The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-09
THE PROSPECTS OF CUBA.
From the N. Y. sun

The prospects of the independence of
Cuba are improving in the island itself, in
Spain, and in this country.
In Cuba the patriots have opened the CAM
paign by assuming the offensive in the East
ern, the Central, and the Western Depart
ments, and the men there who year ago
derided the idea that the revolution would
succeed, have now made up their minds that
Spain can never suppress it, In the Eastern
Department. Valmaseda, the inviDcible, is
shut up in Santiago de Cuba, and the bush
rangers as the Spaniards call the Cubans,
are at the very gates of that city. In the
Central district, reinforcements to the Spa
nish forces have indeed been received, but
they are of such a nature as to be unsuitable
even for garrison duty; consequently they
are utterly useless for operations in the field.
Bembeta is said to have gained an important
victory in the Villas district, and although
details of it are wanting, enough may be
inferred from the confession which the Spa
niards make of the loss of three officers
killed and several wounded
General Quesada is said to have landed in
the Western Department, and this is partly
confirmed by requisition made by the adj
ministrator of the embargoed estate Of the
Messrs. Mora, La Australia. for seven hun
dred men to defend it. It is stated that
force of over twelve hundred armed patriots,
with four pieces of artillery, was in the inn
mediate neighborhood; but by whom this
force was commanded is not positively
known. 1t is probably in charge of Colonel
Inclap, and comprises the forces of Jesus del
Sol and Colonel Lopez Queralta. La Aus
tralia is close to the dividing line between
the Central and Western Departments, and
distant about $50 miles from Havana.
In the seaports of the island occupied by
the Spaniards much dissension exists, at
tributable partly to difference of opinion
among them as to how the war should have
been carried on, partly to mutual distrust of
each other as to what solution of the present
dilemma each would accept, and partly to the
certainty that Spain, disguised with the oppo-
sition which the Spaniards in Cuba have
shown to her authority, is at the present mo-
ment using every endeavor to sell the island
to the Cubans.
In Spain the prospects Of Cuba are none
the less fattering; for to-day every member
of the Cortes is convinced of the impolcy and
impossibility of holding the island any
longer. The idea SO bombastically paraded
in the Spanish press two years ago that 'the
sale of Cuba would be the sale of the honor
Of Spain, has given way to an ardent desire,
equally INDUCED in by the treaty brokers in
Madrid and Washington, to find purchaser
Spain has, however, lost her market. Cubs
is valueless except to Cubans, and the United
States will not buy the island. All the rings
and dirty intrigues for purchasing Cuba viii
fail. Neither General Prim nor Bancroft
Davis. the bribe taker, will make any money
out of it. Sidney Webster has returned from
Madrid without accomplishing anything ant
Nicholas Ascarate may as well be recalled
Cuba will win her independence, like he,
South American sisters, without purchase
and, unlike ourselves, without help from
abroad
In this country Cubas prospects are i'm
proving, because the American people ar
beginning to see how their honor and thei
interests have for two years been sacrificed
by the men whom they mistakenly placed il
power. They are determined, through thei
representatives yesterday eleeted, to fore
the Administration to cease its course of de
grading submission to Spain, and to rende
Justice to the Cubans. e.