\ KVI 3^?^i^^E3SK1?^^gE1EXa^^ l. m. grist & sons, publishers. i a Ji'anuln glcicspapcr :jfor "lc promotion of (he political, Social, Agricultural, and Commercial Interests of (he ?oufh. {term|,no,leco^y,1mvecraM*^' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1898. .NO. 44. ittiscrltancous trailing. CEKVEKA IN A BAD WAY. Fleet Left Curacoa Short of Coal, Yi/.caya Foul aiul Slow. New York Sun, Sunday. Captain B. S. Osbon, of 81 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, who used to publish a shipping puper here, and who was rear admiral of the marine parade at the opening of the Harlem river ship canal, arrived yesterday morning on the Dutch mail steamer Prins Frederik Heudrik, from Curacoa, May 16, with fho notiH nf the visit Daid bv the Spanish Ope Verde fleet to the Dutch port. He told the followiug story to a Suu reporter : "I left La (iuayra on May 13 on the Prins Frederik Hendrik. At daylight on Saturday, the 14th, we were approaching Curacoa. About five miles away, or perhaps more at first, for they were hull down on the horizon, we saw a fleet. As they came nearer we recoguized the Spanish fleet from what we knew of them by their pictures. I got their names later. They were the Cape Verde squadron, advancing in liue abreast. At the left was the flagship Infanta Maria Teresa. Then canie the Vizcaya, Cristobal Colon and the Almiraute Oquendo. At the right were the two torpedo boat destroyers Plutou and Furor. I learned later that the Terror had been left at Martinique fur repairs. As we watched them the flagship raised a signal and the destroyers .turned toward shore, going at about 15 knots, which seemed to he their best pace with what coal they had, while the cruisers followed at a 12 knot gait. We were then perhaps seven miles off shore. The two smaller boats went within half a mile of shore in Curacoa harbor and unchored about 8 a. in. Our boat got iuto the harbor about 9 o'clock. The other boats of the Spanish squadron lay off shore at first. I saw a pilot boat come out to the Pluton, I think it was, and take a Spanish officer ashore. "I lauded and went to see the American Consul L. B. Smith. I fouud the Spaniards wanted permission from the Dutch governor of the islaud to bring their lleet luto m?rt for coal and provisions. You i?^>i\yhen two powers are at war then i^'V^an enter neutral waters wheu driven by necessity only for the purpose for getting provisions and sufficient coal to carry them to their next stopping place. While the government was debating Cousul Smith seut in a written protest against allowing the fleet to enter the harbor. This was against my advice. My idea was to let the fleet in and keep them as long as possible, while we cable to the state department and to Admiral Sampson to come down and trap them in the harbor. "The governor finally decided that he would allow two boats to come in for necessary provisions, and at 12 o'clock the Maria Teresa and the Vizcaya steamed in and dropped anchor in the harbor. The Oquendo and Colon anchored two and a half miles out, aud the Pluton and Furor were allowed to stay where they were. The warships exchanged national salutes of 21 guns with a little Dutch gunboat which lay at the head of the harbor. "I started in to learn all I could about the Spaniards, aud so did Smith. He employed a couple of agents, and as I have many friends at Curacoa, I was able to get seven men to help mc. The Spaniards were iu a bad way. They were so short of rations that the Hint been livitii? on beans for VU4VVIU *-v.v ?v? ? four days, and the men on half rations. They were so.short of eoal aud provisions that their usual water line was a couple of feet above the water at the bow, I took two photographs which show that clearly. The bottoms of the ships were all overgrown with long bunches of green sea grass. One torpedo boat destroyer hail four masts and I counted .*>4 men on her decks. , There were probably more below. The other boat bad but three masts, and hail evidently lost one. Her foremast i was held up by stays, as it were. I i saw 38 men on her deck. It was rumored that the tlagship bad had a gnu i disabled in some way. I know they left one gun carefully covered with < canvass, so it could not be seen. The i meu of the ships looked haggard and discouraged. The Negroes hooted i them when they went ashore, and I i did not hear one answer. I ueyer heard them raise a cheer or make any i demonstration as our sailors do when ' they get ashore. 1 "The Spanish officers started at ; once to get in all the coal and pro- . visions they could. All the coal to be i had was was 300 tons of slack coal, condemned by the Dutch government ami so poor it had been there for two years without finding a purchaser. I i was glad to see them buy it, for I think it will almost put their liresout. The Dutch government had not a pound of coal. The American consul, * 1 I ) 1 OflJl who is aiso a mercnuiu, u?u ituug of good coal. He could have got $'25 a ton for it, but he said he would not sell it for its weight in gold. During the afternoon the ships took ou the coal and bought provisions. They got in all $l00 barrels of flour, rice, potatoes, onions, yams plantains, 5 casks of wine and 7 of brandy. They cleaned out every egg and all the fruit ou the island. 1 know, for we tried to buy some later. There were 110 chickens or turkeys to be seen when they left. They even had to buy surgeons' needles, for their surgeon-general told me thny hud not a do/.eu iu the licet when they landed. "O11 Sunday they worked at loading up. The Spanish consul went aboard the flagship with two cable dispatches. The first, one of my agents learned, confirmed the report they already had as to the bombardment of San Juan. The second they took into the back cabin, and he could not hear it. It created great excitement among the officers at once. Orders were issued at once to be ready to up anchor aud leave at 4 p. m. They did not get off until G p. ra., and they were in such a hurry then that they left two lighter loads of coal and six head of cattle behiud them. They steamed away to the westward at an easy speed, and we lost sight of their lights at 10.30 p. m. We could not learn their proposed destination, but, in all probability, they went to a small islaud 12 miles off to the west, where they distributed the provisions among the COLONEL FREDERIC (Fourteenth New Y Among the nominations sent to the s that of Colonel Frederick Dent Grant V Colonel Grant is a son of the late U. striking resemblance to his father. Inini tendered his services to the governor of > the Fourteenth regiment fcf volunteers, connections, if for no other reason, his a perfectly natural. fleet, and no doubt put part of the coal on board the Plutou and Furor, which needed it badly. They left behind them a rumor, which they probably started themselves, that they were bound for Porto Rico. "Consul Smith sent a first cable to our state department from Curacoa at S a. m. on Saturday, the 14th. After the fleet entered the harbor be cabled full particulars as to names an armament. I got a cable from United Slutps Minister Loomis at Caracas. Venezuela, telling me to keep in close communication with him and the consul at Curueoa. Smith and I cabled nil we learned to Caracas as well as to the state department, so that Loomis might be well informed in case the (leet touched at Caracas. On Sunday Admiral Sampson, who had evidently been notified by the state department, cabled to Consul Smith for full particulars, which were sent at once. "I learned, after the fleet left, that they had asked that all their vessels be allowed in the harbor. Then they s wanted to come in two at a time, hut the governor would not allow it. I was at the Curacoa club, near the governor's residence,and saw the Spanish I nfKeers besieging the governor. "On board the l'rins Frederik with me were the Davis hoys, William H., L'arl and Clive. who live at 02 I street, X. W., Washington, J). C. Carl and L'live are twins, about 20 years old. . They were the only Americans on board and they volunteered to find out all we could about the Spanish. W& i slept on deck and kept watches by ] turns of two hours each through the I night. "I was at Caracas when the wur broke out. Only the Spanish resi- ] dents of Venezuela sympathize with I Spain. The rest of the people favor ] us. The Oovermneut at Caracas put . a guard around the American consu- ] late to euard airaiiisL anv attack bv < the Spanish residents." TIIK Cl llAN MACI1KTK. While military experts have been telling us lor years that the new con- i ditions of modern warfare have made i the eavalry charge obsolete, we read nearly every day of Cuba victories i won by eavalry wielding the "terrible i machete." Yankee bauds forged the weapon with which Cuba'patriots are carving out for themselves and their children an independent state. The machete (pronounced "machelty"), which is ltie implement for all needs throughout Spanish America, and has, in so many furious charges, brought triumph to the Cuban insurgents, has long been made by the thousand at Hartford, Conn., and sold to all of our Spanish-speaking neighbors. This blade is lirst cousin to the sabre of our own cavalry ; but, while the sabre serves only one purpose, the machete serves many, and is as useful in peace as in war. Almost every Spanish - Americat male above the age of childhood car ries a machete. The laborer has it because with the machete he cuts su garcane, prepares firewood ant trenches the ground for his crop. Tht horseman wears the machete, becuust with it he cuts his way through tht woodlands during journeys over rougl country. It is sword, spade and hedg ing bill, axe, hatchet and pruning 1 Kime. The hidalgo wears it with silverec hilt and tasselled scabbard ; his hum bier neighbor is content to carry ii bare and hilted with horn, wood, 01 leather. You may have the machete in near ly 30 different forms. The blade, frotr 3C DENT GRANT. ork Volunteers.) enate by tlie president last Friday was r> be brigadier general of volunteers. S. (J rant, and In appearance bears a ediately upon the declaration of war he lew York and was chosen as Colonel ol On account of his distinguished family ppointment as a brigadier generad was 10 to 28 inches long, may be either blunt or pointed, curved or straight, bioad or narrow. The favorite with the laborer is the machete of medium length, with unornamented handle and broad, straight blade. The SpanishAmerican hidalgo bears a scabbarded machete, long, straight or curved, as taste prompts. Two things have made cavalry conspicuous in the Cuban war at a time when men had begun to think of the cavalry sabre as sure to take its place with the lance among the weapons of the past. First, every Cuban owns a machete, and may own a horse. Given 50 Cubans, each with horse and machete, and you have for the purposes of this war an effective troop of cavalry. Again, nearly every engagement of the insurgent war has been fought on rough ground, where the infantry hollow square could not be effectively formed. Cavalry can rarely penetrate the square of infantry bristling with bayonets, and ready to pour volley after volley into an advancing foe. But, on the other hand, infantry formed as troops must be, upon the rough Cuban battlefields, cannot easily withstand the charge of cavalry armed with the teriible machete. VOYAGE OPTHK OKEtiOX. Steamed Around the Continent and Never Saw a Spaniard. Writing from Jupiter Inlet, Flu., upon the arrival of the Oregon at that point last week, a correspondent tells Lhe story of the ship's remarkable trip Around the continent as follows : The Oregon left San Francisco March 19, arrived at Callao April 4, left there April 7, and passed Sandy I'oint April 21, arriving at llio Janeiro April 30. The battleship reached Bahia May 6, and touched at Barhaiocs May IS. At the latter place the warship was quarantined, but she was letuiued only one day. " t 1 . I. ? mi leaving naruauuea mc uicpii sailed almost directly north, going to the north of l'orto ltico about 150 miles. The northerly course was continued until the Bermudas were sighted, when she headed for the Florida coast. Captain Clarke explains that the reason for going to Jupiter Inlet, instead of putting in at Key West, was to enable the Oregon to he ready to go either to Key West or Hampton ltoads in short order, after getting ofiieial information from Washington. Captain Clark had no ofiieial knowledge of the situation after leaving ltio Janeiro, April 80. During the entire trip the crew expected momentarily to meet the Spanish fleet. Only once, however, was there a call to arms. This was shortly after midnight on leaving ltio Janeiro. As the Oregon was ploughing through the black equatorial sea a dark object was discovered astern, apparently giving chase. The call to general quarters was sounded, i the men rolled out of their berths witl - the enthusiasm of boys on a circu , day, and almost instantly every gui was manned. The Oregon left he 1 course and circled around her blacl ; pursuer only to find it a harmless bark ; instead of a Spanish warship. Bacl ; to their berths crept the men witl i mutterings of disappointment am disgust. t At Rio Janeiro Captain Clark wa told that the Spanish torpedo boa i Teraerario was following him. Thi report gave interest to the trip for i i day and night, but at the next port o r call tie was miormea mai me lemera rio had gone into dry dock at Ki< Janeiro just after the departure of th< i Oregon. The cruise through the Straits o Magellan was most interesliug. I was at this far southern point of th< American Hemisphere that the crev expected to receive a visit from tbi Spaniards. In many places the chan nel was very narrow and crooked, witl hidden bays, and back of them moun tains towering into the clouds on eith er side. Moreover, they were in thi lane of icy winter. For more than i month they bad been sailing unde tropical skies, and now the cold blast whistled among the crags above them and the ice at night lay on the decks But the Oregon did not lag. Cap tain Clark bad no idea of giving th< Spaniards, if they were there, chanci to catch bim napping. If the grea battleship was to be caught it shouk be u catch on the wing.. The engine were warmed up to their best work and where it was safe and possible th< Oregon bowled along at 15 knots at hour. The machinery worked well and on occasions the speed was in creased three knots in a few minutes A stop of three days was made a Sandy Point, where coal was taken 01 and other supplies secured. The Oregon's 25 officers and he crew of 425 men were well and happt when the battleship cast anchor of n_ * it l ? ? L ~ 1 f ~* i >3ann ivey nguu uuuse mi. iiiui-jiuot < o'clock this moruing. The Oregon is in first-class shape und ready for an other cruise as long as the oue jus ended. The excellent condition o the men after 66 days' voyage is perhaps, even more remarkable Throughout the entire trip there wa: no serious case of illness, and the mei are as ready for immediate aclivity a.' if they had just come from a vacatioi in the mountains. The Oregon picked up the cruise: Marietta and the dynamite cruisei Nichteroy between Rio Janerio ant Bahia, but she parted company wit! them after 100 miles. Captain Clark* said the crew of the Oregon had suf fered much from the heat in passing twice through the tropics. "All tin way along," he added, "we wer* 1 wondering where the Spaniards were and we never ascertained that fac ' until we reached here." ' "Do you know now ?" Captait Clarke was asked. "Well he replied, "I imagine we cai make a very accurate guess." OFFERS TO SINK CERVKRA'S SHIPS. J. 1*. Holland Goes to Washington With f Submarine Hoot Scheme. New York Sun, Friday. When the news that Cervera anc his fleet were bottled up in the harboi of Santiago became pretty well con firmed, it was suggested to John P Holland, the submarine boatmau, thai he could submit the practical value o his invention to no better test than t< take her to Cuban waters, enter th< harbor of Suntiago, destroy the mines and sink the Spanish fleet with a nea hole in each of them?just enough tc sink her, not enough to spoil her, be cause we want those ships ourselves. When the sucgestion was made, Mr Holland said that under certain condi lions he was quite willing to under take the job. The matter was discussed at a con ference of the officers of his companj THE HOLL This is the boat with which inve mines and blow up the ships of C'ervi ... I.IK foatorsluir mnrnitur. 211 iltJ juiuau n uj jvau i v?i*j D, The result of the conference was that Mr. Holland and Colonel C. E. Creecy left for Washington last night to lay a plan, agreed upon at the conference, before the president and the secretary of the navy today. This is the plan : If the government will transport the boat from the Erie Basin, where it now is, to some point near the entrance to the harbor of Santiago, and a crew can be secured to mau the boat, Mr, Holland will undertake the job ol sinking the Spanish licet, if it be still in Santiugo harbor, commanding the boat in person. If his offer be accepted, and he is successful in his undertaking, he will expect the government to buy the boat. According to the plan which Mr. Holland now has in tniud, he will withdraw a short distance after he has blown up the mines, will submerge his boat and will make the trip iuto b the harbor under water. He is cons fident that he can get right under any 11 ship he selects for attack sometime r before any one in the harbor knows k that the boat has passed the entrance. :, The chief difficulty that Mr. Holland i anticipates in making his experiment b should the government accept bis 3 offer is to secure a crew for the boat. That the undertaking would be daus gerous is admitted, but it is asserted t that no one on the little boat would s run as much risk of being killed as a would the crew of a battleship in f action. Mr. Holland has no particular desire to be killed, and he expects, if o the plan is undertaken, to live to tell s all about his experience. \ 0!I TO FOKTO KICO FIRST. e The Eastern Island Is More Healthy Than V Cuba. e Washington Cor. N. Y. Times, Saturday. ^ Though today has been devoid of definite developments of a military nature, it has been marked by a strengthening of the conviction, now general, I hat Puerto Rico and not Cuba is to be the first object of invasion by the combined land and naval forces of the United States. ' Tiie administration is not making ' its plans known, nor i? the war board tukiug the public iuto its confidence, B but there are other ways in which t coming events make themselves known j eveu in war times. g A significant indication of the attitude of military arm of the movernB rneut toward Puerto JRican invasion is j afforded by the earnestness with which high members of General Miles's staff ' urge the measure. The commanding general of the array is not talking for ? publication, but it is understood that i the members of his staff who declare unreservedly in favor of taking of Puerto Rico without delay reflect his views. The announcement that Genj> er.il Miles may leave Washington in a j day or two on a tour of inspection of the army camps in the south is regarded as confirmatory of the undcrstand^ ing that there is to be no invasion of f Cuba at once. It has been taken for granted that General Miles will go to ' Cuba with the army. If the invasion j is to be off and Puerto Rico taken, in, stead, his present tour of inspection is 3 easily explained. j The strongest argument used in far .!/>? r\F llin at tapir nf Pllprt/1 Ricn now r is that the easiest and just at present, and in fact, about the only thing we I can do. The decision was reached j long ago that not less than 50,000, and a probably 75,000 men will be needed * for the army that is sent to Cuba. Not , more than 25,000 men are now in ' shape for a foreign campaign. These I are the regulars and the equipped volunteers at Tampa. The rest of the ^ volunteer army is untrained and unequipped and it may be accepted once , and for all that it is not going to be sent to Cuba until it is both equipped ] and to some extent, at least, instructed in and inured to the practices of war. With the 25,000 men already at Tampa, it is urged, Puerto could be 1 taken and subdued while the rest of the army is being put in shape at Chickamauga, Washington and the 1 other camps. Then, when all has r been made ready for the grand move - on Cuba the regulars could be with. drawn from Puerto Rico and used to L lead the army against Blanco. The f fact is, that while giving needed train> ing to the regulars themselves and de5 livering them from the debilitating life 3 at Tampa, this move would strike a t deadly blow at Spain in a vital part of ) her colonial structure and rob the reCr>iiniaVi float nf ifa nnlv hnSfl of * SCI ?c upauigu A?vvv vi w v?.j ???? .. supplies on this side of the Altantic, . are urged as reasons in its favor, which are believed to have had the effect of - determining the powers that be to undertake it. There does not seem to be, it is pointed out, anything to prevent the JsF iSi't, ' - * r AND DIVING, SUBMERGED , ni.or Holland nronoscs to enter the liarb< Bia's s-quailron. Further particulars are gi prompt execution of this since the troops, the supplies and the transports are all at Tampa and all, according ; to the reports received here, are ready , to move on short notice. The fact that General Shafter has been authorized to send a portion of his command s at Tampa to Jacksonville, so as to 1 make them more comfortable, is taken < i there as to indicate there is no intention to send them to Cuba at once. If General Shafter knew his entire force ] r would be called on to go to Cuba next i week he would not go to the trouble i : of having them break camp and move i over to Jacksonville. < The plan, as it is construed here, is I for General Shafter to send the least i available of his volunteers to Jackson- < ville, while holding the regulars and < I the pick of the new troops to the i i number of 10,000 or 20,000 for the ex- i i pedition to Puerto Rico. Private let- < i ters received here say that all the ! judications at Tampa poiDt to an early < departure of the military force massed at that point, with much uncertainty as to whither the expedition is bound. The expectation here will be disappointed if Puerto Rico is not its destination. Assuming the correctness of the report that the Spanish fleet is shut up in Santiago, it is concluded that there would be no difficulty in Admiral Sampson's supplying enough ships to | convoy the transports to Puerto Rico without weakening the blockade of Havana, still holding in reserve enough ships to attend to the Cadiz squadron should it appear suddenly in these i waters. One suggestion made to account for Admiral Sampson's last appearance in the ueighborhood of the old Bahama channel is that he is acquainting hiraoplf urifh t.h? mute about to be taken by the ships that are to carry the ex- i pedition to Puerto Rico, not necessa- t lily to San Juan, for it is more than c guessed that the landiug in Puerto i Rico will be at some point where in- < fantry and artillery and perhaps cav- t airy can be put on shore to attack the t defenses of San Juan in the rear. So much attention is being given to the ( Puerto Rico occupation by the military t authorities that it is assumed by offi- i cers that the army and navy plans i have goue along together. When the i i moment of attack arrives it may be ( expected that Sampson will be out- < side the harbor prepared to attack the 1 batteries he has already tested, while < the land forces are trying the ability ' of the Spanish troops to defend land s positions. , i , . , I OOMKZ TO CUBANS. J Must Conduct Civilized Warfare Agaliut ] the Spaniard*. General Tomas Estrada Pal ma, the . representative of the Cuban Republic in New York, has just received the first copy of Las Villas, the war bulletin which is published by authority J of General Gomez at the headquarters . of the Cuban army. It contains the ! official news and movements of the Army of Liberation and in itself is an " interesting publication. Printed, of i course, in Spanish, it comprises three columns on two sides of a sheet about s 18x14 inches. The papers has a greenish tint, and the type is set up and printed at Gomez's headquarters under < bis direction. The first number, under date of May 10, 1898, is designated as'4Supplemen- a to," and contains a half-column ac- f - -* 'L- TtT?^;i? ...Klnh i COUDl OI tut; UiiLlir ui .uauna, >? uivu conveyed for the first time to the sol- 1 diers of the Cubau army the facts * concerning Admiral Dewey's raagnifi- c cent victory in the Philippines. Be- c sides the official notices and orders fc issued to the army, the paper contains i a lengthy address, issued to the Cuban 1 army and people by General Gomez, t in which he says: 4 t "I, Maximo Gomez, commander-in- c chief of the Cuban army, take this op- ? portunity, through the medium of Las t Villas, which will hereafter be pub lished once in each week at the head- s quarter of the Army of Liberation, to communicate with those of my com- r raand and our people. In view of the ? adoption of the constitution of the t Republic of Cuba and the armed in- 1 tervention of the United States in our behalf to aid us in securing our inde- i pendence, which will soon be recog- ? nized by all the world, I desire to e make known that hereafter our soldiers shall no longer be known as in- t surgents, but soldiers of the regular ( army of the Republic of Cuba. s "I hereby direct that there shall be 1 issued each week a war bulletin, < which shall be published at the gener- 1 al headquarters of the army, and shall t begin wit' this issue on the 10th day of May, to he known as ''Las Villas.' 1 It will be circulated under the direc- 1 tion and by the authority of the staff' < * -"'J it ;ii ho 1 0 mcers 01 iue army, a Liu iu 111 niu j i j ! ?* :' " ' * - '-.* ' jfj^g i iiiii si t \ND RISING. ; >r at Santiago, destroy the submarine ^ veil elsewhere in today's issue. " ' a published all the circulars, orders and d official notes of the war department, tl as tvell as information which our army p and our people may desire to know g concerning our progress and our allies, the United States. "I take this occasion to remind each A Cuban in service that he now has a P country recognized for which he must h fight with all honor and glory. He is a now a Cuban soldier, and not an insur- tl irAnt. nnd will resnect the rules of civ- s' r>?- -7 g ilized warfare. I will order punished any chief, officer or private who fails si to respect the rights of our prisoners e< of war, aud such prisoners will be T treated with respect to their rank and Aaccording to the rules of civilized it countries and the constituiioual army, in Our soldiers will conduct themselves ai in such manner as to gain f*r them- ol selves the good offices of our brethren it of the Uuited States, and for this rea- it sou it is my wish that the army of in 3uba may exhibit model discipline. "I desire to impress upon you that we will not continue this war, which ias been so gallantly kept up for the past three years, with the idea of revenge. We are fighting *for liberty ind independence, and not for revenge, ind I would call your attention to the 'act that the history of the world shows that loss of blood has always leen the price of liberty. Notwithstanding, we must ever remember our iead martyrs to the cause of Cuban rreedom and figbt a good fight, and it will not be long before every Spanish soldier will have left our soil. We iave bad to contend against a most jruel enemy, one which has known no lonor, and its methods of warfare jave been most barbarous, and every ict of Spain has showu their thirst for)lood and desire to trample down and innihilate the DeoDle of Cuba. I do lot desire that our army shaft emulate heir example, but I would prefer that >ur methods of war be those of civilzed natious, that we may show to the snemy that those whom they are ighting are more honorable than hemselves. "In a recent proclamation issued by general Blanco he made the statement .hat it was now the duty of all Spanards to die for their honor in the war tgainst the United States. Spain does lOt know the meaning of honor; her iefinition of the word is nothing bilt sruelty. Spanish soldiers have never ieen known to die for honor except vhen they were opposed as teu to one. Their idea of honor has been to assaslinate defenseless women and children, .vhose protectors are flow fighting for reedom in our army. Their idea of lonor has been to rob, to plunder. They die for honor drinking, gambiug and eommitting crimes against lumanity and against society, but now .hey will die before American and Cu>an arms. "I take this opportunity to speak .0 our people and our army that they nay be encouraged and know that we lave now noble allies, who will aid us n our fight for freedom, which has been ong deserved and which we can now tee will be a reality at no distant day. ! shall also from time to time in Las Villas communicate with you in the tame manner." SPANIARDS DESPERATE. Daptalu Dorst Says Blanco's Men Will Fight Like Savages. r TT TV i. I UapiaiD J. n. Jfuntv una uccu uuiug ;ome very daring and dangerous work or the government, says a Key West iispatcb. He has taken his life in his land a dozen times. His instructions vere to assist the Cubans in making :onnection with the United States offl:ials, and see that the Remington and Springfield rifles, for which Gen. Gonez was asking so insistently, got iuto lis hands. But behind this was a nucb graver work. It was to ascerain about what the real effective force if Spain was in Cuba, and, geaerally, ibout what sort of a fight Spain inends putting up, judging from the ividence obtainable. Captain Dorst ays: "Spain intends fighting with the feocity of a century ago. The captur;d man will receive about the treatnent accorded to captives by the Vpaches." He begs to dissipate the impression, f any such be current, that it will be iny easy matter to drive out Spain's loldiery. "It is well," says he, "to bear in nind that Spain has in Cuba between 50,000 and 75,000 soldiers, who have lurvived two epidemics, and the bad bod and worse sanitary arrangements >f Spanish barracks. These men reigiously believe that, -if captured, j iheir throats will instantly be cut. j rbeir superior officers tell them this, he priests declare that it is true. In .he first two or three battles these sol- ^ iiers will fight with true Latin desseration. The United States army goug to Cuba may as well anderstand hat its business will be serious war. Fhe native population will help us all t dares. Jbinauy, me soouer wo ucjiu ibe better. Tbis talk 'about tbe errors of the climate is humbug of tbe oost arrant kind. The water of Cuba s excellent, and the climate is a very ;ood one. Those fellows who come iere from Arizona will think the diange simply heavenly." Convenience.?The successful farner is he who provides conveniences or the care of his property and the lerforming of his work; he counts ime as an important item in the yeary calculation and care of all his varous effects as a factor in the annual eturus. When be puts the horse in he stable there is a place for the haries9, where it will be safe from weathr or any other damage ; his wagons ,ud tools are provided with coverings o preserve them ; about his premises vill be found a little shop or room rhere he keeps saws, hammers, vises, ugurs and various tools that are needd to mend and put iu order the differnt machines he use. These simple rticles prevent days and weeks of elay, besides adding to the length of be time the implements will last. It ays to have convenience, and also to et what you do buy of good quality. ? El Progresso, one of the leading ladrid newspapers on last Sunday ublished a circumstantial story of a attle off Jamaica between Sampson nd Cerveria, in which it was alleged lat two American warships were deroyed, one Spanish ship disabled and lmi.j rni a ^ uinpsou Kineu. iue Auiuni-au U?lB" lip was alleged to have been deslroyJ by the Spanish torpedo boat Furor, lie story purported to have come to [adrid by way of Paris; but careful iquiry by all the London and Paristu news ageucies failed to discover uy foundation for it. The Madrid Ecials refused to "confirm or deny " ; but on all sides, even in Madrid, was generally put down as a pure iveutiou.