The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-01

CeuSeu tne evening TO pnsS OH without q
single unpleasant incident to mar the
enjoyment.
Long live the Ugly Club, aud may its
shadow never grow less! X.
CUBA AND THE FIL11BUsTRRs. q
letter to the New York World, datad at
Havana, on the 10Th of June, we learn
that the Grnpeshot expedition of fill.
busters has come to grief. OF the 100
and more fillibusters landed upon the
coast of the District of Baracoa, the
Santiago papers announce that most of
them have either been killed or captured
In the mountains of Las Cachillas; that
the captured. some twenty five in num-
ber are on their way to Snnting and
that preparations were being made III
TINT city for their execution. Governor
'Latorae having resolved to have them all
shot within twenty-fou hours after mr.
rival. One-half are said to be Cubans
and the other half Americans, Germans,
Deminicans and Mexicnns. A private
letter from an English resident of SAN
tlago gives somewhat different particu-
lars of this iillibustering expedition from
those OF the Spanish papers. According
to it the vessel that landed the men was
the schooner Grapeshot, from Puerto
Plata. on the North coast of Santo Do
mlngo. The number of persons landed
was l2O, composed mostly of young Gu
bans. Guadanavaya, the place of de-
Darkation, was most unsuitable one,
being some twenty-five miles from an in :.
surgent camp, IN portion of the Dis
trict OF Baracoa, poorly supplied with
water and provisions, aud with but few
horses and carts near at hand, so neces-
sary for carrying the arms and ammuni-
ton brought, to the interior of the island.
On the 3D., q few hours after landing,
forty men We're sent of to establish COM
munlcation with the insurgents, while
the remaining eighty tnrried near CANA
rinl of the expedition. The first lot, ac-
cording to the letter, had never been at
tackled by the Spuniards but the second
was forced by superior number OF sol
diers to abandon Gnadunavaya on the
9th. and take refuge in tho Cachilas
Mountains, where they were followed,
and nearly all killed or captured, losing
NIL the war material they had with them,
consisting of four mountain howitzers,
SUI bennington rifles, and 60, 900 car
trldges. The Spaniurds did not annihi-
lutte the eighty tillibusters without con-
siderable resistance, losing from forty to
fifty men in killed and wounded in the
several encounters had with them.
In New York, few days since, the
authorities. learning that large expedi-
ton was about to sail for Cuba, arrested
its commander, Colonel w. O. G.. RYAN,
and several of his snbordinates. On
Wednesday night, when an United States
Marshal named Dowley was taking Col.
Ryan to Jail in a carriage, the prisoner
induced his captor to 60 with him in
search OF man to go on the bail bond
of the former. Not finding the man ut
the hotel, Ryan said he must be inst
around at the Casino, corner of Houston
and Mott streets, where the Cuban re-
crnits have made their headquarters of
late. The carriage was driven round,
and, on reaching the door, Ryan sprnng
out and rushed up stairs, closely followed
by officer Dowley. AS soon as Colonel
Ryan entered the room in the Casino,
the men cheered him. Seeing Dowley,
they seized a blanket, which they threw
over his head, when Ryan, aided by the
men, proceeded to tie his arms behind
him, gag him and. tie his feet together.
They then took him up stairs to the
third story, and left him in small room.
After this had been accomplished, Ryan,
under cover of the darkness, succeeded
in getting his men together, and en-
barked, with large force, for Cuba.
WHAT IS THE MArrER?-A gentleman
residing in Columbia, short time since.
wrote to merchant Of this city to send