The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-09-14
IN CENTRAL CUBA.

~.. al correspondence OF Inc journal.
~sNrA CLARA DE CUBA, Aug. 9TH.
king at the black faces which crowd
ltir preponderance in the lately dis
Iyl uban army, one finds it easy to
Ne the at first discredited statement
none than half the population of
'colored.' A great number of
drltted into this interior town
.H The war, from estates in the out
11ovinees, and yet lack energy, or
e, for going away This is the heart
uest sugar producing section of the
and each of the larger estates used
~ from three to five thousand ne
.- All these suddenly found them
>ljrift, without home or occupation.
Tie able bodied males, to man.
Inc patriotic army, the old and fee
RtA the women and children, crowd
. The already oyer-crowded city, and
-et Heaven knows how, through
'nJhs OF despair by the grizzly
starvation three-fourths Of them
Alt borne, whence, happily, there
ming; and it is small wonder that
Used and enfeebled remnant have
developed much ambition to labor
tdiet OF recommendation fell even
aWly in the interior than upon
-. U.past towns, because here was no
lance for outside help. Within
# tiye miles surrounding Santa
lied the ''zona de cultivo," (why
0e'. none can say, since nothing was
ted), upwards of 80, 600 utterly des-
commentaries were corralled.
lack and parti-colore huddled to-
more hopelessly mixed than
saru again turned loose upon the I'M
ing world. Fortunately, perhaps,
Of their detention was compare
--h ground, and though the death
'ls appalling, it was smaller than in
Is ana td0ana.
plantation-l aborers are. as
Ne expected, an uneducated and
lot, entirely untitled for self gov
at and much less for holding gov
-rll positions, but many of them
4rowling ominously because some
inns among the fruits of recon
IA are not dropping into their eager
They say,-with some show of
We did the fighting and are en-
our share of the reward p" The Gu |
ai4A at the idea of negro prob
4 lie island and refuse to consider a |
stion lin any light They believe |
blacks viii 90 back to their cane
IS soon as the planters are ready for
ana that they viii always remain as
a-hers did, patient and unconsider-
st, Of burden, targets tor rifles |
deere 5 wal ana the "bone and sin
time of peace, To disinterested
els this is 10y no means certain, re-
ing history in san Domingo, Ha-
other nearby islands There is a
warning u the ain, that may por-
nigLty storm when American pro |
withdrawn
-4-r political complication, by no
utned to santa Clara, but partieu-
bic here, arises from the fact !
= all the largest property own
>paniards Into their hands, dur |
years, the finest Cuban estates |
eu, through conhscation, OF the
their original owners, brought |
i44Ish persecution. The mere sug- |
rAA5 the Cubans may soon govern
them with we'll grounded APP
.-lou of a reckoning day Scores Of
To-day in Santa Clara striving to
& petItions to the United States
.-'Aatlon, and they are more than !
~ ally themselves with the negroes
any other disatfected class OF fac
cn promises to keep them out of
etul hands of the Cubans. Mean
r-e merchants and substantial citi-
e-eIally, long stunned by their sor-
.osses, are slowly awakening, try
-rasp the present situation with
myers that are all thumbs, and TO
Themselves TO changed conditions.
mpany with Miss Barton under
elonage of L. 5. Surgeon Jen-
md Quartermaster Bean, with the
ayle army ambulance, | recently
LAY among the jetsam of war-the
ierelicts OF humanity, abandoned,
no fault of their own, to the I'M
harity OF the world. First to
Llara's 'Beneticencia, within
uusty walls $50 small reconcen-
phans are now congregated. The
ling, whose interior looks as if ii
san the victim OF some rural fire
10y success i'll saving it from the
was fitted up many years ago
Old Woman's Home; and then its
Al ty was supposed to be limited to 40.
the war, when needs became so
lare, it received also old men and
amilies, affordng sleeping room on
IS and the stones of the patios to
"ls as could get inside the walls.
..- only was provided, and inciden-
alace to die in, for food must be