Show 1 N DEA D the spanish runners defending cien are either improving or the americana are growing reckless in their daring for several days past dispatch b oats of the blockading squadron have been bringing back dead and wounded and twice has this sad mission been maan necessary by the am of the boita around cienfuegos bay yesterday an effort to divide the cables leading out of cuba resulted in four americans giving up their livee while many suffered wounds there are some ahinga which remain unexplained by the meagre news of be engagement and one is why it was necessary to attempt to cut the cables in daylight when the work could have been performed under the cover ot darkness we are told that searchlights are not being used in the spanish harbors without which the cable cutters coald not have been detected the american tailors are apparently restless and impatient for war in its most active form to open and have taken these incur slone at great risk in order to satisfy their eagerness to ena a the spanish in battle but prudence would dictate that they tak e less disparate des parate chances when exigencies of the situation are such as to require no bool hardy adventures |