The Portland daily press., 1872-10-21
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RYAN gain Preparing TO Invade Cuba

The New York Herald of Friday contains the
following sensational story from its Washing
ton correspondent, relative to fresh filibuster-
ing attempt of Gen. Ryan and associates upon
Cuba:
while General Martin MacMahon, Ramon
Cespedes and Jose Mayorga are attending to
the AFFAIRS OF the Cuban Patriots in New York,
General, w. A. e. Ryan is busily engaged here
in getting up another fililbustering expedition,
with which he says he expects to be able to up-
set all the calculations of the Spanish Cabinet.
and place the means of enfranchisement in the
hands of the struggling insurgents. Ryan has
been at work ON the new venture for six weeks
and now expresses the utmost confidence in its
uccess.
According to his Observation-Disclosures
made here to-day-he has recently received as
srrances from patriots in Cuba that within a
week from the time of landing an expedition, a
force of ten thousand soldiers can be rallied to
his standard, and then if determined stand
can be made in any part of the island body
of insurgents may soon be gathered together
formidable enough to hold the territory against
any army the Captain General will be able to
bear. The promised accession of fresh force
of sixteen thousand Spanish soldiery has by no
means served to intimidate the Cubans, and
they say now is the time to strike, if ever.
With this in view, Ryan claims to have already
obtained subscriptions in this city amounting
in the aggregate to S1S5,000, of which sum $25,
600 are promised by one of the resident foreign
ministers. Such guarantee he considers suffi-
Gent He is now under bonds in over $275, 900,
but expresses the determination not to let that
deter him.
Negotiations for the purchase of fast sail
ing schooner of four hundred tons burden have
already been commenced, The project as near
as can at this time be ascertained, is to fit out
the vessel as longshoreman merchantmen,
load her with wood and put to sea. The cargo
will then be thrown overheard or transferred to
lighters, and the belligerant cargo placed on
the schooner. This will consist of a privateer's
armament for the schooner, and an extensive
assortment of munitions of war for the insur.
gent forces.
Exactly what the latter will be is not yet de.
cided, but will probably include 10000 stand of
arms springfield or Enfield rifles) 10000 re-
volvers, several cannon and large quantities Of
| ammunition of all kinds. 1t is proposed to
| transport all of these stores from some coast
wise point between Florida and Massachusetts,
| ton or Baltimore. 1t is the intention of Ryar
to use the schooner after landing his expedi
ton, entirely as privateer, for which purpose
he claims to hold letters of marque from the
Cuban republic.
By the capture of Spanish merchantmen and
their cargoes, Ryan expects to furnish the sin
ews of war as we'll as at the same time fill his
own pockets. He makes no secret of the latter
intention, and says he can clear S500.000 fol
himselfin six months. The schooner will car
ry five hundred volunteers, a considerable part
of whom will be composed of Cubans in this
country, the whole to be Differed with patriots
and ex-soldiers who obtained distinction dur
ing the late rebellion. If everything should
turn out as expected, the expedition will be un
der way on the LIST of December.
The above are Ryan's confidential state
ments. There is no doubt he is in earnest tc
carry out the plan to the letter, and is now in
correspondence with various parties in the
United States with regard to the arms, equip
ments, &C., of the expedition. 1t does not APP
pear, however, that he has the entire sympa
ent gentleman here, who has long been in ia
vor of according to Cuba belligerent rights and
who has been in many ways connected with
the cause, says Ryan has lost caste with Jose
Mayorga, authorized Cuban agent in New
York, and ought not to be trusted with any
more ventures of the kind he has been under
taking. This gentleman explicitly alleges that
Ryan has repeatedly sold out the cause of the
insurgents
On the other hand Ryan claims to have au-
thority from Cespeds and Mayorga to proceed
with the undertaking. and appears determined
to do so.
Admiral Polo, the Spanish minister to this
country, has already received notification OF
the contemplated expedition.
Mr.. BLAnE's WEALTH-Tre Pittsburg.
PENN Commercial has been led by the spirit
of malignant rancor toward Speaker Blaine
exhibited by the Tribune, to make the follow.
ing statement: GAS to his being millionaire
it is to be presumed the assertion is merely one
of those extravagant statements which belong
to the literature of heated campaign. But as
to his being poor man in 1853 every one ia
miliar with the coal trade and the value of coal
properties in our immediate vicinage on the
MonOngahela River knows the assertion to be
completely at variance with the fact. Long be-
fore 1863, indeed, as far back as the Democratic
administration of President Buchanan, it was
well known that Mr. Blaine owned one of the
finest coal properties on the Monongahela,
which returned a much larger income than
Congressional salary, many years before he
was candidate for Congress. This fact the
Allegheny county registry of deeds establishes
in the most indsputable manner and we refer
to it simply to show how wild and reckless the
Tribune has grown to be in its charges against
conspicuous and influential Republicans. 1t
should be stated, moreover, that the business
reputation of Mr.. Blaine in trade circles, where
he is well known here, stands very high Those
who are familiar with his attention to Details
his industry, his energy, his enterprise, and his
integrity, find no cause for wonder in the fact
that he has become, not millionaire, but
man of independent fortune, destined probably,
in the development and advance of his prop
erty, ultimately to attain to the possession of
large wealth. Will the Tribune have the can
dor to state these simple facts?'
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