Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-11-17
THE CUBAN MASSACRES.
A SPANISH HOWL FOR MORE BLOOD.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AROUSED.
NOTES or PREPARATION At US. NAM YARDS.
Opinions AZ Home and Abroad.


corning the virginius, no kilograms having
been received from Havana by the Secretary
STAR. The kilograms from General Sickles
since that time merely ackno Wedge the receipt
Of the instructions. The conference between
General Sickles and the Spanish Minister OF
Foreign Affairs will probably take place early
this week, and the result be promptly reported
70 Secretary Fish by cable. No kilograms have
been received confrmatory Of the reports OF
executions since those of the 4th, tn and Sth
instant.
HAVANA REPORT OF TIE MASSACRE.
The following account OF events at Santiago
day morning, the 18th, thirty-scven OF the crew
of the Virginius were brought on shore and
taken to prison, to remain there until their exc
cution, which was ordered for that afternoon.
Captain Fry. noble looking old man, fully a
head taller than the rest of the crew, when he
met bis men on the wharf previous to the march
returned with affection. At 4:i5 p. m. Captain
Fry and thirty six men and officers were pub
licly shot, despite the protest of all competent
minutes killing the wretched prisoners. 1t
seemed as il they would never finish. At last
the saior marched off, and the troops filed past
the loIg row of corpses then the dead-carts
were buried up and loaded Unfortunately
with the mangled remains
THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH coNsuLs IN
SUITED.
The American Consul has done all that could
have been done, indeed il was threatened that
his exequatur would be withdrawn for his exer.
view with General Burriel, this officer yelled at
him and otherwise treated him unexpectedly.
The British consul also made an Intellectual
protest against the executions. 1t is reported
that sixteen Of the victims were British sub
jects.
HOWL FOR MORE BLOOD.
The Voze de Cuba says a conspiracy has been
discovered in Holquin and the surrounding
jurisdiction for rising simultaneously with the
landing OF the Virginius expedition. The plot
ha q extensive ramihcatl0ns throughout the is
land, and was to have been carried int execution
on the first of November. Many persons have al
ready been arrested, and the arrests are daily
proved gully of taking any part in the CON
spiracy will be judged with the utmost severity
ACTIVITY AT THB BROOKLYN NAVY YARD.
About five thousand persons visited the
Brooklyn navy yard Saturday, many of them
being in search of work, not taking into
account those who went there for purely per.
sonal motives. The officers of the yard say no
time since the war has the general public
evinced such interest in the affairs of the navy
yard. No secret is made of the fact that ORDER
have been received from Washington to pre-
pare all available vessels in the yard for active
service as soon as possible, and well-informed
parties say orders have been issued TO prepare
for sea at once every vessel in the United States
navy. The frigates Minnesota and Colorado,
each carrying fifty guns, will be ready for sea
w wit days CaPtain Ransom does
petent to contend with the Spanish flgate
Arapiles, but believes one of our monitors eau
thslly put u snOC clear through ner and disable
her machinery. 1t is not true that orders have
been received from the Navy department to
stop work on the Arapiles.
Chief Engineer Sewell said that the only YES
sells at the yard now available are the Colorado,
the Minnesota and the Juniata. The Swatara,
third class screw steamer of $40 tons, and car
has not received her machinery. The Susque-
hanna, which has been laid up at the yard for
several years, is not only wholly out of repair,
but can never be made fit for service. The
second-class steamer Tennessee, of 2,135 tons
and mounting q guns, which is now lying at
the foot Of 9th street, East river, to receive en-
equipped under several months. The great
tOuble was that Congress did not grant money
enough for the repair of vessels as soon as they
Ransom, executive officer at the yard, said that
officers from the construction and engineering
departments would leave to-day for New Lon
clad Dictator, and report her condition. The
Dictator is sec0nd-rate screw steamer Of the
monitor pattern, Of 1,I59 tons, and carrying two
both the Colorado and the Minnesota could be
got ready for sea in sixty days, or, in an emer-
gency, in one half that time, if sufficient men
at the yard is / eco, none having been added
since the news from Cuba. A great number of
applications for employment are constantly
received from mechanics and laborers,
but the appropriations do not warrant
their engagement without special authority.
All the Spanish vessels are ready for immedi-
must undergo preparation. The Colorado and
Minnesota are both screw steamers of the first
class, ranking with the Franklin, Niagara and
wabash, as among the finest vessels in the
navy. Each carries forty five heavy guns, and
Is manned by crew of six hundred men, The
Colorado Is Of ,oS2 tons and the Minnesota of
while sent to Newport for torpedo experiments,
is ready for other service at an hours notice.
He thought that the Powhatan might be ordered
to Philadelphia to convoy two IRON clads 10 Key
West. The chief officer of the receiving ship
Vermont received an order drafting twenty
five men to the Worcester, the flagship of the
dered to proceed from the Norfolk navy yard to
Havana, under command of Rear Admiral Geo.
II. Scott. The men ordered to the Vermont
n. H., have not vet arrived. The Vermont has
now about 200 men on board, and has accommo-
cations for 1000. They are generally fine look
inferior appearance of the understood Spanish
sailors attached to the Arapiles.
PREPARATIONS AT oTHRR YARDS.
Seven hundred men, the full force of the
day en- the monitors Manhattan, Ajax and Can
andalgua, and worked from I:30 until 3 O'Clock.
The Manhattan will 60 into commission to-day
Pinta, large tug, is being made ready as dis
patch boat to sail between Key West and
Havana. There are being put aboard four nine
inch pivot guns. From New York the Powhattan
and MonOngahela are expected daily. The
former VIII act as convoy to the Manhattan. In
the latter vessel workmen are engaged in plac-
ing torpedo booms The United States steamer
Worcester, flagship of the North Atlantic
squadron, has dropped down from the navy
yard in Norfolk to the naval anchorage of Town
Point. She will probably sail for Cuban waters
early Tomorrow. The United States steamer
Ossipee, after taking q quantity Of torpedoes
aboard, sailed from Newport at noon yesterday
for Hampton Roads.
SECRETARY BRLKNAP EXPRESSES AN OPINION.
The Secretary Of War, who was in New York
city yesterday, is reported to have said to an in
innate friend who called on HIM, "You are
aware that i have been considered somewhat
bl0odthirsty on this matter, but the entire Cab
met are now Of my mind. At the Cabinet meet
ing Friday we were q unit. And IL the Amer
lean people are not satisfied with the measures
resolved upon at that meeting, they must be
very hard to please"
A Richmond dispatch says James p. CoWar-
din, recently captains clerk on the United
states steamer Yantic, left yesterday for Nor
folk, to sail on the nag ship Worcester for Cuba
as representative Of the New York Herald NJ
P. Handy, Of the Richmond Dispatch, and W.
@. Elan, Of the Wing, left last night on SINH
lar duty--the former representing the New
York Tribune, and the latter the New York
HENRY WARD BEscHRR OF THE SITUATION.