Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-30
PARISH OF IBERVLIE, La, AUGUST 3O 1851.

ers and brothers, the wives and children of
these unfortunate men when they ask him,
whose station could have obtained an inter-
view for the last sad word of those they held
most dear? The diplomat may plead rules,
the Consul may alIege . want of power, but
what will the man say? There is here but one
united voice of condemnation of his inditfer-
ence to the call of every manly feeling, ard of
humanity, and do not doubt his conntrymen
will bestow upon him the reception he merits.
AMERICAN.
The following extract of another letter gives
more details:
1t is computed that there were no less than
$50 soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture
of these brave fifty Americans. Eated with
his success: Admiral Bustllos hastened with
his prize to Havana, where he arrived this
morning at l:3O A. NJ. Of the fifty or fifty
two who were to have been shot this morning
at the Fort Atares, forty-six were of the flower
of the Mississippi yeomanry. All the troops
in and about the Havanas 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 prepa-
rations made for this horrid spectacle, up to
this moment, 10 A. NJ, it has not been put into
execution, and the troops have received orders
to retire to their barracks. One handsome,
noble looking fellow from New Orleans, among
the captured, from whom the wretches endea-
yored to obtain his declaration, in the hopes OF
getting him to implicate others, desired them
in the most peremptory manner to inteErogate
him not, that he was not an ntormer, that the
fortune ofwar had placed him in their power,
and that their blood-thirsty character was
known to the world, but that he had the salts
faction to know, for every drop Of American
blood shed by them in cold blood, would call
down upon them the vengeance of the whole
American nation, and that it would be repaid to
them hundred fold.
The Government here dread that the news
of the wholesale butchery of fifty-two Ameri-
can citizens should be carried to the United
states and have therefore postponed it for the
present.
The following is an extract of another letter,
giving the latest intelligence of LOPEZ, and
giving some idea of the manner in which
Americans are treated in Havana:
"Mr. Gordon Myers, an American gentleman
of high responsibility, arrived from New Or
leans on the Cherokee en- route for New York,
having obtained license to land, which he
did at about 10 this morning, and got in vo-
lante for drive. Myers had not got much
beyond the walls of the city when he was for
ci5ly dragged from the vehicle, bound like
criminal with his hands behind him, and march,
ed between the soldiers to guard.house,
where, notwithstanding he had produced to
them his license, permitting him to be on
shore, he was detained till I P. NJ. without
any food, refusing him even q glass Of water,
and for what or for why he does not know, not
understanding word of Spanish.
Such are the indignities we are daily expo
sed to and against which we have not the
slightest protection, and if such is to be per.
mitted on the part of our Government, it will
be we'll for the hundreds American citizens to
sacrifice the immense property they have in
the island, and leave it, for their lives are in
jeopardy by remaining in it, SO long as the
American Government think fit to allow their
citizens to be treated with the tyrannical i'm
punity which affords those Spanish authorities
so much satisfaction to make them undergo.
August 1.-THE news brought this mo-
ment, say $50, by the steamer Almendares,
from the scene of warfare, is to the effect that
Gen. Emma has fallen into the hands of Lopez.
The Almendares brings eighty-two wounded
Spanish troops, and of the number taken prs.
oners by Lopez's party he has had the human.
ity not to shoot one.
The following letters we select from some
others: Mr.. KER, it is probably not out of the
way to say, was one of the seconds of DR..
Hunt, who lately killed Mr.. Frost in a duel,
and was on bail to the amount of $4,000 to
appear in November for trial. One of the let
ters published in the Picayune, accuses Lopez
Of baseness-and says that they were deceived.
Letter from Victor Ker to his WIFE.
My Dear Fezic;a-Adieu, my dear ife this
is the last letter you will receive from your
Victor. In one hour shall be no more.
Embrace all of nv friends for me. Never
marry again; it is my desire. My adeus to
my sisters and brothers. Again, a last adieu.
/ die like soldier.
Your husband, V1croR KER.
August l6, O'Clock, 1851.
To his friends.
My Dear Friends.-I leave you forever, and
90 to the other world. am prisoner in
Havana, and in an hour shall have ceased to
exist. My dearest friends, think often Of me.
die worthy ola Creole, worthy of Louisi-
anian, and Ker. My dearest friends, adeu
for the last time.
Your devoted friend, VIcroR KER.
To N. Larose, H. Bourgny, Leon Fazende, Will
liam G. Vincent, Felix Arroyo.
August Is, 81 o'clock, 1851.
The Delta publishes the following letter
from Adjutant Stanford, which explains par
tally the manner in which our unfortunate
countrymen met their untimely fate:
HAVANA, August l6, 1851.
Dear Huling-We arrived on the Island of
Cuba after the most horrible passage you can