New-York tribune., 1869-03-27


comparison of losses both sides, and is intended
as hint, and no more, to the future historian:
LLossea Span Reh Loses IN. span hsS scc
yama:edas march 80 2SSS @ Il Loo
Gibara District. 300 Rio Damuji-.-... 10 LOO Loo
Nasyltas ,; so 80 600 ga saspoy pSninco u u 500
Ravamo ~ 10 10 500 Mayajgua.......... 500
santa Cruz District Sfs si9lsSs; 90 1SSS aSSS
Trindad....-...-- yOOI r, 791 1s OOo
RHySsi PG1t@s s,lia ii;...::. 10 lcSS iO'Ai
These figures make not the slightest pretense to
accuracy, vet they are in accord with the proper
tions observed in the papers The statistics of Count
Valmaseda's campaign just as they have been
rendered at times by his circle of admirers III
Havana. The losses in the Sierra Cnbtas are OF re-
cent and well-known report. Commandant Herrera
saws that at Guaracabulla he routed 5000 OF the
enemy, killed 1876, and inflicted "an incalculable
number of wounds At Portrevila Col. Rlos killed
$50 and made 81 prisoners beside making an lnin-
ltude of wounds" the enemy numbering 2OOo'
Spauish infnitude as applied to wounds and Cuba,
NAV mean anything from 500 to 1,OOOin the present
excited state of the market lt cannot De sue
cessfny questioned that in most OF the encounters
reported the Spaniarls have beaten their llarIned
adversaIies, while they seem to be as far OH lrohl
conquest as ever. Perhaps the best rule for estat
ing the comparative losses as we have them IN the
press of the capital would be TO multiply those OF the
Standards and divide those of the rebels by given
number What with being ambushed, and fired
at from behind fences, and treated to all manner
of guerillero cunning and dodgng, as they them
selves complain, the Spaniards ought 10 have sup
mort about as much upon the whole. rs their adver-
saries They say far otherwise, yet unsay them
selves besides Allowing however everything III
reason for the trained hardihood and pluck OF the
troops from Span there is no way OF believing the
general roorback about their unintermttent Vlcto-
ries with nappreciable loss That 100 men 1ought
their waythrough mountain against l0'OOO men IN
ambush, is Munchausen-like story; and 1t IS due
70 strict history to say that the Government IN It's
reserved report of the affair in the Sierra Cubitashas
never insisted upon it, The Cubans ayouch, upon
letters received from Nueyitas. that not Quesada'
but one of his lieutenants Arteaga, opposed the
Spaniards there, the main body OF the lnsurgent
forces falling to arrive in time | cannot say that
any account of that affair." given at the time, Is hkey
to afford us the truth; yet though I'll Deleved tha1
the Standards lost far more in men munitions and ar
llery than they confess the rebels also lost large
opuortunitv, commensurate with what appears to
have been an exploit on the part of their foes.
All the tendencies of the situation are to struggle
in which the evils and misfortunes of q guerillera
warfare may become chronic. Those who write Tor
the Spaniards hold the devices Of their enemy IN
supreme ridicule aud contempt. The Cubans, they
saw can never be coaxed To stand their ground, and
when they run, they for dear life, forgetting TO
mount the horses with which great many OF them
are supplied. This elusive kind of warfare is very
exasperating and Of course. the fun made OF 1t is
somewhat in the vein of the laughing hyena, All
arms are good when managed with valor,' quotes
Pero Grullo, with reference to the way the rebels
manage theirs. In New-York," says the Moro
Musa "t they are making granadas lhand grenades)
like oranges-fruit worthy of those who combat with
guayabas" Thus do these cheerful Spaniards jest
and contemn, not always rightly. hut sometimes
wittily. The explanation of caricature OF Quesada
IL that "the troops having killed his horse the
Fenian Committee n. e., the Cubansl III New-fork
send him velocipede." The Cuban banquet there
is celebrated in this witess but suggestive strain
Many Yankees were there, the klud who eat much
and drink more ..
They spoke much they ate much. they drank amaz-
Johnson had not been invited
Washington Cespedes, Agmllera sent their pictures
The name of Lincoln was pronounced one hundred and
fifty thousand times 80 m
They gave three hurralIs for Washington.
SIX hurrahs for Cespedes aud AgullcFa. .
Twelve hurrahs for the hotel keeper who prepared The
Twenty four hurrahs for Lincoln
FUrty-eght grOans for Johnson
Nnetyslx grOans for i, for rho vo,p,eers q, Cuha
Ahd one Couto In discourse v, ry clear and sens
pi declared himself southcrler. Pro-slayery man.
secessIol st an absolntist hbcralis hUTonsta and
drlnker Of water Tbs day, however, he would make
an exception 10 his rule.
Pero Grullo maintains the old joke that the exed
Cubans arc dying of the cold distinguished
refugee with his nose in bad state is thus enthusi
asticaly addressed by a f,llow-countryman just
landed "ls it possible, my friend. thou hast sacrificed
thy nose to the autonomy of the countryf" Several
of the Fenian Committee are IN another sketch
doubled up with the cold. One remarks with a
Spanish idiom that "thc love of country is sweet
over all" !" aud the other says that tho overall Is
wanting. The revolutionary plan of campaign is
rldiculed in a series of caricatres. This Is the or
der of tho day of the Mexican and Dominican
auxiliaries: "Compddritos. If You find oxen, cows
gold, silver, and other stealabes. be hard them
but if you sec soldiers with them you know your
duty-to horse. and spare their lives" The Moro
Musa does not spare the poor prisoners doomed
To the fatal and shameful exile of FernandoPo The
day of their going it jests about saints day. and
suggests O prayer for the souls of MORO and Ca
bana."
Ridcule and contempt however, are not always
In Order The worst ultrast Of the Spanish press
thinks it worth while to acknowledge now that some
good men have gone over to the rebels of Camaguey
or Puerto Principe. And who are those" it asks,
"who follow this infamous leadership Persons
until now very worthy. and whose reputation was
unstained They are the three brothers Molina,
whom we know as worthy valiant and noble
There arc among them Richard Adau and Antonia
Aguillera, honored citizens good husbands. good
fathers. There are Manuel Agramont ana the broth
ers Betancourt. who we can hardly believe could
abaso their high -mndedness by submitting TO those
who to-day mslead them. There. too. is Cornelius
Porro, whose instincts are against dishonOr and
whose heart is sensible and generous" 1t also