Volunteers Of Havana

In 1868, vhen the revolution of ten years in Cuba began, no vol mi teers esisted in Havana worthy of being called ..snch. There was only one old regiment, and when Governor General Lersundi, then of the island, tried to complete this regiment he found the task diffiicultof accomplishment on account of the prevailing unwillingness to enlist. But just at this time, mostprovidentially f or the relief of the dilemma, some nnknown hand covered the walls of Matanzas, near Havana, with huge posters promising each Spaniard his passage home and the privilege of caxrying away with him -whatever his pocket handkerchief conld contain in the event of his enlistiaent. The effect of this stimulus to the flagging pulse of the public was electrical, and the enrollmeöt of 50, 000 men f ollowed within 48 hours. The volunteers thus came into esistence with their chiefs in the majority. But the ruined merchants of the city of Havana soon found out and objected to the newly risen power. This opposition increased upon the arrival in Cuba of the new governor general, Duice, who carne in 1869 as representative of the revolutionfixj government in Spain. He was a man of good faith, empowered by the government to grant Cuba all the reform she coveted and that had lately been offered. He would undoubtedly have put a term to the revolntion, averting all the ruin and devastation which followed. But such an easy and magnanimous course did not suit that class which faced inevitable financial ruin as