Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-13
From the National Inelligencer.
THE CUBAN ENTERPRISE ARANDONEJ

he CUbAN Elm ERPRlSE ABANDONED.
We have great pleasure in laying before our readers
the following authentic Information contained in an
extract from official despa ch received "Wednesday
at the War Department:
New ORLEANS, Sept Z. 1851.
"All expeditions against Cuba are abandoned and
persons collected here for that purpose are returning
their homes"
Other accounts from the South, communicated to the
New York papers, state that the Cuba volunteers as
sembled at New Orleans are penniles ard are deman
ding money of the Cuban committee in order 10 get
home. "Some disorders, it is added "have arisen ia
consequence, and the police are active in endeavorng
| to prevent the committee from being mobbed. Some
of the head rioters have been made. The peo-
pie OF the city are glad to get rid of them" We pie
sumo that the excitement had somewhat abated as
there s no auson to it in dispatches dated on the 7th
! The latest report on the bect is contained in de-
| spach OF the evening OF the 9th inst. 1t SAYS:
"No further disturbances have yet taken place
amongst the distressed Lberators but all the bar
in the second municipality have been closed. Three
hundred men have returned to Alabama, but many vet
| remain here for want Of the means to get home"
In connection with the subject the late unfortunate
| Expedition perceive that of the g deceivers
aud betrayers" OF the victims intend harpine upon
report mo doubt manufactured in this country that the
Captain General had caused his officers write letes
to Lopez to induce him to come; in other words that
the Invasion was concoced and got up by the Captain
General ! !
Several of the newspapers received by yesterdays
mail contain paragraphs similar to The following
1t Is SAID tina the coal dealer at New Orleans who
agreed to supply the Pampero with l6O tons OF coal
delivered only 80 and that in consequence of this def
Gent supply, the r., on her late voyage to Cuba in-
stead of proceeding Puerto Principe the point of her
original destination, compelled to stop at Bahia
Honda, where there were but few if any, disatfected
Creoles, and where followed The disastrous aud deplo
rable sequel which is now known to all"
The Journal of Commerce views this as can attempt
to show that successful INVASION is still practicable if
made in the right quarter" and adds that deception
on this head will be found difficult in face of thu terrific
termination of he late expedition And so we think.
That the paragraph was designed for deception
have abundant evidence in what have hitherto pub
llshed OF The intentions and expectations the nva
ders from the columns OF their own special organs.
Ii was only few days before the sailing OF Lopez that
the New Orleans Della said
The l7th OF this month [July] was fixed for the RI
sing In the Vuelta Abajo, the most disafected and
like portion OF the Island"
And on the 21st August the same paper spoke of the
landing OF the expedition as follows
"When published the news of the arrival of the
Pampero yesterday, We were not as well acquainted
with Gen. Lopezs plan Of operations
Bahia Honda was the place at which he had deter
mined to effect landing tor reasons which we do not
think proper to expose. Bahia Honda is about fifty
miles from Havana, and is deep fine harbor, with
small town. where trade is carried 1t is in
near the Vuelta Abajo tobacco region OF the is
land, where assured, the people have long been
ripe tor revolution"
Again , on the 9th of August, (sx days after the
disaster to Crittenden's party was known in New
Orleans the Delta" required to the subject, and dis
mandng General aud his confidential friends. 1t then
spoke in the following terms:
Gen. Lopez has always expressed unbounded con-
fdence in the feeling OF disafection throughout the
Vuelta Abajo region. Near the entire number of Gre
oles, amounting to macy hundreds, who have suffer-
ed confscation OF fortune and condemnation of exile
natives Of that section 1t was the intention of
the General to proceed thther when he ordered the
REIMBURSEMENT upon the Creole, at Cardenas
and he would have carried such intention into effect
had not the scarcity of coal and the loss of the
munitions of war prevented The Vuelta Abaio is the
principal tobacco portion of the island, and abounds
with laboring white agricu|turists and mechanjcs-he
very character OF men, in fact, who have headed every
revolution since the earliest dawn of despotis. The
Vuea Abajo is the Switzerland of Cuba. Those in
the confidence of the gallant commander know that his
landing at some point in that region was in direct
with the leaders OF the Central or Puerto Principe
movements and the policy OF the act appears evil
dent when reflect that its design and tendency were
to sever the troops OF the Queen" &c.
So much testimony have we at hand as to the ap-
propriaeness of the point OF landing, from the conideu-
lial Cuban organ in the Sou,h; TO which add cou-
pie of paragraphs from the New York "Sun," like
confidential organ OF the Invaders in the North. The
"Sun' said
"And now few explanations for the benefit of our
readers to the advantages of the place at which
Gen. Lopez has made his landing. Port Cabanas, as
have before stated, is the western COST northern
side OF the island and only about forty miles distant
from Havana 1t has population OF about 1900 and
possesses defence except small fort. The Cuhans
assure that the commandant is one of Lopez's
friends AT any rate the fort will fall easily int the
hands OF the emigrants.
"Port Cabanas communicates with the fine rich and
populous jurisdiction OF the Vuelta Abajo. In this
juris dicon the population At 900, of which
26 00o Whites $3.50 free colored and the remainder
slaves 1t is the tobacco growing district and there
large plantations such 10 the depart
The land is divided UP into farms OF two aud three
each which the Cubans cultivate chiefly by
! cir own Labor, The Cubans in this city state to us
that in no part the island can General Lopez recruit
histories better. while provisions and horses be OBJ
tanned N abundance
! Now in view OF these exposons of the plans and
opinions OF The par themselves, and the unqualified
commendaton other tavorie leader for having seec
| led what WIS supposed 20 be the most desirable po-
son for striking a.. effective blow towards the ac-
conpl shmenl OF their unlawful entep e does il NOT
exceed belle that any of them should pretend that
Pampero had been compelled TO stop at Bahia Honda
on mt unfore-een circumstances, and that to
this is 10 be attributed the defeat OF the exped-
ton?