The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-24

| of the Revolt.
Advices from Washington say that it is nov
we'll known that a special agent has been SEN
to Cuba by the President, to investigate thu
situation there and report the results. The
agent left several days ago. On the strength
of this report will depend the action which If
to be taken by our government with regard tt
the recognition of Cuban independence. The
views of the agent who has been selected fol
this important mission are such that no cir
cumstance will be lost sic hI Of that will tend tc
present the affairs of the revolutionists in Q
favorable light.
The Filibusters.
The ruunors regarding contemplate d expedi-
tions from the States to Cuba are not incor'
rect, and force of formidable dimensions
under the command of prominent Western
general, is being prepared. Attention is being
diverted from the real port of embarkation by
the publication of false places, and the rea
| point has not been selected, but it will be nsi-
ther Mt New Orleans nor New York. The in
surgents' friends aver that Ne shall soon get
the news of the recognition Of the insurgents
by Mexico and Pogota, and that their act will
be soon followed by Chill, Colombia and Ecuador.
A dispatch from Washington, in The Boston
Advertiser of the 10Th instant, says:
Dispatches from Savannah lead the friends
| of the Cuban revolution here to believe that
General J. B. Steedman has made successful
| landing in Cuba with a picked iorce o. men.
| The expedition has been in preparation for a
1
self spent Two weeks in Havana, and during
the latter part of the time was so far under ar
rest as to be ordered quietly by the Captain
General to report to him daily. The first rem
devious of his party was on one OF the islands
near New Orleans. When Admiral Hof receiv-
cd his first orders the headquarters of the
expedition were changed to point on the Flor
ida coast. A blockade-runner, captured from
tho rebels in the late wal, was obtained, and
the belief is that near one thousand men, we'll
supplied with arms and thoroughly accustomed
to their use, have made landing on the Cuban
shore.
The New York Herald says:
For several weeks the Cubans III this city
have been quietly but assiduously working
to aid their brother revolutlonists in the
field by the shipment Of men, money and
munitions to them. Volunteering is going on
RAPIDLY but very 0rvsGTdsd GIdsd5y sn and
detachmenls TO Cuba. Very, recently full
battery of field artillery, completely equipped
and manned, was dispatched, and information
has been received of its safe arrival.
A Washington telegram, of the 21st inst, SAYS:
Dispatches have been received here from
Admiral Hoff, commanding the Gulf squadron,
in which he states that, as far as hc has been
able to ascertain, no troops or munitions Of
war of any account have been landed on the
Island OF Cuba. He also states that he has
failed to discover that any more have departed
from the shores of the United States.
1t is also stated that the Spanish minister
here Is of the opinion that in the case OF the
schooner Mary Powell, tho Spanish authorities
in Cuba will refer the demands of the United
States Government to the home government
in Spain before any action will be taken i'll the
matter.
The New York Herald says:
Secretary Fish on Tuesday was called upon
by Senior Roberts, the Spanish Minister, who
fEbust ering expeditions from sailing to Cuba
should be issued by the President. The Sec
rotary promptly declined to do anything OF the
sort, and said that as there vas revolutionary
organization in arms in Cuba, formed BY the
native Cubans under their own provisional
government, he could see no good reason to
hinder the departure OF any persons from this
their service. Minister Roberts, it is said,
withdrew very much surprised, and afterwards
submitted the same demand in writing.
In regard to the Mary Lowell affair." Secretary
Fish has concluded that the British govern
ment is liable to us for permitting her to be
captured in British waters, and no has there
fore made representations to that effect to the
British minister. As for the Lizzie Majors,
however, several days ago he demanded full
reparation and indemnify from the Spanish
government through Senor Roberts, who con-
ceded the justness Of the claims, and guaran-
teed that Spain would make satisfactory repa-
ration. He promised to lay the matter before
his home government Immediately, but yester-
day he informed the Secretary that he had not
heard from the government since. The Secre-
tary then automatically informed him that
war would ensus il an answer was not forth
coming shortly.
A Review OF the Progress OF the Revo-
luton.
It is now six months since Carlos Manuel
Cespedes at Yara, in the Eastern Department
of Cuba. began the revolution which now oc-
cupies the attention Of the world. Then no
one had faith in the Cubans. The earnestness
of their purpose, their courage, their perse-
, verance, their fighting qualities were doubted.
NOW ndfO OcldbhohOo Su0hioS'SS AAA1'J
in the good opinion of mankind.
The Spaniards have made three distinct
movements for the suppression OF this revolt.
The first was in the East ern Department under
Vain seda. He was sent out from Havana to
get possession Of Bayamo, then the revolution
ary headquarters. After immense difficulties
and heavy losses, he arrived at his destina-
ton, with his decimated troops worn out with
skirm shes, which had never ceased along their
whole line OF march. But the little town he
was sent to subdue was burned by its people
before he got there, and it's occupation availed
nothing toward the subjugatlon OF the Cubans.
On the contrary, he Immediately found him
self shut up there, surrounded by q watchful
enemy, whom he could not bring to action,
harass his foraging parties, and capture his
convoys. He is still at Bayimo. and keeps
bodies of troops aG Jibara, Holguin, and Jigu-
ami !; but he is just as far from controlling the
department as he was the day he landed at
Nueyitas and began his march southwark.
The next campaign was that Of Lesca. who
marched from Guanaja to relieve Puerto Prin-
cipe in the Central Depar nent, where the
Spanish garrison was besieged by the insur-
gents under Quesada. The new leader brought
to the work more powerful forco than had
previously been collected by tho governme-t
and he set out with loud declarations of his
purpose to exterminate the rebels wherever he
should meet them. The result was identical with
that which had come upon Valmaseda. He was
assailed by invisible enemies at every step,
and after long. arduous, and circuitous ad-
vance, IN which he nowhere got chance fairly
to strike his foe, he entered Puerto Principe,
baving lost 81 officers aud 189 soldiers killed,