The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-02-07

HAVANA, January Is, ls47.
Hishhsnded Outrage by Spanish Soidisy on Private
Citizen.
The object of this letter is. hope humane one and
may prove beneficial az truly believe it deserves
wish to inform you Of the following particulars Of a
transaction that il stain the age live in. Being
eye witness of what will proceed to state can
you of the truth and correctness thereof
Last night at the opera of "Hevnan performed in the
great theatre Of Tacon during the latter part of the last
act French merchant captain standing in ono Of
the lobbes smoking cigarconrary to the public law.
The officer guard came up and roughly told him to
throw away his cigar The Captain, from not having
understood him, or some other ceuse still smoked
The officer then caught him roughly by the and be
gan to pull HIM about when any man would do under
such insulting treatmen the captain struck pushed
him away-at this, some i've soldiers rushed upon
him with Jrawn swords and sabred his face dreaduy
can compare the clash of the swords to nothing more
similar than the clatter one hears in tinmaRs shop
ask why, when the officer found the man disobeyed
him. why should no insult him by handling his
and why he did not at call guard and arrest him.
without giving the captain to commit himself fur
Their by resenting the insulting touch OF mercenary1
why deenceless man should be subjected to
be cut TO pieces by brutal aud ignorant soldiery1 Tho
of the world tspeaks with its the press
rates such barbarsm. We will suppose the captain TO
have broken the law wluy-let him be arrested harm
lssiy and severely hns1 or otherwise suitably punish
ed-bu do not allow him to be manned and crippled for
ite for the fault OF moment. and that fault truly
small.
Every day presents these scenes here The brutal sol
dery shielded by their officers let them do what they
Will ESQ that 1t be not wanting Of due respect to the
is considered to be disgrace to the commanding
ofcer any OF his command punished; and the
u.s. that crimes tolerated for the sake Of pub
lie opuion regards the officers Tho press ia the
voice Of the nation heret must first be read and
antfeedomizsd before it is heard by the many headed
Our American should and hops will give its public
denomination 10 the humanity ;snd strong
ment from so near neighbor the United States press
where els. tolerated ty2anpis. Of tSs psV eoony 10
No nation on the globe, but this, would tolerate
hour such rascaites and the contempt of all countries
should iall on this for SO doing Humanity calls for
some one 10 assert that citizen in human being,
we'll as and, perhaps thousand times civil sed
than these brutes Of soldiers.
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. steamer Tusca-
loosa left our wharf about o'clock on Thursday
evening" her way Tuscaloosa, and after proceeding
about 10 or ii miles up the river an explosion Of two
her boilers ook place which instantly killed severs
the passengers and many Of the boats and officers
From passenger on board, learn that the explosion
completely tore tho boiler deck shatte the
ter part of the boat tbelow deck) considerably lmms
diaely after the explosion such Of the passengers al
unhurt set themselves to slleviang the susrng
of those who were injured but not killed; while at the
same time portion Of the saved were making every
possible arrangement TO land all shore who could be
found.
The boat after the explosion swung to the shore and
grounded her stern remaining nearly in the of
river. line made fast ashore from the stern and
effort msde to bring her stern ashore as to land
passengers but owing to her grounding thege efforts
were unavailable The Indies were then all lowered
from the cabin, by rope to the lower deck, and from
thence sent ashore in the yawlsll saved unhurt
Those Of tho male passengers who were uninj urcd,
saved themselves and many Of the wounded, by con-
structing temporary raft OF loose panks and such
tices close at hand On this they reached tho
shore in safety. On landing was found impossible to
obtain dry footing the banks Of the river
flowed. In i, condition, those who able climbed
trees &C. where they remained in view of the burning
ruins for about three hours when fortunately the steam
boat James Hewitt Dove in sight, and shortly along
side the wreck, when assistance Immediately given
TO all within reach The Hewitt returned the city
with all Of the survivors.
The number OF killed and wounded has not as yet been
ascertsned but 1t IL feared that OF the former there
less than twenty and Of the latter like number.
The body Of Lieut. nge was on board, and was 10 st
Since tho above was in type, We have learned the
Of the following persons, killed and woundcd:
Killed-Wm. Tanneyhill, &. Ches and r. v Beasly, OF
Eutaw w. n. Hassel OF Greensboro; Blue Pasier, 80.
cond clerk; - Clark, LIST mate, and Arthur Mccoy
I'd engineer Abraham Flynn, volunteer from Green co.
and several negro deck hands.
Badly Wounded.Capt. r.. r. Oliver, mot expected TO
survive) George Dirk. LIST clerk, and acting captain
the Tuscaloosa; and Col VIM. Arms,ead.-Mo6ae Re
risfsr, Jan. %.