New-York tribune., 1869-03-27

sort6ed but the rebels 200 strong aDahuoheo tle"
Ns..o~ ;.hout firing more than few shots, many
NJ them escaping TO the woods Inc UoVernoi ',
Trinidad relates that OF his oiicers mas dlsiouko"
ar leader MARTINEZ from fortified position III tine
,rooded hin of Guarabano not far from a sugar-lni
owned by this rebel party of rebels tore up rams
and made useless an engine near GperueDopa ~
Sagua: another appeared at Palmira in CiehiuegoS'
Remedies was stlli troubled.
Thus if the SpaniaFs active, the reOeis porsSV
:; u tbe districts where they lately rose, and the
former according to their own accounts 'i"s "0ii
esteem il a merit 70 catch them People'who came
from Puerto. Principe to Ylla-Clara say that they
forpd NO insurgents on the road, but the towns
folk shake their head, aud declare that this means
notbin except that the rebels have private reasons
for not showing themselves. Quesada. who surely
bsd seven regiments of men, well armed, two months
AGO. ia believed to have 10 regiments now, with
better arms and officers than ever, having been sup
piled BY way of La Guanaja or some other point Oh
the coast nearest PuCTt0-RriRcipe. 1t was thOught
that Valmaseda from Bayamo, was march
ing on rPuertO-Principe simultaneously with
other Spanish troops from La place which
the telegrams reported TO have been taken by the
rebels short while since, but which was occupied
by them long ago As may be guessed, the present
campaign OF the Spaards is to be mainly and earn
esty directed against QueSaua Inc bWO lOICeS III
dicated are to close upon him. if possible. by way OF
Puerto-Prneipe, while others sent from Havana and
uniting at Villa Clara. are to move upon bin from
the West. The trouble win be to find him, aud
then to beat him.
The immense strain in which the lOyalists rejoice
over their success only be appreciated by actual
quotation from their newspapers. " AT last night
says an account the train returned with our eXpe-
dictionaries We VIII not attempt to sketch the scene
offered at the platform of the station and Its sur
roundings. Neither the light nor prolonged shower
could rob it OF Is enchantment its marvellous gran
deur. Ihe BOmbcros and Reserved Volunteers stood
in line Of battle. The bands struck up the hymn OF
Riego: vivas to Spain and Cuba Spanish thundered
in space our veterans and volunteers resisted with
difficulty the ardor of the people who stretched out
their hands TO embrace them, to crown them with an
enthusiasm which radiated delirOusly."
The conclusion to be drawn from the Spanish ac-
counts if we to credit them is first that the in
surgents are hard to fnd but when found get
beaten; second that many small columns of troops
have been sent across the country; third, that the
war IN the west WILL at the Fpresent rate last the
year out, though the loyal press promised some time
ago that il would be over iu a few months 1t is
tain that the Cubans express no discouragement
The prestige of a well-wOn battle on their part
would be desirable. But while il is taclty admitted
that the insurgents can seldom win in open fight
against their well-aTmed opponents, il is believed
that the rebellion is as alive and widespread
What a summer campaign may bring forth. with the
worst passions and diseases enlisted time will have
= TO tell