The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-25
A Hidcous Assassination.


Hidcous Assassination.
A Cuban, who arrived in New York, states that
great number of families from Puerto Prin-
eipe abandoned that city together, and, guarded
by force of patriots, encamped In the woods.
In the process of moving, nothing occurred
worthy of mention; but when Letona knew that
these families were almost unprotected, he con
ceived the idea of attacking them in their camp,
and at night, with large force at hand, he sur
prised them and slaughtered large numbers OF
children, women, and old people. The news
given to the Captain-General shows that the
number of those whose throats were cut mounts
ne high as 1000, and all are children women,
and old persons, the barbarous monster author
of these unheard-of crimes, excuses himself by
saying the night was obscure and he could not
see,
The GrapeshOt FiIibusters Their Fate.
A correspondent writes from Havana, June 10:
The news from Santiago is only one day later
than that given in my last letter, and furnishes
nothing concerning the affairs of the district
worth mentioning. About the one hundred and
more filibusters landed upon the coast of the
District of Baracao, the Santiago papers an
nounce that most of them have either been
: killed or captured in the mountains of Las
Cachillas that the captured, some twenty-five
in number, are on their way to Santiago,
and that preparations were being made
in that city for their execution, Governor
Latorre having resolved to have them all shot
within twenty-four hours after arrival. One
half are said to be Cubans and the other half
cans. A private letter from an English resident
of Santiago gives somewhat different particu-
lars of this flibustering expedition IRON those of
the Spanish papers. According to it the vessel
that landed the men was the schooner Grape
shot, from Puerto Plata, on the north coast of
Santo Domingo. The number of persons landed
was 120 composed mostly of young Cubans.
Guadanavaya' the place of debarkaton,
was a most unsuitable one, being some
twenty-five miles from an insurgent
camp, in portion of the district of
Baracao poorly supplied with water and provi-
sions, and with but few horses and carts near
at hand so necessary for carrying the arms
and ammunition brought, to the interior of the
island On the Sd, few hours after landing,
40 men were sent off to establish communications
with the insurgents, while the remaining 80
tarried near Guadanavay, as guards over the
war material of the expedition. The first lot
according to the letter, has never been at
tackled by. the Spaniards, but the second
was forced by a superior number of sol
diers to abandon Guadanavaya on the 9th, and
take refuge in the Cucliillas mountains, where
they were followed, and nearly all killed or cap
tured, losing all the war material they had with
them, consisting of four mountain howitzers
500 Remington rifles, and 10000 cartridges. The
Spaniards did not annihilate the 80 flibusters
without considerable resistance losing from 40
to so men in killed and wounded in the several
encounters had with them. Pecro Armenteros
is stated by the letter. the same as by the
Spanish accounts, to have commenced the eX-
pedition.
Confess Themselves OverpOwered.
The N. Y. Tribune'S correspondent, writing
on the same day. says that on the 10th the Act
ing Captain-G General received the following de-
spatches by mail and the wires:-From Brigadier
Lesca:--s1 am overpowered Send me 5000
men, From Valmaseda:-"S me 2000."
Letona says he needs 5000 to 10000 quickly, to
open his way through with some chance of sue
cess, and If the Government delays thirty days
IN reinforcing him 10000 will not suffice.
He has not disarmed the volunteers as
and the veterans on the defensive, with
only one cartridge each. He adds in his des-
spatch:--'I positively decline TO pursue var of
determination as desired by the yolunteers be =
cause it would end in the determination of the
Spaniards." His troops cannot travel half q
mile on the road to Nuevitas without being SHOT
by the patriots. The city of Puerto Principe is
pretty much converted into hospitals, and the
suffering Of the people is intense. A captain of
the Catalonan Volupteersis now here, endeavor-
ing to have vessel chartered by the Catalonians
to go to Nuevitas and carry back to Spain 200
remnants of their misunderstanding the
the road He says they have been humbugged,
and his comrades are dying from want of provi-
sions, of fevers, and cholera. An officer of the
Battalion de Madrikenos, who had fallen sick on
his arrival here has also received letter from
one of his friends advising him that of the whole
battalion only twenty-seven are left Nothing
has been heard from Buceta lately. Lieutenant
Governor Prillo, of Sagua, reports the reappear-
ance of large body of insurgents which has de-
bouched at Jaguey Grande and entered Palmi-
das eweeping all the veterans and volunteers
on their way. The most outrageous lies are
published on the capture of flbusters lately
landed.
Tidings from all quarters have indeed been so
gloomy for the Government this week that Es-
pnar called for the colonies OF volunteers to
advise them of the necessity of sending some of
their men in the interior. They did not like it
much, but agreed to form couple of modified
battaons with the men they intended to dismiss
out of the 1st Sd, 9th, and Lgeras.
The Numbers.
An officer of the army here has Just given me
this statement of the forces in the field. The
Government has $4,000 veterans, 270O volun-
teers added to Ii, 800 volunteers garrisoning the
principal cities, of which 900 are in Havana.
The forces of the Patriots to-day are $4,000
whites and 10000 negroes, OF which about
$4,000 are well armed. He says their forces
would undoubtedly increase to some 10000
whites and negroes, in q short time, should they
keep receiving arms and ammunition from The
States.
Movements in New York. Colonel Ryan's Es-
cape.
In addition TO what we published yesterday
relative to the escape of Ryan, we take the FOL
lowing from the N. Y. Tribune OF to-day
The Colonel, Immediately after the Deputy
had been secured, jumped into o carriage and
was rapidly driven to Courtlandt street ferry
While In the carriage his whole appearance was
so changed by clever disguise that when he
alighted at the ferry he passed by several depu-
ties in perfect safety, and quietly took his seat
In the ladies' cabin. Upon the arrival of the
boat at Jersey City he proceeded TO Taylor's
Hotel registered an assumed name and was
shown TO a room. This was the last seen OF him
nntii a few minutes before midnight, when he
settled his bill and walked out; turning in the
,.,,a1 ,,aar the hotel where the hOrse-cars stop,