so is the favorite, and it is supposed that he will be the successful
candidate. The news of the election of Senor Capote may not have been
true, after all.

This messenger, who is named Aguirre, says he is the bearer of some
important messages and papers to the Cubans in America, but he will not
say what they are until he has laid them before the proper authorities.
It is thought that they may have something to do with the exchange of
prisoners, and the recognition of the belligerency of the Cubans by the
Spanish army.

There has been great rejoicing during the last few days over the escape
from prison of a young Cuban, Evangelina Cisneros.

This girl displeased the Spanish commanders, and in revenge they accused
her of being a dangerous rebel, and had her thrown into prison.

She is a very young girl, but a little over fifteen years of age, but
the Spaniards thrust her into the prison where all the worst women
criminals were kept, and she had for her companions tipsy negresses and
all the roughest and worst kinds of women, white and colored.

Every one who heard of this thought it such a shameful thing for a
delicate young girl to be forced to spend her days in the society of
such terrible companions that the women of this country got up a
monster petition, thousands signing it, and sent it to the Queen of
Spain.

This petition urged the Queen to have little Miss Cisneros removed to a
more suitable prison, and to order that she be given a speedy trial, so
that she might have an opportunity of proving her innocence.

Her Majesty, Queen Christine, did order that the girl should be less
hardly used, but General Weyler saw fit to disregard the royal
instructions, and the child was kept locked up in this horrid prison.

Finding that Weyler did not mean to help Senorita Cisneros, nor yet to
give her a proper trial, some friends went to her rescue. Hiring a room
opposite to her prison, two young men built a bridge of planks by which
they were enabled to reach the window of her prison, and, as the story
goes, after sending her drugged candies to give to her room-mates so
that they might sleep heavily and not hear what was going on, these men
sawed through the bars of her prison, lifted her out on the roof beside
them, and hurried her away over the bridge to freedom.

She was kept in concealment for a day or two, and then, disguised as a
boy, passed under the nose of the police officer who was watching the
steamers t