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Havava, Nov. 18.: The Rosarita and. Flora plantations, near Cientnegos, have been burned. In the neighborhood of Santiago the insurgents h^ve burned the plantations of Golestue, Resolution, Santa Maria, and D,arenjes Sabrilta. A plantation, has been burned by the insurgents near Trinidad. The plantation's in 'the vicinity of Cierifnegos have been burned since the Ist. of November, including the Harnf agnra plantation belonging to Pouvqri, of NewYork; . The civil governor of Santiago has issued a proclamation announcing the killingof 280 insurgents, 'offering clemency to' thoae who immediately; surrender to the Spanish authorities, and threatening j to chastise all -the revolutionists captured. There is great misery iiiSanfciagoj caused by the cholera aijd si»all-pox increasing. It. Js undpr^pod in Havana that a commission from the insurgent Government has arrived at Caraccas, for the purpose of inducing the Venezuleaii Government to recoguise the . insurgents as belligerents, and allowing- them to rake recruits for their army iv Veozeuela. Nor. '27. Advices from the interior state that hunger and misery prevail/to an alarming :extent. A column under Col. Hidalgo lately tound a hut iv the vicinity ofPaiifia Sorreaua, containing the lifeless bodies of eight persons who died of starvation. •
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 637, 17 February 1870, Page 4
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195CUBA. Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 637, 17 February 1870, Page 4
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