The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1851-08-27
IMPORTANT FROM CUBA.
CAPTURE OF FIFTY PATRIOTS.

Vo TcCciVeu last HlBHt uo NeW IOTk
papers Of yesterday morning, containing
the following details Of the news by the
Cherokee, the substance of which was
about coming to US by telegraph on Thurs
daynight when the wires ceased working
The Spanish steamer Habanero, while
cruising of. Bahia Honda, 40 miles west
of Havana. captured party OF fifty patrl-
ois, who were in four boats and unarmed.
and were supposed to be steering for New
Orleans
They were brought TO Havana by the
Habanero on the 9th, at o'clock a. M,
placed on board Spanish frigate lying in
port, and were executed at l5 minutes
past II in the morning. They were shot
on the public road to Havana. at the
least calculation in the presence Of 10000
spectators. Alter they were shot they
were dragged by the feet by negroes, and
then left to the mob, who commenced strip
ping them Of their clothes and carrying
them on sticks through the streets. yelling
like demons jnst escaped from the bottom
less pit, invoking their vengeance OH they
knew not what.
Many ofihe passengers Of the Cherokee,
who were on the spot of the execution,
were pointed at with sneer of contempt,
and many Of them were stopped in the
streets and insulted, the Spaniards telling
them "they we're one and the same party
that they were Americans, and ere long
would be in the same situation"
An American cannot appear in the
streets without being most shamefuy in.
suited. and it is dangerous for any oil them
to walk out at night.
RUMORED'DEFEAT OF LOPEZ.
We learn from gentleman, passenger
in the Cherokee, that report was circu-
lating in Havana. a few hours before her
sailing, TO the effect that Lopez had been
attacked by bodies OF Spanish troops, and
after bloody and hard fought battle had
been totally routed. Lopez and few fol-
lowers had escaped to the mountains. and
twas supposed that the party executed at
Havana got separated from their compan
ions and took refuge in boats.
There is, however. no reliable informa-
ton of these facts. and they may be only
reports set on foot by the Spanish aulhori.
ties to deceive.
The New York Herald publishes the fol.
lowing letter from their Havana correspon-
dent:
HAVANA, Aug l6-4kP P. M.
am too much affected to write 10 you
more than to say that have this day been
witness TO one of the most brutal acts Of
wanton inhumanity ever perpetrated IN the
ANIMALS Of history. Not content this gov
ernment, in revenging themselves in the
death Of these unfortunate. and perhaps.
misguided men, and which. it may even
be said, was brought upon themselves, but
these Spanish authorities deserve TO be
most severely chastised for their exceed
ingly reprehensible conduct in permitting
the desecration. as they have done, of the
senseless clay Of our brave countrymen.
This morning
40 Americans, Italian,
Irish, ! Philippine Islander
Scotch, Ilavaneros, and
2 Germans, or Hungarians,
were shot at / o'clock-aIter which the
troops were ordered to retire; and some
hundreds Of the very vilest rabble and ne
groes. hired for the purpose. commenced
limbs, tearing out their eyes, cutting off
their noses and fingers. and some OF the
poor fellows (pryates) these wretches
brought to the city on sticks, and paraded
them under the very walls OF the palace.
Oh. the very remembrance Of the sight is
.frightiul.
never saw men-and could scarcely
have supposed it possible-conduct them
selves at such an awful moment with the
foritude these men displayed under such
trying circumstances. They were shot
six at time. i. e., twelve We're brought TO
the place of execution. SIX made 10 kneel
down and receive the fire OF the soldiers.
after which the remaining six were made
to walk round their dead comrades, and
kneel opposite 10 them, when they also
were shot. After being stripped. and their
bodies mutilated in the barbarous manner
have described. they we're showed, six or
seven together, bound as they were, into
hearses, which were used last year for
cholera cases.
No cofiins were allowed them; and |
think the manner they were put into the
hearses was equally as disgusting as their
other acts The heads OF some were al
most dragging on the ground. and it had
more the appearance of saug ghter cart
on its way to market from the slaughter
house, than that of hearse conveying the
dead bodies Of human beings.
A finer looking set of young men nev-
er saw; they made not single complaint.
not a murmur, against their sentence. and
decency should have been shown to their
dead bodies, in admiration for the heroism
they displayed when brought out for exc
cution.
HAVANA, Aug. 1910 A. NJ.
Intelligence reached Havana, last week,
that four hundred picked men had been
sent out in the mountain Of Coscoro by