Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-09-05
THE LATEST NEWS FROM CUBA.

We copy in another place an Extra issued
by one of the Savannah papers on the arrival
of the schr. Merchant there, protesting to give
the news brought by that vessel from Havana
Below we copy letters from the first Mercan.
tile houses in Havana to their correspondents
in this city, broughtby the same schr. Merchant
The contrast between the flaming glory OF nc
ton and delnsion IN the one, and the cold,
dark reality of the other, is sufficiently startling
ALI the letters received here, we understand,
are of the same tenor as those we copy, and
there is no doubt that they present the case as
it substantially is. Gen. Lopez, it is clear, re.
ceived no aid or countenance from the Cubans;
has gained no victories, and had no other sue
cess than that of saving his force from being
utterly destroyed in the first encounter. The
sad business caunot last much longer, and it is
high time that the system of false Intelligence,
by which the country has been fevered, should
be nut an end to- Its object, Of course, has
been to encourage additional bands to throw
themselves to Cuba, but there is hardly pos
sibility of their getting there soon enough, or in
such condition of organization and efficiency,
rs to afford any chance of success. Wild
with false hopes, they rush on in confusion,
and the end must be destruction.
We have alluded to the system Of false in
telligence. We know not who are the parties
to it, and charge no one with a crime that is to
result probably, in the deaths Of hundreds of
Young men, victims Of the cruel decisions. Let
us refer to few Of the items of this false intel
ligence. The whole country was shocked
and fevered with horrible accounts Of the mu
tilation OF the bodies of the first prisoners cap
tured. 1t has been since proved that no such
,ndignaties were offered; that the prisoners
were simply shot, and their bodies buried ac.
cording to the manner Of the country. Those
that were claimed by their friends were given
up, and the personal effects of the dead were
sent to their friends in New Orleans.
Soon after, telegraphic despatch was sent
to New York, announcing that Gen. Gonzalez
had landed in Cuba with renforcements for
Lopez. The news purported to come from
the Captain OF the vessel which landed him. At
that very time Gen. Gonzalez was quietly walk
ing about in Charleston.
We need not 60 over the ground Of Gen.
Lopez's victories, which have now vanished
like mirage. But among the latest items OF
news we find the statement that the Spanish
steamship Pizarro was still aground. and no hope
ofgetting her off; whereas, the Cincinnati at
New Orleans reports that she passed the Plzar-
70 at sea, on her course from Havana. There
was another professed piece of news by the
Merchant, that deserves to be noticed. 1t was
said, by way fprovng the state of consterna-
ton existing in Havana, that the vessel was not
allowed to land her cargo, or take any return
freight The fact is that the Merchant was
employed simply to carry the mails, in place OF
the Isabel. She had no cargo, but stone bal
last, and her orders were to wait only for the
exchange of mails A merchant of this city has
letters from bis correspondent in Havana, sta
ting that two of his vessels were unloading their
cargoes, and would take in their return freghts
as soon as ready. There is believed to be no
obstruction to trade, in consequence of the in
vasion of Lopez
We have been led to these remarks, because
we think the attempts to conquer Cuba by tel.
egraphic fabrications have gone far enough. Ii
would seem indeed to be plain that this was the
way to insure defeat instead of victory. The
idea of carving on military operations under