Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-06-22

q leg at the battle of Brandy Station
in '63. He also lost his field glasses.
The glasses have just been restored
to him by a Virginia woman, Mrs.
Kemper. He was greatly pleased to
get them back again, "The last time
/ used these" he said, II was Con-
federate officer. Now am Yankee" "
- Cuban spies have reported at Camp
McCalla, that the citizens of Caimane-
ra, having become convinced of the
ultimate capture of the place by the
Americans, have resolved to leave it
in ashes. In all, or nearly all, of the
houses of the city, are great piles OF
straw saturated with oil, and as the
Americans approach, it is the pro-
gramme of the Spaniards to set fire to
these combustibles and flee to the
mountains. Scouts have coroborated
the story of the spies. The Spanish
residents of the city have been reduced
to a diet of horse and mule meat, and
even that is very expensive. But
their hatred and fear of Americans
are both intense, and there are many
who will risk any privation rather
than allow themselves to be captured.
Atlanta Journal: In 1891 the
wheat crop of the United States went
to GIL, 100000 bushels. That was our
greatest wheat crop up to that date,
and it has never been equalled since.
1t seems certain, however, that the
present crop will surpass it. Mr..
Brown, the statistician of the New
York ProduceExchange, estimates that
the yield will aggregate 637 100000
bushels. This estimate is based upon
reports received from every wheat
growing section of the country, and
is probably near the truth. There has
been large increase of wheat acreage
this year owing to the recent high
prices. Though the price of wheat
has fallen considerably since the bull
speculation in Chicago subsidized, it is
still high enough to make the crop
very profitable.
London dispatch says that trust
worthy advices from Spain are to the
effect that most of the leading states
men of all parties are for peace with
the United States as soon as it can
be obtained without a compromise OF
national self.respect; but there are
serious troubles in the way. The do
mestic affairs of Spain are in a bad
way. The county is confronted with
what would look like a choice between
Carlism, Anarchy and Republicanism,
without any certainty as to which it
would be. That revolution of some
kind will soon be ushered in with civil
war, seems to be inevitable but it is
likely to be STAYED off during the con-
tinuance of the war with the United
States. So this is the situation. How
ever desirable it may be to make
peace with the United States, the pres.
ent war is not nearly so horrible as the
conditions which is expected to follow
it. Poor Spain is certainly in bad
way.
A Guantanamo cable describes
the Spanish guerilla method Of fight
ing as follows: "Most of the guerillas
seen in the attacks made by day wore
little besides big plantain leaves bound
around their foreheads. Thus dis
guised they were scarcely distinguish
able from the bush in which they hid.
Others, wearing dirt -colored trousers,
tied branches around their waists, so
that only by their movements, could
they be told from the forest growth.
Still another mode Of their conceal
ment is TO construct screen OF palm
leaves, Identical with the native
growth, which they carry before them.
In all these difficulties the Cubans have
been valuable allies. They could see
Spaniards where an American marine
would have walked into ambush.
There are 60 of these men now in
camp, mostly Negroes with Cuban
officers. They are familiar with every
species of woodcraft and easily match
the Spaniards at fighting in covert.
They are invaluable as guides, and
their knowledge of the country makes
them indispensable to the Americans" "
- At the time the marines landed at
Camp McCafla, the Spaniards at Cal
manera had full communication with
Guantanamo and Santiago; but it is
not that way now. Within the past
10 days large forces of Cubans have
been arriving in the neighborhood and
they have seized all the avenues of
communication between the cities.
Several Spanish couriers were captured
by the Cubans last week and turned
over to the Americans. Their dis
patches showed that the Spaniards
about Caimanera and Guantanamo
were in bad way especially for food.
They were on half rations and did not
think they could hold out even at that
rate longer than the end Of June.
Within striking distance around San
tiago, it is estimated that there are
more than 5000 well armed Cubans.
These Cubans have already shown
that they are terror to the Spaniards,
and in the fighting that will be neces-
sary in the capture of the city, their
assistance will be invaluable. This is
especially because of their knowledge
of the country and their experience in
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