The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-20
NEWS FROM CUBi.
Failure of the Attempted Lsen-Thc span
iards Anxious Tor Peace.

iards Anxious Tor Peace.
HAVANA, July 12.-The attempt of the
Government 10 float the new loan here, on the
basis Of portion OF the Custom House re-
cetpts RS security, is total failure. In the cir
culsr In which Capt. Gen. Jovellar convened
the bank directors, merchants, planters, and
capitalists generally to the palace. be stated that
the success Of this proposed loan was the only
salvation OF the island, and that 1t was the last
effort he should make. The loan has failed,
ergo the island is lost, aud Jovellar will make
further effort to savei II.
What the papers of this place say about the
matters is Of little moment. Every article In
them Is written as the authorities dictate. But
about this loan have heard remarks from peo-
pie who supposed to be eminently loyal sub
jects, and remarks made in public places at
that, which two years ago would have con-
demned their utterers to the scafOld, IL they
were not previously bayoneted by the gallant
volunteer mob.
The fact is the Spanish game Is piay ed out.
There have becn IN this city for tho past eight
years hundreds OF business houses and business
men Hho made money out OF the war. one
man got fat contract for arms, snoi her Tor
clothing, third for provisions, fourth made
money on his transport vessels, coast"se and
IL, eicn. and. as long AS there was money In the
treasury, these men were the real q" nltidnst-
gtnt,s," the ultra loyal. the men who would
listen to no terms with the Cubans- Tnese men
diet ted the articles written In the Dtdrio and
La Toz &c Cuba, and as the majority OF the low
class Spaniards who compose the Volunteer
Corns OF this city can neither read nor write,
these inf .mmatory articles used To be read to
them IN the cdnttnds corner run-millsJ
To-day the treasury Is empty. with no possible
prospect OF It's ever being repenishec. and al
though the articles of the papers referred to are
as false ever they have lost their power 10 de-
Jude. nobody reads them or pays tue slightest
attention % them.
As proof of this statement. adduoe the fol-
loving facts; y hen, some ten months ago. Cap
tain General Jovellar and the hoyal Commits
sioner RUDE we're sent hither from Madrid. at
the request Of your state Department, To max
one last hnal effort for the recouQuest OF this
Isl nd, m,litarily aud 6nanci Allv, prugr mme of
II new payer to he issued here was distributed
broadcast In the city 1t was cnle. La Pdz
Peac,), and. although 1t advocated nominAiy
W = 10 the suiie and the subsection 81 the revo-
luton ~ force Of arms alone, II sh dowed forth
reforms, certain concessions to CuOanr. and
even limited at AUTONOMY on the plan OF Canada
One single number OF this payer was issued.
The loyal Spaniards were Indignant, and tho
Government suspended alike the public alton OF
the paper and its own compromise prof acts. he
same paper. under the naue OF Las NoreLnies,
advocating the same plan as the d-fuuct La P,tz.
and endorsed BY the same hackers. Is now being
issued IN your city, and nnds such general ac-
ceptation here that rarely enter either the pri-
vale house or the office OF a Spaniard without
Ending II on his table or desk. ina tells the
whole story. The Slaniards heartily wish the
war WAS ended Tney would to-day make far
greater eoncessions for TINS END than those
| Wnicn they prevented the authorities from pro
posting twelve months ago.
| OF course any proposal short of independence
| would We summary refused by the CGbsns. In
fact, so many propositions have been made by
the Spaniards, so many Com mis soners have
| been sent by them alike to the President OF Cuba
| whom the Spanish papers always depict as
skulking In the woods-aud To the various com
msnding officers II divisions Of the Cuban army,
that some time since the President issued an
! order that any Spanish Commissioner or Com
missioners caught inside OF the lines, ahld in-
| trusted with any PROPOSALS not based upon inde-
| pendence, would he shot as spies.
All the iciai reports In Spanish papers TO the
| controry notwithstanding, have positive and
thoroughly Teliatle Information from almost
every point, at least from every section, OF the
interior which disproses tue possibility OF the
Sp niards ever taking the Offensive. The yellow
fever Is ma lie and Is making fearful havoc,
ana The populate ms II the cities which the
Spaniardsstll hold In the interior are actually
starving 20 death. In Puerto Irlnrtl c, where
are oOngre0ated some e0OO TO 1000 souls, the
churcn bells were lately rune, because the Gov
eminent distributed 700 rations Of rice aud
situation at Las Tomas. Holguin, Bavamo, and
Nahz milo IS the same people are sttIvin. in
side the walls, and SO closely beseyed by the
Cunans that they cannot 60 mile outside
Milo Is d seaport, and yet all provisions sell
there al famine prices.
he failure 10 float the loan will help the
Splnards out Of one strait. they have posi
lively and officially asserted, and published IN
dospatches from Madrid, that they had $1,000
men ready to ship to Cuba for the T. elfurcs-
IN ent OF their arNuv ana that the men wOLld he
shipped In September, "a soon rs the ralry sea-
son mad re tsed Moreover, 1t the meeting In the
palace the 7th inst, Captain General Jovellar
distinctly stated that tue zen millions OF dollats
which he requested the company to subscribe
was for the purpose Of equrpng and trans port
ing these recruits. OF course no money, no men.
Bat even the loyal SpaniHrd IA sick Of Spanish
promises. There are now in safes In this city no
less than three emissions ofGoyernment bonds,
amounting in all TO over thirty millions OF dol
lars apart from the Government debt 20 the
Spanish Bank, all OF which are overdue. for all
c sh was paid and OF which not one dollar OF
either principal or interest has ever, or ever Will