Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-08-27
THE INVASION OF CIIRA.


Cuba, had, in its issue of Saturday, The following
article
ltappears that Gen. Lopez and his men effected a
landing at oc ock in the morning of the 18th instant
near Cabanas, about forty miles west of Havana and
soon after marched to Posas village not far distant
Here, 10 the course Of the same day, they were at
tackled by body OF Spanish troops said TO have been
1000 strong, who had been sent from Havana for The
purpose, under Gen. Emma, next in command to the
Captain General The result was not decisive on eth
side, but the assaiIans repused with consider
able loss. One letter says that they had about eighty
five men killed including Col Rada and seven other
officers The following notice OF this affair we trans.
late from the Havana Gazette Extra OF the evening of
the l4lh:
Gas we had anticipated. the pirates were Yesterday
encountered by part of the column under the com
mand OF his exceIlency General Emma, Second to the
| Captain Generally They were in the village of Posas
| and sheltered by some works which had been thrown
up; but brave soldiers not for a moment
daunted by such obstacles, but attacked the banditti
with extraordinary vaOr causing them considerable
loss Although complete result could not be gained at
| the moment, it could not be long Delayed as Cen
eral Emma continued in observation, and the companies
which were lett at Bahia Honda to act against the p-
rates were expected every moment. This force would
also be joined by the column under command Of Mo
rales de Rada, Colonel ihe Staff, and the other col
umn OF Plnar del Rio. The complete and speedy
exermination OF the pirates therefore inevitable"
"On the 10Th. the Captain General received COM
| municaon trnm General Emma, dated Corali O, IL
O'clock P. M. of the previous day E which he states
that the pirates who were ut the sugar mill de la
Union, were Intending to retire to Cubanas Marel,
perhaps Tor the purpose OF re embarkng, account
OF The encouragement ard dispersion occasioned by
the action of the 18th, and by the assembling OF the
troops OF this district He also states that he had
instructed the Commandant General OF Marine to dis
poe OF the naval forces as to prevent the escape of
the handful bell wing that every day they remained on
the island the prospect of their total determination was
| increased:
"The Captain General had received a communion
| ton from the Lieutenant Governor of Bahia Honda
stating that at o'clock the morning OF tho 18th.
peasant arrived, who represented that the praes har-
raised and pressed by our columns at Posas and San
Miguel had abandoned their POSITIONS and were skirt
ing along the verge Of the mountains in the direction
of Bahia Honda and San Diego de Nunez where the
inhabitants were prepared to repel them, being ANNA
| ted with the greatest enthusiasm"
The result cannot be doubtful. force of less than
tour hundred men, IN strange country, can have no
chance against the five thousand to eight thousand
Spanish troops, which the 18th were already said to
be concentrated in the vicinity. The next adyi-
ces will probably announce their destruction or capture;
aud in the latter case we presume they will share the
| same tate az their companions in misfortune.
These htty men, it appears, undertook proceed by
water in launches to Cabanas where they were to at
tack the tort by sea, while the main body, under Lo-
| PEI, should assai it by land. Ii designed to be
night movement, the launches having started at seven
| o'clock in the evening of the l4th. 1t appears from
one OF the above dispatches that the main body of the
invaders left their positions at PosaZ the night
| and moved toward Cabanas, along the skirts of the
| mountains. The arrangement doubtless was that
joint attack should be made on the fort OF Cabauas in
the course OF that night, in the hope OF taking it by
| surprise. But by other, the land force
| was delayed, the night wore away, daylight returned
and nothing remained OF the water party but to shelter
themselves among the adjacent islands until the follow
ing night, Chat of the l5th,) until the land force
should heave in sight. In the time the Spanish
steamer Habanero made her appearance and captured
them, the Spanish accounts say without the least re-
sistauce Perhaps they considered resistance homeless
and anced that at least their lives would be spa ed in
case OF surrender but they estimated the maqnani
nifty OF their Toes, and underestimate the atrociy OF
the business in which they engaged. The capture
and destruction othe water party must Of course have
embarrassed the land movement, and the adventure
wassuftclently desperate at best
AS the coastin the vicinity OF Cabanas was viglany
watched by Spanish steamers and other craft, we see
no chance for any assistance reaching Lopez's party
| time to be OF any use 10 them, or at ALL For the
same reason there to have been no chance Tor
| their escape from the island. And, as we have said
above their chance CT successful conflict with the no SITS
OF Government troops against them slight to
be worth naming. Their capture Or destruction, or
both, we have no doubt has been effected before this
! time. We shall soon know
| The N T. Journal OF Commerce has the following
| letter. The editors say
1t written by citizen of this country, who has
resided many years in Cuba. 1t is highly interesting
and thoroughly reliable narrative OF the events counec
ted with the invasion made by Lopez according the
best information that could be obtained at Havana
Correspondence of the Journal Of Commerce.
| HAVANA, Aug. &c. 1851.
| will give you short, though probably more cor
rect account, of the INVASION of which your news
papers will certainly make most extravagent stories.
ia,
some 20 25 leagues to leeward of Havana with about
1000 men, according to the report of the pilot taken by
force from of coasters. The Government, be-
fore the landing, had heard OF the presence of the
pcious force the coast and the same evening
had sent four five companies to eeward and orders
to all the military commandments the Vuilta de Abajo
10 be the alert, and march to the place of landing
with part of their troeps Those sent from this place
landed at Bahia Honda, "a hours after Lopez and
marched immedediately TO Las Pozas, village, where
| Lopez had entrenched and barrcaded himself with the
down ia
pose.
o. arriving Gen. Enna saw perfectly we'll he could
| not force the situation, having artillery, and mme
diately sent to Havana far four five pieces, which
were Immediately shipped to him in OF the merchant
steamboais-but in the meanwhile OF the Spanish
rural militia passing incautously at short distance
from the entertainments, shot at by Lopez, and
some were killed. The troops then marched against
the formal order OF the General, and were twice repu
sed, and one OF the companies nearly destroyed
The General then succeeded in calling them off. Dur
ing the retreat, which the invaders msook for flight,
they LETT their entertainments in pursuit. but were soon
beaten back with considerable loss. Afterwards they
attempted to reach the mclntans, miles oft, but
found the passes we'll guarded and were forced TO
come back to the village where It IS stated, they are
was landed at Bahia Honda yesterday morning, and
must have been the battle field about H. and we
infinitely expecting the news of the final battle
butchery.
AT this moment some fifty prisoners are landing who
| do doubt will be Immediately shot
Al this proves to certainty two hings-6rstly, that
ol'iloi uNopS SecouulY, lHdt the people
are net at all generally disposed to rise before they be
assured that no harm will come out oft. Lopez has
now been four days the spot. la the first affair he
had a decided advantage, and not one man from the
country has gone over to him. If the Cherokee as
usual, does not start before her time, will probably,
be enab ed to give you the conclusion OF The tragedy.
deporable incident has arisen out of this OF the
Young msn who had taken arms at Villa Clara and
Trinidad, seven have been sentenced to DEATH but as
they surrendered without firing shot, the Colonel to
whom they surrendered had promised them that his in
huence and the much more powerful influence of the
Captain General would be exered in their favor. The
CAPTAIN General himself had suspended his approval Of
relations OF the cuprits to do all that he could do in
their avor-bu he heard OF the landing of
me Americans he apprehended that ain act oil cemency
would be construed by friends and enemies int OF
weakness timiditg the nnor elbows ordered