Dayton Daily Empire

Eminent Filibusters—The thirty-six filibusters who started from New York, a short time since, on board the brig Africa, to capture the entire Island of Cuba, and make of it a present to the United States, but who were defeated in their brilliant design by being wrecked near San Domingo, did not possess the antecedents of a Napoleon, a Columbus, a Cortez, or a "green-blue-eyed" Walker. The Havana Gaceta, alluding to them as renegade Spaniards, says that one of them was a negro-stealer in 1857; another was a fugitive from justice, and another had fled on a prosecution for murder - Three were deserters from the garrison, and three were runaway thieves. One was a common vagabond, and three more were convicted of petty crimes. The Gaceta insinuates that the biography is equally promising The associate name is "Brothers of Ave Maria," which, it is stated, is also claimed by certain bands of mountain robbers.