The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-01-13
CfMPDS 4 Fan UR n.
Four Generals sent Home Under Arrest
More sugar Estates Burned.

HAVANA, Jan. G-With the exception of
the news OF one insi nincant capture.-a colored
rebel named Paltcios. taken In the neighbour
hood Of santa Clma-which the Diario copies
from III Aba OF that place, the city newspapers
are as silent ON military erations as II no civil
war existed.
But the complete failure Of the "invinci.
bic" Martinez-Campo3 Is becoming every
day moro papable. since his return home
from the Eastern Department. or rather from
Santiago do Cuol-ippirently he did not
attempt to 90 into the interior from
that city-he has been nursing his wound
and chaarn in Villa Clara and other cities Of the
Villas District. lie left Trinidad by the Valley
Railroad on Dec. q. In military sense he has
done absolutely nothing. His offer Of Ave dol
lars to every reDel who shall surrenderts laughed
nj, even by the Spiniirds. VINO declare that II ~
only an ADVERTISEMENT Of tue poverty Of the
treasury.
l have obtained the following statement from
person IN the palace VINO should TO well in
formed. Whether 10 Is correct. or whether IL Is
only q fiction launched by Gen. Mattinez-Cam-
pos to account for his want of success, cannot
say. IL Is. that's Santa Cl ra. Gen. Cainpos sent
sealed instruct ns to four OF hts Generals in
command OF divisions IN that department.
These sealed instructions were ACCOMPANIED nv
Others, in wuicn the Generals were Instructed to
open the sealed ones only at "A specified nour II
specified day. Is fore that day Gen. Cimpos
thought TIT - modify the ord rs contained IN
the sealed dispatches, whicn, II l. said, related
e. an important combined movement Of the di.
visions to whose comm indcrs they were al
dressed. lie sent mcSsen iers for the sealed
packages. fhey were oil four returned to him
with the seals broken. inc four Generals,
VINO names have not been able to ascertain,
are under arrest. and will leave Tor Spain on tue
next steamer, 10 report for rial at Madrid.
\ good many people pfeIi ted trouble ahead
when they learned ot The swollen 5. al Of gem
eral officers which Gen, CtmpOs brought with
hlm. Is cropone Que somewhat sooner even
than was anticipated.
Two more su1 tr estates both earrisoned by
ANAL bodies OF Snanish troops. have peel de-
strnNed In the Colon iIriSdicfioa, aud one in
Sagua. nat the sugar cropw Will he late l. set
tied fact. good IN NY estates have not yet
begun grinding, although In normal times al.
most AL are Ia fun swing by December IL. That
the crop Will he vers snort is equally certain /:
aud II Is best proved by the ntxn prices wnicn
the few hogsnea1s arriving at the outpOsts con-
mand.
The cr,ndiloq1ent promises published In tho
pprs Of thi, city at the tine Of the arrival here
of .ne Maud BlrD lur and the turee sailors VINO
escaped of the coast of Ioud Lras, from the
captured steamer Mpctezun t-nuv the tubi III
insn-Of war tc-pcdcs-htye not a, yet been re-
de- med. she mas not Yet been tOwc1 int, the
haroor with ner "pirIticai ciptOrs' dangling At
the yardarms. In fIct II looks As II the Sp tnish
navy had fJurht rather -hv 81 ner. | n iticp
that several navy vessels h We Uecn l,tely or
dercd rHund to ticufuesu-. Is the exp anatlon
fear that the tespedcS may take a notion To
test ths quality VI ITS shells on That tempting
target