The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-26

1 TO The EDiToR THE HERALD.
In your paper Of to-day you give q telegraphie
report from Charleston which calls the news Of the
cuban nsurrection at Principe, a !" hoax /" on the
intelligence furnished by the arrival of schooner
hsving left Havana on the nth inst; and 0v III.
torislly you said that later advices Sc
Now, SIR. permit me to ask how anything
brought by the said schooner could be termed later
advices, when the Cherokee, which brought yeur
own copies Of correspondence, sailed from Havana
on the afternoon Of the 18th! And as far as the
! news being 81 hoax did not the government fnd
/ itself compelled to publish an acknowledgment that
there had been rising at two places thereof? OF
course in order to break the effect OF the news in
the United States as we'll as in the island of Cuba
it was treated as insignificant? Do you not know
enough vf the system reisning at Havana, 10 know
that such an administration proves ten times what
ID confessed and proves that the matter was already
tos far goae to be suppressed or ignored ategethers
Dc not your own correspondents not only give you
all she Intelligence contained in their letters Of the
l6tb but also Of the 18th, AFTER the arrival Of the
mail from Principe which they say they were await
ing, 10 write you an express confirmation Of their
former staterssntsq And do you not know, frem
the Havana papers themselves, the sailing Of ths
briggs Of war Pelayo and Habaaero, with reinforce
ments TO the trsops of Principe, where the garri-
son already numbered not far from 5000? In the
teeth Of these facts and proofs, will your sense 81
fairness Mr. Edisor, whate yer may be yS1r hostility
to the Ca6au revolution, permit you still to call the
news . hoax" and to call your telegraphio 40
accounts from Charleston ''later advioes"
That there may not have been seme degree of ex-
and in tho stories current through Havana, We
neither deny assert; can We, till we receive
bona fde later advcss If there were none, II would
be strange indeed. This, however, we will asserts
that have sixteen eighteen letters, recsiy
cd from friends in Havana and Principe-pcr-
sons most likely to know the tyuth-which fully con-
firm the rising Of several hundreds Of the patriots
near Principe; that they had fight with the
troops; that the troops rspused with loss q
ever twenty; that the patriots had entrenched
themselves in a strong position in the mountains,
between Principe and Neuvtas; that their number
swelling; that soldiers daily deserting to
them; and shat various other places were reported
rs having begun to move. This is the substance Of
private advices from confidential friends
in Havana and Principe. We might refer to two
respectable American gentlemen, at the Astsr
House, who add that two bodies Of troops, together
amounting to one thousand, forming the garrisons
of two fortified places had pronounced for the poo
pie and liberty. God grant it may be true, though
we must doubt 1t, FROM not nding it in our own cor
respondenee.
Depend upon it, Mr.. Editor, that whatever may
have been the extent of this first bold venture,
the part Of our gallant brethren ut home and what
ever may be tho immediate fate Of those who have
first dared to raise the holy cry Of liberty and inds-
pendenes, this is "the beginning of the end" II
the men of Lexington and Concord had been NOW
ed down or hung up, would that have produced any
other eject than that Of Fastening and assuring, stM
more nfallibly, the glorious result, which reached
its co2summation at orktown?
Respectfully, MANY COBAcs.