The weekly Placer herald., 1854-07-22
Cuba and Fillibusters.

| ing Information WnlCh IS "lmpOrtant IT
true" In speaking of the plans of the fill
lihusters, the Wing says:
GAS this subject is engrossing a large
share of public attention, and degree of
mystery is attached to it which tends to
excite curiosity, we have been endeavor-
ing for some time past to gather such in
formation as might be interesting to our
readers. From our exchanges and other
sources, we learn that the available funds
at the command of the friends of Cuban
liberty amount to little short of one mil
| lion of dollars, while eight steamers and
| four sailing vessels have been placed at
their disposal, and can be made ready for
for sailing at twenty four hours notice.
They are also possessors of between
eighty thousand and ninety thousand stand
of arms, muskets and rifles inclusive;
they also have, if we are rightly informed,
about ninety field pieces, including can
mons, howitzers, and mortars, and are
pretty we'll supplied with ammunition and
side arms.
The resources have been placed in the
hands of committee, who are to hold it
until the time set for the carrying into ex
ecution of their project
The entire command of this expedition
will be vested in a gentleman of known
ability and skill, and whose name has al
ready become household VOID with the
people of the United States. in conse-
quence of his brilliant achievements and
successful manRuvres while in command
of division OF the American army, du
! ring the late war between the United
States AMI Mexico.
The second in command will, in all
probability, be "northern man with
southern principles" and who was also
commander of brigade in the same war,
and who has since held the Office Of
Governor, and who, If we mistake not,
still retains a prominent civil position.
Gen. Gonzates, whose name has been
associated with this movement from the
first, will, without doubt, be third in COM
nand.
Col. Wheat, Col. Pickett, Col Bell,
Major J. A. Kelley, Major Moore, Capt.
w. S. Edwards, Capt. King, Capt. J. w.
Dement,, and Lieut.. Frank Ouilmette, all
of whom were intimately connected with
the previous expedition, are, we are cred
IDLY Informed, exerting themselves in pre-
paration for the forthcoming struggle, and
will s'be in ut the DEATH"
uc nutIlUcT VI IIlCu tuoL HhNC GIL OiCN
their names and pledged their honor to
support this cause, cannot be much less
than fifty thousand, and they are men who
are we'll skilled in the use of firearms,
and who are determined to avenge the
cOwardly massacre of Crittenden, Kerr,
and others, in Havana, on the Sd of Au-
gust, 1851.
This expedition will, in all probability,
leave the shores of the United States
about the middle of next month, and will
land in Vuelto Abajo country, and thence
proceed to Havana. There will be, pre-
haps, tend thousand men thrown into the
Island the first effort, and immediately
followed by reinforcements. until thirty or
forty thousand soldiers are there, and with
this force there cannot be much doubt as
to which party will be the successful one."
Meantime, Spain is preparing a warm
reception tor the invaders in case they
should make the attempt.
II Clamor Publico, of Madrid, May l9,
publishes the following list of vessels
ordered to transport troops to Cuba: Frig-
ate Cortes, 80 guns; Isabel ii. % guns;
Vile de Bilboa, 80 guns; Ferrolana, 80;
Colon, 16; brig Volador, ~ guns; steam
ers Francisco de Asis, 16 guns, 500 horse
power; Santa Isabel, guns, 1872 horse
power. Also the following transports
with part of their ordnance: Ship Of the
line Soberana, and Conde de Regla. The
ships were to be ready to sail by the lst
of June, and will transport six thousand
fresh troops, of which three thousand will
be stationed in Porto Rico, and the re-
mainder in Cuba. Three thousand acci
mated troops will also be removed from
Porto Rico to Cuba, increasing the regu-
lar army in that Island by six thousand
additional men, and making the whole
force amount to about twenty-slx thou
sand troops, of all kinds and classes.
UNCLE SANS DoMAJN.-Mr. DE Bow
makes the following remarks in his work
on the census of the United States:
"The territorial extent of the republic
is, therefore, nearly ten times as large AS
that of Great Britain and France combin-
ed: three times as large as France, Great
Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal,
nelgium, Holland and Denmark together;
one and one-haf times as large as the
Russian empire in Europe, one-sixth less
only than the area covered 10y the fifty
nine or sixty empires, states and republics
of Europe; of equal extent of the ko-
man empire or that Of Alexander, neither
of which is said to have exceed eight mil
lions of square miles"
When the Rev. Jesse Lee, the father