The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-01

gunboat Infanta Isabella has just ar
rived there, probably TO watch for fill
busters.
It is rumored that the governor gem
eral has declared Matanzas and Santiago
de Cuba in state of war, and troops have
been pushed hurrIedly forward.
Cuban leaders claim that they have in
side information that Gen Lachambre.
with 2000 men, has been defeated by the
Insurgents Cubans here are wild over
the news, and are subscribing literally to
aid the cause
A special TO the Times Union from Port
Tampa says; The steamship AIascotte
arrived here to-day from Havana. bring
ing cuban advices up to yesterday. The
: press reports of an insurrectionary move
ment on the island are confirmed. The
daily papers Of Havana are devotng
small space TO the uprising and seem to
consider it of no importance, but these
papers are for the most part under gov
eminent control. From these papers il
appears that there have been uprisings
IN the provinces Of Matanzas and Santi-
ago de Cuba. and that conflicts have oc-
CURED between the government forces and
bands Of insurgents, in which one or
two men have been killed and several
wounded. The insurgents seem to move
about In small bands, composed of fifty
to 100 men, and in no case has a collision
Il
FL Pois, a government organ, confirms
that the report that Gen. Marti and
Maxine Gomez, revolutionary leaders,
are in Cuba. The paper says they are at
Matanzas, but are taking no active part
in the uprising
Passengers on the Nascotte report
everything quiet in Havana and say that
the people there seem to take no interest
in the uprising. The government author
tiles have suppressed the radical papers
La Nerdad and La Iqalidad.
THE six representatives Of the home
rule party, who We're sent to the Cortes
in Madrid, have telegraphed friends in
Havana that they are coming home.
They say the Spaniards laugh at them
when they suggest reform in Cuba, and
that they are convinced that home rule
can only be secured by arms.
THE government authorities in Havana
ridlcule the idea of anything approach
ing an organized movement. They say
that the uprisings reported in the interior
are of no consequence, and that every
thing will soon be quiet.
"Fernandino Figueredo Of Port Tampa,
who was a colonel in the last Cuban revo-
luton, said tonight that the reports Of
the movement to free Cuba sent out
from Havana and appearing in the press
dispatches this morning are highly inter-
.esting. They have absolute control Of
the cable he added, and nothing at all
Objectionable to them can 20 over the
wires. They sneer at what they call the
the insignificance of the uprising, but
they fear it just the same, of course the
number of revolutionary troops so far en-
gagged is small, but this is only a begin
ming. Within thirty days the revolution
lists will have 10000 men in the field scat
tered over all parts of the island, and
with millions of money behind them and
constant additions of men from the
United States and South America, they
will be invincible.
You ask if this uprising is part Of
the general plan for the freedom OF Cuba
or only an accidental outbreak unauthor-
lied and ill-timed. 1 answer unhesitat-
ingly that it is a part of the general plan.
There were four distinct and separate
outbreaks on Sunday and Monday. by the
end of March there viii have been over
hundred of them. These little engage
ments will be followed by pitched battles,
Cuba is prepared to spill her blood for her
freedom
"Ravino Gutierrez, the Spanish vice con-
sui here says that he has had no official
advices from Havana or Madrid since this
alleged revolution began. He laughed
when questioned as to the seriousness Of
the affair They make no more account
Of it in Cuba he said, than we would in
Florida over a strike of hundred labor
ers 1t means nothing. Why, l nave let
ters from people in Havana written last
Sunday in which they speak Of balls and
parties and dinners, but make no mention
of a revolution. Talk of free Cubal I tell
you the Cubans are the freest people in
America to-day. 1t is only a few who
want freedom by the sword.