Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-09
PROGRESS of the Revolution in Cuba.
IErom. th Picavune Of the 1st.

The Isabers Jews came through this morn
inc and by ihen we have received an interest
;nG1 letter fron our Havana correspondent
which we give in another column. The "a
v,nnab and Charleston papers contain some
,.-,;cn1,rs a the news which are OF great m
rortsnce. nd show that the cause OF the IA
ttr;nts has d far been mere successful than
was to beantlclpated.
lettf, dated Havana, July 29tt, and con-
t,;nad Il an extra of the Savannah News, says
that III revolutionary cause is daily gaining
nrounI, the ranks Of the insurgents are re-
ee;vifg accessions from all parts of the coun-
try. and that they evince an uneonqueraole
All the victory so far has been with the rat
rsts, except in the slight skirmlsh IN when
Joaquin Aguero's party were defeated. Over
hhis slight advantage, the only one yet gained
on that side, the Government papers make as
much ado as if it settled the whole question,
whereas they do not refer at all to the actions
in which the insurgents obtained the victory.
The towns that have pronounced so tar are
Tunas, Holquin, Boyamo, Baracoa, Guannitas,
Guanaiav, and Pinar del Rio. The latter
place is the chief town in the Vuelta de Abajo,
and we have no doubt that that whole section
of the island is now in revolt.
The particulars of the engagement between
the patriots and Gen. Cont are these: The
fight was with a body of men sent from Ha-
vana in a steamboat, as a reinforcement to the
garrison at Nueyitas, under the command of
Brig. Gen. Cont. The Patriots observing,
from their lookout on the mountain, the ap-
proach of the Royalists, FASTENED to the land
inc and attacked them Immediately on their
Decentralization. After a short battle, in which
several were killed and wounded on both sides,
some of the Spanish officers, including the
commander Of the detachment, Gen. Cont,
were taken prisoners by the Patriots; the ba-
lance of the party effected their escape preclpi-
lately in the steamert that brought them.
Another account says that the Spaniards lost
800 men in killed, wounded and drowned.
After this brilliant affair, so credltable and
encouraging to the Patriots, they retired to the
mountains belonging to the range of Cubitos,
which lie between Puerto Principe and Nueyi-
tas, where they can fortify themselves with IA
cility, and thence open direct Communication
with the northern coast, from which direction
they expect to receive reinforcements, arms and
ammunition, the latter Of which they are great
ly in need of.
In the first encounter with the Patriots, the
one near Coscorro, the Government troops sue
ceeded in cutting off a few prisoners, among
them Aguero, the leader whom they threaten
ed to shoot.
Learning this, the Patriots in the noun
tains of Cubitos notified the Government oth-
GERS that, in case of the execution of their CON-
mander, they would at once retaliate, by put
ting to death the nine officers whom they had
made iprisoners at Nuevitas.
The Patriot Army has two banners-one
white one, bearing the words "Ej ercito Liber-
tabor" regiment of Liberators,) the other is
the same as that which Gen. Lopez unfurled
at Cardenas.
1t is ascertained that many of the Spanish
troops in The Eastern Department have joined
the insurgents. 1t is stated that the colonel
of a regiment stationed near Principe had in
formed he au'lhori!ies at Havana that he had
but a fragment OF his regiment left. The re-
giment of Leon, stationed at or near Matan-
Zas, had become so subordinate that the Off
GERS had advised the Government that the men
could not be depended on, and the regiment
had to be removed to some other part Of the
island. The authorities have stopped all sealed
communications between different parts of the
1SldIiu olUGc utIt lOliI HIST, 61tiA III utASo
tons have to 60 through the mails open, un-
less written by some official. Views and feel
ings are now expressed in Havana, that would
have been attempted a few weeks since,
and a meeting of the Habaneros favorable to
independence was to have been held a few
days before the sailing of the Isabel, but, the
place of meeting having become known to the
Government, it was taken possession OF by a
force, and thereby frustrated. If the
meet with success in the interior, it is
expected that an insurrection will take place in
Havana Immediately.
Al elderly gentleman, who has been a PLAN
ter for some years on the island, and who pos
sugar estate valued at one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, sold out for one
hundred thousand, and came in the Isabel.
The Charleston Courier is also informed, by
passengers, that two agents Of the Cuban au-
have arrived in the Isabel, to watch
the movements of the friends of Cuba in this
The Liberatiag Army, it is said, is under the
command of four American officers, who are
ready to sustain the Provisional Government,
reinstated At Tunas, in the Eastern De-
partment of the island, adjacent to the Central
in which is Puerto Principe. 1t
was likewise expected that in the course of a
days (say ten a revolution would break
out in Havana; for whichpurpose, it is said, the
disaffected have already sne regiment engaged
to cooperate with them, and that another viii
over to them on it's commander being
paid 800 doubloons, equivalent to about $500
Of our currency, he having pledged his word
as a military officer to that effect.
The Charleston Courier has been informed
by a gentleman, whose sources If information
relative to Cuban affairs are generally most re-
that many of the towns in Cuba are in
arms-the present force amounting to about
i've thousand effective men.
The Government has sent two thousand
from Havana to Puerto Principe, the
ofthe affair at Najaza having greatly tx
,ited the fears of the Captain General for the