The New York herald., 1877-10-29

to receive the volunteers OF hunger and misfortune
IT, therefore, the constant supply OF food for powder
Span will make the necessary sacrifice Of blood.
sickSgss AMONG THk TROOPS.
There 10, however, another side to The picture, ana
this rs furnished by the medical report the sani-
tary condition OF the Spanish army IN Cuba. In this
there the military hospitals 5000 sick 80
tlcrs ana, as We know how fatal sickness Is 10
Europeans about this period In CUBA some idea may
be formed OF the enormous losses sustained by the
army without ever coming into contact with the
enemy. THIS Of the natural results OF sending
troops direct from Spain instead OF using the acc
matized troops from the Canaries and Puerto Rico.
STRENGTH or THE ISsuRGESTa
ernment claims attended General Campos' last years
Campaign against the insurgents II Is confessed IN an
Official Telegram from Havana that there are s.ili aoot
IN Comaguey rebel forces TO the number OF 1000.
Four years ago. when the present Minister of War;
General Cebailos. was Captain General, he declared
that there was no organized rebellion that the So
called insurrection had been crushed, ana that there
only remained bands OF brgands who sustained them
selves by puuder ana murder, and when pursued TOOK
refuge in their hiding places IN the woods and noun
tans Yet now after tie lapse OF four years SUCCESS
u war, this same General Cebaos procaims that there
are rebels IN arms In the Central alone
without counting the forces which may exist in the
districts oil Holguin, Bayamo and santiago de Cuba
and Baracoa, ia al OF which points the nsurrecion
has maintained Itself tenaciously from the beginnng
WAR NEWS oS THE SPANISH
The news peolished In the Madrid papers about tho
progress OF the Cuban Is OF most trivial and
uninterestng character, and such is the
posed by the governmental supervision Of the press
that no journal dares make any comment of au au-
verse character. Under the constitutional govern
ment OF King Alfonso the spanish press enjoys less
liberty than aid the French press IN the days of
the Second Empire. The men IN power try to initiate
closely possible the French conservatives whose
',moral orderi cry they have adopted, with objects
still personal and selfish even than the support
OF MacMahon. government paper the other
day published an article regrettng that Spanish
nails were becoming nero retailers OF news, and that
the active reporter who merely recorded events,
taking tho place OF the thinkers and serious writer's
One OF the liberal papers, Et Impartial, replied,
wcR and wttily that tho conservatives should not DO
astonished at the decay OF polemlcal power In the
press as II was tho result OF aropny, Tor, while Tho
90 overnmcnt left the legs OF the reporters Free IL et-
tered the minds OF the thinkors In such condition
OF the press II is wonder that the Cuban
consists IN the announcement that a certain column
made nnoissance In the direction OF tho enemy
and succeeded in capturing one woman and child or
that another column, more lucky, encountered band
OF some forty insurgents, and, having exchanged
number OF Shots let them get away, with, OF course,
the loss OF one man killed and two wounded Then
follows list OF objects OF hardware captured from the
enemy, with, perhaps, few horses or mules. IL
seems 10 occur TO any one TO ask why tho COM
mander did not follow up the forty men and leave tho
saddles and other hardware TO be picked up after
would soon be no rebels, and OIhello's occupation
AN ENERGETIC GENERAL.
The Information We receive about the movements OF
General Martinez Campos proves that hc has lost none
OF the energy aud decision which dsting ushed him
his Spanish campaigns he has put everything IN
order Tor the opening OF the campaign in The Central
Department, and at latest advccs had proceeded 10
the Eastern Department, where hc proposes 10 super
the preparations Tor the campaign, which he viii
direct In Chief. The result will no doubt be very
pleasant time for the Insurgents 1t supposed that
General Cnmpos will put himself at tho head OF the
troops In the Central Department as he has
concluded his inspection OF Tho troops and looked after
the preparations for the campaign in the Eastern De-
partment, as his plan seems to bc general attack
along tho whole line. Once begun the attack is
pretty certain to DO vigorously maintained
long the weather VIII permit, Tor
Campos is one Of those generals who believe
in the policy OF hammering his until the last
gasp Is out OF them. Whether the Cubans will
Is,
evidence OF tho KIND Of energy displayed by Gen.
eral Campvs Cuban paper relates that arriving
gunboat ut Macio hiding that tho commander at
this point had sailed out with his regiment, the Gen.
eral took guard OF twenty men and marched foot
over the mountains some thirty miles, until he over.
took the column and its commander. Having IN
spected tho troops and given his orders to tho
manding officer, the General next day retraced his
steps and continued his voyage to Santiago do Cuba,
whore he no doubt found more agreeable quarters.
With general OF this kind At tho head OF tho army
an active campaign may DO looked for with certainty
Spain has made u great effort and the next few
months will decide whether not tho Cuban insur-
rcctlon can be suppressed by Spanish bayonots