New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-23
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
THE REPORTED SURRENDER OF SIX HUNDRED
rraupCENTs DENIED.


and Junco with 600 of their followers. is premature
At the last accounts the agreement between the i'm
surgents and the Spanish General was not complete
THE CAPTAIN-GENERAL's LATEST PREDICTIONS. |
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
HAVANA, April 16.-The Spaniards again announce
that the rebellion is done for. Four or five months
ago il was almost crushed later it doomed to
instant death and still it lives though as the Cap
tain-General remarks it is bound to die very soon
Everybody doubts this dictum and, privately, good
many scout it, The authorities grimly affect to play
their part in the cruel little drama as il it were all
comedy, and it is far from that They lead class of
bayonets which never think and these bayonets act
out massacre as If it jest. After the bloody
occurrence at the Punto last Friday the volunteers
treated themselves to other disorders. In one in
stance group of men in saloon were heard crying
out for Cuba. A frightened mulattO, who was leav-
ing the scene, was pounced upon by SIX soldiers
and bayoneted to death, though doubtless he
did not utter word OF sedlton. we
have grown used to the story that negro, here or
there, has been stuck to the heart for giving the
orito and discredt this wretched pretext for saw
agery by force of habit OF all the various people
who make up the many-colored life OF Havana. the
negro appears tho least disposed the least able to
lead riot or even shout for anybody or anything;
and this is, no doubt, for which you in the
United States have seen exempifed in your late
war; He lives in the shade of an old fear, and ID
sensible enough to know that he has practically few
friends and that the odds against him are as hund-
red to one. The Cubans here have shown spirit
enough TO dare and to do the massacres since Janu
airy proved the bravery even to rashness. OF num-
bers of their young men. On their part the negroes
know who are their friends and must to very con-
siderable extent appreciate their cause. lspeak OF
those negroes born in Cuba who apt and sensi-
BILE as any class of naturazed negroes are supposed
to be- if may credit what some OF their masters on
the Cuban side have said OF them
The other day rumor ran through the city that
the Generalissimo of the rebellion had been taken,
and would be brought into town by the evening
train of tho Vianueva Railroad. Excited with this
belief multitude of people assembled at the station
of the road OF course, no Cespedes ever came. But
the affair has given birth to another bouncing proela-
nation from the feebly astute and enthusiastic
Captain General He says, addressing the people OF
Havana, that the news from the front is extremely
satisfactory that the rebels have nothing to do but
dsband and fly and that 1.-THE situation Is especially
difcult in the center Of the island, but-Cespedes
has not been caught This report he says, is false
hood invented by the enemy to keep alive anxiety
and agitation in the breasts of good Spaniards Why
an enemy should start lie 80 self-damaging the
Captain General does not attempt proving How
occasion to say in italics that the defnitive triumph
of the Spanish cause in Cuba isnevtabe is certain,
is imminent The instruction is dominated, is
ransaished" Pray do not be alarmed. lie knows,
he thinks the trick of those who want to reanmate
it, and he fully enjoins the volunteers, while they
are endeayoring to persuade the credulous and I'M
patient to treat in their excellent way the CIR
cuaton Of false news Every one, therefore, who
utters an unwelcome report in Havana, is liable to
the,instant judgment and sentence of the nearest
volunteer. You know what that lie, in efect-the
same that was meted out at the Louvre and the
PuntO, if the Captain-Generaps words mean any
thing. He has failed in the last three months
TO render obsequous homage to the courage and dis
cipne, tho honor and patriotism OF the volunteers,
and his latest expressions profusely accord with his
average sentiment in this respect AT recent fes-
tvity in honor of the soldiers from Spain, he OBJ
served that the volunteer organization of Havana
was as good as any corps of veterans in the world
and that in the massacre at the garrotc they had
acted with q becoming and loyal spirit de-
serving of imitation under all similar circumstances
What these exemplars of Spanish law and authority
have wrought out in six different scenes of blood
shed during the year. ought to be still fresh in
memory. The Spanish organs extol and adulate
them necessarily. The first murmur of rebuke to a
volunteer has not been heard in Havana. 1t is most
u
jectness of the manifested opinions On all sides the
public is beset withiea which it dares hardly name.
Some time ago it was believed that the life Of the
Captain General was threatened by his soldiers.
That belief has not been controverted SO, from the
Captain General down, the public fear runs the
whole gamut of authority. The Cubans are in dread
of Fernando Pc or volunteer bayonets; the volun-
teers are fercely apprehensve of Cuban uprisings;
the press was never brave, and fears every
thing but the minority. and the Captain
General has had reason TO think himself in danger.
What trouble may occur to American citizens in this
juncture. has been made colossal question by an
excitable and fugitive class OF individuals. Foreign
residents have, Of course, undergone the general
danger of discomfort of living in Havana, and when
prefessed sympathzers with the Cuban cause or sus
pected of being in league with the enemy. are made
the subjects of an arful espionage The city is said
to be overruu with spies, and hence it is that the
conversation. especially of the cafes, is sometimes
curious study The perils which said to beset
Americans have, however, in more than one case,
been grossly exaggerated Up to this date the Cap
tain General has, upon the whole, been exceedingly
crcumspect in his treatment of the foreign popula-
ton; and apprehend there is disposition on the
part of the Spaniards TO fight majority. &C..
The value of the Captsn-Generals statement with
reference to tho rebellion ID to be tested by facts
With the issue OF the decree against prates Tue cup
ture of American vessels in the Bermudas, and OF
some Others near the coast, the Spanish tone has
grown, il anything, holder. Nothing, however. that
ia reported from the Interior bears with any weight
AGAINST the chances of the rebellion No official evil
dence is presented to satisfy impartial ooker-on
that the instruction has essened in vitality 1t has
been rumorod that the Government short while ago
made capture Of letters from Morales Lemus to some
patriots in Cuba whether by violating the mails or
not il is uncertain But it need hardly be said that
in Spanish countries the Government has been capa