Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-30
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HAVANA, Dec 24-No reliable infOrma-
ton can be obtained in reference to the in
surrection, but many rumors are in circula-
ton. 1t is stated that the troops in the
Eastern Department are being concentrated
for an attack on Bayamo, and, if possible,
a decisive battle.
Commerce is languishing and credit is
low. The merchants and artisans are all
DESTROYS of an end to the present condition
Of the country.
Prisoners continue to arrive, and the
prisons and forts are already well filed
New YORK, Dec. PA Havana letter
says that two telegraph operators, who &C
cOmpanied Balmeseda from Puerto Principe
were shot by his orders for having acted in
the interest of the insurgents
HAVANA, Dec. 24-Advices from Hayti
state that Jacmel continued closely besieged
On the 9th instant the garrison repulsed
the pickets. Both parties sustained heavy
losses. Salnaves men-of-war hover about
the coast The revolutionists are confident
Of terrifying the interior.
HAVANA, Dec. 26.-The city was much
excited yesterday by the reported success
of the revolutionists 1t is thought the
reports are started to cause an outbreak in
the city, but everything is quiet.
HAVANA, Dec. 27-The government pub
fishes in the Gazette the following account :
After the battle of Moran the troops found
among the baggage captured from the in
surrectionists several jars of strichnine.-
information previously received by the
government stated that strichnine was to
be used to poison the Spanish troops
throughout the Island. Official accounts
of the battle state that the government
troops came up with the revolutionists on
the 18th inst, eighteen miles from Puerto
Principe They stormed the entrenched
camp of the enemy and attacked them with
bayonets. The latter are reported to have
lost good many men killed and wounded.
According to official accounts the loss Of
the government troops was slight, only one
man killed and eight wounded The loss
Of the revolutionists is not given. 1t has
been stated that 700 Of their force were
captured.
The Cuban account of the affair states
that the government troops lost heavily in
killed and wounded. The revolutiOnists
also deny the statement that the govern
ment troops captured all their arms and
ammunition.
Sen Parue sailed yesterday from SANTA
go with troops to take command Of the
eastern department,
Tho revolutionists have destroyed the
light house at Lucretia Point, thus endan-
gering the navigation of Bahama Channel.
A special dispatch to the Herald, from
Havana, Dec. %, via Lake City, Fla, Dec.
q. reported that 500 flIbusters landed at
Bay Cochinas, Santiago, on the 18th Of
December, and also that the government
has but 1900 troops in that part of the
island, and they are surrounded by 10000
revolutioaists.
The laborers are without food aud are
forced TO join the revolutionists or starve.
Business is suspended and importations
stopped, as the importers are without funds
to pay tho duties on their goods. Distress
and gloom prevails everywhere.
A dispatch dated Manzanillo, Dec. 20,
via Lake City, Fla, Dec. q, says that the
government forces at that place, numbering
500 are closely besieged, and skirmishes
occasionally take place between the gov
ernment troops and revolutionists, but they
lead to no important results. The govern
ment troops are suffering from bad and in
sufficient diet and, in consequence, cholera
has broke out among them.