The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-07-29
CrueltieS and Atrocities by
the Volunteers.
WHOLE FAMILIES MURDERED
The French Gable Cele'
bration at Chicago.
NEWLY ENLI>TED RECRUITS
MAKE aOW AND ESCAPE,
GENERAL XNTHzLIGuNcN.

CHICAGO, July 20 Library Hall was fill
ed last night on the occasion of celebrating
the successful landing of the French Gable
Speeches we're made in English, French
Italian and German. a these nationalitie,
were represented in the audience
detachment OF $50 recruits for the
Thirteenth Infantry now on the Plains pass.
ed through here yesterday for Omaha, they
were compelled TO remain all day in the
city, and were locked up in cars at the
Northwestern depot. During the day they
managed to procure whIskey and became
exceedingly disorderly and insubordinate,
smashing car windows aud seats and max.
ing pandemOnium around them. Police
we're sent for but were poweress to quell the
disturbance. Fifteen recruits escaped. The
detachment left at $3.50 at night for Omaha
where a company OF regular troops will take
them in charge
An Omaha special says the Union Pacific
land Office will open today; they offer their
lands in Platte Valley. A larger number
Of persons are waiting to avail themselves
of the opportunity, prices ranging from
2! to 10 dollars per acre.
New IORK, June 29.--The Herald says
the House committee on naval affairs, in
| imtston of the ways and means and other
committees, propose gong on pleasure
tour. They will embark on the revenue
cutter Michigan, and make tour of the
lakes for the purpose of examining what ad-
ditional legislation, if any, is necessary for
the better enforcement of the revenue laws
on the frontier, and for the suppression Of
smuggling. The committee will be gone
some days.
WAsHISGToS, July 20.-An interesting
letter relative to the Cuban situation, has
come to light. A Spanish gentleman went
out to Cuba several months ago to claim an
inheritance that had been left him. He
says that at Neuvitas he learned that nine
Creoles were going to be presently shot.
They passed near him with firm step with
heads erect, and with a look of brave deter
mination arrived at the fatal spot, They
seated themselves upon bench already pre-
pared for them, and at the sound of the voice
of the officer who gave the word to FIRE, cried
out: "Hurrah for Cuba, hurrah for Ces.
pedes." After they had fallen, the volunteers
stuck bayonets into their bodies. AtGibara
he saw group Of armed men marching to-
ward house Of modest appearance Wish.
ing to see what was about to be done, he
followed the soldiers who arrived before the
door, halted awhile and three of the party
entered. The latter cried out at this mo.
ment; "Here is the insurrects, here is the
Morbl" "What do you wish?" said young
mau. "Ifit is | whom you search, |
am at your service, but do not irghten my
father and mother. Without ceremony the
| volunteers seized the speaker, and becting
| him along the road with their muskets tlil
they got close to the cemetery, they ran him
through with at least twenty bayonets.
From Santiago de Cuba comes news OF
thousand atrocities com mitted ny the imam
Gus Francisco Peres, to whom the governor
in that part Of the island had intrusted the
direction of matters in Guantanamo aud
Boracoa. This bad man, wanting IN every
sentiment of humanity, and every moral
principle, had been robbing and assassnat-
ing every Cuban who was believed to be a
liberal. Whole families in the vicinity OF
Guantanamo had been murdered by THIS
bandit. Young aud old persons had been
butchered by his knife, and his companion'
not being satisfied with the villanies CON
mtted here, passed on to BoracOa, where
aided by q few assassins, they went from
home to home. Hundreds of persons were
in this way murdered, and with the full con.
sent and knowledge of the authorities.