The New York herald., 1869-10-04
APOLINAR DE RATIO,
JUAN A. COLOMI,
FRANCISCO r. IBAEEZ,
MAMERTO PuLID0,
JULIAN DE ZULU eta,
ANSELMD a. DEL. VALE.

HAVANA, Sept "a, 1859.
The Dtario de Ia Marina publishes this in its
dlcdace OF last evening" ana as further indicative OF
the popular sentiment ] translate Its c0mmeats:-
We informed that to-day the excellent Ayunta-
e sA1 81 The he
whose signatures attached The Ayuntamiento has
. e s0Gis S ape ina
es Il @ ny Al asa nop s ays the
tune TO deend the national integrity IN this province We
we ask of the nssnsi governmen honor
Clear Hessh W. love our AN and as sw9ra takes our
wa SsSs and Of I aao
f for M oSe a IN Sss viii eap pa,n
low We mite with the Ayuntamiento Of havana to
profoand faith siIe cause is
Just and holy.
For tae past two or three days 1t has been sus-
pected.that some demonstration touching America
or Americans was about 10 be made here, expressing
the popular sentiment, and some little lear was iet
as To the character which IL would take For,u-
natey IL has thus far taken other shape than this
bomhastic resolution. have reason to believe that
TINS rs not the WORK or the government, as repre-
sented by Rodas, nor Is 1t approved by him. II IS
but another exhibition OF the sentiment which
appeared IN the Dtdrio, and a translation OF winch
WAS sent to the HERALD. The Captain General is
powerless TO restrain its EXPRESSION While appreciat
Ing the fact that 1t Ii likely TO prove injurious the
interests OF Spaln On the other hand. the Political
Governor is SAID to be IN perfect harmony with this
feeling; and owing to THIS no great cordiality exists
between him aud his CHEF IL Is certainly to be
hoped that no very grave complications may arise
with spain until tile United states has sufficient force
~ these waters 10 look after the lives, II not the
interests, OF her citizens.
The feeling OF insecurity and alarm is constantly
on the increase here, as are tue vigilance and activity
or the authorities Arrests and ones liability to 1t
form one unendnV subject OF conversation and no
foreigner or native ieeIs secure. The Captain Gene
raj finds himself with Us little power Tor good as
General Duce for the volunteers interfere in every
tnng, even TO the action OF the ordinary tribunals
OF justice, rs the following statement VIII snow:--
A justice oil the peace recently ordered that the
goods OF certain person, who WAS a volunteer,
should be empargoed for rent due; when the o!il-
GERS arrived with the process tho defendant, with a
their hands ana threatened to shoot them If they
attempted to execute It, The officers departed, and
the Captain General, upon being applied to for
assistance by the Judge, IN orier to carry out the
law, stated that he could not help hm, and believed
y to be most prudent TO let the matter drop. The
family OF DR.. Nicholas Mendve whose assassination
by volunteers 1 mentioned In my last, recently ap.
pied to the Captain General for justice upon the
done, nothing has been heard OF it. Much uneasi-
ness is felt at this condition OF AFFAIRS, and though
great difficulties are placed IN the way Of getting
and MEXICO has set in, the fear OF conf1scatJn OF
properly preventing people from going to the United
The project Of a reserve militia seems to have failed
altogether, ana Il may be deemed abandoned. This
tanned by the Spanards. Four battaions had been
formed and the officers appointed, but when the APP
mSh be exercised nIn in hsm opeetons were su nnaa
as somo OF them were more than suspected OF being
enemies to the national integrity and the volunteers
threatened TO abandon their duties, and so the mat
ter dropped.
From the seat Of war the news ID not extensive
Passengers from Sagua report that the Cuban dag is
nyng at Puerto Padre. the seaport, 1t will be re-
membered, OF Las runas. The Peayo steamer re-
Gently returned here from several ports on the
north side She Is said TO have started from here
more than week since with arms and munitions |
to be landed at Puerto Padre but arriving there
and finding It In the hands OF the rebels she was
compelled 10 return. Rufnors OF fight between
Quesada and Poella, near Puerto Principe IN which
the latter was routed and Killed, rife but not
credited. II 10 known that the government has de-
terinned TO recall Poeo r not having displayed |
the requisite capacity for hi p tlon. The coored |
militia on the railway betNo0I Principe and Nue. |
vifas are not well supplied. One OF them, recently |
brought here wounded, reports that they have |
nothing to eat, and that they .'are marching to a
graveyard nlled with crossesu General Jordan s |
concentrating large force OF all arms and has |
called IN Oil the able bodied men, so there remain IN
operation ony enough TO protect baggage trains and
annoy weak deachments OF the Spaniards.
General Lesca, from the Cinco Villas reports that
the Guardia Civil had surprised camp OF insur..
gents, under Pascual Martinez, killing sixteen and
WOundinR many, as IL was supposed from the cries
In the brushwood; nftyeight horses aud some arms
were captured; this on the 22d. On the 23d he
reports tnat Colonel Trillo surprised camp, killed
three, took six prisoners, OF whom four at
shot, one OF them being the nag sergeant Farnas,
brother OF the chief. and some arms were captured.
Papers from Santiago do cuba, MapzRnLlQ and