, 1869-03-30

n 1tk1S1 NH8 IENEltCu III &ulA C@Ly
stated that General lIennnesri,, OF Nicaragua
fame, hBs nctual!y landed In Cuba with y toFce OF
and nnnitious Of war. The letter. oulitstng ua,ues
IL as follows.
"DklR-: received your letter on Saturday,
and the next morning went to sec llennlnEscn to
deliver your me klse- To my great surprise
ionnd dat ns nad Sone eus q Town AMI sias hs
wss that 5ou should bc sblc to communicate with
hila. tried to ascertain what had become u1 ttm,
Int Without effect until this morning, wi,en l met
Mr. NJ, who told INC 1nc truth about L. lleu-
him BY letter you must address, him, care
q sour letters vi he SfsS1 fe1@sr,s i r. F. iss s
nrEt opportunity. confess that this news sur.
pr1sed and shoeIeh me; bu. he Is not alnnc, and
I mr. & we hopc, he no brilliantly suecesstu1 as to
About eleven hundred men arc In the party, all OF
them old soldiers and more than one hundred OF
s9G ama1s ~ Id the Tsdelsl and cSnfesate
eraI r. who, as you know, was one OF the cool
es, aat b1avest oir,eers IN the cavalry service;
az ssnS ahs snsss Seioas s.n. nd
reputation. There ar several ex-Federal otlcei2
iennnssen himself lila VIE Vic, he heai, % T. anxious
about him; but she has confidence In his tHc,l
b1@very md ski, and believea that he wilt come
0It I'LL right. THIS Il about vii thn4 can gather
You had better write immediately IN thu n.ilrcss
have indicated above No time Is 10 le LOST
"fOura, faithfully, -"
General {. r. llchnlnGSen who Is III commard
OF this Important expedition and will doubtless at
Lln high rank in the Culnln army, was born o
Swedish 3nrcnts In England In ISM In lisa, when
only nineteen years Of nxr, he Joined the Ianist
army In Spain. and ty hts rcadlong daring eoou
rpse to the rank Of Lieutenant thloneL When the
Peace Convention WIS conclude.l he returned to
England, but when the war again b1pkc ont In
spain nc fctusnc1l 70 that country, renter.sl tho
revolutionary army. and received a commission as
troons- and after his release heli high command
tn the Rqsstan army In Ctnassla. He
next Joined With kossuth Ia the IIunga-
ran revolution. hut his plan OF campaign though
adopted wzs never carried ont When tho 1nsur-
rfction Was Al m eud Colonel HcnntnEscu came to
the United SAies, and afIcrwarzi }otned the Scar-
asua expedition, tn which he held the rank OF MAJOR
ttrnesal commanding. being the life and .oul Of
forces A the beginning OF the late war he en-
I. red the Confederate army, and il said to hare
BEEN the means Of cItricatlnE General Lee FINN
the tolls Of RoeecTAnk, n the pouptatnJ Of Ttr-
;;tnla- But General HcuntnEsen WIS No favor,te
Of the Confederate Government. lie advises1 that
Qc0 nneR 500 0o0 bankcta 40 pieces Of 1cld ur-
unery, nnt OK, upo rounds Of small arm atnnunt.
hyIDthecattou Of cotton These IDEAS werc CON-
to General Toomhs, anu hS him to
President par1s- who kaia that Henningscu was
4 fool When thts tale was told 10 l1cnninGscn, he
frtortcd that Davis waA AL ass which coming to
the eafs Of the President cut OF all bore OF pro-
motion, and ended his csreer IN the Confederate
army.
General IIenniAgsen married, We believe, 4
daughter OF the la1e Senator Ecr11eu, of Georgia
Ar6- EcnuinH&en Is an accomplished lA,ls, nlli
made hosts Of friends by her noble conduct during
he war.