The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-24
LATE FROM HAVANA.

donsd Patriots, Kelly and Summers, dc
BY the mail schooner William & John, Cap
tain Parker, arrived ut Savannah, advices from
Havana to the 7th instant have been received
Capt. Parker states that 100 of Lopez's m en-
were put on board transport boun for Spain
on the 7th instant the day he sailed, and the
ship got under way and followed him to sea-
Capt p. says that four were liberated, and that
one was Mr. Chapman. of Charleston This,
we presume, is the Mr.. CantIey, previously re-
ported.
Capt. Parker, Of the William g. John, has
been engaged in the Havana trade about thirteen
years, and he says he never saw the city more
qui . and orderly than at the present time, and
he found all the officials with whom he came in
contract unusually polite; and he expressed it
as his opinion that Americans were never treated
with more respect than now
The brig Palo Alto, Capt Wood, from
Mariel, (Cuba,) bound to Baltimore, put into
Savannah, on Wednesday last, as heretofose an.
nounced, in distress. She left Mariel on the
9th instant.
CAPT. Wood reports that few days before
he left Marie, some 90 or 25 more p 'soners,
connected with the Cuba cEpedtion, had been
captured in that neighborhood whom he saw in
charge of the Spanish officers. Ttey were
chiefly Americans and Engshmen-fou of
them being Spanards, one of whom was SER
geant, and formerly belonged to the Spanish
army, and had joined Gen. Lopez during the
Cardsnas attack, and came to the United States
with him. He returned with Gen. L.. to Bahia
Honda, and has now been re-captured and sent
to Havana.
Mariel is quiet, but the Spanish officers are Ia
solent to Americans, and extort money from them
whenever an opportunity occurs.
The New Orleans Picayune, of the 18th, has
also dates from Havana to the 9th, by the brig
Union:
We perceive that, peace having been restored
the captain general is busy granting brevets and
decorations to those officers and soldiers who
distinguished themselves 10 The actions at Las
Posas. Caramboia and Rosario, and Ia the pur-
suit of the insurgents under Aguero and Armen-
teros. The Maria Isabel Lonisa has been
granted to Castancds and fifteen others, for hav-
ing accomplished the capture of Gen Lopez.
We find the following names Of prisoners in
addition to those already published
Francis C. Mahsn, Kentucky; John Boswell,
BALTIMORE George itoisupi, Pennsylvania;
James Henrcy, New Orleaosi Thos Mcneil,
North Carolina; John Robinson, England
WIN. Wilson, New Orleans; Thomas Daily,
New Orleans; James Wilson, New Orleans
Henry Sagle. England, WIN. Herl, New Or
leans; James B. Faquir, Ohio Lucas Scully,
New Orleans
The Il, ue Delta publishes the statements of
Mr.. H. G. Summers, one Of the pardoned Am
orleans, which agrees, in the main, with that Of
Mr. Van Vechten, which we published last W elk,
and shows that there no good feeling be.
tween the American and the Cuban part of the
expedition In describing the skirmish, after
the heavy rain which wet all their ammunition.
and their inability TO defend themselves, he
says
aGen. Lopez cried out, to the Cuban company
TO leave the field OF battle, and that the Ameri-
cans would hold the position. The General
fed with the Cubans up the mountans--the
Americans retreating by ,grees until they had
rejoined him.--Next morning the remainder OF
the men left the woods and marched towards
San Cristobal. Being fred on by some csyelry,
they dispersed in every direction"
He also remarks
"Tbe Pampero stopped only at Key West,
and nothing was taken on board but champagne
and other cabin stores Gen. Lopez became
intoxicated at Key West, and continued In tina,
condition until they came In sight Of the Moro
No discipline was established, and during this
period there was no one TO direct affairs"
! lie, however, ADDS that General Lopez be-
haved with great bravery on all occasions
The Picayune has also statement from Capt.
J. A. Kelly. which differs but little from that of
Mr.. Van Vechten's. We make the following
extracts:
at was deemed advisable TO retire 10 the
mountains, and Lopez gave an order to that eff
feet. Some twenty or thirty men left the main
body and made for the woods Some of the
others who remained with Lopez threw away
their guns.
BY the time they reached the mountains IL
commenced raining and rnined furioosiy for
about forty eight hours. This completely ruin
ed their remaining guns and NIL their ammun-
ton, besides preventing them from making fires
and getting anything to eat. When it cleared of,
they killed and ate Gen. Lopezs horse, the last
food they had. A consultation of officers was
now rad, and they demanded that Gen. Lopez
should take them at once to where the patriot
fcres he had spoken Of were stationed, or at
least rench the coast where they might embark
for jamaica or Yucatan. Lopez consented to
their demand, and they started for the patriot
rendezvous 10 the South. The guide, however,