The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-11

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Acknowledgements Of Bahia Honda. Mariei
San ChristobeI, and Pinar del Rio, the following
circular
The pirates who tried to invade our islant
have been defeated, for the greater part by the
ineessant attacks of the brave soldiers of oui
army, who had the good fortune 10 pursue them
and must add. that not less active and decided
auxiliary aid of all the loyal inhabitants of the
territory which they guarded. Considering, al
the sa ne time, the unanimous confession made
by all the prisoners, and those who have been
shot, that they had come from a foreign country
with the belief that the island called them, that
the army would make common cause with them,
and that the triumph would be as easy and sure
as had been promised by the traitor who com
manded them, considering, also, that on another
side, the directors of this foolish attempt have
excited the persons who were engaged in IT,,
and that the public vengeance has been satisfied
by the execution of several prisoners, and by
the bayonets of our soldiers; in fine, that the
time has arrived for using clemency, proclaim
the following resolutions:
/. All individuals who We're engaged in the
invading band, under the orders Of the traitor
Lopez will receive quarter if they present them
selves, or are taken by the troops OF Her Males
ty or by the companies of peasants, in the space
Of four days from the date that this document
will be published in the respective districts it
is well understood that, the four days elapsed
the general or'er to the army, of the Goth of
April last, which was executed till now, will
have again the same force and vigor.
2. TIE individual or individuals, appertaining
to said faction, who will deliver the chief lopez,
will be freed of all punishment, and will be
sent to this or their country, If he or they be
foreigner. JOSE DE La CoNcHA
HAVANA, Aug. "a.
His excellency the captain-genera has received
communication of the acknowledgement of
San Christobe, dated yesterday, in which it is
related, that two pirates, seized by the peasants
had been shot
Brigadier Rosales. in a notice of the same
date, says also that fifteen other pirates had been
shot on the same day Having learnt that the
principal force had returned to Aguacate, he d.
rected his march toward that point, after having
communicated with the column commanded by
Mata Ramos, in order to operate with him and
that he ordered the chief Lambra, with his force,
to watch the pirates, who would try to fly, and to
destroy them
The lieutenant governor of Bahia Honda an
nounced also to the captains general, under the
same date, that sixteen pirates, captured by the
peasants under the orders of the leutenantcolo-
mel, Antonio Marques Dominguez in the hills
of Aguacate, on the same day in which the Colo
mel Angel Elzalde defeated the pirates, had been
shot in the same part of the country.
HAVANA, Aug. a. PEDRO EsTEBAN.
His excellency the captain-general received
the following communication from the ieuten-
snt-governor of San Christobel
ExCELLENcY AT this moment, (12 o'clock, |
he lieutenant colonel Felix Sanchez arrived |
With the column under his command AS said |
o you this morning, this chief had the happi |
less to encounter and defeat the enemy The
letails of the action, which he gave to me ver-
,aly, are as follows At 5 O'clock in the even
ne, yesterday, f und the enemy at one league
rom Rosario, and | attacked them immediately.
1t this attack, which was at the point of the
ayonet, the enemy only discharged their arms
nd ran, on the right and on the left, along the
ugged soil, which they wanted to cross and,
n spite of the precipices, they threw themselves
n the middle of the hills, in order to escape the
estiny promised by the proclamation of your
xcellency The result of this day, according
o the said chief, has been the complete disper-
ion OF the banditti, who left on the field fifteen
ied, without counting those who took flight,
n order to escape the bayonets, and who fell in
he precipices. Some of them are hidden in the
fountains; but it is difficult for them to live
here, and the pursuits of the peasants, with the
neasures | have adopted, will very soon bring
nto our hands the forty pirates who are there
HAVANA, Aug. 25th. PEDRO EsTEBAS
ARMY OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA.
General Order Of The Army August 81, 1851,
in HIuana,
Most EXCELLENT SIR As before had TO in
orm you through Brevet Colonel Ramon Lago
be day before yesterday, at FIVE in the evening. !
'e began our march along the defiles of the
losadero. When we had proceeded about three {
illes beyond that point we came upon the buc :
aneers, under their leader, the traitor Lopez.
Notwithstanding the advantage of their position.
did not hesitate one instant to attack them, {
nd that with such impetuOsity that they only ,
ad time for first discharge of their arms. and r
lrowing away their muskets, in order more 8
lsily to avoid the bayonets of our troops they |
isbanded. The greater part of them were pre- j
piated on the left, while Others were killed on !
he side of the road others despatched them.
lives, sooner than to surrender to our troops. .
no were pursuing them most successfully. h
We continued following one group larger than 1
lie rest, in which, according TO the reports of q
yplorers, was the leader of the buccaneers 3
he anxiety to seize this one was so great 4
nong our men, that one moment ] had the
ope Of succeeding in 80 doing, but while we
ere descending the steep and rugged sides of
e Rosario, they suddenly disappeared. This,
ID the approach of night, which had already
gun to set in, induced me to bivouac in the o
aims of the Rosario. /
Before dawn, the explorers who accompanied :,
e to set out with view to discover the here. 3
'outs of the enemy, TO enable us to follow !,
EN- up as soon as we could discover the direc "
on they had taken. 1t was not TO be found !
'yond the Rosario, however so | returned to -
ok for it, and effectively. A footpatb, which =
e found bordering labyrinth of precipiccs =
I'd leading to the mouth of Arroyo Grande, ;,
as said to ave been the road followed by :,
ote whom we pursued. The difficulties of :,
10 path, however, were so numerous and 80 !,
eat that no one would undertake to follow il. "
uch less to guide troops along it, as in many =
ses The only mode Of crossing nbysses was by Z,
inging TO the branches of trees. On this :,
ate of things, continued securing the woods .
herein the fugitives had disappeared but they =
'ing so dense as to prevent any penetrating in =
them, proceeded to Herrera, wishing there
combine my movements with those of Colo :;
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