The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-08-28
LATE NEWS FROM CUBl-GRRlT RrrIrp.
MENT.

NJ, 4
O"'ny " Americans, and numbered some four o.
I'VE hundred men. The expedition was 6,tod -.
In this country, and sailed from the nor, ., N
Orleans, no effectual measures having hoo, -,
by the Collector to arrest it. On the totb ~. 70,
inst it landed at Bahia Honda, about ss,v ~.
from Havana, and proceeded at once toI,.p
small village, where ii iutrenched itself No.
ing the rev days spent in that place there = :.
evidence that the invaders were Joined NV an, -
the Cubans, or received from them any snrr,.,
General Enna in command of four or five a..
panies Of Spanish troops, landed At Rabi. H.
twenty-four hours after the invaders but fodpg
them strongly intrenched, sent dispatches 70 H,v
ana for some pieces of artillery. The Soapi0,d.
then marched against Lopez and his men bnt ~.
repulsed three times successfully with ssr,o,,,
loss. Whether there was subsequent attack ifso
what was the result, what became of Lopez wbetb.
er he maintained himself in his position or wos
reduced TO starvation, or was taken prisoner ..
was utterly defeated and fed to the maintains :.
not knOwn1 The next mail will probably bring
information of his fate
just before the sailing of the Cherokee, which
brought intelligence of these events, fifty persons
belonging to the expedition had been brought
into Havana, and shot in the presence Of twenty
thousand people
"These fifty men, it appears, undertook to pro.
ceeed by water in launches to Cabanas whera
they were to attack the fort by sea whiIa
the main body, under Lopez, should assail il nv
land Ii was designed to be a night movement
the launches having started at o'clock in the
evening of the l4th. 1t appears from one of the
above dispatches that the main body Of the in.
vaders left their positions at Pozss on the same
night, and moved towards Cabanas, along the
skirts of the mountains The arrangement doubt.
less was, that joint attack should be made upon
the fort Of Cabanas in the course of that night 10
the hope Of taking it by surprise But, by some
means or other, the land force WAS delayed, the
night wore away, daylight returned, and nothing
remained for the water party but TO shelter them
selves among the auJacent Islands until the ronov
~ s,Ss..I: l-a... 49, ,-I aF:iJ,<sa so,
force should heave IN sYsnt In the meantime the
Spanish steamer Habanero made her appearance
and captured them, the Spanish accounts saw with.
out the least resistance. Perhaps they consider.
ed resistance hopeless and fancied that AT least
their lives would be spared in case of surrender.
but they over-estimated the magnanimity of their
foes, and underestimate the atrocity of the bus
mess n~hich they were engaged The capture
ana destruction OF the water party must of course
have embarrassed the land movement. and the sd
venture was sufficiently desperate at first
"The following is list Of their names
"Col w. s. Clendennen; Captains F. S
Sewer, Victor Kerr, T. b Veacy Lieutensnts
James Brandt, J o Bruce, Thos C James Doc
tors John Fisher, X. A. Tourniquet; Sergeants
}. Whiterews, A. M. Cotchett; Agt r C. Stanford
Privates Nj. III. Homes, Samuel Mills. Edward
Rulman, Geo. A. Arnold, B ]. Wregy, William
Niseman, Anselino Torres Hernandes. Patrick
Dillon, Thomas Hearsey, Samuel Reed. II T
Vinue, M. Phillips, G. NJ Green, J. Salmon. Ma
poleon Collins, N. II. Fisher VIM Chilling, G
A. Cook, s. o. Jones, M Ii. Ball, James Buxet,
Robert Caldwell, c. c. VIM. Smith, A. Ross. P.
Brourke, John Christedes, VIM B. Little. Robert
Cantley, John G Ssnks, James Stanton, Thomas
Harnott, Alex. McIlcer, John Stubs, James Ellis
William Hogan, Charles A. Robinson, James and
l.. Manville. Total, so.
Forty Americans, four Irish, one Scotch, one
Italian, one Philippine Islander, two Havaneros,
and two Germans, or HungariansD
The excitement sgains. the Americans in Hav-
ana was intense On the 10th, the United States
Mail Steamer Falcon, was boarded off Havana by
a Spanish Steam Frigate, in such way as to
make it subject at least Of protest the part Of
the American commander. Ia a letter to Mar
shall o. Roberts, agent of the New York and
Chagres steamship company, dated Havana the
18th inst, he gives the following account of the
transaction
" Yesterday when running for this place, was
chased by steam frigste, but kept my course, and
she did not catch US hut another steamer, under
the command Of the General Of Marines, came out
from under the land and intercepted us. She
fred four shots astern and ahead of US, and at
length, ranging alongside, hailed to us to stop
which, after many repetitions of his hail, did
lie sent an officer on board to inquire into the
character Of the ship, and wished me to 60 on
board Of him, which refused to do telling hin
also should, upon my arrival at Havana, make
ofhcial protest concerning the affair. The laws
of nations and existing circumstances may justify
his course, and thought ii better at the time not
leopard the lives Of the passengers and inter.
ests Of the owners by using my force although il
was at great sacrifice of personal feeling that
| shall see the Consul to-day and make
= protest The Captain of the Albany and the
Consul have already told me that the course pur.
sued by these people was legal and proper, but
shink it a question. Respectfully, &c"
A letter in the Mem York Herald, dated Key
w est, August 18th, says:
"The following are the names Of most OF the
leading men who are supposed to have landed at
Csbanos from the Pampero
General Nsroisc Lopez, the leader Of the eE-
petition.
"Colonel J. Pragay, late of the Hungarian ar
my, formerly Adjutant General TO General Klap-
ka, and second in command at Comorn, when that
place capitulated He goes second in command
70 General Lopez
"Coloncl Crittenden, late Of the United States
army, and nephew Of the Attorney General Of
The United States He has the immediate com
nand Of the artillery
"Colonel Dollmsn, OF Georgia, who served
through the Mexican war
"Colonel Chase
Major j. A. Kelly. who served in the Florida
md Mexican wars, and was once a leading Wing
,ditor in Louisiana.
"Captain w. Scott Haynes
Captain A. J. Daley.
Captain Ellis, late of the Hungarian army
captain Victor Kerr late of the Hungarian
army
"The Psmpero il commanded by Captain Lev.
=, who directed the Creole 80 successfully in the
Cardenas expedition; and who was arrested 10
his city a short time sgo, while in command o,
he Cleopatra. and held TO bail in the SUN o.
IS 600 The Psmpero is quite fast, and VII ~"
ahead Of any of the war steamers. In case o.
ack, she carries graphing irons to close IN WIN
ler antagonist, aud board. e.u
ave learn from the officers Of the Wip1eu
Scott, that the greatest excitement prevsilea ~
New Orleans. There we're nightly meeting
held, organizations going forward, drilling, 30
md Strong confidence was expressed In Ihe su.
Tess of the movement Two or three stean'.'
we're spoken of as about TO leave with troops
assist the insurgents"
Since then q telegrsphc despatch anno'n'''
hat in defiance Of the United States suihorl'l"
wo armed expeditions have sailed from New VI
cans to reinforce Lopez.
The following paragraphs we copy from NV
National Iafelligeaeer of August 23th
awe are authorized TO state tns' 'n m e.,
rr;oa,. Saranac will he despatched forthNhh ii"u