The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-16
CUBA AND SPAIN.
The Spanish Gunbonts.

OF the twelve gunboats lying at Deamater's
shipyard, eight have received their machinery.
One is being pushed forward very rapidly as a
model for the rest, and this will be ready for sea
within fourteen days. 1t is tidy-looking craft
with shining black smoke-stack, short raking
masts, and lies very low. 1t has accommodation
forward for fifteen twenty men, and aft for
nine or ten. The sides are about eleven inches
thick, Of white oak plank. The vessels are visited
nearly every day by two officers of the Spanish
navy; one of them said to be an Admiral. Gu
bans alsolounge around the docks of an evening,
much to the discomfort OF the watchmen,
who are afraid that some daring incendiary may
set fire to the vessels tugbOat lies near with
steam up ready to tow them in the stream in
case of any accident by fire occurring. The
boats receive occasional visits from the L. S.
Navy authorities, who take note of the progress
made Of the Is gunboats at Mystic, SIX are
launched, and all will be ready in three or four
weeks to receive their machinery, when they
will be tOwed to Delamaters shipyard One of
those at Poillon's, Brooklyn, will be launched
about Wednesday, and the other two about the
end of the week. Delamater says he feels no
anxiety us to the fate of the vessels. He spares
no expense in their construction, and the work
goes on rapidly.-N Y. Tribune Of this morn
lHg.
What the Cubans Fear.
The correspondent of the Cuban Junta in
Havana, under date of the 9th, informs them
that the seizure of the Spanish gunboats by our
Government created great sensation in that
city. From the day of the seizure until the 7th
instant General De Rodas kept the news sup
pressed 1t was currently rumOred that the
Captain-General had sent the Spanish irOn-clad
Victoria after the two Peruvian iron-ceds, with
instructions to capture or sink them wherever
found.
The Cubans in Havana say that if the United
States will detain the gunbOats sixty days, that
every port in Cuba except Havana will be in
their possession. 1t is expected that to-day
there will be Il simultaneous attack made by the
Cubans on Gbara Puerto Principe, and Trini-
dad. To-day is the eighteenth anniversary of
the barbarOuS crime committed by Captain
General Jose de la Concha, of executing fifty
one citizens of the United States, followers of
Narciso Lopez. His crime consisted in murder
ing them on that 10th day of August, 1851, after
he gave his word of honor to save their lives if
they would surrender themselves.
The Junta has received news by Key West that
the steamers belonging to the slave traders, Iu-
lueta, Duranona, and lbanez, had landed 5000
negroes at Cochina bay, jurisdiction of Zopata,
are ut present colonels commanding regiments
of Spanish volunteers. The Junta received the
same news by their last mail.
1t appears daily more clear that both Cubans
and Spaniards acknowledge that, under the pre-
sent revolutionary situation in Spain, the
fate of Cuba is brought down to question of
the detention or release of the thirty-one gun
boats now being finished on our docks for the
Spanish Government. CubanS acknowledge that
while they are still inadequately supplied with
arms and munitions, and without seaport, if
those thirty-one gunboats are released, armed
and stationed around the island, that nearly all
hope of receiving new supplies of arms must be
surrendered and the rebellion, at present so
promising of early success, must necessarily fall
into the hands of their odious and revengeful
enemies. Escape from the island with those
thirty-One vessels on guard would be difficult.
The Spanish Minister Mr.. Roberts, said on
Saturday, in Washington, that De Rodas has
been authorized by Serrano by telegraph to offer,
ut his discretion, GuOnOntjG to the revoutionists