Ran Against Garcia

New York, Dec, 29.- A dispateh to The Herald f rom Havana, Cuba, says: A correspondent at Manzanillo details the march of a convoy under General Rey for Bayamo. The convoy consisted oí 165 carts and a company oL pack mules. The convoy left Manzanillo on the 13th and arrived without hindrance at Veguita, midway to Bayamo. The Spanish column escorting the convoy consisted of 1,800 infantry armed with Mausers, 200 guerrillas, 38 cavalry, and a section with two pieces of artillery, a total of 2,450 men, among whom were 780 young recruits just arrived from Spain. General Rey obtainedinformationthat Calixto García, with a large rebel force, was eneamped on the borders oí the , ikabay river to prevent the passage of the convoy, and, if pqssible, to I ure it. With this view. Uarcia had dug trenches and built brea lined with barb wire. He hai dynamite torpedoes ai conven. ent distances. lían Aciüinst Crnrcia. He knew the convoj nitude that it woudd Corm more than elght kilometers. Hardly had the rear guard gul half a le from "Veguita, the vangusrd being al a place named Ris-ero. when the Spanish opened flre on the enemy. A flerce combat folloTved. In this action Captain Podio f 11. Scarcely an hour had elapsed, thti convoy still slowly advaneing, when '...e vanguard renewed the flre, but the rebels, intrenched in their splendid positions, repeated their attack, and the encounter again became flerce. In order to dislodge them from their stronghold it was necessary to send a section of sharpshooters to the bushes to force the rebels to disperse. There Lieutenant Milvain was mortally wounded and died later. The convoy passed the river Buey, near Caimao. always under a brisk flre. and, arriving at Barnacas, they camped. Snanish Ofticers Killed. Te sunrise on the 17th they started to maroh, when the enemy at once opened flre on both flanks, which continued for two hours. The column then advanced, and stopped at the heights of Barrancas.' Passing these later, at the junction oí the Bayamo and Peralejo roads, another eng-agement occurred in which Lieutenant Sesi was fatally wounded. After the column entered the plains of Tuabeque, the rebels made a vigorous attack on the front and left flank, and later, on the rear guard. They were again repulsed. The column, steadily advancing, reached the San Francisco gorge in bad condition. The ox .teams, for lack of water and food, were exhausted in the painful maren, but all arrived without the loss of a single object. The convoy remains still at Bueycito, awaiting reenforcements. The losses on both sides have already been offlcially stated.