Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-09-17
The Cuba Tragedy.

"a L. That the bodies of the prisoners sht
to at Havana with Crittenden and Kerr wei
not mutilated nor anywise maltrcated, an
;, the story that they had been was fabricate
to excite Indignation and procure reinforc,
ments in this country;
,. That the invaders achieved no impoI
tant success at any time, beyond the KILN
! OF Gen. Emma and the consequent repuls
r Of the detachment led by him;
3 That they killed no 1000, !, 900, no
even 200 of the Spaniards;
4. That they at no time were able to ac
on the offensive, but fought for their live
from the first, and were at length surprised
and utterly routed;
.. That, though they were landed in th
very quarter Of Cuba where Lopez wa
most likely to obtain aid, yet they received
none Of any kind, and were not Joined b,
single corporal's guard from the hour O
their setting foot on the soil of Cuba;
6. That the Creoles, or natives of Cuba
so far from af1ording them such aid as even
towards friendly to them Mi ght safely have
done, evinced Il most active and deadly
hostility throughout to the invaders and
their cause. We can not doubt that they
furnished the information which led to the
surprise and route of Lopez; we know that
they finally deceived, betrayed, bound and
delivered him to Concha.
These things should sink deeply into
the National mind They should be re-
membered whenever lying cmissarics assert
that Cuba is ready to revolt on the strength
of the sly whispers of dsatfection from
few exiles or grumblers. The Cuban Gre
oles are of Spanish blood and fath-they
have the pride Of that race, and its antipa-
thies to Foreign domination; they may
sometimes murmur, at their Colonial condi-
ton, but they are not prepared to see the
National flag under which they have thus
far lived tr;silcd in the dust before the con-
quering march of ofadventurers of alien blood
and hostile creed He who socks hence
forth to get up armed expeditions for the
conquest Of Cuba is luring brave and unin-
formed men TO certain destruction. Let
him be marked
We hope it is true that the lives of
the remaining prisoners are TO be spared.
We trust that the good offices of our Gov
ernment may in time be successfully inter
posed to favor their liberation But to this
end the shameful outragcs at New Orleans
on Spanish property and the Spanish Hag
must first be amply atoned f,r. " y
Trijune.
STATEMENT OF TIE pRISONTRs.
Washington, Sept. 9.-The Il public Of
to-day publishes a despatch from tommau-
ie' Platt, Of the u.S.-'oop-of-war Albany,
detailing an interview that he hal with the
American prisoners at Hovana.
He says he told them, before receiving
any communication from them, that they
were in fall possession of the Spanish
government, and that nothing could be
done for them, but that anything they
might say would be forwarded to his
Capt. james \. Kelly, of New Orleans,
acted as spokesman in the presence of the
others. The number Of prisoners is 1875.
His statement is almost the same as that
of another prisoner, published in the Spa
nish accounts. He says they had five
battles, but he could not tell how many Of
their number were killed. They brought
with them to Cuba $4,000 cartridges, and
more. /
They soon found they had been deceived,
and became anxious to return to the United .
States. The country people of Cuba gen
orally fed at their approach, and none
joined them. At length, worn out with
hunger and fatigue, they threw away their
arms and ammunition, week before their
capture.
Capt. Kelly stated that he had been
written to and prevailed upon by Mr.. ST.
CUR, of the N. o. Delta, to join the expedi-
ton, and he had persuaded many others.
He also says that when they were told
that Gen. Lopez was captured, cry Of
Joy ran through the crowd.
Col. w. Scott Haines, of Tennessee, ano-
ther of their leaders, was, they thought,
still in the mountains.
The Republic says that on the receipt of
these dispatches, copies of them were sent
by the President to the Spanish Minister,
to further enforce an appeal, already made,
that the Spanish government would deal
mercifully with the prisoners, in view of
the fact that they had been so grossly
deceived.
The PRIsoNERs.-A majority of them
it appears are under 25 years of age. We
could have predicted this from the fact of
their joining the expedition. Only the
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