The herald., 1896-03-16


would look with some alarm upon her
proposition to send 10000 more troops to
Cuba to put down, as Americans believe,
the right of self-government on this conti-
nent. Not that Spain has not perfect
right to prosecute as vigorous a war az she
pIeases upon her own soil, observing the
rules of civilized warfare. but that the
rights of our citizens have been so
wantonly invaded by Spanish troops or
volunteers, that such a course would
arouse the sympathies OF our citizens in
favor Of the Cubans to such degree as to
require all our vigilance to prevent them
from giving material aid. The question
might veil be asked whether >paia would
not be weaker with 10000 more troops in
Cuba, and also by us, whether we would
he justified by our own people to let them
do SO without at the least putting Cubans
upon the same footing with their adyer-
saries tirst. Except the issuing of the
proclan alton | do not give this as an in
structiol, but as something to think of
whether it is not sound. If deemed so,
the policy of acting upon it will be dis
cussed afterwards. / will be in New York
city OH Thursday next OH my way to New
port; will be at Mr.. Corbin's q few hours
"(Siei,ed) Ut. S. GRANT.n
Grant indorses Fish's wisdom.
On TIM, 10th of July, 1870, in a conversa-
tion in which Mr.. Fish had expressed TO
the prea dent his desire to retire from the
o61ce VIII ch he had accepted on the under
standing that he was to hold it only till the
president could perfect other plans in re-
gard to il, Mr.. Fish was strongly urged by
the president to remain through his term,
and asserted that his course was not only
entirely satisfactory to him, but gave satis-
faction and confidence to the country.
These ana the words of the diary upon the
subject:
1.-THE "a esident said: Without referring
T, to other il stances, on two important oc-
lcaaions at least. your steadiness and wis
dom havs, kept me from mistakes into
which / hould have fallen. On one of
these oco asions you led me against my
Judgment lat the time, you almost forced
sne, in the matter of signing the Cuban
message. i now see how right you were
I and desir most sincerely to thank you.
The meas ure was right and the whole
country &C, luiesced in it,
HE rept ,ated that he wished to thank
me especia lily for these two occasions.
They were one preventing the issuing,
last Angus and September, of the pro-
clamation q Cuban belligerency which he
had signed and which he wrote me note
i1structing me (Which did, and to issue
(which did not), and, second, the Cuban
message of, June 1872
The ques ton of the hour in European
D Nitics is WI neither Great Britain has thrown
in her for unes with the dreibund, as
mel 1t which has been promised for tomor-
row IN the ouse of commons of the pur
poses of pro posed advance upon the Nile
by Nh Geor ge Curzon, the parliamentary
secrets ry of the foreign office, is looked for
with Ike en- in terest in the hope that it may
Clisclose som sthing of the shifting interna-
tional elati ons now being adjusted in
Europe.
HAVANA . NJ arch 15.-A terrible mistake
has result. I'd n the killing of a number of
Spanish 8, pldi ers by their fellow Span
laris.
The bait, dic'n of San Quintin was APP
IT, We lown of Cano, seven miles
from Hayan. !, to save the buildings of
burning plan Ia ton. The town shortly be-
fore that had b. zen attacked by the insurg
ents, and the "a rrison, without hailng the
San Ouintiu ba talon and taking them for
the Insurgents returned to a second at
tack. opened upa n them with volleys.
The San QI,inti battalion, on the other
hand, mistook thu garrison for the insurg-
ents and charged three times with great
determination. tab ing the town, the blasts
from the cornet an the cries of viva Es-
pana'i on the part of the San Quintn SOL
diers, were not su5a lcient to put stop to
the fighting on "a ther side. Before the
mistake was disc,u vered the San Quintin
battalion had lost twelve soldiers killed
and a captain, four ,ieutepants and twenty
seven soldiers woun4 led.
This episode was pointed to as a proof
that the Spanish sold ers fight we'll if they
have occasion to do so. The San Quintin
battalion sustained more loss in few
minutes than they w )uld have done in a
great engagement witt the insurgents.
Antonio Maceo, Ban dera and La Crete
attacked the town OF Batanbo on Friday
night ond an obstinate tight ensued. The
garrison of the forts, consisting of fifty
six men, made heroic defense and two
Spanish gunboats IN the neghborinG wa
tiers assisted by bombay vding the insurgents.
The utmost efforts OF tue Spainards, how
ever, did not avail to prevent the insurg.
ents capturing the town. They had pos
session of it for time and upon retreating
in the direction of Pin;sr dol Rio they
burned the greater part OF the town. The
insurgents are reported to have sustained
great loss.
Colonel Figuerro with two squadrons,
Pizzaro, Aguerrilla and the battalion of
Valencia, overlook the band Of PanclAo
Perez, numbering 500, at the Palmas PLAN
tation and opening fire they charged. The
insurgents took flight, leaving six dead.
At Matanzas four political suspects have
been set at liberty.
Enrique Macho, former insurgent
leader in the last war and an officer of the
Santa Clara municipality, has joined the
insurgents with six others.
A MASSACRE REPORTED
ST. LOUIS, March lO.-A eEec1aI 10 the
Republic from New York says:
Dispatches from Havana, Sc mt via Key
West, describe series of horrible massa-
cres perpetrated by Spanish soldiers. On
March 10 in Havana province. six small
Cuban boys we're met on the public road
by detachment of Spanish infa utry, who
shot and killed them,
At Palmos de Pedroso the Slpaniards
shot fifteen non-combatants, am ong them
being q man named Perdome, Cuban by
birth, but a naturalized citizen of the
United States. Ten days ago q detach-
ment of Spanish troops entered the town
of Artemisia. The women of the town
were violated and many young girls were
carried off to the Spanish camp, where they
were detained over night. Two of the
girls committed suicide the next day. Two
old men who protested against the out
RACES were shot.
The correspondent in Havana sends de-
tails of the massacre of six persons on the
Morales, or Dolores, sugar estate, two
miles from Bainoa, and the serious wound
ing of DR.. Jose Manuel DelgaIdo, an
American citizen, by Spanish troops under
command of Gen. Melquizo.
THE FILIBUSTER SAILS
NEW YORK, March 15.-The steamer
Bermuda, recently seized by federal
authorities while attempting to leave this
harbor on a supposed tiiibustering expedi-
ton to Cuba, and afterwards released, left
her anchorage in the upper bay and pro-
ceeded to sea this morning. She cleared
yesterday for Vera Cruz, Mexico.
RIOTIHG SUPPRESSED
BARCELONA, March l5.-After a concert