The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-23

| A Paris paper has report that Spain is
sounding the United States as to the terms
upon which it will agree to peace.
Governor General Blanco now dlsavows
that General Toral surrendered with his per-
mission, and General Toral will be court
martialed.
Three transports carrying 1900 troops,
under General J. H. Wilson, left Charleston
yesterday to join General Miles.
Three Southern regiments, two from Ken
lucky and one from Georgia, will likely be
included in the Porto Rico expedition. They
will be the first ones from the South to see
active service.
A dispatch from Washington says that the
| President is imbued with the idea OF impress
ing the powers of Europe by sending as strong
a feet as possible under Commodore Watson
to the coast ofSpain The President believes
that such a move will hasten peace, will pre-
vent foreign intervention, and will give the
nations fair idea of Americas naval power.
In addition to five battle ships, two protected
cruisers and three strong auxiliary cruisers,
the fleet may include the Brooklyn, with
| Commodore Schley on board, and the cruiser
| Cincinnati and gunboat Princeton:
General Skaters army in Cuba will not
be paid off for the present. The paymasters
| had received orders to proceed to New I ork
and there take a vessel for Santiago for the
purpose of paying the troops, when General
| Shafter sent a dispatch to Secretary AlSef
advising that payment be postponed on ac-
count of the demoralizlng effect whlch the
distribution of a million dollars would have
upon the army in foreign territory.
! General Miles was again delayed from
making his start for Porto Rico and he cabled
Washington that it was because the navy had
not provided conveys for his ten transports.
1t is believed in Washington that friction eX-
| lists at Santiago between the army and navy
because of the disposal of the prizes found IN
the harbor when the city surrendered.
THURSDAYS DISPATCHES.
| General Garcia is reported to have rendered
his resignation in the Cuban army IN order to
ascertain whether the insurgent government
! backs him up in his dissatisfaction with Shat
| ter.
Garcia has retired to the mountains north
of Santiago, and is planning with General
| Castillo an Independent attack on the Spanish
garrison at Helguin, i'll order to prove to
| Shafter that Cuban troops can do something.
General Miles started from Guantanamo
with ten transports and strong convoy tor
Porto Rico.
The President is said to have become in
censed at Simpsons delay in providing con,
vOys, and to have sent nm peremptoTy anu
curt orders.
The Porto Rico expendtion hes blocked
for IL while the departure of Watson S squad l.
ron to attack Spain.
Admiral Dewey cabed that he has been
Joined by the second expedition of troops,
making 5000 American soldiers at Manila.
An attack on Manila by the American
troops and ships is planned for this week.
Gen. Leonard Wood, formerly colonel OF
the Rough Riders, has become military gov
ernor of Santiago.
Washington officials are no longer hopeful
of an early peace, owing to information re-
ceived from European sources that for the
present overtures cannot be expected from
Spain The conviction prevails in Washing
ton that the war can be terminated only by
striking a blow direct at Spain, and for this
reason the administration will send a squadron
to Spanish waters, despite the intimatious OF
European newspapers that the United States
will not be left free to conduct campaign IN
| Europe.