The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-02
Cuba-..Landing OF the American
correspondence of the New York Sunday Nrws
HEIGHTS OF THE BAY or N1rE.)

correspondence of the New York Sunday Ncws
HEIGHTS OF THE BAY or NirE.)
NJ. CUBA, May 12, 1869.
ne expedition of which you have been
ior many weeks past confidant was brought
10 Il successful contamination on Yesterday.
we arrived here after having safely cvadcd
ing by midnight of yesterday, As Won ,ynrc
aware, the Generals studies OF the chart.
ana typographical maps of this port having
hcch carried out in New York under CON.
Sthation with eminent engineers, orr com.
ihahdcr was prepared. on n very brief re-
cohno!SSancc, to select position of defence
without delay, TO cover risk of movement
on inc part of the enemy, he threw up some
excellent works; and, with the experience
oil our veterans of the Army Of the Poto-
mac IN the Use of the spade, we were very
soon enabled to store our material behind
dcfcnccs which ourSmall force ofmcn. "tricd
IN NE, can make good against ten times
their number.
The force which we had intended to bring
with lis You arc aware Of. Without STATING
the number (Which you already know. |
may add that it Is, in fact, but about two.
thirds OF that, seeing that ut the eleventh
hour The courage of some of the men cn.
listed leaked out, like that of Bob Acres.
at their fingers ends" The force actul.
ally landed is, however, formidable in its
! compacincsS, experience, and daredevil
hravcry-AmcrlcanS. Germans. IriShmcn,
observation-disclosures of whom have under.
gone the baptism Of blood" from Chatta.
noo@a to Atlanta; others who have breasted
the tempest of battle from the Wilderness
TO tho Five Forks.
General Thomas Jordan is, as you have
! been aware for many months, our com.
mardCr. He is a native of Llirav, in the
valley OF Virginia, and was q captain in the
( old army of the United States. He was
! during the war of sections chief of staff to
General Bcaurcgard. His engagement with
the Junta of New York makes him second
in command to the former gcncral-in-chicl
OF the revolution, Ccspedcs. Before his
arrival, wcver,-dcicrrcd, as you are
aware, by the miscarriage of his former ex.
/ petition ut Ragged Island-a change had
/ taken place in the state of affairs here, and
| Cc>pcdcs having been made President, his
! second i'll command is in fact the present
gcncral-in-chicf, Qucsada. 4 virtual, though.
I it may be assumed, an unintcntiOnal, and
perhaps unavoidable, breach of faith with
General Jordan, has therefore followed
and having been brought to that officers
knowledge on our landing, does notappcar,
/ rs might have been expected, to meet tho
hearty acquieScencc of q man trained, as he
has been, in the jealous punctillio Of West
/ Point.
/ General Jordan is not likely to consent to
! play chief of staff TO Qucsada. The matter
/ will, hope, be compromised by his assign.
mont to the War Department as its military
assistant, organizer, and adviser. lie ap.
/ pears to think, suspect, that his duties
will not be those of the field, though hi
men, not being very we'll adapted for civil
| service, will object to be led to battle under
any Cuban. Herein we fear some difficulty
at the start, but committed as we are to the
struggle, that difficulty will very soon
vanish when the enemy comes within reach
Of our rifles. We have sent out part Of oul
/ force to collect transportation.
/ They came, unexpectedly to both, upon
II small body of Spanish troops placed as {;
/ guard on Il ncighboring property, but very
soon persuaded the Dons to part company
with them at an lncercmonlOuS speed
Teams are being brought in for the rcmova
of our material to the headquarters of Ccs
pedeS. Our communications with him have
been opened, and already have we received
visits from some ragged and hungry-loolin9
patriots who are said, i'll our camp, to hole
the rank of Generals. | have no more tC
! add than TO tell you, in conclusion, that III
so far has proSpcred that we arc in fine
health and spirits, and for the time safe from
garroting, behind some pretty works
mounted, landward and seward, with si>
very ncat@iooking licld-picccs.