The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1869, Page 4

4 BA. Reign of Terror Havana. The in PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION. Working of the Amnesty Pro- clamation. LABORS OF THE PEACE COMMISSION. Rumored Capture of Cespedes and Aguilera. The steamer Columbia, Captain Van Sice, arrived yesterday from Havana with a full list of passengers and the mails to the 30th ultimo. Among the passengers we notice the names of Don Antonio Borchiller y Morales, Don José M. Morales Lemus, and several other eminent Cubans, whose arrival here at this unusual season for tropical visi- tants has doubtless some significance, Our letters given below will be found to contain interesting details regarding the revolution. The Reign of Terror in Havana—The Spanish Volunteers and Their Barbarity—Details of the Murders at the LouvreSacking of the Aldama Maunsion—Oficial Correspondence Between the United States Consul and the Captain General. HAVANA, Jan. 28, 1869. Since my last we have had something akin toa cayuival of blood in this city—-a culmination of the intense enmity which exists between the Cubans and Spaniards, and which, tong repressed by the arm of authority, has at length broken out in violence, murder and assassination, This feeling on the part of the natives has for its object more particularly the Spanisu volunteers, organized by Lersundi, who, while energetic in support of the revolution which relieved Spain from a yoke, are none the less so to retain the one on the necks of these islanders. The battalions consist of seven, numbering in all between 5,000 and 6,000 men. soon afier the breaking out of the insurrection are mostly composed of well ordered citizens, but others of more recent date are made up of employs in the saloons, cafés and warehouses; they ure men with- out property and consequent interest in the tsland, with everything to gain and nothing to lose, mostly uneducated and brutal in their instincts—the last body of men to be entrusted with arms in a hostile city, save under the severest discipline. When not on duty they have been aliowed to carry their wea- pons to their homes, in the streets and coivee house: and their demeanor, ofttimes insolent and overbear- ing, has excited the natives almost to madness. This feeling toward them on the part of the Cubans has shown itself in the killing of a number of them, shot down by concealed foes. It is impossibie to es- timate the number of those thus taken off. But it has been suflicient to arouse the most malignant pas- sions in the breasts of the worse. part of the volun- teers not naturally inclined to moderation, and in their blind wrath they struck at random, careless of hitting friend or foe. ‘The first overt demonstration took place on the night of the 22d inst. at the Villa Nueva theatre, as mentioned in my last. Its immediate origin it is ex- tremely hard to get at, since the authorities afford no information, and look with suspicion on those seeking it, while those present, if not prevented by their alarm from understanding tue real condition, state icin accordance with their sympathies. The performance was undoubtedly intended to be purely Cuban in its character and, as far as prudence would Permit, a demonstration im favor of the msurrection. A disturbance was anticipated on both sides. La Prensa, @ Spanish paper, called attention to it in its issue of that day, and advised ail well disposed per- sons to be on their guard. Several iadies who en- tered the theatre before the curtain rose, wearing | Cuban colors, were greeted with cheers for their bravery in coming to sucha place at such a time, and im addition to the guard in attendance large | numbers of volunteers were seen lurking around by those living in the vicinity. Nothing but a spark was necessary to set the trainin motion. Perhaps, as stated, this may have been a seditious cry, an in- sultfrom a Cuban to a volunteer, or the color of a Jady’s ribbon. It resulted in a body of volunteers | fring indiscriminately into the audience and killing somne seven innocent people, besides wounding many others who have since died. ln vain officers in at- tendance called on the infuriated soldiery to cease fring. They were beyond control, and it was only through the presence of mind of a high official, who caused an opening to be made in the back part of She theatre, through which a large portion of the gudience escaped, that more injury was not done, Those passing out at the regular entrance were examined to see if they had arms about them; but as these were mvariably left m the building none were discovered upcn their persons, Numberless stories, scarcely worthy of repetition. are told of individual cases of outrage it is c tain that @ lady wearing the obnoxious colors was | seized and these torn from her in a most brutal man- ner and she compelled at the point of the bayonet to cry “Viva Kspaha/” During thejnight shots were heard at various localities throughout the city, and | the greatest terror and confusion prevatiea. On Saturday appeared in the papers the following Proclamation of General Dule HAVANA, Jan. 2, 1990 CITIZENS OF HAV ANA—Last n greet cocanhal tas ted; one which will be punished with all the rigor of rn Those Ottized | tion to the few anuque arms kept as curiosities, scattered about, they at once commenced to destroy. Valuable pictures were pierced with bayonets, busts of various members of theJamily, taken in Europe, were broken; heavier pieces of furniture were ruined, magnificent and costly articles of virtu were ecolen or ruined, and every arcle in many of the rooms destroyed or ured. One of these drunken fends set fre toa bed curtain, both that and the bed, but for the entreaties of the least infamous among’ the volunteers would have burned the house. They closed by 01 two of the ice” iene tomato left the house. mated at between $30,000 and $40,000. ‘The family, the outages whieh had already been perpetrated on American atizens, Among the most painful of these was the shooting of Mr. Samael Alexander Cohner, a pl pher, formerly of New York, and weil and favorably known there. Mr. Cohner’s body was picked 4 by the police on the street, and the accounts of ni death are numerous and contrad! r. It that he had gone out from luis house to call at residence of a friend, whose family he had promised to look after in his absence; that, attracted by firing, he had gone to the Ariete saloon, in the vicmity of the Louvre, and was there shot. A gentleman who claims tw ha be an Mr. Cohner was seated at a saloon referred to, and that while there several vol- unteers entered, who, with fixed bayonets, demanded that he should cry “Viva Espana!” He answered, “Why so?] aim an American citizen,” when they im- mediately fired and he fell dead. Upon Monday morning General Dulce began to make most ener- getic efforts to restore order. He sent for the volun- teer chiefs and addressed them in the strongest !an- guage. He stated that the conduct of their men had disgraced the volunteers, heretofore so orderly and eflective, beiore the world; that their conduct had been monstrous, barbarous; that they had flred upon innocent and inoffensive peopie; that they had en- tered the house of an innocent man and good citizen and destroyed bis property, and without authority or provocation. ‘This was the act of brigabds. They were ruining themselves, too. It is well known that the volunteers belong mostly to the commerce. “You are driving away (he con- tinued) your customers from the island. Noone will remain here if they can get away.’ He reminded hat the g miment had & knowledge of ail and would look after thera in due ft the soldier was simply blind @ to authority. He closed by tuformmg the cor anders that they would be hela personaliy.re- sponsible for the future good conduct of their men, and dismissed them. lt is stated that several of these o@icers took considerable umbrage at the very strong language addressed to them vy lis Ex- celiency. - “ Meanwhile orders were sent for certain regauiars Stationed at Matanzas and other points not far from Havan; ye here at once. In the afternoon of Montiy Tid? regular forge here, consisung of rterymen agd gugifiécrs, together with the ma- rines froin the Vessels in the harbor, with the better class of volunteers, were placed on ly at various points througuout the city. A quiet night followed, and there has beea no disturbance worthy of record since. 1t 1s currently reported that the Spanish popula- tion is much incensed agaist General Dulce, who is thought to be too much in sympathy with tle Cubans, aud his assassination hasecen darkly hinted at, A few evenings since a persou called at the Palace at a late hour and insisted upon seeing his Dxceileacy. His conduct excited suspi- ciou, and he was arrested and searched. Upou tls person was found a long sharp Knife, with waich he doubtiess intended to Kili the Captain General. He was iwprisoned for further examination, At the time of the disturbances herein recorded there was a slight outbreak in Regia and Guana- bacoa, on the other side of tae bay, but tue volun- teer forces at those points prevented any rising. ‘Troops have arrived here from the country, and it 1s stated that cerfaia of the volunteers will be sent to the field at an cariy day, ‘The British Consul General called to see General Duice on the subject of these disorders, The General received him with bis wonted courtesy and express- ed his mortification at the melancholy resulc of the riots, and assured him that proper steps had been taken to prevent a recurrence. ‘The Consul General for the German Confederation, who had more to compiain of, as two or three Ger- mans were wounded at the affair in the Louvre, made a respectful demand for reparation of mguries received and security for future tranquillity. More than 200 members of the German cluv have ad- dressed a memorial to their Consul, setting forth in stroug terns, and denouncing as they deserve, the infamies of the volunteers, and insisting on his de- mauding tmmediate reparation for the serious in- juries received by their countrymen, ‘The following is the communication addressed to the Consul of the United States, resident in this city, by Amecican citizens, Mostly natives of the Island:— HAVANA, Island of Cuba, Jan. 25, 1889. To the Consumof the Uniton States Of Amerioase ‘The undersigned, citizens of the United States, under a feol- ing of terror which the want of individual security always in- spires, represent io your Hxcellency that since ihe night of the 224 of this present month the volunteer militia organized by the lute representative of the Spanish government in this laland are commiltiog seandalous abuses, Without any regand whatever to rigat atid justice. Thia militis stops all passen- gers on the st whether natives or { and obliges them to ery out “Long live Spain! killing those who refuse todo so. This militia commits all klads of depredations; entering into the domictls of respectable citizens and destroy. ing their furniture, ‘This militia has killed on the night of the 2th the American citizen M. Ooluer, who was going quiet'y to his bome, This miltia, encouraged and backed’ by the tolerance of the government, threatens more and more each hour that the security of the citizens of the United States and that of the eltizens of other friendly Powers. Members of that militia are ent ing into public saloons and ing people to ery “Vice 0" Therefore the undersigned appeal to you, sir, 80 by every available means you may guarauites their lives, their families and their sacred interests, The republic of ‘the United States of America, which watches so closely the interests and the welfare of its citizens,cannot suf- f to be made victims of an uorsined sol And ery. you, sit, as the representative of our rights, as. the protector Of our lives and interests, should protest against these acts of vandalism, and at the samme time demand the necessary help of our goverament in order that the citizens who still jive shall be respected, and to exact due satisfaction with regard 1 those who bave Leen already assassinated by the Spanish militia. The undersigned are confident that without any lose of time you will demand that which your patriotiam exacts of you as the representative of our nation, because every hour thas passes may be fatal to the Americans who reside in the city. Whereupon the American Acting Consul General addressed the following gommunication to General Duice:— CONSUUATR GENERAL or THR 7 UNEFRD STATES OF Amzntca,’ Havana, Jan. 25, 1860. "\ Nov Mr. Samuel Alexander Cohner, pho- tographer of le Oxelliy, and a citizen of the Uuited States, was murdered in Consnlado street, corner of Ban Micuel, on the night of the 24th, His body is.at this moment in the handa of tue police. 1 respectfully request your Ex- geliency to give the neseasary orders that Iv be delivered to f. Cohner’s representative, wan A. Suarez, who will gs so the proper burial, pt a View of what’ has ocoutred I a to your x eeilency for the protection to Sebeh hp conten eatin in the city and otver parts of the talaud are justly eutitied, and it you also to the most energetic measures (or and punishment of the murderer of Mr. Yous Exc the iaw. Some of the disturbers of publi custody of the tribunals. Veace(l citens, confide in your | authorities—defeuders all of the intesrity of the national ter. ritory and honor. Justice will be done and speedily, | DOMINGO DULCE. | The above document, though so skiifuliy framed as | to commit the writer to neither side, had not much | prrire Ad quiet the public mind. Business was | | practically suspended during the day. Large num- bers of volunteers were going about drunk, arms in hand, compelling people, both native and foreign, to ery “Vica Espana!’ and the ectty was practically given up to the control of an armed mob. The siecione egg on ad was gonaed vith people dur- Ing the day, seeking protection, and many began making preparations to leave the city, A number of outrages were perpetrated on Ameri- can citizens, accounts of which are embodied ina communication from the acting Consul General of the United States to General Duice, herewith for- warded. It is impossible to record all of the outrages committed, for, as reported, they @re innumerable, and I will notice but a few aa examples. In Jesus del Monte an apothecary, with bis assistant, while seated at the doorway of his shop, Was fired at and mortally wounded by a party of soldiers. They afterwards fired a volley inside, destroying the greater part of the stock. On the morning of the 2th a number of persons were found lying dead in the street, among them a poor countryman lying by bis horse, both killed with « musket ball. On the 25th a gentieman was shot dead in the Campo del Marte by a party of voiun- teers while passing peacefully aiong, and was left | Don where he fell until afterwards removed by the police. | A Cuban woman, herse:f the wife of a voiunteer, ncensed at the i aoe coe her countrymen, seized er husband’s musket and fired at a volunteer passing, killing him instant She was seized ana amid the hootings of the soidiery, with her arms tied behind her, was hurried of to prison. It ts the subject of general remark here that the | Cuban ladies are much more enthusiastic and out- | spoken in their sympathy with the insurrection than the men. On Sunday evening an affair occurred at the Louvre, @ popular drinking house, near the Tacon theatre, whi in blind brutality surpassed all that had occurred before, The facts, as related to me by an eye-witness, were as follows:—The saloon, as | usual, was very fall, although owing to anticipated | trouble very few Cubans were present. As a volun- teer force was passing @ number of revoiver shots were heard, fired by on the roof, Others | fay the shots were from Tacon theatre opposite, ‘The volunteers immediately rushed to the entrance | of the building and poured a volley into the room, where were seated a large number of peaceful gen- Uemen enjoying their referscos and vie ing five or six and wou @ much greater number, besides stnashing the mirrors and other fur- niture. Seven battalions of volunteers were soon on ‘the spot, together with a small force of regulars, to whom may be attributed the prevention of @ still more extended butchery. Aimong the wounded were we young Gertan clerks in commercial ere. Ata later hour @ party of voiunteers entered the elegant and Ly mansion of Sedor Aldama, a eee and wealthy Cavan, pretending to search lor arms, Ths building is the lar, private resl- dence in Havana and furnished with all the rebensior I nave Ukewise to eall your Excsllency’s attention to the ing occurrenees;—-Mr. W. G. Tincker, eitizen of the States of America, on his way home between nine and Jock last night, waa attacked in Consulado street by armed volunteers of this city, who fired on him with their gana twice, though fortunately’ be was not wounded, Don Jose Vasqier, another citizen of the United States, was maitreated yesterday in Corales street. Don Marcos Ca- brera, also @ citizen of the United States, was cl while on hia way bomewarde | ten o'clock, by some volunteers in the Galiano They cried out to him ‘ Wimeriena etinen, HS “American citizen.” He bad scarcely pronounced t Wel agae IY pron hese words when they e three persons mentioned are citizens natio Fepresent, known to be pencefil, and’ they have porn ony Way whatever meddied in the difficnities which thls city 1 riencing. Therefore, in view of these occurrences and which may easily happen again, unless the abuses alluded to are suppressed, I reiterate my request ie order that your Excellency will concede to my countrymen that nal security to which they are eo justly entitled, and te bat zu are unable to do so for want of wiflcient a jane inanifert it to m ay tbe app omy on aa 10 in order . REINTRE Acting Consn! General United States of hmerica, The following is the response of Genera: Duice;— ‘ier Worcr MP ma gt ; A 's OF ) HAVAN. jan. 25, 1) To the Const GNRNAL. of the Gaited Biates of Amovice nication of ar E.xcellen dated the day, and orders have beep give that tus tony oy the American citizen, Mr. Samuei Alexander Cobner, victim of the unfortanate occurrences of Inst night, be delivered to ‘Suan A. Suarer, I venture to assure your Excellency that events of this character will not hy in, Noone ‘condemn. them folle can deplore and more than I do myself; bat \hey are not new im the history of tical ya tous, and them in P- # there "Ess othe® method than toe spagertial and energ@tie applica. tion of justice by those that govern. If ‘clroumetences of emharrassinent and underhand have produced ‘& Iamentabie collision, passive and of no tmpor- tance aa alfecting the line of which I have resolved to rae follow, the presti 1s lente witch exit between Ue whe beter security Jency can immediately send to a they will then be ment tupon me, “ato te, Secretary's odice a int et "9 a ol guarantee their anfety orth oS cocantens ‘aly occasions, Nofortunate, hut of frequent gceurrence in Europe, expsclal when suddenly @ recime of violent repression succeeds another of strict legally. May God prese Excellency man: Merch Beha” ” DOM GO DULCE, Position of Valmascda—Effect of the Ames nesty—Cuban Views Thereon—News from Gibara—Captares of Neutrals oo the Coast— Reports of Escaped Prisoners from the Ine surgente-Exodus from Havana—The Press Brought Under the Law=—Reported Capture of Cospedes and Aguilera. HAVANA, Jan. 30, 1869. We have thus far had no oMcial account of the operations of Valmaseda in his campaign against Bayamo, nor have we knowledge of his whereabouts save through private sources, and those uot of the most reliable or definite character. 1 coilate such information as bas been received: — elegance and loxary Which two conti can aiford, Here the destruction by thom ste movers of grder” surpasses Well. Vaying no ation A letter from Spanish sources dated Manzanillo «he 234 has the following:—“Tue omictat aews of NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1869,—TRIPLE SHEET. Valmaseda’s entry of Bayamo reached here on the 16th, amid the ringing of bells, artificial freworks, the firing of cannon and music in the streets, Shoruy afterwards an alarm was sounded beyond the intrenchments, and the troops who were taking part in the demonstration, were compelled to return as the insurgents had approached so near as to set fire to a thatched house on the river side. The fring from the pickets and castle was kept up till mid might. During the week three insurgents have sented themselves, who state that Cespedes Aguilera had passed the Cauto river with eighty men, not whites, towards Tuilas, Valmaseda was in Bayamo, on the Almirante estate, where a great number of insurgents, with their famj- Mes, had arrived to Jay down their arms. It was net known whether the troops would proceed to Mai- zanilio or to Jiguant or Guisa in search of the ish oMficers and soldiers who had been captured the insurgents and carried away from Bayamo. “It ig stated that on Valmaseda’s arrival at the Cauto he deceived the insurgents as to the directipn he was to take, by which he succeeded in outfayk- ing them and killmg more than 200, composed of the begroes which Cespedes had taken from the On Thursday the Commissioners from Hat Seilors Fleites, Joaquim Oro and José Ramirez, went out to parley with a party of cavalry who were ¢b- served in the vicinity. They returned the same night to await the forwarding of their communica- tion to Cespedes. On the 23d a servant of the Com- missioners went out with a flag of truce and returned with the information that they could start to join Cespedes the following day, adding that most of the chiefs were favorably disposed to @ compromise.” ‘This letter accounts a number of skirmishes between the troops and insurgents, but without interest or importance.” Under date of the 18th the American Consal at Manzanillo writes:—“The arrival this noon of the steamer Rapido, with 500 Spanish troops, and the proclamation of General Dulce liberating all politi- cal prisoners and granung @ general amnesty, will have the effect of removing speedily all contentions, and will result 1 a prompt return of peace and order, though the acts of the rebels in burning Bayamo, Yara and other places in the interior would indicate thelr deter mination to carry on the struggle to the last extremity. Accord- ing to the official despatch of Count Valmaseda to the Governor of this place, recetye)] on the 16th, the insurgents had returned toward Guisa, The Span! troops had defeated them in varioys ncounters ant were pursuing them in all directions. Tie volun- teers and natives of old Spash do not participate in the general sOy consequent on the liberal measures of General Dulce, as they are in favor of extreme measures. The sanitary condition of this place is completely restored.” One of the papers states that when the steamer left Manzanillo on the 23d Valma- Seda was expected shortly at that place. La Democracia (a Spanish republican journal), in its issue of last evening, professes to have the most positive information tha t there is every probability of an arrangement being come to by the Comumis- siouers seni to the insurgents, especially by Don José de Armas, who went to Gibara for that pur- Ose. sein Sa arse i: » While the accounts as thus furnished would seem to denote an early termination of the insurrection, the revolutionary sympathizers here by no means aduit such probabilities, ‘They msist that the eget cause has been by no ineans fatally atfected yy the capture of Bayamo, and that iv is increasing im vigor every day. A letter written at Manzanillo by a Cuban merchant says that the march of the troops fromm San Miguel to Bayamo was very fatal to them; that the Camagueyanus had orders to follow and harass them ouly to the vicinity of Guaymaso, on the borders of the jurisdiction of Puerto Principe and Las Tuias, and from theace they were to be left to the insurgents of the latter aud of Baynmo; that no concentration was made to stop him; that alter the battle of Cauto and the burning of Bayamo, which was done to afford no refuge and rest to the Spaniards, Cespedes moved his forces towards Man- zanillo. It adds that Vaimaseda had made several attempts to reach the latter place and had been un- able to do 80. the way of Trinidad we have news from Man- lo to the 25th, though meagre. On that day a strong column had gone out, and when the steamer left a terrible fire was from the north of the a Valmaseda had not arrived. American recently arrived here from an estate between Matanzas and Cardenas, who states that he had been quietiy advised to leave the place, or if he remained Co be prepared for something of importance which was about to occur. Anticipating from these hints that a rising was about to take place, and not caring to run the risk of danger and incenvenience which it would cause, he left. Information has been received here that a party of ten men sent up the cry of “Liberty and Inde- pendence” recentiy in the centre of the city of Sanctt dpiritus and immediately hastened to the country. e Governor had sent @ sinall party of infantry and cavalry in pursuit. It 18 further stated that this Gov- ernor lias telegraphed to General Dulce urgently re- questing reinfurcements. By the Vilia Clara, recently arrived at Batahano, came from Ciego de Avila, Colonel Acosta, of the Volunteers of Order, Mis men have been deserting in large numbers, and, to- gether witi his losses in the Held, his force has be- come very much reduced. A letter dated Gibara, 24th, says Colonel Benegasi again left here on the 16th and arrived in Holguin the Ista. The enemy had made resistance, butdid not ap- roach the town, aud they were defeated with much oss. Near Gibara they had erected strong intrench- tmenta, but they did not defend them. The people of ivara had beea excused from guard more than a month, owing to the arrival of government troops, A letter had been received from Benogast, dated the 20th, in which he stated that the Second Contra-gue- rillas, under Lacasa, had arrived safely and were to leave for the Calderan estave to protect the convoys for Hoiguin, where the co!umn of Benegaai was. ‘The steamer Pajaro dei Oceano, from St. ‘I’somas, Port Rico, St. Domingo, Santiagode Guba, Gidara and Nuevitas, arrived here at alate hour on the 27th, She brings tweaty-two passengers and the crew of the English schooner Galvanic, which cleared from Nassau for Puerto Piata and was seized in Cayo Ko- mano by the Spanish war steamer Conde Venidiio, It was ascertained that the said craft had some sev- enty-two boxes on board, supposed to contaia mate- rials of war, which the capiain alleges he threw overboard, after stranding on tae Bahama Banks, to lighten ber. He further pretends that he thought it pradent to make for tue Cuban coast, and that When he arrived at a Lobos, fird- ing ber but slightly mjured, he intendea to return to Nassau. fie was chased for several hours, anid only hove to after the Spanish vessel fired a shot into his vessel: Tue schooncr was taken to Nuevitas end the captain has sent tus protest to the British Consul. On Sunday, the 26th, the Spanish gunboat Bazan came into this harvor, bringing the Aimerican schooner Arrietas, seized at the Colorados banks, where she had been for some time. According to the deciarations of her captain and crewshe left pay two weeks ago, bound for 51 bat being in ballast she was driven on to the Colorados by con- trary winds and a strong current. There are various statements in reference to this vessel her. One is that she is a wrecker and was endeavoring to Make some salvage out of a Norwegian bark which was recently wrecked on thoge reefs. Another is that a ling of men and arms haa beeneffected on the north side, and this schooner was kept there asa feint, to be seized, s0 that as soon as Bazan left with her supposed prize the other would be able to effect tue landing and escape. has been released, and the captain, after fling his protest and claiming $2,000 for the detenton, has cleared in ballast for . An additional naval force has been applita for to cruise in the neighborhood of Cayo Kommno for blockade runners. The General Duice (steamship), which atrived on the 26th at Batabano brought five wi had been prisoners in the hands of the ipa since the 9th of November last, having been in the raid on the railroad between Nue Principe on that day. They are Don J chief of the telegrap! station at the I Captain Ramon Couraa, & sergeant and t ‘They state that they have been treated kindness by the Insurgents, Loni often to go from one place to another, ey wi Mmaro on the approach of Momma pons cape in the disturbances consequent on opera- tions of the troops and travelled « distance seventy- five miles to Sania Cruz. it ls reported that the person arrested a nights since wt the palace armed with a long knife and dressed in the garb of a mendicant, having in view the assassination of General Luice, turns out to be # volunteer lieutenant, As reported, he ® one of a number of officers who cast lots to decidewho shoald kul the Captain General, toward whom some of the Spaniards feet a very bitter enmity, and that the deed fell upon him. He remains in close con! te His arduous labors begin ty tell on tu enieevied health of General Duice, and for one or two days auring the past week he has been comined to his ‘The recent troubles here have causeda ral stampede, aud the passport office has bien Kterat besieged by anxious applicants, The Ppamkenger m4 of the Columbia, Which sails for New York vo-day, has been full for forty-eight how other steamers leaving here for the United Bed take all they can carry. There are many, however, who had made By hye os to Dae ani age by the tate afairs for he: days, Seteriinna te romain. Simin AN: ‘There is said very considerab tween some of the diferent battalions of vonunt a, the better class condemning tie cowardly excesses: og on duty hoon bi Ryd Mth a . There been various is made, and 7 oo puthreak no one. In the “Cerro,” @ locality about taree miles froth the centre of the city, there is astreet cated ‘Toltpan, the houses of which are much in the Amerenu syle, and are occupied by foreign merchantsand a num ber of distngutshed Cuban lawyers whe have been educated abroad. During the recent excitement this was alluded to by the Sponiards as a nest of Spala’s enemies, This has caused so much alarm wee TT red eee METI Bie rut ur nt raph department, so that in every ri t it Sr ARS leaving for the United iain aati THE PEOPLE’S POSTAL TELEGRAPH. Would be fuy equals the present wysiém. We are A receut issue of La Verdad cou! a “ Dr. J. G. Flava, declaring himself to be the author of ral gov and hope and expect to see the: the article which m the vious number [S when eae ne omy: poor Roh Cr tains the taco puna, and stating that Met | The Western Union Monopoly Asiailed in | present practised by becoming the het with all the ip of his nce, “Ag will be Its Own Strongholds—The from St, Louis and ©) to New seen,” says La crak, “tHe matter in question Will f York and from Mississippi Pacific tropa te: fe verge ‘concerning baid bank. ie wall be rocollected tha tus bani MASSACHUSETTS. if Ay , SUPERIOR POLITIOAL GOVRENMENT OF ores lon OF THE ARY. FICE ¥ the of night of the 22d was cited to appear before ia Voz de Cuba states that in of General Dulce gave him a safe conduct, which en- abled him to embark for the United States, Don José M. Morales Lemus, an eminent Cuban lawyer, er ese for the same destination. which immediately followed General Duice’: cl The editor of Convencion Repudlicano, Don is in prison, whether from having been too outspoken 1m his journal or the fact of bis having @ E revolver on his persoa on the night of the 22d, it is discoveries and 1) ements bel notto a hard to decide. latter is the ostensible reason. | wealthy and favored class, but to the whol people; {ts prigipal_editor, Don “Nestor Ponce de..c0d, 18 | Sa° a eee a een about Joaving for, the United ‘Staton, tn company with | Seceasibie tral” Pac rel or Bachiller Morales, er-In-law. The government of Belgium seveiteen years ‘Since the recent troubles the forces on duty form Pa Mal 2,000 miles of felegraphr lines and i before the palace every evening, at five o’ci to | nected them with 251 of her post offces. ‘The rates receive orders from General Dulce, after which they | cn; d at first were twenty cents fot twenty wor march to the different in and out of the city, besides the address; bat ts was pA ste Del in the following order:—-Marines, sailors, volun- | quced to ten cents for twenty words, Thus this gov- teers, cavalry, pois. Arrangements are made for the concentration of troops and their action under proper authority in case of alarm, the mounted | telegraph at raets an aver less Police acting a4 messengers to the various officers trast half the tages charged formerly on on duty. letters by both the British and American ‘The oificia! estimates of expenditure for the com! post offices, In Switzerland money orders month present the following items:—War, $583,920; navy, $216,526; finance, $76¢,801; gobernacion, $21 572; public works, $52,547; law aud equity, $75,370; extra and other items, $170,405, ‘Total, $2,034,141, ‘As the steamer is about sailing there is a rumor current thal Generals Cespedes and Aguilera are in the hands of the government, and are on their way hither. This cun hardly be true, however, unless they aye been made victims of freachery, ST. THOMAS AND PORTO RICO. are now sent by telegraph. This yould be a very great convenience in this country. Row many cases of suffering could be reiiev@l by the timely communication which should bring ant relief to the penniless and perhaps bru and robbed stranger ffom the ready benerieence of friends. King ‘words now only go on lightning—then sub- Stantial aid could go quite as swiity. ‘The movement in favor of connecting a telegraph line with our post office and money order system must gato the attention and confidence of our people, its adoption cannot be \gng delayed, Clearing the Harbor—Wreck of the Colum- biaa Partinily Raised—Anxiety About the Halifax Stcamer—News from Porto Rico. Sr. THomas, Jan. 18, 1869. The Murphy Brothers are engaged in raising the Columbian, and her bows are now out of water, but her stern is still submerged. It is expected that in a few days this obstruction to our harbor will be re- moved. The dock remains in the same position, no work going on for want of funds. ‘The Hattfax steamer due here op the 10th has not yet made her appearance, and as she is always punctual fears are entertained that she is damaged orlost. By some it is surmised that she is aground at Bermuda, where she touches. ‘This is essentially a different walne from a govern- The excitement in Porto Rico caused by the insur- | ment manufactory of pms and needles; the people ap- rection has quieted down. The prisoners taken have | preciate the difference, no one finds any fault, not yet been tried. The sugar crop is now commenc- | one concedes that it is one of the greatest ing on ali the estates, but as yet no opinion can be | blessings; and yet the literal interpretation formed of prices. ‘The market is expected, however, | of the rule that the goyernment must not en- to open at # reasonable figure, as the heavy losses on shipments to the United States last year will opgeata a3 4 useful lesson to the wild speculators, vi- sions, and especially flour, are reported as declining rapidly, as there is an immense quantity of the latter (some 30,000 barreis) remaiming unsold. HAYTI. |: ‘The News from the South—Salnave in the Field—Operations in the North—Reported Arrangement with the French Admiral. Port av PRINCE, Jan. 14, 1869, ‘The news of the voluntary surrender of the city of Aux Cayes lacks confirmation up till now; but from the advices we receive from the seat of war in the South the surrender or capture of the towns still held by the rebels—namely, Jacmel, Aux Cayes, Jeremie and Anse-a-Veau—can hardly be much The Western Religious Community on the * Questions {From the Chicago Christian Freeman (Weatern Free Baptist Organ) Feb. 4.] We are glad to learn that a move is being made to place the telegraph lines under the control of the Cercigs government. There are some conveniences, @ generation or two in the future will look pee as necessities, which private enterprise will not fur- nish, either because the dividends are too far off, or the capital required 1s so that it is nearly and ractically impossible to collect it. That we can lawfully enter uj such enterprises may be assumed from the fact that we have already done in a prominent instance, and the control of the government meets with the universal approval of the citizens; we refer to the postal ents. in apy business which private retire fp will enter, and that trade should be leit to the regulation of the universal law of supply and demand, would shut up every post office in the land. The express companies wil carry our letters, and if the government will leave the field we are very cer- tain that within four-and-twenty hours as many companies will be formed to do the work which the government has abandoned. It is true that we would pronetin bare to fifteen or twenty cents on each letter Instead of three, but this, by the same law, could be left tothe jon of competition. If the American made a great thing out of the traffic, Lt Merchants’ Union would be formed and the price laced, There are two or three things about this question that make the difference between any such enter- prise of national advantage and one that has in view merely the accumulation of profits, Capital will not often anticipate demand; the supply will itself createa demand. That istosay, although if the Terri were out of the postal system the revenue would exceed the expenses, and vate — companit es §=—s might it lukel be longer delayed. A proclamation was published here | found to accept the mansgernent oy the last evening stating that the President had received | mails, yet they would not ha ve done it twenty years ago and they would not doit now for the Southern States or the tories. It is the re- duction of the postage and the opportunity of send- ing Sab ciate Ci Mo lines that has rought the sys resent promising position. ihe g vernment shi desert the lighthouses in New York harbor there isno question but that a company would be organized to keep them up, drawing its revenue from a tax upon the Shipping. but no one would think of entrusting this duty private hands. ‘there are some things that are so usiversal in their benefits that it is pertectly legitim®te for the government to furnish them; and it is often the case that for the more rapid development of the country it is necessary to anticipate the paying demand for railroads, mat! facilities, steamboat lines, &c, The government is the only ig Np that can afford to wait for its dividends, This theory has been re- peatediy reduced to practice, in giving large tracts of land to railroads, subsidies to steamboats, and, more iately, in furnisidag securities in ald of the Pacific roads. Now the question ts, can we safely assume the transmission of the telegraphic messages of the na- tion as we do ihe transinission of its letters? For- tunately, the answer to (his question does not rest on any theory, but the fact that we can do so and ought to do has been demonstrated by the ex- perience of Belgium, perhaps the best governed State in Europe. Seventeen years since that coun- uY constructed about 2,000 miles of lines, and con- nected them with 281 of her post offices. The charges were twenty cents for twenty words, not including the address, and at this rate the lines soon paid the interest and cost of construction and to furnish @ revenue to the government. In 1805 the price was reduced to ten cenis. Of course there was & great falling off 1 receipts, and a — company would not have dared to risk it, but it already begins to pay a profitagain. In two years under the ten cent rule, the number of inland my grew from 304,000 to 810,000, It Was precisely like the redaction of postage and the increase of letters. In Switzer- jJand the government control of the lines has been equally profitab) d satisfactory. ‘ What ie the Re i hh Lent adh ye United tates, as turnished by the com, company, for the Western Union owns six-seveaths the lines, and generally controls the other seventh? The companies are paying dividends $69,000,000 of svock; Unis stock is seventy per cent above par, ‘There are only 120,000 miles of wire, and it advices from the towns of Anse-a-Veau and Jeremte that his partisans there were ready to make a re- actionary movement in his favor as soon as he ap- peared in person before the said towns, and he was taking steps to conform his operations to said ad- vices. President Salnave remains continually at the seat of war, conducting limself his military opera- tions, and only coming here from time to time by one of his war vessels to attend to his business at the capital. While absent he is represented by his Secretaries of State. Late news from the north gives no change in the Position of matters there, The towns and the entire Seacoast line are held by the government and ciose'y besieged by the rebel Cacos, who occupy the whole interior of the country north of this line. The popu- lation of these towns are quiet and determmed to hold out in favor of President Salnave. Trade is improving here, and sales are easier. The late arrivals came to a fair market, especiatly for United States provisions; trade m Coffee ts lively since the withdrawal of the monopo'y, and several vessels are commencing to take their cargoes of that berry. Lhave just heard that General Nissage Saget, the so-called President of the northern republic of Hayti, has proposed to the French Admiral 15,000 bags o! coffee ia payinent of the interest on the deb: owt by Hayti to France. It is not certalu whether this offer has been accepted or not, but it has certainly been listened to, aud this constitates @ positive ‘inter- ference of France in the interior affairs of this ecoun- try. Ifthe offer is accepted France must recognize the northeru republic (80 called) as belligerents. sT.DpomiNGo. J, Alta Vela P RERERESENETE of Baez Another Samana Job—Revolutionary Move ments. HAVANA, Jan, 25, 1869. By way of St. Thomas, the loth, we have the follow- ing from St. Domingo:— General Baez has sold the island of ‘Alta Vela” to 8 French company, against which the American Con- Sul has protested, and has sent for several men-of- | ouvint, according to the stock, to have cost $600 war. It will be recollected that under Cabrai’s gov- | a mile; but the Western Union’ offered to construct ernment the said island was sold to a Frenchman | 00d lines for $180. So it is seen what an named Montacue, who was obliged to abandon it | nommous Proll they are raping from thelr actual investment, when «' is sixty-six cent when Baez came into power. He proceeded to the | fictitious is seventy per cent above par. does United States and there sold the Island to some | Ot the law of trade step in here and furnish us @ Americans for $3,000. This sale Baez ignores, and competing line’? Simpty peoanse there are no com- has an act’passed declaring it illegal and allowing Panics with $30,000, le capital, and none that can commana capital enough, 80 that the Western Union cannot run them off, hs bee i points of the | as the Merchants" Express, ie law, a Baez remains intrenched in his capital. His forces | with $20,000,000 of stock, and backed by the on the frontier have been defeated and driven back | sympathy of the public, was obliged to con- by the revolutionary party, and he is confined pretty | 88. Still further, it ig stated by the best electrician in the country, Mr. Variey, t could be done with one- they were ry riy constracted and at one-half the cost. Wit! this poor management the net oniy #13 00t-308 “in Bugland the ‘cost of messages on} 5,967,202. In Bn, ie of has falien within ten years from eighty-four cents to forty-six, whilt intry the aye! prty-six, W ee ey Vaan the renal much to the city proper. A letter from St, Thomas, the 16th, says:—“A schooner arrived here on the 6th Inst. from Santo Domingo, bearer of a message from President Baez to ex-President Cabral (who is here in exile), inviting him, with ail of his partisans, toreturo. Cabral responded that he would do so on condition that Baez abdicate and a new election for President be held, and that the 170 prisoners now held bf Baez be liberated at once. Cabral recom. 1 Mends as @ candidate Mr. Durocher, the present collector of customs, who i# said to be an honest then forty cents, has material of & consolidation of the lines in the latter case man and @ good administrator. nestion, The electric wire, strete ocean ‘With Le om to Samana nothing had transpired ® ‘ocean, and finding its way into every State and icly; but it was rumored in private circles that | Terrivory in the | is every whit as much of a it Baez was hastening the negotiations set as the government mail or a navional advan government lighthouse. on “ie by Fabens in order that everything conciuded before his fall, which seemed inevitable, We conld at once reduce the ex) more than according to the prevailing optnion. it is antici: | on a to thelr full capac! A that General Manzueta may launch nimaeit splaning ise ees oan co nM sapicring the post office cierks for the telegraphic business and the post office buildings for offices, so that, the number of messages remaining the same, to the revolution, and that Generals Cabrai, Ln- mn and Pimentel will make a simuitaneous iand. ioe. and force ine actual government into the q the et position of not being able to overcome the dim- third of the pen rates, But in this, as im the culites, it, government can safely an- ‘The government had not been dormant of late. | ticipate the aid reduce the tari to On the cont , every gp effort and exertion | such # it that it Wai require @ nearly constant had been resorted fm cui 8 tlamph Much | use of lines bay @ naes. The pecre ei depend upon resull in offered to | rapidly take advantage convenien a Baez Ve English firm, which considers the sale or cept ee source vevenws, at Bat things in ‘present an alarming aspect, and Got have suMctent time to conauiNennse hie ty project. a this su which On the southern coast an expedition had arrived, +o ae woiso indebted for some of the sta- ee ee er iees to Banc en orem of | tisties en above), saggesta that the let- the exties sent by Baez to Santa Martha. ‘The com- | ter now unWwersaily the mand of this expedition was entrusted to Coloneia | box our large cities, might also be em- Luis Navarro and José De Soto, Another expedt- to collect and diatribute ayes comer tion, organized im Jacmel and headed by General | now collect and distribate letters. In Chicago Adon, had also arrived in the South, where General | this would give us #ix chances @ day to send our Timoteo has fostered Fevointion for | messages and receive then. Hg magpeenan yee eae had considera and office, the one could U8 made to : E the post Goin other; and under the same tari Surprised in | would forward the messages to points which the ry on the part of | telegraph did not reach, renderin ig oe 4 Hot the young | advantage to small places Ro General Lamarche, one of Waez'a wart a wi | riving no be oft from it, In Switzerland there hereuts, The govorninent troops had wiany wounded | i @ specke mossenger charge of twenty in this enoounter, Generals Alexandi Unovalier | cents @ mile tor the seoond and every saoveeai aud Antonio Peres Were among buon. mule, could also be furmimhed by tag ‘postal Boston, Feb. 3, 1869, The matter of having the telegraph lines of the country placed under the control of the generat government is attracting considerable attention from the business community of Boston. It ishardly necessary to add that the general wish is in favor of the project, and that there is aloud how! from all quarters against the extortions of the Western Union monopoly. If Congress fails to take immediate and favorable action in the premises there are several telegraphic enterprises projected here which wil -be carried forward to completion early in the spring, and which wiil haye the effect to greatly reduce the tariff between the principal cities of the East and South. One of these new enterprises ig the laying of an underground line between Boston: and Washington. It is proposed to lay a cable which shali contain half a dozen wires, each one insulated, with offices in all the princtpal cities, The advan- tages of lines of this sort are numerous,.the chief ones being that they will work in all kinds of weather, will always be ready for service and will’ never be out of repair except through the malicious propensities of bad, apd designing men, Half a dozen wires, it is claimed, will be suMicient to trans- act all the commercial business between New York and Boston, and with the double transmitter of Mr. Stearns, of the Franklin Company, applied, which allows the sending of messages both ways at the same time over a single wire, the capacity of twelve lines can be obtained. It may be argued or inferred that the construction of a telegraph line under Pn ae i NE le contain! ry y inthe manner deseribed a8 cheap! Tat 6 wires can be put up in the ox “way of poles. ‘The mod cy fot plou; ‘up the earta’ Breage conte eae have been consulted as to the d Of eee tier atti Souney Les acer of the tel ol coun of col Fe abandoned but it fails to do this the. we be commenced early in the 4 will probably be chartered in husétts and most of the stock will be owned’ In the event of the government allo’ e West" ern Union monopoly to continue its ex! upon do something mouths they have been consid aeeuet ee York: and only. she possiblity Of Ro: w Yor! o carongt Col has prevented them from, lor co} During: the past two or three days there has beéa’ asmall sort of a war between the of the Franklin and Western Union offices in rp ted some time past the Franklin has a branch office in Franklin benefit of, the merchants section of the city. About a week since one of the officials of the so-called “Bank-' goods store. fact a wi a Tiga had Pranult offtas and thay at Enown to the Fran! to sire them to quit the premises. The Western b= ag hth hd bound, dete inorning of the lst of Fel managers and gpecetors sppesres 5 teens whe ge thetr rights and proven trespassing” on the rotect Part of rivals, AS soon as the doors of store alee Py gg ies made the store, and both got inside the sim taneously. Each gave mp orders to porepey ihg ‘and’ both Rectingd: “Matters best thing available, and immediately the disputed territory. They have succeeded however, in hi another corner of the same store, and the rival offices are in sucvessful operation under a single roof. The facts in the case beco! known to the merchants generally in tue neigabor- hood, they lave shown their substantial ol of pod Franklin Company by giving them their entire business. “AFTER THE MORMONS.? A Mormonic View of the Questien. — the Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, Jan. 23.) ie San Francisco Cai, taiking of the pending Utah bill, says:— ley, of Ohio, wishes to despoll the Mormons and disperse ears Soiaias wet Kon cry thelr ‘Territory’ aud dividing {tamong the nelgtaring powers and Territories. We think the action ill-advised, io t will serve to create new compl Jealousies and disturbances, without produc- ing any good. If let alone work ‘an igration the Pacite Railroad wiil cause ful settlement of the Mormon difliculty, if politicians do not interfere, as Ashley propones. ‘That’s the idea exactly—a settlement. A peaceful solution of the Mormon eon k worked out quietly, harmoniously and without difficulty. Certainly there is no difficulty in settling the Mor- mon question, Difficulties are m1 as the old adage has it, They disappear when boldly con- fronted. The Mormon difficulty exists solely in the disordered i jons of scheming poilticians and morbid parsons. ‘There is no diificulty about the matter to plain and sensible ig it is ail in the mind’s eye, Horatio; or, as the trite proverb runs, 3 eye and iy Martin. Only people peopie’s business rather than their own imagine any trouble with the Mormons, Of course such meddiers can have trouble with any- body for the making, and it does seem that they must make trouble with sot or other. They lan- guish when not making mischief. It 13 their forte. ‘They are nobodies ma reign of peace. Like the typical Irishman, they are po api a When they can’t have a fight, or a diMculty, ora vexed question, they are entirely out of their ele- ment; like a fish out of water, they are so uneasy in their mind that they are in a perfect torment. have the bump of combativeness sticking out like the —- of a camel, and many of them have the bump meanness about coequal, if not a little me of them considerably larger. . But about this peaceful solution. Grant is for peace. So are we. When Grant and the Mormons are for peace, why should not flow as a river? ‘There is something inexpressibly lovely in the idea and the fact of Why should it prevail over the earth? Grant is for peace. The Mormons are for peace. England 1 for peace. Napoleon ts for ag | tmp for peace. The Paris Con- terence of Buropean great Powers ts for peace. W! should not peace be the rile? Is it not a § thing? Is it not beautiful? Is it not delightful? Is is It not most favorable to human happiness? Cer- tally. Very well. Yon visit Utah and the Mormons and eat of our strawberries and apples, and we will visit you and taste your strawberries and oo You need not have more than one wife you don’s want to. There's no compulsion about it. And as heaven hates putting away of course we can’t put away our Wives, especially when they won’t be put away. Butthat need not trouble youa bit. Your peace may flow as a river just the same, just as ours will if you don’t interfere and dam it up somewhere, We go in for the peaceful solution all time. A Mormon Editor Reproves a Gentile Cone arose, {From the Salt Lake Telegraph, Jan. 28.) SHOCKINGLY SHABBY. Just as an example of the one-sided condition things will get into occasionaliy we may refer to the Proposition in the House of Representatives to with- draw pensions from that means women living in @ state of prostitution or concubin: Ism’t that the essence of stinginess? Isn't it the height, or depth rather, of infamy? First to make the women concubines or prostitutes and then to pantsh for being in such @ condition. Well might Schenck ¢ the pi tion as most monstrous; for remember that women do not bring themselves into that debased condition, 37 men have something to do in that business, If | sions are to be withdrawn on any such plea, ti all conscience pray with the men, and cut of from all relation to the public treasury every sinner of them who does not confine bis atten- tions to his own wife or wives, 18 ground to believe that, under such a the a Bo become unj ant plethoric and the national debt w no be & source of the least apprehension, et the male sinners and put them the appea ance tt thi ma have got through ran when with the men, Woman's Tights forever Th Penecsease tee