The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

ING, AUGUST 26, IMl'.

AMERICA.

Our correspondent writes as follows:
NEW YORK, Aco. 13.
The news brought flout Cuba continues to wear a
most contradictory aspect. At the date of my last
despatch it was supposed that the insurgents were
completelyy• put down ; that some had becu shot, and
some pardoned. The press generally treated this
statement, which came from Havana, as doubtless
being the truth: but within a der or two niter the
patriot side of the story presented itself, and we are
again in uncertainty. Ido not know how I better
can acquaint you with the state of the case than by
giving you the card of the editors of the rerdad, a
Spanish patriot paper in this city, with the docu-
ments which accompanied it.

CARD TO THEP': tc.—We desire to caution the Ame-
rican public against the false statements and reports put
forth bv the Spanish authorities of Cuba, for the purpose of
smothering the progress of the revolutionary fire in the
island, and of checking the natural impulses and sympa-
thies of the generous and free American people. Such ar-
tifices are common to all similar governments similarly si-
tuated, and are practised with peculiar activity by the Spa-
nish tyrants in their present hour of supreme peril—the
hour, as we trust and believe, of their certain fate. The
statements herewith furnished by us to the press are fairly
I and honestly copied from letters of our friends in Havana,
Trinidad, &c., gentlemen of high character writing to their
friends for the sole purpose of giving us true information.
This we avouch with our names and our honour.—
, Durum AND Co-Low:mats or LA VERDAD.—New
York, Aug. 7,

The document here referred to is a statement of

the Junta Libertadora of Puerto Principe, issued, on
the 22nd July, from their head-quarters, at the Cas-
eorro mountains, near Principe, 450 miles from Ha-
runnel'. It is an address to the Cubans, in order to

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inspirit them, and gives a detail of operations from
the 4th to the 22nd of July, the latter being the
latest date from head-quarters, and is as follows :

TO THE TEOPLZ Or MIA.
CVTIANA—Your brethren of Puerto l'rincipe address to
you. from the mountains of Cascorro, where they have es-
tablished the provisional government and head-quarters of
the liberating army, a summary of their oper itions and a
description of the engagements which have taken place be-
tween our brave Carnagucyanos (natives of Principe) and
the hireling army of the Queen. This, better than anything
I else, will convince you of the real impotence of the Spanish
I government, and that the triumph of our cause is sure, if
you cu-operate with us by rising at various points and dis-
tricts, principally in the western department, from Guaira-
jay to Mantua, where the broken character of the country
will secure safety to the first movements, and where you
will be able to maintain a tirmground, and plant your head-
quarters.
We await anxiontly the news of that rising, for on it de-
pends the movement of Villa Clara and Matanzas.
At Trinidad, which is in open communication with Os,
a •T
is to take place on the ail, according to a coin-
munieation from the president of the Junta Patriotiea there
established.

Manzanillo, Bayamo, Holguin, and Las Tunas have
already rai.kil the cry of liberty, and many of their brave
sons are fighting by our side, giving to the world examples
of valour and patnotism.
Santiago de Cuba, though as yet quiet, awaits only the
moment when some of its bayonets may be withdrawn from
it to make common cause with us in the conquest of our
' imprevriptible right ; and ynu already know that its peo-
ple gave public proofs of their sentiments in 1830.
We raised aloft the banner of liberty on the ith inst., in
the districts (ixtradess) of Ouayamaro and Sibanicu, with
the small number of two hundred and fifty patriots. We
remained there till the sth, when in concert with another
hand which ruse in Holguin, we directed our march upon
the town of Las Tunas, which was garrisoned by a corn-
.

pally of the regiment of Zaragoza, but circumstances, grow-
ing out of the darkness of the night, led to a meeting of
the two parties at twelve o'clock, before the appointed
place, and the commander of one gave the challenge,
"plies' riret" to width the other, carried away by the
force of habit, answered .' Spain," whereupon, alas . the
order was given to lire and charge upon them, which charge
lasted till they could recognise each other in the midst of
the combat.

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The result of this unhappy affair was the loss of five from
the Holguin party. and twenty-eight wounded between the
two. However, this disaster did not discourage our brave
patriots; they immediately united and fell upon Las
Tunas with the swiftness of lightning. They attacked the
barracks by surprise, and, after a short resistance, which
caused some wounded, the company of Spanish troops
united with them en mum, at the magic cry of liberty.
The lieutenant-governor of that jurisdiction was so
cowardly, that he implored our mercy ; and, in pity, we
left him at liberty, taking from him only his horse, sword,
and pistols, and 1,030 dots. belonging to the funds of the
despotic government.
Thence we marched upon the districts (parkins) of San
Juan and Santa Cruz, recruiting our force, and on the Nth
we were in Cascorro, with :NO horse and 200 foot.
The Nth and 9th were passed in organising four divisions
under the command of the patriots who had most dis-
tinguished themselves at Las Tunas ; and on the 10th
three of them marched nut, the other remaining on the
mountains. The one commanded by Don Serapio Recio
advanced towards Santa Cruz, and shortly before reach-
ing the ricer Najassa, was informed that four companies
of the regiment of Cuntabria were marching in the same
direction, under command of Colonel Conti ; but that,
the river being swollen, they were occupied in making
rafts to cross it.

Our commander Redo immediately ordered a march to-
wards that point; he watched the enemy's movements, and
when sufficiently near without being seen, he planted his
two hundred and fifty men in ambuscade, and waited till
they mould begin the crossing on the raft. That took
place ; the commander of the enemy crossed at the head of
the first company, and landed, and the raft, drawn back by
the ropes, returned to the opposite hank to bring over the
second; our patrio's remaining meanwhile mutionlesa, and
ready for the attack. The raft began to mess with the
second company, ;out then the patriots fell upon them des•
perately, scattered confusion among them, took prisoner
Colonel Conti, six officers, and tifty-six soldiers. The num-
ber of killed that could be counted on the banks was thirty-
six, without counting a great number of wounded, together
with various materials of war, taken from the enemy.
Still, in the midst of the fight, the brave Web) did not for-
pt the raft; he ordered them to cut the ropes, and fire
upon it, following it along its course as it Boated down.
The result of this most brilliant action, in which we only
lost one killed and ten wounded, was Sal complete that none
were able to escape, but those who kept on the opposite
side of the river.
On the 10th and 11th, the other patriot corps had various
skirmishes with the troops of cavalry and infantry which
marched out from Puerto Principe after them. On the
13th, in the district of Gaaimarillo, a corps of artillery came
over to us, under the command of its captain, Don Gabriel
Fortun, composed of 60 men and four field howitzers. The
10h, 15th, and 16th, we remained inactive, reeeuiting men
from the country. But the 17th was a day marked by Pro-
vidence to make the fields of Cuba witnesses of one of the
most heroic deeds of arms ever seen in the history of mei".
lutions. At three o'clock on the afternoon of that day, the
corps commanded by Dun Agustin Aguero ale Aguero was
marching towards the district of San Miguel. On the way
he received information that at the distance of three leagues
were marching, in the sante cUrectioia, three companies of
the regiment of Isabel 11., and 80 lancers of the Squadron
of B.urbon. Aguero immediately halted, examined the
position he could occupy, and selected a level spot, bordered
on the right by a pretty high hill. lie selected SO men from
the corps, and directed them to advance along the road,
so as to draw the attention of the enemy, and the rest, con.
sitting of 150 men, he placed in ambuscade at a point
agreed upon. As sae as the commander of the royalists
espied the .50 patriots, confident in his numerical supe-
riority. he advanced at full speed upon them. They, on
their side, retreated upon the bill appointed, and there
stood firm, intrepidly awaiting the charge. The royalists
did not keep them waiting long; they charged upon them,
lance in rest. At that moment those in ambush presented
themselves, and surrounded the Lancers, who, attacked on
all sides by the patriots, had to succumb, the result being,
that of the 80 who entered into action, only 10 escaped with
life, though badly wounded. Glory to the hero of San
Miguel ! Glory to the brave Aguero de Aguero! On the
18th and 19th nothing worthy of note occurred, but the re-
publican ranks have gone on increasing every hour. Ou
the 20th, all the corps united marched upon these moun-
tains, which march was interrupted by three companies of
the regiment of Cantahrin, who were beaten and dispersed.
Since the 20th these brilliant positions have been occupied
by 2,000 patriots, 600 horse, 4 field howitzers, and the mu-
nitions and sustenance required for two months ; notwith-
standing which, we are only awaiting the movement of
Trinidad to descend to the plains.
Behold, people of Cuba, the brilliant footing of your
country's liberating army ! Behold the heroic acts of your ,
brethren of Camaguey (Principe). Imitate them, and let
there he union, re. 'lotion, and firmness, and the flag of
liberty .hall soon wave from the Point of Maisi to the Cape
of San Antonio.
THE J I:MTh LIHERTADOISA DE PVEILTO PISINCIPE. I
Caseurro, July 22, 18.51.
The President has been making a tour through the
state of Virginia, and everywhere has made a very
favourable impression.
Bv the telegraph this morning, we learn there is
no (Lula whatever that a very fast steamer, called
the Pampero, sailed a les, drys since from New
Orleans, with 300 picked men, and a corps of
foreigners, principally engineers, for Cuba. She had
also on board six cannon and a quantity of old
ordnance recently sold by our government. In a
few days we shall hear more of this.

ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.
SOUTHAMPTON, Auutsr 25.
The American packet Washington arrived off
Cowes this evening on her way to Bremen. She
left New York on the 12th at six p.m. She brings
forty-nine passengers for Southampton, and forty-
nine for Bremen. She also brings ahee:vy mail.