People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — REPUBLIC OF CUBA. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLIC OF CUBA.

RECOGNITION TO BE ASKED FROM US. Insurgents Hope to Establish Their Rights as Belligerents—Dr. Joaquin Castillo Will Wait on President Cleveland —News of the War. New York. Aug. 15. —Unusual activity prevails among the leaders of the Cuban revolutionary party in .this city as a result of the formation of the provisional government of the Republic of Cuba in Camaguey. The delegate of the revolutionists in the United States, Senor Thomas Estrada Palma, who has heretofore resided at Pleasant Valley. N. Y., has removed to the city and has taken offices at No. 66 Broadway, adjoining those of Gonzalo de Quesada, the secretary of the revolutionary party in this country. Senor Palma is at his office daily, and conferences with other leaders of the movement in this city are frequent. It is said that the provisional government’s first step will be to accredit commissioners to the various governments who will ask formal recognition for the Republic of Cuba, in order that the republic's status as a belligerent may be determined. The commissioner to the government of the United States will be Dr. Joaquin Castillo, a Cuban, who was educated in this country, and who served as an officer in the United States navy. Dr. Castillo served with distinction as a member of the Greely relief expedition in the arctic. He will arrive in this country shortly to lay the petition of the Cuban belligerents before President Cleveland. With the recognition of their rights as belligerents, the Cubans will immediately purchase war ships in this country and extend to the ocean the warfare they have so successfully conducted on land. The Ward Line steamer City of Washington arrived yesterday from Havana. She had few Cuban passengers and none was identified as of importance. The officers said that all was quiet in Havana when the Washington sailed last Saturday. News of the insurrection was more difficult to obtain in the Cuban capital than in New York The attitude of the Spanish seems to be passive just at present, the military waiting upon the approach of cool weather before undertaking a vigorous campaign. CALLED UPON TO SPY. Capt.-Gen. Campos Wants to Get Information. Havana, Aug. 15.—Captain General Martinez de Campos has issued an order, addressed chiefly to the rural authorities, instructing them that they should advise the military authorities the moment an insurgent band appeared in their respective districts and if possible name the leader of the band. Persons who have joined the Insurgents and who have subsequently returned home without surrendering to the authorities are notified to do so and those who fail to comply with this order are to be tried by court-martial. Lieutenant Solanna, at the head of a detachment of forty men belonging to the squadron of commerce of Havana, has been engaged with the insurgents commanded by Bermudez and Valdes at Cierrecita, in the Remedies district, province of Santa Clara. The lieutenant captured four prisoners and twenty saddled horses laden with provisions intended for the insurgents. Insurgents to the number of 400 have attacked Port Ramblazo, which is under construction on the railway to Puerto Principe. A garrison, consisting of one sergeant, one corporal, and seventeen guerrillas, made a heroic defense, until Captain Mercado, with forty-five infantry and twenty guerrillas, arrived to relieve them. He forced the insurgents to retire, leaving behind them two dead and their firearms and machetes. The troops lost four dead and twelve wounded.