Year: 1873

plan OF action. wish you to return to the United
States Immediately and set about


ORGANIZING AN EXPEDITION


for the relief and assistance OF the insurgents.
You must raise money. enlist good men TO assist in
organizing, get arms, ammunition and all sorts OF
and enlist " ali the cabans and Cuban sympathzers
possible; also obtain slow sailing steamer for
transporting your men and and supplies, and see
manned by an experienced and loyal
crew. You can organize at any American port
Orleans is best adopted or the purpose. Keep
me informed from day TO day by cypher kilograms
or your progress. Let me know the fastest speed
the steamer can make, also the day on which you
will sail rom the port you select ana the course
you WIN take and tne polnt @ wnere you WIN pro
will enable me to select u faster sailing steamer
and have her cruising on the course which you Sc


OVERHAUL YoU AFTER A SPIRITED CHASE,
you having done apparently all in your power
TO escape. When taken, make every appearance
OF resistance you can, and talk loudly about the
cause which you are seemingly engaged in: DC, Do
you command, and will give you


TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD
and half Of the proceeds nom the sale OF the
steamer, arms ammunition and supplies.
Young, after considering the matter, replied
substantially as follows


what will be done with the men captured"
CAPTAIN GENERAL with shrug OF his shouders)
part of the scheme. The public Will demand that
YoUNG-Great God, General! do you wish me

Of innocent mem 1t is desperate piece or
business; but consent osorv 70 engage g rS, IN
and engage some thirty American men who have
seen service in the rebellion TO work with me-
spire confidence and er enthusiasm @ , among the men
cannot consent to any arrangement whereby
Sne one. Of In my 20 own conntrymen win lose mis- life.
PREVENT THEM FROM BEING SHOT
| as well as myself2


| CAPTAIN GENERAL-Before you SAIL manage to
| send me list OF the names OF those whom you,
desire to save, and win manage TO have you ana
blind the others, and when executed they will not
know but you are TO share the same fate.
YouNG-General, have not the heart to do IT,
| 1t seems to me like murder, aud cause that re-
! sorts to such means cannot succeed.


sma al ynsS
life IS nothing here. Were it known that you
protect you from violence or scarcely protect my
SELF Enter into this agreement and sign this
quences win follow.


IMMEDIATELY SIGNED THE PAPER,


and apparently entered heartily into the treacher-
time was praying for deliveraIce from the island
and from the snare the Captain General has So
aare led h to the nG
Dental line now served him, and the General was
made to believe that Young was earnestly and
heartily devoted to the work.. The details were
arranged in very few days, and, with
A BOUNTIFUL SUPPLY OF FUNDS,


His departure was as secret as his arrival for II his
presence heen discovered BY the volunteers he
his body '' retained as pisis relics W once IN the
land OF the Tree and nome OF the brave he,
Of s course ,sn,i abandoned the expedition which @
not until he had made one or two drafts on the
Captain General. The latter, however through his
course, no no. longer ns'' lorthcomins Now now the
win arise, Was the vrgnius fitted in this way,
and were the 100 or more men so cruelty murdered
in order to save his own reputation and prolong
weak and dying cause, did not hesitate TO con.
ceye and execute one Of the most daoolical and
inhuman Outrages known to civilizations
IF THIS STORY OF YoUNG's Is TRUE,


Those who know the man, and have listened to
it, have full confidence IN his veracity. There are
grounds for the belief that the Virginius and her
crew were the victims OF similar conspiracy The
HERALD tells the story as 1t came from Young HIM
SELF and 1t was listened to by HERALD CORE.
spondent as long ago as last August, and the


%t him nce Il S the
serious attention Of the government. and in order
Young. your coTrespoHdents viii disclose his
whereabouts and few interesting incdents OF
his eventful career.


awaiting trial for forging post oIce money orders.
Generally tie statements OF jailbrds and w0uld-bc
heroes are OF no account, but in this case there
are reasons for believing that the whole story is
true. The statement was made four months ago,
anu WHcH tdhcH luto cuSluuy NC Hdu u LTuHk Gull
tanning several passports in Spanish, commits
son. Issued to John W. Young as a deacon
OF a church in Wisconsin and policy OF insurance
upon the farm buildings OF the iather-ln-law OF
Young to the amount OF S40 000 which are believed
to be forgeries. Among the clothing In the trunk,
was richly embroidered military coat, which
Young asserts he wore when an officer under
Maximiian In Mexico There are also
CARDS PASTED ON THE TRUNK,
showing that he had been in Cuba and Mexico and
o multitude OF documents, printed and written in
Spanish, together with several communications
from the Captain General, all OF which go to con-
firm his story.