The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1851, Page 2

that morning been sent to the hospital, and that aaa chains taken off, for what jeans and some fl sisi much better cared for, and I did wi col ‘them, thet that T would do my utmost them aa well peovided for as their more fortunate to several of my friends risoners, and so Pehalf that ou: af were with the utmost success. “I take this occasion to pay a just tribute to those Cuban tlemem Who 80 01 vided me with funds, without which m, ¢ been barren, and also to many who contributed not only money but persocal efferte; would gladly mention names, but the impossi- bility of naming all would render the particularizing of a few invidious. On gaturday, the prisoners received -everal visits and @ sum of money wherewith to purchase bread; Mr. Smith ‘also took to them segars and other nae On Sus morning their chains were taken off, they were al- Ph to cory and I was enabled to send them their ex- clothing. They were in excellent A spi and as ef their countrymen bad now obtained permts-fon to vieit them, and they found they were not abandoned by their friends, they were quite gay. Writing materials were to day allowed them, at the request of Mr. Smith, aud many of them wrote to their homes, They all re- «eived @ -mall sum of money to purchase ~uch trifles as they might fancy. On this day they received informa. tiem that Commodore Parker Was not allowed to se them, which they regretted exceedingly; and, during he afternoon, they hada -bort visit from Mr, Owen, On Monday morning, as they were to embark early, Mr. Smith, Nr. Callahan, end my-elf, visited them before day; they had coffee and bread before going on board. Besides what they received from the government, each man had @ peajacket, a woollen shirt, a pair of pants, & }air ef stocking~, and a tin pot; and on board ship were piced for their use 825 Ibs jhoeclate, two boxes tobasoa ss Hs H & i 3 i H two barrels vinegar, and some smail stores, the sun <@ $745 wa ‘din the hands of , of the Primera de Guatemala, for general on val at the port of de-tination. ~ this. the Germa: Bociety cave Capt. Ortis 8136 for the Germans, and -eve- ral = left sums for individual-. They embarked in spirits and excellent health, all de-iring # mo-t farewell to be vent to their friends, with a-- wurances of their high hopes for a -peedy releave. Those who remain here awaiting -bip, will follow their com- panions in a few days Those who are in the hoxpital are all doing well. and are very weil cared for by every onearound them. They aivo have been allowed writing materials, and their friends will probably receive letters from them as rarly as they may receive this. The Captain General has beea very com-iderate and kind in his orders relative to both sick and weil, and their attendant~ and jailory bave treated them with much cov-ideration. Im regard to exertions for their liberation, I would aggest to you some prompt effort in their behalf, through the American Minister at Madrid, for the rea-on that the proximate accouchement of the Queen will afford @ mort advantageous opportunity to grant thei alla tree pardon, and the liberation of three here would induce us ¥o “uppore that a like boon might be obtained for ali. 1 have thoncr to be, re«pectfully. your very obedient weTvant. J. 8. THRASHEN The following is a list of the prisoners brought to UH. vane from the late Cuban Ex; ition. under the com- mand of Gen. Narciso Lopez, final disporition of them ee far as a SENT TO SPAIN BY STEAMER ISABEL LA CATOILCA. . bile. Charles A Downer. . J tt. Levy. bec. J.D. Hy ew Orieans. FD. Hough....00012.00 New Albany. Ind SENT To SPAIN PY suiTP VEXUS. Louis Schlessinger. %. H. McDonaid.... jorriss.... - +, Alabama. :" Washington, D.C Mobile. . New Orleans So clineland, nar) ~~ -Bpring Valley, Obi Jebn Murphy... ... Hirem Wert... ©. Sebring... James Halpin, ward Crissy - coe | Jemer Fmith - A. R. Ludwig... Charles Harrison Victor Duprat.. Henry Stanmyre Quick Philadelphia Mellenry see Rottaville, Pa Giblin Yneinmati, Obs Jon Murtigh Philadelphia ‘Thomas McClelland Ireland. Jobo McK neise Pittebur Pedro M. Lopex Venecuela Pedro Velarco.... Cuba, servant of Lopes Cuba. ae WANTING SHOP AT Havana. » 3. D fac + nl ( rad sinnati, Ohio, ree 7 Cincinnati. . Asher J. Phi New Orleans, Jacce jann.” sa ‘Thomas La — Jobp Bach: New Orleans. Jobin Brown... mee RNS IN THE HOSPITAL, ALi DoWwe Wit, AL. Se hay arm. pa : tine flight Robert H. Bilis, Washington, D.C, left hana, Jobn Cline, New;('rieans, b, alight. . Lopes, executed. B-8, Van Vechtem, delivered to Captain Platte, Andrae Gonzalez, in prison. Somers, New Orleans, pardoned. Captain Lopez, in prison. Julio Herren, det bere. J. A. Kelly. liberated. H. 8. Haynes, do. Ie relation to the above, Mr. Thrasher has ap- pended the subjoined note:— Dean Sin—The following have been cht im since mal out the list I Soph zets ond t om four more fe well. by sboonnelpntss 3.8. THRASHER, Ke Capt. John Johnson. Eugene (ay. - London, Eng. George Pare... ‘Peterabarg, Va, John A. Sowers. ‘Barryville, Va. New York. Prussia. IN HOSPITAL, David Gano... New York. Chas. J. Hodge. .England. The Faro Industrial has really been We had received a rumor of this fact by the! arrival ; the following note from the editors sonfirms the statement :— Havana, Dean Sie:—You will please stop our publication of our paper has been Vernment. Do us the favor to mation of our numerous ex oblige your very obedient servants, Fo: ‘ano Ixpusterat.”” The Diério de la Marina and Gaceti de la Habana are filied with editorial articles upon the failure of the expedition of Lopez, ani glorifications on the bravery and fidelity of the army and the Cuban po- pulation. They state that Don Jose de la Concha, Captain General of the island, left Havana on the Mth inst. on board the steamer Pizzaro, to visit the | battle fields of Lopez. The Captain General, who was accompanied by the principal officers of the ad- ministration, was received, it is said, at Mariel, Babia Honda, San Cristobal and San Antonio, with the marks of unbouaded enthusiasm. [le re- turned, with his suite, to Havana, on the l6th. The | object of his visit was to reward the persons who | had aided the troops against the expedition. These papers also give an official account of the offers and subscriptions of the citizens who sent tothe adminis- tration money for the aid of the wounded, and for the widows and children of the killed im the con- | flict. A performance was also given for the same | object, at the Tacon theatre, which produced a sum ef eight or ten thousand dollars. A Te Deum | was sung, in great ceremony, at the Cathedral, ' and was attended by an immense crowd. | Our Havana Correspondence. | Havana, Sept. 15, 1851. | The Closing Scenes of the Lopez Expetition—The | Condition of the Prisoners—Account of the E-xpe- | dition, by an Oficer—Splendid Conduct of the Bri- | tish Consul. I wrote you a few hurried lines by the last pack- j et, to the effect that the revolution in Cuba had | been completely put down. I assure you that at | one time the government was under the greatest tate of apprehension and alarm, for they believed, | a every body else did,{that if Lopez only suc ceeded, with ever so few men, to get on the island, the whole Creole population would have immedi- ately pronounced in his favor. Men had become so accustomed to hear of the determination of the Creoles to endeavor and make a strike for their | independence, that when Lopez succeeded in | effecting his disembarkation, the best informed and | most respectable Spaniards told me tha! they con. | sidered the island was lost to Spain. Probably, had | Lopez carried out his original plan of landing on the coast of the Central Department of the Island, where we have seen the disaffected did make a sort of effert, a different result may have turned out, but having put into Key West, Lopez there learned that the Vuelta de Abajo had pronounced against the government, and allowing himself to be over- persuaded by General Pragay, they determined to steer for Habia Honda, where they landed dar. ing the night of the 1th ultimo. I consider now that the government have dis covered how impotent are the threats ofthe Creoles, that Spain bas a firmer bold upon the island than ever she had before, and that in future, so far as regards their losing the island by the efforts of the Creoles themselves to obtain their independence, the government of Spain may rest perfectly tranquil. Lopez was basely deceived by the Creoles; the government were deceived—we have, in fact, been all deceived. The government, really alarmed, and thinking the time had come when the Crecles would have made an effort for their freedom, made every preparation for civil war. lopez and his men were 1851. 8 then by the go- for the infor. | | sacrificed by these cowardly men, who expected | that he and his handful of brave men were to beat the whole Spanish army, while they were to remain quietly, at home, and after it was all cut and dried them, come in for all the honors. The hard- ships endured by the survivors of this ill-fated e: — are detailed in the accompanying na‘ ve. [To be found in another column of tl | Heravp.) Severai obtained permission to visit them a day or two after their arrival here, and the sympathies of | the British Consuland Vice Consul were so strongly { enlisted in their favor, that they fortunately were able to be of considerable service to them, and for which the ir fellows seemed to be very grateful. Imagine 160 lads—for they were nothing more— their ages | am sure do not average twenty years— cooped together in an ill-ventilated room, in such a climate. They had not been allowed te wash, had the'r beads closely shaved, chained together heavily by the legs, and with the ordinary dress of convicts; many sullering severely from shot wounds. Many | connected and highly intelligent lads were among them, wild, beecless boys, who had joined the expedition as much for the sake of adventure asany thing else. Their c.ndition, until the Bri- tish Consuls were fortunately able to obtain relief — through the influence they possessed—was deplora- inthe extreme. But in justice to the Captain General, upon receiving the representations which they had conveyed to him, be granted them many indulgences. They pointed out the good it would do this government to permit the prisoners to write to their friends and re.atives in the “tates, inatmuch as the men being terribly exasperated by She hardships they had to undergo, and their pre- sent hard fate, which had been brought about by the frightful ceception practiced towards them by the Creoles, who bad allured them to their destruc- tion, and then abandoned them to their fate, would have the effect of completely quashing for ever in Juture, the sympathies of the American people in taeir behalf. You will find a full tement of all that oc- cumed, from the landing of the expedition at “Morillo,” on the Lith ult., up to the vepartu of the main body of the prironers for Spain on th Sth jest. The narrative was written by one of the officen, who is still here among the wounded. Thesxtreme youth of these lads generally, and le deception practised to allure them into thai ridiculous expedition, will, I hope, induce those infmential persons who have relatives among the pritones (and there are sons of senators, judges, governors, and | know not what all), to move hea- ven and earta for their liberation, a fit tunity, too, shortly offering for thi Yernment to grant that boon on th | of the (jueen. Beside: low up the fact of the Ca) | having given ao pwcedent, which ought to operate | in the liberation © these poor fellows, he having granted, of his own free will and pleasure, to four of them; an at of his | confess I not appreciate, for | cantt understand the justice of granting ‘dons t some to the prejudice of others, when all must bavs been equally guilty. I trast that you will not lose sight of these unhay men’s case, but do everything in your power to o tain their speedy liberation As | said before, there are many young men—ay:, of splendid talents | too—who, from mere recklessness hed been induced to join the expedition, perhaps, tor, with the noble idea that they were about to be in the generous cause of giving liberty to an oppressed Havana, April 6, 1851. Circular to the Friends of the Prisoners Seven Others Arvivd—Territle Suffering—Arres of General Rosales fir Cowardice. Mr Thrasher, of this city, late editor of the Fure | Industrial, which was recently suppressed by order ’ of jhe in Cgneral, bas addressed a circylar te { | to acquaint you that the exception of two—a Mr. all doing well. mee esane heen ihe of them been terribly been bayoneted nine times in he did not move as fast along from knife; the blow being the left aggots having got intothe wound, he in with a Nasiste negro, whe assisted #8 his wounds, and gave him to eat, and ducted him to the head qaarters of the 1g officer of the district of Bahia Honda, his case duly attended to. stand that (ieneral Rosales is under arrest cowardice, in not having seconded General in the attack in which the latter lost his life. ’ Havana, Sept. 17, 1851. The Singular Conduct of the American Conswl— The £xeution of the Fifty—Were their Remains Mutilated ?—Arrival of Mrs. Downer—Interview with the Bishop. A series of letters have appeared in the columns of the Zrue Delta, of New Orleans, said to have been written by respectable Americans, endeavoring to exonerate Mr. Owens, the American Consul, in his want of attention to Col. Critteaden aad his un- fortunate companions, who were executed at Ha_ vana on the léth ult. Hither those respectable Americans are very easily to be imposed upon, or knew nothing whatever of what they pretend to do, with regard to the recent executions, or they never could have been induced to make such miastate- ments as they have done. In the first place, they said, “that Mr. Owen had no idea that the pri- soners to be shot were Americans, but that he be- lieved they were fifty of the Havana citizens.” Now, this goes to prove that he was aware that there were ecme parties to be shot, although the corres- pondent pretends to say that he knew nothing at all about the execution until it was all over. To state, too, that the unfortunate men were put into coffins, is beyond my comprehension. Ask the Cuban government whether or not they provided coffins for those fifty men that were shot. Commedere Parker, however, will answer tha’ question ; be will also fully satisfy his government dead bodies of poor Crittenden and his brave fol- lowers, so inhumanly shot under the walls of Atares Any person who ventures to say he saw the remains mutilated is instantly confined in jail, as was the case of a yourg man named Pritchard, who has been, already, ten days under close confinement, for having had the temerity not to deny that he saw parts of one of the poor fellows publicly exhibived at the Dominica. Mrs. Downer arrived on the Cherokee, yesterday, from New Orleans, in the hope of rescuing her only son, who is one of the survivers of the expedition. She brought letters to several influential parties here, or ce pag one to oe ones _ promised everything in his power for her; bat son had already left in the Isabel la Catolica for Spain. The Bishop informed her, among other things, that at his intercestion the Captain General had determined upon shooting only eighteen out of the fifty, and that had the American Consul called upon his Excellency and pressed the matter, thirty- two lives would have been saved; but a commission from the Catalans having learned that such was his Excellency’s intention, waited upon him (Mr Zulueta was one of the commission) and stated that, unless the whole fifty were executed, the Spaniards would not be satisfied After the execution of those men, the Prensa, one of the journals of this city, pablished an extra, which bas since been called in from the public li- braries and cflices. If you will take the trouble to refer to it—for here there is not one to be got—you will find this remarkable fact, which is the cause of its YEP Ee the execution of the al the people fell upon their remains, &o, restos),” and then it was the mutilation took place. ie goverbment seeing the great excitement which that ‘Shoman act caused in the United States, are doing everything in their power to throw discredit | upon the aisertion, and therefore it is that such as wish Me gg their liberty are careful not to ac- knowledge what was seen and known to the whole of Havana. ‘The Cause of the Failure of the Lopez Bx- | Peditions, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK WRRALD. Havana, Sept. 15, 1851. In reading over, in your well conducted periodical, to which | am a subscriber, your extensive Havana correspondence, it has much surprised me to have found that none of its writers have been able, or been willing, to give you the true cause of the non- terprises to aid the Cubans to proctaim their in- dependence. 1 trust to deserve of your well known impartiality, and love oftruth, that you will give the following lines to the public in your paper, repeating it ia your Werx.y Hrraro, that I may derive the bene fit of a copy. Let me begin by saying that | am a creole, heart and soul, native of Havana, born of creole parents, | and have, therefore, a right to take an interest in the welfare of my native land; and I defy any man to love his country and ccuntrymen more than I do Cuba and the Cubans. | have been educated in the United States, and have lived there during my boyhood for many years, during which time | made ny staunch friends, whom | osteem to this day, consequently | simpathize with the Americana in general. | mention these two circumstances that it may not be aid of me, either that 1 am bought by the paniards, (as has happened to ethers who have written on this subject,) or that I bear an il!- will to the Americans; for, however, much | may desire their welfare, ina case in which both they ard the Cubans are concerned, | naturally give the latter the preference | have said that | love my country. tertain the least doubt all my count | likewise with the same fervor, with the same dis- interestness; but there are a great many ways of desiring the welfare of one’s country—there are many kinds of pa’ sim, and it has much grieved the better educated and more civilized class of Cubans, to seo the and ruinous de- sires expressed by patriots in all the American papers: and it would gr a more that it should be supposed that those ideas are the ones adopted by the above mentioned class. “ One swallow does not make a summer,” and, there. fore, the few who have written to Lopes for aid and rent money to him for the getting up of expe ditions, must not be classified as Cubans, but as a very tmall portion of the Cubans, perhaps the most interested, perhaps only hallucin: My task is therefore limited, for the present, t explain and give to light the real desires and opinions of the illustrious and most thoughtful clase, who can, with some right, call themselves patriots, having more reason to know what the wel- ¢ of this country is, and, having more to lose, i do not en- place, than all the other of the population | put together. In speaking of this class of Cubans let it be understood that 1 inelude that part of the European Spaniards resident here, who deterve that name by the great number of years they have been in this island, by their talent, by the property they possess here, and o interest and welfare are as much linked to Cuba as that of the American Spaniards is. This division, which I now make, doos not in reality exist ; these two clases only form one in (uba, and in treating of politics they generally “hunt in | couples,” and always speak of the island as their country, without distincticn. It is true, very true, that the Cubans are discon | tented with their present government, for many reasons; they all wish for a more liberal one—one, | in the administration of which they can take a | share, on an equal footing with thore named by the moths country; one whieh will give them the use as to the truth of the facts of the mutilation of the | suceess of Lopez and his followers, in their two en- | men do so | thould any occurrence contrary to ite interest take | of some rights and liberties which they do not at Presentenjoy. But, at the same time, they are all of opinion that there are other means of obtaining all this besides a revolution, expeditions, arms, and bleod. Would liberty—a word generally so erro- neously understood—bought by any of these instru- ments, compensate for the ruin it would occasion the | island, by the interruption of her now flourishing | career? Nos it is utterly out of the question. | Cuba bas teo much to lose, to venture her welfare to such frail and uncertain its. Nobody, who | knows ‘at all, can for it my met aleeedy, of Puerto Principe What did these few peo | youog men obtain? How many joine hoay pitied their fate, man sympathiz: Why? Bocaute ' never were better in- vo dainterestedly desire the heppincer ef his fellow to iv Agoer ‘did. But why did they. reasons above stated; All desire the same object, their aim is general; bu; it all, few, those movements; not all think fores, will Cuba edvance; blood will not afford her what’ sho needs. The Agueros had not studied their country; were too sanguine; Theis error wan ths coaet ot inks tedtove, andthe cowardice of the Cubans, as they said in their last *t palion im t presents itself an ant one, now je to view. If Guba, for ® more lil overn- ment, is it at all she should be separated from the mother country’! Is it of imperious neses- sity that she should her inde ce, and annex herself to the United States! Can she not accom plishther object in any other way ! Let ali good Cubans answer, with one voice, no, no, to all these questions except the last. For Cuba can, and will, acoomplish her object without recur- ring to any of these means; ‘f she cannot do so now, she will io time, and, in the meanwhile, let her be patient and tranquil, or she will lose all. We will now turn our eyes, and look at the bable result of the annexation of Cuba to the United States, leaving aside whether she would be admit- ted into the Union as a slave cr free State, a topic of vital importance to Cuba, but which needs not to be discussed at present. 7 In the first place, the two races of Americans and Spaniards are in so many ways different, that it is ridiculous to think they will ever amalgamate. ‘Their language, customs, manners, character, opi- niong and religion are so deviated, ihat there would never be a point of union between them; and last, not least, how much more superior is not the one to the other, in point of advancement in civilization, and in every other respect ? As soon as Cuba is admitted into the Union, she will be inundated with emigrants from all parts of the Union, just in the same manner as they did to Louisiana and Florida, as they are doing to Cali- fornia. They would do so in this case in a much greater proportion, on account of the distance being smaller and the passage cheaper. [n a very short space of time, the American would be the predomi- | pant population of the island; the language adopt- ed, English; and the Spaniards, being the minority, | woald be considered as strangers. All the com- merce, all the manufactures, all the agriculture would be in the hands of Gia of ypc Americans. | How will the poor, uneducated creoles be able to | compete with the Americans! What will become of the poor guajiros, who barely knew how to read | and write, and who are only now beginning to learn | the use of the famous new ploughs invented many years ago in the United States, when an intelligent farmer sets up next door to them, does his work in half | the time, and knowing more of agricalture, obtains | a far better crop ! hat would become of the law- ers, Who, not knowing English nor American legis- | tion, would have to abandon their, per! } ductive profession, and adopt some other le of living? What would the physicians do, who, for the same reason, would never be called by Ameri- cans, whose practice would be confined to the Spa- niards, the lesser part of the population? “Tis | true the upper classes would be benefitted by such a | change, the rich and well educated would keep | above water; but the middling and the working classes would be totally superseded by American | superiority; and as they are the most numerous, it is their interest which must be first considered. All this F vga one thing pretty — that Cuba and American po ion would gain much by annexation; but the present generation of Cubans would loee their all—their race would be totally extinguished. They would in the same man- | ner be driven back into some corner, as were the Indians, the original inhabitants of the island when the Spaniards landed. Again, that for two na- tions tojoin and become one, they must be equal | in every respect, or the inevitable ruin of one will be the result. | The Americans being, as is already most numerous, will tener bg 4 vote them: efice; and how, then, do the creoles obtain their a aim, their share in the rnment of ‘uba?t It would be taking Cuba away from the Spaniards to give it to the Americans, and the Cubans always the losers. As a proof of the little sympathy the Cubans have for the Americans, let me ask—How was Lopez received by the country people? in the Vuelta Abajo, the most discontented part of the | island, a brea Not toy on ved cont fe « jiros”’ joi the Spani troops, and others: chased them about with dogs, rng a , till not a vestige of them remained. Pais class will have nothing to do with those who | do net speak their language, and not knowing them at all, even think they not Christians. These | are the ideas of the uneducated class of Cuba; they hay hatred to all sti nd prefer rangers, a thousand times to treat with the Spaniards, though their masters. Cuba may become American by force and the shedding of much blood; but willingly, | doubt if it will ever take place. And should it be taken by force, by Southern rowdies and loafers, (for no noble minded American would do such a grievous wrong to a fellow creature), in what State will they find it, after a lasting and bloody war! Would Cuba then compensate their losses! No. | Would she compensate the damage Spain would occasion them by sea! No, pei; not by a great deal. Is the war between France and 5; al- ready forgotten? war repugnant to the inhabitants of Spain. who rose up en masse against the French | in guerrillas, and made awful havoc in the numer- ous and well peopled French ranks. The same | would happen in Cuba, should there be a war in it, contrary to the ideas of the | | What method, then, rem: for Cuba to attain | a liberal government! This: let her be tranquil | and patient till all ideas of annexation are forgot- ten; then let her send to 5 sentatives to advocate her cause; let them be men of talent, well versed in pelitical intrigue, well supplied with money, for she may not succeed in one year, but she will in two, for certain; for it is the only wa. | that Spaincan retain Cuba in her possession. [f she recurs to harsh treatment, she is eure to lose | her; and it is, at the same tims, the only way in which Cuba can obtain a change of =. without undergoing a severe downfall. in the ‘ime she loses no time by keeping quiet h such a man as Concha for a Governor, she goes ahead with wonderful rapidity. Till Cuba obtains another government, the Cubans ought not to allow him to be recalled. No honest man can ‘lesire his recall; they are only infamous specu- lators, who are not allowed by his good manage- | ment to rob and cheat, who can aim atsuch a thing. | Never had Cuba for a Governor such a talented, just, and yliberal man, as General Concha; he is a man of the new school ; he has no antediluvian no- tions about fhim. He has already writen to Spain various times, asking permission to make certain con- | cessions to the people, which he considers neces- | sary. His next letter, perhaps, contains tho tews of a revolution, or of the seizure of various discontented, &e. Spain naturally refuses, and instead of allowing him to looeen the reins, she or- | ders him to tighten them. It is bad policy, but the must be excused; she never knows correctly what is passing; it is always badly interpreted. Therefore, representatives who will put everything in their true light, are of vital necessity. Cuba, by herself, as a nation, cannot exist;: she istoo smatl,eand too thinly populated; she might aspire to such a thing many, ny hence. But, for the present, she must be under the win, of some powerful nation. Is it not more natural that she should cling to her mother than seek fa- vors of strangers, ause they have been refused to her for not having known how to ask for them properly? Ihave now concluded my task; it has caused me some trouble, on account of my inexperience in such matters; such aa it is, | give it up to the pub- lic for eriticiem. | would much rejoico at seeing the Liario ve (a Marina and the Cronica of your city translate, if not all, its principal arguments, for the benefit of my countrymen who have gone | astray. Pegging you again to give it a place in your co- lumns, I remain, Gentlemen, Your bumble servant, Puito Crna. 4% Statement of the Cuban pe! of the viv The following narrative vas written by one of th» sur- vivors of the iil fated expedition to Cubs, under the be read with great interest -— The expedition, under the command of General Loper amounting to 468 men, landed, on the night of the Lith August, at # «mall village, about ten miles west of Babia Honda. The following morning General Lopes and etait, with the Cubans, Hungarians, and Col RL Downmans company, ftarted on the march for Las locas, distant about nine miles, leaving Colone| (rittenden » commaod im charge of the baggage. ke. Even at ly stage of the procecdings, the expedition began to experivace | Their ony nourishun | Chiet. Spanich General, Don Narciso Lopez. and will doubtiess | é ? Feet il eit i i s g Ss i { F E 1 2 i breakfast, o by the advanced guard of the royal troops, The liberators had scarcely time to rush to their arms and form, before the enemy were down upon them. The left wing of the little army, under the command of Captain ington, and his men were stationed, and eaid to him, Sir, you have this day # post of honor,” the right of the regi- ment, “and I shall expect you to hold it.” The men replied to this with a cheer, so unanimous and loud thay, it appeared to stay for » moment the advance of the to the extreme right; Captain Brigham's company next; Captain Goti's and Captain Stewart's companies in the re. ‘The Spaniards were greatly superior in numbers; their force consisted of 700 infantry and 100 lancers, which had been sent from Havana in steamers. The force under Lopez, in this battle, was something less than 200, all told. A brisk fire was commenced and kept up with great warmth on both sides. The guns several times became so heated that the men were obliged to cease firing until they cooled. This battle lasted about two hours, when beth sides ceased by mutual consent. Many of the brave fellows, who bad fought like tigers, were now stretched on the ground, unable to rise be- cause of the extreme heat and the fatigue they had un- dergone. The enemy, having received reinforcements soon after made another attack; and, after many inef- fectual fendeavors to drive Lopez from his position, were themselves repulsed, with considerable loss. Upon this cveasion, and this only, General Lopes. just before the last attack of the royal troops, ordered the men to be given each e glass ¢f spirits, which they stood much in need of, and which went along way to enliven them aad reanimate them for the second charge. Early in the latter part of these battles, Captain Ellis received a ball which horribly shattered his left hand and another in the groin, which compelled the poor fel- low, although much against his will, to be carried off the field. Gen. Pragay was mortally wounded; Capts. Goti and Brigham, Lieutenats Dunn and Riley, with about twenty privates, were rendered hors de combat, and were all put into the hospital, and eventually fell into the hands of the roya! troops and butchered in cold blood. : _ —— vow sa Pipa ymca — endeavors jad proved to dislodge Lopez from athered most of their wounded and retired, car on the field 152 dead and 18 wounded men, eleven thousand round of cartridges and many other useful articles. Captain Stewart's company, and that of Captain El- lis, now under the command of the young but brave Lieutenant Edmund McDonald, were sent to pursue the Spaniards, and, if possible. to endeavor to form a junction with Colonel Crittenden, who was expected to be on the march Morillo to Las Posas, Gen. Lopes having. the previous evening. sent him two wagons to assist in bring- ing forward the beggage. Stewart's and McDonald's men had marched about three miles on this service, when disco- vering large bodies of the enemy, and their men being greatly fatigued, having already gone through so much fighting during the morning, Captain Stewart thought it more prudent to return. ‘The superior force of the royalists. in both engage- ments, was very great; and Lopez's victory, decided as it was upon this occasion. can only be attributed to his men beirg such excellent marksmen Some of them fired at none but officers; and that accounts for the great mor- tality among that class, who were pleked off by the youngest of the Iiberaiors. But, to give the royal troops their due, aw came up to the charge General Lopez's gallant little army, too, d severely. In the last charge made lists, the brave old Colonel Downman wa; killed. He received no less than nine wounds. Lieut. J. B. Labuzan was killed at the same time. Lieut. Herin and the captain of the Cuban company, with about 22 rivates, all fell im this last engagement. Gen. Lope, owever, maintained his position at Las Posas until midnight of the 1ith, when Captain Kelly arrived with about 00 ef the 116 men left under the command of Ccl. Crittendem in charge of the baggag reported the intelhgeace of the c dispersion of the Cojonel’s command ina vain at- Vempt to join the headquarters at Los Posas, It sppears that Colonel Crittenden, alarmed at not hearing from ¢ iz. dis; @ note to him on effect that the Colonel must march it bim at Los Py himself was sufficiet ocoupied in defending porition against a considerable Spanish army. Crit- tenden had scarcely proceeded three miles on his march, when he was attacked hy five hundred of the Royal troops. He su |, however, in routing them; but the 8 ds returned to the charge, three quarters of an hour afterward, with two pieces of artillery; and afcer a desperate but short engagement. effected his com- plete divpersion. Only Captain Kelly, and about thirty others, were able to effect a junction with General Lopez. Some were xilled; and the Colonel. with about fif- ty-two ctbers, made their way to the beach a fatal idea, on his part; for the y we: immediately surrounded by the troops, who cut off all chance ef their being able to join the main body oftheir comrades at Las Posas, and ins desperate attempt to get to them by ately fallen in with by the §; steamer Habanero, under the immediate orders Admira! Bustillas, were captured brought to Havens. on the léth, and shot the seme morning, in cold bicod, under circumstances of great barbarity. Seeing the uselessness of remaining at Las Poses, wretched village, and so situated that they would ha been soon compelled to capitulate to the immense force which was closing reun: . Gen. Lopes gave orders to retreat during the night of the 13th, and the liberators were accordingly put in motion fer the mountains, Two Cubans, creoles of the island, joined the expe- dition just before leaving Las Posas, fought very bravely, have been made prisoners, and will y berhot. The march was continued until su when they halted and cooked some Ueef, glad enough to eat it without salt cr bread. They made an excellent dinner, on the 14th, off the remainder of the eame bullock, and in the evening resumed their march, which ‘eon- tinued without any incident worth relating, until the 17th. They halted once a day to eat and sleep, ecme- times marching eighteen houis out of the twenty-four. it cousisted of beef roasted across their ramrods. Their average lors was ten eee. who gave upon the roa Loa the fearful heat of tl a were instantly shot. y reached a plantation which family) Gen, Lops iy famished met 4 plenty to ent, to rad disappointment. the Poor fellows. they were doowe: A sort of fatality attended ull their endeavors to satisfy the Ley et pene They bat been for days travelling oves mountains whi sh the Spatiards found impassabie, cutting their way with their atchets. and with scarcely sufficient food to keep body and soul together; and hav- ing st last reached Gen. Lopes's estate. the haven looked forward to as tl resting place where they hoped to reco- I hardships they hea hed to under ing down to a bountiful at last been able to en, at that Very moment, they were » despair by the ery of ° The enemy are time was barely allowed for to their arms, when the Spanish upen us the men to tly lancers, who hed rapidly formed in front of the infan try, prepered te charge. The lberaters taken by surprise. Fortunately for them, Le choven such an advantageous position for iis men, who Were posted among some mango trees, that had not one this aids wprudently riiden through the ranks, saying general believed them to be friends, patriots who ad come to join them. the whol must have bee 4 covering b terrib @ wa been rT rdivgly marched grcund to & high hil which they we ch before the whole force of the t+ bad to form or prevent them. ‘The mm body of the Spaniards, consisting of 1 (00 infantry, now charged upon the liberators, and the battle became general The royali«ts were protected hepperel and Lope bad poted his men upen « rhaps the five position *hich Lopes had ehosen for bis men, and their deeiled superiority over the Spa- nisrde a result: enabled commander-in- Manuel de Enna, colonel Nadal, considerable as very tn rely to the splendid poltion Which they bed taken up: ft amounted only to one billed and four wounded ‘The loss of the Spaniards. according to their official accounts, amount +4 to about fifty Killed. including the Commander-in- ‘The dinner wbich the liberators stood so much ditant about a quarter of a mite, | in need of, and for which they had fought so valllautly, | e frome the fact of their uba.and whieh del tinued without int and not the country wh mirtion for two them, that thie tiw heroes were reduced toromethirg like despair They had now been & week oF ten deyson the Island, most of the time with. cut tood, Fed fought three severe battles been joined by but two of the people, to whose eall for tid and ortirtance inthe overthrow of a tyrannical and despotic government they hud fo promptly responded Pxporrd to wil (he fury of @ pitiless storm, in ® barren for two dey®, their muskets ond ammunition eleee from the heavy rains, and dying of hunger and want, and en'y then, did jhee Lieve mom become discouraged. They had and not yet | dominion of Spain, this handful had ventured their lives, their all, freedom, found themselves most those who had so allured them pe feng to conquer » and comseqy ly never can be free by their own efforts. . 4 Many of the men now became iil, and were left to dia in the mountains, and on the roadsides. and if death had not already kindly put an end to their sufferings, to ba murdered by the ferocious Spanish and Creole que. On the 2ist they had been fortunate enough to proc to est for breakfast, and were all busily alarm, and they were a: |. The number of the Liberators had now become reduced to about one hundred and fifty men, avd they had among-t theny some eighty muskets, a portion only of which were fit for: use; nevertheless, they instantly formed into position upon hearing the pickets sound the alarm, But they no longer had confidence in themselves; indeed, it i¢ most extraordinary how they bad held out so tong under the pri they had to endure, and, there~ fore, it is surprising that, after defending theinselves so nobly, as long as they were able, against the immense force brought to bear upon them, they found it impossi- Belo witene 4 eae the heavy artillery prought tion @ royal troops, and the ./iberators were routed, tying, dispersed in every direction, vacke man teking his own course h'the mountains, seeking his eafety im flight. Now began the real hard2 ships of the expedition. Afterthe last battl: it maybe said the lib+rators were dispersed; the men wandered about the mountains for days together, in small bandsof three and four, living upon roots, and undergoing the greatest privations; they were hunted by tie soldiers end peasantry with bloodhounds, as if they were wilt beasts; and such of the poor fellows as unfortunately felE under’ the tender mercies of these blood-thirsty perseu~ tors, were either shot. or their brains dashet out with clubs, for the purpose of robbing them of the little money or trinkets which they had about their persons. Others, driven to desperation upon finding their pur- uers close upon them, threw themselves down precipices, @ fact repeatedly announced by the royalis: oficers im their dispatches to the Captain General. Without clothes, or what little they ha: left. torn to rags, in their endeavors to push their way through the almost impenetrable brushwood, and barefoot ; indeed, with scarcely any covering upon them atall, these poor fellows—many of whom were horribly wounded —were ter- erated by the sharp rocks, and suffered the most excruciating from the poisonous matter which pe- netrated the flesh frm various kinds of shrubs and trees with which they came in contact in their hopeless at- tempt to escape a more frightful fate, These unfortu- pate men were without hope. They had heard the fate of the fitey of their unhappy comrades who were shot im cold blood at Havana ; they had seen the brutal manner in which twenty-five of their poor wounded companions had been batchered in the hospital afver the vattle of Lat Posas, and whom Lopez was forced to leave behind where he evacuated that place, thinking that the kind attention and care he had shown to the ded Spanish soldiers would, for humanity’s sake alone, have produced pityand consideration for his own men. They fallen io with the dead bodies of their murdered countrymen in the mountains and on the way side, who had fallen into the bands of their ruthless persecutors, and, with @ faint hope of preserving their lives @ little long: urviv~ crs submitted to the horrors of their situations with he- roie fortitude ; till finally, overcome with hunger and fatigue, many of them la. i, down to die, or gave themselves up to their revengeful hunters, caring not what was to become of them. Some few of the more hardy. «ith Lo- = at their head. had taken a south-wes: course frome sn Christoval. These were compelled to cut their way over almost impaseable mountains,sometimes only maki one mile in six cr eight hours, It had never entirei, oneal raining since the 18th, but, after the battle of the och, they experienced a complete hurricane of wind and rain, which did not cease during two days and nights, They had now got into the highest part of Coszu Mountains, where they suffered intensely trom old, t! ‘D powr= ing down upon them in torrents; having to eat, end unable to strike a fire, their condition was misera- bie indeed. On the evening of the secomi day, after their arrival at Coscu, they at length succeeded in mak- ing a fire, and Lopez and companions in misfortune amongst whom were the it Capt. Filis and hie ‘voted friend Lieut Thomason. to whom be was al indebted for his life) had to kill the General's horse, to save their own lives. Never did men enjoy « more bearty meal did those poor fellows; they eat his flesh with all the relish an epicure would have picked the choicest morsel that money could procure. again recumed their march, on the eve 22d, and wandered about in the mountains, unabi« to dis- cover @ path, and without any idea as to their where- abouts. until th when one of the party, who had ered @ road close by. = Christoval and only afew yards from the spot whence they bad teken their departure on the 19th. = 2ney soot learned, however, the davger of the vicinity in whicle they found themselves ; their arms, such as they were, thet remained to them, were useléss, from the heavy rains; the mem, weary and worn out, were little in- clined for fight indeed, no time was given for delibe- ation, for they were immediately 1 rge force of the royalists, infantry as who poured a tremendous fire int which completely di-persed them. ment the few, but brave ms liberatis ge palm, and. at last. reduced to despair by bu emaciared and ill, with barely strength sufficient to themeelves from their pursuers, many of them severel, wounded, amd Capt. Eli's fast sinking fcom hie severe wounds, they to descend into the valley, with the faint Ro of ning ssis— tance. They eet jucted the gallant Ullis to rancho. and entreat e inmates to afford them cor, which was most kindly extended to them by lady and her two fair daughters. of They shook hands with the poor bad prepared for them, and whic! doubtless, they thought would have been sufficient <e whole regiment. But when it was explained to them that these” i men had lived upom roots, only, for tem days, the tears came into the old lady's eyes, and it seemed as if she could not do enough for them. May God Almighty bless and multiply thy talent a handred fold, thou good old lady. and thy two fair daughters, for thy kind compass‘on js these unfortunate men, who, perhaps. but for thy kind heart. may have died of woe Here, they were informed that Iie Excellency tl Sete core eas issued « proclama- tion. offering quarter to all that remained of the expedi- tion who would deliver themselves up to the authorities within four days from its date, nnd luckily for Iliix and bis cemrades they had fortunately determined in time to yield themseives up, as thie was the last day of Their arrival at the rancho soon Lecame nown to the troo boure; tl 6 lady and ber daughters, the treated the comman vey: them forthwith to the juarters, et the town of St. Cristobal, where they found many of their compa- ho. like themeelves, after suffering every de- gree of misery and privation in the mountains, had rither allowed ‘thern:e! the meels 20th, captives were placed, copskieration and ki it reed to the common jal’, swelling the amber of captives to about 10), Who were all thet remained alive of the 408 men who, under the command of ied at Morillo (a) Piayitas, from the peto. on the 11th August, 1851 is aod devotion were y this handful of brave Lopes found bhim-elf compelled to evacuate. Relther threats nor entreatien cox oupg MAD to yuit the sk fearfully wound dingly shot 1 his Y.) who carrie? him in his arms from & place of afety, they left the town fate would have been that of the other ‘wounded, who. \s. were butchered |: rir beds. General Pragey, opon seeing the Spanish colliery iz under the bi which he was layingly da oe roust fy ‘wounded, aad unable to help himself, if not mortal blew bis brains out vith a pistol The captives were #! in the Pi ‘Their heads compori' om, ty damp, and the prison erpecially the wounded. suttered ee for the want Diarkets, or other covering. to protect them, when sleep~ ing. from its bad effects. No distinction whatever waa Je between the wounded and the well. officers or men, —all were huddled. chained together by the Ing. 1m com- mon misery, with barely focd sufficient to entiety the cravings of hunger which even reached them here ; mo ater allowed them to wash—friendless aud fi range land, and plunged io the American Censul, secompa wring t to rome five minutes duration, comforting coptives, his countrymen in’ misfortune, the President of the United Stetes consi withowt the pale af the Liv, and that he frond do any ting them —upo' eh did not repeat his vieit ull 7 departed for Spain, and which he then did by ‘The Jatter poorlemat oor men, Ha" peru issien pisin Genetal Diy f owing cider of Commodore Parker. War most desirous to visit tier Was refuecd him by the