The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-10-28
WANT CUBAN INDEPENDENCE
A STRONG ANTI.AMERICAN PEEL.
ING Is BEING SHOWN.
.SPANIARDS ROB and PILLAGE.
They Are Making the Best Of Their Short
Stay aud Lsss No Chance TO
Enrich Themselves.

Advices of Sunday from Havana
state that Paz y Libertad, one Of the
daily papers Of Cieniuegos, published
with the sanction Of the government,
prints manifesto with over three
hundred signatures, a great many Of
which are those of spaniards, openly
proclaiming Cuban independence.
Owing TO the fact that Spanish Off
GERS are selling commissary stores at
any price obtainable, army supplies
are now a drug on the market in the
interior, making legitimate trade i'm
possible. II is asserted that as the
Spanish rule draws toward a close,
corruption, plumber and robbery be-
come daily more open and wholesale.
The commission of transportation
charged with furnishing passage tick
cts 10 Spanish officers returning to
Spain charges arbitrary rate of "a each
for a berth.
If the victim refuses to give up, he
is made to wait for several steamers,
the commission claiming that there is
no room. Generally the officer is glad
to pay in order 10 get away. This
abuse 10 openly spoken Of, but the
present situation is a free-for-all,
grab-as-grab-ean game, and every one
appears eager to make money while
the Spanish sun still shines.
The official report Of the burials in
the city Of Havana since the first Of
the present year shows that there have
been 16, 821 interments. The average
death rate keeps on steadily at forty
seven per day.
Great discomfort prevails among the
Spanish troops because of non-pay-
ment III some cases for six months; in
others for seven months, aud the sol
diers fear that they will be embarked
for Spain without receiving their pay.
The poor quality of the food supplied
to nearly all the soldiers has OCCASION
ed much i'll feeling, and serious insub-
ordination is feared in several locali-
ties.
In the province of Puerto Principe
of the 400 members of the civil guards
800 have deserted and gone over to the
insurgents.
At Nuevitas and Tarragona battalion
became insubordinate and attempted
to join the Insurgents on account of
the short rations and the wretched
quality of the food supplied by the
chief General March, in command
of that province, on learning of this
occurrence, went to Nuevitas and
succeeded in controlling the soldiers
by furnishing them with good and
plentiful rations.
Many soldiers until recently were
deserving, but General Blanco's de.
cree regarding disbandment has put q
stop to the defections. Over 5000
soldiers have been mustered out since
the issuance of the decree.
Oppose American Flag.
About fifty Cuban patriotic clubs
have been organized in Havana under
the management, in a large majority
of cases, of patricians, lawyers anC
other professional men. Many of th,
members of some of these clubs at
tended the first meetings wearing tn,
Cuban and American flags crossed
The presiding officers of several of tn
= clubs, noticing the insignia in thu
button holes of the coats Of the mem
bers, ordered that in future only tn,
Cuban flag should be worn. In man,
instances this order was complied
with.
The Cuban general, Rego, has ar
rived at Havana from Puerto Principl
and is preaching in the Havana cafe
and the insurgent camps near the cit
holy war against the Americans.