New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-05

assertion That nuIlureOS OF Incul ~ IS'0'
cealed in the hollow or fosse nearthe city wal III per
Interpretation of the theater ineIo arc no
doubts as to theone-sded results OF TINS
affair. JudRing by all that / can learn ron
average testimony eight or ten persons were hiheu
br+ vary respectable witness of the anair telis Ie
ettao,, or twenty the wounded being in number pro-
nortiopate TO these. Numbers OF volunteers "eie
t,ued or wounded by pistol shots, and much
greater number of the audience
The Spapish paper observes the fact that women
were killed. am thus particular and circums''h-
tal in order that it may be plainly seen now COM
nletely the Villanueva theater-goers were al INC
mercy of their asSailants and how little mercy they
received. Not very many of them could have Deen
.,ad IN opticipstion of such horrible ARRAY as oc-
curred. Some of them defended themselves as oesV
tbov conld with pistols no doubt; blood Is blood
The volunteers ON the other hand, were thoroughly
armed and numbered hundreds constantly lncreas-
ing Conceive, then the atrocity of the act-a BODY
NJ troops penning up an audience in the theater 10
fire upon it recklessly and savagey and not quitting
their bloody work till they had driven the crowd
very considerable distance from the scene by means
of bullets and bayonets. What was all this Dut an
assassination of the peoplef
Tba seonel appears to give force and color to the
worst that may be said of it. On the day succeeding
the Vlanaeva affair." an outbreak OF Cubans was re-
ported in the poor quarter known as Jesus-Marla'
had occasion to pass in that direction late the day.
and heard that few people had been Khled anu
wounded in q near neighborhood by volunteers
Arms had been discovered in o house. and the man
who resisted their seizure had been bayoneted ana
INFLICTED He was probably the one whom saw
bein0 carried apparently dead in the midst OF some
hundreds of volunteers to the hospital In the course
of the day and night five or six people were SAID 10
have been killed, among them some volunteers On
the succeeding night massacre, said to have Deen
not less destructive than the one at tho NIanueVa
Theater broke ont about the Louvre Saloon across
from the TacOn Theater, and on that part Oh the
Pado where lately stood the statue of Isabel Ihere
are three stories as to its orgn-frst, that shot
was fred in one Of the saloons adjoining the theater
second that pistol went off by chance in the billiard
and gambling saloon of the Louvre; third. that
shot was fred from the housetop on some passing
volunteers To this story the Spanish side OF the ar
gument adheres, but it has upon its face some I'M
probabilities as, for instance, that any one shouu
70 upon housetOp in crowded and fashionable
part Of the city in order to provoke death or ruin
upon many innocent people. 1t may be that the
whole affair began in quarrel between persons as
usual but the basis of the massacre is not likely to
be soon known. Immediately after the shot, the
volunteers rallied in crowds and poured volley
into the saloon Of the Louvre. An acquaintance, who
me as if done by platoons. The bugle was sounded
between the discharges and the firing at times was
full and regular When the volunteers entered the
saloon they laid violent hands upon every within
their reach and forced them to cry, viva Espana,"
OF gave them tho bayonet. brother OF the British
Consul was am credibly told, being roughly han
died. when an acquaintance among the volunteers
saved him. They passed up stairs, searched the
house, and even entered the chamber of woman
INCfO NIaar
was killed in a passing carriage by shot from
the sidewalk British and German cit-
zens were killed, wounded, or jeop-
srdized Gordon of volunteers was stretched
around the neighborhood, and the sidewalk was dan
gerous to civilians. Following their performance at
the Louvre the volunteers broke into the palaceike
house of Don Miguel de Albania, the rchest planter of
the island and suspected by them to DO in sympathy
with the rebels Its aegedby theirfrends that firing
was heard from the house-top, but this looks like
poor and false pretext for the vandalism wrought in
side the house by its searchers and pilagers. They
robbed its servants and despoiled its ornaments.
few old arms were taken from the house and brought
to the authorities and the story has hereupon been
current that Don Miguel now happily with his
family upon one of his plantations, has been supply
ing money and arms to the revolutioniste under
Cespedes Albania is one of the very wealthiest and
most influential men of the island. He owns be-
tween two and three thousand negroes and some
where near two thousand coolies. 1t is a bad omen
for Spanish rule if he has given his private influence
TO the revolutionsts-a still worse omen If Spanish
rule knows no better than to be sacking
the houses of the Liberal shareholders, the
only class which has given it any cause to
hope for the conservation of Cuba The bad
work of the mob did not with the visit paid to
Aldama's house Murders are recorded of half
dozen other quarters of the city. Volunteers have
been assassinated. A resident of the neghborhoOd
told me that body of troops marched against
field near the Cerro suspecting the whereabouts of
some concealed Cubans. Volley upon voley was
fired in spite of the commands of the superior officer
but not single Cuban was found. Summing up the
results of the three days disturbances it appears
safe to say that about fifty people have been killed
and assasinated. and number wounded proportion
ate to these OF seven or eight people reported
killed inside the Louvre most were Spaniards. This
fact is the saddest comment on the murderous stu
pidity of the Bourbonism which destined their
deaths. One remarkable consequence of the late
scandals, so-called is that all the steamers are
crowded and that numerous families have fled to tho
plantations preferring to trust the negroes rather
than the mob Of whites.
The organs of Spain treat the events described in
manner which shows that they cannot and will not
learn further, and that fixed in their ultimate notions
As to Cuba they are inyeterate and unbending. Far
from saying word for the Cubans in the Villanueva
affair the Voice Of Cuba wholly takes the side of the
Spanish volunteers and classes their exploit in the
parquet with some successes elsewhere There is no
disguise of the boast with which it is contended that
the Cubans have been castigated for their treason.
and in article devoted to the subjects of Cemency
and Energy it is held that if in the first place the
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