New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-27

lighting after many months practice. This may not
diets te iadS@et formed in SPAIN generally from the
dispatches kilograms and press accounts Of the cond
In opening serious campaign in Cuba 1t is necessary
TO determine the object and the enemies The object is
respect to the laws The enemies are the
insurgents in arms and the conspirators' All the
but Is likewise necessary to make Of all the energy
of the authority to protect the innocent We make
persons pardoned should be held responsible The
should be followed with property 10 avoid what
succeeded in escaping the fire Of the rebels has his
plantation burnt by peninsuars under the preext that
the principal cities which we occupy 1--WE command moth
ing In the interior but what trodden by sodiers II
who live in them How will an unfortunate abandon the
rebel ranks which he may have been forced to JOIN
by every armed citizen on hs way before reaches
the authority and what lie often worse, after
promised prOtectiOni How will any Cuban re-
e st S Ne Words 9n' that @ his
Cubans all rebels and must be all assassinatedt Is
a ECy sbS e pe the troops have
been affected thereby In the first place instead OF at
distributed among the influential localities to Salty
the demands OF their residents Operations nave Deen
this too at sacrifice Of blood and health the more sen
moral policy advises interpretation to avoid the loss OF
prestige The name Of battles is given TO skTmlshes
two three shots from the woods simple movement
OF advance reconnaissance is styled bayonet charge
because the enemy always avoids it, unless he is absO
lutey certain OF SUGGESTING battle s one OF those acts
which, according 10 SQod military principles, should dc
serve to be judged and condemned by Court Martial
Gen. Buenayentura Carlo went up this week to
take command of the Cinco Villas country relieving
Gen. Lesca who left for Spain the 18th inst under
an order of arrest, resulting from the burning Of
TaguayabOn. His successor has been equally unfOr-
tunate so far, having been routed by Gen. Cavada,
though the journals here refuse osay and at this
moment being besegcd in Espiritu Santo. The
Spanards at HOlguin have met with reverse, 20 OF
them having been captured on late foraging excur-
sion. Gen. Marmol is laying siege to Las Tunas.
Report has it that he intends to remain there and
continue harassing and annoying the garrison rs
much as possible. This he is able to do, and at the
same time to capture every convoy coming from
Manzanllo. From Puerto Marango the intelligence
comes that an expedition of 300 men has landed. 1t
is further stated that 5000 guns brought along
beside 200 kegs of powder An order from Cespedes
relating to the destruction of sugar and tobacco es
tates has been circulating in Havana. Between the
Sd and 18th of December the property of $50 Cubans
has been confscated. One of the latest victims of
confscation is Jose Jovin, worth s1,50O,0OO Emilio
Cespedes whose fortune is estimated at 100000, is
another. Francisco Mestre has lost his share in an
estate valued at 100000, and Enrique Echate has
lost an estate of the same figure.
On one of the triumphal arches erected in honor
of the recently arrived MOntanesas, SOLDIERS from
the mountain districts of SPAIN, was observed in
large printed letters this touching sentiment:
II the insnrrection should increase
Among these creatures human,
Let die every Cuban
Yet shall live the MontaneseI
Four thousand eight hundred troops have arrived
here within the last two weeks, and have been re-
ceiyed with open arms by the Spanish residents.
THE GUNBOATs AT SEA.
The steamship James Adger from Charles
TON g. c. Dec o. miles south from Hatteras, passed
fleet Of is schoonerrgged steamers bound South, sup
posed TO be the Spanish gunboats.