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Show TOOK CUBA. ' Tho Kite eoiijeripLivo txlict is having hav-ing itaelleet. Thc-e snhjeet to it aro lleeing the Inland; and, in aMineVtion with this news, comes the information that an rTpnlition under A-juilora 1 lnw lauded on the north coast with four thousand stand of arms, six pieces of mountain artillery, and a hir'c tuautity of amnuinitiou. 13ur-riel, 13ur-riel, "the butcher," is also to be made a field Marshal; the Spanish government thus thanks its "braves:"' 1-uryeai-sthis unc-piid struggle lifts gone on; a handful of people lighting for their independence against a powertul nation, and the United States has stood ipiietly by and witnessed wit-nessed the contest. It is presumable that were Andrew Jackson in the chair of the Chief Magistrate he would have been piofauc enough t? utter "Hy the Eternal," and have recommended Congress to do something some-thing in the way of recognizing the belligerency of a people who have been lighting for republicanism, against such fearful odds, for over five years. liut it is so much easier 'to smoke Havanas than to interfere with the attairs of Havana: Still, there is reason to believe that the Cubans will rea- h victor;' in the end, niithclesd the disregard of the United States to principle and policy. |