New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-31
Gubuu Matters

A dispatch from Hsvans. dated oesssa
ber 10, says:
Last week the Cubars made quite hand
some capture of q pretty large convoy. sent
out from Puerto Principe for one OF the
the forts on the line of the Irochao Some
ammunition was obtained.
PanchO Jiminez has been doing good ser
vice in the CincO Villas with his little army.
He has been collecting horses and cattle
and driving them into the Central Depart
ment tor the use of the main body OF the
army under General Maxine Gomez, safely
crossing the Trecha with bis droye of four
footed achievements
General Concha has no hope of ever being
able to put down the struggle by force OF
arms. He has asked the Madrid govern
ment for extraordinary powers, IN order to
issue proclamation offering general am
nesty to the Cubans in the field as we'll as
those abroad, as the only means OF ending
the war. The Madrid government refused
to grant him power for that purpose.
Four hundred and fifty soldiers arrived
Yesterday from Spain. They, with the re-
mainder of the regular soldiers, are to be
Immediately sent to Puerto Principe, and
al the colored tremen and the newly drafted
men who have been gsrris0ning the Las
tunas fortress are 70 be sent to the Cinco
Villas district. COnoha is going to con-
centrate twenty-eight basfaliOns in Puerto
Principe in order to attempt to check Che
Cubans. Every convey lately sent out from
that place has been obliged TO have an
escort OF no less than 1000 men. The fire.
men are all colored men, formed into bat
tallions, otiicered by white men, and armed
with rifles and ayOhetS-nOvel weapons to
operate against . fire. These troops have
done good services in garrlsoning the dlf-
ferent forts and intrenchments.
Yesterday morning duel took Place be-
tween lawyer named Mendo Figueroa and
a Young man named Jose Csstellanos, son
of q lawyey of AOtoriety. A newspaper
article which Figuer0a published against
the father of young CastellanOs, accused
him of extoreiOn for having in settling up
an estate charged q fee of several hundred
thousand dollars. fOung Castellanos had
an interview with Figueroa, and asked HIM
to retract his stateWenss. EiguerOa refused,
whereupoa young Casteilanos struck
FiguerOa with o cane. A duel ensued, IN
which young Castellsnos was killed at the
fourth fire, q bullet striking him ~ she
middle of Che forehead.
Young CastellanOs was very mitch esteem
ed by his acquaintance, and his untime)y
death is deeply regretted. He Jeff a wife
and q child only five days old.
The elder CastelianOs iS a MeXicans and
is is said that his lscord ia his native coun-
try is none of the best. UeSbtained notOriety
and was decorated with cross by the former
Queen of Spain fOp fighting duel and kill
ing his man in Mexico for having uttered
some refractory Eemarks about ex-QueeR
Isabella. He was obliged to leave Mexico,
and came to Cuba, where he was awarded
good position under the government and
later began practising lavs
Mendo Figueroa is a lawyer or some noee'
formerly an employe Of the government,
| and . man of upright character ioung
: Castellanos was buried this morning. Sew
erai other duels are talked of as being or
! the tapis; one resulting from the above and
another between sw1 partners n q 'ner
| camille house,
| BY a late decree % Genera: Concha the
| taxpayers are notified that half of the
treasury bonds of the last issue will be re
ceived in part payment of taxes; that ia
the extraordinary tax of ten per cent on IT
comes, said treasury bonds to be destroyed
in the manner and proportion as the Span
ish Bank bills, thus funding the issue.
Several persons have been imprisoned il
Trinidad upon suspicion of holding inter
course with the Cubans in the field, an
also on account of being closely connecte
with some of the principal leaders by famil
ties.