Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-16
The Excitement Over the Murder
OF the Crew Of the VirginiuS
Increased and Intensified.
The Feeling in Havana Favorable
to Continued Butcheries-In-
science of the Press.
The London News Believes the
Fate of Cuba Deeided-The
Island to be Absorbed by
the Union.
The Navy Department Actively
Engaged in Preparations for
StOrm-epiniOns of the
Press, Etc.

? PROVIDENCE, November l5.-The Os
sipee arrived at Newport early thi
morning. She will take a supply of tol
pedoes and probably sail tonight fo
] Cuba.
VIGOROUS PREPARATIONS.
; PHILADELPHIA, November 15.-
Seven hundred men are fitting the mon
itors Ajax and Msnhatten, and sloop
of-war Canandaigua, for service. Tn
monitors carry fifteen fifteen-inch Dahl
? green guns and the Canandaigua carrie
ten guns. The monitors will be place,
in commission early next week, and tn
sloop-of war with fortnight necessar,
7 repairs to her boilers, causing delay +
hasten the work on the Ajax. Work
men upon the new slOOp-of-war Quin
nebag have been transferred to her.
A DIABoLICAL SCHEME.
NEW YORK, November 15.-The Her
aid publishes what purports to be an in
terview between the captain-general @
Cuba and one Colonel John n. Young
wherein the former proposes that tn
latter organize an expedition in tn
United States composed of all Cuban
! it is possible to enlist, embark on boar
a slow steamer, and then give such in
formation as would lead to the sure cap
ture of the expedition. For this servic
! Young was TO receive twenty thousanI
dollars. The Herald says Young is nov
in Jail in Chicago, awaiting trial TO
! forging a postoffice mOney-order. Th'
alleged interview is said to have takeI
! place in 1872, and the captain-general i
| made to say that the members of the eX
! pedition captured would be shot.
Al HAVANA.
HAVANA, November l5.-Great anX
iety is manifested here to see the com
ments Of the American press upon tn,
capture of the Nirginius and shooting o
! the prisoners. There is q general feeling
that it is desirable to have all prisoner
executed as quick as possible, before thr
government Of Spain, OF any other pow
! er, can get chance TO interfere, though
some of the better-feeling portion of tht
people deprecate haste, and fear it vii
! lead to serious results.
THE CONsTANCIA NEWSPAPER SAYS:
"Nomatter how much our country ha
! fallen in the last few years, the Spanish
people have not become degraded to thu
extreme as to be frightened by those
who might have to pay dear for theil
! iusolence in the event of Intervention
| We lament the bad situation of the af
! fairs OF our country, but we are far from
beiliG daunted by foreign complication
Msybe we ought to desire them, il
order to liberate US from miserable
marty intrigues. Spain is not de-
generate. and all bad passions viii
! Immediately becoLse quiet, when there
| is apy prospect of a f2reign war. The
| stronger powers know this, and their in
| triging politicians ought not to forget 1t
Unfortunately the Spaniards give more
! Importance 20 the latter than they
merit.n The COHStGHcid also says
"When the news of the capture OF tht
! Virginius was received here, it wa
| thought something would be tried t
| prevent the pirates from receiving thei
| lust chastisement.n The address o
General Burriel to the soldiers is
VERY BOMBAsTIC.
describing the chase and capture of tht
Virginius. He says:"The Tornado belch
ed forth flames instead Of smoke, goins
at her fullest speed. She finally came
up with and captured the Nirginius
! which was taken possession Of with re
peated cries of ViUd, Espid p from tin
! Tornado's valiant crew. Without tn
slightest resistance, one hundred ant
siXty-three men delivered themselves
quietly up, having cowardly throw
] overheard, during the chase, the arm
which they ought never to have grasp
ed, and the military equipage confde(
to them to defend their igpOble cause
| This goes to show and to confirm th'
poverty of our enemies, and demon
strates their impotence against tht
armies of Spain, WHICH Providence
manifestly favOrs."
THE sEGOLIDAD COMPLAINS
/ Of the ineXactness of press Telegram
which stated that the Virginius wa!
captured near Jamaica, when, according
] to the official statements, the Nirginiu:
/ Iyas eighteen miles from the coast o.
Cubs, When the chase began she headed
for Ja;uaica, a distance of about ont
hundred i,liles. The chase lasted abou
eight hours, both steamers going at full
speed, and both being fast vessels, theS
must therefore have been very near ia
maica when the Virgirius was captured
But as is known, all the navigators ant
crew of the ViTginius have been killed
and the Spaniards can put the distance
at what they please. The mails, PEI
steamer Frankfort, from New Orieani
were seized by the government ant
their distribution has not yet been per
mitted.
| ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION
HAVANA, VIA KEY WEST, Novembel
| uAo F,fIourf,,.r of.ao1rfaf pf tla event
at Santiago de Cuba, have been received
here: On Friday morning, seventh
| tbirty-seven OF the crew of the Virgin
Jus were brought on shore, and taken &
| the prison, to remain there until thei
execution, which was ordered for tha
afternoon. Captain Fry, a noble-lOOk
ing old man, fully head taller than thu
rest Of the crew, when he met his mer
ON the wharf previous to the march Il
prison, saluted them all. The salute
was returned with affection. At forty
| five minutes past four o'clock, Captain
Fry and thirty-six men and officers wer'
| publicly shot, despite the protest of all TIT
| competent foreign authorities. The ina
| rines were seven minutes killing thu
| Wretched prisoners, and il seemed a.
they would never finish. At last th'
sailors marched of, and the troops flee
past
THE LONG BOW OF CORPSEs.
Then the dead-ca were hurried up an'
loaded indiscriminstely with the man
gled remains. The American Consu
did all that could have been done. In
deed, It was threatened that his eXqua
tur would be withdrawn for his exer
1 tiOns in behalf Of the prisoners In al
| interview with General Rurriel, tina
officer yelled at him and otherwis
treated him disrespectfully. The British
consul also made sn Intellectual protss
| against the executions. IL Is reporte'
that sixteen of the victims were Aritisl
subjects.
THE LOSDoN NEWS THINKS.
LONDON, November 15.-rhe Dali
Nea0s this morning, in an editorial art
| Gle on the prospects Of the annexation {
| Cuba 80 the United States, says the exc
cution of the Nirginius prisoners ha
/ virtually decided the fate of the island
The other London journals contain ed
torials Of similar tenor. The SPANS
loan reached the lowest figure this morn
ing vet touched on the London st0cl
market.
RUrIoRs AND EFFECTS on WALL STREET
NEW YoRK, November l5.-Gold &C
vanced TO l10 this morning, althOug
Il afterward receded one per cent. oul
/ side the gold-room. The general III
preston In Wall street IL, that theI
Hill be no rupture between the govern
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