The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-01
Condition of fairs IN Ceba a. Reported By
our Consul General.
ZACH s1DK CONFIDENT OF sucoEss-now THE WAR
Is CONDUCTED.

The government received dispatches on Sstur-
day from the consul general Ct Cuba. He reports
the condition Of affairs Is unchanged. II requires
considerable vigilance 70 protect American citizens
and their property from the interference Of the
Spanish authorities. 1t is By no means certain
how this trouble between the Spanish authorities
and the insurgents will terminate. The former
seem confident, backed up as they are with troops
ceiving large accessons from the natives and out
side parties, landing at points where they readily
communicate with the insurgents II Is also
deemed advisable by our government, and by the
commander Of the West India squadron, TO keep
large force in the Cuban waters to protect Amer.
loan citizens and property from moleststion.
Accordingly, orders were dispatched yesterday
by the navy department. to have the war steamers
Seminole, Galena and Juniats fitted out imme..
diately for duty in the Cuban waters The Sem
mole is third-rate Vessel, carrying eight guns,
and il now repairing at Boston. The Galena Is
also thirdrate vessel, with ten guns, and is now
lying up IN ordinary at the Portsmouth navy yard.
The Juniata Is second rate screw steamer,
navy yard In Philadelphia. II was formerly the
intention to fit out several OF the iron.ciads and
send them to the West India squadron, but
the president IL fearful Of mourning too great an
expense. But If it is deemed necessary, several
Of the ronclad vessels will be In readiness to sail
ct short notice. L so -
By direction OF the president the secretary Of
the navy has ordered Admiral Hof, commanding
the West India squadron, 10 make thorough in
vestigstion of tho capture Of the American brig
Mary Powell by the Spanish authorities, and COM
muncate the facts TO the department Immediately,
Senior Lomus has had several interviews with
Senator Sumner and Representative Banks, the
chairman Of the foreign committees Of Congress,
but he and his friends are very retcent, and con-
sequently nothing Is definitely knoEn Of what has
transpired at said consultations.
General Banks had long interview with the
president concerning the matter, which may de-
yelop itself In the House.
An eyewitness of the Cuban revolution, who
has lately arrived In New York, says that the war
is carried on more as guerrilla war than by reg
ular operations. Whenever force of Spanish
troops appears any where. the Cubans scatter from
it's front, and seek, by smbuscading behind trees
and in the thick woods, TO annoy the troops and
diminish their numbers. The great object among
the insurgents in these encounters Is TO get hold OF
the musket and knapsack of every one they can
wound or kill. In this they will run extraordinary
risks, three or four running out from the bush at
every Spaniard who falls.
The Spanish troops generally behave well in
these ambuscado encounters. and whenever
forced to halt or form during their march, they
roundly abuse their unseen foes, styling them cow
ards, and calling upon them TO come ont OF their
hiding.places and show themselves. The feeling
among the s2aniards is very bitter. indeed. They
formed almost entirely the trading population OF
the country, and every cross-road and country
village was occupied with their shops. These are
now abandoned wherever the insurgents have APP
peared, and their owners have withdrawn TO
points held BY the troops. Thus the country Is
bare of gooos. AT frat q lenient policy toward
the prisoners prevailed, but the Spanish volunteers
have now become 80 violent that they shoot nearly
all they capture, calling them leaders. No regu.
lar civil government exists In the districts held by
the insurgents. ard no formal attempt has YET
been made TO organize one.