The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-08-28


shores Such daring act of audacity, beard
ing as it we're, the lion in his den, IS most eA-
traordinary.
1t appears that, close into the entrance o1 thiS
harbor, Lopez fell in with schooner from
which he took out the captain and mate 10
serve him as pilots on the coast of Bahia Honda
the navigation of which is very intricate They
arrived off Bahia Honda, about r. NJ, "hen
they Immediately commenced making signals TO
the shore by means of rockets, Sc, which pro-
badly had been previously agreed upon between
the liberatOrs and those on shore. Gen Lopez
did not effect landing with his men until A.
NJ; but the debarkation was done IN so master
ly a style, that before sunrise he had not only
landed his men, with all their munitions Of war,
but was on his march to Las Posas, a town q
few miles distant from the coast, where he i'm
mediately commenced intrenching himself.
In the meanwhile, here, in Havana, reigned
the greatest excitement. The Pizarro, laden
with troops, under the command of General
Emma, (who is next in command to the Captain
General, and with him the Admiral, left about
A. NJ. for Bahia Honda, one thousand men
having previously been sent by the railway
cars.
1t must be borne in mind, that such was the
state of confusion and alarm into which the GO
vernment thrown, that they had no distinct
idea as to whether Bahia Honda or Mariel were
the points to which the iberators had come
However, the following morning, We in
formed that General Emma had come up with
the pirates they termed by the govern
ment, and had fought with them at Las Posas,
III which he regrets the loss Of some of his men
and others wounded.
In this engagement the Spaniards were ccm-
manded by General Emma in person, who had his
horse shot from under him; Colonel Radal and
seven officers, and about seyenty-eight men
were killed
So unerring and deadly was the fire of the
liberators that General Emma three times
repulsed with loss. At this moment the Lieu
tenant Governor of Mariel, Colonel Gurrea,
came up, with about two hundred men more,
when the Colonel received a shot through his
leg, and his men such check, that General
Emma (as he states in his official communication
to the Captain General, dated half-pa three
clock on the 14th, saw the uselessness of at
without more artillery, as it would be only ex-
posing his men to certain death, without any
result; consequently he demanded further rein
forcements. Accordingly, two steamers, the
and the Almendares, left that day
with more troops, to the number of fourteen
hundred, so that according to their own account
with those who have been concentrating from
the other districts, they have got upwards OF
s, 900 men, including cavalry, and up till this
moment they have made only three captives,
who, they say in the official bulletin, they
put 10 death. Two of these persons
were sailors belonging to the steamer Pampero,
who, after landing Lopez, had gone into tay
ern and got drunk; the other poor fellow was
found in a hut, unable to move, from 4 fracture
he received when landing.
On the 18th, ii was known that the liberators,
who have been Joined in large numbers by the
people of the country, made move in the di
rection of Diego de Nunez, and Cabanas, with
the intention of possessing themselves of the
fort at the latter place, when, unfortunately,
some forty or fifty of them, who had, in the
most daring manner, endeavored to get there by
sea in four launches, with the intention of ia
king the Spaniards in the fort by surprise, were
themselves, after most desperate resistance,
captured by the Spanish Admiral who, with his
steamer and an immense number of men, sue
eeeded in taking them, after a fight of four
hours
1t is computed that there were no less than
829 soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture
IF these fifty brave Americans.
Elated with his success, Admiral BustiIlos !
FASTENED with his prize to Havana, where he
arrived this morning at 1.3O A. VI.
Of the fifty or ffty-two who were to have been
shot this morning at the Fort Atares, forty-six
we're of the flower of the Mississippi yeomanry.
THE EXECUTIoN.-One of the most horrible
executions ever witnessed in civilized world |
has taken place near Havana
Below will be found list of fifty men who |
we're shot on the public road in Havana on
Saturday morning, Aug. 10th, at fifteen minutes
past eleven o'clock
At the least calculation there were at least
wenty thousand spectators present to witness
he brutal, bloody scene.
The men were taken off a place called Bahia
Honda, forty miles west of Havana, by the
steamer Haberno. They were in four boats,
and report says they were steering
or New Orleans.
They were brought to Havana by the Haber-
10, on Saturday morning, at o'clock, A. NJ, |
IN the 10th of August and placed on board |
spanish frigate laying in port.