The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-20
FIRST EDITION
CUBA AND SPAIN.
A Secret Mission to the In
surgents.

The New York Herald of this morning prints
the following from Washington:-
A despatch was teegraphed from here last
night to certain newspapers purporting to give
the views of the President on the all-ahsorbing
question of the Cuban insurrection, on the au-
thority of Cabinet officer. Diligent inquiry
would lead to the belief that the Cabinet officer
who communicated the intelligence was either
badly informed or endeavored to mislead the
correspondent, for the statements made therein
fail to meet with confirmation. In regard to the
views of the President on this subject it may
be stated on good authority that one OF
the Presidents nearest confdants, whose
name your correspondent is not now at
liberty to divulge, has been sent to Cuba on a
secret mission, the object of which is to obtain
all the information accessible in relation to the
importance of the Cuban revolution, and to
report to the President the exact chances for
making the movement successful. On the
strength of this report will depend the action
which is to be taken by our Government with
regard to the recognition of Cuban independ-
ence. The views of the agent who has been Sc
lected for this important mission are such that
no circumstance will be lost sight of that will
tend to present the affairs of the revolutionists
in favorable light.
Spain and the United States.
The Worlds Washington correspondent of
yesterday says:-
The Foreign Relations Committee have before
them list of five hundred and twenty-seven
summary executions reported to have been made
by the Spanish authorities on the Island of Cuba
within the last three-and-a-half months. This
list is to be most diligently scanned-first, to see
if it is entirely correct; second, to see II any
Americans are included in it. The list
produces great excitement, and even
If Americans are not found in it, inge-
nuity is aiding indignation to discover
if the cruelty cannot be made the subject of re-
presentation of some sort or other The rumors
regarding contemplated expeditions from the
States to Cuba are not incorrect. A force of for
midable dimensions is being prepared. pro-
minent Western General of volunteers is in
command already, and attention is being
diverted from the real port OF embarkation by
the publication of false places as intended. The
real point has not been selected, but II will be
neither at New Orleans nor New York. This
may be relied on. The last proposal of the insur-
gent agents is that both parties be allowed to buy
arms and ammunition in the States in open
market. There seems to be no way of getting
at this unless it be allowed sub rosa, short OF
recognition. The initiative in recognition oul
Government will not take, but the insurgents
friends here aver that the steamer expected
from Vera Cruz at New York tomorrow ol
next day will bring news of the recognition Of
the insurgents by Mexico and Bogota, and thai
their act will be soon followed by Chilli Colom
bia and Ecuador This is what they say, and of it,
truth the arrival of advices per steamer will soor
show one way or another. 1t is certain that in
surgent agents have been prosecuting efforts fol
recOgl ition in Mexico and in the South Ameri
can republic for many weeks. The hatred o.
those countries towards Spain has been theil
lever. Meantime the Governments intention t.
protect American citizens in Cuba and Ameri
can vessels in Cuban waters, continues un
changed