North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-27

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&c. which probably had been previously agreed upon
between the liberators and those on shore. Gen.
| Lopez did not effect landing with his until
A. M. but the debarkation was done in mastery
a style, that before sunrise he had only landed
his men, with all their munitions of war; but on
his march to Las Posas, town a few miles distant
from the coast, where he Immediately commenced
! ntrenchng himself.
In the meanwhile, here in Havana, reigned the
greatest excitement. The Pizarro, laden with troops,
under the command of Gen. Emma, (who is next in
Admiral left about A. NJ, for Bahia Honda, one
thousand men having previously been sent by the rail-
way
it must be borne in mind that such was the state
| of confusion and alarm into which the government
were thrown, that they had no distinct idea as to
whether Bahia Honda Marel were the points to
which the liberators had come. However, the fol-
lowing morning, we are informed that General Emma
had come up with the pirates,'' they termed
by the government, and had fought.wth them at Las
Posas, in which he regrets the loss of some of his
men and others wounded.
Accordingly, two steamers, the Habanero and the
Almendares, lett that day with troops, to the
number of 400, that according to their own ac-
count with those who have been concentrating from
the other districts, they have got upwards of 5000
men, including calvary, and up TO this moment they
have only made three captves, who, they say in
the official bulletin, they instantly put to death. Two
of these persons sailors belonging to the steam
er Pampero, who after landing Lopez, had gone into
a tavern and got drunk; the other poor fellow was
found in hut, unable to move, from fracture he
; ceived when landing.
On the 18th, it known that the 2iberaors, who
have been joined in large numbers by the people of
the country, made move in the direction of Diego
de Nunez and Cabanas, with the intention of possess
sing themselves of the fort the latter place. when,
unfortunately, some forty or fifty of them, who had
in the most daring manner, endeavored to get there
by sea in four launches, with the intention of taking
the Spanards IN the fort by SURPRISE were themselves,
after most desperate resistance, captured by the
Spanish Admiral, who, with his steamer, and an i'm
mense number of men, succeeded in taking them, af
ter light Of four hours.
In this engagement the Spaniards were commanded
by General Emma in person, who had his horse shot
from under him; Col. Radal and seven officers and
about seventy-eght men were killed.
So unnerrng and deadly the fire of the brave
lberaors that General Emma three times repused
with loss. At this moment the Lieutenant Governor
of Mariel, Colonel Gurrea, came up, with about two
hundred men more, when the colonel received shot
through his leg, and his such check, that Gen.
Emma Gas he states in his official communication to
the Captain General, dated haf-past three o'clock
the llth,) the useessness Of attempting any
thing further against the pirates without artil
lery, it would be only exposing his to certain
death, without any result; consequently he demanded
further renforcements.
1t is computed that there less than 329
soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture of these
brave fifty Americans.
Ela:ed with his success, Admiral Bustillos has
tened with his prize TO Havana, where he arrived
this morning at l 80 A. Nj.
OF the fifty or ffty-two who were to nave been
shot this morning the Fort Antares, fortysx
of the flower of the Mississippi yeomanry.
All the troops in and about the Havana were formed
in square the ground where this wholesale BUTCH
cry was to take place.
One handsome, noble looking fellow. from New
Orleans among the captured ,fIom whom these wretch
endeavored to obtain his deca ration. in she hope
of getting him to imPcate others, desired them, in
the most peremptory manner, not to interrogate him.
that he MT informer, that the fortune of war
had placed him in their power and that their blood
thirsty character was known to the world but that
he had the satisfaction af knowing that every drop of
American blood shed by them would call down upon
them the vengeance of the whole American nation
and that it would be repaid to them hundred fold.
The United States steamer Vixen arrived at Pen
sacola on the both, bringing information that one
whole regiment of Spanish troops had gone to
the patriots and that the people rising in various
quarters. One General, Commodore Gene
raj Of Marines, with 200 soldiers killed, and
many were wounded, during the two engagements
with Lopez, in which he victorious. 1t is also
stated that the Spanish Pzarro is ashore
on keystone Island.
FERocIuUs AND BRUTAL ADJUSTMENTS. A cores
pendent of Of the London papers, writing from
Madrid, July Goth, gives this account of an enter
tainment, which the hg CHEST classes of Spain
present
Yesterday The Bull Circus of Aranjuez became
the theatre of spectacle worthier of the age of the
Romans of the empire, than of the 18th century
Several wild beasts were introduced successfully TO
ffghhtt in inc arena. The Queen-Moiher anu hef
family, together with the King anu Duke OF Rranza-
were present in the royal box. The first fight
between wolf and several dogs. The wolf
looked first excessively frightened, and made
eral leaps to clear the lofty iron grating which sur