Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-17
Correspondence of the New York Sun.

correspondence Oh tIle new loIk Oun-
HAVANA, Nov. 3.-Not long ago-five
'Teeks-I sent the Sun the particulars of
an engagement between a division of
i1ubans and the ChapelgoTTis, the bull
dogs of the Spanish volunteers, near Co
Ion, and the disastrous defeat of the latter.
Since that time SO Cubans, unarmed and
in no way participating in the rebellion,
have fallen victims to the ayenging Chap
elgorris. They have fallen by the road
side and been murdered within their
homes. They have gone in twos and by
threes; but last and most horrible of all
is the infamous assassination of nine de-
fenseless Cubans at one time. OF the
number two were mere boys. This new
horror has burned deep into the Cuban
hearts, and convinces all Creoles that
De ROdas' new threat to exterminate
the Creole population, if necessary to
conquer the revolution, is meant.
SHOCKING BUTCHERIEs- INCREDIBLE ATROO-
tiles.
On the 18th of October a detachment
of Chapelgorris from Guamutas, COM
manded by one of Zulueta's Drutes named
Eschavarria, appeared at the little town of
Rogue, about 10 miles from Bemba,
Colon District, and arrested nine Cubans
Eschavarria is administrator or superin-
tendent of the plantation of Alaya, which
belongs to Col. Zulueta, the oldest and
most inhuman slave trader now living
The Cubans arrested were pursuing their
rural duties. The first of the nine taken
was Mr. Jose Dias Arguelles, an Ameri-
can citizen, naturalized in New York in
1866. He was proprietor of a large
plantation. The other eight were Don
Leoneio Garcia and his two boys, one 10
and the other IS years of age, Don Jacin-
to Olivera, Don Cleto Daniel, the Lardi-
mes brothers and Don Ygnacio Campo.
They were mounted on nine feet horses,
all their own, and told that they must go
to Bemba for trial Their feet were tied
underneath their respective horses
When the Chapelgorris reached the sugar
estate of Aizpurua, about half way be-
tween Bemba and Rogue, they united
their prisoners and compelled them to dis
mount. The victims then read their
doom in the hateful looks of their invet-
crate and demOniac enemies. They took
an elegant watch and chain from Mr..
Arguelles, other jewelry and some golden
onzas, sixteen dollar pieces. They then
made him take his coat and vest off. A
brutal soldier stabbed him with bayOnet
from behind. Falling to the EARTH he
was approached by three Chapelgorris,
who, placing their musket muzzles close
to his head, fired and tore his whole head
into fragments of flesh and blood. From
one to the other they passed, until all
their unfortunate victims were sent thus
unsummoned into eternity, and their
names appended to the long roll of Cuban
martyrs. Their bodies were Invested of
every particle of clothing, then loaded
into an Ox-cart and carried to the ceme-
terry on the Fermina plantation, and there
dumped on the earth.
The crime of these men and boys was
Cuba is their birthplace Their horses
tails were cut off /; the animals claimed as
trophies of war and of victory.
On the 22d ult., eleven Cuban volun-
teers were surprised and captured on the
road Palmillas. With them as cook, was
an old mulattO named Perucho. The
eleven Cubans were shot on the spot
Perucho was told that if he danced around
their dead bodies they would spare his
life He began trembling dance, but
his aged limbs were to weak to support it
but few moments. Failing to satisfy
the volunteers, they shot him also. Then
diyesting the dead bodies of clothing, and
gathering up their victims firearms, they
left them around the smOuldering camp
fire which PeruchO had kindled, and over
which he was preparing a meal for the
assassinated Cubans. While retiring
from the place of blood, the volunteers
met a cOuntryman conducting few mules
loaded with tobacco leaf Not wishing
to carry him away prisoner, and alsonOt
wishing him to tell of their murderOus
work, they shot him and left his body by
the roadside, where it fell All this in
formation is from Spanish sources, first
bOastingly told by the unfeeling wretches
who committed these inhuman deeds.