The following special dispatch from Washington to the New York Times, published in the Times, Jan. 10, 1901, is of special interest in connection with the foregoing:— WASHINGTON, January 9.—The island of Guam is to be the American St. Helena. The action of General MacArthur, recently reported from Manila, in exiling twenty-six Filipino generals and civilians to Guam, is simply the first step. If it should prove a success, other leading Filipinos will be banished also. It is all a part of the vigorous and severe campaign which it was announced last November that General MacArthur was about to wage. Some time ago General MacArthur proposed this plan of dealing with the Filipino leaders to the Secretary of War, who gave it his approval. General MacArthur asked for a blanket authorization to deport all prominent prisoners whom he should select. The authorization was given, and the twenty-six now selected are the first batch. It is declared at the War Department that the men were picked out by General MacArthur, and not by the department, and that it is not known who they are, except that, according to the newspapers, Ricarte, Mabini, and Pio Del Pilar are among them. Mabini is the famous lawyer whom Senator Hoar eulogized, in his remarkable speech in the Senate last May, as a great statesman, whose state papers were worthy to rank among those famous in history. Del Pilar is a brother of General Gregorio Del Pilar, the young officer who was killed while holding Tilad Pass with a little force of sixty men to cover the escape of Aguinaldo a year ago. There is no surprise that Mabini is one of the first to go. It is an open secret that the disposition of Mabini is one of the most annoying problems that has perplexed the military administration of the Philippines. He has been liberated several times, but would never give his promise not to re-engage in seditious proceedings, and was always kept under surveillance and promptly rearrested. General Otis has officially reported a conversation which he had with Mabini, when he had the lawyer brought before him, and endeavored to get from him a promise that he would employ his talents on the American side. Mabini outargued the general, and was sent back to jail. His influence over his people is so great that both Otis and MacArthur have desired to avoid extreme measures, which might still further alienate the Tagals. The same difficulty has been found in treating him that would be the case if Aguinaldo were a prisoner. A way has now been found, and if Aguinaldo is now captured, there is no doubt what will be done with him.