The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-23

The New. York Tribune of this morning pob.
fishes correspondence from Havana to April 16
In which we find the following:--The Spaniards
again announce that the rebellion is done for
-Four five months ago it was almost crushed;
later, 1t was doomed to instant DEATH and stiu it
lives, though, as the Captain-General remarks,
1T is bound to die very soon. Everybody doubts
this dictum, and, privately, good many scout
IL. The authorities grimly affect TO play their
part in the cruel little drama as If 1t we're all
comedy; and it is far from that. They lead q
class of bayonets which never think and these
bayonets act out massacre as If il were jest.
After the bloody occurrence at the Punto last
Friday, the volunteers treated themselves to
other disorders. In ono instance a group of
men in a saloon were heard crying out for Cuba.
A frightened mulatto, who was leaving the
scene, was pounced upon by six soldiers, and
bayOneted to death, though doubtless he did
not utter word of sedtion.
Dulce has never failed in the last three m ouths
TO render obsequious homage to the courage and
discipline the honor and patriotism, of the
volunteers, and his latest expressions profusely
accord with his average sentiment in this
respect. At recent festivity in honor of the
soldiers from Spain, he observed that the volun-
teer organization of Havana was as good as any
corps of veterans in the world and that in the
- massacre at the garrote they had acted with
becoming and loyal spirit deserving of imitation
under all similar circumstances. What these
exemplars of Spanish law and authority have
wrought out in six different scenes OF blood
shed during the year ought to be still fresh in
yr.,,~nry. The Spanish organs extol and adulate
them ince.,,o,ntly. The first murmur OF rebuke
to a volunteer has not been heard in Havana.
1t is most difficult for a stranger 70 comprehend
the total abjectness of the manifested opinions.
On all sides the public is beset with fears which
it dares hardly name. Some time ago II was be-
lieved that the life OF the Captain-General was
threatened by his own soldiers. That belief has
not been controverted. So from the Captain
General down, the public fear runs the whole
gamut of authority The Cubans are in dread
of Fernando PO or volunteer bayonets; the voun-
90 lf,,l,
risings; the press was never brave, and fears
everything but the minority, and the Captain
General has had reason to think himself in
danger.
in this juncture has been made colossal quss-
ton by an excitabe and fugitive class Of indi-
viduals Foreign residents have, OF course,
undergone the general danger OF discomfort OF
living in Havana, and when professed sympa-
tbizers of the Cuban cause, or suspected of being
in league with the enemy are made the subjects
of an artful espionage The city Is Is SAID to be
versation, especially OF the cafes, is
sometimes q curious study. The pc
rils which are said TO beset Americans
have, however, in more than one case,
been grossly exaggerated. Up to this date the
Captain-General has, upon the whole, been ex-
ceedngly circumspect in his treatment of the
foreign population; and apprehend there is no
disposition on the part of the Spaniards to fight
majority. Tie value of the Captain-Gonerape
statement with reference to the reh 3lion is TO be
tested by facts With the issue of the decree
against pirates, the capture of American vessels IL
the Bermudas, and of some Others near the coast
the Spanish tone has grown, if anything, boder
Nothing however, that is reported from the in
terror bears with any weight against the chances
of the rebellion No official evidence is present
ed to satisfy an impartial looker-on that the in
turrection has lessened in vitality.
(,outiuued Successes of the Liberals -Arriya
of Portion of HamItOn's Brigade-Th'
Scenes in the InteriOr-BIOcIKade-Runni
correspondent of the Savannah Advertiser
writing Gin the Field, near Bayamo, Suba; Apri
d, says:-
ported daily. General Gomez is actively harass
ing Valmaseda's forces, and Marcamo, Poidres
and Thornton sweep the country for six league
about Santiago de Cuba. Within week dozeI
skirmishes are reported, and each one was
Liberal victory, as the footing up OF prisoners
arms and stores captured will show. Ever,
plantation in this section is a harbor for tn
Liberals; every cross-road is a gathering place o
patriot camp, and in every hacienda you cal
ind patriot quarter. The trains sent out h
San Luis, FL Cristo, and Palma Loria have 70
the third time since March Z, been either driver
back or captured. The armed and unarmed pa
triots spring up from the ground rs did Marion
men in days gone by upon the fedee, and thel
success is inevitable.
The arrival of Hamilton's Brigade at Por
Naranjo was an event. They came in detache
companies and only since they have taken tn
field has any appreciation OF their strength o
numbers or their strenth. in arms been had
From their arrival they went to work IN earnes
"a large number were mounted within twev
hours of their arrival and away, scouting tn
country as though to the manor born. Hamilto
is not vet with them-he may be in Cuba ere thi
reaches you though. Old familiar faces are here
though last seen at Shiloh or at the Wilderness
pressing through the smoke OF battle, and thes
veterans of the great Rebellion make short wor
and speedy of the thn-skinned Andaluslan'
You can readily imagine what chance a cor
script Spaniard, fresh from voyage, reduce
by the horrors of an aggravated sea sickness
aud green to war, has with these powder-burne
tigers. Some of them have recently been see
in and around Bayamo, Mayar, and buclry
and whenever they have been see
will long be remembered Thornton is {
Palma Doria to-day-to-morroW about Nllla az
Cobre ever ready. Broughton is inyalided wit
a wound received within twelve hours ait'
landing. Van Horn, who says he is an origini
Alabama Rebel, leaves me to-day for La Guanal
and the vicinity of General Quesadas command
Valmaseda and Marcamo met n few days sine
and another Liberal success has been added
the list The Snanish troops are beginning.
desert freely. Twelve came into our camp la
nipht-all new arrivals from Spain.
little of this is of interest To you VINO llste
for stirring news, for great battles whereon yo
can indite many words, for charges and nssault
nnon which to build long black headlines; bI
10 MS these little skirmshes, tempered rs the
are by the most bloodthirsty spirit upon the pa
Of the Spaniards, and by the desperate, sou
neryed resolution upon the part OF the i1oera
these things 10 us are not void OF eXeltcmel
nor danger II Is not permitted me TO go In
details-sufiice ii to say that each DAY adds
our force, strength, unanimltyi ana prospecI
Each day brings to the ports we held men, nun
and hnn