The New York herald., 1869-04-19
CUBA.

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RarIy Peace Anticip. eted by the spanIards-.
Views of an America I'm the COuntry-Or.
sauizatiou of the Insurs., ,uts-The sisuanes
Ahair-TroOps Still .soing to tho Field
Reported Victory OF Quesada.
HAVANA. Apn, Q, 1869.
The nsurrection at present is at slack tide AID. az
heretofore several occasions, its speedy termua.
ton Is generally prophesied The effect OF this n
observed In very general increase OF confidence
among business men and an improved state OF tho
money market. Its cause may be found In the con.
tnued reports Of success OF the government arms
throughout Cenfuegos, Colon, Trinidad Villa Clara
and other surrounding jurisdictions, by which large
numbers OF insurgents have been influenced to leave
the field, and those remaining are extremely careful
to keep out OF the way. Another cause is the want
of unity and organization among the insurgents,
which Is becoming painfully evident even to the
warmest friends Of free Cuba
As bearing upon this point quote the following
extracts from letter written by an American resi-
dent Of small town in the jurisdiction OF Remedies
He says-s'The forces In the field are made up OF
peasants, negroes and Chinese poorly armed with
old pistols biunderbusses shot guns and cane knives.
They have no funds, commissariat. ammunition or
discipline; are without organization nor have they
conception OF any, and they know nothing about the
art Of war; The country people who have not risen
and fed to the woods, which are full of men, women
and children fleeing from the insurgents They have
been badly whipped about here and throughout the
whole jurisdiction except in Sagua la Chica, where
there are about thousand OF them, who have
burned three sugar plan tations and have not yet
been attacked. No quarter is given ana no prison.
ers are taken MY only fear now is that outrages
may be committed by the small parties into which
the insurgents Will be broken, and that revenge
% ~ s ssneman veSss
unprOvtded as they were with everything necessary
to carry on war and completely Ignorant Of the man.
and has ended, as supposed 1t would In the ruin
OF OF thousands Of poor, Ignorant peasants. Half Of
the others have been dispersed on four different oc-
casions; and, having failed in an attempt to reach
Puerto Principe are going about in small bands.
are 70 De stationed at several points In the
A much disguised old Spaniard, OF wealth and DO.
siti0n recently observed that the insurrecttOn
would have been put down long ago were it not for
the love OF money inherent in the hearts of the
Spaniards: He intimated that If the fault did not
lie at Madrid or In the Havana palace it was with
the lieutenant governors OF the various Jurisdictions
who coming fresh from Spain. with their fortunes
to acquire, found 1t easier to do 80 amid turmoil and
strife. and therefore made no proper efforts to sub
due them: A fearful comment this upon the ad-
ministration OF affairs In this island by the
General Pelaez in his report Of the recent opera
Of the ac az one Of s
nsurrecton. nsu. ci He says IN substance, as fol-
Cienfuegos and villa Clara. and communicated
the fact the Insurgents abandoned the extensive de-
cipitate flight they left undlsturbed their wooden
and stone parapets, after setting fire to of the
are reported as very great, but appear not to nave
exceeded ,5oo men AS prearranged the respective
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state OF the roads the combined forces arrived at
Siguanea on the 3lsr. The road taken by Letona's
command was intercepted by stockades and tree
trunks at the narrow passes. which were crossed
with great difilcuty. In coz clusion he says:-'The
impregnabe passes the insurgents cannot stand.
We three generals tPelaez, Letona and Buceta,
respective jurisdictions, deeming the insurrection
overcome, and It now only remains to pursue the
small bands .n stu existing whose dissolution mag be
Like all questions, however, there are two sides to
this this. one. The three g generals mentioned seem to
not perceive that with the exception of Puerto Prln
cipe and the seaports well armed insurgents hold all
the country from Cape Maysi to the bounds Of their
jurisdictions and that for months the chief Of ope.
rations In the Eastern Department has been shut up
the enemy. Until the insurgents IN those localities,
each day growing stronger by fresh importatons OF
mination Of the rebellion can hardly be
anti anticpased psS Again. . It Is significant fact
the part Of the authorities. The artillery column
which returned here few days since, because
'tnele was no iurtncr neeu said
spaniards, IS ordered to the 1eld again. and voun-
teers are being mobized and hurried or with the
same energy aS ever. The arrival OF the Galatians,
toO Is anX0usy looked for and IN everything s de-
noted arduous work In the future The reader may
form his own conclusions as to the prospects for
peace.
our news from the seat of war is unusually meagre
and no encounters are reported.
The planters OF Cardenas, Colon, Sagua Remc-
d0s Clenfuegos and villa Clara have undertaken to
special force Of Guarda Civil composed
OF 500 foot and 200 horse. Tue annual expense is
Jurisdictions The contribution Will amount to three
per cent on the admitted profits
AT villa Cara the 4th the troops had returned
SelbabO destroyed by fire. The Padre Santa Ana,
Don FREDERICK JOva and Don Rafael Rojas have been
arrested and sent TO Havana The latter Is the au-
thor OF pamphlet on autonomia.
Advices from Trinidad state tnat some OF the ne
yroes carried OIL from the coffee plantations by the
insurgents were returning. General Pelaez arrived
At Cienfuegos on the 0th from Sguanea with his
staff section OF artillery and two companies OF
ehasseurs. with the squadron of mobllized cavalry
Of that city and the Guardia Civil infantry.
In Espiritu santo. dates to the "a. The Governor
has prohibited the carr yng OF arms by citizens and
ordered their surrender within three days. An ac-
count Is also TO be rendered by vendors or arms.
Cardenas, the 6th Volunteers are moving over
The country continually. Macaguar, Aravez Yabu-
,t0 Santo Domingo and other points IN the jurisdic-
ion OF Cardenas, Sagua and Cenfuegos, are now
rec from lnsurgent depredations. In Sagua Gov
'rnor frillo Fgueroa mas placed detachmens Of from
seventy to eighty men at different points, which have
)een or signal SERVICE
report has been generally current In Havana, for
ne past day or TWO, that the column sent out by
Lesca, from Puerto Principe TO Santa Cruz, for pro-
visions, had been attacked by Quesada on Its re-
urn, defeated with immense loss, and the convoy
captured The story Is that this has been received
)fcialy.
General Escalante is reported to have been cap
ured by the insurgents