The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-09

IN Oh couFSc inr ppicy VI lne fuief5 ot ''o 'S'aH
If TO suppress all facts which might tend to excit
% the sympatbisers in the United States, and fro
the strict surveillance which is kept it is an cas-
i matter to stop all news unfayorabe TO th
o powers that be.
n In this task, the Cuban authorities have foun
r some very jealous allies in the United States
q with whom it seems to be labor of love. Th
d most busy and busting of these is the Iateiti
J. gencer, of this city, which has actually been gal
vanzed into some spasmodic exhibitions of vi
tally, by its dread of the disorganizing tenden
} ces of the Cuban movement, and its warm sym
Q patty with the loyal subjects of Spain. This
eagerness with which it chronicles, and the de
light with which it chuckles over every contra
dicton to the prevailing rumors, must earn fol
, it the most distinguished consideration" of the
Spanish Court, whose interests it is so strenu
ously protecting.
For our own part, we do not believe that the
whole truth in relation to this movement has
yet been permitted to transpre; but from the
little that has leaked out, it would seem that
the affair is not the farce which the Cuban au
thorties and their allies here would represent it.
We have been allowed to see but one side oil
the picture thus far, and while the outlets to in
telligence remain in hostile hands, can expect to
see no other. Any admissions on their part OF
the existence of serious disturbance, would
be an invitation for the descent of thousands of
sympathsers on the island, who would soon de-
eide the struggle. Hence the policy and neces-
sty of their declarations of the restoration of
quiet.
The Georga's news, so anxiously expected,
seems to amount to very little and that inde6-
mite. The best summary of it we find in the
New York Post 1t contains only the substance
of our yesterdays despatch, but we subjoin it,
that our readers may extract from it what infor-
nation they can. 1t will be seen that the intel
ligence is all derived from the BY Authority
sources
LATER FROM CuBA.-Great Ercitement--7 TIE
Government Account Of the Msurrection The
mail steamship Georgia, Lieutenant Porter, from
Cnagres and Havana, arrived early this morning.
having left the former port on the 9th ult and
the latter on the I'd inst. She brings two hun
dred and fifty passengers.
The Havana papers contain no illusions to
the insurrection, except the official accounts in
the bulletins of the government, and these rep
resent the insurgents as hiding themselves in the
forests or captured and the country as com
pletely pacified
One of these official COMMUNICATIONS is from
the commandant- general of the Centre, dated
the Goth of July, in which he relates the capture
of seven of the principal leaders of the revolt on
the oath, by a company of cavalry after a short
engagement, at a rancho not far from Nue.
vtas. Among them were Joaquin Aguero
Aguero and Jose Tomas Betancont, who at
tempted to escape after their companions had
surrendered; they were overtaken by the horse
men, however and secured. The commandant-
general of the Centre, Morales de Rada, con-
graduates the governor that this event ter
inmates the pacifcation of the country. He
commends in high terms the resolution and per-
severance shown by the column who captured
| the chief of the insurrection, Aguero, after a
long pursuit in various directions by night and
day.
AT Cienfuegos, party of the patriots, closely
pressed, had left the horses they rode, and sought
re fnge in forest which the government troops
had surrounded, so that escape was impossible.
The bulletin of the goth of July, in which this is
announced, closes the account with saying that
tranquility is now perfectly secured in that part
of Cuba, as in every other quarter of the Island
A letter from Puer o Principe, dated July 90,
and published in the Havana Diario d.. la Ma
rina of the 30th of July, says: "The city ap-
pears like an hospital. There is scarcely house
in which there is not some member of the family
confined to his bed and in some all are sick,
without even a domestic TO attend them, and
their friends cannot supply them with servants,
since they are in the same condition themselves.
Happily the epidemic ia not fatal, especially in
the case of adults, and runs its course rapidly"
The utmost excitement prevails in Cuba with
regard to the Instructions, &c. The report of
the meeting in New O leans, on the reception of
the news of an instruction in the interior of the
Island, has caused the greatest excitement; fresh
outbreaks are anticipated in all quarters.
The government received some important
news the night the Georgia arrived, which re-
suited in the sailing of all the fleet of war vessels
in port, with the exception of the steamer Pr
zarro. This was effected in the most quiet man.
ner possible in the night of the lst inst 1t was
rumored that an armed force was gathering on
the Florida reefs, and that part of the feet had
been despatched in that quarter. Expresses
were arriving every hour from the interior, but
the officials kept every thing so quiet that it was
impossible to learn the particulars of events
The government paper had been printed two
days. and is said to have contained some exciting
news from the interior--but It's issue was pro-
hibited until after the sailing of the American
steamers. Several executions have taken place, |
and but for the refusal of one of the regiments
to fire on the condemned, there would have been
many more.
Pardon has been promised to all the Insured
tionists who lay down their arms, with the ex- !
ception of the leaders, who will be executed or
sent to Spain. Those who had raised the stand |
ard of liberty, consisted Of small parties, acting
without concert, and were easily put down by
the troops 1t is said but few lives were spared |
among those found with arms in their hands, as
they were killed on the spot.
Government feels some anxiety with regard |
to the loyalty of the troops, as many regiments
are supposed to be disaffectcd Many of the
troops lately arrived from Spain have died from
exposure, being unable to stand the climate.
Ifthe troops continued faithful, there was no
apprehension of any effectual movement among
the islanders themselves, but the ewes of the