New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-11
TIE FERNANDO 20 EXILES.

THEIR EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES - NINE
TEEN PICKED UP AT sEA-HosPIrALTrY OF
GUINEA EEGROEs-sPANIsH AUTHORITIES
FOILED-ARRIvAL OF THE EXILES IN NEW
YORK.
Among the passengers who arrived from Llv-
erpOol yesterday, by the Java jose Manu" romeo
do Leon, Jose Manuel Fernandez and DIT. fFexas,
three wealthy and prominent Cuban pario'S WHO were
OF the prisoners of State which the Spanish auhor
ties eKed TO Fernando Pc last March. Ihese
three gentlemen sailed from Liverpool on tne SlSt
ult leaving behind them sixteen OF their fellow
from Fernando PO The names Of those leiL sta ana
who taken passage for New York by the sGoa
Etna Don Mariana Mendiye. Don Jose M m e
FUnSe se leon DUn bravo somt Don Estevan
Parodi, Don EvaristO Lamar Don n. Bslln Gtt,
Dor Don Miguel Emb a citizen Of the United states !;
Don Carlos del Castillo Don Manuel Rquelme, D In
Pedro Barrengui English ViceCOnsul at Cadenas Don
Eracio Zarjas Mr. Dougan, eltlzen OF the CIou nd
twohrothers Pena Of Remedies Don Felix tuentes anu
Don n SaZar, South American. Last nlgnt on our, le-
porter called on the three returned Fernando 70
at their hotel and found them the center OF
q crowd OF hundreds Of their counrymen, VINO nag us
senbled 10 congratulate them upon their escape IRON
that far distant island prison, for escaped they h"
The Fernando Pc prisoners, the very wealthiest and
most influential gentlemen OF the Island OF CUBA, eln
csca do Rorta on the DIST Of last March They arrived
at Fernando PO the west coast OF Africa on the ga OF
days at Cape Verde Islands. Those who have arrived
and with whom our reporter conyeIsed iast ngnt'h ~
the Standards on the passage there replied; rue
teTi6e~it was TERRIBLE Everything the prisoners had
ham cost them S2 TO SIC; cheese was IS pound and
all other articles OF food CorrespOndinEly high Ths
of the space allotted TO Coolies brought from
China by Spanish slavers. on arriving az
fo sTa5ndO rooms P1 nI at the ESSsS hotel there
The remainder occupied huts made by the natives FIo
three of the Cubans evaded the vigilance Of their spanish
guards, aud went 10 sea IN small canoe EeIon ts
for them This had been hired OF an Engshmhn, WnOso
name cannot be mentioned without causing MN serious
trouble In the sOop the three escaped exeS eacneu
the coast OF Guinea the river Caabar Fourteen
days aferward l6 OF the prisoners tue weallheSS n
formed from a hollow tree. One Of their number Don
Miranda Mendive, was guest at me time OF Ine GOV
favor bestowed on account OF former i nnsi.
relations They left the island ana nd. t ~ ,I
the open boat with no provisions water or change oi
clothes. At noon of the same day hey were picker W
from the island Their canoe was left TO dft away with
the tide while they made for the appointed IebdelnoIs
Old Caabar near the mouth Of the Rio CalabAr on the
coast of Guinea where they arrived the evening OF
the 22d Here they were oinedby those VINO mao pre-
necessarily left at Fernando Po. The English people at
Calabar showed the escaping eHies every possible ,t
an Spauiards The negro king had his warriors calico
out aud the Notifications Of Caabar placed IN sate 0,
preparation to engage any spanish hanoi'"'' '"''
might be sent 10 retako the Cnbahs; ,, A.. Alt.
When the Governor Of the Island learned OF the night
cora after them She entered the port Of Calabar three
DAYS after the ARRIVAL Of the Cubans and her captain DC
manded that they should be given up 10 spanish
authority This tie King refused 70 do at the same
warning the Spanish commander OF the COnc0rda that
II ne took the Cubans away 10 would cost bin severe
fight The Concorda left for Fernando Pc for nsTuc'
tous while gone. the Cubips embarked on an
English vessel for Buni which place they safely reached
and secured passage the English mail steamer Bara
for Liverpool The eNies paid 5000 sterling Tor thel
passage 10 Liverpool from BunL After having secured
their passage and aboard tue blaifa' lhe Con
cOrda made her appearance, aud her captain ue-
mauded the bodies OF the 10 Cuban passengers capt
Cross OF the Biaira refused 70 give them uP.
The natives prepared to defend them should the cop
tain of the ConcQrdia egdeaygr Y employ force IN te
case This ne did not do Tho BiarA salled Win neI
nassengers all on board and arrived AZ Lycfpoo on te
sOth nit The following day Seniors MendlVe Ionco uo
Leon and Frexas sailed the Java, arriving mere }s
terday lust months from the day thaI the hepuOo
of Cuba was declared at lara --
These 10 Cuban and American gentlemen represent
capa of $50 100000 They had secured large amounts OF
snere Nv sending II abroad before the whr began Ihey
III felt that an effort escape from Fernando 10 would
e,ther be success close confinement ana torture on
that Island the alternative Those who undertook te
erous venture were those most able TO ald the cause on
Tree Cuba They succeeded Admirably ana
alton from that desoaIe Island ON The Tar on
coast of Africa and putting " sea ~ Qu open impTOmpn
boat without compass chart provisions or chAugr OF
clotng demonstrates heruism Of the hghcht ofuoI
The Cuhans say the coast OF Africa at fenhnuo
Pc on their passage from Buni 20 Liverpool ana ater ar
rival there, Engshmen yerywhero showed them every
attention and consideration.