New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-27
CUBAN AFFAIRS.
ICTOHy REroETs.

ty Il eieg!sYh au1 otherwise, res 1ectlnS 'n' pro-
cress and present CONDITION Of me revolutionary
movements IN Cuba Whether Lopez has been
mainly successful or fallen i vicsan TO the ven
cearoe OF the Spaaiari> Is yet wholly uncertain.
Tie evening papers Of yestl riay published The
following dispatch
NEw.ORLEANs. Friday. Aug -, 1851.
BY letters received here from authentic sources,
dated Havana, the l-,h. We Learn that Lopez had
fought only one battle with the Spanish troops
This battle occurred almost immediately after the
landing.
The loss on the Spanish SIDE. upon their Teouse.
vas between four and five hundred.
The latter. meeting large remforcenel,S. with
cannon, &c. returned to the charge and succeeded
IN utterly routing the " Patriots" and capturing
nearly every one of them. including Lopez.
Everything Is apparently quiet at present and no
further difficulty anticipated until more Fllbusters
aruye.
The above, It viii be seen. Is enc day later
from New Orleans. no, from Havana.) than the
follow ing from The philadelphia Nrh-1moirap
of yesterday
NEw-OsLEANs, Thursday. Aug 2l 1851.
Tie Picovune has letters from Havana.
By the Empire City. which state that Gen.
Mailzeria, IN command Of the Spanish troops
sent against the Patriots IN the East, had re-
turned to Santiago. abandoning the field to the
Patriots, who retained entire possession of the
country surrounding Puerto Principe.
Gen Lopez had advanced from his first posi-
ton to San Diego de Nunez. to cut off the re-
trea, of the Spaniards. and would then possess
b;,osolf of tho fortress At CaisnoS
The people were rising IN many places. and
about 500 had left Havana to Join Gen. LOPEZ,
20 Of whom had been taken prisoners.
There now remain only about 700 troops IN
Havana, and many Of these are suspected OF
detection.
The Spanish war steamer Pizarro was ashore
at Bahia Honda. ana Gen. Lopez expected to
take her
Our own dispatche. received last evening
from New-Oreans, gives us no further light up.
on the question of the deepest interest at this
moment, 1t is as follows
NEw-ORLEANs, Saturday, Aug. 90, 1851
Letters are published here from Captain Victor
kerr, Major Stanford, and others blaming Lopez for
abandoning Col Crlttenden's company. which was
captured. Vigorous efforts are being made To raise
renlorcements for Lopez with some prospects of
success. Men are plentiful but funds are limited
The Philadelphia Inquirer of yesterday con
tanned the following.
NEw-ORLE.Ss, saturday, Aug. 23
The fifty men who were executed at Havana were
engaged in a flank movement IN conjunction with
Lopez, when they were captured by the steamer iia
banero.
Gen Lopez continued victorious at last accounts,
and one entire Spanish regiment had joined him.
The most painful part OF the affair remains TO be
told The Empire City brought the remains OF Col
Crittenden. (nephew OF Attorney-General Crltten-
denl and Capt Victor Kerr, who were so lnhumanly
murdered by the Spanish Government at Havana to
this city deep feeling OF awe pervades the whole
community Thousands of people endeavored to
get sight at the coffns containing their dead bodies
This gave rise To the sudden outbreak last night.
4 dispatch from Baltimore to The Tribune,
dated last evening, says The Richmond Wig
processes to have reasons for doubling the arrival
OF the bodies of DOL Cnttenden and Capt. Kerr
at New Orleans, and considers the report
hoax"
We have the following letter from our cores
pondent at Washington
WASniNGroN, Monday, Aug %, 1851.
The impression strongly prevails here that the
Government Is dong but little with reference 20 ihe
maraudlng expeditions against Cuba The paucty
Of Naval Force IN any OF the southern waters. the
ease with which expeditions have been hited ont
and cleared III open day from southern ports, and
other equally convincing circumstances, are well
calculated 10 create such Impression. Tie h'teih-
eegcer of TO-DAY mention, thai the Government has
finally concluded 10 send The Saranac (Which has for
some time been floating about between Phladelpha
and Norfolk to Cuba, but 70 Is not, It seems, until
some OF the invading desperadoes have beentaAen and
shot and the Saranac goes TO Investigate me mat
Ter To Inoureof d Foreign Government and people
with whom we are at peace, Why they shoot tue ma
raudCrS pirates and rebels. wnOm they md IN array
against thom thirsting for blood and punder. When
The news arrived here that 50 OF Lopez men had been
taken and shot the old heads sad, 4" Well, nobody
can complain. They wen. there for the purpose OF
revellng q little ,n blood and plumber for htte
gratuitous murder rapne and havoc among the IN
uccent and wealthy Cubans-alI Just for the fun OF
the thing ard If the Cuban authorities have returned
the compliment by catching few and drawing
trigger upon them Al lev PAGES, all for the fun OF
the thing" why. 'tum about = far play al the
world over, and rs all right
In view Of the fact that such feeling as tins eN-
i>ted IN certain quarters Supposed 10 De influential
the recent determination oi the Government seems
,ti more onlgmatcal. The Saranac also goes It i
said 70 look after the FbusieIos, but Of what use
Is this against the immense advantage The cause OF
Lopez gains by the interference Of The Government
heady. on behalf Of he marauders. Who have but
net the tate which those who MAKE war must expect
TO brave.
But there Is i more serious Light IN which thi'
matter NAV be viewed The whole civilized world
Will sustain the act Of the Spanish authorities IN ex
ecuting those men, and may run some risk Of
involving this country IN war, backed oy several
Eutopean powers befo1e this Cuba business Is done
with and a wretehed business It j., when Ne con-
sider The purposes, the objects "hloh lie at the bot
tom Of it, and the terrible consequences which may
resrl, 10 the Unlon and TO the world.
III. National Epi,lbgeacer Of yesterday has 4