The Albany Register

A Romance of the Cuban Rebellion.—An American citizen who was in the Theater of Villanueva on the evening of the 22d ult., and witnessed the riot and Massacre in the streets of Havana that evening, says that the origin of the outburst was the shooting of a young woman. He says: "A very beautiful girl, the daughter of Aldama, one all the Cubans, wore upon her left breast the American flag, with the inscription, "Long live the Republic of Cuba" upon it. When the stirring song was being sung, the whole audience rose and cheered this young woman, and as she rose to acknowledge the salute—all eyes were now bent upon her—a low, mean, cowardly Spaniard shot her with a revolver, killing her instantly. Two American gentlemen occupied the box adjoining Senorita Aldama, whose names I do not know, but one of whom, seeing the pistol pointed at the young lady's breast, drew his revolver, and a second after the Spaniard had fired, blew the top off the head of the cowardly assassin. Instantly the whole theater was the scene of the greatest confusion, and the Spanish troops rushed in and began firing upon the masses of the huddled, unarmed, innocent men and women."