The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-07
CUBAN MATTERS.
important Revelations The Spanish
Generals Confess Themselves Over
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Important ReyeIations-T The Spanish
Generals Confess Themselves Over.
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The New. York Tri5une's correspondent
writing on the same day, says that on the
18th the Acting Captain General received
the following dispatches by mail and the
wires From Brigadier Lesca :-"I am
overpowered. Send me 5000 men," From
Valmaseda 80 Send me 200On Letona SAYS
he needs 5000 to 10000 quickly, to open lis
way through with some chance of success,
and If the governments delays thirty DAYS
in reinforcing him 10000 will not suffice.
He has not disarmed the volunteers as was
rumored here, but he holds them and the
veterans ON the defensive, with only one
| cartridge each. He adds in his despatch ]:
| = positively decline to pursue war of ex-
termination as desired by the volunteers,
4 because 1T would end in the determination
OF the Spanlards." His troops cannot travel
nall mile on the road to Nuevitas with
out being shot by the patriots. The city of
fueflo Princlpe is pretty much converted
into hospitals, and the suffering OF the peo-
plels intense. A captain of the Cathalonian
| Volunteers is now here, endeavoring to have
vessel chartered by the Cathalonians to 90
| to Nuevltas and carry back to Spain 200
remnants of their battalion guarding
the road. He says they have been hum
plugged, and his comrades are dying from
want OF provisions. of fevers, and cholera.
An officer of the Battalion de Madridenos
who had fallen sick on his arrival here has
also received a letter from one of his friends
advising him that of the whole battalion
only twenty-seven arc. left Nothing has
been heard from Buceta lately. Lieutenant,
Governor Pri.lo, of Sagua. reports the re-
appearance of a large body of insurgents
which has debouched at Jaguey Grande
and entered Palmidas, sweeping all the
veterans and volunteers on their way. The
most outrageous lies are published on the
capture OF flibusters lately landed.
lldlngs from all quarters have indeed
been so gloomy for the government this
week that Espinar called for the colonies of
volunteers to advise them of the necessity
OF sending some of their men in the interior
They did not like it mach, but agreed to
form couple of modified battalions with
the men they intended to dismiss out of the
LIST, Sd, 9th, and Ligeras.
THE NUMBERS officer of the army
here has just given me this statement of the
forces in the field The Government has
$4,000 veterans, 2700 volunteers, added to
16,S00 volunteers ganisoning the principal
cities, OF which 5000 are in Havana The
forces of the Patriots o.day are $4,000
whites and 10000 negroes, of which about
$4,000 are well armed. He saws their for
ccs would undoubtedly increase to some
10000 whites and negroes. in II short time,
should they keep receiving arms and am
munitiOn from the States.
MOVEMENTS IN New YoRK-CoLoNEL
RYAN's EsCAPE.-In addition to what we
published yesterday relative to the escape of
Ryan, we take the following from the N. Y.
Tribune of to-day e-''
The Colonel, immediately after the Deputy
had been secured, jumped into a carriage
and was rapidly driven to Courtlandt street
ferry. While In the carriage his whole ap-
pearance was so changed Ivy clever dis
guise that when he alighted at the ferry he
passed ly several deputies in perfect safety,
and quietly took his seat in the ladiesc cabin.
Upon the arrival of the boat at Jersey CITY
lie proceeded to Taylor's Hotel, registered
an assumed name, and was shown to Il room.
This was the last seen of him until few
minutes before midnight, when he settled
his bill and walked out; turning in the tun-
mel near the hotel, where the horsc-cars stop.
he proceeded to wharf near by, and en-
barked aboard tug which was in waiting. |
The last seen of the tug she was steamino
down the bay. This account of the Col,
oncFs movements is substantiated by a gen.
Iieman who accompanied him to the tug
and saw it steam away with Ryan on board. |
During all this time other movements of an
equally exciting nature were in active opera
ion, Early in the evening squads O. men
berinS from five to twenty crossed the
'IYer at Cnurtland and Desbrosses streets
erries. On the Jersey side they rested them.
eives about the streets near Taylor's Hotel.
over $50 Cuban volunteers crowded the two
erEles last night. A short time before Col
mel Ryan left the hotel about 100 men filed
Trough the horse-car tunnel and proceeded
o coal wharf a short distance from the
'harves of the Cunard steamers, and there
mbarked on board tug, which immedia-
ely steamed for the fishing banks, where
he men were quickly transferred to steam
r ready to put to sea Ryan arrived on his
ug shortly after the men, and his arrival
7as the signal for departure; and now. un-
ess some unlooked-for accident has hap-
ened, is at least one day nearer Cuba. Oniv
bout 100 men left, the others returned to
he city to await favorable opportunity
'r sailing to join their fiends in Cuba.