The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-12

ter and gorgeous aspects while the sense
Of novelty lasted He speaks of many
pleasures in his adventures during this
expedition but, overtaken in due season
by the torrid months. he was driven back.
and took up his residence in the neigh
borhood of st. Augustine
When he left this place in a fishing
smack for Cuba, he had completed
definite set of plans to be carried out on
his arrival in Spain.
Some forty miles sail brought Tweed
and his companion to the coast of Cuba,
some ten miles outside the harbor of
Santiago de Cuba. The fisherman who
brought them from the American coast
did not dare to confront the Spanish
officials with freight which he strongly
suspected was contraband It was a
bri ght moonlight night as they made the
point chosen for landing Tweed had
already become hapituated to the by
ways frequented by his guides, and, even
where he might have taken one of the
regular steamers plying among the West
India ports, he quite naturally continued
his course as he had started. keeping
himself away from the regular channels
in which he might be inconveniently re-
cognized.
There was no kind of habitation with
in sight, and the hour, Notwithstanding
the moonlight, precluded search. Hunt
wrapped himself in the blanket, and was
soon asleep on the rock where they were
left by the skipper There was nothing
unexpected or accidental in their situa-
tion Camping out had been their Gus
tom for some months past. Avoiding
the towns and settlements for the open
country was also their habit. When the
morning came, they looked around the
shores of a bay that curved inland from
, where they we're camping. On the OPP
posite point fisherman's cot was to be
seen, and they observed a boy coming
, down to the beach. They beckoned to
him with handkerchiefs, and he raised a
, lateen sail on the little craft and crossed
| to chem, and bore them back to his
father, who received them at the hut.
After some breakfast prepared here, they
, arranged to be taken up to the city of
Santiago de Cuba-which name the in
/ habitants shorten by using merely the
last, "Cuba." Another rapid drift in
the morning breeze with the lateen sail,
| and they landed upon the dock in the
| city. Here they were promptly con-
fronted by the inevitable Custom House
) officers. A demand for their passports
Z led to the production of what they had
, an American passport without the
, Spanish Vjse at any regular landing
place. They were at once arrested.
Z Their appearance was suspicious, and
/ they were sent on board the Spanish
, man of-war in the harbor, the Cherucca
The routine here was merely one of
7 delay. Tweed notes his walks, his rides
! in the volante, the streets and public
places, the churches and buildings, the
' hot days, and their negro professions
and carnivals. His social contact
through the American, French and En-
glish Consuls' residences, with the local
| society seems to have been free and cor
5 dial, with dinners, picnics and excursions
around the city.
| At last the Vice Consul and the Con-
: sui General, the Captain of the Port at
| Santiago, and the Admiral of Marine at
r Havana were brought into accord, and
he was permitted to engage passage in
s the Spanish bark Carmen for Barcelona
and Vigo
1 On Sept. 6, after a voyage of forty-two
| day, the Carmen arrived in the beautiful
bay of Vigo. Boarded by the Custom
. House and health officers, the anchor
2 was cast at quarantine, small island in
the center Of the bay, where the Laza-
retto buildings stand, and to which they
, were transferred for the usual cleansing
: and fumigation. Tweed found himself
/. formally arrested here; his diary,
papers, and baggage were taken
$ from him and after seven days in the
LazarettO he was ordered to be taken
to the castle Or fortress as prisoner of
state.
Tweed was taken from the little island
t of San Simon, where the Lazaretto
3 stands, over to the city, and, in the Gus
? tody of a guard of Spanish soldiers, he
: was marched up the hill toward the castle
Or fortress that crowns the city of Vigo.
> On his way along the steep road he had
to stop and rest. Here he tried to COM
7 municate with the guard, but his defect
i've Spanish enabled him to make out
with difficulty that he must be held as
prisoner of state. In maze as to what
! his fate must now be, he resumed his
) toll up the hill, and in due time reached
his destiny in the castle Ushered into
, all apartment, he found it to COM
prise stone floor, stone walls and
stone ceiling. There was nothing else
except the door he had entered and a
: narrow window. Theyhad the satisfaction
| at least of being shut in together and
not separated. If they could not talk
intellgibly to the guard, they could at
/ least converse with and understand each
| other. But what was the use :?
| They could not even satisfy them
: selves with conjectures as to the occa-
| sion of their position. Certainly the old
: difficulty about the passports could not
have given rise to all this grim proceed
ing. It seemed very weary waiting until
Z a servant-woman came, bringing two
iron ba1s with baddinr Snanicb facb