Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-08-29


would write to the Captain General which he did, request
answer.
do write this in spirit of anger but after hours of
calm rehection and to any gentleman who
from other motive than mpernent curiosity, you
are at liberty to communicate it, Mr. Owen leave to the
Judgment of his fellowcitizens.
The revolution goes glorousy In the East and the
ba tine ro are e T sSnman The people
the Spanish rule in Cuba. leave your able corespon
dents all details CUBANo.
Spanish Official Account.
The New York Hera translates from supplement- of the
Prensa, of August 10th, the following article:
Just come from the shooting
the brow of the Castle of Atares the fifty pirates taken
by the excellent General Commander of Marine of this
ton having arrived in the morning fgate
of her Majesty the Queen, Esperanza.
The justice of man is accomplished The unfortunate
count of their past lives:
We hate the crime. We have compassion for the crm
mails.
Please God, that this inevitable and just warning may
wake the understanding and of those perverse
who a foreign land. death those who their
instruments the Infamous who, melted by the most vile
passions and voraciy intent bring desolaon
and crime into peaceful and quiet country which respects
all the other nations of the wordwhich always occupied
with its business, its industry and its commerce.
New Orleans papers, there is your work. There is the
result of diragatons of your Ubiquitous asehoods of
your paeards with large black letters and deestabe
There have that scattered blood and that will
he scattered in future. There you have it, smoking in
cusation against you, insgator; against you
who have murdered those deluded men-whom you have
deah-for you knew well that they certainly would
be killed This blood must flow, drop by drop,
headshis blood will torment you in sleep, for they
have lost their lives when security IN your hou
Never mind that those stupid who left them to be ia
ken by your demoniac cries have fallen What interest
had in that if gold in pockets the gold your
only God the payment of the blood shed? The greatest
cuprts of all the papers of New Orleans But they
in security. and God alone punish them Why did you
not with the pirates loyalty believed that you
would have been received with arms We niqutous
The fifty prisoners the Esperanto have been shot, at the
brow of the Castle of Aares have already said The
Habaneo brought them to the place of their
The troops formed square They had their uni
bua On the arrival of the troops
the cavalry and the civic guard the multitude % on foot and
and great distance the edfces of Jesus del Monte
and ell Cerro necessarily cheering the Queen and Spain
eternal idols of that and of this people, so much calu
mated by the United States.
S Mayor de Pazo read the usual edic and the crmi-
nails appeared by ten at time and after being shot, were
taken from the place of execution to make room for
their companions The first chief shot alone the two
chiefs together-a in the midst of nce
SAINT cries in favor of the Queen and Spain.
Justice being DONE the Lieutenant Rey in speech to the
soldiers and the people, expressed himself strong and wor
thy terms saying that the punishment inflicted merted
flag in order to attack nationality religion,
Queen, and all other objects dear to our hearts
with energy the troops defed and the people went
the place execution, where they looked for what the
Ten funeral waiting to to the cemetery
the mortal of the fifty pirates Those had been
furnished by the funeral agencies and were ornamened ac
cordng to the circumstances of the tragedy
The justice of man complete God has pardoned the
!
their faith to the infamous asehoods of the New Orleans
papers.
Private letters received at New Orleans, by the Z. s.
mail Falcon that four thousand
troops had deserted the Spanish standard and joined Lopez
great excitement New Orleans the recep
ton of the of the brutality of the Spanish authorities
in the wholesale slaughter of the fifty patriots captured at
that riot ensued large number of the Spanish
gar stores broken up together with the Spanish La
Patra printing establishment The mob then proceeded to
he Of he
furniture broken pieces and to himself this Off
cia took refuge the city prison About fifty of the city
police in attendance to protect him Some two thou
exaperated Americans mostly from the estern States
then New Orleans collected around the prison and de-
manded the keys which refused them The destruction
the prison threatened unless the Spanish Consul
given 1t is stated that the military had been called out
to suppress the riot.
Two steamers, loaded with and munitions of
war; reported have left New Orleans about the 2lst
instant for the Island of Cuba.
Further Accounts per Cheroi1ee-isum ored Capture
of LOPEZ.
Correspondence of the New York TribuneJ
HAVANA, August II.
The rumors of the last evening and this morning
from the field, give out that General Emma is
rounded by Lopez and also that he is prisoner.
give this as find tit is feared, | know by the go
vernment, and it is believed very generally that this
or some other disaster has occurred to him. The
government has received news from the field for
"a hours.
Since writing the above the steamer Almendarus.
Gust up from Bahia Honda) reports 40 Americans
shot there-and that on this boat there are from 80
to so wounded prisoners, that they kindly propose
cure and send home. Fifteen, it is said were shot
in cold blood on the deck of the Spanish war steam
er Pizarro, presume included in the above account
Of Lopez, the field operations learn nothing.
but these results do not show that Gen. Emma is in
any difficulty danger with his forces, although his
losses have been large. No time for
Reported Capture of Lopez
we'll informed Spanish gentleman, in intimate
intercourse with the Minister of Spain in this
try, informs the New York Journal of Commerce,
that despatch addressed to the Minister Don Cal
deron de la Barca, put on board the Cherokee
at the moment of her departure from Havana, an
nouncing the capture of Gen. Lopez by the govern
ment troops. The Minister, who in New York.
sent the Secretary of Legation, with the intelligence
to Spain, by the steamer Humboldt which sailed to-
day.
Correspondence of the New York Herald.1
HAVANA. Aug. II, 8 A. NJ.
The Latest Intelligence from Lopez and his Parity
have just received further intelligence from the
operating forces against Gen, Lopez; that he had
taken the direction of Aremisa which is ten leagues
from Havana, closely pursued by the Spanish troops
and the country people. l learn that last night a
to that very place, Artemisa that Lopezs men
must have all been captured, and by this night the
scene will be closed on them. The Spanish troops
asm and bravery and what is still more important
the country people manifested the same spirit, and
put to death the spot all the men of Lopez that
T fell in their hands