Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-25
THEREVOLUTIONINC CUBA
The ReVOIutiOnisss Sending their
Families TO this COuntFy-PTepRrR-
Hons for the Final struggle.

The ReVOIutiOnisss Sending their
Families TO this COuntFy-PTepara
lions for the Final Struggle.
The fact that the Cubans are sending
their families TO this country shows a de-
termination on their part to have clear
decks when the final struggle comes.
They do not wish to be surrounded with
women and children, in view of the dis
tuIbed condition of the island at present,
and the prospect Of the tide of revolution
rising still higher. The Philadelphia
Age, speaking of affairs in Cuba, re-
marks:
Some idea Of the state of affairs 10
Havana and other portions of Cuba may
be gathered from the following extract
from private letter, dated Havana,
March H. The writer says: The
greatest excitement reigns here. ID.
Carlos del Castillo, President OF the GAIA
de Ahorras IN this city one OF the rich~
est and most influential men on the is
land, after being arrested and thrown in~
to the Cabanos, has been sent to FernaL-
do Po d. Carlos is a man over
sixty, and it is feared, will not
survive the voyage. He is ac>
accompanied by d. Miguel Embil-who,
1t will be remembered, entertained Mr..
Seward during his visit to HaVana-and
d. Manuel Riquelme, two Of our leading
merchants, and host of others. Arrests
are being made daily and hourly the
innocent with the guilty. Plantations
are being left without single white;
owners and employees share the same fate
as occurred in Slerro Moreno on the
plantations "Conchita' and "Mantua"-
the former property Of d. Francisco
Cayro, the second Of ID. MoteO Quintero.
| One captain of a cOasung vessel was
arrested for having an old musket, minus
lock, on board. Many houses are
searched at midnight, thereby causing
great terror to the female portion OF the
inmates. Nothing is respected; all cor
respondence from the United States Is
inspected, and, in many instances, never
delivered" This reign Of terror is
adding fresh recruits to the army o: the
patriots each day. As neither life, liber-
| iy, nor property is respected, the Cubans
are rising en- mdSSe, and entering into the
contest. In the present condition OF the
Cuban forces, it is the true policy OF Their
leaders TO avoid action until they can
drill and discipline their men and supply
themselves with firearms, and especially
with artillery. In the mean time the
approach of the hot season will matters
ally aid them, and correspondingly injure
their adycrsaries. European troops
cannot stand campaigning in the terra
calieHte of Cuba, and the cooler districts
are all dominated by the revolution. The
seaports to which the Spanish troops
will be chiefly confined, during the sum-
mer, are unhealthy for foreigners, and
yellow fever epidemics may work more
havoc among them than twenty pitched
battles. During this season the Cuban
forces can organize AMI drill, and gradu>
ally supply themselves with arms, 50
that when the fall campaign opens the
fight will be a more equal one in all res
poets During this time public sentI-
meut in the United States will lean
nearer TO the Cuban patriots, and that
will be followed 10y aid of a more mate-
rial character. The days Of Spanish
rule are numbered in Cuba.