The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-22
army and navy will always be indie
structible."
SPAIN WILL NOT GIVE Up CUBA.

SPAIN WILL NOT GIVE UP CUBA.
La Union Constitutional publishes
today numerous interviews with lead
ing politicians and other Authorities on
the situation. The trend Ct all is to the
effect that there is no raeso for war,
but that Spain will defend her posses
sion of Cuba to the last drop of blood.
Some OF the prominent Cubans inter-
viewed are represented as saying that
Spain can count on the support of all
peaceable creoles.
La Lucna in today's issues says edi-
torially that Juan NJ. Ceballos. of New
YoTk city, who recently visited Presi-
dent Mckinley for an interview on the
Cuban question, has no authority from
or standing in Cuba or Spain and asks:
'"Whom does SenCr Ceballos represent
in Cuba?"
The American yacht Buccanneer,
which has been expected here to take
the remainder of the congressional
party north is more than forty hours
overdue at the time this dispatch is
filed, and there are fears that some
accident has befallen her. Messrs.
not to wait longer, and left for Key
West today on the Aranzas.
FINDINGS BY THE DIVERS.
1t is hoped the wreckers will find
tampiOns in the big guns; n if this
proves the case the guns can be saved.
If otherwise, and the marine growth
has ruined the softer steel of the cores,
the breech mechanism can be used in
other guns. Today another ~1-pounder
and tive of the three - anchors, with
their chains, all very valuable, were
raised, and the swords of First Lieu
tenant of Marines Catlin and Lieuten-
ant F. w. Jenkins.
Two batta4ions of Havana volunteers
are drilling in heavy artillery exercises
at the Cabanas fortress. The Vizcaya
is still coaling and it is now %announc-
&c that she will probably not go to
Mexico. The Montgomery left his af-
ter1oon for Key West.
LEE NOT SEEKING OTHER EN-
PLOYMENT.
Consul General Lee, interviewed to-
day as to the report that he had ap-
lied for H. Maitland Kersey's former
position as New York agent of the
White Star Line, said there was no
truth in it whatever. Il AVE not made
and do not contemplate making appli-
cation" said Genera Lee, for any
place of any kind. I propose staying
here to look after American interests
until my own or the Spanish govern
AASA III 1Ctdii.
WEYLER'S THREAT OF BLOWING
UP THE MAINE.
New York, March 1.-THE New York
Journal his afternoon prints a state
ment written by Honore F. Lame, the
newspaper correspondent recently ar
rested and searched by Spanish officials
in Cabanas prison, Havana; and later
expelled from the island. This is the
opening of LANES statement:
"On January oath, ait 10 o'clock ait
night, l met in the cafe Inglaterra, the
headquarters of the reporters in Ha-
vana, Francisco Diaz, a reporter of the
rabid Spanish paper La Union Con-
stitucional, with whom 1 frequently
exchanged news. On asking him if ne
had anything to give me, he took from
his pocket a letter and handed it to
me, saying: 'Weyler wrote this letter
to Santos Guzman, who sent it to Move
(the editor CT The La Union Constitu-
cionaD fer him to read and write an
article on the acceptance 10y Weyler of
the candidacy for deputy to the cortcs
for Havana. I took this copy, which
o can keep"
The following is the alleged letter re-
ferred to above:
His Excellency, Don Frarcisco de Los
Santos GuZman, Havana:
MY distinguished personal and po-
litscal friend:-Since the latest events
I have changed my viaws about the at
titude which CIR political party in Cuba
ought to sui If 1 Rave thought
before that it was more dignified for
us to abstain from the electoral con-
test, I believe now that it is a patri-
OTIS duty for us to go to the polls. Our
success cannot be doubted; neither can
our majority of voters, nor that, with
a programme of defence of the national
honor, we will have side by side with
us adj those luke-warm politicians who,
though Spaniards by heart, are de-
ceived by h inside combinations Of
Moret and SagaSta, and take as scien-
tific solutions of our colonial problems
what are really dishonorable hurnilia-
tions Of u country before the United
States.
Write on your flag, The Flag of
SPAIN Defense Of National Honor;
and 1 offer you my name as your can
didate. After having commanded dur
Cuba the title I shall be more proud Of
is that of deputy from Havana at the
cortes of Spain.
by the way, I have e these days
that the Americans are pondering
about sending one OF their warships TO
that city. During my command in
Cuba they did not even dare to dream
about it. They knew the terrible pun
ishment hat awaited Them. / had Ha-
vana harbor well prepared for such
an emergency. / rapidly finished the
work that Martinez Campos carelessly
abandoned. If the insult is made /
hope hat there will be a Spanish hand
to punish it as terribly as it deserves.
is in better health h his
friends could have expected, and not
withstanding how morally sick I feel,
breathing this humiiia ting atmosphere.
Is we'll; also your affectionate friend
and servant.
(Signed) VALERTANO wEYLER.
Madrid, January s, 1885"
Lame says that he read the letter
and pigeon-holed it. When the Maine
arrived he called at the Office of The
Union Constitutional to see Diaz, in
an effort to ecure the original of the
letter. Some days after the Maine ex-
| plosion Lame met Diaz, who asked