The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

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a Revolt ofNatIves Of MaIabon
Manila, September 27.-The .Am4ri-
can authorities have declined the re-
quest Of General JaramiIa, the Spanish
officer who is setting Spain's military
affairs in the Philippine islands, to send
a vessel under the Spanish flag TO col
lect the Spanish prisoners at i~nsurgent
ports, Us stipulated by the Filipinos,
on he ground that the ports are closed;
h a such a step, therefore, would be
unlawful, and because they declined
to accept the Fflipinos' dictation. The
authorities are ready to send an Ameri-
can vessel. The Spanish commission,
therefore, will return to the %insurgent
lines and endeavor to affect an ar
-rangement for the delivery of the pris-
Oners on board an American vessel.
Aguinaldo has issued a statement
saying the warlike activity of the
Americans has prevented the concen-
tratiOn Of The prisoners, as intended,
but that they Will be delivered UP OctO-
Der 18th.
The Tagals of the island of Minda-
a have expressed their readiness to
accept American sovereignty in ex-
change for protection against the har-
asslng MOros. 4 native chief offered
Major General Otis 1000 Macabee
tribes.nen to fight the Tagals of the.
Laguna de Bay district.
The insurgents are trying to incite
the natives of Malabon, a CITY of 30,O0
inhabitants, five miles from Manila, to
rise against the American garrison.
Captain Allen has been holding the
yJnrn With n nuo nnT nn n io- of tho Siv-
teenth infantry; but, on account Of the
need of all the available men at the
front, his force has been reduced to sew
enty men. They now remain near the
big church., where they are quartered,
being too few in lumber to attempt to
patrol the town. Armed, uniformed
parties of the insurgents recently dis
embarked from cascOeS during the
night, collected money for the. insur-
rection and preached revolt. Two a
OrS have been elected, but both of them
have declined to serve.
Malabon has been made the shipping
point whence provisions and other stuff
are brought from Manila by rains and
shipped into the hostile territory. The
insurgents seemed to be trying TO make
their good treatment Of the American
prisoners q card by which to gain out
side sympathy. Two Englishmen who
have arrived here from Tarlac report
THAT the Americans are treated more
like guests than prisoners. They are
fed on the best that the country af-
fords and everything is done to gain
their favor.
A Filipino paper says that on the &C.
casion of a recent fete at Vittoria, in
celebration of a mythical Filipino vic
tory, the American prisoners were
given freedom of the town and five
pesos each with which to celebrate the
victory
The Eng1ishmen also say the Filipinos
have offered all the Americans COM
missions in their army and that three
of them have accepted. This is not be
lieVed.
The American officers north of Ma
nila tell the correspondents Of the AS
ISOLATED Press that A~guinaldo is at
tempting to enforce good government,
after the American fashion. He order
ed his soldiers to suppress a band Of
robbers, three of whom were executed
ait Mariquita. He has also prohibited
gambling in the villages under his con-
troll. Palermo, the president of the So
called Filipino cabinet, has fallen into
disfavor among the Filipinos on &C
count of his peace proclivfties. They
suspect him of planning to repeat bis
treachery of the former instruction.
When he went over to the Spanish, and
they may expel him.
Aguina1do has issued a decree invit-
ing Filipino deserters to return within
a month, in which case they will be
pardoned.
Manila, September $50 a. m.-Gen-
erals Macarthur, Wheaton and Wheel
er, with our regiments and a battery,
advanced at daybreak this morning up
on Porac, about eight miles northwest
OF Bacolor, in Pampanga province.