Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-30
HAVANA, AuouSt l6, 1851.

| In the East it is said that Gen. Manzana has
been obliged to return to Santiago, abandon
! ing the field to the enemy Gen. Lemory was
confined to Principe and its vicinity, the Patr-
OTIS, it is said, having entire possession of the
| country.
The Trinidad affair has been quashed, and
three of the insurgents, named Armente-
ros, Hernandez and another, have been ordered
| to be shot.
| On the 18th instant, the steamship Pampero
appeared off this port, and was signaled from
| the Moro On the same afternoon, Lopez
| took two pilots out of the schooner Cecilia,
and that night they brought the schooner in,
and made her fast to the first buoy in this har-
Dor, Immediately under the guns Of the Moro
Castle At midnight the expedtionists land
ed at MoriIlos, twelve miles west of Bahia
Honda, and took possession of the town OF
Las Posaz That night the frigate Esperanza
sent boat to Mariel, with an express for Ha-
vana, stating that she had seen suspicious
steamer steering west.
The war steamer Pizarro left here at o.
clock on the morning OF the 18th, with 500
men, and having schooner in tow, containing
sixty horses. The merchant steamers Habane-
70 and Almendares were also sent down with
reinforcements. Gen. Emma was in command
of these troops. They landed at Bahia Honda
at 10 o'clock that night. At O'Clock the next
day, 13thO the Spanish troops attacked the
Patriots at San Miguel, small town between
Bahia Honda and Las Pozas. The engage
ment lasted about ten minutes, when the Span
ards retreated, leaving 63 dead upon the field,
and having l67 wounded.
The steamer Pizarro got ashore in Bahia
Honda and has not yet got OFT. 1t Is feared
here that Lopez will take her.
On the night of the 18th the Habanero re-
turned asking for more troops and artillery.
At 1 o'clock the same day, the Almendares re-
turned for more troops. All of these were
sent as required.
On the l4tb, the Almendares again returned,
with urgent demands for more artillery, as the
Spanish troops had refused to attack the Pat
riots.
Last night the Habanero came in with fifty
prisoners, taken in launches, as they were
coming east to operate on this side Of Bahia
Honda. Lopez had advanced by land to San
Diego de Nuncz, thus cutting of the retreat of
the Spanish troops. The Government report
that two landings have taken place, but do not
say where the other is. Large numbers of the
Creoles have joined the Patriots, and it is said
that the country people carry their bloodhounds
with them and insist upon using them against
the troops.
Rising have taken place at Pinar del Rio
and Mantua. One hundred men left San An
tonic to join Lopez. From Havana people
are leaving hourly to join him, and it is cacu-
lated that 500 have left already. Fifty of
these, on foot, were taken prisoners on the
road.
There are but TOO troops left in Havana.
Should Gen. Emma be destroyed, no army
could again be collected to meet Lopez, in
consequence OF the scattered state of the
troops. Emma has about 1000 men under his
command.
A court-martial was held this morning, on
board the frigate Esperanza, on the fifty prison.
ers brought in by the Habanero. Report says
that the officers, two surgeons and every fifth
man are to be shot.
The above is all that have been able to
gather up to-day, and, as you will perceive, it
strongly favors the cause Of the Patriots.
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