The sun., 1870-06-22
The Truth about Cuba-FaiIure Of all
Sprn nish Efforts.

From ne S,Jrdgo Unirersai Of Madrid, Nay 20.
Is the Eastern Department psciied' Its paci-
hcation was celebrated many months ago by singing
the 7t dsun, but there stil remain In II, as ever
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the head Of the Govern
ment, his chief OF sta, Marmo Aguilera, aud other
chiefs, among the latter the very Mnrcano who has
been killed 80 many times, but who seems, by last
advices, to have come 10 life again. The department
Is psciAed. but vamaseda has never been able 10
go 10 Camaguey, either TO have Q conference with
Rodas, or to assist in the grand combination which
wns decided UPON from the Central Department.
All that he was able 10 do was TO spread sanitary
Gordon to prevent the insurgents from the Central
passing into the Eastern and IL Ia well known that
this line WINS broken through. after bloody fght,
by the forces or Gomcz and Modesto Diax The latter
thus trea,ened ih| retrea, oil Vamaseds orees
position-so precarious that, according to the last
letters received here nom spaniards there, tie
l. the Department OF the Cinco villas paeihedt
The orly man absent from there is Cavada, who has
gone tn replace Jourdan In the Central Department;
but Bemteta, the mos, decided and rreconclable
enem, have. Is there: tie boldest, for he raised
tie shou, FOR rebellion In Puerto Principe before the
day OF Yara the man who !. was stated would follow
the exsxplc set BY Napoleon Arrange, and who
proved Il by taking t,e chief command in ile Circo
Nillas. All the other clies vita him .here, eN-
cert Arredondo. who l. ceaselessly busy bosieging
santo Espritu, villa Clara, Cieniuegos, and rrini-
Gtines on the south, e:i on the north as FAR as
Colon, few lergues only from Havana where for a
long while Jesus del Sol has maintained himself VIII
aH rnhez-d.of ttmerity.
Finally, Is the Central Department pacihed'
Alter seventeen months OF fighting. when IL was
stated that II was dio'o finished the Captain Gen
erh of the Island was Obliged to go and dircct in
person the operations of army or 12000 men oi
course he only went was ,,id to give The ins ur
There are his.despliches They tell OF grand and Uys
terious combinations movements OF columns under
sealed orders who return after disastrous marches
| without meeting the enemy. or after n bloody
| fight, like the last Of which any sceount has beer
100 but OF the loss on our side not word Is said
but 1t may nevertheless be estimated, for among the
severely wounded were oLe colonel and sunory on
GERS. Telegram dated the day before stated thai
there only remained small bands of armed rebels.
He may tell Us what he plesses, but notwithstand
ing his 1900 men, and his my ysterous combinations
there IL Cavada, who bore the whole brunt OF tn,
war in the Cinco illis there. also, are the SAINT
Camagueyan chiefs as ever, with the main bulk
the forces Which compose the nucleus OF the insur
recton there, also are tufhcelt troops to send of
columns which break through valmMeda's line
and threaten To cut Off his retreat; there, also, III
socalled House of Representatives and the real cen
| tre OF its so-called Government which, right In th
and cecrees which respected and obeyed even b.
Generals-in-Chief as Quesada and Jourdan, who lef
the command Of their troops on simply being re
Qucsted 10 do so BY dozen or two of young men
who constitute that Government which We 80 muc'
pretend to tespise but which is in reality more re
spected and better ob-yed than either that OF ou
Captain General, OF that OF the Home Government
| What then has ,abaero de Rodas done In Cumd
guey. The insurrcctipn is stronger than It wa
erecting fortincatons in Najass, sbancu, Cascorro
and We know not how many other places.
The writer proceeds 10 prove logically that the
outposts In such desert and ruined country car
only be sources OF weakness, and that the eneu!
can attack and capture such with ease. He say
that wars OF this sort can only be carried on b!
breaking up the forces into small bodies, or by
concentrating all the forces that both have beei
tried and tried in vain. At frst large forces wer
| concentrated In the cities, but by doing this tn
insurgents were enabled to possess themselves o
the whole Of the country. aud held the cities con
stantly besieged. TGen the system Of subdiridin
the forces was attempted, spreading them all owe
| the country in the small towns villages
and hamlets but this course was foun
TO be still more disastrous. for these small deach
mcnts were easily surprised, rs at sibana Nueva
San Jose, III Horno, and in other places Then u
concentration system was tried again. with II,
SINE result as previously, and now II appears III
disastrous one OF subdivision OF forces is again
be adopted, which will leave small column
exposed to any combined attack Of the insurgents.
| The only result Of all this is that every netho
so far uied has proved Intellectual. and IN all prob
bity every method we may Try will prove equal
so because the Inhabitants OF the country hate y
and we have b., our oostinacy forced them to wal
war 20 the death
This is the real state Of things in Cuba to-day.