Connecticut western news., 1896-02-27

party of Cubans who had started to board tbe Bermuda
 The Bermuda was an English built steamer, formerly running on tho Outer bridge limo. She was recently purchased ny firm suspected of being In league with the revolutionary party. Last Saturday she was taken to the coal docks at Port Liberty and there ooaled up. Then sho wont to the Liberty island am choraRo.
 Clearance papers wero taken out for tho Bermuda to sail to santa Martha, United States of Colombia. Application was madc at tho office of the British consul after tho closing hours of business Co ship crew.
 A vice consul innocently went aboard and signed the crow on the ship.
 Everything was made rcady for depar~ ture The Spanish spies watched all this. and, snspocting that the steamer would take aboard men and ammunition last night, prepared to selze her.
 General Garcia Taken Prisoner.
 NEW YORK. Feb. 2d.-The capture af the steamship Bermuda by federal officers. reported in those dispatches yesterday. is . serious setback for the cause of Cuban independence The expedition was by far the largest and best equipped yet plan
 
 try to nssist General Gomez and his bravo men In thcir struggle for freedom. Undoubtedly the cubans had boon be. trnyed, for instructions were sent from Washington several days ago to watch General Garcia and his lieutenants and incidentally tho steamer Bermuda. Besides the arms captured were four haws of silver, containing t4,Oo0 In spanish sols and pesos, and tho tags on the bags showed that they had bocn put up hy Han | dy & Harmon, hrosors, of s2 Nassau street In all l6i men were arrested. They wore all taken to the federal building and discharged by Commissioner Shields with tho exception of five. Those arrested and held, accused of violating tho neutrality law, are:
 General caiirto Garcia, leader of the ex. petition.
 Benjamin !. Guerra. treasurer of the Cuban jun'a
 Captain Samuel Hughes of tho tugboat Stranahan.
 Captain John Brabszon, in command of the Bermuda
 J. D. Hart of Philadelphia, who char tered the vessel
 The mon were represented hy oloote Meetre & Gonzalez, attorneys, of 3b Broad. way, and Mir. Amargura of Havana, who refused to allow them to plead. They gave cash bail, and their examination was sot for March 3,
 Garoia's Work For Cuba
 General Calixto 6arcla hns beon con. demned to die twice by the Spanlsrds, but each time he escaped. He Is h6 years old He took part in tho meetings in which tho plans for the revolution of 1868 were laid. With Marmal and 15o men he captured three towns in nine hours on Oct. IS. 1868. In that rsvolution ho wns in command of the eastern district He directed the hat. ties of Corteyal, Bayamo, Larzal and the desperate struggle mt Santa Maria. He will lead another expedition as soon as ops portunity offors, for he Is patriot to tho backbone and does not know fear.
 At tho offices of the junta. co Broad way, it looked blue yesterday. Tho offices were crowded with Cuhans and thelr sym. pathisers. They all refused to talk about the raid.
 "wc did not authorize tho expedition" !" they said, "and we did not know anything about 1t until VIC saw the stories in tho papers. We know General Garcia by repu. tation, but we did not know that he in- tended to start an expedition. The expc- dition was private one, and we had nothinR to do with it.