New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-29

Puerto Principe whereabouts the Cubans are making
| ravages according TO Spanish complaint, while the
| Insulars IN turn are horrorstrcken with the deeds
of tho PeninsuIars Valmaseda arrived at Santiago
de Cuba amid demonstrations having left ManZanillO
under similar circumstances of popularity. Disturb
apces at one time serious have occurred at Matanzas
| THE NEW NOV ENEMA COMMISSION TO AssAssI-
| NATE CESPRDEs.
HAVANA Oct 23--By special orders of the Captain
General movement must have begun yesterday
against the rebels of the East Center The Florida
expedition has successfully landed. Carlos Garcia
the highwayman of Vuelta-Abajo, is believed to
have embarked for the East with Government
commission to assassnate Cespedes The situation
of the Government is desperate and is 80 ac-
knowlOdged.
THE CUBANs IN NETWORK.
Senior Nestor Ponce de Leon. the wel-known
Cuban Journalist and publicst, writes TO The
TRIBUNE that the programme purpOrting to be his,
and sent by the Captain-G General TO his agent at
Washington, is spurious and OF Spanish fabrica-
ton" This document represents that Senior Ponce
is member of the Cuban Junta, which is not true,
and il advocates Chinese immigration, which never
had more earnest opponent than he. Senior Ponce
Ponce has denounced the malicious misuse OF his
name in letter to the VOs de Cuba, and assures his
American friends with proper indignation, that he
ing of Cubans is reported to have been held
yesterday for the purpose of condemning the Junta
The Inflated Gardeners Island expedition the fail
ure of the war-steamer Hornet, and the msmanage-
ment of the Lillian enterprise pointed out rs the
causes of this action In the latter it is complained
that band of flibusters have been left on one OF
the desert keys of Florida to await the uncertain
temperance Of the steamer Lillian, the mutiny
aboard which. it is charged, was disgracefuL Col.
Cristo supposed to have gone with the Lillian expo
ditiOn, has returned 10 NewYOrk. The Junta,
though composed of patriotic men, is charged with
want of secrecy and dispatch, and some OF the
Cubans--a considerable number of whom remain in
New.YOrk-are anxious that the chief powers Of
their cause shall be vested in one able man. well
assisted but with discretionary faculties The steamer
MORO Castle Whose purser we have to thank for
papers, has brought accessions TO the Cuban ranks
In New-York ...-
DEATH OF PROMINENT PATRIOT.
Col Edward MontejO, who fell at Las Tunas in the
30th year of his age, was graduate of American and
European colleges, and in early manhood dstin-
guished himself by the advocacy of gradual emanci-
patton in Cuba. His views Of political and social
economy, which awakened so much attention in Ha-
vsna were practically illustrated by the system of
free labor and wages adopted by him on his fathers
estate, which system was in the face of difficulties
and when Quesada was made Generalissimo became
at once his Adjutant. He was the only brother of
Sonora Mercedes de Sherman, the accomplished
Secretary of the Junta Patriotica in this city.
Early in theI month of August last the Spanards at
Las Tunas, under Benegasi, held the women and
children of that town hostages, and many of them
were reported dying daily for want OF food Fired
with Indignation, Col. MOntejo begged to be allowed
TO lead the assaultng column in person for the relief
of his suffering cOuntrywomen, and, with his ac-
eustomed bravery, he headed the attack which re-
suited IL the capture and rescue Of the city But in
IN the moment of triumph he fell his brain pierced
by bullet
GEN. sICKLEs. ..t....
The London Examiner. in the cOurse Of an Srticle
on Cuba says of the American Minister in Madrid:
" lie is a man schooled by sorrow. as few have
BEEN and whose early ambition has been stated with
distinction won in his own country by conspicuous
gallantry and skill in the field If ever man ex-
plated tho commission of one rash act, foreign to
every other of his life, and provoked by the most
extenuating of human wrongs, il is he who, now
aged before his time and bearing about him the So
bering though honorable marks of suffering. is tho
Envoy Of America in Spain. 1t were enough, per-
baps TO say that such man could have no motive
for playing the braggart and the fool.'
THE CASE OF THE CUBA.
WILMINGTON, n. c., Oct. 2S.-The testimony
in the Of the officers OF the Cuba closed To-day
Nothing Of Importance adduced. The case will be
argued by counsel tomorrow. '.. IT,.
1.-THE GRAPEsHoT.n
TO the Bditor Of The Tribune.
SIR: have just had most interesting con-
versaton with gentleman lately returned from Cuba,
who was passenger the Grapeehot and who IA too
modest 70 trust himself In print Prom the diary OF this
gentleman have collected few facts, which have put
together below hoping that the original may be given
10 the public at some future day The Grapesho brig.
and men eager strike for the independence OF the
island, 1t will he remembered, ran the Spanish
SSSa and Escaped from the spanish
isle, Notwithstanding the vigilance exercised.
She sa from Hunters Point Sunday evening In
May, with Al Cubans ali generals or line officers, and
with 1900 stand OF arms ana much powder Inc Ye6sel
there vas no caution exercised TO escape detection tho
ship set Of tOwed by tug to the Hook The passage to
una s epoyse Of the
ton. mutny showed itself after the Captain left Beau
fort He declined accepting the risk Of an entrance into
and he was determined not TO forfeit bis ship
for q few Cnbsns The passengers then put him
They quite willing TO surrender their assumed re-
spOnsbility little while afterward The vessel was
thereafter managed by the captain without oppOtOn,
aud he prevailed on 10 20 TO Cuba The arms were
landed and buried the men were shot in due time and
the vessel sold The crew went overland to Kings
ton, and the captain, after suffering imprisonment In
Falmouth, escaped OF the who sailed in the eLpedi
tion but two remain The deadly fever and the sharp
shooters bullet carried them on
THE sCHIsM IN THE MORMON CHURCH.
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-The following is an extract
from private lete, from y gentlemen Tl Living Lying IN SS
schIsn, Of which you may have heard while here, Is
working stenhouse and all the editors and propretors
stand Arm land they wli they win be or It Is only
valuable es showing what may 90 expecIea when tn1