The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-07
LATEST FROM OUBA,
Tho spa n1sh Authorities OF tho Island
Undcr tho Control Or the Volunteers.

Und0T tho G0nGxWAN W t1A0s WOA0AIO0X0.
The following are the latest dispatches from
Havana - .2 ."@ -
General PelaeZ, whose life was threatened by
the volunteers, went to Clenfueaos, but the
volunteers there refused to allow him to land.
He was compelled to return to Havana. On
his arrival there the volunteers demanded his
life. because he had sold his country, asserting
that, thst ne , had recei sed $4,000 10 alloy some
Administration, ind Sen II Diarr, Secretary OF
Captain General Dulce, succeeded in compro-
missing the affair with the volunteers, and
further Outrages were prevented. rrA ~ ~. 3.
On Wednesday evening the volunteers, great
ly excited, assembled before the Captain-Gene-
rails palace and shouted "Death to Dulce J."
''Death to Pelaez !" Yesterday morning COM
and demanded General Dulce's immediate res
ignation, declaring that he was allied with
traitors. Ihe resignation OK TIC Captain
General was soon afterwards announced. No
act Of violence was committed.
+ The volunteers now have full control, and
are really the governing power Of the island.
Several acknowledgements and OWL officers
OF high rank. accused Of cOnnivance with the
rebels, are TO be Immediately relieved Of their
Offices. The insurgents in several recent en-
counters have gained slight advantages over
the troops.
The volunteers in Matanzas, following the
example Of those In Havana, assembled before
the government palace there and demanded
the immediate resignation of the Governor Of
Matanzas. Their demand was acceded to, and
Colonel Leon is now acting as Governor. No
Outrages were committed, and at last accounts
order was maintained. The City of Havana re-
mains exceedingly quiet, but the public anxiety
is intense. A special steamer has been order
TO Spain, and it is expected he will depart with
in q day or two.
Advlces from SANTIAGO to Thursday last are
to the effect that the fibustess who recently
Ior 1ott th0 Po ~ NSrn1 1,oR H.
interior, leaving behind them some material of
war, including four guns, for want OF transpor-
tation. The government accounts of the affair
she say NPe oaasss
sion in business. The Spaniards are uncertain
of the future. 4
The steamer MoptezqWa reports having
sighted schooner which had landed num-
the Bay Of Nipe, just as she was leaving.
a fight took place at Villa CLARA between
twelve hundred insurgents and company of
troops. passenger reports that he saw
twenty-five of the troops dead; the others were
or captured except three.
ANTEGEpENTs OF THE NEW REVOLT.
According to the new Cuban advices from
Havana, the dissatisfaction of the Spanish VOL
unteers, which has Just resulted IN outbreak.
arose from belief that General relaez and
other chiefs were making money out Of the war
instead of fighting the rebels. Pelatz was ac-
Cubans to escape for brihe, and in o more re. /
cont case OF escape OF reprieve, the charge mas
been revived. The charge against Pelaez
in it's more recent shape is that he an
large and protract the war in the neigh
hood OF Cientuegos and Trinidad in order to
fill their pockets and obtain promotion. This
plan they pure eued in Santo Domingo. 1t was
t hat for large sums, Pelaez and his friends had
been selling sotuo-conductds or safe conducts,
that General Dulce determined to visit Glen
count of failing health aud new danger in
Havana. Another circumstance goes to ex
plain the new outbreak. The Captain General
having saved from death lsidr1 Hernandez of
Santa Clara, the volunteers OF the place mutt
med, demanded the life OF tae prisoner and in
suited the Governor. It was feared that,
though some OF them had been put IN fpr1son
others would be able to subject the prisoner to
barbaritics. The same doings have happened
in various parts Of the island, which is now. no
doubt. completely under control OF the Spanish
rank and file. ~G x; &IE' y
The latest Washington dispatches say ::
Admiral Ho8 reports from Matanzas, the
9th. that the feelings of animosity between
less tn N he had been led to bel eve when at
Havana, on the Goth. A stranger would not
suspect revolution to be IN progression.
Lieutenant Commander Eastman reported
that the railway to Puerto Principe has been
down to Nuevitas at slow rate, taking three
days to go forty-eight miles, guarded by 1000
men. M
On the 9th or 10th Of May. bands Of insul-
gents attacked the convoy of a tram, defeated
them, destroyed tie bridges built by the Span
iards, and captured forty-three officers and
men: including o colonel, This is the only
decided success the revolutionists have lately
had. The removal off, General Lesca by tho
Governor, and the appoint ment or General
Letona to succeed him, rave great dissatisfac-
tiOn. In COnsenueCCa nf the SIlocbSaful land
ing Of expeditions in the District Of Guapta-
nimo and the defeat of the Spaniards in the
recent engagements there, the insurgents had
been greatly strengthened and new life infused
into the rebellion when, to all appearances, it
was dying out two weeks previously.