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Show Jovf liar Proclaiiiates. lTav.",n,7. Two pages to-day in the (hji.-iat ju .'('.- arc devoted Lo the proclamation pro-clamation of Captain General Jorel-lar, Jorel-lar, lately reinvested with extraordin-ory extraordin-ory powers. It gives a full exposition of the present state of the insurrection and the causes of its continuance; it also gives assurances that peaceable citizens may live securely under the protcct:on of the laws, and declares the island in a state of siege. All rebels and persons accused of sedition, murder and similar crimes, are to be tried by a court martial. Persons charged witii other crimes and misdemeanors mis-demeanors are to be tried before ordinary or-dinary courts, except the General reserving re-serving the right to turn them over to a court martial, if the gravity of the crime requires it. Orders ot mobilization mobili-zation for the active service of one volunteer out of every ten citizens, are to be immediately issued and continued six months. All persons between the ages of twenty and forty-five forty-five years, not volunteers on Iho fi i st of July, are to be enrolled in the militia. Voluntary enlistment is to be for one year, and any volunteer who may enlist for one year will be exempt from all future drafts, and every drafted man to receive re-ceive one hundred dollars bounty, drafted men to be allowed to furnish substitutes, but the payment of the money to be received from the service serv-ice will not he allowed. No one sult-ject sult-ject to draft will be permitted to leave the island unless he gives bonds, that he will furnish a substitute in ease he is defeated. All persons over forty-rive years of age will have to furnish for mobilization one man out of every ten. If they cannot enlist suli'uient to cover this demand they must pay $l,0JO gold for each man wanting to complete the quota, t. Quartermasters will furnish the necessary neces-sary accoutrements to drafted persons, per-sons, who will receive the same treatment treat-ment and be subject to the same laws laws and regulations as regular soldiers. sol-diers. Those drafted will be organized into bodies. Two-thirds of the drafted men will remain in garrison, and the other will take the field, accompanied by the regulars. Every six months the third in the field will be relieved oy one oi me oiner two-uurtis performing per-forming garrison duty. The artillery engineer corps will be remforced in the same manner as the infantry. The proclamation provides that free colored people enrolling in the militia shall be subject to the same conditions condi-tions as whites, and be mobilized in the same manner. It orders that owners of slaves shall give one out of every one thousand in the island to wo k in the swamps, fortification s and on trenches. At the end of the campaign government will liberate all ol those slaves, paying their owners own-ers a thousand dollars each. It orders that all officers and oldiers shall be paid in future in gold or its equivalent in paper. Able bodied males have been tested as local guerrilles. Their families are to receive government rations. Towns may be taken from their present site to another, and new towns may be built according to prescribed pre-scribed plans. These orders are published simultaneously simul-taneously throughout the island, and the Spaniards suppose they will bo sufficient to crush the insurrection within six months. |