
over As years will have to furnish for
mobilization one man out of every ten
OF their number. If they cannot enlist
sufficient to cover this demand, they
must pay $1,000 gold for each man
wanting to complete the quota. Quar-
termasters will furnish the necessary
accoutrements to drafted persons, who
will receive the same treatment and be
subject to the same laws and regula-
tions as regular soldiers. Those
drafted will be organized into bodies
Of 800, forming two additional COM
pan1eS IN each battalion.
Two-t thirds of those drafted will re-
main in garrison and the other third
will take the field, accompanied by
regulars. Every six months the third
in the field will be relieved by one of
the two-thirds performing garrison
duty. The artillery and engineer
corps will be reinforced in the same
manner as the infantry The fourth
proclamation orders that the militia
shall be divided into four classes, &C
cording to age, and that every male
person Of age shall be included in the
militia, all to be liable to military
duty under certain restrictions and con
ditions ,..
The fifth provides that free colored
people enrolling in the militia shall be
subject to the same conditions as
whites, and be modified in the same
manner.
The sixth orders that owners of slaves
shall give one out of every 1000 in the
island to work III camps and on fOrtifi-
cations and in trenches. At the end
of the campaign, the government will
liberate all these slaves, paying their
owners 81, ZOO for each.
The seventh augments every battalion
in the army by two companies.
The eighth creates a junta for the
inspection of all items of expenses of
the war.
The ninth organizes vigilance com
mittees in the interior, who will take
note of everything and furnish guides
and act as home guards. This system
of vigilance is to be paid for, and is
intended to prevent communication
between rebel sympathizers in the
towns and the armed insurgents thus
isolmting the latter.
The tenth orders that all officers and
soldiers shall be paid in future in gold
or it's equivalent in paper.
The eleventh increases the extra al
lowances and food of soldiers in the
field H.. ..-
The twelfth relates to towns and
settlements in the interior, ordering
that only such new settlements be
preserved as may be necessary in a
military and political sense. The in
habitants of destroyed towns will be
removed to the nearest preserved
towns, and receive land for tillage
known to be in productive condition.
Abled-bodied males will be enlisted as
local guerillas, their families to receive
government rations. Towns may be
taken from their present site to another,
and new towns built, according to pre-
scribed plans. The orders are pub
lished simultaneously throughout the
island, and the Spaniards suppose they
will be sufficient. to crush the rebellion
within six months.