The five _Competitor_ prisoners have been released from Cabana fortress
after an imprisonment of nearly twenty months.

The names of these five men are: Alfredo Laborde, William Gildea, Ona
Melton, William Leavitt, Charles Barnett.

By the release of these five men Spain has given us a very decided proof
of her desire to keep our friendship.

She has not done the thing by halves either, for an order has been
issued to return the prisoners any arms that had been taken from them,
and to restore the schooner _Competitor_ to its owners.

The five prisoners will sail for New York at once, and will have the
happiness of eating their Thanksgiving dinners in their own country.

Three of the five men are native-born Americans; of the other two, one
is an Englishman, and the other a naturalized American.

Spain has, however, released them all unconditionally.

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General Weyler has just arrived in Spain, and the trouble we were
anticipating is about to begin.

As we told you, his ship had to put into a Cuban port for repairs before
he could really set sail for Europe, and at this port he received a
deputation of citizens, and repeated to them the speech which had made
the Spanish Ministers so angry.