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Constitutionalist#; Htjrablir.
JAMES GARDNER, JR., )
akt> > Editor*.
JAMES M. SMYTHE, )
{From the Mobile Tribune. ¥2d mst.)
Important from Cuba.
Sucnttful Landing of Gen. IyOfXZ—Defeat of the
Spanish Troops —Bo Officers and 800 Men killed
and Wounded—Gov. Generals offers of Conces
sion. . _
The U States steamer Vixen arrived at Pen
sacola, the other day within four days from Ha
vana. An Express rider with despatches brought
by her, passed through this city yesterday for
TbTlfroding of the Tampero, sixty miles west
ward from Havana, confirmed.
I-cpcz and his men had had two engagement*
with the island troops, and defeated them in both
instances One entire regiment of the Spanish
troops had deserted and gone over to the side of
Lopez. In Havana the greatest consternation
reigned among the officials and others.
After the above was in type,we received the
following extra from the office of the Pensacola
Gazette:
By the arrival of the U. S. Steamer Vixen,
lpft Havana on Saturday last, 16th inst.,
we have receive,l the following glorious intel
ligence:
On the nightof the 11th inst. General Lopez,
with between 600 and 800 men, landed about
SO miles to the Westward of Havana and im
mediately secured his retreat to the mountains
by taking jiossession of all the roads leading to
the interior. As soon as the news was received
in Havana, some three hundred troops were sent
to the scene of action. The Spanish Commander
sent in to Lope* to know what concessions he
wanted—and his reply was—“ That it was too
late to talk of conce sions now. They did not
want concessions. They came to fignt for the
Liberty of Cuba.”
As far as we could learn, the Spanish troops
had been defeated in two skirmishes with a con
siderable loss. Rumor gives the loss on the part
of the Spanish trooiis of 80 officers and 300 men
killed and wounded. —The disparity between the
Spanish officers and men was owing, it is said,
to orders given by the invading Commander, to
kill all the Spanish officers and spare the men.
A number of the wounded had been brought back
to Havana.
It was also rumored that a number of the troops
had embraced the Lopez cause, and that the na
tive Cubans had in Urge numbers joined him.
Over 100 men left Havana on the night of the
11th to join the invaders. Some 58 Cubans were
taken on the night of the 10th, while ip the act
of desertion, and on the 16th, preparations were
being made for their immediate execution.
The Governor General Ims given orders to the
Spanish squadron not to molest any of the Inva
ding force that may be fallen in with at sea. but
to (icrmit them to land, as he does not wish to
have a rupture with tne government of the U.
States, growing out of a second Controy affair.
A Spanish Colonel (an aid to the Governor
General) had been shot.
There was only one French man-of-war in
Havana on the 16th, and no English national
vessel.
The U. S. ship Albany,Commandei Platt, was
at Havana when the Vixen left and would pro
bably remain until she returned. The Albany
was bound to Boston, to touch at Havana. Her
services not being required there she sailed for
Boston. After her departure, our Consul deem
ing her presents nece.-sary, despatched the Vixen
after her, who overtook her and she returned to
Havana. Officers and crew all well.
[Cor respondent of the Mobile Tribune. ]
Pensaooi.a, Aug. 20.
The Vixen is direct from Havana. That city
... i ■ rtr r»..ip«iv fnmrcil
50 to 60 miles from Havana and threw her men
on shore safely. The Pampero went close by
the Moro, hove a vessel to and took out the
captain and mate for pilots, and then made good
her landing. The Island is in possession of the
Fillibusters. Five thousand troops were sent to
meet them on their advance from the mountains,
but did not succeed in beating them off—had a
tight and the wounded brought into the city. Au
aid to the Captain-General was killed. What the
loss on the other side was, is not known. No
c ommunication of course can be had, but the
report is that Lopez was landed with a large
force. The Albany is in Havana and will re
main there. The Vixen will return as soon as
possible—will probably remain hero lor , des
patches from Washington. I have had but a
few moments to gather what I write, but 1 get
it direct from Havana and it can be depended
upon. The Pampero landed on Monday. Two
hundred soldiers deserted just before the Vixen
sailed and joined the Fillibusters.
Telegraphed to the Tribune.
S TILL LATER!
We are indebted to the courtesy of the New
Orleans Picayune lor the following despatch:
New-Oki.kans, August 21.
The steamship Empire City has just arrived
from Havana, when she left Lopez had had
two battles, and was victorious in both. Several
hundred Spaniards were killed.
One regiment of Spanish troops had joined
the invaders.
Fifty Americans, while making a flank move
ment in boats, were captured and sent to Ha
vana, where they were shot the same day. The
soldiers committed the most horrid brutalities on
their bodies.
Among the executed are Crittenden, the se
cond officer (we believe,) of the expedition,
James Kerr, Bryce and almost all the artillery
men.
Five hundred Creoles had left Havana to
join the invaders and they were flocking to the
standard of Gen. Lopez from all directions.
The steamship Pampero, which carried over
Gen. Lopez, escaped.
We find in the Delta a letter, received by the
schooner Telegraph.- It as follows:
Havana, August 6, 1831.
Editors of the Delta—Esteemed Friends: I
avail myself of the departure of a sailor, with
whom 1 got acquainted in the Hospital of Belot,
between Reyla and Gtiasabaiva, who leaves
day oil the British brio T-Rgiapn, bound for
o.haiis, to give you, in a few words, the
last news that we have from our friends, the
patriots.
I arrived in this place from New Orleans on
the brig Union, after a long passage. As 1 was
born a Spaniard, yet raised and educated on this
Island, and have lived for six years in the Unit
ed States, many believe that 1 feel more for roy
alty than liberty, but they are mistaken.
Affairs have come to a crisis, Messrs Editors,
and the gentlemen of two colored coats are as
much frightened as though the devil was after
them. In this place we have many compatriots,
(citizens of the United States, like myself.) Jwho
labor for the cause of independence. Duriugthe
evenings we meet at some of the American
hotels, and as nothing is spoken but English,
none of the Spaniard* understand our conversa
tion, and therefore do not meddle with us.
1 have no doubt that by this time you are
aware that four thousand of the “ever-feithlul
soldiers' of her Majesty have turned coats, and
J°‘““ our cause; and there is not the least doubt
°“ he iou ?^ en thousand left, more than
half wiH follow suit in less than fifteen days.
We have four expert corporals and seven ex
perienced sergeants, who are hard at work
Some having money, have already done eoodser'
vice. One wnole regiment of artillery have
joined the patriots, and many others will follow
the same course. Indeed everything works
well.
The rumor to-day is that Gen. Lopez left
New Orleans last week with one thousand men.
The news has animated the spirits of our people
Would to God it were true, and that they land I
soon, as twenty thousand patriots wait his arri
val to join the Army of Liberation!
The garrison of Cubanas is to be removed by
the government, on suspicion of being concerned
with u*; but whatever troops are placed there,
we are iure that in three days they will be ours
—for those already secured are reliable, and it
will be easier work to manage their followers.
In Cubans*, as well as in Casa Blanco, we have
good people, who will not sleep on straw.
You may rest assured that by the time the
steamer sails, which will be on the 18th, you
will receive the news that this place, as also Ma
tanzas, have raised the cry.
If the publishing of this letter he of any ser
vice, you can publish it, but I would request that
my name be omitted, foi, as I have already told
you, the Spaniards here believe that I favor their
cause, and place a good deal of confidence in
me, and this confidence is of great service to me,
as I find that they have a good deal of fear, and
are aware that our cause will triumph.
(From the Baltimore Sun.)
IMPORTANT FROM CUBA.
Intelligence by the steamer Cherokee.—Capture of
Fifty Patriots. —Fifty Unarmed Americans Mas
sacred.—Dreadful ami Bloody Scene.—Chase of
the Falcon by Spanish Frigates.—Aineriean Flag
Insulted.—Troops sent after Lopez.—Rumored
Defeat of Lopez.
We received last night the New York papers
of yesterday morning, containing the following
details of the news by the Cherokee, the sub
stance of which was about coming to us by tele
graph on Thursday night when the wires ceased
working:
The Spanish steamer Habanera, while cruis
ing off Bahia Honda, 40 miles west of Havana,
captured a party of fifty patriots, who were in
four boats and unarmed, and were supposed to
be steering for New Orleans.
They were brought to Havana by the Haba
nera on the 15th, at 1 o’clock, a. m., placed on
board a Spanish frigate lying in port, and were
executed at 15 minutes past 11 in the morning.
They were shot on the public road to Havana,
at the least calculation in the presence of 20,000
spectators. After they were shot, they were
dragged by the feet by negroes, and then left to
the mob, who commenced stripping them of their
clothes, and carrying them on sticks through the
streets, yelling like demons just escaped from the
bottomless pit, invoking their vengeance on they
knew not what.
Many of the passengers of the Cherokee, who
were on the spot of the execution, were pointed
at with a sneer of contempt, and many of them
were stopped in the streets and insulted, the
Spaniards telling them “they were one and of
the same party—that they were Americans, and
ere long would be in the same situation.”
An American cannot appear in the streets
without being most shamefully insulted, and it is
dangerous for any of them to walk out at night.
The names of those shot were as follows :
Col. W. S. Clendenin, Capt. F. S. Sewer, Capt.
Victor Kerr, Capt. T. B. Veacey, Lt. Jas. Brandt,
Lt. J. O. Brice, Lt. Thos. C. James, Dr. John
Fisher, Dr. K. A. Tourniquet, Sg’t. J. Whitereus,
Sg’t. A. M. Cotchett, Adj’t. R. C. Stanford, Lt.
M. H. Homes, Privates Samuel Mills, Edw. Rut
man, Geo. A. Arnold, B. J. Wregy, Wm. Nise
man, Anselemo Torres Hernandez, W. B. Little,
Robt. Cantley, Jno. G. Sanka, Jas. Stanton,
Thos. Harnatt. Patrick Dillon, Thos. Hearsey,
Sam’l. Reed, H. T. Vinne, M. Phillips, Jas. L.
Manville, G. M. Green, J. Salmon, Napoleon
■ Collins, N. H. Fisher, Wm. Chilling, G. A.
. Cook, S. O. Jones, M. H. Ball, Jas. Buxet, Robt.
i Caldwell, C. C. Wm. Smith, A. Ross, P. Rourke,
> Jno. Christdes, Alex. Mcllcer, Jno. Stubbs. Jas.
Ellis, Wm. Hogan, Chs. A. Robinson.
The execution took place on Saturday, and the
Cherokee sailed on Sunday morning, at 9 o’clock.
Further Intelligence.
* The U. S. sloop-of-war Albany was at Ha
* vaiiant tin, rtiwt iliaaKlCie.
i We learn by passengers of the Falcon, from
t Chagres ami Havana, that on the morning of the
- 10th, off Bahia Honda, the Falcon discovered a
1 large steam frigate in chase of her. When first
5 seen she was standing directly across her bows,
5 with the evident intention of cutting her off
'> The Falcon, however, kept on her course and
1 soon left the frigate Bor 10 miles astern. This
i vessel was the Isabella Catholica, formerly the
* Canard steamer Caledonia.
} While she was still in chase,another steamer
‘ hove in sight, and also giving chase succeeded in
! heading off the Falcon. She first fired two star
board guns to Hie leeward, of which the Falcon
1 took no notice. She then ran alongside and fired
three guns directly across the Falcon’s bows,
though she had the American colors flying. The
tulcon then heaved to, when the Spanish vessel
gave three cheers and prepared to board. The
boarding officer behaved in an exceedingly inso
lent manner while on the Falcon, inquiring par
ticularly for the Spanish passengers. He soon
left, however, and the Falcon proceeded on her
course to Havana.
Thirty of the men who were shot were Amer
icans and were a part of the Lopez expedition,
which had landed a few days previous. This
. news had created tremendous excitement at
! Havana. All the Americans are beset with
spies, and none of them feel safe from one day to
1 the other. Very little of the various statements
. as to the position of the government and the re
-1 volutionists can be relied on.
The Captain General had sent a force of eight
’ hundred men to meet Lopez, who, when they as-
certained that he had landed, advanced to a cer
tain position, and refused to go further without a
1 reinforcement of 700 men. This was sent to
them two days before the Falcon arrived, and the
report on Saturday was that Lopez had cut off
’ all communication between Havana and the
Government troops, which is confirmed by the
fact of the Government having received no des
| patches from the General in command.
1 The steamers cruising along the coast have
met with no better success. On the evening of
the 16th the Captain-General dispatched a steam
ferry boat to Bahia Honda, which returned the
same night without obtaining any news. The
' Havanero came in the next morning, bringing
the patriots already mentioned.
, What these fifty men were doing among the
Cayes, where they were taken, is a mystery.
1 Some suppose they were proceeding to a village
’ on the cqast. near Havana, and n in *n hi.ln
; trom cruiseis. Whether they were armed or not,
could not be assertained. Some fishermen who
first saw them, gave the government information,
and the Harbanero was despatched in pursuit.
It is said she ran the boats down and then
picked up the men, but nothin" positive can be
learned, as no intercourse was allowed with the
prisoners, and the Government discloses nothing
but what answers its purpose.
Farther Details.
From the account in the New York Tribune,
we make the following extracts.
The prisoners, after being brought to Havana,
were led out and shot two at a time, from behind.
Not a sign of tear or a murmur escaped from one
of them.
One fine looking fellow,who was the last shot,
while kneeling and waiting his turn, calmly
|ooked on his butchered companions, first turn
ing his head on one side and then on the other,
as though he was only a spectator, and then
turned nis head and, looked his executioners in
the face while they fired. He was shot six
times before he fell.
After the execution, they were thrown into
hearses, six or eight at a time, and taken away
and buried. About twenty thousand spectators
were assembled to witness this horrid spectacle.
—Many of them were negroes, slaves and free,
and possessed themselves of the hats and boots,
and portions of the clothing, and fixing them on
sticks, marched through the streets, with curses
upou the “Fillibusteros.” “the Pirates,” &c. &c.
&c., accompanied with vivas for the Captain-
General.—That Lopez has been giving them
Itruble there is little doubt, and that there will be
plenty of hard fighting before the end of the
month every one in Havana believes.
We have just received from our correspondent 1
in Havana a copy of an Extra of the Diario de
la Marino, of the 16th inst. The Lieut. Gover
nor of Mariel, near Cabanoa, sends a dispatch
concerning the landing of Lopez, the particulars
of which Be ascertained from two sailors, who
were witnesses of the scene. We translate the
following extracts:
The expedition, in the opinion of the witnes
ses, consisted of a thousand men. They only
disembarked two barrels of powder, 1 cwt. of
balls and two boxes of maskets. Each person
was armed with a pair of six barreled pistols, a
sword and musket, all in bad condition. They
only landed provisions for one day, the greater
part of which was biscuit, and two barrels of
meat. The company consisted of fifty natives
of Cuba, and the remainder from America and
other countries. On landing, Gen. Lopez sent a
letter to the inhabitants of Pozas, threatening
them with extermination if they did not aid
him.”
There is another report, dated Coralillo, on the
morning of the 15th inst., which states that the
revolutionists were engaged in a fight with the
Spanish troops on the 13th, since when they had
been scattered and discouraged; that on the
morning of the 15th they collected near Haba
nas, with the design of re-embarking, but were
prevented, and afterwards pursued by the troops,
assisted by a body of forty peasants, well mount
ed and armed. They were obliged to abandon
their positions, and at the latest accounts were
dispersed over the mountains, back of Bahih
Honda.
General Bustellos, of the steamer Habanero,
also makes a report concerning the capture of the
four boats, but contains no new particulars of in
terest. He repeats the story of Gen. Lopez's par
ty being very much distracted and depressed, and
states that they are attempting to seek safety in
flight. In relation to the execution of the pri
soners, the Diaro de la Mariana says :
“At 11 o’clock this morning, the 32 armed pi- 1
rates captured in Cay Levisa and its neighbor- )
hoad, were shot on the eastern side of the Castle ;
of Antares. After the punishment to which <
they would be condemned, if they had dared to (
approach these shores, had been announced in the j
country from which they canoe, as in this island, j
the terrible execution of the law was a result j
which could surprise no one. May the blood i
shed fall as an additional reproach on those infa- i
mous persons who have drawn these unhappy
criminals to their perdition 1
u On sea and on land, the concourse attracted
together by the execution was immense; not be
cause our population cherishes sanguinary in
stincts, nor from an impulse foreign to a people
qp honorable, peaceful and laborious as ours: no,
but because the insult offered to their noblest
sentiments, the attack directed against their loy
alty, their depreciation of our faith and our na
tionality, filled them with the indignation which
converts, for the moment at least, the most gen
tle into the most fierce and energetic characters.”
Rumored Defeat of Lopez.
We learn from a gentleman, passenger in the
Cherokee, that a report was circulating in Ha
vana, a few hours before her sailing, to the effect
that Lopez had been attacked by bodies of Span
ish troops, and after a bloody and hard-fought
battle, had been totally routed. Lopez and a few
followers had escaped to the mountains, and it
was supposed that the party executed at Havana
got separated from their companions and took
refuge in boats.
There is, however, no reliable information of !
these facts, and they may be only reports set on I
foot by the Spanish authorities to deceive.
Fatrlot Accounts of the Capture—The Maaeacres
and the Progress of the Revolution.
The New York Herald of yesterday morning)
publishes the following letter from their Havana
cot respondent:
Havana, August TO — 1$ P. M.
The Frightful Execution of Fifty Jbnerkan> in
Havana—Horrible Scene.
. I tun ton much al&cttul -fei.wrtt* t. * voll mo,, -
than to say that I havo this day been witness to
one of the most brutal acts of wanton inhumani- !
ty ever perpetrated in the aunals of history—
Not content, this government, in revenging
themselves in the death of these unfortunate, and I
perhaps, misguided men, which, it may even be
said, was brought upon themselves, but these
Spa lish authorities deserve to be most severely |
1 chastised for their exceedingly reprehensible con
duct in permitting the desecration, as they have
done, of the senseless clay of our brave country
men. Th’s morning j
Forty Americans, One Italian,
Four Irish, One Phiilippine Islander,
One Scotch, Two Havaneros,
Two Germans, or Hungarians,
were shot at 11 o’clock—after which the troops
were ordered to retire ; and some hundred of the
very vilest rabble and negroes, hired for the pur
pose, commenced stripping the dead bodies, mu
tilating .their limbs, tearing out their eyes, cut
ting off their noses and fingers, and some of the '
poor fellows (privates) these wretches brought
to the citv on sticks, and paraded them under the '
very walls of the palace. Oh, the very remem
brance of the sight is frightful.
’ I never saw men—and could scarcely have
; supposed it possible—conduct themselves'at such
an awful moment with the fortitude these men
‘ displayed under such trying circumstances.—
' They were shot six at time, i. e., twelve were j
’ brought to the place of execution, six miles, to
kneel down ami receive the fire of the soldiers, al
ter which the remaining six were made to walk
round their dead comrades, and kneel opposite to ,
them, when they also were shot. After being ;
stripped, and their bodies mutilated in the barba
rous manner I have described, they were shoved, ’
| six or seven together, bound as they were, into
' hearses, which were used last year for cholera
cases.
No coffins were allowed them; and I think
the manner they were put into the hearses was
equally as disgusting as their other acts. The j
heads of some were almost dragging on the
ground, and it had more the appearance of a
slaughter cart on its way to market from the
slaughter-house, than that of a hearse conveying
the dead bodies of human beings.
A finer looking set of young men I have never
seen; they made not a single complaint, not a mur
mur, against their sentence, and decency should
have been shown to their dead bodies, in admi
ration for the heroism they displayed when
brought out for execution.
Havana, Aug. its, 1831.
The Blooily Day in Havana—The Execution of
Hfty Patriots The Conduct of the
Consul—The Rising of the Patriots—The Report
rd Success of the Invaders, fyc.
The bloodiest day of the Cuban revolution is
fast drawing to its close, and the sun that is now
rapidly sinking in the west has seen fifty pri
soners-the greater part of them young Americans
—shot in cold blood, and their mutilated remains
torn and dragged by a savage populace, the out
pourings of Spain, the mules of Europe.
This morning, about 3 o’clock, the steamer
Habanero arrived with fifty prisoners. At 11
o'clock they were shot at the foot of the Fort
Atares, in the presence of an immense assem
blage.
l'he saddest portion of the history which I
have to relate is the indifference of the Ameri
can Consul to their sad fate. This gentleman
as your are aware, is Mr. A. F. Owen, late repre
sentative in Congress froni Georgia, and nomina
ted by Mr. Fillmore to replace Gen. Campbell,
the late Consul here. Mr. Owen was called
upon by an American gentlemen residing here,
to see if he had made a:.y effort to see those of
his countrymen who were thus inhumanly to
be shot; the Consul took the ground that they
had been declared outlaws by Mr. Fillmore, and he
should not interfere in the matter. After some
conversation, he concluded that he would write
to the Captain General, which he did, requesting ,
only an interview. At two o’clock he had re- i
ceived no answer. ,
Ido not write this in a spirit of anger, but at- 1
ter hours of calm reflection; and, to any gentle
man who asks my name from other motive 1
than an impertinent curiosity, you are at liberty
to communicate it. Mr. Owen I leave to the
judgment of his fellow-citizens.
The revolution goes gloriously on. In the
East and the West the patriot* are everywhere
triumphant. The people joint them in crew'd*,
and the year 1851 will see the close of the Span
ish rule in Cuba. ! leave to your able corres
pondents all details. CuBANO.
Havana, Aug. 16 —10 a. m.
Spanish Troops led into Ambush, and Fifty Killed
by the Patriots—The Landing of Lopez and his
Followers —The Lion Bearded in hit Deu—Harm
and Confusion —Defeat of the Spaniards at Las
Posas —Eighty Six Killed—Three of the Pam
pero's Men Put to Death—Fifty Patriots Cap
tured at Sea—The Mississippi Yeomanry, Ijc.
Intelligence reached Havana, last week, that
four hundred picked men had been sent out into
the mountain Coecoro by Gen. Lemery, who was
made to believe that a very small number of the
insurgents remained, and could be easily captured.
The result was that the troops w r ere led into am
bush, when a large force of the Patriots, under
Augustin Aguero y Aguero. rushed upon them
and killed some fifty on the spot. The rest of
the Spaniards retreated to Principe, as well as
they could, in the greatest disorder.
Scarcely had the government recovered from
this shock, when their attention was called to
the stitl more serious fact, that a large number of
sympathisers, under Gen. Lopez, had effected a
landing at Playitas, a few miles to the westward
of Bahia Honda, which took place at 4 a. m., on
the 13th inst. Lopez is decidedly a brave man—
brave almost to rushness. It is positively be
lieved here, and I believe it to be true, that the
steamer signalled from the Moro Castla, on the
evening of the 12th, was the same one which
conveyed Gen. Lopez and his friends to these
shores. Such a daring actlof audacity, bearding
as it were the lion in his den, is most extraor
dinary.
It appears that, close into the entrance of this
harbor, Lopez fell in with a schooner, from which
he took out the captain and mate, to serve him
as pilots on the coast of Bahia Honda, the navi
gation ol which is very intricate They arrived
off Bahia Honda about 9 P. M. ( when they im
mediately commenced making signals to the shore
by means of rockets, &c., which probably had
been previously agreed upon between the libera
tors and those on shore. Gen. Lopez did not
effect a landing with his men until 4A. M.; but
the debarkation was done in so masterly a style,
that before sunrise he Jiad not only landed his
men, with all their munitions of war, but was
on his march to Las Posas, a town a few miles
distant from the coast, where he immediately
commenced entrenching himself.
In the meanwhile, here in Havana, reigned
the greatest excitement. The Pizarro, laden
with troops, under the command of Gen. Enna,
(who is next in command to Captain General.)
and with him the Admiral, left about BA. M.,
for Bahia Honda, one thousand men having pre
viously been sent by the railway cars.
It must be borne in mind, that such was the
state of confusion and alarm into which the gov
ernment were thrown, that they had no distinct
idea as to whether Bahia Honda or Mariel were
the points to which the liberators had come.
However, the following morning, we are inform
ed that General Enna had come up with the
“pirates,” as they are termed by the government,
and had fought with them at Las Posas. in which
I he regrets the loss of some of his men and others
i wounded.
I Accordingly, two steamers, the Habanero and
j the Almendares, left that day with more troops
to the number of 1400, so that according to their
i own account, with those who have been con
{ centrating from the other districts, they have -rot
upwards of 3,000 men, including cavalry, and°up
to this moment they have only made three cap-
I tives, who, as they say in the official bulletin
they instantly put to death. Two of these per
sons were sailors belonging to the steamer Pam
pero, who, after landing Lopez, had gone into a
tavern and got drunk, the other poor fellow was
| •—J - “ ' « IWku.c
| he received when landing.
On the 15th, it was known that the liberators
who have been joined in large numbere by the
people of the country, made a move in the direc-
I tion of Diego He Nunez and Cabanas, with the
intention of possessing themselves of the fort at
the latter place, when, unfortunately, some forty
or fifty of them, wlio had in the most daring man
ner, endeavored to get there by sea in four laun
ches, with the intention of taking the Spaniards
I ln the fo rt b y surprise, were themselves, after a
j most desperate resistance, captured by the Span
ish Admiral, who, with his steamer, and ail im
mense number of men, succeeded in taking them,
alter a fight ot four hours. 6 ’
! tu tfos engagement the Spaniards were com
manded by General Enna in person L who had
his horse shot from under him: Col. Radal and
, seven officers and about seventy-eight men were
killed.
i , S° unerring and deadly was the fire of the
brave liberators, that General Enna was three
times repulsed with loss. At this moment the
Lieutenant Governor of Mariel, Colonel Gurrea,
i came up, with about two hundred men more,
when the colonel received a shot througn his le°-
! and his men such a check, that General Enna (as
he states in his official communication to the
Captain General, dated half-past three o’clock on
the 11th.) saw the uselessness of attempting any
| Hiing further against the pirates without more
artillery, as it would be only exposing his men to
certain death, without any result; consequently
| he demanded further reinforcements. ’
j It is. computed that there were no less than
329 soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture
| of these brave fifty Americans.
! Elated with his success, Admiral Bustillos
hastened with his prize to Havana, where he ar
rived this morning at 1 30 A. M.
Os the fifty or fifty-two who were to have
been shot this morning at the Fort Atares, forty-
I SIX were o| the flower of the Mississippi yeoman-
AH the troops in and about Havana were
formed in a square on the ground where this
wholesale butchery was to take place. But
strange to say, that, notwithstanding all the
great preparations made for this horrid spectacle
up to (this moment, 10 A. M., it has not been
put into execution, and the troops have received
oidersjto retire to their barracks.
One handsome,noble looking follow, from New
Orleans among the captured, from whom these
wretches endeavored to obtain his declaration, in
the nope of getting him to implicate others, de
sired them, in the most peremptory manner, not
to interrogate him, that he was not an informer
that the fortune of war had placed him in their
power, and that their blood-thirsty character
was known to the world; but that'he had the
satisfaction of knowing that every drop of Amer
ican blood shed by them would call down upon
them the vengeance of the whole American na
tion, and that it would be repaid to them a hun
dred fold.
Storm.— lt commenced blowing a »ale of
wind on Saturday night from S. to S. E. and
continued during the night and the greater part
of Sunday. The wind blew with the greatest
violence between daylight and twelve o’clock
Sunday, at which time it commenced abating.
During that time a large number of trees ami
fences blown down, and others were con
siderably damaged. In South Broad-street there
are at least seventy-five trees down. In the
other streets there are large numbers more or
less injured, many of them very valuable as
shade trees and ornaments to the city. The
houses on Cassel Row were considerably injured
by the blowing off of the tin on the roof- the
force of the wind being so violent as to tear it up ;
from the weather boarding, and roll it up like
parchment, causing the roofs to leak badly. The
house on the corner of Liberty and Bull streets 1
owned by Mr. J. S. Fay, received considerable 1
damage, the tin being forced off the roof in the
same manner. The sheds attached to the Cot- i
ton Presses of Messrs. C. A. L. Lamar and J.
Baldwin, received slight damage, portions of 1
their roofs having been blown away. 1
yh*re are several other houses in the southern
portion of the city in course of erection, slightly
damaged. The steamer Gordon, Capt Brooks,
which left on Sunday morning at 5 o’clock, for
Charleston, after proceeding as far as the Bar,
was obliged to return. No injuTV was done to
the shipping in port, and the wind blowing from
such a direction as to enable those vessels on the
coast to make a good offing, we are in hopes they
will escape without damage. If the storm ex
tended far into the interior, it must have caused
much injury to the cotton crops.— Sa r. Rep.
2&lh inst.
AUGUSTA, GA. =
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
For Congress—Eighth District,
ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.'
Public Barbacne.
A Public Barbacue will be given, in or near
this city, to Col. Robert McMillan, the Southern
Rights candidate for Congress, in this district, on
Tuesday next, 2nd day of September.
Hon. Charles J. McDonald, Hon. J. M. Rer
rien, Hon. Charles Doughertry, Hon. J. H.
Hammond, Hon. Hershell V. Johnson, Judge
Colquitt, L. J. Gaitrell, Esq., Col. Billups, J. W.
Harris, Esq., and others have been invited to be
present on the occasion. The Barbacue will be
free to all. Every one is invited to attend.—
Come one! Come all!
A. H. McLAWS,
ROBERT A. WHYTE.
Wm. E. DEARING,
ALEX. DEAS,
TURNER CLANTON,
T. W. FLEMING,
H. D. GREENWOOD,
Committee of Arrangements.
From Cuba.
Our paper is filled this morning with impor
tant intelligence from the Island of Cuba, which
will be read with interest. We have no room
for comments, nor for what are termed Spanish
accounts. The latter are unreliable and insul
ting, and would only have a tendency to further
infiame the public mind, at the attrocities com
mitted by the Spanish authorities of Cuba, on
American born citizens.
Large and enthusiastic meetings have been
held in New York, Albany, Philadelphia and
other Northern cities. The ball we now con
sider fairly in motion; Cuba is in a state of Revo
lution, —American citizens have been brutally
butchered, and if the Government further inter
feres, it is high time the citizens of America
should take the subject in their own hands. La-
Fayette, and a ho6t of other noble spirits, left
their own country, and risked their lives and
fortunes to assist our forefathers in their strug
gle for Liberty. Has the government of America
so degenerated, that her sons cannot on the sama
terms, assist other nations struggling for the same
glorious boon?
Grave and Potent Arguments.
The Constitutional Union papers continue to
use a set of arguments against Gov. McDonald,
which, If they should hit him, would kick Mr.
Ulan i.prawli.ic; upon the
ground.
They continue to say that the expression of
sympathy for him, by South Carolina secession
ists. proves that he is a disunionist. Well, admit
the potency of the logic. Judge McDonald then
is praised by secessionists, and that makes him a
disunionist.
Northern Free Soil papers express sympathy
with Mr. Cobb, and are waiting for his election
to light their bonfires and throw up their union
caps. By parity of reasoning, that makes Mr.
Cobb a Free Sailer.
If our opponents don’t cramp their genius too
much, they will be able to see into this!
Again, they say every disunionist in the State
of Georgia is in favor of Gov. McDonald’s elec
tion, and that makes him a disunionist. Well,
let that logic also pass the fiery ordeal.
Every anti-slavery -man in the State (and
there are some in Georgia.) is in favor of the
election of Mr. Cobb. That, then, if our logical
opponents are correct in their reasoning, makes
Mr. Cobb an anti-slavery man.
This is a bomb in their yankeedoodledom,
which they would avoid if they could, bui it
must fall upon them.
When routed in this kind of argument, they
generally fall back behind the ‘‘cry of Union,”
let oil a few touches of pathos, and blubber and
snuffle a while about their forefathers and grand
mothers, none of whom would own them if they
could rise out of their graves.
Such heroes as they are would have been con
sidered milksops by the women, if they could
have lived in the days of the revolution. The
difference between milksops and tories, in the
revolution, was this, the former wouldn't stand
up to their rights, while the latter denied that
they had any rights at all. We have some of
both kiwis at the present day, much to the dis
grace and detriment of the country.
Emissaries from South Carolina.
The Lagrange Reporter, of the 22nd instant,
says that the citizens of South Carolina now- tra
velling in Georgia, are “ emissaries," to aid in the
election of Gov. McDonald. The Lagrange Re
porter ought to take something to relieve its
brain of stupefaction. An emissary is a secret
a pent, and the Reporter speaks of these South
Carolinians as openly electioneering for Governor
McDonald, to a man. Emissaries are not seen
in this open public manner! The Reporter speaks
of these South Carolinians as “ intruders.” We
thought before that this intercourse between the
citizens of two adjoining States was desirable
and pleasant. At our watering places, and in
deed every where, politics is now the subject of
general conversation. We know of nothing that
should prevent citizens of South Carolina from
talking about our politics and candidates, and
even expressing their preferences.
We hope the Reporter wont explode with fear,
between the danger to our “glorious Union,”
and the presence of these fire-eating emissaries
from South Carolina!
Election Tables, Census Tables and Post Offices
Our readers will find in our Weekly, and upon
the first pages of our Daily and Tri-Weekly, of
this morning, Election and Census Tables and
Post Offices of the State of Georgia, taken from
Grenville’s Almanac for 1852. We have been
permitted .by Mr. Grenville to publish these
tables for the benefit of our subscribers, and for i
which we return our acknowledgments. i
Grenville’s forthcoming Almanac will be a
very complete affair—probably the best he has
yet issued.
The Election Table for Governor in 1849, will
be found useful in making estimates of the com
ing election. We have hadj several applications
to publish it.
Ex-Gov. McDonald will probably get majori
ties in nearly all the counties in wliich Gov.
Towns got majorities in 1849, and in many of
them his majorities will be considerably in
creased for McDonald. The few counties the
latter will lose, which went for Towns, will be
made up by his gains in other sections, unless we
are greatly misled by the information reaching
us at this office.
New Poems.
Zara : A Romance. By D. L. Roach.
The above is a neatly printed volume, contain,
ing a Poem of twenty parts, each part containing
twenty stanzas. The author is a resident and
native of this city. Not having been able to de
vote time to a careful perusal, we will not ven
ture upon a minute criticism. Portions of it are
not without merit. There are occasional indi
cations of sprightline. sos thought in it. But it
is deeply marked also by defects and common
places in style and sentiment.
Greatness Reviewed: By Cuyler W. Young
This is a little volume in pamphlet form, with
copious notes, all abounding in bitter invective.
We cannot admire the taste of its lavish abuse of
our own country.
The poem, as a work of literary merit,we can
not, in candor, compliment. The notes display
a considerable range of reading and information.
We quote, from this volume, a disconnected
piece, which is quite apropos at this time.
Song of the Cuba Invaders.
Come all ye brave lads, and let us once more
Our bright standards plant on Cuba's bold shore ;
'Tis the fafrost island that's under the sky,
And for it we’ll fight and conquer or die.
We’ll care not for Webster, or Hale, or Fillmore,
When we shall have landed on that lovely shore;
At the roll ofthe drum and the sound of the fife,
For conquest and glory we'll charge in the strife.
Old England once conquered that island, they say.
And sorry she was that she gave it away;
’Tis the key ofthe Gulf, and guards its broad mouth,
And she wants it to injure the rights ofthe South.
But with our brave lads from the mountain and plain.
From Marion's fields, and the great Southern main,
And with lasses to cheer us and sweeten our mouth
We’ll strike for true glory and the rights of the South
Yechivalric sons of the mountain and valley,
Kound Cuba's bright banner will ye not rally '
0, we’ll rally, we ll rally in liberty's name—
We'll rally for Cuba, for glory and fame.
The author, however, in a note, shows he has
but little genuine sympathy the cause of
Cuban patriotism and liberty. He says:
“ I am by no means in favor, at present, of the
acquisition of Cuba; though Ido not object to the
singing of a song by her piratical bands.’’
The above are for sale at the Book stores of
this city.
Southern School Books.
We have received from Mr. B. F. Griffin, pub
lisher, of Macon, Ga., a circular in relation to the
publication of the Southern Orator and the Ogle
thorpe Readers, to be used as text books in
Southern schools. The Southern Orator con
tains the elements of Elocution, and selections
suitable tor Declamation and Ricitation, from
eminent Southern orators and writers. The
Oglethorpe Readers, numbering from one to four,
will contain valuable and interesting selections
suitable to be placed in the hands of Southern
youths. The Orator is now in the hands of the
folder, and will he offered for sale in a few weeks.
The Readers will be ready during the ensuing
fall.
We look upon this enterprise of Mr. Griffin as
eminently deserving of success. Northern school
books, as a general thing, are not suitable to the
wants and opinions of the Southern people. It
is time that we should have such works compiled
with direct reference to this fact. And if teach
ers and parents'will look at the facts, as they ex
ist, but little time would elapse before the sub
stitute would be made. Mr. Griffin deserves
well of the whole Southern people for the step
he has taken. His books will soon be in all our
Book Stores, and we trust in all our schools.—
We will notice the works more particularly when
they make their appearance.
OS’” A Cuba meeting was to have been held
in Mobil e,on the night of the 22d inst.
It is proper to state that the follow ing notice
of the commencement exercises of the Mercer
University, was in some way mislayed and it
escaped our observation till a day or two since
that it has not appeared in our paper.
[From the Federal Union , 12/A ins/.]
Commencement at Mercer University.
The exercises were opened on Sunday morning,
July 27, by the Commencement Sermon deliver
ed by the Rev. John E. Dawson of Columbus.
This sermon was spoken of as eloquent and re
plete with learning and Christian philosophy.
We did not arrive in Penfield until Tuesday
morning, so that we did not have the pleasure of
hearing the Commencement Sermon on Sunday,
or the prize Declamation of the Sophomore Class
on Monday. This Sophomore Class is the lar
gest that has ever been at the College, and is
considered a class of great promise. The first
prize for declamation was awarded to W. H. Da
vis of Pontotoc, Miss. The second prize was di
vided between J. D. Matthews of Elbert coun
ty and G. R. McCall of Scriven county. The
prizes were distributed on Tuesday, after the Ju
nior Exhibition, by the Rev. A. T. Holmes of
Houston county.
The Junior orators were Messrs. Aaron E.
Cloud, McDonough; George M. Dews, Albany;
Armsted R. Harper, Rome; Benjamin M. Pol
hill, Scottsborough; Richard H. Sapp, Burke
County; William B. Seals, Hancock County; Eu
gene J. Greene, Lagrange; Thomas B. Stephens,
Forsyth; Daniel Walker, Monroe, Abner Wynn;
Double Wells; Joseph A. Winkler, Savannah;
George A. Smith, Jackson Port, Ark.
The Exhibition of the Junior Class took place
on Tuesday morning, and was very interesting,
many ofthe Orations delivered by the Juniors
evinced much thought and investigation on the
subjects, and some of them were truly eloquent.
At 4 o’clock, p. m. an address was delivered ’to
the Alumni of the University by Prof J. E. Wil
let, his subject was the elements of a practical
character, and his discourse was practical and
very interesting.
Wednesday was the Commencement day.—
The great day, in which the graduating class
made their last exhib.tion before their venera
ble President, and beloved instructors, bid adieu
to their teachers, their tellow students, to
College life and College associations, and lauch
ed forth upon the stormy ocean of practical life.
This is the day of days in the life of every Col
lege student; the day looked forward to with
hope, fear and anxiety from the time he enters
College until it arrives. The young gentlemen
of the Senior class appeared to be deeply impres
sed with the importance of this day to each of
them, as their orations testified. Toe speech^