New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-12
FROM HAVANA.
Arrival OF tI,e Steamship CoIumbia-nn-
portant Mexican InselIigence-Reporte
CauituIution Of thr French Forces.

Combination Of thar French Forces.
TIE steamship Columbia, Capt. Barton, from Ha
vana, arrived on Friday afternoon. We are indebted
10 the purser for lleso Havana papers.
From Our Own Correspondent
/ HAVANA, July 7, 1869.
/ II IL much more difficult % get bold Of the news
from Mexico here than for you 10 get that from the
various armies; for we not only have csnsors more
strict but as our only communication with that Re-
public IN through French vessels, saye once a
Month by the English mail steamer, the news is
hushed up entirely, or distorted even ere ], gets
TO the censors that when they have rehashed it, wo
the public yet but little, and We don't believe that
till il il confirmed. The steamer Vera Cruz, Of the
St. Nazaire line, loft the port Of that name on the
/ 18th ul, and arrived al Santiago de Cuba on the
2ls. GA the 9th, telegrsm war received here
from Puerto Principe follows: have my in
formation from who saw it, "The French
have capiiula,ed; they have laid down their arms.
Marquee has fled. Almone is pursued" Now, all
his seemed 90 good be true; nevertheless, there
was no occasion for the energetic measures taken by
the Government in regard 10 it. The commercial
house was requested 10 deny the receipt Of such
telegram. The operators at the telegraph Office
were ordered to deny it, and the Dlar'o de
a Marina, pseudo official organ, came
on, in an article sayiog that, as such report had
,pf,ad and was generally believed, they were happy
20 Inform their readers tina, 10 .nch telegram had
been received Bat unfortunately the public knew
there hai and they alo knew thai Senior escnsa
the Secretary of the Government here had also re-
oeyed the same-aDd more, that the French had
cautuated on account Of want Of food, having eaten
even the artillery mules. This samc public also
found out that the political Governor, Senior Msnta,
bad sent back telegram demanding why they had
dared TO send such inexact news &c. Some
snosed 20 attribute all this suppression of news
favo-able 10 the French 10 the influence Of Mr..
D'F.ea,5s the ,mperal Consul; but the n.ane Of our
Cartaiu-G sneral against the withdrawal OF Gen.
Prm and his forces, and bis relations with Napoleon
ILL.,. have great deal to do with II. Now, though
the telegram was untrue" IN IFS statements, MOTH
ing was allowed to be published, but when the mail
arrived the news could not be concealed
The Rcd0cfor, published in Santiago de Cuba,
which published the news, war suppressed, ana i
was told yesterday, from very high authority. that
the Governor Of Santiago, Senior Letona, is on his
way TO iLis capital, under arrest, for allowing the
news 10 he published. Mr. Baldwin. bearer OF die
patches from Mr.. Corwin, came By tins French
steamer and lis news places the French in very
cri.i.al pos,ion. You will remember tha. the
requ siOn Of Juarez on Ortega was for 600 men.
III. re.lod that he wouli bring 5000. lie arrived
IN n sico on Tie LIT and I'd OF june with 1900,
and lef Immediately, 10 join Iaragoza, VITO was
az the iIights Of Aculzlugo, with 5000 men, and
CONT leely surrounding the French in the Valley Of
OriLaba, rave Ut the pass Of Chiquihuite.
Gen. Csrbaj al and Gen. La Lave have about
; 900 mounted sproad in guerrilla bande be-
tween Vera Cruz and Iejerla, aud which keep the
.aies of Vera Cruz olOsed and doubly guarded. No
provisions are allowed 10 plss TO Orkaba. Only
Elk carts have reached that place, and the French
and MARQUEE troops are starving. These Elk were
train af " ed We
Cruz under escort and was attacked near Chiqui.
butte. The foremost six succeeded IN reaching the
rafs in saiety the rect fell into the possession Of
the Mexicaus. Several of the escort were killed IN
defending the train-amOng them two vlyandeTes-
and the rect taken prisoners aud immediately shot.
new General has appeafod-Gen. Oriza. lie ia
on the Orzaba Road, and has captured three French
bearers OF dispatches. The last who arrived, in
time for the steamer of the 18th ult, was escorted
by 800 men, showing how important they were
considered or that Gen. Lorencez was glad to get
rid Of 80 many mouths or that II was the beginning
u general retreat TO Vera Cruz.
have dates FROM Mexico 10 the 9Th, when moth
ing Of Importance had occurred, though Aimonte
tries 20 spread "A report that pronunciamieno bad
taken place. Orizaba was to be attacked on the
10Th, and no one doubts the result. All this the
Dare de Ia Marina knew, but coolly gives US Al
moutes sheet OF falsehoods up to June |. As the
steamer left on the 18th, the public clamors for ID days
of nsws for all have got is distorted resume Of
that % the month OF May. However, it may have
been suppressed; and one Of the directors Of that
vile sheet is d Frenchman. IL is quite the fashion
to extingush newspapers here just now. The Re
dacfor 81 Santiago refer to above. The Pr0greso
lit might have known that with such name It
wouli not have been allowed 10 iourIsh) Of Guiana
bacoa was suppressed, because OF some few lines Of
poetry, breathing too free spnt, written BY the
poet, Jose Fornaris.
The BoietiH de Noficias, published in your city,
in Spanish, was coniscated on arrival here, because
Of an article written by Amable Escalante, Abide
Camp oil Gen. Prm, defending himself against false
G. arges brought against hun here, and protesting
ngsnst the gross insult. Of Ar5olcya, who has lately
returned from Mexico, TO Gen. Prim and tho
spanish army and ia iact Spain, In his stupid book
Spain and Mexico; but somehow such things always
leak ont here, aud we knew beforehand that the
BOL,fIH tie hoficids was to be suppressed, every
one wa on the 9Hi Utre, and many copies were
secured which have circulated; l refer TO the
editiOa OF June %. Eacalane has been most fouly
and uniustly imprisoned III the Moro Castle. Uis
ieuds red 10 have this article published here, but
! it was refused. This Arboleya il now one OF the
editors Of the PTeHEG, Ia journal that before his
connection was worthy one, aud which has been
quite impartial IN regard to our war and dllicul-
ties.
The D,rio YOU know has long been bought over
/ by the Confederates residing among us. A fine
llte paper, the Sfgi0, WAS started here some time
suce and 10 rapidly gaining in circulation in lite of
the difficulties thrown IN ito way by many parties.
Il i subjected continually to fines, had to pay fine
Of $50 the other day for Issuing article com
planning OF the brutal Ay ia which the chaio gang
prisoners treated and the edition was destroyed
Well II ought 10 have taken another name, III Sicio
(lhe Century,, OF course refers TO the Nineteenth
Century, ana AS that is progressive one, il does
lot suit IN certain high quarters here.
/ Your readers will not have forgotten that Marin
was imprisoned Tor singing the word L.b,tad, i'll
the famous duet SUOMI II trOmba, from PUrtlaR
Tie authorities wished him to sing Leaitad!
the " Glorious Fourth was celebrated by row
a, v eaio, called the Louvre. Some Confederates
came in TO annoy some Unionists who were there