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Show The Cubans and friends of free Cuba in this country have been encouraged en-couraged by the successful landing recently re-cently of the Oclavia, a fast steamer, with 1,500 stands of arms and 500,-000 500,-000 rounds of ammunition, together with two four-gun batteries. There is no scarcity of fighting men in Cuba. The great wants have been and are, arms and ammunition, lltul their resources in this respect been equal to that of tho Spaniards, there is little doubt that their independence inde-pendence would have been long sinco assured. The insurgent army is now reported to be 25,000 strong, of which number 10,000 aro well urine:! and equipped, perfectly disciplined, and able to cope with any force the enemy ene-my may send against them. Iitcmo of defeat they betuko themselves to the mountains, where they easily occupy oc-cupy impregnable positions, whero the Spanish troops cannot copo with them. In view of the great destruction destruc-tion of tho regular forces, Valmaseda has recently ordered tho withdrawal of the imperial troops from the interior in-terior to the railroad lines. A desperate des-perate effort will bo made this winter to reinforce tho Spanish army to a uuilicient extent to make an impression impres-sion upon tho Cubans, but it is the general imprecision among the Americans Ameri-cans best inlormed in Cuban matters that the next campaign will bo the last, and thit free Cuba is scon destined des-tined to bo an established fact, a reaction rea-ction which the patriots havo fully earned by their devotion to the can to of liberty and free sovenmiont. |