New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-20
CUBA.

The Prisoners Delivered to the Junfata, ,
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, December lS.-The
NlrglnIus' survivors have been delivered on
board the Juniata, which will bring them
TO New York.
Dispatch from Consul General Hail.
HAVANA, December l8, 1873.
To the Secretary Of the Navy. Washington:
Commander Braine legraphs you as fo' =
lows:
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, December l9, 1873.
The prisoners of the Virginns have been
delivered to-day December l8). | shall
sail today for New York. The Kansas and
Canandaigua are here awaiting orders.
HALL, Consul.
Filibus:ering Expedition Landed.
HAVANA, via Key West, December I9.-
1t Is reported that q steamer, named the
Santiago de Cuba, has succeeded in land
ing a nilbustering expedition On the south
ern coast of tho island between Guanta-
nanis and Santiago.
Important Insnrgent Victory.
Advices from the insurgent sources state
that column of 500 Spaniards set out ON
Monday last to surprise depot of arms
and ammunition near Guayanino but fell
into an ambuscade prepared for them by
General Gomez, with coo cavalry. Only
lCO Spanlards escaped. Their commander
and 2UO soldiers were killed and the re.
mainder taken prisoners. The Cubans sub
sequently released Guerilla, Major Martel-
lque and other officers, and, alter attend
ing to the wounded, sent them under escort
to the vicinity of the Spanish lines A
Spanish column. under Colonel Arniman,
Us started in pursuit q the insurgents.
Appeal for Freedem of the Press.
Representatives of the republican journals
OF Cuba have waited on the Colonial Min
lister and presented u document renonstrat-
ing against censorship, and declaring that
their journals will be compelled TO cease
publication under it's rules
The Havana Press ON The Pre- sident's
Nessage.
The Diayio, of to-day. comments on the
Presidents message. Ii says the person
who teegraphed that the President ex-
pressed hlmsef moderately in that part of
the message having reference to Spain told
an untruth. Certainly, the President ex-
pressed a moderation of satisf fed vanity and
aim accomplished in treating of the Virgin
lus affair; but the paragraph about Cuba
deserves the qualification of "infamous
LIBEL given to it by El Cronista
This paragraph and II reorganization of
the Insults, calumnies and vulgarities which
have been established every where against
loyailsts here, are now published in au off
cial document, which ought to distinguish
Itself by correctness of style and elevation
of ideas. The President handles the oues-
ton OF the interior rule OF Spain, the pro-
gress and solution of which belong excIu-
sively to constitutional powers within
the Spanish nation. He assumes a kind of
protectorate or guardianship, which would
make even the weak and pusilanimous
blush, and which we repulse, p1eierring
death to dishonor a thousand times We
protest against tho document in The name
OF the Spaniards Of Cuba.
The Fo= de Gaia saysof the message:
ment, which should form an epoch
in American official literature OF tho
part referring to the island Of Cuba
the I0- says: "fhis in nothing re-
sembles those diguited documents. ele-
waited in views and language, in which the
iirst magistrates OF republics are accus-
toned to give an account 10 Congress, or
rather to nations Of it's internal or external
relations. 1t appears impossible that Mr.
Fish could advise or consent to such doc
ment The President descends into to him,
unknown regions, and NEEDLES with what
is not his business.
The interior affairs'of Spanish proyinces
are not under his jurisdiction and surely
he ought not to treat them in manner as
Tar removed from truth as from decorun.
Let Grant demand the surrender of the
Flrglnlus If his conscience permits, but he
must let alone the political parties and
interior matters OF our country, thing which
are never to he medded with.
"He should remember that no nation is
more Jealous than the American of similar
and as the pretensiousness of
Great Britain was the prime cause of the
war OF 1872, We, initiating the noble con
duct OF Americans Of that time, are resolved
TO die, If we can not conquer, before allow
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