New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-03-22
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.


HAVANA, March 2O.--The baggage of the Fernando
Pc prisoners has gone aboard the steamer and the
expedition sails tomorrow, positively In skirmish
near Villa Clara the insurgent leader. Moya, was
captured and subsequently shot. steamer arrived
to-day from Spain with 1000 soldiers.
EMBARKATIoN OF THE FERNANDO Pc PRISONERS
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
HAVANA March 90, via LAKE CITY, Fla, 2lst.-Ihe
fleet of transports with the State prisoners on board
| sailed to-day for Fernando Pc, conveyed by the
Spanish frigate Lealtad, which will accompany them
as far the Bahama Channel The wharyes and roofs
| of houses commanding a view of the harD0r were
crowded by people to witness the departure OF the
prisoners The embarkation was effected in an or
derby manner under the guard of the military forces
Some trouble occurred on one of the wharyes 1t is
reported that thief was caught plying his trade
and was badly beaten, and finally taken to the vol
unteers' barracks. About the same time there
was a disturbance near the Governors palace
A Cuban cried out " Death to Spain! viva
Cespedesp lie was instantly shot dead
by one of the sentres on guard before the palace
Later in the day Police Commissary Romero, who
was suspected of sympathy for the man arrested on
the wharf, was assaulted in the street by the popu
lace, who shot and killed him. The Captain General
hearing of the affair." and hoping TO pacify the people,
went to the barracks and Immediately organized
Court Martial for the trial of the socalcd thief who
after brief investigations was sentenced to be shot
Intense excitement prevails throughout the city,
Frequent cries have been heard Of Vra Cesp6des,"
and there are fears of riot.
FINANCE-TIIE AMERICAN VICE COZ sUL-GENERAL.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
HAVANA. Feb 27-Caballero dc ROdas, whom the
Republicans of Spain call butcher is about to sue
coed in the government Of the island Captain-Gen-
eral Dulce who is an invalid. II Cabalero deserves
his reputation he will serve in Cuba the same pur-
pose Calea did in Mexico. Henceforth the war here
on the part of Spain may not be considered as Tor
conversion or salvation, but for revenge and punish
ment But there is one thing the Spaniards cannot
fight That is the tiger of finance. Take their boasts
and purposes, then, at market value. III they nave
an intention to exteTmnate the Cubans, 1T Is only
limited by want of means Surprising that plenty
of Spaniards wish to fight. will Cuba pay
and docs any one think that Spain, which
has always made Cuba pay for her own bleeding
can afford to bleed for herf Here are grave ques-
tons. The rpanters and merchants who counseled
the Captain-General III his late decree of additional
imposts, believe that they raise by this means
100000 escudos or half as many dollars. The new
imposts by the way, have been exaggerated IN re-
port by reckoning the South American instead of the
Spanish eseudO which is One-quarter less. They are
in fact only halfdoar per box on sugar 81 - per
hogshead of Mascabado, 81 per tierce of tobacco-ea
and alfdollar per thousand of cigars Add to these
per cent over import dues, and - per cent upon
the earnings Of industry and commerce. The five
per cent added to customs is said to be sterile for
the reason that Havana in her present distress has
few imports of account. Crops of sugar and tobacco
are liable TO the chances of devastating war; lhcro
FORE when the planters were lately asked to pledge
their estates for loan, they could only offer COM
bustbes for security in time Of conlagraion. The
loan is TO be 100000 backed by the 55OOOJ0 aforc
said. Some one thinks that the Spanish bank which
is TO collect and issue these sums manage 10
keen its paper in tolcrabe state of liquidation, and
Mt the end of three years cancel the debt But the
bank has already issued 100000 of paper, some OF
which is at heavy discount in Spain, and il is adj
mitted that the loan itself may be increased to
10000 900 more Once past the 100000 there VIII be
no end to borrowing, If there is anybody to borrow
! from. Meanwhile tho war will be draining the re-
sources Of limited number Of money lenders,
a number proportOnate to one million and
half of people, minus the Cubans. Havana isaready
poor and the devices Of the Government for raising
| money are what fnancers wOuld call squeezing
From 10000 to 5000 Cubans and aliens have left the
island since the beginning of the instruction. In
two days of last week moro than 1000 took ont pass
ports These facts signify that Cuba and Havana
especially are impoverished Ten or fifteen millions
of wealth must have gone away with the eXiles
the richest of whom had banked largely in the
North at some time previously. Merchants send
their sugar away, but their money does not re-
turn to Cuba The island is being cleared of
IFS industries and commerce, to become battle
| ground for hatred-that is the fact. Cuban money
returns 10 the island in munitions of war; if it comes
back at all One Of the papers makes note that man
ufactured tobacco will be twelve millions less in
Cuba during the present year than the year fOrego
ing. while the export of leaf tobacco is doubling.
This shows how much one of the most popular and
profitable Industries of the island is suffering,
though the estimate may be light one as forecast
ing what is to happen. There arc not few who be-
eye that they in the present elements OF warfare
and loss the utter ruin of their country. Debt des
peratiOn forced loans and the violent uptearing of
Slavery. sure to be swept away at last, WILL they
think accomplish this. II the Spaniards win a
desert they may call 1t peace If they Then they
may count the cost
They do certainly boast, though perhaps the best
Of them hold rather back. 1t is with the old pride,
which even in men of courage, when they reject
teaching may go before fall. Such is the provin-
cial tradition of Spain, at all events That the
Spanards profess high contempt of the rebels let
their own words show One Of the Headers of the
troops sent out to Jaguey writes home: lyon know
that hereabout are great many parrots in the
| mountains, but must tell You that the number OF
them appears TO have increased very lately, for the
rebels all scream the same way" The organ of the
Volunteers which did not object to the massacres in
the CITY, speaks with more exaggerated scorn. what
| importance" says the Voz de Cnba ''can or ought
| to have an instruction which everywhere
il shamefully routed-which at the beginning could
! not capture n dozen soldiers in the Tunas which