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Show W. V. Td,'jrj-h-? i UlllX M.VTTKRS.-RKSItiA' ATIO.N OK SKCH KTAKV K1SII. New Veil-, .;l.-Thc IW.rU's cor-: respondent, wtiiing iVont Havana on the I'.Vl, says that the C.iptaiti-Uen-eral of Cuba has juslitied the practical enslavement of the whole Chinese pop- ' illation of tho island of Cuba, numbering num-bering some Jo, 000 soul?. The decree ; orders Iho 10,000 or 1.1,000 free Chi-' nese immediately to enroll Ihoniselve.-uuder Ihoniselve.-uuder the tutelage of the government : and work in the government work-, shops, receiving for their labor only ! four dollars a month, and ordering that all Chinese who are now working un-. der contracts shall be re-indentured on the expiring of their terms of service or be sent to jail. The morning papers .say that Socio-: , tary Fish's resignation is once more on the tapH, and in a more tangible shape than ever. Iu fact, his final re.-igna-1 I tion in a day or two U no longeca matter mat-ter of conjecture, but is an almost ah-, 1 solule certainty. The difficulty which ' ; has lately ari-en between the 1'nitcd j Stales and Spain with regard to Cuban 1 matters has made his resignation a no-1 ee-sity. Our relations with Cuba 1 threaten to assume a stormy aspect. Secretary b'i-h, being now in this city, a reporter interviewed him fist, I evening. In answer to a nuestion, the , ( Secretary said. I am1 sorry about tho I recall of tho Spani-h minister, Ibr I , have yet to know a Spaniard who is a Itetter man than Senor lloberts. He ; has been invariably courteous awd kind. Whenever he could be always ' : favored a conciliatory policy in Cuba, and endeavored to mitigate the severi-; severi-; ty of the Spani.-h rule in that island. Spain baa never sent a better repro-seniitivc repro-seniitivc to Washington than Seaor 'liolorts. Tiie secretary staled that bis rc-i;':.a':.on was in abeyance. Jle (did not wi-h to say anything about it at present, but the facts would come out in a very -liort time.. I'r. Howard, an AuierLan, has been -emenccd to have liis property colitis-' cated and to serve ci;ht year"1 in the1 , ohain' gang of llwana. It appeai-s i tut his 0!icn.;e con.-:.-icd of selling 'some homeopathic eases of medicine .in I -''4 to Scnor Ihmyan, then a Spanish olVuial. ho subsequently joined tiie ins;irrce:ion. 'ItK'-s? ea-cs were c.iptured by tlic Sparo-h Ibrces iu a rebel camp. The I . S. government govern-ment is making j e'fon.- i procure pro-cure his relci;1. Kii'oris are also bein-jr nude to i-.b;:iiu the relc.se or mitigation of the punishmeni of the Havana -ukkol- iu the bam g-'.og. |