The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-12-22
uorrors In t,ubn.
Appalling Revelations FROM the city OF Havana
-faasaeasv Destruction OF PrOperty--Esru-
tai Persecution OF Eree Masons.

] SaySa Havana letter: Spanish affairs in Cuba
are 10 a desperate strait, and before January the
insurgents expect to strike a blow'tba. viH Sc
cure their independeDee. The reiatorcemshls ol
soldiers lately arrived are in wretehed condition
To attempt a campaign against aeelimatized sol.
diSrS, -Most q them have no Interest at-stake
iu coming 10 Cuba, preierung 10 remain ia Spain
aud taks part in the eiyll war that karasSes that
coaptsy, as their interests aud their homes are
there The soldiers are badly fed. Their ci1ih-
ng aud arms are good and sufficient, but the food
that was adapted to-their constitution aud for
thSir-noarishment in Span Is totally nuhi for
Iheu 10 their ueF Quafters. Again, themslQriy
Of these men that are sent out 10 Havana are
desperadoes. eut-throats and swash .bucklers Of
the regular army. There are huudFeds OF hem
I 10 Cuba that are under constant surveillance by
tbeir own commanders who regard them dis
trus,flly. In every skirnish that takes place 4
great many Of them 20 over to the insurgents
prelertug the country and gleulla l(a 10 being
immurei in wooden mar,euo towers. or between
the damp walls Of sieky towns full Of pestilenee.
Spain, Ia concentrating her West ludisn squad
ron IN Spanish waters, is merely a chained dog
that shows his teeth 10 outside dogs not chained.
Ia hopes thaI this will iDlimidates bat let the
outside element attack, and il wOald 30 her pol.
icy TO retire into her stronghold, where she would
be in manner impreguable.
roEFEpoES IN HAVANA HARBoR-
1t is said on authority tha, in oriy-eight hours,
should unpleasant complications occur with the
United States, not single harbor in the whole
island would be safe to enter. The Spaniards
have been preparing themselves for these emer-
geucies for long time. The Uoited States on
her part is assisting them as mneh as possible by
furnishing them with Ihe war material. Carlos
Garcia, the iusurgent leader has been in Havana
several times dariDg the last month. but be is
never more than fourteen or fifteen miles outside
the city limits. At any rate. Count Valmeseda
does not case TO reside in his country residence
any leagsF. pFeleSFing the palace General Con-
cha and Brgadier Llorant narrowly eSeapedasSas-
siuatiou about year ago. That vas attributed
to parties in lavara, but Calixlo knows who
vas at the bottom OF it.
Garcia has destroyed great deal Of property,
several small villages besides among them Guau-
a6aeoa the latter OF considerable Importance, aud
not quite league from Havana The flames
were disliaclly seen from The roof of the Hotel
San Carlos in Havana, and his staff eoniinua 10
give the Spanish ambulance corps plenty OF work
to do in taking care OF aud locking after the
wounded. The Spanish losses cannot be short Oi
generated during the last sixty days. many Of
them Sseretely murdered. not alone by the bullet
but by starvation aud drowning, for their bodies
have been folad in the bays aud rivers and hgu
mas. The dungeons beneath the Moro, supposed
10 hold 1000 prisoners, are crOwde 10 repetition
The common prison opposite the Moro aud in full
view OF the Captain Generals palace, is also The
headquarters Of the Chief Of police ditto with
the exception that an extremely wealthy class are
held here jnst 80 long Us they can pay three or
four doubloous a day 10 prevent their being sent
to the Cabanas and death. Suspected people
aud everybody is suspected now, cannot leave the
island without paying the ransom OF slave to
some official with influence at court to get bin oil.
To grumbe at their mandates means cOadscaton,
il nothing worse. Ii is the sane thing all over
the Island. There is no need to partieularza Que
Individual town or city. They ara all prisoners,
aud the Spanish authorities their jtilOIs Dead,
they are pitched into trenches. Meu have lost
their toes aud dugers to prevent their serving in
the rebel service. Men suspected Of couveying
Information have lost their iOngues-torn from
their mouths. Women have been violated, with
out regard 10 age or coalition, by officers, and
then given over TO the savage brutality Of q SOL
diery not0riously iieenifous. and then left TO die
Others have been suspended by the ankles-head
downward, and slow fire applied under their
heads, have been slowly but surely driven mad
with tue heat. and then left to die. From San
tiagO we also have adviees that
FREE NASoSs
Suffer here the most The outskirts Of the city
is e6aruel house The chapparrals outside the
city are filed with ragged. starving, homeless
wretched Cubans Ii is common affair in this
section Of the country for the Spanish element to
hunt these miserable Wretches down with blood
hounds When the Juniita was lying here at the
time Of the Virginius massaefe. these bfutaIitles
were INDUCED in continually, aud the Americans
Of the facts, wers pOwerless to act. In
BatabaRo and the Isles Of Pines, there are sew
eral English and Americans imprisoned, with no
means to communicate with the outside world.
People know Of it in Cuda, bot you cannot get
them % swear to the afiiav;ts, 1t would result
il their being imprisoned or sent to the galleys
for life.