THE CUBAN WAR.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1840, 29 June 1874, Page 3

THE CUBAN WAR.

[NEW YORK HERALD.]

The 3tate of Cuba is growing daily more hopeless. Financial embrassem ent is ad ded to military failure, and every one sees that the grand crash is coming. From Havana we have the news of financial failure and disturbance, and from the Central Department comes news of military disaster. So far from the insurrection losing strength, the troops gathered to give the final, crushing blow, which has been impending for six years, but somehow never comes down, are routed whenever they venture to leave their fortified strongholds. So unfavourable has been the tide of war lately that the Spaniards can no longer conceal their reverses from the outside world. The Cuban forces under General Gomez have operated in the neighborhood of Puerto Principle during several months, and every effort to disperse them has ended in defeat. So far as these repulses can be disguised they are ; but the constant presence of a large Cuban force in the neighborhood of the head-quarters of the Spanish army is the best answer to pretended victories that cud with the hasty retreat of the victors to the nearest place of shelter. In spite of the recent reinforcement of the army by the enrolement of volunteers, the Spainiards are unable to disperse the patriot forces. General Arminan's brigade has been defeated at Guasimoclara, not far from Puerto Principe, and, obliged to abandon their dead and wounded to the enemy, 'lhere is nothing decisive in these endless battles, but they go to show that the Cubans are able to prolong the war indefinitely, and that after six years of wasting struggle they are more powerful in a military point of view than they were at the outbreak of the insurrection. The end of the struggle is no longer doubtful. It may drag on for years, exhausting the resources of both Spain and Cuba, but in the end the Spaniards will have to relax their grasp, as they have had to do with all their American possessions. General Concha, who made considerj able reputation by the suyression of the , Lopez rebellion, has again assumed the reins of power in Cuba. He comes, as did his predecessors, to wipe out and wholly exterminate the insurrection, but we doubt very much that he will succeed. The task before him now is much more difficult than his former experience would lead him to judge. The rebels have been hardened by well nigh six years' constant fighting, and are not likely to dissolve before the paper manifestoes of even so terrible a person as General Concha. If the Madrid Government were wise they would send out agents to treat with the insurgents for the sale of the island while it has a saleable value. Unfortunately, the people at Madrid are not likely to take this view, and we shall see Concha fail as his predecessors have failed, until the moment arrives when Spain, thoroughly exhausted, finally lets go her hold of the Pearl of the Antilles, which she has spent so much blood and treasure to retain in her imperial crown.