Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-06-06

ling the unequlvocal horror they had to the rob.
Der strangers.
:. AT nan past SIX they were attacked by so SOL
dlers OF the Regiment of Leon, 20 Lancers, and
more tnah ~ Blscayan peasants, who, at the Or
der OF Don Leon Fortune, Commandant came
rom the neighborlng places, and put them to a
shameful flight, and Obliged them to embark in
great confusion, after having left on the field of
battle many bodies, and having carried with
them the wounded to the number of some forty
or more.
The jail prisoners whom the invaders set free.
took arms against them.
The governor of Matanzas, who had gone ont
with troops as SOON as he learned of the invasion.
arrived at Cardenas on Monday. at 2 O'Clock.
and he found already the legal authority restor-
| ed
The Pizarro lost no time in pursuing them
and soon placed the valuable prize of two YES
sells, with more than a hundred prisoners. and
the correspondence of the expedition in the
hands of the government.
The capital still presents most bcllcose as.
peCt.
The Charlestown Courier publishes letter
from It's Havana correspondent, which doubtless
contains many exaggerations, but may serve to
MI out the history of this scheme of faulty. Ii
says
The government have declared The island in a
state oil blockade, but it is believed that the mer
chant Vesselsin lawful trade will be exposed to
little Inconvenience.
The Steamer Geoga sailed for Chagres on
the 213t inst, with six hundred passengers,
none of them being allowed to land at Havan-
ma.
Eolc0D eoilo1 he C0d for
New Orleans.
AT Cardenas, company of lancers who
charged on Lopez's troops were killed. All
the foreigners in Havana, except the Americans,
offered their services against the invaders. Lo-
pei had passion of Cardenas Is hours. When
troops arrived from Matanzas the fighting COM
menced. The invaders lost thirty, killed and
wounded, and the Spanards from 80 to 150-
The invaders continued fighting and retreatine
till they reached the steamer Creole, when they
sailed, closely pursued by the Spanish steame
Pizarro.
Lieut. Jones of Alabama, is one of the wound
ed he received ball through his right side
He il, at Key West.
Another letter stated that the invaders wer
attacked when within six yards of the Cover
nors bv a shower of bullets from the tops
the houses, piazzas, &c, which wounded Cole
uels Wheat and O'Hara, and number OF mel
none mortalIy.
The invaders returned the fire, and the bait
laaed over an hour, when. a white flag WI
shown from the Governors house. Soon aft
the citizens renewed the firing, when the invt
ders set the house on fire, causing the Governt
to surrender with his staff-one hundred in a
who were placed in the barracks One hundrt
and fifty prisoners were released from the ca
Jail.
The invaders remained in the quiet possessiC
of the city till evening, except Lopez and h
staff, and Capt Logan of Kentucky, with
men, who went aboard the Creole At tn
iuncture, 200 Lancers and Cavalry renewed Il
fight, which lasted nearly one hour-killing al
wounding twelve invaders, including CAPITA
Logan who died on board the Creole. III
Spaniards lost all but II. The invaders retire
ted and sailed.
Captain Smith was slightly wounded. Qua
ter master Seizas of Mississippi has since lied
Major Hawkins of Kentucky is seriously woun
ed One Of Lopez's staff is missing and anoth
wounded.
The Journal of yesterday publishes the f
lowing telegraphic despatch, which is liable
the executions raised to the above. 1t is n
likely that the Spanish Legation has any lat
intelligence than that obtained by the other pa
ties:
Washington, May 30.
1t is reported here that the Spanish Legati'
have received desatches stating that one thou
and five hundred additional prisoners have be-
taken off the coast of Cuba, in two large We
sels-the greater part Americans. Eight Amt
leans were discharged, and permitted to retu
to the United States. The foreigners were SUI
mariIy tried by court marital. In Cabinet Cou
Gil it has been resolved to hold the Cuban
thorities to rigid accountability for their tire
ment of Americans. 1t is said that spec
agent has been despatched by the State Depa
: mentto attend to this business.
: NJ Our own Geographic despatch, receiV
= last evening, is nearly word for word with
/ above, excepting that 1t says of the 1000 n
' reported as captured" the greater part W
= Americans, and were discharged and permit
. to return to the United States, while those
:. other nations had been summarily tried by &C
4 martial.-CoWir