Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-02
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
Fate OF the Grnpeshof FHibusters
Eighty of Them Killed and
W"unded-Twensy-Fi to be Execu-
ted-YeiiOw Jack Dectm ting the
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Wounded TO be Execu-
ted-YeilOw Jack Dectm. ting the
RaDAs s'f tue spanish Army 49,
Correspondence of the New York World
HAVANA, June 20-The news from
Santiago IS only one day later than thai
gwen in my last letter, and furnish,
nothing concerning the affairs Of the dis
trict worth mentioning About the
hundred and more ti'ibusters 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 Cuchillas; that the captured, some
twenty five in number, are on their wa
to Santiago and that preparations are be-
ing made in that city for their execution,
Gov. Latorre having resolved to have
them all shot within twenty-four 10 rs
after their arrival. 0ne-half are SAID 10
be Cubans, and the other half Americans.
Germans, D0minicans, and Mexicans.
private letter from an English re Ideut
of Santiago gives somewhat different par
ticulars OF this flibustering expedition
from those Of the Spanish papers. Ac>
cording 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 40, com
posed mostly of young Cubans. Guada-
navaya, the place of debarkation, was
most unsuitable one, being some % miles
from an insurgent camp, in a portion Of
the district of Baracao poorly supplied
with water and provisions, and with but
few horses and cars near at hand, so
necessary for carrying the arms and
ammunition brought, to the interior of
the island. On the Sd, few hours after
lane ing, 10 men were sent off 10 establish
communications with the insurgents,
while the remaining so tarried near
Guadanavsya, as guards over the war
material Of the expedition. The FIRST lot,
according to the letter, has never been
attacked by the Spaniards, but the
second was forced by superior number
Of soldiers to abandon Gusdanavaya on
the 9th, and take refuge in the Cuchillas
and nearly all killed or captured, losing
all the war material they had with them.
C insisting Of four mountain hOwitzersa
800 Remington rifles, and $1,000 cart
ridges. The Spaniards did not annihi-
late the so filibusters without consider
able resistance, losing FROM 40 to 80 msR
in killed and wounded in the several en-
counters had with them. Pedro Armen.
teros is stated by the letter, the same as
by the Spanish accounts, to have COM
manded the expedition.
could now fill column or two Of
your valuable space with Spanish and
Cuban accounts Of recent engagements,
not one above the dignity of skirmish,
in the district of Santo Espiritu, in
which the advantages are made to rest
with the Spaniards or Cubans, accord
iagly as to which set of accounts one
reads; but will spare your readers the
infection of a narration of such uninter-
esting matters. One engagement Span
ish reported, / must, however, briefly
notice. 1t is stated to have occurred on
the 9th, at Hitabo, between % Spanish
soldiers and 800 Cubans, and according
to the highly Veracious Spanish writer,
after six hours fighting, the Cubsns
were defeated, with loss of 80 killed
and very many wounded, while the
Spaniards had not single man killed or
wounded.
Yellow fever is daily increasing its
field of action in Havana, and unacclI>
mated Spaniards, particularly the carpet
bsggers, are viewing its progress, with
considerable alarm. Don Joaquin Es-
carlo island treasurer (pecunlarly the
best position in Cuba), was among It's
victims on Monday. He was totally
unacclimatized, having come to the
island for the first time last January,
when appointed to office. In the bay
the fell destroyer is making greater
ravages than on land. On the fine Spans
ish iron,clad Victoria as many as Ito
deaths from yellow fever have occurred IN
the last nine days, out Of crew Of 600
men, and on other Spanish men-of-war
the malady is also moving extensively
| in the interests of death and the Cuban
cause, but not so fast as on the Victoria.
An attempt was made to move the Span
ish sailors and marines from their sick
0eSSNlnL6Sl6u VESSELS 10 lHS uediCuiSi
| quarters of Fort Cabanas, but the volun-
teers on duty there would not allow this
| to be done. believing the whole matter
to be spare to end their important pos
session of fort commanding Havana
with its guns; so the sailors and mariners
are still on Their vessels. This will give
your readers good idea of the strange
situation of affairs here, and of the inhu>
manity of the majority of the Havana
volunteers. Yellow fever is also upon
merchant vessels in port as well as upon
the Spanish war steamers. The Nova
Scotian bark Warrior is the one worst
treated SO far. She was loaded, and
ready to sail for an American port on
Tuesday, but was prevented from going,
and is still detained here, by her captain
and ten of the crew having fallen sick
with yellow fever some thirty>six hours
before the time selected for her departure.
The presence of Yellow Jack has COM
pletely emptied the harbor of American
and French war vessels, and of English
war vessels only one remains-the De-
fence 1t has also given q new impetus
to the return of the Spaniards-men,
women and children-to the mother
country. ...