The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-10

Communication has been established between
the leading insurgents now in arms ag linst the
auth ority OF the Captain-GeneIal Lersuudi, and
the different chiefs OF the movement in the
United States.
In New York city the acknowledged leader of
the flibusteIlDg movement Is Colonel George
w. Gibbons, who has held q commission and
served In the volunteer force employed during
the late war. Colonel Gibbons is about twenty
eight years OF age is man of powerful frame,
and when mere lad served under the Inflated
General William Walker in his Nicaraguan
flibustering movement.
The organization OF the movement is as
follows:-
There will be three points OF departure, viz:
First. From the city of New York twenty-five
hundred men will emblrk in steamer now
chartered. These men will be armed with re-
Volvers, but will not have with them any larger
arms or artillery, as 1t VIII be impossible to
evade the Uuited States authorities with q sup
ply of muskets or ammunition. But the vessel
will carry twenty days provisions for the num-
Der of men who will be debarked at some
point on the coast, from whence they will march
TO the mountains. Once there, it will be impos-
sihle to drive them from their stronghold until
the native patriots have rallied in good numbers.
Second. The expedition from Boston will con-
sist OF eight hundred men, unarmed, but we'll
differed by men who have served IN New Eng
land regiments. These men will also take with
them twenty days. provisions, so as to enable
the Cuban patriots to remain In their defeuses
andl resist the Spanish veterans. If possible, O
battery of small no owitzers Will accompany this
part of the general movement.
But the main and most important movement
Will be from New Orleans, the Mobile contiu-
gent cooperating with the principal column
from Louisiana.
Three thousand men will leave New Orleans
in fifteen days from this date They will be
conveyed by large and fast screw-steamer,
and with her, or at different day or night,
another fast vessel will sail, carrying stores,
artillery, and provisions for five thousand men
This body will be under General Harry Hays
or General Charles F. HenDinesen, of Mica
raguan and Hungarian revolutionary fame.
Colonel James Kerrigan, formerly of the 25th
mand in the New York contingent. Colonel
Gibbons has been the recipient of ninety -four
letters, Offering assistance, within the past few
days, and t.7o well.kDown merchants in this city
have offered sec, 900 worth of shot aud ammuni.
ton towards the cause.
Two great difficulties present themselves to
the hlibusters in this projected invasion otCuba.
wink at them. The district of Santiago is pro.
claimed and Manzanillo, where it is probable
that large body of the invaders would have to
land by reason of the peculiar conformation of
the coast, is a. latest intelligence in the hands of
the Spanish troops. The principal officers IN
command OF the rebel Cubans are Col Agull.
leras and Gen. Cespeder-the last who has been
and efficient officer. Colonel Cabrera, Colonel
DiaZ, and several other officers, have hoisted
the standard of revolt, and it is impossible to
doubt but that the insurrection will have over
spread all Cuba up to the gates of Havana in
twenty days. Nearly every ne wspaper editor in
the island of Cuba enters, sympathizes, or Is
directly implicated IN the revolt; and Lersundi
has been almost driven crazy with the compli-
Gated troubles that have poured down upon his
devoted head.