The Southern Press

Captain Robert Ellis. - Manly Candor.

The N. O. Delta, in noticing the fact that this gallant young officer, a native of Washington, who distinguished himself and was wounded in the Cuba expedition, had been liberated by Concha, and has returned home, speaks of the estimation in which he was held in New Orleans for his manly qualities, and adds:

His adventures and final capture are related by him, in the most graphic and faithful narrative yet published of this expedition, which was transmitted to Mr. L. J. Sigur, of this city, and published in the Delta some days ago. He has since been released by the captain-general, under circumstances highly creditable to that officer and most honorable to Captain Ellis. This privilege was accorded to him as a tribute to his manly bearing and heroism. Nor did he seek to commend himself to mercy and to favor by calumniating the dead, or by trying to throw upon others the blame and responsibility for his own acts. He told the captain-general promptly and truthfully that he came to the island under the conviction that the people desired to change their institutions - that he was willing to die for such a cause - and that he had done his duty, and had no pity or mercy to ask. The captain-general having heard that he had written a narrative of the expedition, asked permission to read it. Captain Ellis consented, and accordingly gave it to the captain-general, who, after carefully reading it, returned the manuscript, remarking that it was a very bold act to write such a document in Cuba. "Perhaps so," replied Ellis, "but it is the truth, and I shall not publish it until my return to the United States." Struck with his courage, the captain-general yielded to the urgent solicitations of many persons in Havana, and granted Captain Ellis his release. He accordingly departed for the United States in the Empire city.

We have these facts from a gentleman who came over in the Georgia.