“AFTER ROOSEVELT. — His Riders No Better Than Other Volunteers. CALLED DOWNBY ALGER, In a Letter to the Becrotary of War the Commandasr of the Rough Riders Pays His Men Are ns Good as Any Regulars and Three Times as Good as Any State Troops. A Washington special says: The follow- Ing correspondence has passed between Colonel Roosevelt and Secretary Alger: Santiago, July 23, 1808, My Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing with the knowledge and ap-~ proval of General Wheeler, We earnestly hope that you will sexd us, most of the regulars and, at any rate, the cavalry division, including the Rough Riders, who are as good as any regulars, and three times as good as any State troops, to Porto Rico. There are 1,800 effective men in this division. If those who were left behind were joined to them we could land at Porto Rico in this calvary division close to 4,000 men who would be worth, easily, any 10,000 national guards armed with black- powder Springflelds or other archaic weapons. Very respectfully, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The following reply was cabled to Coi- onel Roosevelt, Your letter of 284d is recsived, The regu- lar army, the volunteer army and the Rough Riders have done well, but I suggest that, unless you want to spoil the eTYects and glory of your victory, you make ne invidius comparisons, The Rough Riders are no better than other volunteers. They bad an advantage in their arms, for which they ought to be very grateful. [Bigned.] R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War. The Letter a Personal One. In its Washington correspondence the New York Sun says concerning the corres- pondence between General Alger and Col- onel Roosevelt: “When Secretary Alger made these mat- lers public at the War Department, much gossip was occasioned, and various views were privately expressed by officers of the wdministration. A good deal is being said about the unwise action of an army officer ip expressing such views, The fact was not i0st sight of however, that the latter was a personal one to Secretary Alger, and that it probably would never have been made pub- lle except by the Secretary's unlooked-for action. Now that the excerpt from the iter bas been made public, and the reply to Colonel Roosevelt's personal communies- ton has been put in official form, both will doubtiess be made a part of the permanent lecords of the War Department, Reported Rebuke. The New York Journal's Washington cor- tespondent sends the following: “General Shafter is in virtual disgrace at deep displeasure of the Secretary of War, who has severely rebuked and censured Lim, "General Shafter's offense is that he made public in advance of its receipt by the War Department the report of General Kent, Rescribing the conduct of the troops of his division, published this morning. “The President and Secretary of War are ing him and lastructing him not to make vublic any such information hereafter, SPANISH SOLDIERS AS POLICE. Stay In Cuba, A Washington Special says: The Presi- dent, on assuranees of M, Cambon, is sat- lsfied that Spain will accept the terms of the United States. Hostilities will then cease. The blockade in front of Havana may be raised, and the President may per- mit the Spanish forees to occupy the island until after the rainy season. The PresiGont feels that, in view of the toidiers might be left there to do police duty. As compensation for this service, the Spanish government may be permitted to collect the customs at the port of Havasa, under the direction of a special commis. sioner to be appointed by the United States. Under such an arrangement the Spanish civil authorities would be left in charge of supervision of the American commissioner, This commissioner would be absolute dur- lug his tenure of office. He would not be a military man and thers would be no effort to establish a military government until after the close of the rainy season, The Cuban army will be fed and made to quietly walt until the disposition of the is- land is fioally determined, The Cubans will not be used for garrison or police pur- EVACUATION OF GIBARA. The Insurgents Are Reported to Killed Kighteen Volunteers. It is announced from Havana that the town of Gibara, on the North const of Ban- tlago de Cuba provinee, has been evacuated by the Spanish troops, and that the rebels, ou entering, killed eighteen volunteers. General Arolas, military governor of Ha- vans, bas asked the local newspapers to take up the question of the best way to dis. tribute the available food supplies in the city. General Bianco has decreed a suspen- slon of the sittings of the Insular Chamber, Have Buena Venturs Bought For 812,200, The first prize steamer captured by the Americans during the present war, the Buena Ventura, was sold st New York to the bighest bidder, Lewis Luekenbach, for $12,200. The price is considered good, The Buena Venturs was the first ship which passed through the Sues Canal, She is of Bhe A Washington special says: The Navy De Jortsent Has received the report of the which examined the Reina Mercedes, the Spanish ship sunk in the channel harbor. The board Is of the vessel ean be : FRACE TERMS, An Announcement in Washington Cone firms Reports, A Washington special says: The follow- Ing is the oficial statement given out by the President as to the terms of peace offered by the United States: the State Department Tuesday: In order to remove any misapprehension note handed to the Freneh ambassador, are in substance as follows: The President does not now put forward United States and of Porto Rico and other islands under Span- like cession of an island in the Ladrones, The United States will oceupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace, which shall determine the control, disposition and gov- ernment of the Philippines. If these are accepted by Spain in their entirety, it ie stated that commissioners will be named by the United States to meet commissioners on the part of Spain for the purpose of econ- indicated. It is understood to be the present inten- tion of the administration to assume liabil- ity for all the indebted claims preferred by American citizens against Spain, on account of injury to personal property lu Cuba, Some part of this liability may be imposad upon the government of Caba later on, when that shall bave been established, and to include such opses as can be directly chezged up against the insurgents, where they have destroyed the property of Amerl- can citizens in the course of their opera tions, This assumption by the victorious nation of liability for private claims is not new In the arrangement of peace conditions; but, on the contrary, is rather in the llne of the usual practice, At the conclusion of the Mexican War the United States assumed all such claims in bebalf of American citizens, and established a speelal tribunal for their adjudication and payment. The same course was pursued in 1819 in effecting a settie- ment of the Florida troubles with Spain, though the decisions announced by the special tribunal were & source of litigation and negotiation clear down to the present time, The amount of these claims against Spain in Cuba was #15 000,000 at dats of the estimated to $30.- the been pre- Ol course, it Is not possible at this proportion the acts of that in many cases the claimants themselves were unable to tell the source of the damage to pented, of Attempt to Deprive Us of Conveyances Folled by Anderson. A dispateh to the London Times from Ca- “It is becoming more apparent sarious complications the Ca fears aonexation openly opposes ise, {rom Aguinaido and the Americans, them, “Either he has been corrupted by some foreign power or he has a false Philippine notion of revolution- recent the concentration at Manila, consequent of the Americans, Al- foreign recognition, acd dictates to the American authorities in absurd and flated terms, “He has compelled the natives of the southern approaches to Manlia to register their bullocks, ponies, and conveyances, in- structing the owners not to supply them to the Americans for transportation without his sanction. Brig. Gen, Anderson prompt- ly adopted firm measures, warning Again. aldo that lorce would be used to impress were uit Aguinaido’s attitude operations agaiost Manila their strength upon the presence though he admits no Tie o makes future problematic, “In my opinion, with the ald of the fleet, the city might bave already been American, Nothing prevented an advance, Now the violent rains have set in, making camp and field operations arduous and threateaing the health of the men, which until now has been excelent, INDIGNATION IN HAVANA, Strong Feeling Against The Government — Food Getting Searce. The Havaus correspondent of the London Times describes a condition of “growing in- diguation.” He says: “Though Havana is still quiet, extraordi- narily, ominonaly quiet, as a ealm before 8 storm, there Is an ever joereasing feeling against the government's deceit in hiding ently with the intention of leaving the peo- ple to the mercy of thelr enemies, “Famine is slowly tighiening its bands, The bulk of the population would already goes, pineapples and bananas, The still worse In other parts of the island, “In some settlements ball the reconcen- trados bave died since war was declared,” WILL MEET IN LONDON, posed Peace Commission. American peace commissioners are to meet in London, and that the poluts which wil! war material in the Antilles, The Spanish Minister for War, Gen, Cor rea, is said to be “actively arranging for the of the Bantiago soldiers,” the first of whom are expected to arrive io Spaln at the end of Angust, Three Burned to Death, Fire destroyed a large brick house on the stone road leading to Bomulus, about five of three inmates Mrs. Pofleaberger; Mrs, “wr H mother of Mrs, Poffens and TOWNS SURRENDER. nm—— Guanica to Ponce. FOUR CITIES CAPTURED. Aloslde of Yauca Dates a Proclamation “Porto Keo, United States of Amerion’ Miles Hours of Pence Negotintions- He Is Awaiting Relnforcements—Natives Fersecute the Volunteers, Pont or Poxce, Porto Rico (Cable). Without seeing or hearing anything of the the advance guard of General Henry's division, which landed at Gusanlea Yauco, Babaue Grande and Ponuelas, Attempts by the Spaniards to blow up bridges and otherwise destroy the railroad between Yauco and Ponce failed, only a few flat cars being burned, Our troops have fired up the locomotives, aud are now oper. ating the road from end to end, carrying supplies, messages and men, An Yauco the Americans wore welcomed Tallaboa, dated Htates publie proclamation was {ssued, “Yauco, Porto United America, July 27." Maj. Webb Hayes, of the Sixth Ohio, son of former President Hayes, bauled the lag on the palace, amid cheers from the populace. The people seemed really glad that the Americans were bere, but they lear an uprising of the natives in the Interior, who, itis asserted, will rob, kill and destroy property in revenge for many years of Span- of Meo, up ish misrule port to this effect to General Miles, and ad. GEN. GUY vises that a guard be left to protect the cap tured cities. The empty transports have eft for Tampa, To Bring Back the Siek. A delegation of purses of the Hed Cross Society from the hospital ship Lampasas waited on General Henry at Guanies, and asked to be allowed to returs home with the sick. They sald their supplies had given out, and that the condition on board their terrible, Gen, Miles is lo constant communication with ail bis forees, and is keeping the arti lery steadily in advance, The entire army is encamped along the military road to Sen Juan. He is acting throughout, however, with a prompiness which indicates quick ae- tion all along the line as soon a8 the ports containing the remaining troops ar tive, A corrected list of the Injured in the frst day's battie at Guaniea {ollows, jured beiong to the Rixth Massachusetts hip. Private James Drummond, shot twice in the neok, Private Benjamin Bostick, Company K, shot in the right shou'der. Corporal William F. Carpenter, Company L. shot in the right hand, Corporal Henry Gary, Company K, shot In the neck. Sergt. George Carlton, of Battery B, Filth Siege Artillery, died of typhoid fever and was buried at once. This makes five deaths from that disease on the transports, Private Arthur Draper, of Company M, Sizth Massachusetis, har been promoted to a lleutenancy for gallantry in section. He ied the final charge which drove back the Spaniards. He is the gon of Gen. William F. Draper, American Ambassador to Italy. Milena Hears of Penve.@ The news that Spain had consented to sue ve was received bere in a dispatch to bis gray brow when he read it, and said be did not know what effect it would have on abead and take San Joan, pecding orders from the President, The Associated Prese dispateh boat carried lnformation out to the indication of weakening on Hpaiu's part. Outside of the typhoid fever on the trans. porte and in Guaaies, the genersl health of the army continues excellent, and there has been no trace of yellow fever thus far. Awaiting Heinforcements. No forward movement of the army Is ex pected for several days, The trassports with General Brooke's army corps and the remainder of the First Corps are arriving slowly. Our troops will probably remaia here quietly until the bulk of the army has disembarked, Ganeral Miles will retain his hea while General Wilson will be in immediate Wilson pushed General E. o's brigade, con- pieting of the Second and Third Wisconsin and the sixteenth Pennsylvania Regiments, out a wile and a half on the military road, retalolog two companies of the Bixteenth to uct as & provost guard io the city, Captain Allen has been appointed provost marshal, and with the ald of local constabulary has preserved excellent order, aithough almost the entire population of the city remained in the streets, celebrating the arrival of thelr American liberators until long after mid. night, Gen, Jose Garela, who Is in immediate command of the Bpanish regulars—not be- lieved to number more than 500—was de- serted by most of the Bpanish volunteers in bis command during the night, and they began straggling back to the city with the dawn, They immediately presented them- solves to the provost marshal and surrender- ed their arms, Business Booming. Business in the city has enjoyed a great boom since the arrival of the Americans, American gold Is at a premium of 100 per cent, Friday the price of a breakfast at the Ho- tel Francals was 25 contavos; now it is al one peso. Everything else has risen in proportion. The native correspondents have difficulty in obtaining horses at $200 gold, The natives jmagioe that the pockets of the Americans can emit a cease. less flow of eagise and double eagles. There is plenty of provisions in the city, excepting rice, one of the staples, which Is guoted at a very high figure for this country. Our army will not lack for fresh meat in the march across the Island. The broad sa- vannahs which lie between the undulating bills swarm with cattle at reasonable prices and of excellent quality, General Garret- son's brigade is massed at Yaueo, the termi. pus of the ralircad, 15 miles off, and wiil probably remain there until the army Is ready to move, but it is thought that the ar- tillery will be brought here immediately, The raflroad is In good order, but much of the roliing-stock has been destroyed, Gen, Hoy Stone found several engines wrecked. { The machinery had been dismembered by From Baltimore Morning Herald, V. HENRY. Spanish sympathizers at the roundhouse, and hidden, General Stone gave them two | hours to get the engines into working order, ander penalty of imprisonment, and in less | than that tine the engines had steam up and were ready to move, A Stand At Albenite. The Spaniards will probably retire as far back as Afbonito, about 35 miles on the road | to Ban Juan, where they are likely to make | a stand if they receive reinforcements, They oft bere entirely without artillery, which makes it even more obvious that an attack | at this point was never dreamed of by them, { Not a gun was mounted. The garrison was small and poorly armed. All the guns with | one exception, that were abandoned In the | arsenal when they beat thelr hasty retreat, | were Remingtons, not Mausers, There was not a mine in the Harbor of ! with barancies, were found at Puerto de | Goanion. These had been placed there years ago, and resisted every effort to ex- | plode them, Miles Wants Flags. General Miles, in command of the Porto | Rican expedition, sent the following dis. | patch to Secretary Alger, which was made public at the War Department, i “Ponce, Porto Rico.—Beoretary of War, ; Washington: | “Your telegrams received and answered | by letter. | "Volunteers are surrendering themselves | with arms and ammunition. Four-fifths of | the people are overjoyed at the arrival of | the army. Two thousand from ome place | bave volunteered to serve with it. They . are bringing in transportation beef, cattle ond other needed supplies. The Custom. bouse has already yielded £14,000. As soon as all the troops are disembarked they wil) be in readiness to move, "Please send any national colors that san be spaired, to be given to the different mun. icipalities, “I request that the tariff rate to be for his action, the previously existing tariff remaining meanwhile in foroe, “As to the Government and military oo- cupation, I bave aiready given instructions based upon the inatructions issued by the President In the case of the Philippine Is. lands, and similar to those issued at San tag: de Cuba. MILES, Major-General Commanding.” fF HE . sEEF isd ARMY IN PERIL. The Men Must Be Moved From Cuba. OFFICERS MAKE DEMAND Meeting of the American Commanders at Bantingo— Declare That the Army fis Unable to Move Into the Interior of the Island, as Ordered, and if Not Speedily Moved Men Will Perish, ———— A Washington special says: Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the Rough Riders, hus succeeded in hurrying the movements of the War Department in fetohing General Bhafter's army away from Santiago, though in his disregard of the conventionalities, he bas drawn upon himself a rather sharp re- buke from the Secretary of War, who evi- dently regards the sourse pursued by Col- onsl Roosevelt as being calculated to injure discipline, though Inspired by the most worthy motives, Its only fair to state that the War Department, for some time, bas been intent upon removing these troops, and It is now more than a week ago that Gen- eral Bhafter was instructed bys specisl eablagram to cheer up the soldiers by pub- liely Informing them of this determination, It was rather a question of ways and means than a lack of intention to redeem this promise that caused delay. As far as the question of removing the troops back into the mountains was concerned seems Lo bave precipitated the indignation meeting among the American commanders al Saoliago-—Iit is learned that the medical department here made no such recommen dation. All that it bad to say on this zab- ject was that if the troops must remain near Santiago, an effort made to re- move thet at once to some healthier camp- ing ground, Burgeon General Sternberg agrees thoroughly with the opinion ex. pressed by the signers of the “round-robin,” al Santiago, that men who have from severe malarial fevers of the South Cuban coast, so far from being immune against attacks of yellow fever, as has been ssserted in quarters, are very mueh greater danger have escaped the malaria Maiarial fever, it ls stated, Is no more a protection against a subsequent attack of yellow fever than would a case of measles against smallpox, while the fearful debility resulting from the malarial fever would certainly tend to make the vietim an espec- inl mark for yellow fever. The department gave oul a statement of its resources in the should be Bom an Incident, directed attestion to the fact that the troops cannot be withdrawn as a whole until the Spanish prisoners are dis- posed of, Otherwise, there is no certainty that, find- would not sess themselves of Bantiago, and to the American army the small foothold in Cuba which it bas cost #0 mueh blood and money to secure. It is, however, the ex- pectation that all of the American will bave been removed from Bantiago to the United States by the end of this month, and that is probably the very best that can be done under the circumstances, The lollowing official statement bas been issued from the Adjutant General's office The Secretary of War bas ordered Gen, Shafter's troops relieved from further duty in Santiago as fast as transportation can be provided, and the trassfer of Spanish pris- owners will admit of reduction of the gar- rison., troops SEEKING NEw MARKETS, A Proposal That Spain Be Required Yo Open Ports on Liberal Terma, A Chicago special says: A move has been made bere to include in the pesce treaty with Spain provision for new markets for the product of American industry. A tele. gram sent to President McKinley is in part as foliows: To the President of the United States, Wash- lugton It is of great importance to the manufac. turers of this country and of equal import- ance to all of its people, that the markets of the worid be opened to its manufactures, Without in any way expressing an opinion upon the question of acquisition of Spanish territory by this country, it Is the sense of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association that the President Le respectiully requested to instruct those having in charge for this conntry the conclusion of a treaty of peace, to exact that the ports of all Bpanish terri. tory in the Pacific Ocean be opened upon the most liberal terms to all products of Ameri- can industry, W. B Toxxer, President of the Association. J. M. Greex, Becretary, HOBSON AR AN ORATOR, Story of His Exploit at Santiago Told to An Immense Audience. A New York special says: Never in its history bas the great auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera House held sich aa enthosiastic audiesce, and uever have its walls rang to such thunders of applause as those which greeted Lieuten. ant Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, who presided at the meeting for the benefit of the families of soldiers and sailors, Lieutenant Hobson delighted his audience and discovered the possession of an entirely unexpected talent by proving himself to be an orator of much dramatic foree, For more than ball an hour he held the great audience spellbound, while in the simplest issguage and with few gestures, but with wonderful force and pathos, be told the story of his exploit in the harbor of Santi. ago. Throughout he made no reference to the part borne by himsell, aimost the whole of his thrilling story belog devoted to & sulogy of his gallant companions, Auxillary Fleet to Be Reduced. A Washington special says: Long is now devoting a good part of his at- UNHAPPY PORTO RICO, The Spaniards Have Had a Varied List of Misfortunes in the Islands. Rico” is the Hnstrated the Cen The Island of Porto subject of an interesting article by Fred A. Ober in tury. My. Ober says; Those early settlers may well have deserved thelr fate: still, oue may hardly withhold sympathy from them in their many and varied misfortunes, In 1515 they had a visitation of ants which before them: and then, soon after the insects had been driven destroyed, fn epidemic of the smallpox decimated thelr ranks, swiftly followed by an- other disease, more but scarcely less fatal in its effects, In 1520 French pirates burned the town of the Provinces, devoured everything away or insidious San German, on the south coast; ravaged the eastern off some of their prominent men to be sacrificed at can. fierce Caribe carrving nibal repasts; in 1505, “that great pirate, cisco Drake,” he in and seventy years later, Don Fran- appeared off Ban Juan, which eity sacked, the English claim; but be gloriously the Spaniards say. The f« of Ban Juan 1 m pleces of artill the There 18 no dou Was regu Hed repulsed, rtifications ounted s« venty thirty-four in alone, tack another Eng- oq fo ii: hut great Castillo del Morro bt that a Duteh at lish attempt latter aide the I were 1 by shot upon nerican was in Aber. retire lapsed respectively itor In each of 11.000 1M, he had ing a lo 1, taking a the head. hich show- in every ach ide of the hese compound eves There were y $ > 2 a} py naking a total of 22 ne, i That appeared stra be a fa ler photograph of odd proved it to enst in the a locust In explanation of thix bee, it was explained tha first making a Next the intell was really a » given to t its habit bank, nest, which won proceed to a rose tree. It would there alight upon one of the leaves and with the tools with wh it worked would cut a round plece out of it. This It carry to it wet and ram it Then It piece, which it of a cell it wonld go on until it celle, in each deposit roller. the Canterbury bell. of which it was very fond, and other flowers. An egg was laid in each of these cells and in due time young bees appeared and in their turn escaped from the cell and flew about. to carry on the same kind of work.—New York Weekly Witness, was to burrow in a sand capi archit would Against the extre: y end would take an oblong used to commence the side with: and had of constrocted twelve which it would its tion from A Private’s Patriotism. “Discharge impossible. Am in for two years or during the war. Will write immediately.” This is the reply Private Henry M. Brewer of Company A wired to Hon, R. B. Stone of Brad. ford in response to the offer of the post-office at Kewie, Pa. at a salary of $2000 a year. Private Brewer is a glassworker, His home is in Kane, where he is influential in politics, al though he is only twentf.six years of age. He has been employed at Char lerol, where he received a salary of £125 a month. He surrendered this job and accepted one for Uncle Sam at 1560 a month when he enlisted in Company A to go to Manila. This. morning he received a telegram from Mr. Stone telling him to apply for his
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