The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-06-16

STILL ASorHER EXPEDITION Trio Hundred and FgfIa
Men 10 Sail on Monday The sci,vitg among the C.
bans il this ely is how almost supertuman There are
not than twenty-five hundred natives of the Ever
Faithful Isle in New York hat they ARE moving heaven
and enrth to the rsurrecpnists in their strug
gle Not day passes but the Junta seeds comuis-
stoned officers aid in material shape 10 Cuba.
number If officers went by rail 10 New Orleans or
by boat to Norfolk, and from Norfolk they have been
transported bv snndry vessels to Grand naeua Iland
From this pl1ce it Is to reach the Bay of Ne,
which is nov the principal place OF diseuba' katon
An attempt was made to land by party Of sixteen Ill
! ibusters froln schooner which laid of the BY OF
Nipe eleven days ago The schooner burned blue
light 10 allO" the boat to &c ashore Signals were
made from sail.h0at which sent out by the Gu,
bars to direct the party When within half mile OF
the shore cutter FROM Spanish man- os-war which
had steamed into the harbor sighted the bonts crew
from the schooner and prr>uth her The men Ill the
fbusers boat tried to escape az they were not veil
armed but the rnan-ofwar5 man ere" come up, aud
II combat of few minutes duration took place Six
of the 6lihuscrs we're killed, and one an officer and
native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire who had served
With Count Rassonet de Bouhnn, shot in The fore
head; the bullet tearing away his eye'id. Msddened
with the pain he jumped overheard. and as he was
about TO escepe mis- head WAS cloVen By the OF
Spanish sailor who leaned the bow Of the boat
strike him. By this time the boat OF the Cuhans
had approached the Of the deadly combat and
New Yorker. who sat the bows, threw huge stone
into the bottom Of the Spanish cutter which made
hole in her panks. The Spaniards had then enough
to do to themselves, and but for assistance from
the frgate which il is believed Wac the Isabel
Cato!ca the cutter would have sunk. The remaining
ilibusters taken ashore by the sa-boat and
now serving under the Marquis of Santa Lucia The
vigilance Of the Spanish nen-owar is SO thor
ough that it is almost impossible to land troops
terial Two hundred and fifty men are now awaiting
transportation in this city, aud it ia expected that they
oTpA W. 4si
TIE CUBAN REVOLUTION. an intelligent citi-
zen of Washington, who has been residing in Cuba
since Inst SEPTEMBER and who just returned to the
United States, have CLEANED considerable Information
in relation to affairs i'll Cuba. According to this ger
teman's statement the Cuban rebellion or revolution
has been limited to some half dozen predatory bands
who burn and sack the plantations Of all persons who,
by reason of their Spanish sympathes or hostility to
the rebellion. have made themselves obnoxious. These
bands prow about districts in which there troops,
and at their approach flee to the swamps mou".si
passes, where they comparatively unassaiabie
The better and wesltheir classes Of Cubans have no
sympathy with them az these men are but the paid
hirelings of certain parties in the United States, who
have fomenied and aided the irsurrecton With the
Interior view OF annpxing the i-And to the United
S ates Whilst large majority OF the native, Cubaps
would hail with transport separation of the island
from Spain, their hatred OF Americans iankers,
they designate u.s. ia intense, they would much prefer
their called CONDITION of servirude Spain than
freedom with the condition of union with Us. Tn"
Cuhans have been Of late posting themselves thorough
Y III regard to internal affairs.
The term Yankee, which 10 foreigners has such an
unpleasant sigpcaron ia applied by the Cuhas to all
Americans residents o. the Southern States, and
are thus cnnsd red OF people without scruplta,
and in the attainment of object forgetting all honor
and Justice. These and other similar arguments nv
informant tells me- adduced in justification OF Cuhn,
opposition to the rebellion, and which give Of
fte many views given of affairs in the lever faithful
island"
correspondence st. Louis Times.