Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-02-17

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Autonomy TO be Proposed to the Pat
riot Lead-r--The Volunteers again
Refuse TO Fight-Vaimsseds's report
medios-W omen ON Trial
HAVANA, JAM 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 Colonels agreed 10 consult their men,
aud day or two ago brought back the
suggestion that 1900 men from Spain
should be called for, declining at the same
time to move from their present quarters.
/ This Is significant, and Count Valmaseda's
recent communication does not mend mat
/ ters. He denounces the brave and enter
prising Benegassi as insubordinate, and
avows 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 importar ce, that the reason of Gen.
De Rodss's attempt to move the Volun-
teers eastward, wac poremptory order by
Cable from the f.sgent's government for an
interview vita 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 have 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, ne will lodge himself in the Caban-
as, and thence operate boldly against the
"a H. IL. hot h L.
to Principe merely to obey orders, and en-
tsrtairs 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 400 of his men in encounters with the
enemy along the road. Another letter
from Spanish merchant at San Juan de
los Remedies reports fight almost in view
of that city, in which the Spaniards lost
five officers and 80 soldiers, and the rest
ran away. He frrther states that the in
surrection is ma.nHg progress among the
Cinco Villas anC 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 incarcsrate5 since the outbreak
of war, and the following, at latest advices,
were being tried by ccurt-martial: Donas
Victoria Wales. GARNER Correa de Carbo--
nell, Rosario Cortasa de Rubirosa, Rosa
Perez Valdes, Placida Perez Valdes, and
Dolores Perez de Alfonso. You lave 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, 24S insurgents were killed, 81 were
captured, and 551 horses were seized. The
negro, DOrotes, commanded body of Gre
oles lately surprised. near Mount Vaginal.
la Nina RIGA and Minas 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 out