The republic., 1851-09-05
STATE OF AFFAIRS I'm CUBA.

though it is fuller; and the other is of the same
date, and confrmatory of those received by the
Government on the I'd instant:
| CHARLESTON, Sept. BY the schooner Mer
chant, at Savannah, letters have been received
from some of the principal mercantile houses at
| Havana, which contradict entirely the reported
success of Lopez, as mentioned in the verbal ac-
counts by the Merchant.
These letters, several OF which we have been per-
mitted to peruse, bear date August 23d, and state
that Lopez has but one hundred and fifty men left,
and it was the belief of tn writer's that they would
be coon captured or destroyed.
| OF the remainder of the expedition, some two
hundred had been shot.
| No mention is made, in any of these letters, of
Creoles joining the standard of Lopez.
| New ORLEANS, September 2.-Advices received
by the Cincinnati from Havana are up to the after
noon of the 25th.
The accounts are 30 conflicting that it seems al
most impossible to obtain reliable information. 1t
seems, however, that General Lopez still held out
| against the Spanish troops, though his force was
much reduced.
1t does not appear that he has been joined by any
Cubans
Lopez and his men represented to be in the
most abject condition, though they fight with the
ments from the United States
| The Spanish government has offered a reward
| for General Lopez, dead alive, but had pro-
missed pardon to those of his followers who would
| surrender.
No vessels have left here for Cuba since the de-
parture of the Pampero, though it generally
| believed that one more steamers lying below
| New Orleans for some days were about leaving
with 3" fllibusters.'
| The death of General Emma, the commander of
the Spanish forces, seems to be doubted in certain
quarters.
| The report that General Lopez was advancing
| on Havana is untrue He and his followers are
falling back towards the mountains dsputing
every inch of ground.
The New Orleans Picayune has translated
several of the Spanish official reports of the en-
gagements with LOPEZ and his followers, from
which we select the three following:
HAVANA, August Is, 1851.
His excellency the Captain General has received
various communications from his excellency the
second general in chief of the Island, and from the
Commandant OF the Naval Department, and also
| from Brigadier Don Martin Rosales, the contents
of which published by order Of his excellency.
His excellency, the second commander in chief,
under date of yesterday, at one o'clock in the
ing, at Corraillos, says that he has just learned
that the pirates had vacated the village of Pozas,
taking the direction of Cacarajacary, and that he
desired to follow their without the loss of
| moment taking such measures would secure
their total destruction.
Also, his exccllency has received two more cam
munications from his excelency the second COM
mander-in chief, dated at CorralIos, at half past
three O'Clock yesterday.
In the first he transcrbes message from the
captain of the staff, Luis Jaragumada, who had
gone out in the morning to execute an order, say
ing that at O'Clock he had arrived at the sugar
| lpst of al
men the queens regiment, who told him that the
pirates had abandoned the house called the Tabadel
! Aqua, where the day before they attacked by
troops, to which place the captain of staff direct
ed his course, with the object of accommodating the
place and the neighboring huts where he found
some effects; amongst others, flag and some pa
pers two wagons of flint guns very old, to some
of which they had set fire before they left. Also,
there was some ammunition, and within the build
ing two pirates, whom the soldiers killed
they them
! After writing this despatch, his excellency the
second genera-in chief adds, that at that moment
a party which ne had sent to San Miguel for provi-
sons returned bringing another pirate, whom
the pdiSanos had taken, and who was about to suf-
! fer the penalty of the law; and that also some
others had fallen into power, at different
points, after the action of the 18TH 1t is agreed by
all the news and reports received, that the pirates
march very much dispirited and scattered, leaving
sure indications that their very existence is preca
| rious
| In another message, at half-past o'clock, the
same Senor General says that an infantry captain
at Las Pozas, who has been there since day before
yesterday with detachment of the regiment of
Bailen, reports that having become of the
abandonment of that point by the rebels, and their
scattered march, he had since then occupied the
place, killing some pirates who remained concealed
In the houses His excellency says, lastly that he
had gone to Las Pozas to follow them up without
intermission wearincss.
His excellency, the Senior Commandant General
OF Marine, under date of O'Clock last night, at
Bahia Honda, communicates that at O'Clock in
the evening he anchored at that place with the Al
mendarcs, carrying the companies of the regiment
of Galcia, under the command OF Brigadier Ro-
sales; that the Habanero had just arrived and that
as well the artillery and supplies which these boats
took, as the infantry troops, disembarked at half
past 8 O'Clock.
joaquin Morales de Rada, and according to all the
news which had been received the spirit of the
country everywhere showed a better feeling, and
that of the troops very firm and animated,
there not being the least doubt of the prompt and
complete determination of the invading rabble
Senor Brigadier ID. Martin ID. Rosales, from Ba-
hia Honda, under date of yesterday at l0.30 p. M,
reports that he had conferred with Colonel Morales
and according to the orders which the latter had
received from the second general in Chief he
ranged that the said colonel should march with his
column to unite at Corrallillos. Being already
his march, he reports from San Miguel de Caldere-
teros that the pirates had returned to Las Pozas and
that the said general was making movement in
the direction with the artillery and one COM
pony oil the Oh barcelona, besides about
fifty of that OF Gallicia, which he took under his
command.
The same brigadier praises the satisfactory spirit
Of the people, and the good condition of the troops.
PEDRO EsTEBAN.
HAVANA, August l6, 1851.
His exceency the Senior Governor Captain Cen
era has received a communication from his excel
lency the Senior Second Commander in chief dated
at Corrallios at one o'clock, a. IN yesterday in
which he reports that the pirates, who had been in
the plantation of La Union, intending to march to
Cabanas or Marel, perhaps with the object of re-
embarking, on account of the state of discourage
ment and dispersion in which they find themselves
since the action of the l3th and depressed by the
concentration of the troops in this district. At the
same time he states that he had advised the Senor
General Commandant of Marines to mako use of
the naval forces in order to prevent the re-em-
barkhton Of the bandits, every day which they
pass in this country renders their total extermina
tion more certain.
His excellency the Scnor Governor Captain Cen
cra has also received a communication from the
Lieutenant Governor Of Bahia Honda, informing