The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-28

 HIGH PRAISE
 FOR ALBAN He is Hailed as a Savior
 of Colombia. FOREIGNERS NOT LIKED Feeling Especially High Against American Citizens Report Confirmed That the Gunboat General Pinzon Bombarded Porto Cabello-Captain Perry Sends | Dispatch.
FOREIGNERS NOT LIKED

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 Colon, Nov. .27, 2 p. m.-The following dispatch has been received from Panama;
 ..The Colombian gunboat Boyaca was dispatched Tuesday, having on board about fifty soldiers for Chamo or its vi- cinity, where 1t was claimed party or Liberals under General Torras had re- ceived quite recently a fresh supply of arms and ammunition.
 San Paola and Barabacoa are known heer to be Liberal strongholds and places very easy to defend, while to cross the bridge spanning the Chagres River, now swollen, was next to impossible for an- tacking force. The feat was accomplish ed. however, but the reason the Liberals abandoned Barbacoa is not made clear. The death rate on the government side was very great, many bodies falling into lhe river. An attempt was also made to clear a detour on the river in boats, but the Chagres was swollen, the boats were capsized and many men were drowned.
 General Castro commanded the gov- ernment forces at Bsrbacoa. General AIban tried to get a train yesterday morning to convey 200 men to the scene of the enlargement at Barbacoa but Cap tain Perry of the Iowa said that not g. single armed man would be allowed to entrain.
 '.The feeling here against foreigners. particularly Americans, runs high. Alban Awaited Train.
 General Alban alone and unarmed awaited the arrival for hours of the morn ingtrtin from Colon. but on the arrival of the latter here at 6 o'clock in the evening. bringing forty wounded men, among whom were several officers, with the news that the government troops had vctoriously crAesed the bridge at Barbacoa, the special train was not dis patched and General Alban remained al Panama. f~ ..s
 aAt s:so D. m. yesterday a large pro cession, headed by a. band Of music, marched n an orderly manner all over the city of Panama, shouting General Alban'5 prai ses and pToclaiming that the death blow had been given to the Liberal cause in this department
 Tt was learned Sn highest authority this afternoon that General Jeffrtes is with General Alban on the Colon side Of Barbacoa and that three hundred men from Panama are now marching to join them"
 An American named Murphy relates the following story, corroborating the re- port that the Colombian gunboat General Pinzon fired on Porto Belio:
 "On Monday morning Murphy was Tn an open boat bound for Playdonna on mining excursion Besides himself there were three Chinese and a Colombian ne- gro in the boat, which was commanded by the coIored man. When they were passing Porto Belle boat containing soldiers from the General Pinzon, then al Porte Bello captured MurBhy and his companion.
 Fired on Porto Bello.
 After they had been made prisoners and while on their way to the gunDoat the General Pinzon fired many shots at Porto BelIo. On arriving on board the gunboat Murphy learned that no less than fifty shots had been fired at the town. He also says that from the gun boat one or two of the largest houses of the place could be plainly seen to have been wrecked.
 Men from the General Pinzon went ashore at Porto Bello and said the town was evacuated. Murphy asserts that ex plosive bullets were used by the Liberals. VI It was persistently rumored this morn ing that the government troops had been driven back over the Barbacoa bridge but the rumors turned out to be incorrect. The facts in the case are as follows:
 In a skirmish last night at Buena Vista. the government lost ground some what and retreated to Tabornilla, which they now occupy. Tabornilla Is on the Colon side of the Barbacoa.
 General Sotamayor with 250 men. com manded the liberal forces at Barbacoa bridge. His conduct is decried. He seems to have sheltered himself and to have supervised nothing personally. hence the reckless waste of ammunition which caused the retreat of the Liberals.
 General Domingo Diaz and Lugo have been unable as yet to arrive here with their troops.
 A Dispatch from Perry.
 Washington Nov. 27.-Secretary Long today received the following cablegram from Captain Perry of the Iowa: