Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-09-16
Fromths Charleston Mercury.
The --latest News from Cnba.

Metchant there, protesting to give,
the news brought BY that vessel from
Havana.
We copy letters from the first
Mercantile houses in Havana to their
correspondents in this city, brought
BY the same schooner Merchant
The contrast between the flaming
glory of fiction and delusion in the
one, and the cold, dark reality of the
other, IS sufficiently startling. All
the letters received here, we under
Stand, are of the same tenor as those
We copy, and there is no, doubt that
they present the case as it substan-
tally is. Gen LOPEZ, tits clear, has
received no aid OF countenanee from
THE Cubaas; has gained no victories,
and had, no other success than that
Of saving his force from being utter
" destroyed in the first encounter.
The sad business cannot last much
longer, and it is, high time that the
system Of false intelligence, by which
the country has been fevered, should
5e put an end to- It's object, Of
course, has been to encourage adj
ditional bands to throw themselves
into Cuba, but there is hardly a pos
Isibility of their getting there Soon
enough, or in such acondition of or
ganization and efficiency, as to afford
any chance of success. Wild with
false hopes, they rush on in eonfu-
sion, and the end must be destrac-
ton.
We have alluded to the system Of
false intelligence. We, know not
who are the parties to it, and charge
no one with a crime that is to result,
probably, in the death of hundreds
of young men, victims Of the Icruel
Iddlusion. Let US refer to a few Of
the items Of this false intelligence.
The whole country was-sA6cked and
fevered with horrible accounts of the
mutilation of the bodies Of the first
prisoners captured. It has been
since proved that no such indignities
were offered; that the prisoners we're
simply shot, and their bodies buried
according to the manner of their
country. Those that were claimed
by their friends were given up, and
the personal effects of the dead were
sent to their friends in New Orleans. &.
Soon after, a telegraphic despatch
was sent to New York, announcing
that Gen GONZALEZ had landed in"
Cuba with reinforcements for LOPEZ
The news purported to come from the
Captain of the vessel which landed
him. At that very time Gen. Con
zALEz was quietly walking about in
Charleston.
We need not go over the grou md
of Gen. LoPEz's' victories, which have
now vanished like a mirage. But
among the latest items of news we
find tie statement that the Spanish
steamship Pizarro was still aground,
and no hope of getting her off; where
as, the Cincinnati, at New Orleans re-
ports that she passed the Pizarro at
sea, on her course from Hava na
There vas another protested piece of
news by the Merchant, that deserves
to be noticed. 1t was said, by way
of proving the state of consternati ion
existing in Havana, that that vessel
was not allowed to land her cargo,
Or take any return freight. The
fact is that the Merchant was en-
ployed simplySto carry the mails in |
.he place OF the Isabel. She had no
largo, but stone ballast, and h er Or
lers were to wait only for the ex-
,hange of mails. A merchant pfI
his city has letters from his cores
,ondent in Havana, stating that two
# his vessels were unloading their
and would take in their re-
urn freights as soon as ready. There
5 believed to be no obstruction to
rade, IN consequence Of the invasion
f LOPEZ. !;
We have been led to these re-
marks, because we think the at
empts to conquer Cuba by tele-
raphic fabrications have gone far
nough. 1t would seem indeed to be
lain that this was the way to insure
efeat instead of victory. The idea |
f carrying ON military operation Is ]
nder a system of false intelligence, i
y which all the parties to the inva- l
on were completely deluded as to
leir position with regard to each A
5her, certainly did. not originate C
it'll a great General. e
But we submit our extract of let il
rs. We have been furnished with T
,hers,the purport ofWhich is SO near
identical with these, as to render \
leir publication unnecessary. c