Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-26
CUBA AND PORTO RICO.
Particulars Of the Battle Of las Minas--,
Previous Accounts Confirmed
Spanish Losses FiIibusters Landed
Heavy Fighting.
The Captain General OF Porto Rico
Alarmed The Uprising Said TO be
Universal.

NEW YORK, May Z3.--Ihe Suns
correspondence says that the assassin
atiOns and house buTnings in Porto
Rico continue.
Spanish soldiers who haveWandered
too far from their gaIrisons, have mys-
teriously disappeared for days. When
next seen, their bodies have been
found lying in some ditch, or by the
ruins of an old church, weltering in
their blood.
In Ponce the situation is appalling.
Half the inhabitants have left the city.
Yellow fever and the black vOmit
are eating up the Spanish garrisOns.
The Spaniards have but four thou
sand troops on the island TO keep in
subjectiOn a population of over six
hundred thousand.
The island is filled with Cuban en-
issaries, and the young men have al
ready left the cities and are assem-
bling in the mountains.
The authorities have their hands full
in watching the large towns, and cam
not spare troops for the interior.
The wealthy families are all leaving
the island.
In all the principle towns the Or
ganizatiOn is complete, and all that is
wanting for the outbreak to commence
is the arrival of a vessel from the
United States laden with arms and
ammunition. She is expected to land
on the coast of Guanica.
The plans of the RevelutiOnists are
so well designed and their precaution
so complete that when the words
" Forward, march," are uttered. at
the hour and minute the uprising will
be universal throughout the island.
The Captain-General is alarmed, and
isvainly calling ON Spain for rein
f0rcements.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-News has
been received direct from Cespedes by
the Cubans in this city, confirming
fully the defeat of the Spanish forces
in attempting to open the railroad
from Nuevitas to Puerto Principe.
The date and channel by which re-
ceived is kept private, for prudential
reasons.
The lossof the Spaniards is set down
at about 1000 in Killed and wounded.
The Cuban force is said TO have been
1850 men, under Quesada, intrenched
on the road, and the Spanish force
about the same.
The fighting was by far the severest
which has taken place during the
war.
The battle was decided by the arri-
val of the Marquis of Santa Lucia,
with 1000 men, q large number of
whom were mounted, and who,
though very poorly armed, made a
desperate and successful charge on the
flank Of the Spaniards,
OF 500 colored troops, little over
400 sh8 their officers and went over
to the Cubans; the remainder are nei-
ther with the insurgents nor the Span
iards, and are supposed to have taken
to the woods.
All of the baggage, provisions and
of the Spaniards, carried
ON ten cars and dragged on rail by
oxen, together with the dead, and q
chief part of the wounded, We're
abandoned to the Cubans, who, after |
the battle, went six miles to San Mi !
guel, where they destroyed the bar
racks in sight of the rctreating Span |
lards.
The loss Of the Cubans is given at |
several hundred.
Vessels, since returned to the United |
States, had a few days before landed |
arms and ammunition.
The Spanish General, Letona, is re-
ported wounded, but whether in that |
action is not said.
Cespedes and the insurgents feel |
of success.
HAVANA, May 22.-Inf0rmation has /
been received here of the landing of |
three hundred fillibusters near Giba-
na. There was an obstinate fight with
the troops on the shore, in which the |
Spaniards captured two cannon, and
lost thirty-twO men. The insurgents
lost eighty killed and wounded. The
result is unknown.
Fighting is reported near Trinidad
and CienfuegoS, with heavy losses and /
atrocities on both sides.
Remedies is in q state of anarchy.
The insurgents are ubiquitous in
hat Jurisdiction, and small bands of
Spaniards and Cubans are engaged in
mutual murder and ndrobbery.