American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-09
SUSPECTED TREAcHERY.-The N. Y. Heralt
Of yesterday evening says

ington last evening, it will be seen that very
important question is likely to grow out of the
late invasion Of Cuba by Lopez and his COM
panions, and that the President and the Cabinet
are now celebrating upon it. 1t is said that
Lopez was decoyed into landing at Bahia Honda,
by three Spanish officers, and that the Captain
General was the author of the stratagem. If
this is 80, baser and more despicable piece of
villany could not be imagined. It viii be re-
collected that it was rumored, some time since,
that Lopez depended on receiving the support
of some of the Spanish officers, and that he had
received letters from them, stating that they
were ready to join the invading forces immedi-
ately on their arrival. We trust the Govern
ment at Washington will institute rigid and
thorough investigation into this matter, and
that they win not cease their exertions to as
certain the truth, and the whole truth, concern
ing it, until they are satisfied one way or the
other. If our citizens were decoyed in this
manner, and then sacrificed, terrible vengeance
will be demanded by the American people. We
shall await further intelligence on this subject
with great solicitude." .s
The following is the despatch here referred
to-.
WASHINGTON, September 7, 1851.
The Cabinet were together to-day. under
stand that from the letters of three Spanish
officers to Lopez, he was decoyed to Bahia
Honda by o stratagem of General Concha, and
that this discovery involves grave national
question.
We are not officially advised; but, according
to report, this question has been under copsid
Grafton by the Cabinet to-day. The subject
creates considerable excitement here.
That treachery Of this description was prao-
tised we have no doubt; but the communics-
ton from Captain PLArr to the Navy Depart
ment, which we copy from the Washington
papers Of this morning, no doubt gave origin
to the above report.
HAYsAu.--of all the servile dogs in the
world, the tyrant proves the greatest. Haynau
is said to be a convert, but he must force him
self to place of power and thus show his be-
nightly. An article in the London Examiner
says:
"Om readers may recollect that Haynau,
when offered part OF the confiscated property
of Batthyany, prudently declined the gift, and
that the Austrian government afterwards re-
warded him with donation Of forty thousand
pounds. A large part Of this sum Haynau ex-
pended in the purchase Of an estate in Hungary,
in the very centre Of Magyarism, and he has
since actually taken up his residence there.
Every one likes to be well with his neighbors,
and Haynau spares no pains to make himself
popular. Among the peasantry he lavishes
money with no sparing hand, gives them eIor-
bitant wages, and pays their taxes for them
the peasant pocketing the money, and hating
the German none the less Among the nobility,
some Of whom we're condemned to death by his
courts martial, and then amnestied, he pays
sssiduous court, though he is met generally
with cold looks and closed doors.
"The tobacco monopoly which Austria is at
tempting to introduce has met with such siren
GUS opposition, that peasants who have grown
gray with the pipe in their mouths deny them
selves what year or two ago they would have
held not less necessary than meat and drink
and Haynau is az eager in this moral rebellion
as the best Magyar among them, swearing the
man is rogue who smokes Austrian tobacco
We win not tell our readers all the tales we
have heard Of this mans eccentricities; they
are so incredible that we fear we should lose
credit for the rest by repeating these. It 10,
however, certain that he speaks Of himself as
only the instrument (,osrkseug) Of the Austrian
government; that there is no country Of which
he thinks so highly as England; and that he
speaks Of that affair when was beaten in
London without the slightest rancor, declaring
that he does not consider it As any insult tc
himself, but as q demonstration against the
| Emperor Of Austria"