The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1869, Page 4

4 SOUTH AMERICA. Progress of the Paraguayan War. The Allied Army Advancing Upon Lopez’s Position. Financial Condition of the Allied Powers. Domestic Affairs in Brazil and the &xgentine Confederation. By the English mail steamer Scotia, which arrived Qt tis port yesterday, we reccived the following correspon: from South America, containing ater cntelligence from the seat of war in Para- ° . BRAZIL. The Allied Army Moving to Attack Lopez—A Flank Movement—Rosario Reinforced—Suc- cessful Raid—A Bad Speculation—War ip the Neighboring RepublicLiberal Triumph in Rio—The Brazilian Parliament—Railroad Matters—Steamship Lines—Gold Mine Dis+ covered=Corpus Christi Procession Rio JANEIRO, June 8, 1869, The news we have recetved by the last mails from Paraguay tells us that the Comte d’Eu has moved his two army corps two or three marches forward, and that the Argentines were also upon the advance. The country 1s so poorly delineated, even upon the best maps, that most of the names which occur in the description of events in Paraguay convey no in- jormation to any one not upon the spot, However, it would appear that the General intends direct- ing his forces chiefly on the flanks of Es- curra, where the first Paraguayan stronghold is, in the hope of either turning it and forcing the abaudonment of that very strong post, com- manding the railroad, or, if it be held on to, of pene- trating into its rear and isolating It, as, although the country in frontis exceedingly well calculated for defence, it is not so diMeuit to penetrate on both sides by making a considerable detour, and It is ex- pected that the chief delays which will occur will be from tue necessity of making roads around the flanks, as the Paraguayans seem determined to struggle for the possession of the rallroad, whose command would be of the higest value to the allies. At present these have about thirty-five to forty miles, the Paraguayans having abandoned their outpost at Patino Cue on the allies advancing. The troops stationed at Rosario have been rein- forced with cavairy, infantry and artillery, raising them to the number of about 2,500 men, the majority cavalry, Who are intended to attack the Para- guayans, posted, some 1,600 strong, near the town of San Pedro, The objects of this operation are to cut of Lopez's supplies of food and men from the northwest country, to prevedt his escape into Bolivia, and to come upon his north, The brigade of cavairy iso that Was guarding the Upper Parana has received some more cannon and some infantry, and was about to cross into Paraguay, the gunboats in wat river hav- ing destroyed all the river fortificauons along that part where the landing sould be effected. This body, which is about 2,000 men, 1s to push on in the direction of Villa Rica, aud eifect communications with the main army; and 18 is hoped that, in this manner, with the region Lopez holds cut off from the rest, and attacked in front and flanks at once, and with the allied great preponderance of cavalry and artilery, the latter now at length properly used, the resistance to the Paraguayans cannot jast long. A successful little raid was made im the middle of May by eighty men of the Oriental troop, under Jieutenant Colonel Coronado. By making a long detour they got in upon the rear and struck the Toundry at Ibicuy, which they destroyed, capturing some prisoners and rescuing eighty-seven allies and nine Paraguayans, forced to work there. On tier Way buck Wey passed through an inhabited yillag. the only one they had seen, and brought om the population, With the customary exaggeration Col- onel Coronado says the Paraguayan garrison con- sisted of 420 men, whom he drove from their fortifl- cations into the woods, Killing twenty-three and capturing Mfty-three, witn their commander and two other officers. The commander he had shot because ef his crusity to his prisoucrs. The American officers who went to Lopez’s camp to deliver the despatches to General McManon had yévurned, aud the Minister was expected in tne al- ited camp. The Jortitications throwing up at Asuncion were nearly finished and the old s’araguayan ones facing the river had been destroyed, Luque was also well garrisoued, Generai Guilherme de Sousa, who was the warm- ing pan for tue Courte a’Eu, ts coming home, being sick. General Polydoru, wuo Commands the Second army corps, 18 nearly disabled with diseased eyes, but keeps on duty. The First corps is temporarily commanded by General Jose Baretto, unui the ar- rival of General Osorio, who was on his way up. ‘The arrival of this rough, houest oid Oghting general 13 looked upon With great {evor, a3 he 18 the spectal tavorive of the army. His jaw is still reported dis- abied from active service, but he has been figuring #8 the recipient of two great banquets in Buenos Ayres, Li sipart Jew has come to gricf in Paragna: He earned of a deposit of lites at a distance fru quyan camp, and thougiut vo make a hau! ng bout aud turning the hides Lato c Auumber of men Were hired at a highr With sixty mules and a number of carts, ¢ for the plunder. vur Jey 2 venture His hide along louded on the douple quick and starte party of varaguayan cavuiry dasbe Ost Of Lhe x istance tor ir) put in irons for ex- property; but he was at on posing so many men to lose ther lives for hin on a plundering expedition. u news is that war has broken bow be n tWo sections Of the Colo- rado party, whica rules tue coimtry. The cause assigned is the division aris) im tue question of enforcing specte payments ch the goverument was fully determined on wk Which was flerceiy combatied wiuat oppysition. Some tweaty veputies v atiend tue latare, ceclared ‘Sheir suppientes wel and the goverumeut hed |t of the country, Gen to the President, de 5 Ministry aud the’ restoratiou of the Lepaties. was refused, and the ’resident uas mareued to at. tack Caraveilo. Either parly “ad not more than 490 meu. ihe trouble has caused mu The Baron de Mauda aud ot ke a quorum, cominunder Acer h alarm in Montevideo. who had taken @ prominent pars in the financial discussions have taken shelter in the foreign legations or have Weil for Buenos Ayres. ‘The polilicai eitect (eared is that tue Open division of the Colorauus wil induce the Blancos, the allies of Paraguay, to rise up, in Whica case the Brazilians and Argenuues Would probably send troops against tiem. ‘The last packet iM makes it probable Carabello will gain the gume. if su tue suspended banks will be allowed to open again. In Nio the liberals have gained @ trinmph, the Senate having annulled the Ceara election of a list tor Senator, thus depriving Conseieio Salles Torres- «| Homem ot his seat, The selection of tus geuuewman by the Emperor, was tie cause of the Zacharus Ministry going out lagt July, On the otuer band, the conservatives gain turee Senators by Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte, aud probably will have two wore from Rio Grande do Sul ‘The iegisiative business done hitherto in Rio does not amount to mucu. inthe Chamver of Deputies ‘she chief has been the exchanging of complimentary speeches between the Premicr and the members and reading conumittee reports taken verbatim fromm bis financial message. Never was there @ more har- monious asseimbiy; Rot a speech but agus we Minis- ter to the skies, and the only troubie he has Is to gently repel the over zeal Wilh Which toe iiouse presses powers upos ili Which he dovs not want. AS itis 1ound impossible to get turougn all the items Of the estimaces for 1969-70, wh wiled to be woted last year, the liouse lias extended those of 7868-9 for another sIX months. Ii nas also giyen its approval to the extra-iegal vecree autuorizing the issue Of 40,000,000 julirels in payer, and as only neariy 9,000,000 millreis have been used it permits the remainder to be used. A credit for 36, 000 13 also being granted for the extraordinary naval ex- penditures of the next six imontis, besides about $9,000,000 additional to pay ov che remaining Habili- fies of the War Department in the year 1807-63, [tis now counted up that the deticit of the euding year ‘will be at least F100, 000, 00, and may be much more when all its accounts are collected in, Th ing for the new campaign has ued up great sums and caused great debts to be incurred, | The 15,000 horses and great supplies of corn and hay bougit jast Monti are estimared Lo have cost $5,000,000, inister of Jusuce brought in a bill to remedy some of tit ovile of the bationsi guard sys- prepar- oses to commit its police duty to a militia, in which all, including resident foreign- ers, between eighteen and Atty, Who do not exempt themselves by annual payments, will be liable to serve bn police duty in turn, for one or two months: each year, for a trifiimg pay. The national guard willinciude ali not in the militia, and 1 will be Mable to duty only im ease of invasion or internal troubies, The bili 18 ukely to encounter great oppo- sition in the Senate, where Senator Dantas has in- troduced oné of a more thoroughly reforming character, Among other bills yet in their primary stages are two for making new provinces, one by King the south half of Minas Geraes to make the tem. He pro) Province of Minas do Sul, aid another taking the hati of Para, north of the Amazon, to form the Province of Ovapocka, This last has been hanging years, but itis now taken up and is at its ading. ate has before it a few bills of public im- », Such as one to amend the National Guard law, one to make teaching free, and a bill from the Deputies to give an appeal to the Crown from deci- sions of the prelatic courts—that is, to make the se ular power supreme over the ecclesiastical. The railroad otlls before the Deputies are:—One to connect the inland port of Porto Alegre with a port ofthe Santa Cathariaa (Laguna js proposed), 80 as to give a better outlet to the products of the north of Kio Grande do Sui than by the dangerous port of Rio Grande, and auother oul giving the extension of the San Paulo Railroad to Campinas the usual per- mission to import its materials and rolling stocs free of duty. Pawista for the making of this extension has just been signed by the President, The working surveys have been some months in progress and 1t will be pushed on, Tne San Paulo Ratiroad receipts for May were $199,700, belng $9,000 more than in May last year, and it promises soon to relieve the govern- ment of the necessity of paying any part of the seven per cent guarantee, ‘The condition of the Dom Pedro Segundo Railroad is also flourishing. Its May receipts were $294,401, against $158,520 in May last year. Of this $91,500 is due to the transfer of the Industria road tratllc fiom the Maria Railroad to the Dom Pedro, This road Luust be now paying the government seven per cvat on its cost. The eXtension into Minas Is stil going on, but it is not progressing as rapidly as de- Sired, from the fact that the tarlif prices for coa- tractors’ work is 80 low thatsome have thrown up their jobs rather than continue at @ loss, The Per- nambuco Rairoad ts slowly improving. The April pts were 957,160 and the working expenses r $54,277, or 39.3 per cent, Just after recovering from the effects of the inundation taree mouths ago, 1b has been asgailed by another great one which flooded the country around Pernambuco for twenty to bats 4 miles, bur the through trafic was resumed about the 20th of May. A slight improvement is shown in the Bahia line, but its receipts do not yet reach its working ex- penses, Tle Miuister of Agriculture proposes to forgive the provincial debts for advances of the two per cent guarantee on their railroads, on condition ‘that an equai amount be laid out by the provinces on feeding roads to the railroads. Such a plan wouid be highly advantageous to all parties, but Bahia and Pernambuco are 80 poor that their revenues do not meet expenditures, even wiih the government pay- ing their guarantees. if the railroads are not prosperous, the Brazilian packet company which carries the maiis along the coast 13in a highly fourisuing condition, altuough before the war it Was in a very bad state. Charters and carriage of soldiers have made it thrive, and, besides paying twenty per cent dividends jor the last three years, it 1s about to divide a sum equa! to fity per cent of its capital, besides keeping au equal sum as reserve funds, . The Amazon packet line is going on well, although last year there Was a sinall decrease of profits owing to temporary causes. It pays twelve per cent, and it proposes to buy up shares of its own wilh its re- Serve. it carried in 1368 goods worth $12,838,000, an Increase of $1,500,000 over those conveyed in 1867, This increase is tn most part due to the aug- menting collection of gui elastic, of which 10,700,000 jounds were exported from Para i 1868, being 052,000 pounds more than in 1867. But cocoa de- clined yearly one half, and, with the exception of rice, agricultural products are teuding to almost ex- tinction with the lowering ef the siave population and the increasing attention to natural products, ‘The trade of the United states with Para owes much to the New York packets. The amount exported last year to the United States was $3,419,970, that to England $4,492,000, and to France and Cayenne $2,100,200, Dr. Dowsing has been fined $200 for practising medicine in Vara without holatng adiploma. The Braziilan profession is very jeatous of its rights, es- peclauy as its practice is not contormabie altogether with tle higuest liguts, and people say that when they have to examine foreign doctors the eXansina- tlon is NOt apt io err on the side of leu But, as ihe contract with the Compania | revolt with severa! officers of various grades. They ‘were ready to over, and on the very day of it Lopez surrounded thei and marched them to the place of execution, and their arrest, arrayzument and execution ali occurred the same afternoon, ‘There were over 200 persons, and after being hastily buried their ogicers were executed, in number sev- enteen, and belore these could be buried the order came to remove, and these were found unburied when the Brazilians came up. There ts no certainty that these were accused of being connected with the | the so-called Washburn conspiracy. | ‘The position of Lopez has Tomaitied unchanged for ‘qlongtime. At Péribevui, where he has a good plese of defence and one most difficult of approach, e153 botiding up a town pat. fouigeations. ‘rhey are building brick houses, have established a news- aper, Make paper, ink, powder, and they gather | forage from a region that 1s comparatively Lew to Any exactions. He decorates the daring with medals | and titles. They report having found salt near by, | and so supply a pressing want. | The old style of Paraguayan war is continued, | Small bands of the allies, a8 soon as they expose themselves, are cut off and their cattle and horses are taken, As an instance of daring seldom sur- passed, about 200 undertook to board an tron-clad by ) swimming, climbing up and overpowering the crew | hand to hand. Of course they did not succeed. It | ts evident that some one point in the programme | failed, but they were in earnest and expected to succeed, for Ifiraly ten of them escaped. ‘There have been many rumors of peace lately on the basis of Lopez’s retirement to auother country and a new government to be chosen by the peopie, and then the allies are to withdraw, There is no probability of the tfuth of it at all. Brazil refused to treat with Lopez when he had a powertul army, and certainly it 13 more unlikely now, when he has, at the outside, not over 10,000 half clothed, half fed and halt armed men. ‘There ig also very little probability of any foreign minister devising & successful raode of seitling this much disputed question. ‘The allies beileve themselves on the eve of complete success, and, much as they desire to end the expense, they insist on the original terms. in There is extending through Uruguay a most ma- lignant form of cattle disease that seriously alarms the people, The animals drop down det almost pec and the disease is communicable from herd to herd. Congress is in session, but no very important pro- Jects are yet matured, The financial state of the country is giving to many great concern. The export duty on wool and the heavy duties in the United States make export of this chiei staple almost impossible. The prices are low, and low as they are wool from the Riyer Piate is selling at Antwerp at twenty-five per cent Jess than it cost here. Sheep are now, in winter, 80 poor that but littie can be done in killing for the tallow. A circumstance just reported in the papers will show how reduced the sheep business 1s:—A farmer near Paysandd had 3,200 for sale, and he sent them to the sheep butchery. Of these, 400 fell on the way. The remaining 2,800 produced $240 (gold) of tallow, the bide not paying transport to mnarket, while the cost of killing was $750 (gold). ‘This exhibits the sheep business as being in a most ruinous condition. Bonds retain former prices aud are a little advanced. President Sarmiento had the wires of the tele- graph carried to his house, and tds annual message to Congress was conveyed by the wires to their most distant pot, and then it was taken by couriers and spread over the republic in the shortest time ever Known in South America. I read tt myself ata distance of 500 miles twenty-four hours alter i labo delivered, He is called the Yankee Presi- dent, = ‘The South American Marine Railway and Steam Navigation Company, whose location is ta New York and whose stocknolders are chiefly in Rhode Island, has been at work for about three years at Colonia, & little town across the La Piata from Buenos Ayres, establishing a dry dock for the repairing of ships and steamers, ® With many misfortunes the company has been able to complete thé railway for bringing ves- sels up out of the water. Ina short time they will be ready to do all the work of this Kind south of Rio Janciro, as it is the only place‘of the kind on the south coast. Captain Mautou has charge of the works. The company once owned five steamers; but they have soid them and no longer compete in that Kind of business, As soon ag the Paraguay war closes there will be a great number of old traus- eine and other steamers that must be forced to a sale. ad festivities commemorative of national inde- pelidence began in this city te day before the anni- versary and wWere-continued for two days, with great displays of flreworks, balloons, opening of a public fountain jn the principal plaza, Te Deum, theatri- cals, &c, The balioon, a very large one, went up on Sunday afternoon and gave origin to a very lament- abie accident. In order to meet its descent a little steamer went out on the river, and a spark from the We profession is here the refuge of the destitute in ething besides money, like tie State Church in ngland, and the pay is small throug competition, the Brazilian doctors are no doubt right to detend themselves Louth dud nail against foreign aggres- sion. A gold mine if reported to have been discovered in the mountains of the province of Espiritu Sanu. ne place Was previously always cousidered public and, being Worth nothing, but of course now there are several clalmautsof it as their jong held pro- perty. The Corpus Christi procession of May 27 was hon- ored with the presence of Saint George, Last year the poor tellow was iu the position of Miss Flora McF iumsey—he bad nothing to wear, However, by not appearing last year he had two years of his lieu- tenant-generaicy to expend this, so that he was able to nake a first rate show wien Sailied out on his expedition, This year he came forth with a very preity rose and milk countenauce and long fair curis dropping on his shoulders, His armor was com- posed o1 respiendent stiver scales, probably stripped from the dragon, and over it he wore a magniiiceut horseman’s cloak of beautiful red silk velve(, with a3 many gold stars as are on the Union flag, and sti with gold embroidery round its edges. Two foot altendants in green and gold led his horse, and two others supported his yreaved limbs, for the saint, from want of exercise, has not the firmest of seats. Alo/t ne beld a silver spear, and as he moved along a lurch forward assured the anxious devotecs In waiting that their marriage hopes would be graui- tied this year, While a roll sideways sent them home with lengthened faces. A horse band and eleven caparisoned horses with attendants toilowed, wie before him rode his squire, cased in varnished sole leather looking armor and curious visor, making him look remarkably like aa unboiled ‘crawtisn mounted tail uppermost, Lastly, the clergy tanked himn with a double row of monster splutcering blessed canes, and the rest of his attendance was .nade up of the usuai crowd of nigger giris and boys shouting “OlT with your hats’? to the heretics who, 1a their cu- riosity, had forgotten to perform that ceremony. Exchange has lowered to 1844 pence to the miireis, but gold has dropped to 148, ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. General Osorio at Buenos Ayres=The Paras guayan General Caballero Yet in the Field—Lopez’s Massacre of Two Hundred Men=His Present PositionProgress of the War—Catile Disease in Uraguay—Financial Condition of the Argentine Confederation Enterprise of President Sarmiento—General News Items, BUENOS AYRES, S. A., May 28, 1969, On the 19th (nst, our city had the honor of recetv- Ing a3 a guest for a few days the most distinguished of the Braziitan generals, Osorio, Viscount de Her- vai, Who returns from Brazil, where wounds and weariness ha‘ laid him up for some months. The new commander-in-chief has appointed him to the command of the First army corps, and his well known energy and bravery will doa greet” deal to redee! Brazilian reputation in those two points, No more popular man 14 now in command. The new phase of the Paraguayan war, following the enemy, as they mast now do, into the labyrinth of mashes and jungles, will require all his ¢ dinners given to General Osorio were the most sump- tuots entertainments ever accorded to a guest in this city. General Caballero, Lopez’a right hand man, was believed to have been killed in Decemper last In a desperate engagement in which he commanded, but he is yet doing good work for his master. He en- tered the army in 1805, and was a corporal at the end of one year. Since 1966 he bas risen, step by step, to be the highest, and yet the youngest, Para- guayan general, being only twenty-seven. When Lupez has any desperate charge to be made he selects this man, who invariably does the best, and though he sometimes comes back alone it Is always from the front. He is ruled by one principle—obedi- ence to orders—and if he is laying up accounts to settie later he will make himself felt in the futare of Paraguay. General Montell is a native of Paraguay, of Scotch origin, and entered the army as a private, With most singular devotion he has courted danger, and has many a time brought back evidences of unparal- leled daring. Often he sas entered the allied army in disguise, and oxce he boarded a Brazilian tron- clad and “stole? various little articles from the caoin of the capiain, These explol!s purchased pro- motion. These two generals seem to unite for their country with such heroism and patriotism as we sel- dom read of even in more advanced countries, They are without pay, often nearly without clothing. At Umes half their command will be armed ony with Jances and siinge, and yet they make almost super- human exertions with their scanty means, I wrote you at the time of itof amassacre by Lopez of 200 to 200 of his men and omcers at Tebi- cuari, It was alleged at the tine that they were in- volved in a supposed conspiracy. Many did not be- lieve that any conspiracy cver existed at all, and that it was @ pretext (or bloodshedding that his rage demanded, while others, both here ane m the United States, declare that no such killing ever occurred, 1 am'able now to give you the facts. It was about september last, in a dark day for the country, whea the Brazilians had made some good atravegic move- Mente and @ Paraguayan regiment arranged fora chimney ignited the gas anda fearful explosion occurred; eight people were killed and twenty-five were in some manner wounded. The necessity tor exporting gold has come on this country all at once, and in the last fortnight £150,000 sterling have gone to Europe, and more will toi- low. Exchange is 4834 to 49 pence to the gold dollar. Generat Mesiahon 18 sald to be on his way to Buenos Ayres, en rowte for the United States. The ersons bearing officlal despatches to General Mc- Maton were allowed by Lopez to pass his lines, but the Brivish officers were not allowed to pass, ‘The works of the Argentine Central Kailroad are progressing rapidly. Less than one year will com- plete them. The province of Buenos Ayres has passed a law g@uthorizing the loan of £800,000 sterling for the ex- tension of the Western Ratiroad. A proposition is betore Congress to’ expend the value of $2,000,000 In bonds for promoting imuigra- tion. It will probably pass. Colonei Coronado, of the allies, with 100 cavalry, attacked a manufacturing retreat of Lopez at Ibicut and took 100 prisoners, liberated many captives and destroyed the foundry aud various resources of Lopez, It wili be severely felt oy the latter, as he drew many supplies from that place. There was a deserter who reported that he had seen the personal. effects of Lopez and of Madame mat on carts for a removal. ‘{he allies are increasing in their vigor, and the opinion is general that Lopez's further resistance ‘wii be very fitful gnd feeble. But the utter unwil- sof the Paraguayans to submit to foreign rule remains unchanged. They still brave danger as at first, and are implacable. Buc they are awiully reduced. MORE OF THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE WAR, Tho Order for the Removal of General Thomas by General Grant—How it was Pocketed (or Banks-etted) by General Hal- leck—The Battle of Nashville and Its Hero— General Pope in the Saddle. {San Francisco (July 8) correspondence of the Oin- cinnatt Gazette. | As a general thing one would expect to learn of the secret acts of the War Department during the rebellion ta Washington rather than in California, But the occasion of General Haileck’s departure from the Pactiic coast for the East has accidentally brought to light the iacts connected with the order relieving General George H. Thomas when he was at the head of hia army aud before tue enemy at Nash- ville. Amonga number of friends who had called in San francisco te say good by to Gennral Halleck, he Was asked concerning his part in that transaction, when he gave the following history of it:— President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton and himself, all bad the greatest faith in General Thomas, They were anxious to have fim move, but trusted his judgment implicitly, as he was on the ground. One Worning, @ few days before the battie of Nasiville, tue President received a request from General Grant that General Thomas sould be immediately re- moved. ‘Ihe President took the note over to Mr Stanton, saying that it a Was very bad business, that he deeply regretted te step, and but for disregard- ing @ direct request of the Geueral-in-Cuief he would not Consent to it Mr. Stanton was equally decided as to the Impoiley of the step. Generai Halleck was called in, and opposed the measure very earnestly. Yinally Mr. Lincoin said he did not feel at liberty to interfere, he would like to have the order show that he-was not the firsts mover in the matter. General Halleck then drew an order covering the case, though not plaging the entire responsibilty upon General Grant. Upon Seeing this Mr. Stanton crected it to be changed, to 4 so a8 to show that it was done by the special request of the General-in-Chief, and neither Mr. Laacoln nor Mr, Stanton were wiliing to go before the country on anything less than that. General Halleck felt that @ great military mistake and out rage was being committed, awd that in some way it should be prevented, The conference over the mar ter was a long and earnest one. At length General Halleck asked Mr. Stanton if he would re; him for disobedience of orders if he should delay the publication of this partisuiar one for a few days. Mr. Stanton said he would not. General Halleck pocketed the order. A few days after Genoral Thom: nad completed his preparations, moved upon robels and defeated them disastrously, AS ts ve known, the order, so much talked of since, Was never issued, it hag been the received opinion that Logan was the offtcer designated by Gevural i to supersede General Thomas. This, it scems, 18 mistake. According to General Halleck, the requi of General Grant also specified Genera! Scnofeld the successor, and the order, a8 finally written, di! designate him for the place. The name of Gene! Logan did not at any time come up in connecti with the change, either on the part of Grant or of the authorities in Washington, nor waa Gene! Sehotieid aware of the request made by G Generas Thomas’ army of friends—larger now many mes than the great army he command Wili read this with interest. / GENERAL POPE'S HEADQUARTERS, There was a gentieman present on this occasion San Francisco who had the facts connected with order 1asued by General Pope establishing nis hedl- quarters in the saddie, Which afterwards awake: so much ridicule, He gave Mr. Stanton as authority for the ment that thet order was not issued thonghtl And a8 a plece of bombast, but that nove pablis at that time was the salject of more carcial deb. eration, That McC! '8 situation near Richmond was then most préci that the War Department was greatly concerned about it and thought it neds sary to do dtp | ia Its power to create the pression among the Confederate commanders that & movement of great strength was to be immnedinely made in the valley by Pope. AS @partofthe pian tuts very order Was agreed upon, issued and allowed $0 pass at once inio the rebel lines. Two years after the war the lg tag of official documents showed tnat General Pope Was not responsible for the despatch announcing the great capture of prisoners and arms below Corinth, and now coines this state- ment of Secretary Stauton to vindicate av order Which, in the minds of 40 many, Was of a proce wiih Wenlrale CUBA. Mild Policy of Captain General De Rodas. Disaffected Volunteers Threatened with Arrest. Decree Closing the Bastern Forts of the Island. Spanish Accounts of Ex- traordinary Feats. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain Adams, from Havana July 10, arrived at this port yesterday. We are indebted to Purser R, W: Albert for the prompt delivery of our correspondence and exchanges. Below will be found interesting letters, giving the latest inftelligence of the progress of the Cuban war for independence, The Conciliatery Policy of Rodas—Modification of the “Pirate Decree”—Order to Stop the Shooting of Prisoners—Release of Prisoners in the FortresseeThe Volunteers Snubbed— Excitement Over Telegrams from Spain— Rumors of Proposed Negotiations with In- surgents—News of the Insurrection—Valma- seda’s Report—Defeat of Lesca—Reported Capture of Puerto Principe—Reform Mea» sures—Sequestration, Havana, July 10, 1869, There are continued evidences that Rodas intends to pursue a, more lenient, and at the same time a more sensible, policy than Dulce, doubtless under the influence of bad advisers, saw fit to inaugurate, By decree, a translation of which I send you, he very materially modifies certain orders of his prede- cessor, more particularly that famous one of Dulce in effect declaring that all vessels found in the waters of Cuba or the free seas adjacent thereto, under suspi- cious circumstances, shall be treated as pirates, This decree was officially declared not intended to apply to British vessels, nor was it enforced against other nationalities, and was in itself, therefore, of little importance, save as indicating the ignorance of the great principles of international law for which Spanish officials are so remarkable. Its modifica- tion shows at least a decent respect for the opinions of mankind, and insomuch evinces a reformatory spirit. In this connection I may say that whatever appli- cation to the question the treaty of 1795 made be- tween Spain and the United States may have, that with Great Britain in 1835 has none whatever, as it refers entirely to the slave trade and matters arising out of it. How the cruisers, therefore, are to guide themselves by it in their treatment of vessels it is hard to conceive. Further, as an evidence of change in policy, it ts now understood that Rodas has given orders to stop the shooting of prisoners captured in the fleld—a practice ruthlessly carried on since the beginning of operations in suppression of the insurrection. Agatn, he has of late released some sixteen political prison- ers arrested on suspicion, and against whom there were no proofs, and a considcrable number more wil! be released in a day or two. This last ts a mercy indeed, as large parties of them are confined in the same apartment, and that of not the most roomy or airy character. It has caused a slight demonstra- tion among certain of the volunteers, but by no means so successful in its character as previous ones have been. A captain and several others called upon the Captain General, in the name of their respective companies, and represented that the measure was not advisable, intmating that Dulce had tried the same thing, with bad results. His Excellency re- ceived them with much asperity and informed them that from considerations of mercy only he did not send them to the Cubanas fortress. He ordered them to retire, teiling them that he had learned who the volunteers were in Spat, but tney did not know him as yet. Finally, in his conversations Ro- das endeavors constantly to dispel the idea that he is a cruel and bloodtursty man. He but recently stated to a consulate representative here that he Would go out o: his way to avoid treading on an ant, On the same occasion, as described to me, he spoke In a very open and frank manner upon the situation, evincing enlightened liberal views and called on his visitor to speak freely concerning it, as he had a great respect for the opinion of foreigners, who, he knew, would speak without prejudice, All this nas created a pleasing impression upon the public mind, and all Classes, save a few gram- bling volunteers, who dare make no demonstration, speak well of him. I, moreover, cheerfully recor the fact that all who approach him dre well treated and promptly attended to, and he is evidently en- deavoring to surrouad himself with honorable men. During the week considerable anxiety and specu- lation have prevailed in reference to certain import- ant telegrams known to have been received by the pasate) from Madrid, the contents of which ve been kept secret, In the absence of any know- ledge of them rumor gives their contents muca as follows:—Count Valmaseda has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and Espinar relieved for having accepted the Captain Generalship, taken from Dulce by the volunteers. Last and most im- portant, Rodas has been ordered to go to the in- terior and open tor Yam ig with the insurgent chiefs for peace on the base of Antonomia, whicn was the original programme, by the way, of Morales Lemus, Ponce de Leon and nearly all the prominent Cubans of Havana. It is impossible to trace these Tumors or obtain any foundation for them. ‘They should be taken with much allowance. Upon his arrival Rodas contemplated going to the interior, but he would seem to have given up the idea, All the reports of persons coming from the Cinco Villas go to show that the Insurrection there has materially Increased since the crops were finished and the rainy season set in, pending the operations of the troops. Tis has induced Rodas to send a confidential commissioner there, to learn the true situation of atfairs, the return of whom he is walt- ing, preparatory to deciding upon his own move- ments. Thougn setting the example of mildness and con- ciliation, as chu described, and proposing to win by fair means what there seems littie probability of obtaining by foul, the Captain General 1s not seconded by his countrymen, whose feelings towards the Cubans are characterized by a hatred as malig- nant as it is impolitic. The Spaatsh Club (Casino Espanol) represents this feelimg., Not content with depriving the natives of all public empioy- ment, it has set about depriving those engaged in private occupations of tueir means of livelihood, some of its members have written anonymoas let- ters to those haying creoles in their employ, threat ening them with loss of custom if such were not discharged. As the result the whariingers and others employing Cubans, even tn the most menial capacities, have Cleat them, and much suifer- ing and discontent are the results. If other evidence were needed that the “Queen of the Antilles” was certai to emerge from the dominion of Spain at an early date it could be found in the foolish, insane acts and policy of the Spanish residents, precisely the same as this class indulged in throughout Mex- ico and the South American repubites, inciting #0 much hatred and abhorrence that reconciliation be- came impossible aud a fourfold vigor was added to Tesistance. From the seat of insurrection the great Valmaseda sends a report of operations during vne iatter half of June, which, though of no great importance tn de- tail, has had, as he clatms, the effect of restoring order troughout his command. Under date of the Ist he Ca Agee in effect, as follows:—Operations since the 16th have been completely successful and have resulted in the total exterminasion of ail the bamis tuat remained in their. Hage lect st quartered in the craggy Sierra Maestre. On the 17th June the column from Veguita attacked three encampments near Jipacon, killed fourteen, wounded two; wok thirteen prisoners, Including the weil known chief Duke Estrada, Captain de Partido of Yara. On t day the somes? in Santa Rita attacked the enemy th Cajitas in @ position dificult of access, killed three and took a quantity of arms, On the 18th some volunteers, under 4 pardoned chief named Roudon, attacked the same band and killed five, tak- ing More arms. On the 22d the volunteers of Man- ganillo and Capechuela, attacked the enemy in ‘Tives and Jaguey on two occasions, kiliing thirteen, tneluding the Chief Manuel Garcia, On the 2ith the voiunteers of Guisa killed three of the enemy on the surrounding hills, On the 26th a column, com- ofthe three arms, under Colonel Ampudia, ilitary Commandant of Manzanillo, attacked a @ camp in Nagua, aided by the volunteers. This point the enemy considered his strongest and last retuge, and had concentrated there quantities of arms, Our forces Were compelled to cross @ river, wading breast deep, and attacked the ereny, on three sides. [He defended himself only at one‘of the and here Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Jerez,. commanding the van, was killed. Lieutenant Vicente Rios and another were wounded, Aiter a hot exchange of volleys the intrenchment was sur- rounded, and the enemy fled in ail directions, He lost eighteen killed ana many wounded. The depot of aring Was destroyed. On the 28th, the dispersed enemy having retired upon Pufal, the Manzanillo yolunieers again atiacked and routed him, destroy- ing his camp. On the 2uth, the volunterrs of bare attacked a Bana under Pedro Acosta, bled thirty. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1869.—TPIPLE SHEET. three, Speinding the chief, and took # number of arms, Ani Party of volunteers attacked the same in Maybio and kitted four. The captai the volunteers was killed. The other column. ying entire line of the Cauto river, encountered eneusy in Fuelta Grande, on the Contramaestre, on the right margin of the Cauto, killed three and cay many of late importation.” He adds:—‘*The avove results have been obtained amid imnumerable priva- tions and disease. The column sent to Santiago under the colonel of the Bailen reguiars has not yet returned.” In @ despatch of the 28th ult. Valma- seda says:—"All the Capitanias and wards of the jurisdictions of Manzanillo, Bayamo and Jiguani ave beeu re-established and are working as in normal tunes, and the traffic on the road 18 carried on with complete security, The enemy {s reduced to the most rugged part of the Sierras, inthe eastern part of Manzanillo and Jiguani, from which he dare ‘@ quantity of arms, noe how Ewes zi ie so From Santa Clara a ena een T headquarters atating tie tr cath it Lieutenant Colonel Perez had come up with the band under Gil, Borroto in Ciego Romero and killed said chieftain and two of his followers. A rumor is in very gen- eral circulation that the forces of Lesca have been aefeated by 700 insurgents under Villegas, the As- turian, at ‘exares, near Sagua la Chica. This ls of ‘aperasions in the Cinco Villas. ‘@ have nothing positive from Camaguey of date later than heretofore given, Tne ee, of a schooner just in from Nuevitas states that it was given out there that Puerto Principe had been at- tacked three umes by the insurgents, who were as Many times repulsed, though 8,000 strong and with eae artillery; that the Spaniards fought with great jravery and vigor; but the Cabans finally succeeded in reaching the Merced Convent, the stronghoid of the Spaniards, and set fire to the adjacent bouses, which compelled the abandonment of the edifice, leaving the city in the hands of tne rebels. The fol- lowing estates near Las Minas, heretofore spared have been burned by the Spaniards:—Altagracia and Cercado, Cuban, aud San Juan, Spanish. According to last accounts tere are a large num- ber of imsurgents between Santi Espiritu and Bayamo. It is stated that a son of the Dominican General Poello has passed over to the insurgents. In Mayagigua a company of native militia, being 1n garrison, on hearing whe cry of Free Cuba!” from the insurgents, passed over to the latter with a cry of “Vival’ taking with them some ammunition. Colonel Franc, who disobeyed the orders of Dulce to “clear the plaza,” on the occasion of the disturb- ances resulting in his deposition, has been ordered under arrest und to report himself at Madrid, al- though he had previously asked to be discharged from the service. Engineer Colonel Clavigo, inspec- Vor of the volunteer corps, Who sided with the volun- teh on the same occasion, has aiso been ordered to Spain, AS @ measure of reform and Sonn any, General Rodas has ordered that the omices of Special Inspec- tor of Vigilance and that of Commandant of Salva Guardlas and watchmen be abolished, and that in lueu thereof an oftice of Chief of Public Security be instituted, depending directly upon the City Gover- nor, and which shail be filled by a Commanuant of the Army, who 1s to assume the military part there- of, and whose salary will be $2,500, with $1,000 addt- tional and $1,200 for office expenses. Don Francisco Antonio Lapandero Corripio, Commandant of Infan- try, has been appointed luspector-in-Chief of Public Security aud Protection. Committees of volunteers and municipalities from different parts of the Island have et here to felicitate General Rodas on his arrival. ‘The Bishop of Havana, in a letter dated Guines, the 24th ult., has directed a grand religious jubilee on the opening of the Ecumenical Councii on the 8th of December next. It is reported this morning that on this day the doors of the prison will be opened to all prisoners against Whom there are no proofs, It 1s said that Rodas will go in person and open the doors. ‘There are rumors that the property of the Aldamas and Delmontes 13 to be sequestered; but this {8 not probable. Decree of General De Rodas. SUPERIOR POLITICAT, COVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF CUBA, HAVANA, July 7, 1869, The custody and guardianship of the coasts of this island, of the keys adjacent and the waters apper- taining to the territory being of the greatest tinport- ance, in order to suppress the insurgent bands that have hitherto maintained themselves by ontside as- sistance; and determined, as I am, to give a vigorous impulse to the pursuit of them, and with a view of settling the doubts eutertatned by our cruisers as to the proper interpretation of the decrees promulgated by this superior political government under date of November 9, 1868, February 18 and 26, and March 24 last, I have decided to amplify and unite the aforesatd orders and substitute for them the foilow- ing, which, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the nation, I decree:— ARTICLE 1, All ports situated between Cayo Bahia de Cadiz and Point Maysi, on the north side, witn the exception of Sagua la Grande, Caibarien, Nueyitas, Gibara, Baracoa, Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Manzanillo, Santa Cruz, Zaza, Trinidad and Cien- fuegos, where there are custom houses, will con- Unue closed to the import una export trade both by foreign and coasting vessels. ‘Those Who may at- tempt the entry of any closed ports or to open com- munication with their coasts wiil be pursued, and, on bemg captured, are to be tried as violators of the law. Ant. 2, Vessels carrying gunpowder, arms and Wariike stores Will likewise be judged in accordance with the law. Axt. 3. The transportation of individuals in -the service of the insurrection 18 by far more sertous than that of contraband of war, and will be deemed an act of decided hostility and the vessel aud crew regarded as enemies to the State. Akt, 4. Should the individuais referred to in the foregoing article come armed this will be regarded de Jacto as proof of their intentions, and they will be re- garded fs pirates, as will also be the case with the crew of the vessel, Ant 5, In accordance with the law, vessels cap- tured under an unknown flag, whether armed or unarmed, will also be regarded us pirates. Axr. 6. In free scas adjacent to those of this island the cruisers will limit themseives in their treatment of denounced vessels, or those who render themselves suspicious, to the rights given in the treaties between ‘Spain and the United States in 1795, (ireat Britain in 1935, aud with other nations subsequently, and if, in the exercise of these rights, they should encounter any vessels recoguized as enemies of the integrity of the territory they will carry them into port for iegal lnvestigation and judgment eccordingly, CABALLERO DE RODAS, SPANISH ACCOUNTS. CIENFUEGOS, Successful Evcounter of Volunteers and Guar- dia Civil with the Rebels Under Villcgas— Villegas Reported Among the Killed. CtenFuRGos, July 6, 1869, The following account 1s given of the fight sustained by the column which attacked and dispersed, on the 27th uit., the band of Villegas on the cattle farm Maguarayos: Lasas, July 4.—Twenty-eight of our volunteers and forty civves, under Commandant Iriarte, left this town on a recovnoltering party during a heavy rain storm, aud came up with the enemy, all quartered in bouses, Before attacking we found about three hundred horses, which led to the belief that the force was humerous; however, under a shout of “Viva Espaiia,” given by Captain Cortes, we discharged our first volley, killed several, including Villegas, and when the civiles appeared from anotaer quarter ihe enemy became completely panic stricken and ran away. Afterwards, veing jomed by the marine to- fantry and some volunteers from Cruces, we pursued them as far as the swamps, into which We sent several volleys, The total number of Killed must have been tiurty of the rebels, and the wounded exceeded forty. Having captured all the enemy left behind, we proceeded home by way of Cruces, where we arrived at eight in the night, without having fuffered any joss whatever. Despite the rainy weather uot a capral o! our Kemingtons failed once, BAYANO. Extraordinary Exploits of Colonel Boet and His Contra-Guerillas, BAaYAMo, June 22, 1869, Colonel Ampudia arrived this morning, and Gen- eral Valmaseda will give him the command of a column and @ commission of importance. Yesterday the commander of the Batien Chassours, Colonel CaMil, arrived with’his force, after having reconstructed the ward of Baire with more than 8,000 souls, and causing the fugitive revels a loss of twenty-two men. The contra-guerilla of Valmaseda has also re- turned, commanded by Commandant Gonzalez Boe. He marched to Guisa to re-establish the Capiiania of that ward. Having heard that there were 1,000 rebels near the Sierras of Corojo, Turonja, Colorad Piedra, Corraltllo and Guisa, heysent thirty-five m to the coffee plantations of Santiago, who made a countermarch, and, Without resung, leaving their horses secured, they ambuscaded in the most dim- cult passes of Pimicnta and Negros, and there made 0 determined an assauit that they killed fourteen of the enemy, made #1X prisoners, and 426 who asked for pardon were allowed to go im peace, MANZANILLO, A “Ball” in tho Midst of the Insurrection Successes of Colonel Ampudin. MANZANILLO, July 4, 1969. The Governor's palace was ‘assaulted’ in the evening some weeks ago by a party of thirty of our Manzanillo beauties, and soon after a ball was got ‘up which lasted uli two o'clock in the morning. Our columns*hgain sallied out dt daybreak on the 27th ult, while Colonel Ampudta ordered the volun- teer force of Campechuela, joined with the fur loughed regniars, to leave for Lanabumbia, where a fuctory of war inateriais existed occupied by the revels, Soon after making the attack the troops captured the chieftain Garcia, & person iolding great nnucuce there tn the Sierra. aud Killed several of his followers, inciuding the lawyer, Don Ramon Izagwirre. At twelve M., finding that Colonel Heredia and his column not appeared, probabi, owing to the swelling of the river, the order to ia! back was given, ope the same and only road the troops came by, The rain feli in torrents. The 156 women and children taken under our protection iad to be placed on the horses of the contra-gueriilas, Arriving there, we met the forces of Campechuela, who had succeeded in destroying ail they found at the aforesaid factory. Report of an Eye Witness of the Expedition Sent by Colonel! Ampudia to Destroy the Rebel Factory of War Materials and Enu- campments of Nagua. MANZANILLO, July 4, 1869. General Valmaseda having icarned that the rebels Were strongly intrenched in the Sierras, seut for Ampudia to come to Bayamo, ang finaily confided the enterprise of destroying their camps to Atmpu- dia and the contra-guerillus. ‘The attack was to be combinedly consummated by three columns—one composed of the Ampudia Guides, the volunteers of Campechuela and Bicana with the contra-guerillas, a few troops of the Coroua aud Cuba companies, and the volunteer artillery of Manzanillo, all of which were to attack from Cerro Pelado, skirting all the hills up to the eaemy’s en- campments; another, composed of 390 troops ot the San Quintin Chasseurs, who were to attack from Zarzal, also proceeding as far a3 Nagna; and the other, composed of the volun teers of Barrancas and a force of 100 mo- bilized troops from HaVana, which, starting from Yaguabo, were to ascend to the Sierra on the same route as the rest; the two last columns under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Lopez Campiilo and Colonel Heredia, of the Santa Domingo reserves, and the united forces under the command of Coione! Am- pudia, The general attack was to be made on the 20th ull, at six A. M. Ampudia, having returned from Bayamo, conterred with Heredia and Campillo in their camp at Naranjo. Ampudia left Manzanillo on the 25th tor Jibacoa, our camp of operations on the skirts of the Sierra, Ar- riving there, found the guides and the volunteers coming tn small parties, and in the evening the in- Mlating column was ready. The camp in Jibacoa was strategically situated on the river's margin, aad the position important. The column left atone in the night, preceded by a bail, In the march the Manzanillo column had to wade through rain and mua, and arrived at Cerro Pelado at six A.M. We learned that to arrive at the Nagua camp ten rivers had to be traversed, and that the chiefs Modesto Diaz, Marcano, Massot and others contemplated defending their last intrenchments. The contra- guerillas sallied to reconnoitre on the trst river pass, called Paso Malo, but finding no enemy re- turned. The column commenced moving by another pass, named Jesus Maria, while the contra-guerilias took the Paso Malo, to enclose the enemy by the flank shouid he appear. The troops had to carry their cartridge boxes over head, owing to the sweil of the river; the artillery had to couvey their car- riage ana munition boxes on their shouiders, poe fortunately we had only one cannon with us, the column passed the first river breast deep, and after- wards had to ascend a stupendous hill, while the contra-guerillas, under Lieutenants Rios and Elizaga, were keeping up @ hot fire on the intrenchment of the enemy just discovered at the second pass, The guides made @ bayonet charge with :mpetuosity, under Captain Martin and Ensign Venecia; crossing the river under the enemy’s fire at the Clara pass, they reached the intrenchment sinultancously with the contra-guerilla, found three dead and killed two more, capturing several arms. The rest of the columns crossed this second pass under great fatigue and under a continuous fire, till we reacned the third pass, called Rondon. Here the enemy made a formidable resisrance, as fore- seen by AMpudia, but to no avail. The rebels were positioned behind an intrenchment of eighty meters? extent and commenced firing with impunity at our guides, who valiantly threw themselves into the sweiling and rapid Current, fuli of snags, and we had a hurd struggle to get over. Commandant Ka- fael Jerez bud just been mortally shot and one of the guides was drowned, while the enemy kept pouring dowa bis fire at a distance of sixty paces. ‘Two artillery shots well aimed by Lieutenant bro- ton favored the guides, and shortly after their cap- tain and two ensigns rushed forward with “Ving Espana,” having forded tne river, at which moment Lieutenant Rios and three more coutra-guer ius were slightly wounded. The enemy's intrench- ment was instantly covered. He had another, Jronting the one just taken, at the heigut of a small wood, but one impetuous charge was enough to take that also. His losses must have been immense, as the streams of blood showed that our fires had been well aimed, and a large quantity of arms were cap- tured. This formidable intrencument was de- Tended by 300 rebels under Diaz. 1t was their Maia- kKoil—their Sebastopol. The movement was then continued, ever ascend- ing hills and crossing rivers, Colonel Frosmeta was thrice at the bottom of the river, and Ensign Caimary five times. The mules were oiten assisted by the artillerists to ascend with their heavy loads; on ail sides there were precipices and we were sur- rounded with ovstacies, Under small volleys from the enemy the coluina moved on till it reached the camp of Lower Naguas, Which we took without re- sistance, with every ev:dence of disorderly depar- ture on the part of the enemy, he contra-guerillas of Rios proceeded to occupy the camp of Upper Naguas, also taken without any opposition, ten minutes after taking possession up came the column under Campillo, aud how hg 3 accomplished it is almost incredible, while they (the 5an Quintin regu- lars) had only had three ktiled, and must have gone about like goats; of course they had to dismount their mountain piece. Once in possession of the enemy’s camps the troops were divided tn companies among the sierras to give him a general fight, in which he lost fifteen more, including Don Kamon Izaguirre, lawyer. A large number of women and children, almost naked. and hungry, were taken in charge by our men, who immediately gave them their rations, Ampudia having learned that the enemy had an extensive factory of arms on an elevated hill, a com- pany of regulars under Captain Gonzaio was sent to attack. We had to ford ten river passes, submerged to the neck, before we reached the Carboneral hill, after crossing the Hediondo near Corral Are royon. ‘The enemy sastained i at every pase, but in vain, Finally we arrived at a barracon, six yards long by tweive wide, where we found the jol- lowing:—Two large forges lor making guns, five carpenters’ boxes, complete and well as- sorted; @ laboratory for manuiacturing egun- powder, containing a ton oi pulverized coal; three tins of nitric acid, eigit tins of sulphur, several tins of diferent spirlis, a large quantity of nitre, nitrate oj posash, a con of burned coal prepared, 209 lances, 197 muskets, two re- voivers, eight sabres, One barrel with copper cut- Ungs for caps, four coal seives, five anvils, siX meal lnstruments for manufacturing screws, &c.; many steel models for moulding, a chemical laborator coulaining a coinpleve compiement, The lead tow exceeded a ton. For tne spave of three hours tne force of Gonzaio did nothing else but burn, destroy and burl into the river all what could not be conve- mientiy carried away. According to documentary evidence the existence of tus factory dates belore the commencement of the insurrection, The following day at ten A, M. the columus of Am- pudia and Campiilo commenced their march, along Wich the 157 Women and children under teu protec uon, ‘The municipality has named a committee to attend — being performed for the soul of the brave jerez. Von Carlos Segrera, the public surveyor, is mak- Ing @ sketch of we ground where we attack and capture of the Nagua took piace. TRINIDAD, The Jumento Volunteers Standing Fire--More Mysterious Arrests of Prominent Persons ta Sautiago. TRINIDAD, July 7, 1869. The miiftary commandant of Trinidad pubiishes an account of an encounter between the volunteer force under Lieutenant Colonel Laguidain and some rebels near Casa Blanca; the latter held » strong position, accessible only by a tree placed for aladder, The column was received by heavy vol- leys, and the commander, finding it mpossible te take the position in froat, ordered it to be Ranked, and the moment tt waa taken the enemy fed, leaving the troops in possession of a fag, maby arms, cor- "aoe 2 &o. We learn trom Santiago that after Valmaseda’s 200 contra-guerilias arrived there various mportant arrests were made, aud among these of Senors Gon- zalo del Vitiar, Collazo, Antonio Asencio y Asen- clo, José A. Perez and Rafael Espin; the two latter are physicians. Ali were placed in close confine- ment, but novody knew the cause, THE HARVARD CREW'S COLORS, To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In the chivairous days of Greece, of Rome, in Brt- tain’s proudest hours, and at a still Jater period, tour- naments, deeds of daring, valorous feats and exhib. tions that Involved the necessity of physical perfec- tion and development and gameness were sought for and encouraged by the bravos of men and ap. proving smiles of lovely woman; and as a greater Incentive to become tle hero of a contest, there were encouraging demonstrations of the adorning and wearing the colors of the contestants, And why not at tae present time? The plucky Harvard crew have thrown the gauntlet, and, challenging, have picked HA their boat and crossed the seas for the nize of fame, Let me suggest that the purple ripe on for the coat butionhole of purple rosette or fowing sash a8 te Harvard crew's colors, gentlemen, and whe jor ladles, ve worm Wraith oF Lowa Citins.—The following 1s ti Valuation of eight Jow® cities, a8 shown at the Auditor's oftice, in Des Moines: Council Blufls.. $4,211,200 | Keokuk... - $2,581,126 ‘Des Moine 8,008,458 | Burlington, 12, WS Dubuque. 603,940 | Muscatine « 1,372,916 Davenport.. 2,800,000 | Lowa Vity,