The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-09
GOOD NEWS FROM CUBA LIRE
Another Invoice OF Arms. &c. Landcd-( am.
pos Paraiyzed-The sugar Estates.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, Aug. 1.-COl. Luis
Pacheco has returned from the seat OF the Gu
han Government. brinsin adviccs up 10 July Is.
This gallant Cuban patriot successfully landed
another invoice Of arms. ammunition. medi-
cines. &C.. on the coast OF Cuba, and delivered it
personally at the seat of Government in the in
terror. To the Lucrative army the regular re-
ccipt Of these invoices Of munitions Of war il
most important. Tho invoice referred to. which
consisted Of several hundred Remington rifles.
some 40 900 rounds OF ammunition. and a con-
siderable supply Of medicines. is the fourth
which has been safely conveyed TO the Cuban
army 10y Col. Pacheco within the last few
months. II would appear that the difficulty for
merry "Xprri need IN keeping the libcratng
army supplied has considerably decreased Of
late, If II has not totally ceased 10 exist. Col.
Iachc'O was absent from this place only fifteen
days, and ot these he spent four al the seat of
the Cuban Government, which Is in the centre
OF tn" island
Letters from Cuba Iibrc IRE all Of one tenor.
The Spanish forces. all over the island are act
ing solely on the defensive. They remain in
the cities and fortified camps. under the shelter
Of thrir guns or at furh, II limit their opera
uons "a avery short radius from their entrench
mrnts. As the Minister Of War lately asserted
IA lhe Madrid Cortrs, corporal quart can
today pass unm9iesird through any, part Of
the interior Of Cuba" hut the corporal anu his
guard are Cutans, not Spanlards.
The mortality among the Spanish troops has
been terrible, even for Cuban hot senson. Not
only are all the hospitals in all the cities full 10
REPETITION. but in very many of the Interior
towns the casinos. town halls. and even private
houses have been converted into hospitals.
Even with th-Sr increased accommodations
sick and woundeda are being continually shipped
bv the steam n on both COASTS t. Havana.
Tho Cul"n- laugh AZ tn" proposed reinforce
m"nt of 10000 or 10000 men. which the Spanish
papers Of the island assert Is 10 Ice sent from
Spain in November neat. Marine CampOs had
ton months ago. nm army ~ over 10000 men, OF
whom fully 5000 wer" fresh troops The eli
mate and the Cuban ystem of wariar,-that of
i ii
hlm rest neither night nor day-wustrd this
grand army. To-day II II but skeleton. nu-
meri'ally, OF what II WAS in November last and
il has lost even more In morale than in NAM
h'rs The Spanish troops are and have been
during the whole of the last campaign, over
worked, undcrird. and not paid nj ALL There
II not IA man IN the Who'll" Spanish army who is
not disguised with the war and the treatment
mrtad out h. the troops. wound or "A slight
| ntta,k Of sickness II almost sure To result in
| death. The regimrntM doctors nrr Spaniards
and are entirely ignorant of the Diseases Incl
| dental Ia a tropical climate. COnNalescence A.
| more expensive than pitching corpse into d
ditch; and even Martinez Campos cnnnot com
| mand money Tor the absolute necessities vi his
| II has been determined by the Cuban Govern
| mcnt 10 accept no more indemnity from plant
| rrs in return Tor "a guaranteed immunity e
| TINT the Cuhans have learned at last that tn,
sugar crop ptan estate is OF infinitely more value
| planters eHn h" Ia that 81 Free Cuba. and ~
| Spain will keen up the war ~ long as sugar
| estates are prOdu ing crops. the suhuus have
| Resolved upon wholesale destruction of these
| the only sources which To-day furnish SPAR
with the sincws 4 war. When the sugar estate,
| IF the Iuris Lotions of Colon. Cnrdcnas. Natan
| 2iS. Jnruco, and Guinrs ARE nblazo. and. prob
| ably, not until then. the Spanish property hold
ors Of the island viii be the warmest syInpa
The foregoing are the principal points in
very heavy bath Of Tc% . brought 9'
| ing here. Col, Pacheco VIII leave Tor your eli!
| by the next mail steamer.