Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-27
Translated from the Grced Official de HaJand Jan. O.
forhe ". y. Express.
The Alleged Cuban RevoIutiOn-Ex-
DOeure.

Towards the end Of last December, the
news was circulated in the United States, by
telegraph. that IA revolution was prepared
and on. the point of breaking out, in the Is
land OfCuba. From New Orleans dispatches
like the following were sent to all parts of
the Union: " Private advices received here
positively confirm the rumOT, and there are in
Cuba a number of Americans, ready to assist
the revOlutionists. They have all sailed from
here with legal passports"
There was "A time when the imaginary crea-
ton of plots and revolts in this country, by
ignorant or needy persons in the mighty re-
public, would excite a certain passing feel
ing of ingratitude in the minds of some of
our peaceful inhabitants. But our people at
last convinced that announcements and overt
acts coming from the United States can only
acquire real importance from the public agi-
tatiOn or diSconiidence manifested here have
learned to disbclieve these insidious reports
Of an impotent pcrfidy. which now only
serves To cast ridicule and contempt upon
those who take part in them. We should
therefore, have passed by without notice of
the rumOr referred To from New Orleans. had
not certain curious antccedents of "A grotesque
gravity happened TO coincide so well in time
and nature with the annOunc 'ment TO in-
dictate its origin. We are fully authorized to
vouch for the correctness of what we are
about To say.
Some two or three months ago the New
York Herald spoke Of great conspiracy that
was on foot in this island and afterwards
went So far as to assert in that city. on the
strength of letters from Havana, that the po-
lice of Havana had arrested and imprisoned
hundreds OF persons Of all colors and condi-
tions. In fact, shortly after this announce
ment in the North, a certain paper was circu-
lated among the p, ople of color, and few
weeks after sort of mailman was arrested
among whose papers was found a written re-
port in which he detailed to the " Sovereign
Convention" Of New York the labors which
be had undergone to revolntioniZe Cuba.
He informed that " convention that in
order to make acquaintance and gather the
opinions Of the people. he had passed one
month on the corners OF the streets and In
the taverns," speaking 10 all who approached
him; that he bad organized "a system of que
rillas, whose mission IL would be to 90 to the
woods aud desert places, to wage from
thence a war Of determination upon all races
aud colors," after having Tired Havana ia so
or 40 places at once; that his disciples had
sworn fidelity To him while he lay stretched
upon the ground with the points Of their dag
gers al his head. lie asked the convention
Tor 500 guns, and wrote a variety IL other
nonsense To which 10 would be idle to refer,
the few extracts We have given will serve
To impart an Idea Of the spirit of the docu-
menL The silly style Of the document was
IN consonance with the rest Of IT,
But IL should be we'll noted that the imagi-
nary conspiracy aud subsequent perturbation
OF order IN the Island were known aud an
r0unced in New Orleans and New York be-
fore We here suspected aay thing. And even
to this hour. nobody has taken any Interest ia
the coasplrator. ar the conspiracy, which Is
now come To the knoxlclge Of tue public for
liist time In these lines
The notice ROW circulated from New Or.
leans has an origin and purpose still more
highly eNtrayagant Towards the end of last
June. the ENecllcatislmo ST. Marquis OF
Habana, cur Governor aud Captain General
received letter from the United States,
signed lay one n. s. Reveau. The said
individual. in his letter. entitled himself q
.Brigadier Geaeral,n ahd proposed 10 his
Exeellsneg thai be shouid declare the in-
d pendrnee OF the island of Cuba, to after-
wards annex IL % the United States; aud he
enclosed some resolutions" adopted by a
Convention Of representatives and citixeiia''
Of the republic. In two u which il Was set
forth that the said Reneau hsa authorized the
Issue OF bonds 10 the amonat 1t nfieen MIL
lions of dollars. payable by Caba in his Ex-
eeileney she Captain General; that the Cap
taia- n' raj sloaid b. President OF the nsw
r. publ.c; that tea millions more daliars in