French Ambassador Communi. cates Her Desire. TERMS TO BE SETTLED. The President Will Agree to Open Neogo tintlons, But There Will Be No Accept ance of Any Proposition Intended Only to Delay ~The War Will Be Vigorously, Pushed A Washington special says: The government bas sued for peace, not rectly through the great Powers of but by a direct appeal to President ley. The proposition was formally submitted to the President at 8 o'clock Tuesday after noon by the French Ambassador, M. Jules Cambon, who had received instructions from the foreign office at Paris to deliver the United States Government the tender « peace formulated by the Spanish At the conclusion of the tween the President and the French Am- bassador, the following ofl~ial statement was issued from the Waite H “The French Ambassador, on be the Government of Spain, and by direction of the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented to the President at the White House a message Irom the Spanish Govern- ment looking to the termination of the war and the settlement of terms of peace This was the only « Meld] statement made publie, but it sufficed to put at rest all « Jectures, and to make clear and definite that at jast Spain bad taken the fuitiate toward peace, Although peace rumors been current almost dally heretofore sines the war began, not one of them had the shadow of foundation, and until the French Am- bassador received instructions from Paris Do overtures of any kind had besn received Although no formal statement can made as to what the President will demand of Spain, it may be safely stated that these, briefly, are the minimum terms that wiil be acosptabie to the administration Complete independence of Cuba under the protection of the United States, The absolnte cession to the United of Porto Rico and the Ladrones, A coaling station in the Philippines, The extreme supposed to be willing to make are The cession to the United States Rico, The cession to the United States of Cuba rather than the recogaition « pend- ence of the island, Spanish indi Europe, ALL Wis ARCAND 10 { i Ministry, conference be ase, i= have now ha States concessions that Spain 1s of Porto { the inde HIS MEN COMING HOME, Gen. Shafter's Army to Be Encamped on Long Island. A Washington specialsays: Sesretary Al er has given orders for the removal of all of Gen, Shatter's Army as so as the men, in the discretion of the commandiog officer, may be salely brought back to a Montauk Point, L. I. Secretary Alger is deeply concerned over the welfare of the gallant troops Bhafter's command, now encamped outskirts of Santiago. The shows a surprisingly large number cases of sickness, but army surgeor ize the statement that these figure leading in a certain sense, and uation may not be nears would seem to licats, ment, of the most 1em pe to place a soldier's name ug ports, which in present not distinguish between such of mortal The many of these cases in of a trivial nature, but g total of siek asd wounde fing this mitigating fact golng to remove the so earliest opportunity elime, The Surgeon (General camp on on the ! report heaith # auth aeir shape Ww a case and one inference fiiness, is » frase’ rye after’s eamyg t ts grand Nw i » fehog mid solwitbstand- are swell Secretary Alger Is at more the vary bealthfal Jiers tO a under the direction | of the Secretary a few davs ago inspected a tract of land adjoin Montauk, L. longing to the Loog Island Rallroad Come pany, which has Leen offared to the govern- ment as suitable fora large encampment, The necessary orders to equip this as a camping g id will go forward immedi ately and every advantage will taken of the experience gained fu the formation of the great camps at Chickamauga and Camp Alger to make the conditions as comfortabie as possible for the battie-scarred veterans of Bhafter's army. The time of their removal | is left L, be ] lay the homeward sailing of his troops be | yond the moment when it shall be safe for them to leave Santiago, having regard to | the fever conditions. Meanwhile, detalls aie being made of troops to supply the force that shall garrison Santiago so long as it shail be found necessary to continue troops there. The force will made up almost! altogether of immunes, i be TO CONFER ON PHILIPPINES, The European Powers Will Probably Hold a Congress in Paris, The Vienna correspondent of the London Dally Telegraph says: “The project of a European conference regarding the Phillp- pines was brought forward long ago, and there In every prospect that the conference will meet in Paris,” Tue Madrid correspondent of the Times gays: “La Correspondencia de Espana an- nounced that fa view of the probable eapitu- lation of Mantis General Rice, Captain Gen. eral of the Vizeayas Islands, bas been or- dered tn sei ue charge of all the territory forzeri~ alainistered Ly Capt. Gen. Au oe Tous Gop, Augusti will be able to sign only the eapituiation of the city of Ma- nila and its environs,” a cab egram from Hong Kong to the New York Journal says that Admiral Dawey, at Manila, bas dispatebed the Raleigh and the Concord to gather up eieven Spanish craft which, according to Information sent him by Consul Ganeral Wildman, are at var- fous piaces in the Philippine archipelago. Among these vessels ara three gunboats at San Miguel, Luzon Island, and tour at Port Royalist, Pa.awar Island, Four merchant men with cargoes of tobacco ars resortsd at Cagayan, Luzor., The same dispatch re ports that Eng dsh traders at the coal mines at Batan, Luzon I-iand, have been impris- oned and subjected to ii-trentment other wise by the Spaniards thers, ABOUT TU ATTACK MANILA. ins s—- ti, Captain General August] Sends a Signi ennt Letter to Madrid, A special dispatch from Madrid says Gen. eral Augasti, Captaio Geverni of the Pallip- pies, bas teiegrapbed to the government as 1otiows: “The Americans are abou! to attack Manile, Grave eventy are impending. * SAMPSON REPORT. General Story of the Great Sea Fight. ALL HANDS PRAISED.| The Part the Various Ships Took In the He of What Own ship Did, But, Although the Brook | He Not Credit to Schley For the Victory. Engagement Speaks lyn is Mentioned, Vows Give wing is festruet! of the vesanla Y Santiag: Ihe viva east of her at the LE flagship New » t seven miles frou » had started for nuded my stall, ar General Shalter, tion acd » more twenn us of the been rendered neesasnry trong resistance of the Spanis! I bad t he day belore lo srrange a rouse: al Bhalter, who had bes ing with haat prostraiior I sen ny made arratge- ments his beadqguartiers, and my Bawshis was in Lhe position ned above when the Bpanish sq 6 the chan- The remaining vegasl rere iG oF their t OE 1 § in 8 semi-cirecie about the Gini, RT suni Lioekad listributed | entrance, | % ar couating from the rastward (0 the westward in the wing order: The Indiana about a mile ard a half from shore; the Oregon the New York's places; these two (he Iowa, Tvxas and Brookivn, the latter two miles Irom the shore west of Rantiage., The f the vessels from the harbor es- trance was from two and onehal! and four | miles, lalier lwing Hmit of dav bicekadiog distance. The length of the are formed by the shija was about eight miles 4d AM. tor Guantanamo for coal. Her station was be. | tween ihe Jown and Texas, The Auxiliaries | Glogesster and Vixen lay close to the land and nearer the harbor entrance than the | large rerscis, the Glo icester to the eastward | aid the Vixen to the westward. The tor- pede boat Eriesson was in company with ’ SO (wliweoan the the at her chase until order=d to discontinue, when | sbe rendered very officlont servies in resen. | Ing prisoners from the burnlug Viz BYE, The Fpaniards Come Ont, ! The Bpanish vems is came ravidly out ot | speed estimated at from | der: Infanta Maria Teresa (flagebi; Vie caya, Cristobal Colvn snd ibe Almiracte | Oqu- ode. The distance Leiwoen these ships i was about 800 yards, which menos that! from the time the first one Lecams visible ju | the upper reach of the chaanel aot tie last | ons was out of the harbor, an interval of | ouly about twelve minutes elapsed. FPoillon. ing the Oquendo, at a distance of abou: 1.200 yards, came the torpedo boat destroyer Pioton, aud after her the Furor. The are moted cruisers, as rapidly as they could bring their guns to bear, openad 8 vigorous firs wpon the blockading Vepsels, snd emerged from the ehanuel shrouded in the smoke from (heir guns, The men of our ships in front of the port were at Banday “quarters for inspection,” The signal was mad» simultaneously from several vessels: “Earmy's ships essen ping!” and geveral quarters were sounded. The men ebeered as they sprang to their gone, and fire was opened probably within eight minutes by the vessels whose guns com- masded the entrance, The New York's Past. The New York tarned about and steamed for the escaping fleet, Oring the sigual, “Close fn towards barbor entrance and attack vessels,” acd maduslly isereased speed unthl toward the end of the chase she was making sixteen and a half knots, snd was rapidiy vloslag on the Cristobal Colon. Bhe was not, at any me, withio be range of ihe heavy Spanish ships, and ber only part {othe firing was 10 receive the undivided fire from the torts in passing the barbor entrance, and to fire a few shots at one of the destroyers, thought at the mo ment to be slicwjptiug to escape from the Gloneestar, The Bpauish vessels, upon clearing the harbor, fared to the westward in columns, luereasiog thelr speed 10 the full power of 5 an 9 ManGare their engines, The heavy blockading ves- » Which bad closed in towards the Morro ul instant of the enemy's appearance, and at their best speed, delivered a rapid fire, well sustained and destructive, speedily overwhelmed apd Spanish fire. The initial speed Rag the sllenced the of the Spap- inrds enrried IDE veesnls A chase *h the Brooklyn sod Texas had ie start the advastage of position. The The Ore «In whi Brookiyn malotained this lead, seaming with amazing speed mepcement of the action, first The lown and the Indiana baviog took i) hier ships, were directed nt benched fie Lhe ¢ ceensl about the to drojg cknding ied many priso { that the rush of the Spanish ships would ther between two fires, ran f time the Vazeaya out of the chase and stations, These vessels Vixen, find- ners, The outside of a columps, and the battle and Fine Work of the Gloucester, ow remained hase f the Glou avery and merits the Navy Department, us protected aux- Corsalr—and has a rapid-fire g fhe ving abou tw from the barbor to the southward asd id Immedintasly steamed in, fies commen hie who witnessed it, § ination { the is n fast and HIRTY vessel hie entirely yacht Od battery « Maht Lies opening Anticipating the ap- i Furor wed, thereby gaining more ipon the large ships pearance of the Pinton ar ster waa al i { steam, 3 cRme it she steamed for them st full 1 sed], and was able 1c ber fire sl necurale, Ose here great volume I ? ri range, w WAR ¢ ud Gi iring his under the Within twenty from yf the Furor and two-thirds we Furor was in the suri; the Plu afew min suffered much injury from the fire the battleships fire of Hoealier capa batlery. we they emerged Santiago and the { thelr CATSOrS ended beached and sank in The destroyers » killed it &1 4 on lee] ¥ ites iater. } dary Latteries of , Jodiana apd the Texas; wasiderabie factor yet in their speedy de. waler s ballery., After rescuiog the of the destroyers, the Giouceiter eilent service in landing and secur {the Infanta Maria Teresa. Flan of the Spaniards, The method of escape attempted all steering io the same direc. ton and in formatioo—removed all tactical doablis or difficulties, and made plain daty of every Usited States vessel to close in, immediately engage and pursue, This was promptly and eflectively done. As al of the Spanish the crew Spaniards. squadron could not Immed!- their best speed, but they ately work up to fifteen minutes of the engagement, that the Infanta Maris Teresa's fire main bad been cut by one of With large volumes of thelr lower decks alt, these vessels gave up both fight and flight and rao io ou the beach--the Infants Maria Teresa at about 10.15 A, M. at Nima Nima, bor sptrance, and the Almirante Oquendo at about 10.30 A. M. at Joan Gonzales, seven milies from the port. The Vizcays was still under the fire of the leading vessels, the Cristobal Colon had drawn ahead, leading the chase, and soon jass-d beyond the range of the guns of the leading American ships. The Vizeayn was shor: asd was beached at Ascerradoes, filteen niles from Santiago, burning flercely, and with ber reserves of ammunition on When about ton miles west of Santiago the ludi- aun had Leen signaled to go back to the harbor entrance, and at Aseerradercs the lows wae signaled to resume blockading siadon, Tbe Iowa, assisted by the Ericsson and the H st, took off the crew of the Vie. caya, whiie the Harvard and the Gloueester rescued those of the Tufanta Maris Teress snd the Almirante Oquendo, This rescue ol prisoners, Inciuding the wounded from the burning Spanish vessels, was the cocas- fon of some of the most daring sud gallant conduet of the day. The ships were burs. ing fore and aft, their guns snd reserve ammunition were exploding, aod it was not known at what moment the fire would reach the main magezioes. In addition to this, a heavy sur! was ranciug just loside the Bpauish ships. But wo risk deterred our officers and men untll their work of humas- ity was complete, Work of Brooklyn and Oregon. There remained aow of the Hpacish ships only the Cristobal Colon, but she was their best and fastest ves ol. Forced by the sit- uation to hug the Coban const, her only chanee of escapes was by her superipr and sustained speed. When the Vizeaya went ashore the Colon was about six miles abead of the Brooklyn and the Oregon; but her spurt was finished, snd the American ; came the Texas, ‘izxen and New York, It was 250 brides of the Yew York that s— " ] T= w : 314 DP mr ships were gradually vorhauling the chase and that she had no chance of es- At 11:50 the Brookiyn and Cape, Oregon heavy sholl striking 1 she gave up ut her, and firing beyond ia at Rio Torquino, f tiago, Captain ( went on 1 riy-eight miles from Banp- ook, of Brookiyn receive surrender, While his boat was alongside I came in New York, placed the Oregon in the mrd to the up report charge of the wreck to received his save her, if possible, and directed the pris. oners to transferred jute, which bad followed the chase, Commodore had gone ward to receive the surrender, had directed be to the Res Sehiey, whose chio! of staff hat all their personal «fleets should alned Ly the of) modify, ars This order 1 The Cristobal Colon beaching, though high speed. The beach was so ff by the working aE not In sli ran ashiore at that jured by fey Slee] of the she came off der, and despite all efforts she sank it became evident tl afloat she was pushed the beach steam being placed purpose. tain Chadwick with admiral judgement, sank in shoal water and may be saved, been dose sb roid b iown io deep water an ould at she could not be kept by the New Yori's for this New the net Baga her the ship being bandied and Had this not A¥e gone bs a e Save been 1 The Blockade. I regard this com victory over the Spanish foroes as fiz of and close blockade, so « ent duriog the night ioterred fron ele and Important the gue owns [1 {! ardy t peveral wosks making th and siiberately pt In daylight * 1 Informed by na the atten is was th ase 1 wa Meer of the Cristobal ( Le bg b ndino DGIPE It seems proper to be ihe manoer in which thi The harbor of Sastisgo blockade ielng i and that a narrow one, apd the senting © if culties of navigation oulsi of the entrance, Al the time of wy arrival tefore the port--Jane 1 fnowas at there eniranee, the deer ibd extending close up to shore lope, pro- je the m the night to enable any movement of the sutrance to be detected; | wanting of the moon and dark nights there was opportunity for enemy 10 escape, or for his turpedo boats t blockading ves the the wie It was ascertained with fair conclusive. ness that the Merrimac, gallantly taken into the channel on June 50, did not obstruct 1, therefore, maintained the blockade as a0 duty, in turn, of lighting the channel, Mov. from the Morro, depending upon the condition of the atmosphere, they throw a searchlight beam directly on channel, and beid it there steadily. iighted up the satire breadth of the channel for ball a mile inside of the entrance so brilliantly that the movement of small boats could be detected. Why ihe batteries naver opened fire upon the searchiight ablp was the This sever did. Stationed close to the entrance of the port were three pieket launches, and a littie distance further out three small picket vessels, usually converted yachts, and, when they were available, che or two of our torpedo boats. With this arrange ment there was at least a certainty that pothing could get out of the barbor unde- the situation forced upon the Spanish ad- miral a decision, our vigilance increased. The night blockadiog distance was reduced to two miles for all vessels, and a battleship with her broadside traloed upon the chan nel, in readiness to fire the instant a Span. ish ship should appear. The commanding perfect manner ln which they entered into this plan and put It into execution, Massachuseils, who according to routine, the work, and deserved a better fate than to be absent that morning. I enclose, for the information of the department, copies of or ing the blockade, When all the work was done so well it 1s diffienit to discriminate in peaise, The object of the blockades of Cer- vera's squadron was fully accomplished, and each Individual bore well bls part in it the commodore in commasd of ibe second division, the captains of ahipe, thelr ofoers and men, The fire of the battleships was powerful and destructive, and the resistance of the Spanish squadron wae, In great part, broken almost before they had got beyond Pralse For the Ships. The fine apeed of ths Oregon enabled ber and the Cristobal Colon did not give up until the Oregon had throws a thirteen-Inok shell bee youd her. This performance adds to the already brililant record of this fine battle ship, sod speaks highly of the skill asd care with which her admirable efficiency has been malutained durfug a service unpreces dented {n the history of vessels of her class, Tae Brookiyva's westerly Liockading posi tion gave her nn adva which she maintained tot ‘ employed her fine battery with telling effect The Texas and the New York were on the chase during the last hour, catniy gaining oad = A BGG 2414 Epeedlly would have the Cristobal ( Oregon, Hon From the nr bausted her frst burst of was never in doubt, in below what might reasonably have bess | pected of her. Careful of | time and distance gave her an average speed from until ment the Spanish vessel ex. speed the result ¢ Bhe fell, fact measurements the time ste cleared the harbor the ran on shore Turquins, of 18.7 kn Neither 1ork nor the Brookiyn stopped te time she Ole, thelr forward engines, but ran « rapidly as possible on all bol toecupls up the | ers Rines went a deiay of fifteen minu miles in the . of kiyn more often { light material in] | greatost being on boar killed Brookiys. immanity from I { fe wrward eo have 1 chase, Beveral | Bro » the ships ed Li wers struck 1 the others very 1088 WAS one Mah both on the expinin this injary combat with fern ves. the Lest type yor at the best, an and accuracy of » shipe In gels of gunnery isp h ne thelr gu This § ners Rong by vessels 8 borane of wore eo wh gu minished ared f the apd » 1i0n jie fire from the rapid. ire tleships appears 10 hss balleries bat been remarkably An vxamination of the strand- i shiows that the Almirante ( from this festruciive od vesss juen- do especially bad » fire. Her sides her decks wore stre iffered terribly are everywhers pierced and wn with the charred re- wains of those who his The reports of ( and the commanding A board, appointed ago, has made a critical stranded ng uy tary features v ws the chan wrecking the with a the result of sived, and o saving ans remainder vessels, both view rere pont f the board will be speedily { Very respectfully Ww Rear Admiral, Commander-io-chief U. 8 North Atlantic Station, The Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department, Washingtor T. Banrsox, U. 8 Navy, Naval § ADVASCE UPON YANCO. Gen. Miles’ Troops Engaged With the Enemy's Forces An official dispated to Madrid from Porto Rieo says: “On Tueedny the Americans ad- vanced in the direction of Yauco, fighting most of the way. Seven bundred Spanish regulars and volunteers encountered them | and an engagement ensued, which on the following day. The Americans were obliged 10 withdraw to the coast.” porthwest of Guaniea, landed, the Intter being Yauco is six miles where our troope the port of Yauco. the two places. Matteo, an insurgent lead. er, lives at Yanoo, according to Gen. Miles, and this circumstance apjarently deter. mined the direction of the Awerican moves ment. M CAMBON's LETTER, ed, and Her Safferings Are Great The text of Ambassador Cambon’s etter | to President McKinley, is as follows: “The government of the United States and the government of Spain are unbhappy- fly at war as a resuit of the demand she refused to comply with, “Io the contest of arms which followed, Spain admits that she bas been worsted, ! and that her sufferings as a result are very great, “She believes that the time has now come when she oan properly ask the co-op- eration of the United States in terminating | the war, aod therefore asks to ba furnished, through the French ambassador, with a statement of the terms upon whieh the Uni. ted States would be willing to make peace.” —— The receivers of the Baltimore and Obie Ralirond have turned their attention to the | improvement of the grades on the third division from Cuamberiand to Grafton, or koown as the “Glades” of the Alleghany Mountains. The grades are short ACCEPTED IN SPAN. Peace Terms Attributed | Indorsed, WILL BE NO UPRISING. Cabinet Tesues un Note Saving That Pese Overtures Have Been Made to President McKinley Retention of the Phillppioes snd Release From the Payment of In- demnity the Features of the Terms A Madrid cablegram says: With the un. | derstanding that no indemnity will be de- i manded that sh sovereigniy in | the Philippine Islands will be respested, the | bewspapers here consider ihe terms of peaes | attributed to President MeKinley as belong sod Hpan i The papers, howevar, protest { continuanes of ilitles by | Btates after Bpaln had sued for f i Atthe net ineil | following semi-official note was iss aed 1 “The French Ambassador st Washington, | during the afternoon of the 26th, presented, in behalf of the Spanish government, a mes. | sage to President McKinley with the view of | bringing the war to an end and making known the conditions of peace, gOY~ | ernment has received information that the i message has to President Mo. | Kinley, who Hed that he we onsult { with bis Council of vested | M. Cambon tc Houses against the United LROE, Lhe close of the Cali ery the The been handed rer rej A WE, and Ministers and req come the he Spanish oMelals declare that th | lished extracts fron “ i ibe the note are incorreet, Fopular Discontent Improbable, The Madrid ¢ { Dally Mall, ren faction and roduced,” says “There is I content and to retain the pelled to pay in the people makes banees of small, disagree ab Marquis de Cerrait posing the ste; { that Don Carl { The Madrid Telegraph says terms ¢ the slightest orrespondent of arkin wf rei Dou Carlos are said 10 of rising, the other ieaders Op Nevertheless it feared Moreover, the Carlists ut the advisability ar is pond he Dally However 1 iiatabie the f pence may be, they will not provoke listurbance | listless indifference | The Dally Gra; a probabiin iestion i arising over the difficuity of dealing with the 4 jot pee a majority of the Bpan Frenc An Objection From Germany. ben, he Berlin | Times says ‘The terms ¢ America im- 1060 # that ictory as muck Las Warrant Usited States ugh t the ne al en and expresses prompt Presi. reven Omy by with to § nperial poliey in ¢, the sdvantages of which even loving, moderate Americans cannot ignore. SHOT ON LITTEEN Wife of the President's Secretary Tells of Spanish Barbarity. A Washington tiago, under date of July &, son Porter, wife President, 4 now § in i From Sane Mrs, John Addi- ithe pith Miss Clara Darton has written a personal it was Ei special says Becrelary i at ubtian relief! work letter describing o after Lhe great batlies of uditions there written a week | Caney and San Juan. i! The Bed Cross was aiding in the care { of the wosnded and feeding thousands of | fugitives from Santiag The Spanish | wounded captives expressed much gratitude | that they were given the same attention as : the Americans, surgeon, who dressed { the wounds of American asd Spacish | soldiers, told Mrs, Porter that nearly ail the { Spaniards were hit three times, while, as a rule, the Americans received a single wound, indicating difference of | marksmanship, i | Atthis time br woen Lge 2 two and the evervbody was busy caring | for the sick and wounded American { dead bad been buried, but the trenches were i Tull of dead Spaniards, whose bodies Aoated on the surface of the water, caused by ralas, | mond filled the air with a sickening odor. | Hbe cites instances of Spanish barbarity i and says in several instances mes were shot | dead as they lay in Red Cross litters on the way to hospitals, Tuls firing went on 80 unceasingiy that the surgeons operated by moonlight, They were afraid to light can- dies or lanterns, as Spanish sharpshooters would have picked them off, Mrs, Porter says that a number of these guerrilias, or sharpshooters, were picked out of trees by American sbarpshooters, ais though this was diffieait because the Span~ farde used smokeless powder. Commissions for their dastardly work were found oun the bodies of these guerrillas, indicatiog that high Spanish officials sanctioned the bars barities committed, The wounded. Oae boyish soldier who was dying said: I would willingiy go through it ali agaia for my econutry.”’ She says that all the wounded soliliers are high in their culogies of Colonel Roose velit and Brigadier General Wood. The poor teliows are continually speaking of the bravery and kindoess of these men. “The are pot stuck ap,” said one badiy woun boy in biue, “and speak to the wen wherever they see us.” Huudreds of these scidiers weit, speak highly of the courage of the colored soldiers, who fought bravely on every field, The soldiers, she says, oriticise the Cabanas for allowing the bashwhaeking by the Span. farde Thesoldiers think that as the Cubans knew the Spanish method of fghting they Adela Adjudged a Lawiu; Mize, The British steamship Adula, captured off Guantanamo Bay ty the Marbiebead, was way {0 Guantanamo 10 take out refugees, 2
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