Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — TO MOVE ON HAVANA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO MOVE ON HAVANA.

Ml BAN capital will be at* TACKED IN THE FALL. * Army of 150,000 Men to Storm : Blanco’* Stronghold—Shafter** Men Will Come Home for Heat Before the Decisive Fight* of the War. Miles Will Lead the Army. Fashlngton apodal: Gen. Miles as commander-in-chief, aidS id by Gens. Shafter. Brooke, Loe and I Jruham, with a combined force of 150,00 men, are to take the field against Havana in the fall. Meanwhile Shafter’s S »en will be recalled to the United States tor recuperation, three regiments from Campa going to Santiago to take their Hace, in company with the immunes now Shere. | “Gen. Shafter and his Fifth corps Will lake the field against Havana in the fall. Until then they will rest in the United States. As soon as the Spanish prisonin are well out of the way/Oen. Shafter, with the whole Fifth corps, will be ordersd back to the United States, perhaps tp Montauk Point, L. 1., or some such suitable place, where they will rest and recuperate, so as to be ready for the cam-

paign in the fall against Havana.” This Statement was made by one of the trusted Counselors of the President. The statement was further made that not one of the regiments now in Santiago would be Went to Porto Rico; that it was thought by the administration that in all of them there was some danger of fever infection. But Gen. Shafter will remain until the vanish prisoners are disposed of, according to the plans of the Government. Many northerly camp sites are being tow considered by the Government, Sea Girt, N. J., among them. It may be necessary to bring more of the Southern troops north, but they will not be brought imless it is necessary. The Fifth corps «f hardened veterans is also to be put

Into shape for the Havana campaign. The JPorto Rican army also will be by fall hardened to field and fire, and, together /with the Fifth corps, which will then join it, about 50,000 seasoned men will move upon Havana. (• This is now the plan of the administration. These 50,000 men will form the nucleus about which 100,000 more volunteers now in this country will be formed. By the fall these volunteers, it is expected, will be in prime condition, both as to equipment, arms and uniforms. If the ‘Porto Rican campaign is to be a deliberate one, the campaign against Havana is to be a more deliberate one. In order to relieve the regiments of the Fifth corps as soon as possible after the Spanish prisoners have been placed on jthe transports', Gen. Coppinger has been bordered to send three regiments from the ■Fourth corps, at Tamjai, to Santiago at bonce. The regiments designated are the Fifth Maryland. First Florida and Second Georgia. These regiments, with the Immune regiments already ordered thith«r, will be sufficient to hold Santiago and tire surrendered territory, and they may operate against Holguin and Manzanillo. It is likely that an attempt will be made to occupy both of these towns if health ■conditions favor, and Senor Quesada says <he insurgents will be active during the blazing the way for the great coming campaign. K Gen. Miles will be cbrnnfander-in-chief ■of the Havana campaign, and will start «in with two trained major generals in Miens. Shafter and Brooke. Lee will follow with another division, and Graham with the Camp Alger troops and the 2,(XX) mien left in Chickamauga will help make dip a grand total of 150,000 men. KILLS FEW MEN. "Yellow Fever About Santiago Is of a Mild Type. i A dispatch received by Adjutant Genveral Corbin says that 396 new cases of fever of all Classen were reported in his •camp before Santiago Sunday. As the dispatch reports only four deaths—and none of them from yellow fever—from among hundreds of cases of fever > 'known to exist in the camp, the war auMhorlties are more than ever inclined to ♦the belief that the cases of yellow fever

IT WAS AWFUL,

A Spanish Officer's Verson of the Fisht at Santiago. In describing the naval battle of Santiago after his arrival at Portsmouth the other day, Capt. Mashrohon, second officer of the Maria Teresa, said: “As we came out of the channel, we opened fire on the Brooklyn, and the Texas answered it, but her shot fell short. Otherwise she would have struck us, for it was a straight line shot. The Brooklyn and the lowa then fired, but neither shot hit. Again the Brooklyn and the Texas fired. The Brooklyn’s shell went into the admiral's cabin and. exploding, set fire to the after part of the ship. The shell from the Texas pierced our side armor and exploded in the engine room, bursting the main steam pipe. We signalled to the engineer to start the pumps, but got no reply, and then found that all below in that part of the ship had been killed. At that time shells were* bursting all around us, and the ship’s hull was being riddled below. Then, for the sake of humanity and to save life, we beached the ship. Just as our captain gave the order to haul down the colors he was struck by a shell and killed. Meanwhile the Vizcaya had run between us and the Texas and was then engaging three ships—the Brooklyn, Oregon and Texas. She made a desperate, but hopeless, fight. Now that we have learned that we lost between 800 and 1,000 men and the Americans lost only one man, it amazes us. It is incredible. We cannot comprehend it It does not seem possible. And yet we must believe it. Have we not seen with our own eyes the utter wrecks of our ships and how yours were not hurt, even the smallest injury, that we could see?”

DESTROYED HIS EAR DRUMS. Detonations from an Eight-Inch Gun Make a Lieutenant Stone Deaf. Among the patients on board the naval relief steamer Solace is Lieut. Harrison of the Oregon, the drums of whose ears were destroyed by detonation caused by the firing of an eight-inch rifle upon that ship. He was in command of a thlrteenincl: gun, and put his head out of a hatchway to get a breath of air, so that it was within a few feet of the mouth of a rifle upon the upper deck when it was fired. The concussion was so severe that he fell insensible, and it was several hours before he recovered consciousness. He is stone deaf, the membranes of both ears having been lacerated. EUROPE TO BE IMPRESSED. WatsonS Fleet Is Intended to Ferre as an Object Lesson. A Washington correspondent declares that the administration has a greater purpose in view in dispatching the eastern squadron to Spain than to make an attack upon the ports of that country. The real object is to impress Europe with the ability of the United States to form a squadron whose strength will be such «S to compel respect and prevent interference with

its plans in regard to the demands to be made upon Spain as to the price of peace. The squadron will be the strongest that can be gathered and will include all of the battleships, a large number of protected and auxiliary cruisers and perhaps the armored cruiser Brooklyn, although this is not definitely stated. It will be under orders to first proceed to the coast of Spain and destroy Camara’s fleet, after which it will bombard Spanish ports and harass Spanish commerce and, if need be, part of it will proceed to the far east should there be any question by a third Government of the disposition the United States will make of the Philippine Islands. DYNAMITE SHELLS IN CANNON. Process Invented to Throw Them by Means of Gunpowder. William S. Isham of the City of Mexico laid before the ordnance bureaus of the War and Navy Departments an astonishing proposition. He has invented a process by which shells charged with dynamite may be safely discharged from a piece of artillery by force of gunpowder, the shell bursting by impact. The ordnance officials were somewhat skeptical at first. They said that if Mr. Isham could successfully fire dynamite with gunpowder he could do something that nobody else had ever done. Mr. Isham insisted that he not only could do it, but had done it. He produced letters from the Mexican Secretary of War, Gen. Berriozabgl, and the United States minister, Gen. Powell Clayton, both testifying thot they had witnessed the experiments with the new process. i F panlsh Arms to Be Used. The ordnance bureau is busy with preparations for using the Mauser rifles captured from the Spaniards. It is probable that the Mausers will be used to replace the Springfield rifles, with which many of our volunteer regiments are at present equipped. Expelled .‘‘Yellow’’ Correspondents. Gen. Shafter has reported to the War Department that he directed the expulsion of the correspondents of a New York paper for placarding Santiago city with advertising posters, which bore the inscription, “Remember the Maine.” «

OUR SPANISH PRISONERS. They Presented a Pitiable Spectacle on Landing at Portsmouth. The Spanish prisoners captured by the American navy at Santiago rarived at Portsmouth, N. H., Sunday and the following day were taken ashore, where they are confined in huge barracks on Seavey’s Island. A correspondent gives this description of the landing from the St. Louis: The first prisoner to land was slender and about medium height, with a black beard. He wore two articles of clothing, a soiled canvas jumper and a pair of dirty canvas trousers. He was without hat or shoes, and looked with a curious, shifty glance at the oM farm house and apple trees which monopolized the land view. Behind him came the procession of prisoners. They were nearly all dressed in duck trousers and jumpers, although some had duck caps and a few blue shirts or ragged flannel coats. Nearly all were barefoot. As ttiey formed in irregular groups on the side of the steep mcline they looked like castaways. They were a thin, hungry looking lot. without baggage and generally with dark, unkempt beards. They did not seem dissatisfied With their lot. The spectacle whfch the captured Spaniards presented when they came ashore was so pitiful on the whole, that the Yankee crowd expressed good will and pity rather than hatred.

TORAL WILL BE TRIED. Madrid Government Gave the Spanish General No Instructions, Madrid advices say that the conditions of surrender agreed to by Gen. Total are opposed to the military code, and have created a painful impression in the army. Captain General Blanco repudiates responsibility for the capitulation. The ministers do not believe that the troops outside of Santiago were included in the surrender, and they anticipate that some of them will refuse to lay down their arms. Gen. Toral will be court martialed for surrendering Santiago to the Amer-

icons, but it is not probable that he will be punished. The Government did not authorize the surrender, but instructed Captain General Blanco to leave the initiative to Gen. Toral. The military code prescribes imprisonment for life for any officer who surrenders the forces of fortified posts which, although dependent upon his command, are not included in the action causing capitulation. Total’s surrender will be submitted to the supreme military council. All the ministers repudiate responsibility for the surrender of Santiago and other places in eastern Cuba.

TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. It Han Been Such that Not a Single Cane of Blood Poisoning la Reported. As soon as a surgeon reaches a wounded man his first act is, to bathe the wound with bichloride of mercury and dress it with antiseptic gauze, and Dr. Van Reypen, the surgeon general of the navy, says that thus far in the-war not a single case of blood poisoning had been reported. Among the 450 wounded men at Fortress Monroe there is not one who is suffering from inflammation nor one whose wounds are discharging pus. The merenry kills all germs, keeps the lacerated flesh sweet and clean and causes it to heal rapidly. No lint is used in dressing; sterilized gauze is found much better in all respects. MANZANILLO BOMBARDED. Seven American Warship* Attack the Headquarters of Pando. Manzanillo, which is on the western coast of Santiago province, about ninety miles from Santiago, was bombarded Monday by seven American warships. Two Spanish gunboats—the Delgado and the Paraja—-resisted the attack and were set on fire by shells from the American vessels. The gunboats were burned to the water’s edge. Many.of tire Spanish sailors were killed by the explosion of the oh al ls

GEN. NELSON A. MILES.

GENERAL PANDO.