Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-29

1t is said she ran the boats down and then
picked up the men, but nothing positive can
be learnc rs no intercourse was allowed With
the prisoners, and the Government discloses
nothing but what answers its purpose.
Patriot Accounts OF the Capture
The Massacrcs and the Progress
of the Revolution.
The New York Herald of yesterday morn
ing publishes the following letter from their
Havana correspondence
HAVANA, August lG-4 ID P VI.
The fishfM Execution Of fifty Americans in
HuraAa Horrible Scenes.
am too much affected to write to you more
than to say that have this day been witness
to one of the most brutal acts of wanon i:ihu-
manity ever perpctrated in the annals Of lIisto-
ry. Not content, this government, in rcveag-
ing themselves in the death of these unfortun-
ate, ana perhaps, misguided men, and which it
may even be said, was brought upon themselves,
but these Spanish authorities deserve to be most
severely chastised for their exceedingly repre-
hensibIc conduct in permitting the desccration
as they have done, Of the sensrless clay OF our
brave countrymcn. This morning
Forty Americans, One Italian,
-Four Irish, One Pilii!Ippine Islander,
One Scotch. Two iiavaneroS, anu,
Two Germans, or Hungarians,
were shot ut ii o'clork--attcr which the troops
were ordered to retire, ana some hundreds o!
the very viiest rahble and negroes, hired for the
purpose. commenced stripping the dead bodies,
mutulatiug their limbs, lrarag out their eyes,
cutting off their noses and fingers, and some
of the poor fellows these wr.'tchcs brought
to tie city on sticks, and Iaraurd them
under the very walls oi' the palace. Oh, lae
very remembrance OF tie sight is irightiul.
/ myv,'r saw men and could scar.'civ have
supposed it possible conlIct themselves at
such ~ awful moment with Tic inrii!rdr these
men displayed under such trying ci:cumslan-
rcs. They were shot six al time, i. G., twelve
were brought TO tie place OF execution. six
made tn kncc down and receive the fire of the
soll."S, after which III. rcniaininy six were
mad, to walk round their dead comrades, and
kna>l opposite 70 them, when they also were
shot. After being stripped, and their bodies
mututitcd in the blrbaruus manner have dcs-
cribcI, they were shovrd, six or seven tog"th-
cr, bound rs they were, into Icarses, which
were .ed last year for cholera cases.
No cotiins were allowed them: and think
the mannrr they were put into the hcarscs was
equally as disgusting rs their other acts. he
heads of some were utmost dragging on the
groand, and it had more the appearance OF Il
slaughter cart Oh its way to market rom TIE
slaughter. r.houSc, than that Of hearsc convey
ing the dead bodies of human beings
\ finer looking set Of young mcn | never
saw they made not a single complaint not
murlncr, against their sentence, and daccn.
cy should have been shown tn their dead bo.
dies, in admiration for the heroism they dis
played when broug lit out for execution.
HAVANA, Ang. Ii, 1851.
The BiooAy D1y in Nloapa - The Execution
Of FViy Pairiis--1hc Con1nri of the
American CmMi - The Rising Of Mr Pro-
ple--7Ac Reported Successes Of The Mva-
dcrs, Sc,
The Lloodicst day of the Cuban Revolution
is fast drawing to its close, and the sun that is
now rapidly sinking in the west has Seen fifty
prisoners the greater part Of them yoang A.
mcricans- shot in cold blood, aud their uut.
ated remains torn aud dragged by Il savage
popuiacc, the outpourings Of Spain, the mule
of Europe.
THIS morning. about 3 o'clock, the steamer
IIaIancro arrived with fifty prisoners. Atll
o'clock, they were shot at The Foot Atarcs, in
the presence of an immense asscmblagc.
The saddest portion of the history which
have to relate is the indifference Of the Amer
lean Consul to their sad fate. This gentleman,
as You are aware, is Mr.. A. +. Owen, late rep.
rescntativc from Georgia in Congress, and
nominated by Mr.. Fillmore to replace Gen
Canphell the late Consul here. Mr. Owen
was called upon by an American gentleman
residing here, to see if he had made any effort
to see those Of his countrymen who were thus
inhnmanly to be shot; the Consul took the
ground That they had been dpclarcd omlams by
M. Fillmore and he should not interfere in
the matter. After some conversation he con-
cludcd that he would write to the Captain Cen
eral, which he did, requesting only an inter