.

"Soon afterward she dropped to the westward, and the torpedo-boat
destroyer _Terror_, or it may have been her sister ship, the _Furor_, was
sighted steaming along shore under the batteries.

"We watched her for awhile, and worked along with her, in order to
separate her from the cruiser and keep her in trough if she came for us.
She then circled to get up speed, and headed for us, firing straight as
far as direction went, but her shots fell short.

"When within range of our guns, the signal 'commence firing' was made, and
for several minutes we let fly our starboard battery at her at from
fifty-five hundred to six thousand yards, the shells striking all around
her.

"This stopped her. She turned her broadside to us and her fire soon
ceased. She then headed inshore, to the southward and westward, going
slow, and it was evident to all on board that she was crippled. Off the
Morro she flashed some signals to the shore, and afterward a tug came out
and towed her into the harbour.

"All this time the cruiser was firing at us, and some of her shots and
those of the _Terror_ fell pretty close. The cruiser followed the _Terror_
back toward the port and soon afterward was joined by a gunboat, and the
two steamed under the batteries to the eastward; but when the _St. Paul_,
making an inshore turn, seemed to be going for them, they returned to the
harbour, and we saw no more of them."

_June 23._ The U. S. monitor _Monadnock_ left San Francisco for Manila.

The U. S. dynamite cruiser _Vesuvius_ again shells the Santiago
fortifications.(26)

_June 24._ The Spanish Cortes suspended by royal decree. The Chamber of
Deputies adjourned without the customary cheers for the throne.

Major-General Lawton advancing on Santiago.(27)

Action near Juragua.(28)

_June 25._ Skirmish near Sevilla.

The American government protested a draft drawn by its consul at St.
Thomas, D. W. I., under circumstances calculated to make an extremely
dangerous precedent. The draft was made by Consul Van Horne for the
purchase of twenty-seven hundred tons of coal, which arrived in St. Thomas
in the _Ardenrose_ about the twenty-eighth of May. The consul bought it
for ten dollars a ton when the Spanish consul had offered twenty dollars a
ton for it. Van Horne apparently did the proper thing and did not exceed
instructions.

_June 26._ General Garcia with three thousand Cuban insurgents landed at
Juragua by American transports.(29)

The troops c