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The Cuban Negro Nat a Menace. Ex-Confederate Officer on the ^Nsgro Supremacy" Scare Baised by the Spanish. Gen. Bradlej T. Johnson in . Y. Journal. It has been the persistent policy for the Spanish organs, official, and of the press here, in Cuba and io Spain, to represent the present upris ing of the people of Cuba against the misgovernment of their island ana for the rights of free men as a mere free "nigger rebellion," a strike of idle lazy, semi civilized barbarians against property, religion and indus try. Rebete are always depicted thus by the loyal. In the American rebellion the clergy of the Church of England, the great landholders of New. York and Pennsylvania and the "business men," t*1 e traders and ex changers of commodities everywhere were opposed to the "rebellion.7' They represented to the govern ment and people "at home'* that the' rebellion was merely an uprising of the "low Irish" and lower orders against the gentry?the rich people of the day aud it took four years of war and all the power of Edmund Barke to convince the loyal English men that it was really a revolution of the people?to defend their right of liberty Inherited from ten generations of free ancestors. So it is more generally accepted in the United States that the war in Cuba is a negro strike?like San Do mingo and Hay ti were?with the same horrible massacres that branded those social' cataclysms. It cannot be too often repeated, nor too m neb impressed on the American people, that this is an utter misrepresentation and misapprehension, j, The negro in Cuba fills a very im portant pavt in life of the island-; but he can never fill any leading part. His numbers are too inconsiderable to give him any predominating weight. By the census of 1887, on the authority of Mr Cabera, the best - informed writer on the economics of Goba, thete were 1,800,000 whites and 485,000 blacks ?or mixed races ; these figures vary from those recently published by me in the Journal, but those were given without the record. This statement by Mr. Gabera is in Gunton's Magazine for October, and J take for granted is reliable \ It re 8*e therefore nearly four white men to one colored man in Cuba. It' is impossible to get any ;5?rt of accurate information abe'st Ahe Cub?? Ar ?y of Liberation, as the call it, but alloting the facts as I could collect them from all sources, Cubans.and Spaniards, I think that Gomez bee about 60,000 men in the Mel?, of . which a Spanish general told me that he thought that 40 per cent or 24.000 were negroes, and 69 per cent?36,000 were white men The Caban slave owner has been, since 1865 urging immediate emanci pation on the Spanish government The Cuban rebellion of 1868 pro claimed, the emancipation of. the slaves, and by the treaty, between the rebels and the home government in 1878 the freedom of , those who fought in the revolutionary ranks.was proclaimed But the Cuban slaveholders insist ed on general emancipation, which was accomplished in the Spanish cortes in 1886 on motion of a Cuban deputy, Don Miguel Figueroa. In two years the sugar crop increased 50 per cent. The Cuban negro, slave and free, has distinguished himself by an in tellectual forcera mental vigor, greatly so pen" or to that o,f the American ne j gro. . ? ' I Antonio Maceo, who is attracting most attention now, is ? quadroon He is the son of a mulatto woman by a Spanish officer, as she is the daugh ter of a Spaniard of rank. Maceo's white blood shows in. his face, his figure and his achievements He is the guerilla chief of the war Gen eral Weyler is now undergoing the fate of most generals. Peop e at home always clamor for victories in -the fi?id John Moeby starting with lo men va 1863, gradually collected 300 in 1863 G4, and be kept 40,000. Union trofops chasing him ??e uever was caught, nor cornered, and I shall be the most surprised man in the warld if Maceo is forced into a fight or is caught by General Weyler For three years Mosby and Mos by's men rode at will over northern Virginia, behind the Union lines, through and around the Uniori camps. They took General Stough ton out of his bed and in the midst of his troops at Fairfax Court House, ! where Mosby had 29 men to 10,000. When Maceo and the Cubans come home they'll stea? General Weyler out of his bed The country is a much better country for bushwhack ers than northern Virginia was in Mosby's time. It is reported that Mr. Cleveland has said that he will not be a party in adding another "nigger State" to the Uaion. He need nave no such concern. Cuba will be a white man's country, governed and ruled by the native Cuban, an alert, active, sinewy, tall and vigorous man, prodigious rein forced from the United States. It may be dsy, it may be months, it can hardly be years, before the "manifest destiny" of America will unite Cuba to the States, and at her own time, in her own way, she will become one of them. The Execution of Colomas. It is Said to Have Been a Shocking Crime?Brutal Conduct of an Officer. Key West, Fla., Nov. 29.?Pas sengers wijo arrived last night from Havana give shocking details of An tonio Lopez Coloma's execution in the Cabanas fortress on Thursday ? last. The execution took place in I the evening. A large crowd assem bled, and much interest was felt on j account of the importance of the person The crowd consisted of the rabid Spanish element. Some Cubans were present to give a silent parting ? to the brave patriot. When led from the chapel the crowd hooted and I Coloma defiantly shouted f "Cuba libre.'' The officer of the escort ! struck him in the face Once in the I square Coloma repeated the cry and I the officer again struck him and I forced a handkerchief m his mouth to prevent him speaking. Coloma was shot in the back kneeling. He twice arose to face the executioners, I * but was finally compelled to kneel. He was killed at the first volley. When the volley was fired the crowd clapped hands, gave shouts for Spain and death to all Cubans. Coloma's execution was a case of bad faith and cowardice on Weyler's part. Coloma was first condemned to a life sen tence unjustly, since as he surrender ed according to Campos' amnesty de cree he should have been released After being kept nearly two years in prison the sentence was revoked and he was ordered shot. Extermimination of pac?ficos con tinues by Weyler's secret orders, AH commanders are ordered to clear the country of all non-combatants This is done silently Communica tion with the country is difficult and it is hard to obtain details. The mas sacres only become known through the missions of officers and sol diers in some cases. Col Strucb openly boasted in Havana of killing over 300 old men, women and girls who surrendered in. Pinar Del Rio province. Many have been also kill ed in other provinces. Col Struch, while in his cups, gave revolting de tai?3 of the Pinar Del Rio massacre Weyler's edict promising pardon*is simply a trap to entice fools. 'Well informed persons say that Weyler, following De Lome's in structions that it is necessary to cre ate sympathy for Spain in Washing ton before Congress meets, has avail ed hi?9?e!f ?f ttt? CQiT??p9B??5* of a certain press association in the United States to make alleged inter views and send flattering statements to create a false impreseion o? the state of affairs here IIB I I -^M? Languishing Li. San Francisco, Nov. 29. (Special Correspondence of the Southern Asso ciated Pres )?Tokio, Nov. 16.? "Thee grand old man of China," whose return to Pekto was expected to be the signal f?r his restitution to power and honor, is now in the hands of the board of punishments awaiting the infliction of a penalty. It appears that some one suggested to him the pleasure of a lit tle trip into the palace park, which lies in the immediate vicioity of his lodging in Pekin.. He immediately adopted the suggestion and was carried through an unfrequented part of the park in hie court chair, the keeper and the eunuchs bowing obsequisously to bim as he pass ed. The next day he received an offi cial intimation that he had been guilty of a breaoh of ettiquetie and was to be "handed over" for punishment. The incident is said to have led to a sharp dispute between the emporor and the empress dowager, who has always been his warm patroness. It has also evoked 8)oie thoughtless remarks from local foreign journals which regard L:'s treat ment as an insult to the crowned beads and potentates by whom he was re ceived on his recent tour and which go even so far as to suggest that a protest should be lodged by the foreign repre sentatives in Pekin, as if foreign inter ference in such a matter could be justi fied on any pretext Prosperity or Silver. Danville Register (gold). Viewing the situatioo since the elec tion, from a Democratic standpoint, the Columbia State thinks the results were not so bad, and says : "We have come within 50,000 votes of electing the President. We have gained seventy or eighty represeota tives in Congress. And we have an issue to*force prosperity or victory with in two years. That is the main object of party effort, after all, and we are sure to get it. The Republicans bave accepted the gage and the people are judges. Good, solid, satisfying pros perity or a Democratic silver Congress in 798 and a Democratic silver Presi dent in 1900 !" The issue could not be more plainly stated. "Good, solid, satisfying pros perity, or a silver Congress io '98 and a silver President in 1900." It may not have the redeeming feature of be log a Democratic eilver Congress, but it will be for silver. The Republicans know this full well, we dare say, and if they do not heed the warning and give us the legislation necessary to help aloog good times, no power on earth can defeat the free silver forces at the next election. But we look for prosperity, aod when -that comes the country will forget all about free silver. Cleveland's Opinion. -j? Counts on Gold Democrats, With Independent Repub licans, Finally Aeheiv ing Victory. Washington. Nov. 28 ?An evening paper here prints an account of a con versation between President Cleveland and a promioeot D?mocratie politicians to which the fjrooer expressed at length bis views .upon the future of the Demo cratic party. The President believes, aocordiog to the story, that while a blunder was made by the leaders who cootrolled tbe convention at Chicago last July, he is hopeful that many of tbe men respoosible for that action will be oonvioced of their folly in tbe oear future. He expects to see tbe organi zation brought back ioto the true Dem ocratic path, and be is confident that the party, by repudiating at first oppor tunity tbe doctrines proclaimed at Chicago, cao recover much of tbe ground lost in tbe late campaign It is those Democrats who followed Bryan solely on the ground of regularity aod to the?r brethren who organized the movement leading to the Indianapolis covention that Mr Cleveland looks for tbe organization aod rehabilitation of the Democratic party He is confi dent that they will not follow the free silver extremists ioto the Populist camp, but will gladly come back ioto the Democratic fold wheo the '"parting of tbe ways''' is reached, as it will be very shortly, in bis opinion The Dumber of these Democrats is much greater, Mr. Cleveland believes, than most per sons suspect. It is bis estimate that in many of the Southern States, particu larly, probably a third of the votes given Mr. Bryeo were oast by Demo crats who were influenced in register ing their ballots exclusively by tbe idea of "regularity." Mr. Cleveland is said to expect tbe radical element of tbe party, composed as it is of men who enthusiastically in dorse all the dangerous doctrines pro claimed at Chicago, will shortly be swallowed up io tbe Populist organiza tion. It is the President's idea that the sooner they go the better it will be for tbe Democratic party. He wants the organization to be effected along the lines laid down in the Indianapolis platform, which be regards as tbe em bodiment of essential Democratic prin ciples. The president insists that it is only to the Democratic party, purified aod rejuveoated as be topes it will be by this sloughing off process and by accessions from the Republicans and ir dependent v?t?ra, thai the peop!? can look with any decree of hope or confi dence for relief from their burdc?3. He thinks the r-eatest dangers whiah new menanee th country atre tbe greed of organized wealth and tbe rapacity of corporations. He sees in the return of tbe Reyublican party to power no pros pect of the abatement of these evils. Beauregard Boaz Dead. Charleston, Nov. 29.?Beauregard Boaz, professor of mathematics and as tronomy in the College of Charleston, died ibis afternooo, after a short ill ness. He was born in Virginia and was 36 years of ageu He was a gradu ate of the University of Virginia aod for seven years has held tbe chair men tioned here. A man of advanced thought, scholarly and ambitious, his death is regarded almost as a calamity by tbe members of the coliege. He was considered the most accomplished matbematiciao of his age in the South. Terrible Crush in an India Town. Bombay, Nov. 29.?A dispatch from Baroda, capital of tbe state of that name, gives tbe details of a fatal accident wbich occurred there to-oight. Tbe Earl of Elgin, viceroy of Iodia. arrived at Baroda this evening on a vWn to tbe gairwar, or native ruler of tbe state. The inhabitants turned out en masse to welcome the viceroy aod to see a dis play of fireworks in bis benor. Tbe ; display was given in the park of the gairway. which was open to the public Everything passed off without incident of note, until tbe end of tbe ceremo nies Then tbe crowd rmde a rush for tbe park gates, which were so narsow^ that tbey s<ioa became jaoimed with people. Those behind, not knowing the cause of the delay at the exit press ed forward until the crush at the gates was terrific. A number of persons were squeezed to death, while others who lost their footing in tbe surging mass of humanity, bad the life trampled out of them or died from suffocation. When the crowd was finally cleared away it w.as found that 29 persons bad been killed and 35 more or lee serious ly injured. The strike of dock laborers aod others employed in tbe shippiog trade at Hamburg, Germany, is spreading and trouble of a serious nature is feared. The great storm which swept over Minnesota aod the Dakotas on Wednes day, Thursday and Friday bas resulted in some loss of human life and great loss to live stock. Mail Agent Bur roughs of the Great Northern road is buried in a snow drift near Devil'* Lake, N. D. Ke was on the west bound train, wbich was stalled out of Devil's Lake Thursday nveuiog and walked to a restaurant at Devil's Lake, obtaining as big a supply of provisions as he could carry aod started back for his train. He never reached it. FROM THE WIRES. Phil Torcer, a youog white farmer in the dark corner of Greenville Coun ty, died oo Saturday from the effects of an assault by unknown parties. His murder is attributed to one of the family feuds that are never settled io that region. A special from Saluda, S. C, says: A notorious character, named Buzardt, was killed by three Hendersons, father and two sons. Buzardt had killed two meo and had shot Will Henderson about a year ago. Henderson recover ed, but Buzhardt has been bullying him on every occasion since Saturday they met again, but Heodersou resent ed Suzardt'e conduct aod bis father aod brother came to his rescue with the result that Buzardt was shot aod stabbed to death. The Heodersooe were not arrested. It is reported that an expedition of over *200 Texae cowboys is about ready to start from Poiot Isabel, oo the iawer gulf coast, near the Mexican line, for Cuba. The expeditioo was organ ized by ao ageot of the Cuban insur gents who has been in this of the State for several weeks A targe quan tity of arms aod ammunition will be taken by the party. A meeting was held io St. Louis yesterday by railway employes for the purpose of bringing about a union of the various railway orders aod brother hoods. General Weyler has left Havaoa again aod returned to the province of Pinar del Rio. Richmond, Va , Nov. 30?Mr. John W. Starke of this city claims to have recruited here some 500 men who are to fight for Cuba as soon as the Cubans are recognized by the United States as belligerents. Macdn, Nov. 30?A special to. The Telegraph from the State capital, says a bill was. introduced in the Georgia legislature to-day prohibiting the play ing of football in the State ; also pro hibiting tbe sale of cigarettes or cigar ette paper. ? Charleston, Nov 30 ?Early this moroiog a, fruit store beloogi?g to Charles Perkios was discovered to be oo fire. Tbe firemeo fouod Perkios himself inside' tbe place with five wouods io his bead and io ao uncon scious condition Tbe shop was total ly destroyed. Perkios regaiod con sciousness during the day and said that two meo entered bis sbopowbile he wes sleep aod ooe,of them shot him with buckshot aod theo robbed bim. No shot was heard by tbe neighbors and j the money bad not been touched io tbe f:ash df?t?er. Tbe physicians have fouod no bullets Dor buckshot io Per- ! kins head. This is shrouded io mys tory aod many people believe that a ! Romao candle or one of tbe sky rock- ' eis, many of which were in the shop, ! must have gone off, hittiog Perkios ?d i the bead aDd setting the place oo fire, ' To Fix the Price of Wheat. The Washington Pest saye. "A conference of nations oo the subject of tbe world's wheat market is understood to be desired by at least one of the greatest foreign wheat-growiog empires. It is stated io officiai circles here that Russia is particularly frieodly to such ao idea, aod is believed to be making overtures, oot only to the Uoited States, but to Edglaod. the Argentine Republic aod Australia. Tbe idea suggested, as outlined here, is that tbese oaticcs, should they see fit to unite io ao agreemeot upon the subject, could fix a price for wheat, to be main tained uniformly through various sea sons of overproduction aod unsatisfac tory crops, caused by drouth or contin ual rain, and thus make the principal grain ?tapie upon which the millions of consumers depend for food almost as uochaogeable io value as gold itself has become. This would, it is argued, eo- | able the producer, in case of ao un-: usually large crop, to store his wheat j aod obtain thereupon a loao that would ' tide him over uotil the wheat was in j demaod in the world's markets, when j he would receive a full aod fair price ? for it." j BUY NONE BUT THE GENUINE. ! 83000 "Merchants sell Hawkes' Spectacles : successfully. Half of tbem handle other j .Spectacles without success, Showing: the Great Popularity of HAW-? RES' GLASSES over all others. These Famous Glasses are fitted to tbe eye j Dr.A. J. China's Drug Store, Sumter. S. G j Dec. ?o. L. Douglas $ im SHOE "i EEST TS TEE "WORLD. i. $5.00 SHOE EGE $3.00. W?? It is stylish, durable and perfect-fitting^ qualities absolutely necessary to maie a finished shoe* The cos? of manufacturing allows a smaller profit to dealers than any shoe sold at $3.00. 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