The southern press., 1851-09-24
LATE FROM HAVANA.


LATE FROM HAVANA.
Departure of The Prisoners for Spain-More
Americans Arrested Statements of the Par
donsd Patriots, Kelly and Summers, dc.
BY the mail schooner William & John, Cap.
tain Parker, arrived at Savannah, adviccs from
Havana to the 18th instant have been received
Capt Parker states that 100 Of Lopez's m en-
were put on board transport bouni for Spain
On the 9TH instant, the day he sailed, and the
ship got under way and followed him to sea-
Capt p. says that four were liberated, and that
one was Ar. Chapman, of Charleston, This,
We presume, is the Dir. Cantley, previously re-
ported
Capt Parker, of the William g. John, has
been engaged in the IIlvana trade abon thirteen
years, and he says h. never saw the city more
quiet and orderly than at the present time, and
he found all the officials with whom he came in
contract unusually polite; and he expressed it
as his opinion that Americans were never treated
with more respect than now.
The brig Palo Alto, Capt. Wood, from
Mariel, (Cuba,) bound to Baltimore, put into
Savannah, on Wednesday last. as heretofose an.
nounced, in distress. She left Marel on the
9th instant
CaIt. Wood reports that few days before
he left Mariel, some 20 or 25 more prisoners
connected with the Cuba expedition, had been
captured in that neighborhood, whom he saw in
charge of the Spanish officers. Trey were
chiefly Americans and Experimentation of
them being Spaniards, one of whom was a ser.
geant, and formerly belonged 10 the Spanish
army, and had joined Gen. Lopez during the
Cardenss attack, and came 10 the United States
with him. He returned with Gen. l.. 10 Bahia
Honda and has now been re-captured snd sent
TO Havana.
Mariel is quiet, but the Spanish officers are in
solent 10 Americans, and extort money from them
whenever an opportunity occurs
The New Orleans Picayune, Of the 18th, has
also dates from Havana to the 9th, by the brig
Union:
We perceive that, peace having been restored,
the captain general is busy granting brevets and
decorations TO those officers and soldiers who
distinguished themselves in the actions ut Las
Posas Carambola and Rosario, and in the pur.
suit OF the insurgents under Aguero and Armen-
teros. The Marin Isabel Louisa has been
granted 10 Castancda and fifteen Others, for hsv.
ing accomplished the capture Of Gen Lopez.
We find the following names of prisoners in
addition 10 those already published:
Francis c. Mahan, Kentucky; John Boswell,
Baltimore; George fIolsupi, Pennsylvania;
James IIearcy, New Orleans; Thos. Mcneil,
North Carolina; John Robinson, England
WIN. Wilson, New Orleans; Thomss Daily,
New Orleans; James Wilson, New Orleans
Henry Sagle, England; WIN. Herl, New Or.
leans; James u. Faquir, Ohio; Lucas Scully,
| New Orleans,
The 7. ne Delta publishes the statements Of
Mr.. III. G. Summers, one Of the pardoRed Am.
orleans, which agrees, in the main, with that Of
Mr.. Van vechten, which we published last W elk,
and shows that there was no good feeling be.
tween the American and the Cuban part OF the
expedition. In describing the skirmish, after
the heavy rain, WHICH wet all their ammunition,
and their inability 10 defend themselves, he
says
Gen. Lopez cried out 10 the Cuban company
10 leave the field Of battle, and that the Amer.
cans would hold the position. The General
fed with the Cubans up the monntains-the
Americans re.renting by d. grees until ihey had
rejoned him.--Next morning the remainder oI
the men left the woods and marched towards
San Cristobal. Being fired on by some cayelry
thew dispersed in every direction"
lie also remarks
"The Psmpero stopped only at Key West
and nothing was taken on board but champagne
/ dUu ONlitI NdDil bbOTtS. ptD. lgDptL OtCdmt
intoxicated at Key West, and continued in thai
condition until they came In sight Of the Moro
No discipline was established, and during til,
period there was no one TO direct affairs"
| lie, however, adds that General Lopez be.
hsved with great bravery on all occasions.
| The Pieayune has also a state nent from Capt
J. A. Kellv. which differs but little from that oil
Mr.. Van vechten's. We make ths following
extracts: ......
! ut was deemed advisable 10 retire 10 the
rTountaiHs. and Lopez gave an order TO that ef
feet. Some twenty or thirty men left the MAR
body and made for the woods. Some of thu
others who remained with Lopez threw ava,
tbeir guns.
! BY the time they reached the mountains, 4
commenced raining, and rained furiously FOL
about forty. eight lOurs. This completely ruin
ed their remaining guns, and all their ammuni
ton, besides preventing them from making Ere,
and getting anything 10 eat. When il cleared of
they killed and ate Gen. Lopez's horse, The las
food they had. A consultation Of officers wa
now had, and they demanded that Gen. Lopez
should take them at orce to where the patrio
forces he had spoken Of were stationed, or Al
east reach the coast, where they might embark
Tor Jamaica or Yucatan. Lopez consented u
their demand, and they started for the patriot
lnndezgous 10 the South The guide, however