Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-09-21
A Remarkable eSfOry-HOw Tweed
Arrived I'm Cuba.

NEW YORK, Sept. I3-A reporter, as
certaining yesterday that merchant
of this city, well known in the Cuban
trade, having received letters from
VIM. M. Tweed, paid him visit.
When questioned the merchant admit
ted that he had received letter from
John Secor, that Secor was Tweed, and
that the letter had been written in Gu
ba under the promise that his name
would not be divulged. The gentle
man gave the following interesting and
graphic details of Tweed's movements
in Cuba:
Tweed was landed on a rocky pro-
montory about ten miles from Santa
90 de Cuba by a boat which took him
ashore from an American yacht. /
have also heard that the vessel which
landed him on the Cuban coast was
bound for Jamaica. This, however. is
immaterial. Here, much faiigued and
exhausted, Tweed was discovered by
fisherman, who volunteered to conduct
him to Santiago de Cuba, and they
marched along over the rocky paths
leading tn the city. Tweed was ac-
compapied by man named HINT who,
il mistake not, was coachman for
long time in the service of Tweed, ami
was noted for his fidelity and honesty.
Well, Tweed, owing 10 his heavy
weight, had much difficulty in walking
to the city of Santiago. He was terri
bly, sunburnt, his face being as brown
as berry and very much blistered.
The fisherman who accompanied them
received gold ounce for his trouble,
and led the wandering pair, not to
hotel, but to police headquarters. Had
Tweed and his follower been discover
ed by the Spanish troops on the beach
they would undoubtedly have been shot,
after m-head cOurt-martial, as
American fillibusters, just landed from
jamaica en- route for Cuba Libre'
l cannot tell you what date this was,
as my letter does not giveit. The po-
lice authorities not being satisfied with
the fisherman's explanation, or Tweed's
statement, naturally made in English,
that he was an American citizen, sent
him and on board the Spanish man-of-
war stationed in the harbor as prison.
ers. Tweed and Hunt were accord
ingly marched off to the vessel and
there detained. While on board
Tweed sent for the United States Con-
sui at Santiago de Cuba, Mr.. Young
(whO is now in this country, either at
Philadelphia or Washington,) and de-
manded the protection due to an Amer
can citizen. Mr.. Young, who is q
very fine fellow, instantly interested
himself in the case, and took into his
counsel Mr.. Ramsden, the British Con-
sui. Tweed's passport was found to be
in order as John Secor,' likewise that
of his companion in exile, Hunt
Their release was formally demanded
and granted, and Tweed took I'D his
reeidence at the Hotel de Shy, kept by
Madame Adelia under police surveil-
lance. Here he lived very quietly.
Meanwhile Consul General Hall enter
tanned a suspicion that there was some
thing wrong about 'Secor,' in spite OF
his passport being en- regte. kilograms
passed frequently between him and
United States Consul General at Ha-
vana. Tweed feeling that he was look
ed upon with suspicion was restless TO
be off, and engaged a passage on the
bark Carmen, bound for Vigo and
Barcelona. Tweed, through not hav-
ing his passport Uised by the Spanish
authorities on the 22d of July, caused
the Carmen to be detained till the 26th,
he paying demurrage for the delay.
The night before his departue Mr..
Young telegrsphed to Consul General
Hall at Havana that it was VIM. M.
Tweed who was using the name OF 'Ss-
corr but the dispatch arrived too late
at Havana. Mr.. Hall Immediately
took a carriage and went out of town
for distance of eight miles to find
Capt. Gen. JOvellar to ask him tosend
an order TO detain Tweed. alias Secor.
The dispatch was sent but arrived too
late, the Carmen having sailed. The
authorities. however, both at Santiago
de Cuba aud Havana were made ac-
quainted with the facts in the case and
the news was consequently telegraph
ed over to Madrid. The rest you