New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-28
CUBAN MATTERS,
Whnt the Newspapers Say.

A late Graphic's Washington special says
there is good deal Of uneasiness in polit-
ical circles here touching the condition of
affairs between the United States and Spain
and the United States and Mexico. With
regard to Spain the difficulty is mainly
about Cuba. 1t is believed here that notice
has been given to the Spanish government
that if fighting be not ended by January l
next ensuing, the United States govern.
ment will recognize the belligerency of the
insurgents. The special predicts that the
Presidents message to Congress will touch
upon this subject.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald writes:
In connection with the rumor go freely
circulated lately that General Grant in
tends vigorous policy with reference to
the belligerent rights to the Cnbans, the
quiet and formidable concentration OF 80
many men-ot war on the North Atlantic
station is exciting keen comment. The feet
nov comprises the following vessels: Wor-
cester, flagship: Plymouth, Cansndaigua
(ordered out OF commission, but can be
ready for sea again in two weeks), at Nor
folk; Ossipee, Shawmut, Pinta-all wooden
ships, ard the following ironclads, all of
which can be sent to sea iu twenty -four
hours: Dictator. Canonicus (both in COM
mission and ready for seal, Mahopac, Man,
haitian and Saugus, in commission at Pensa-
cola. In addition to these the Vandala,
Adams, Alliance, Ranger, Huron, Essex,
Enterprise and Marion are fitting for sea,
and will be ready in a short time All OF
these will be attached to the North Atlantic
station, except the latter, which will go to
the European squadron. But on her ar
rival both the Congress and Juniata
will return home and join the North
Atlantic. The Montauk, irGnclad, ia at
Norfolk, and can be sent TO sea in q
week. The Powhatan is available, as are
also the Swatara, Alert, Gettysburg, Talla-
pooso, Dispatch and the Fortune, Nina,
Speedwell and Triana-the last four being
OF the same class as the unfortunate Polaris,
which was formerly the May flower, and each
carries two guns. The Miantonomoh. four
guns, which was the monitor sent to Russia
in 1867, under command of the present Com
modore John G. Beaumont, is nearly com
pieted at Chester and can be sent to sea in
six weeks in an emergency. Besides all
these 1t Is shrewdly suspected that the plac-
ing of the Wabash at Boston and the Col
orado at New York as receiving ships, and
the Minnesota as flagship TO Vice Admiral
Rowan at New York, is plan to have these
huge vessels ready for some outbreak, for
it is well known that they are SO officered
and fitted as to be able to go to sea at a
days notice.
The new sloop of war Trenton, of 1900
tons, and carrying seventeen guns, will be
ready in about four months, and the Hart
ford has Just arrived at New York from the
Asiatic feet. Prominent officers have care
fully considered these points, and several
confidently assert that an important move
IN hay Husr xri1l toIr Il
early day after the assembling of Congress-.
The following is from the Herald Of last
Sunday:
The readers of the Herald will remember
that couple of weeks ago it published an
extract from lie Memorial Dipiomatique, of
Paris, making aiiusion to a note on the sub
ject of belligerent rights for Cuba, said to
have been passed by Minister Cushing to
the Madrid Cabinet There appears to be
every ground for believing the truth of the
report, in spite of the coutradiction from
Washington on the subject, recently pub
lished in the New York press. In yester-
days Herald there appeared, under the
head OF Washington Correspondence" an
article on the significant concentration of
United States war vessels on the North At
lantic station. The general impression at
Washington is that an important movement
III Subdu 10 ilumlu6Dl. no 4UliNWlDR
is what has been published by the Madrid
papers on the subject:
El Diario EspdnoI, political journal of
good standing, published under date Sep.
tember 90 contains the following: "Politi-
cal circles have been much exercised this
evening with the discussion of note, said
to have been sent to Senior Alcala Galiano,
Secretary of State, by the plenpotentiary
minister of the United States. Mr.. Caleb
GnGhinU with IN aH. IN ho
island of Cuba. According to all sources
of information said note was sent previous
to the resignation of Senior Aloala Galiano,
and considered in Cabinet council before
the Viscount del Ponton should take charge
of the Department Of State"
Ell Pdbellon Nacional says: "Such intelli-
gence is of too grave a character to be
left without further explanation, and the
Cabinet organs are hereby called npon to
enlighten the country as to what are the
pretensiOns now entertained by the United
States government regarding our transat-
lsltic affairs"
From the New York Graphic of the TWEEN
ty-fourth:
The Cuban question begins to assume an
aspect OF deepening seriousness. 1t is now
some nine years since the Cubans declared
independence, and they have waged uure-
mittluk war dRdlusU d Cdudl VI PLANTERS anu
traders and meroenaries, who pretend to
uphold the claims of Spain, but care only
for their own. They are despotc rapacious
and cruel, and have waged war on the Re-
publicans after the manner of pirat- and
savages. disregarding treaty obligations and
the ru'es OF civilized warfare, and even the
ties and impulses of a common humanity.
They have two objects in view: Que Is to
govern the island themselves, and the other
is to maintain the sy stem of slavery, which is
enforced under their authority with diaboli-
Cal rigOr. And for these objects they have
nearly ravaged the island, reduced its pro.
ductiveness three-fourtbs, destroyed towns,
murdered hundreds of people, and
put tax on commerce by which foreign
nations are compelled to furnish them with
money for carry ing on their bloody and in
human work, And while the s. nth Ameri-
Can republics have acknowledged the inde-
pendenee Of the Cubans, the United States,
which has been the chief sufferer from this
prolonged Cuban quarrel, has foreborne to
interfere out of regard for Spain, W hose at
tempts at republicanism appealed to our
sympa thies, but whose chronic incOmpe-
tency and manifest indisposition TO do JUS
tice have finally cut her off from our sym
pathies. She either does not mean to right
this Cuban wrong or she is unable to do SO.
In either case there is no reason why the
United States should any longer permit
these inhuman butcheries to go on and the
commerce of the world to be interfered with
for the protection OF Cuban slavery and the
benefit of a set of outthrOats.
1t is understood that Mr.. Gushing has
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