The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-09-03

rockets, fic., which probably had been pre-
uiously agreed upon between the Eberators
and those on shore. Gen. Lopez did not az
feet alanding with his men until A. NJ; but
the debarkation was done in so mastery a
style, that before sunrise he had not only
landed his men, with all their munitions OF
war, bu: was on his march to Las POsas a
town few miles distant from the coast,
where he Immediately commenced intrench-
ing himself.
In the meanwhile, here in HAVANA, reign
ed the greatest excitement. The Pizarro,
laden with troops, under the command OF
Gen. Emma, who is next in command to
Captain General and with him the Admi-
raj, left about A. NJ, for Bahia Honda, one
thousand men having been previously sent
by the railway cars.
1t must be borne in mind, that such was
the stote Of confusion and alarm into which
the government were thrown, that they had
no distinct idea as to whether Bahia Honda
or Mariel were the points to which the lib
orators had come However, the following
morning, we are informed that Geneaal Emma
had come up with the ''pirates," as they are
termed by the government, and had fought
with them at Las Posas, in which he regrets
the loss fsome of his men and others woun-
ded.
Accordingly, two steamers, the Habanero
and the Almendares, left that day with more
troops, to the number of 400, so that ac-
cording to theirown account, with those who
have been concentrating from the other dis
tricts, they have got upwards Of 5000 men,
including cavalry and up to this moment they
have only made three captives, who, as they
say in the official bulletin, they instantly put
to death. Two of these persons were sailors
belonging to the steamer Pampero, who, af-
ter landing Lopez, had gone into tavern
and got drunk; the otherpoor fellow wos found
in hut, unable to move. from fracture he
received when landing.
On the 9th, it was known that the liber
ators, who have been joined in large num-
bers by the people of the country, made a
move in the direction of Diego de Nuenz and
Cabanas, with the intention of possessing
themselves of the fort at the latter place
when unfortunately, some forty or fifty o
them, who had in the most daring manner.
endeavored to get there by sea in four laun
ches, with the intention of taking the Span
iards in the fort by surprise, were themselve
after most desperate resistance, captured
by the Spanish Admiral, who, with his stea
mer, and an immense number of men, sue
ceeded in taking them, after fight of fou
hours.
In this engagement the Spaniards wer'
commanded by General Emma in person, wht
: had his horse shot from under him; Col. Ra
dal and seven officers and about seventy
l eight men were killed.
!, So unerring and deadly was the fire o.
1 the brave liberators that Gcnerel Emma wa.
three times rcpulsed with loss. At this mo
ment the Lieutenant Governor of Mariel
u Colonel Gurrea, came up with about twt
: hundred men more, when the Col received
: a shot through his leg, and his men such
: check, that General Emma (as he states il
his official communication to the Captain
General, dated half past three on the 14th,
u saw the uselessness of attempting any thin!
e further against the pirates without more dr.
= tillery, as it would be only exposing hi
: men to certain death, without any result
consequently he demanded further reinforce
n ments.
It 1t is computed that there were no les
n than 329 soldiers and sailors engaged in thu
n capture Of these brave fifty Americans.
r Elated with his success, Admiral Bustil
a los FASTENED with his prize to Havana, wher,
/, he arrived this morning at l J o'clock A. M
OF the fifty or iftyt who were to have
l. been shot this morning at the Fort Atares
= forty-six were of the flower of the Missssip
,fIpi yeomanry.
e All the troops in and about Havan
were formed in a square on the grounC
| where this wholesale butchery was to tak'
G place. But strange to say, that, notwith
is standing all the great preparations made 70
: this spectacle, up to this moment 10 A. M
n it has not been put into execution, and tn
e troops have received orders to retire to thei
II barracks
n One handsome, noble looking fellow, fror
if New Orleans, among the captured, fror
is who these wretches attempted to obtain hi
,e declaration, in the hope of getting him t
~ impllcate others, desired them, in the mos
G, peremptory manner, not to interrogate him
Z that he was not an informer, that the fortune
A. Of war had placed him in their power, AM
,e that their blood thirsty characters wa
10 known to the world, but that he had til
ID satisfaction of knowing that every drop
American blood shed by them would ca
r, down upon them the vengence of the Who'll
to American nation, and that it would be rt
" paid to them hundred fold
y, Riot in New Orleans.