Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-21
The Butchery COntinues-FOrty
More Victims Shot to Death,
Three Of them Women.
There May Not be War between
Spain and the United States,
but Cuba will be Free.
Speech ON Cuba by Colonel Avery
when Member Of Congress
from this District, Etc.
MORE nfAssAcREs.

fn6uL 10 get Itdu1 lOi sea ~ tiS ColhO0e
moment possible, and proceed to Cuba.
He expects his vessel to be out OF the
drydock in twenty days, when nothing
viii remain to be done except to take
ON her powder and armament. Or the
six passengers arrested on the steamer
City of New York, at Havana, three
were women, and one niece OF Al
DANA. Extensive correspondence was
found secreted about their clothing. By
this correspondence many persons on
the island, hitherto unsupported, were
implicated, and as the Moro Castle left
Havana they were being shot without
mercy. 1t was estimated that about
forty patriots, on various portions of the
island, had met this fate.
GOSSIP AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, November 20.-Evi-
Ciepce aecunulates that Cuban matters
will require much correspondence and
cause quite a delay. 1t is asserted in
prominent quarters that no cOmplica-
lions need be feared; the administration
sees its way clear, and while war will be
averted, the probability is that Cuba
will be free. The navy department Is
ordering officers to the Franklin, Colo
RADIO, Brooklyn and Dictator, soon to
sail for Cuban waters. The secretary OF
state has received the following dispatch
from Consul General Hall:
HAVANA, November IS. 1875.
The consul at Santiago reports, under
date of November 18th, that the total
number of executions of persons from
the ViFginius was fifty-three, and that
there had been no executions since
the eighth instant, and the statements
published on the fourteenth, respecting
the fifty-seven additional executions,
prove untrue.
THE VIRGINIUS AT KINGSTON.
KINGSTON, IA, November l0.-There
was no cOncealment made of the erranC
of the Virginius while she was here. il
was notorious that the officials hac
dancing parties on board, and public
meetings Were held in honor of Cuban
indeDerdence, at which the consigned
of the Virginius occupied the chair
The steamer was repaired while in port
and coaled at the expense of the Cuban
refugees. While at POrt-au-Princl
several Jamaica merchants, 81
colored, on board the Virginius, became
alarmed and ran away, but they wer
hunted ND and dragged from their place
of concealment and delivered over L
| the officers of the Virginius, by whom
they were taken on board again and pu
| in irons and forced to go on the perilou
adventure. Captain Macarthur, of thu
| British schooner Brilliant, reports tina
! Just before the Nirginius was captures
| General Verona advised the firing o
the pOwder-magazine, and the ccnse
quent blowing up of the vessel
rather than that they should fal
into the hands OF the Spaniards, but tht
| CAPTAIN persuaded and convinced Gen
eral Verona that, being under the
American flag and in neutral waters
they would not dare to touch a man Ol
board. Verona and his followers there
upOn became satisfied, and shortly ate
an officer from the Tornado boarded th'
/ Nirginius and demanded her papers
! The officer, after the inspection, states
! that
THEY WE'RE CORRECT.
! but made all on board prisoners. Neron
replied that he was prisoner becaus
| there was not an English or American
man-Of-war near, to witness this scan
dal on the laws of nations. He adde
that he could have blown up the vesss
with all on board, but he had not don
50 since her papers were correct and sh
} had not been seized in Cuban water:
The American flag was, he considered
their protection, and he surrendered /
b said, under the protection of that fla
but believed he would be victimize'
since the Spanish government all alOI
lhated him. Captain Macarthur witnes
/ ed the execution of Ryan, Verona, Jes
del Sol and Pedro Cespedes, and give
the following
STORY OF THE HORROR.
The Spaniards forced Cespedes al
Jesus del Sol to kneel, in which pos
D ton they were shot in the back by u
: soldiers. They next directed Ryan al
/ Verona to kneel in the same way, b
, they refused, and were seized and throw
> down handcuffed. All the time the tV
victims begged their tormentors to 8
low them to die standing, and haviI
b offered further resistance, they we
= shot standing. Fifteen officers of q
!. Spanish army, who had been made pr
oners on a battle field by Verona, we
present when he landed, and went
the governor of the city and
} BEGGED THAT HIS LIFE SHOULD ]
SPARED,
, since he had given them theirs. II
{ acting American consul, on hearing IN
RYAN was to be shot, waited on the go
+, erpor, and demanded his restoration,
1 an American citizen; but the govern
refused to listen, on the ground that {
consul was not well informed in Tega
to the matter. The Spaniards inform
the cOnsuls that they were acting
their own responsibility, and did 4
>. even intend communicating with Ma
rid.
CUBAN MATTERS AT MADRID.
MADRID, November 20.-Senor Pc
tain, late captsin-general of Cuba,
/ rived in this city, and since has been
close conference with President Castel
= The report that Senior Sailor, the colo
ial minister who was sent on q spec
e mission to Cuba, had been summoned
!. return Immediately to Spain, is cont
= dicted.
the IlapeTial asserts that the '
i ginius was openly equipped in the P
~ Of New York. The Spanish press, g
d orally, praise President Grants mode
= ton in reserving for congress the set'
I ment of questions which have arls
- between the United States and Spain
J. THE EANIIkMEN1 O0bolb1N0s
!. NEW YORK, November 20.-The 4
~ 5stne has information that the demo
10 stration over the capture of the '
= ginius and execution of the passeng
= at Havana, has greatly subsidized. I
- news of the second slaughter at SAINTS
N was not received with the same enthI
If asm, though nearly every one express
!, satisfaction. Jouvellars.was understood
VI be strongly in favor of the course tai
~ with the captives at Santiago. 1t
apparent a change in public sentim
III is being wrought. On the fifteenth
number of prominent citizens expires
regret that the execution has been T
y formed SO hastily. In private cow
- sations it is apparent that many "
4 doubtful of the wisdom of a hasty e
ar eutiOn.
- Colonel Tenn Avery ON Cuba ana Cu'
10 Independence
- In looking over the debates IN
y gress upon the acquisition of Cuba,
p long before the war, we find in y
n carefully prepared speech upon that :
\ - iect by our then representative, ID
ne w. 7. Avery, some very interest
k facts and arguments, some extracts n
IN which II will not be inappropriate