The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-07
G u R A.
The IlberatiOn-BattIe ut San JOSEF en- edios
and Puerto Principe Affairs.

The &c san JessRemedios
HAVANA, Tuesday Nov 30.-More troops! Still
they come to aid the Spanish authorities In their
perhaps) vain endeavors to uphold the standard OF
Castillo Leon TO the trade winds that sweep over
Cuba and render life to the white race possible on
this island. Sunday battalion OF volunteers from
Madrid, 1913 strong arrived. The iron. clad Zara-
gosa, with another battalion, entered the harbor
last evening, and several thousand more are ex-
pected this week. General Lesca has some 14OOO
men in his department of Cinco Villas
General Pueblo, with 5000 TO 10000, has his hands
full in guarding Puerto Principe, Neuvtas, and the
railroad between the two places. Valmaseda can
dispose OF some 10000 men, scattered between San
tago de Cuba hanzanilld, Las Tunas, Holguin, and
Gibara. This las-namel chief claims he has cleared
the country between Santiago de Cuba and ManZa-
milo of rebels, feat by the way, he has performed
three or four times, the rebels peissting in return
ing after wards.
fhe latest advlces from Puerto Principe chronicle
no movements OF Importance on the part of the
Spanish forces The insurgents about the town are
strong enough TO prevent the Spanards from forag-
ing in large parties. Peninsuar resident there
told me II Is unsafe for any one TO go half league
from the Outp0sts OF the town on account Of the
swarms Of rebs At San Jose, near NueVitas ana
not far from the line OF the railroad where the bat
TALON OF Catalan volunteers have their reglmental
headquarters Spanish accounts report that an action
took place on the goth between 100 Catalans and
over 800 insurgents.
The insurgents lost some 30 killed and the volun-
teers about half that number Cuban rumors ny
from mouth to mouth TO the effect that the insaT-
gents gObbed up the whole detachment OF yOlun-
teers, 100 strong, captured the rrgmenta chest
and nag-the ensign being one presented the hat
talon prior TO Their leaving Barcelona by the muni-
cpality OF that city, Holding the railroad between
Nuevitas and Principe allows General Pueblo no
leisure
Remedies and the surrounding country Is a favor
ite stamping ground for the insuTectionists. They
burned last week sugar estate not six miles from
the town. Per contra, detachment from the garrl-
son at Remedies occupied an encampment the in
surgents had evacuated, and they destroyed some
two hundred sacks OF rice they left behind The oi-
Ger in command at Remedies has ordered all the
yagrant Cinnamon found about the town to be en-
ployed in rebuilding the village OF Taguayaboro,
some ten miles from Remedies which the insurgents
burned few weeks ago.
General Jordan, 1t is reported, is near Gibara on
the north coast General Vamaseda VIII find the
road that leads over the mountains from about the
ContO river to the other side OF Jordan hard one
TO travel. Private letters from Santiago de Cuba
pant a sombre picture OF the health OF the CITY
Similar sources Ofinformati0n from Bayamo, Man
camilla. and Trinidad render news that much sick
ness preyalc in these points.