May Be Landed This Week

Washington, June 1.- Our flag will be flying over Santiago de Cuba before the end oí the week if the plans of the president and his war chiefs do not miscarry. If the orders of the war office have been carried out nearly 000 regulars are already on the water headed for Santiago. It is nearly four days from Tarapa to their destination, and the trarsports should begin to arrive there Thursday evening or Friday rcorning. By Friday evening or Saturd.ay mornins the expedition should be roady to make a landing on Cuban soil. It is believec! to be the purpose of the expedition to begin operation with an attack by land and sea upon the forts ■svhieh guard the entranee to the channel leading to the inner harbor. These forts are r;o situated tbat it is extremely difflcult for battle ships lying'below i to make an effective attack un1 by land fcrces. They are so high very föw heavy guns on board the battle ships car. reach them, while the enemy is left cornparatively free to rain shot and shell upon the 'unprotectsd decks cf our vesscls. This waakness was pointcd out ty ths strategists composing the naval board and is believed to have had an important influence in diverting the Porto Rican expedition to Santiago. The exact plan .of battle, of course, Is not knovn, and if it were known it would not be allowable to publish it at this stage. The statement can be made, however, with safety that the orders from Washington to those who will have command of the military and naval forces are to fcrce the channel and to lose no tirae in attacking, and elther sinking or capturing the Spanish neet and in taking the fortified town of Santiago. Our land and naval forces will opérate in conjunction, and swift work is expected of them. Santiago is garrisoned by from 12,000 to 15,000 Spanish soldiers, but as many of them are conscriptcd from the native population the belief is held that they will not put up a very effective resistance and that they cannot be relied upon to do any really desperate fighting for the Spanish cause. Commodore Schley' is provided with means for exploding the mines in the channel, and it will not take him long to accomplish this work with the aid of our soldiers on the shore, who can make it too hot for the Spaniards to get within close quarters. Owing t,o the condition of the country General Blanco Will not be able to send re-enforcenients to Santiago in ■time to oppose the American attack. Eastern Cuba is overrun with insurgents who can prevent the rapid transportation of Spanish troops, and it woirid be impossible for Blanco to get any considerable forcé from Havana to Santiago inside oí three weeks. This will leave our soldiers amplfe time to complete the conquest of Santiago and put it in a position to hold against any attack which Blanco might, in his desperation, make against it. LANDED IN CEBA. Etpoditlou Safely Transporte on tlie Steamer Floriili. Key West, Fia., June 1.- The steamer Florida returned here at 7 a. m. today from Cuba, having suceessfully landed a most important expedition on the island. The Florida has been quarantined, but she may be released in an hour or so. So far not a line oL authentic news has left t!ie ship. Report has it that she landed her party about twenty-five miles east of Havana, and that not a shot was fired. Señor Pollo, the local delégate of the Cuban junta, has official information that the Florida expedition has been landed. Nearly four hundred men, with a pack train and a large quantity of arms and ammunition, sailed for Guantanamo on the Plant line steamer Florida the night of May 21. These men and the equiprnent constituted an expedition able to opérate independently and to defend litself against any body of Spanish troops which might oppose it. The expedition was under the command of Color.el José Lacret, formerly insurgent commander of Matanzas province. ■ He assumed the direction of affairs immediately on the landing of the expedition. Régimen ts I,eave Ckickamaaga. Chattanoog'a, Tenn., June 1. - The preparations for the departure of eight regiments of infantry from Chickamauga for Tampa are being vigorously pushed today and the indications are that all of the eight will get out during the next forty-eight hours. The first to go was the First Illinois, the First Ohio, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana and the Third Pennsylvania. These left tonight. The second detachment, which will probably leave tomorrow night, will be omposed of the Second New York, Sixty-ninth New York, First District of Columbia and the Fifth Maryland. Crniser JJearly Ready to Salí. Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal., May 1. - The cruiser Philadelphia will be in readiness to go into commission within two weeks. Her gun mounts have been strengthened and many changes made in her inner flttings. During the present -week her masts Will be replaced and her guos mounted. Her stores will be ready to put ol board as soon as the mechanica complete their work. Cavalry for tlie Philipinnes. Washington June 1. - Senator Pettigrew to-day introduced a bilí temporarily increasing the army of the United States. It provides for the appointment of Edmond F. English of Yankton, S. D., as colonel and that he be authorized, under direction of the secretary of war, to enlist and equip twelve troops of light cavalry for two years or more for special service in the Philippine islands. Each troep is to consist of not less than sixty nor more than eigïity-four ofïicers and men. An appropriation of Y225,000 is provided for to carry the bill into effect. Shortage in War Fund. Washington, June 1.- Representative Cannon of Illinois, chairman ot the house appropriations committee, has been in conference with the war department officials over the moneys needed to be carried in the general defleiency bill. He said the additional war department estimates growing out of the second cali for volunteers would not be less than $40,000,000 nor more than $50,000,000, the exact amount being not yet deflnitely determined. This brings to about $20,000,000 the aggregate to be carried by the general deficlency bill. Stttimcr Uelvidere Ashore. Boston, June 1.- The Boston Fruit eompany received a cablegram announcing that their largo steamer Belvidere, which left Jamaica last Wednesday night for Boston, is ashore on Cape Maysi, on the eastern end of Culta, anii is nrobablv a total wreek. The íate of th,e passengers and crew is unknown, althongh it is thought they were possibly rescued. The company officials say that among the passengers was Señor Capote, vice president oí the Cuban Republie. Says Spanlards Are Cowards. Key West, Fia., June 1.- Capt. Merlin of the British steamer Restorme". appears to be more incensed at the cowardly action of the Spanish at Santiago de Cuba than at his capture by the St. Paul. "Why," he said, "I was within two mües of the forts, with my colors fiying. Although they knew I was bringing coal for their bottl'ed up fleet, they were more oecupiec! in rolling cigarettes than in rolling up their sleeves to help me. Another Half hour and I would have been safe." Honor for Gon. 'Xew" Wallace. Washington, June 1. - "Lew" Wallace, author of "Ben Hur," wül doubtless be commissioned by the president a major-general of volunteers. The entire Indiana de'.egation has been to see the president in behalf of Mr. Wallace, and, thcugh that gentleman needed no introduction of this sort to Mr. McKinley, they thought it advisable 10 Indícate to the president the nomination would-be entirsly agreeable to the politicians of the Hoosier state. McKinley Ures Ilawalian Annexatio'.l Washington, June 1.- Representative Newlands of Nevada, the silverrepublican who introduced the Hawaiian annexation resolution, spent some time discussing the matter with President MeKinley today, but did not express entire confldence of securing í rule for consideration of Hnwaiian affairs. The president during the forenoon took occasion in interviews with callers to reitérate his conviction t.hat the annexation of Hawaii should be speedily accomplished. There Will Be No Delay. Washington.June 1.- Secretary Long was unusually cheerful this morning, and said that he was more th'an satiáfied with the condition of naval affairs, that the department had the enemy on the hip and proposed to make the best of the situation. Although the secretary refused to make any official announcement regarding the campaign, his conversation permitted the inference that there will be no delay on the water. One Correspondent Is Safe. St. Thomas, D. W. I., June 1.- Tho Germán new&paper correspondent, Mr. Emerssohn, who was arrested in Porto Rico and subsequently escaped and who was declared a spy by the alcalde of Cagnuas, a price being put on his head, is reported to have reac'hed Santa Cruz, a Danish island near here, in safety. Cominaml for W. J. Bryan. St. Louis, Mo., June 1. - A special to the Post-Dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., says that Gov. Stephens in a telegram offered the command of a Missouri regiment tt William Jennings Bryan of Nehraska "in view of the fact that 'lie (Bryan) cannot lead a regiment frcm his own state." American Ships Xear tlie Mole. Cape Haytien, Haití, June 1. - A Haitian gunboat Thich arrived here from Port au Prince at 8 o'clock this niorning, witli the minister of public works on board, reports that while passing the Mole St. Nicholas yesterday afteruoon she saw five American warships cruising in that vicinity. Camara's l'Ieet Delayed. Gibraltar, June 1. - Advices received here from Cadiz say that all the gun of both the batteries and the forts are beihg replaced by heavier guns. It is reported that the departure of Admiral Camara's fieet has been delayed by deïects discovered in the torpedo boat3.