Cuba's Prospects Brighten

The New York World has a cipher dispatch f rom Carlos García, son of Gen. Calixto (iarcia, the leader of the Bermuda expedition to Cuba, which says the men and the heavy artillery were landed from the Bermuda in a bay about 50 miles west of Havana. There were 18 boatload3 of rifles, cartridjjes and swords. The foree made a march of 40 miles inland, where they were met by Gen. Maceo. It was decided that an attack should be made u pon Pinar del Rio, the largest inland town and a Spanish strong-hold. Maceo and García, with 9,000 men, swept down upon Pinar del Eio early in the morning and it was a complete surprise. Ihe Spanish troops numbered 6,000 and they were thrown into a state of panic by the onslaught. The use of the artillery which García had brought added to their terror. We captured two pieces of heavy artillery, 1,700 Mausser rifles, 1,200,000 cartridges, 2,500swords, an 1 stores; burned 600 houses, sparing the weak. The Spanish lost 850 killed and 200 wounded. The Cuban loss was 150 killed and wounded. Gen. Garcia has gone to the eastern end of the island, because that is his old home, to organizo an army of picked men. He expects to have an organized army of voluntee n which will number 35,000 men, and i regulai force of 10,000 men. The news of the U. S. congress in passing1 resolutions recommending the recognition of the insurgentsas belligerents was received with great joy by the provisional Cuban legation at Washington and by the Cuban junta at New York. The Cubans say they have men, horses, small arins and ammunition enoug-h to maintain their control of all of the island that can be held by cavalry and infantry. But now tney neeu modern artillery to free the remainder of the island controlled by íortiíied towns and camps, and also to hold seaport towns after they acquire them. Such needed artillery and ainmunition vvouldcosthundredsof thousauds, if not millions, of dollars and reconition of them as belligerents would enable them to sell 20,000,000 worth of Cuban bonds. While the passage of the resolutiou is but little more than a recommendation it renders more probable aetion by the President and lends moral support to the Cuban cause and iucreases their credit.