, 1866-07-11

WEDNESDAY, JULY II, 1866.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY II, 1866.
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NEBELLtoN IN cCEA.
Inc unexpected news is brought by
steamer 10 Baltimore that m insurrcction has
ofekcn oul III CUBA at Puerto Principe, q
ecn&ral ano leading town in the eastern part
o' .ne Island that on July 1st. the insur-
Sen@s oeleatca a battalion consisting OF I've
companies Of Government troops sent to sup
press thcm that The Colonel commanding
tne eovernment troops and several of his
ouccfs were killed and three Of tic compa-
nfcs captured by the rebclE, or deserted to
Them that the rebels. now numbering 1000
men had taken up their position In the noun
falns That about 900 negroes from Puerto
Irinclpe had joined them that three stcam-
efs hlltd with troops had lett Havana for the
scene o. Tue revolt that four steamers bear
Ing tue Ahl!ian LII. with troops ou board
were landing at Porto Sucritas, near Puerto
fHncipc, 10 aid the Insurgents that the dis
eontcntcd from all parts oi the Island were
locking 10 the insnrsent standard that It
was believed that the insurrcctiounry plot
had iis ranit'cations throughout The Island,
and that the natives aud negroes had COM
lIucd in an effort to secure the Independence
OF Cuba from the Spanish rule. These rcports
are confirmed by the report brought By
the New York sfcanlrr from AspInwall, TO the
eacct that Cuba, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador
have formed league 10 free Cuta from
Spain; that Venezuela and Columbia llud
been asked to join the alliance; that some of
these were 10 furnish money, otllcrs men
and that aId for the enterprise ,vas cxpccled
iro,n tic Southern portions of the United
States. still another report states that the
two Chilian steamers 1iUsrar and Iudrpcnd.
cncc were sccil of I.io Janviro Nav 9Th, which
seems tn confirm In r,nrt the story Of ihc mr..
rival pl CLilian steamers nj Cuba. 1t will be
remembered that Gen. Strikes. INV In com.
,nand Of tue southeastern Department, In.
clldn. lie Sta,cs mar Cuha. was thr ar,.nt
Of thu tinted States IN negotiating. tho tr,.aly
nr lra-uc between the severn, S,,u,h A,ncri-
can siutys above nauuvu auai,,st spsln. or
coursc it, the treaty as tub|lsbetl m such
Gnnk movement against S,,afn rs wotld lc
accomplished by u 5cyol, IN Cuba was lii
rlulcd. I}ut to the eve OF of,c who, like Sick.
lc., was something OF Il politician rs we'll NJ
i ticucful, no Plan III publishing S,a1u or stop
ping lcr leprclutions on Chill. and PERI,
would appear go nntnrnl and pO Owcrlnl rs
we'll planned blow for tie Independence
Of Cuba. Gen. SIcklcs, 1t Will hu re-
mems'trctl, wis present with Mr. buchanan
MS Secretary Of Legation Mt the 0stcMd
Conference, and may l'e regarded: US one OF
the authors OF the Ostcns manifesto of 1854.
In Which the doctrine that the Island ought
to belong to tue United States as matter Of
military necessity, wns inserted. Tllra
Mcssrs. Bllcha, an, Mason and Soulc, who
signed the manifesto, urgucl ftorn the pro-
slavery stand d-point, that the United States
ought to own Cuba because should Spain
emancipatc the Slaves there, Ii would be pref
judicial to slavery In the United States. Then,
too, our ruer Of SlOo,oo0,oo0 made by Folk
for the purchase Of the island. our fitibustcr-
ing raids under Lopez and our spying cXpc-
ditit.n to examine into the military dcfcuccs
Of the island made by Mcclellan at the insti-
g1t1ou Of Jeif. Davis, Secretary Of War, were
all in the interest Of slavery. It was thought
that with Cuba We would get The Cuban slave
trade, anu would thezchS DC aHlc TO reopen
tue slave trIdc with the United STATES. IN
all these movements we had the sym pathy
and cooperation Of the Creole planters and
large shareholders and oil all the slave traders
Spain In o.dcr to maintain her power in the
Island, a::ainst these maclliratiens OF the
more ambitious Shareholders, was driven into
somewhat anti-slavcry policy, ycssing al
most upou cmapcipatiou.
In 1915 the importation Of slaves had, for
the first time been made criminal. This law
Gcyc.po--cennral Coucha enforced during
IS4i-4s so vigorously as almost to stop tho
slave t:at.c. This policy, lRdeed. prompted
much of tho Cuban desire for annexation,
Folks ottcT following in ISIS, aud the cxpe-