And now it is a pleasure to be able to recount one noble act on the part of the Spaniards, perhaps the only one in the whole course of the war. General Campos, who was a just and honorable man, ordered the body of the illustrious patriot to receive decent burial, and one of the Spanish officers even pronounced a sort of eulogy over the remains. There was a report that Gomez had also been killed, but this was a mistake. About a mouth afterward he crossed the trocha and entered the province of Puerto Principe, more commonly known as the Camaguey. The trocha, by the way, was an invention of Campos in the preceding war, and was found to be of great value. It was practically a line of forts extending across the island between the provinces of Puerto Principe and Santa Clara, and it was intended that the insurgents should not be allowed to cross this line. Other trochas were afterwards erected, but they have not proved of any extraordinary advantage in the present insurrection. An assembly, composed of representatives of all the bands that were under arms, met and elected the officers of the revolutionary government. Salvador Cisneros, otherwise known as the Marquis of Santa Lucia, was elected president, the same office he had filled during the Ten Years War. The other officers were: Vice-President, Bartolomeo Maso. Secretary of State, Rafael Portuondo y Tamayo. Secretary of War, Carlos Roloff. Secretary of the Treasury, Severo Pina. General-in-Chief, Maximo Gomez. Lieutenant-General, Antonio Maceo. Afterwards, at another election, as officers, according to the Cuban constitution, only serve two years, there were replaced by the following: President, Bartolomeo Maso. Vice-President, Mendez Capote. Secretary of State, Andres Moreno de la Torres. Secretary of War, Jose B. Alemon. Secretary of the Treasury, Ernesto Fons Sterling. Maximo Gomez still remained general-in-chief. Gomez and Campos were now pitted once more against each other, as they had been in the previous war. Both men issued orders to their respective commands. Gomez ordered the Cubans to attack the small Spanish outposts, capture their arms if possible setting at liberty every man who should deliver them up; to cut all railway and telegraph lines; to keep on the defensive and retreat in groups, unless the Cubans were in a position to fight the enemy at great advantage; to destroy Spanish forts and other buildings where any resistance was made by the enemy; to destroy all sugar crops and mills, the owners of which refused to contribute to the Cuban war fund; and, finally to forbid the farmers to send any food to the cities unless upon the payment of certain taxes. On his part, Campos issued the following commands: