Cuban News Hard To Get

Key Vest, Mu.: Passengera by the steamer Mascotte state that the censorship over the presa in Cuba is so itrict that if is impossible to learn any news from the field. The government has p'ohibited the publica tion oí all news of f,he revolution. By private letter it is learn a liattle took place aear Puerto Principe, between Max'imo (ii'inez, insurgent, and Gen. Mello, in which the latter was killed and his troops tradly defeated. A nero Y. Gero, one. cf the most prominent leaders in the !ast revolution, has joined the insurgente with a band, well equipped. Roloff, insurc'ent, who recently landed with supplies, blew up a raihoad bridge near Placetas and captured a t ain loaded with troops bound froai Cienfuegos to Placetas. It is stated that Martínez Campos is badly wounded, and bas taken refuge on board the ship Viïlaverde at Guantanamo. A fight has occurred near Baracoa, in whicli Colonel t-andoval, Spaniard, was wounded, and the insurgents have burned Jiguani and liaracoa. Accorciing to a dispatch frora Havana the fjovernment troops have defeated the insurgents near Mantanzas, and in addiion, the insurgent forces commande Sy Maceo have been defeated ij the ,vice of Santiago de Cuba.