The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-25
Extract From the Gacsta de la Ha5ana of July 10th.
TRANSLATION.

MILITARY DEPARTMENT
The most excellent Governor and Captain Gene
raj has been pleased to order the publication in the
:" Gazette'' of summary of the dispatches he has
received from the most excellent Governor and
Commandant General of the Central Department,
relative to the appearance of two armed and
mounted parties within the jurisdiction of Puerto
Principe, one of which has crossed the boundaries
and passed over to the district of de las Tunas.
Under date of the 5th the Commandant General
says that. in consequence of information he has re-
ceived of a project for raising such parties, he
had taken proper measures to pursue them one
of them, about twenty strong, having been
followed, at nine O'Clock at night, to the plain
of Zuanamaqunia, by Don Manuel Peromin
go, officer of cavalry in the regiment of the
Queens Lancers No. 2, with his command, when
the insurgents were completely put to flight, throw
ing away, from that moment the arms and am
muntion with which they were provided and which
consisted Of two guns, one uble-barrel, brass
blunderbuss, two pistols, two long knives, seven
TASKS Of powder, a bag of balls, die mould for
casting balls, and pouch filed with cartridges.
They also apprehended d. Joaquin Aguero and
Sanchez, it being confidently known that, among
the party, there two individuals, named d.
Waldo and ID. John Arteaga, recently arrived from
the United States. Several papers taken from
the person of the aforesaid Aguero. Three horses,
belonging TO the same party, also seized. The
Commandant General remarks, in conclusion, that
at point of the Department under his charge was
any part taken in this revolutionary movement, all
the inhabitants continuing to be occupied with
their ordinary vocations and trades.
In another despatch, dated on the 9th, from the
city of Puerto Principe, at half past ten o'clock at
night, he encloses copy of a communication ad-
dressed TO him by the Lieutenant Governor, de las
TtnGs, dated the 9Th. The latter states that when
he apprEed by the Commandment General of
the existence of an armed party, he had already
been informed Of the fact by teamster, from whom
the same party had stolen victuals and other
effects, which he was carrying to various mer-
chants in that neghborhood that, happening
to be at his residence at early morn on the
same day = the 9Th he heard the tramping
Of horses and rustics, which was followed by
six or eight discharges of firearms, when about
twenty men passed at full gallop in front of his
very house. The Lieutenant Governor challenged
them, but they frightened that all they
d TO fire two volleys in the direction Of the
window, where that officer had shown himself,
while they pursued their flight towards the open
country, where they disappeared, without leaving
a trace Of tho course they had taken. The said
Lieutenant Governor remarks that, from the firing
Of the insurgents resulted the death Of horse,
and the wounding of two others; that such was
the state Of disorder in which they entered the viii
lage, that they abandoned both their arms, their
supplies, four horses, and portion Of their effects
two Of them being taken prisoners, one wounded,
and the other with disjointed wrist The Com
mandant General, in transmitting a copy of the
Aforesaid despatch, Gays that he has given orders