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INVASION
Military'Expedition Saocess
* ful -y Landed ia Coba.
Key West, Fia., May 31--Oer
400 meo, with a pack trato sad a large
"qosoti?y of arms and ammunition,
easled for Coba oo the Plant Lice
steamer Florida oo ?he night of Maj
21. These oieQ and the equipment
constituted so expedition able to op?
erate indepeodeotiy and to defeod itself
af at o fit aoy body of Spanish troops
which might oppose it.
The expedition* WAS nader the com?
mand of Oolooel Jose L*cret, formerly
insurgent commander io Matanzas prov?
ince. He assumed the direction of af
i fairs immediately OD the landing of the
expedition- until theo, General Joaquin
Castillo was in control.
Io ?be landing of the expedition the
United Sutes army was represented
bf Captain J. 4/Dorst, aod Thomas
Estrada Palms, was represented by J.
E. CarUya, who has beeb the lancing
agent of oearlj every filibustering ex*
peditioo for more than a yesr. Messrs.
Cattily Cartaya and Dont will return
to Key West.
G?nerai Jeiio SangoiHj, oo the way
to report ta General Maximo Gomes,
wa? aise oo the boat.
fcTbis is the most jjowcrfni aott-Spac
isb eipeditiou ever toot to Coba.
About three bttodred of the moo ere
Cubans; the others are Amerisaos.
J The ?ogtneer earps of the expedition
is eoispoeed entirely of Americans,
ander ?ore&e? Lsdd.
Toe men were dressed io canvass
j ni for ns tarnished by the Untied Sutes
gOTondoeot, aod the commissary de
parteaeot bsd rations enough to last Sf
* tees days alter the landing.
The pack train consisted of seventy
five moles and twenty-five horses. The
expedition carried 7,000,000 rounds of
ammunition, tor Geoeral Calixto
Garcia.
Th? expedition ie oom posed of bardy
y ooo fellows, who looked fit for aoy
/'toing.
Tho expeditioo was ooo voy ed by the
croiser Marblebead, tbs torpedo boat
das trey er Eagle aod other warships.
Two younger brothers of the late
General Nester Arengaren are with the
expeditioo.
The expeditioo was landed on the
coast of Coba oo Thursday morning.
May 26.
Wheo ibo Florida, escorted by the
Osceola, drew np close to the
shore st the plane selected for tbe load?
ing, sent scouts to see if sll was clear.
These scoots were greeted by Geo*
erais Ferla end Rojas, witb some 1,
500 armed insurgents.
COD se que o t ly, far from there bei o g aoy
hostile demonstration upon tbe part of
toe Spaniards, the landing of the ext e
ditton was io the oatore or a triumphal
iovasioo Tbe Cubans who ?ere io
watting fer the party bsd s brass batd
and welcomed the new comers with aa
tiooal sirs
Tbe Great Bank of Spain May
Collapse and End- War.
Madrid. Jnoe 1, 5 P. M.-The At
teotioa of the public to-day is absorbed
io tbe cooditioo of the Baok of Spain,
which is considered more seri?os than
aoy reverse ol the war, ioasmueb ss
che impossibility of the baok to help
tbe government means impossibility to
continue the war.
There was a loog procession at the
baok daring tbe day All classer of
people were represented aod maoy
?omeo were io hoe, waitiog to change
notes ioto silver, feariog the notes
woold soon be subj2cted to a discooct.
If tbe roo oooriaoes there is dsoger
of tba tank's stook of sit ver becoming
exhausted, wbieb woold compel the
go vero meo t to resort (0 a forced cur
reneey, issniog cotes of small deo^mi
oatioo It is hoped, however, ibat tba
panie wi!) subside, leaviog the haute s
margie of silver.
The fioaoeisl ootlook of Spaio is
rather daik. The Government bss en*
trusted tbe back of Spain with the nego?
tiations for a loso of 1.000.000.000
pesetas at4 per cent., wbiob som is to
be raised wheo required The baok
will endeavor to miss tbe loso at borne
ned abroad.
Three Armies go Together.
Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines to be Occupied.
Washington, Jone 1.-For th? first
time since the beginning of host i li ties,
there appears to be something in the
nature of no official statement of the
? plan of campaign of the United States
! government. This is contained in a
; letter of Secretary Alger to the
Speaker of the House,. transmitting
certain recommendations and state?
ments of General Ludlow which dis?
closed the purpose of the war depart?
? ment to send 70,000 men to Coba,
i 20,000 to start at once and the re?
mainder jost ss soon as they can be
mode ready for departure. Then
there was on estimate for establishing
electrical communications in connec?
tion with the army "in Cubs, Porto
Rico and the Philippines," stiow
\ iog for the first time officially an im
I plied intention on the part of the
government to land troops in Porto
Rico Of course all these movements j
have been anticipated by the press,
but nevertheless a strong element of
doabt existed, and therefore the official
i statement of the government's par
pose, made even in this indirect
fashion, created a profound sensation I
nere The three are to go togetl ?r,
1 Coba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
i and pass into the military occupation
of the United States troops
Inasmuch as the secretary says that
the second contingent of troops is to
! go forward ss soon aa they can be
prepared, a good deal of interest
; attaches to an order that was made
to-day st the war department pro vid ]
ing for the organization of the 75,000 i
additional volunteers called for The
! order officially established the state
meat heretofore made in these dis?
patches that a large proportion of the
new men ore to be used to fill np the
; existing regiments of volunteers,
! which are in most oases deficient io
I numbers. Iris to be presumed from
i to-day's order that the volunteer regi
! mente collected under the first call
will be detained until they ore filled
up in this fashion, so that the order
baa some bearing upon the plan of
campaign.
The war deportment received a dis?
patch to-day from Geoeral Brooke, in
commend of the forces at Chicks?
manga, setting ot rest the reports ss
to inadequate food. and water supply
there When these reports were
circulated recently, Secretary Alger
telegraphed an inquiry to General
Brooke, whose reply is ss follows :
There ?s oo reason whatever for
complaint as to the quality and kind
of food furnished the troops in ibis j
camp. Some regulars arrived here
with food rations only, bot defects of
this kind are quickly remedied and
the vegetable component immediately
provided Tue water question is be?
ing solved as to quantity, and it has
always been good ss to quality "
NO WORD PROM SCHLEY.
Tbe naval officials hove 'been con?
siderably mystified throughout tbe
day by the reports of an engagement
off Santiago At the outset there
was complete scepticism and a dis?
position to treat the reported action
as a myth. Gradually, as the dey
advanced, the corroborative evidence
coming from msny quarters, includ?
ing the official announcements from
Havana and Madrid, led the officials
to concede that some engagement
bad taken place, although they did
not regard it as a serious one No
bulletins were issued by tbe depart?
ment daring the day, sod at the close
of office hours it was stated that no
dispatches from Commodore Scbley
had been received during the day.
There is reason to believe, however,
that the department received indirect
advices through the State department,
possibly not bearing out the detailed
press dispatches, but sufficient to in?
dicate that an engagement of some
kind bad occurred at Santiago. The
impression obtained during the after
noon that in execution of the genera)
j instructions to ali United States naval
commanders on the Cuban coast to
prevent the construction or strength?
ening of batteries by the spaniards,
Commodore Schley. observing work
of this kind going on at Morro Castle,
bad drawn his fleet up close enough
to etop it. It is not believed for an
instant that be made any real attempt
to enter the harbor, although it is
entirely conceivable that while engag?
ed in the task of shelling the shore
batteries, finding the Cristobal Colon
io range, be could not resist the
temptation to try a few shots at her
SPAIN'S FINANCIAL PLIGHT.
The statement from Madrid, in
what seemed to be almost semi-offi?
cial form, of the acuteness of tbe
financial stringency there, and the
plain intimation tbat the Bank of
Spaio, and consequently Spain, were
nearing the eod of their financial re?
sources, was regarded at the state
department ss of more real signifi
canee than many of tbe stories of
bottles OD land and seo that have
been coming over the cables for the
past few weeks. The effect of this
notice may be to hasten the opera?
tions against Porto Rico, lest the
prize slip from oar grasp through a
sudden and unexpected termiostion
of the war
Au additional evidence that the
actual forward movement of the army
and navy has begun was given in tbe
action of tbe foreign naval and mili
tsry observers They .have been so?
journing leisurely in Washington for
some time, but within the last week
all of them have started for Florida
The British naval and military at?
taches were the first to leave, and
now they have been followed by the
(xerraan, Austrian. Russian, Swedish,
Norwegian and Japanese observers
The government of Norway and
Swe ?den baa no less than six mili?
tary and naval experts to observe va?
rious branches of the warfare.
Spain's Reserve Fleet.
London, Jooe 1 -Tbe Madrid cor?
respondent of Toe Standard, telegraph?
ing Sunday by way of Bayonne, says :
"Tbe reserve squadron now under?
going speed trial aod goo nial outside
Cadiz is competed of the battleship
Pelayo and 821 meo, the armored crui
ssr Emperado Carlos V. with 471 men,
tbe cruiser Alfonso XIII with 361 meo,
the auxiliary cruiser Patriots aod
Ri pido each 175 men, four, torpedo boat
destroyers eaeb with 120 taen. When
. these vessels are ready to start Admiral
Camara hopes to take with them seven
tran&Atiaotic steamers, oow preparing
at Cadiz. They are armed with Krupp
guns and quick firing gan? and carry
250 men each. They will serve at the
same time as carriers of coal aod war
Stores for tbe * quad ron, wbioh will also
carry a strong force of narines and
provisions for six months "
-m * * warn?
More Fast Steamers Have
Been Secured.
Washington, June 2 -Assistant
Secretary Meikeljobn of the war
department to-day secured additional
transports of capacity approximating
5,000 men, of the Cuban army of inva?
sion. This swells the total number
of available vessels to over 30 with a
carrying capacity of nearly 30,000
men. The ships secured to day will
be sent to Florida ports, chiefly
Tampa, as fast as practicable and
prepared for service. The vessels
are:
The Commancbe of the Clyde line,
now at New York, capacity 1,200
men ; the Louisiana and the Knicker?
bocker of the Cromwell line, one of
which is st New York and he other
at New Orleans, 600 men each.
The Specialist aod the' Unionist be?
long to a foreign line and which
before the war plied between Mobile.
Ala , and Porto Rico, estimated to
carry 1,000 men each. They are
now at Mobile. The charter of the
last two named vessels is subject to
the granting by congress of an Ameri?
can register for which the assistant
secretary will ask thst body.
At ihe seme time, Mr Meiklejohn
announced that the Mantea, a small
vessel now at one of the Golf ports
was ready for service sod she will
proceed to Tampa immediately. Her
capacity is 200 men.
The chartering of the additional
ships at this time is taken as an in?
dication of the promptness with
which the war department proposes
to uodertake the offensive operations
against the Spanish in the West
Indies and of the intention to carry
ont tbe plan indicated by Secretary
Alger io hie letter to the house ask?
ing for more money to be immediate?
ly available.
Havat/a, Jone 2 -A serious famine
prevails in thin city and dire starvation
is feared. Serious) riots, requiring tbe
interference of the troops* occur daily.
The case of the people are suffering
tbe ctmofrt hardships and ooly the rich
can cbtain the comforts of life at the
most czorbitan prices. The internal
situation is more serious than the dan?
ger from attack from the American fleet
from without.
Washington, Jone 2.-The trans?
ports have lei: Tampa for Santiago
with a iarge body of troops and a
number cf seige goos of heavy calibre
and a fail supply of ammunition
This force will oooupy tbe hills sor
roundiog Santiago and co-operate with
the fleet and tbe insurgents, who have
gathered io foree near the city
Cape Baytien. Jone 1 -The condi?
tion of the population of Santiago since
the beginning of the blockade bas
grown rapidly worse, and it is now said
to be nearly desperate. Food is very
scarce aod the poor people are finding
it almost impossible to obtain any be?
cause of tbe enormos prices.
The expectation is general that San?
tiago mutt soon fal! into the baods of
tbe Americans.
If jon waot a good, boneet newing machine
trade, see Randie.
DEADLY WORK
AT SANTIAGO.
Tbe Story of the Attack Ap*
parently Obtained From
Officers of One? of the
Ships Engaged.
New York, Jcoe 1 - An Evening
Journal special from Cape Hay lien
says :
The .torpedo boat Porter arrived at
Mole, St. Nicholas at 1 o'clock this
morning with dispatches for Wash?
ington She left immediately. Bat
before going to sea the following
story of the bombardment of Santia
go de Cuba, the refuge of Admiral
Cervera and the Spanish fleet, was
obtained by your correspondent at
the Mole :
The American squadron, augment?
ed by the torpedo boat Porter, tbe
auxiliary cruiser St. Paul and the
protected cruiser New Orleans, form?
erly the Amazonas, approached the
entrance to the harbor of Santiago
de Cuba at 1 30 p m ? the Iowa
leading.
Inside the entrance to the harbor
was seen one of the warships of Cer
vera's fleet striped for action.
As the American fleet drew near
the . New Orlease was detached and
steamed far ahead of the Iowa, Tex?
as aod Massachusetts One of the
forts opened fire on her and she re?
plied, the other ships directing their
fire at the battery on the Poota
Gorda within the harbor and to tbe
westward of the position occupied
by the Spanish ship. The latter re
plied to the fire and immediately be?
came a target for all the American
ship s engaged in the battle. She re?
tired behind a protecting headland
and was not seen again daring the
engagement.
The Iowa, directed by Captain
"Fighting Bob" Evans; (she Massachu?
setts,Captain F. J Higginson; Texas,
Captain J. W. Phillips, ind the New
Orleans, Captain W. M. Folger ;
kept np their terrific fire agaiost the
Morro. Socapa and Poota Gorda
forts for two hours, their projectiles
of enormous size? doing tremendous
damage ta the defences of the har?
bor.
The masonry on Socapa and Morro
was battered ioto dnst ind the forms
of Spanish artillerymen and infantry
could bo seen fleeing to safety be?
hind the neighboring hills.
The auxiliary cruiser which joined
Schley's fleet just before the battle
took place waa hit by shells from the
forts, sud it is thought that she has
been seriously damaged by the shells.
After seeking the protection of a
jutting headland the Spanish war?
ships ccntined to Are projectiles over
the hills toward the fleet, bat they
had no range, not even direction to
their shot and the shell fell harmless?
ly ioto the sea.
That the number of killed on the
Spanish side is enormous no one
doubts, for time and again the Amer?
ican shells hit the batteries squarely,
and among the flying masonry and
dismantled guns tbe forms of men
were descried.
The damage done to the Ameiican
fleet cannot be leaned, bat it is not
thought sny person wag killed, if, in?
deed, anyone was wounded.
SPANIARDS CLAIM VICTORY.
Madrid. Jone 1.-5 p. m.-The
followiog oodated official dispatch from
Havana bas been received here :
"The American squad roo command?
ed by Commodore Scbley, composed of
large ironclads and cruisers, attacked
the fortifications at the entrance of
Santiago de Coba Oar ironclad. Cris?
tobal Colon, dosing the mooth of the
pore, aod supported by the fire of the
forts, repulsed the attack causing dam?
age to the enemy.
(Signed) "MAKTEKOLA "
Admiral Manterola is the officer io
command of the regular Spanish fleet
in Cuban waters*
SIN6AL TO INSURGENTS.
.Port Au-Prince, Hayti, Jane 1,
10 :15 p. m.-According to the latest
advice-- from Santiago d--; Cuba, when
the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon em?
erged from the harbor yesterday to thc
entrance of the channel *he was wel?
comed by 9uch a furious fire, as soon aa
the Ameriean fquadron sighted ber.
that she waa compelled ito return into
the bay.
Tbe American squadron, which left
Santiago waters at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon returned in ir oat of the en?
trance of the bay this morning, and
fired two oanon shots, wbtob are believ?
ed to have beeo a siogal arranged with
the Coban troops, massed 6,000 strong,
five kilometres (about three miles) from
the city Everybody expects grave re?
sults.
Good sewing machine from $10 np at
Randie's.
Wisdom to-day means comfort to-morrow.
To prove it bay a "White" and ase it.
THE CONFEDERACY
RECOGNIZED,
TO ALL INTENTS AND
PUEPOSES
Washington, May 31.-An opinion
was rendered in the United States
Supreme Court io the case of Mary
Anne G-. Baldy TS. Joho H. Hunter,
administrator, affirming the validity of
an investment in Confederate bonds
during the civil war In rendering
the opinion Jnstice Harlan said:
"The transactions between persons
actually residing within the territory
dominated by the Government of the
Confederate States were not invalid
for the. reason only that they occurred
under the sanction of the laws of
that Government, or any local
government recognizing its authority.
The preservation of order, the main?
tenance of police regulations, the
prosecution of crimes, the protection
of property, the enforcement of con?
tracts, the celebration of marriages,
the settlement of estates, the transfer
and desr t of property ajad similar
or kindred subjects were, during the
war, under the control of the local
governments constituting the socall
ed Confederate States. What occur?
red or was done in respect of such
matters under the authority of the
laws of tb* looa) de facto governments
should not be disregarded or held
invalid merely because the govern?
ments were organized in hostility to
the union, established by the national
Constitution, because the existence
of thc war did act relieve those with
in the insurrectionary Unes from the
necessity of civil obedience nor des?
troy the bonds of society."
The case came to this Court on
a writ of error from the Court of
Georgia, and the opinion of that
Court was affirmed. .
Getting Ready For Next
Campaign.
Tbe State D?mocratie executive com?
mittee will meet to-nigbt at 8:30 o'clock
in the office of the secretary of state.
This meeting will be presided over by
Coi. Wilie Jones, chairman of the com?
mittee, sod will briog together a Dum?
ber of prominent meo from the differ?
ent parts of the State.
It will be an important meeting, as
matters of interest to the people will
be discussed aod acted upon- First of
all, the whole plan of the coming State
campaign will have to be agreed oo,
aod a schedule adopted for the meet?
ings at which the candidates will ad?
dress the people This is likely to
evoke considerable discussion. Theo
the roles for the State primary elec
tioo will bavs to be looked after aod
the assessments for the varions candi?
dates wilt oome before tbe committee
for action and decision. In short, there
is much to be attended to at this meet?
ing, aod it is quite likely that the ses?
sion will be a long ooe
The political situation oo account of
the war goiog oo, hts been altogether
side-tracked lately, bot after tb? execu?
tive oommittee has acted aod puts the
machinery of the campaign io motion,
polities will have Us inning aod will get
its share of atteotioo.-Tbe State,
Jane 2.
Big Drop in Flour.
New York. Jane 2 -The Herald
says: Coincident with another tharp
break io wheat yesterday (Wednesday)
there was a big drop io all grades of
flour, ranging from 50 to 75 cents on
fancy patents and 25 cents on the
cheaper grades of Sour. There bas
been a gradual slipping away io the
price of flour during the last week until
yesterday the quotations were from $1
to $1 50 below the bigest price touched
oo tne great boom io wheat, engineered
by Leiter.
As a result o? the weakness there
was very little demand for flour and the
majority of dealers are holding off io
hopes of getting in on the bottom.
Greenville. S C. June 2.- W. W.
Ball, editor of the Greenville News,
will sever bis confection with the pa?
per on Saturday, the 4th of this
month A. B. Williams, the former
editor, will return to Greenville and
assume editorial charge. Mr. Wil?
liams will be io Greenville io a few
days.
A coach load of young oaval cadets
passed through Columbia yesterday oo
their way to Key West, where they will
be assigned to the battle ships aod
cruisers in the waters around Key Weet.
The senior class was giveo its diplomas
some time ago, aod now the members
ii the junior class have been giveo a
chance to go to the front. The fifty
)dd meo sent out from Annapolis will
De distributed among the vessels, bot
Poor of the oadets goiog to each of the
?oats.
VICE PRESIDENT
CAPOTE TALKS.
STRENGTH OF THE CU?
BAN ARMY.
New York, Jane 2 -Domingo Men?
dez Capote, the vice president of the
Caban republic, arrived io this city at
0000 to-day After goiog to a hotel,
where he met Geo. Palma, tbe head of
the Cuban junta, he visited Coban.
headquarters, where be met a number
of oewspaper reporters, with whom he
taked quite freely, Horatio S. Hubens,
tbe cooosel for the junta, acting as in?
terpreter
Wheo asked what his mission to this
coootry was. Senor Capote replied that
before say ?og anything about that, he
wished to thaok the American press
eolleetively for the stand it bad taken
io behalf of the Cuban insurgents,
stating that the Cuban people aod the
governmeot were deeply grateful fdr
the support giveo by the American peo?
ple, aod for the actioo of this oatioo
io oomiog to their sopport. Continu?
ing, he said :
"My mission is not a public one.
1 Alt pnblic acts relative to the war be?
tween the United Stages aod the Cuban
republic will continue as heretofore, to i
? be conducted by Geo. Palma. He has
the thorough confidence of our people,
who have a high appreciation of what
be bas done.
"I do not come here to negotiate any
loao. I come to consult with Gen.
Palma on a matter which does not
concern international question or pub?
lic interest. I have oo present inten?
tion of eal lin g upon President McKin?
ley, although I probably shall make a
call upon him before I return. How
loog I shall remain here I cannot say
at this time, bot shall make my stay
as short as possible."
Mr Capote bolds the position of
jadge advocate general io the insurgent
army. Questioned as to tbe strength
of the army, be said : -
"Not counting these who bave re
oeotly joined bis forces, Garcia bas
about 12,000 meo uoder bim io the
eastern department at Saotiago and
Puerto Principe. About 3,500 of
these meo were io the neighborhood
of Saotiago wheo I last received word.
All were folly armed and equipped, aod
it was the intention to cooceotrate all
of the force io the eastern portico to
that point."
I caooot tell definitely how maoy
meo there are io the other provinces.
Gomez bas about 5,000 meo at Saota
Clara. Probably 30.000 men. all folly
armed and equipped are io the racks
of the Cobao army. A large oumber,
probably 20,000 more, are armed with
machetes, aod there are thousands of
others who have recently left the towns
to join the army because they coold no
lon ger live io the towos From Puerto
Principe alone. 10,000 meo, women
and children have left because of the
scarcity of provisions, preferring to
take their chances io the coootry, aod
aod further influenced by the fear that
at tbe last moment, the Spaniards
driven to despair will, oat of revenge
resort to slaughter.'7
He saw Gomez io May, at which
time the headquarters of the Coban
government were at Sebastopol, a town
io Puerto Priooipe.
"We bad complete dispatches from
Geo. Palma," said Mr. Capote, *'keep
iog as ioformed of the action of the
United States aod of the movemeots
of the army and navy. Lieut Rowan
caw Gomes at Ciberga, aod had a con?
ference with him concerning sailors aod
guides to be furnished the invading
troops from the insurgents '*
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