The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

Gen, DE Rodas's Mission to Cespedes-
Autonomy TO be Proposed to IN Pat
Refuse to Fight-VaImaseds's Report
and AccUsatfOn-Ftghttng near Re
mediOs-WO omen ON Trial
HAVANA, Jan. 25.-Shortly after the ar
rival of Gen. Carlo from the Cinco Villas
the Colonies of Volunteers were called to-
gether by Gen. De Rodas, who informed
them of the critical situation in Camaguey
and the East, and ofhis intention to march
on Guaimaro at the head of the volunteers.
The Colonies agreed to consult their men,
and a day or two g brought back the
suggestion that 20, coo men from Spain
should be called for, declining at the same
time to move from their present quarters.
This is significant, and Count Valmasedas
recent communication does not mend mat
tiers. He denounces the brave and enter
prising BenegaSsi as insubordinate, and
ayows that he did not move TO meet Pueblo
and Goyencche as ordered, to march in the
direction of Guaimaro, because he saw no
possible chance of success.
have it from an official source of the
first importance, that the reason of Gen.
De Rodas's attempt to move the Volun-
teers eastward, was q poremptory order by
4 Cable from the Regents government for an
interview with Cespedes, in which that
leader should be offered the autonomy OF
the island. As the volunteers are too bru-
tai to consent to anything which may de-
( prive them of their present power. Gen.
DE Rodas would nave been wise to have
shipped them cut of the way. De ROdas
will now leave his command to Gen. Carlo
and proceed to Puerto Principe. When he
returns, he will lodge himself IN the Caban-
as, and thence operate boldly against the
armed mob. He declares that he proceeds
to Principe merely to obey orders, and en-
tertairs no hope of the acquiescence OF
Cespedes to terms of autonomy at this day.
A letter written by an officer under Coy
eneche at Ciego de Avila reports the loss
of 100 of his men in encounters with the
enemy along the road. Another letter
from a Spanish merchant at San Juan de
los Remedies reports a fight almost In view
of that city, in which the Spaniards lost
five officers and 80 soldiers, and b rest
ran away. He further states that the in
surrection is making progress among the
: Cinco Villas and in Colon. Col Lamela
has arrived from Moron, badly wounded.
The trial of women for treason has be-
come frequent in this devoted island. Many
have been incarcerated since the outbreak
of war, and the following, at latest advices,
were being tried by court-martial: Donas
Victoria Wales, Carmen Correa de Carlo
nell, Rosario Cortasa de Rubirosa, Rosa
| Perez Valdes, Placida Perez Yaldes, and
Dolores Perez de Alfonso. You have al
ready heard Of the death sentence of Dona
Fernandez at Espiritu Santo. Donas Cata-
lima Torres and Candelaria Rodriguez, the
latter with her three children, have been
taken into custody near Trinidad.
The Alba, of Villa Clara, states that in
sixty skirmishes which took place in the
jurisdiction of the Cinco Villas daring De-
cember, PAS insurgents were killed, 81 were
captured, and 551 horses were seized. The
negro, Dorotes, commanded a body of Gre
oles lately surprised, near Mount Yaguial,
In Nina Rica and MIinas Bajas, 81 ranches
have been destroyed. Near Villa Clara,
Espiritu, Trinidad, and Sagua, various
skirmishes are reported by the Spaniards.
Between Cienfuegos and Trinidad they say
that a camp of insurgents has been sur
prised, and $50 of them left dead upon the
field. in the Cinco Villas district, $50
tenanted places have been destroyed. tits
proposed at Cardenas TO increase the civil
guard to 5000 men. Any observer Sf the
situation will be able TO judge from these
desultory facts, all Of them from Spanish
sources, that the rebellion is not by any
means crushed ont.