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Important from Cuba.
I.AND1NÜ OF LOPEZ--FIFTY AMERI-
CANS SHOT.
FROM the Panama Siar of the 57th Augu.it, we
guttier the following intelligence : -
By the return of Mr Harrison (nf tim hunte
of Harrison and TVPIZ, of Panama) from ttie
Untied States vit Hivana and, Chagres, late
Havana, papers were received, containing Im-
portant Information. Air G. was detained four
days in Havana, »nd while there, gained,
through private sources, thc following par-
ticulars :
That tin) steamer Pampero, with General
Lopz, and four hundred Hnd sixty men -
Colonel W. S. Ci ¡tienden, second in command,
started from New' Orleans and lauded on the
Island of Cuba-260 of whom marched with
I/'pri, nnd effected a junction with thc revolu-
tionists in the mountains. The bnlnnce of the
expedition under Crittenden, started from the
steamer in small boats, to a given point, ISO of
whom, with the arms of the whole party, suc-
ceeded in tfleeting a landing, while tho oilier
fifty, owing to adverse winds and circumstances,
were detained-upon hearing which Colonel
Crittenden, and other oflicers, put hiick to their
relief. After the conjunction had been formed,
the Spanish war steamer Pizarro hove In sight,
and assisted by aland force, of government
troops t)i;it caine up about the sainó time. Jul.
Crittenden anil his party, having no arms with
them to defend themselves, "were brought^ to a
parley. They capitulated upon the condition,
at we are told, that their lives,should be spared.
How this faith Was kept the following extract
from an official extra, issued hythe government,
tinted at Huvann, 17th August, will best tell :
Colonel. W. S. Crittenden, 'Captain, .frederick S.
Sewer, Captain Victor IOrr, Captain T. B.
Vency, Lieut. James Brundt, Lieut. J. O. Bryce,
Lieut. Thomas C. James, Surgeon John FLIirr,
Surgeon K. A. Tourniquet, J. Whiterens, A. M
Cotcliett, Napoleon'Cullins, G. M. Green. J.
Salomon; privates, H. N. Fisher, Win. C> Il-
ling, G. A. Cook, S. O. Jones, M. H. Ball,
James Bulet, Hubert Caldwell. C. C. Wm.
Smith, A. Ross, V. Brourke, John Christies,
Wm, II. liâmes, Samuel Mills, Kdward Hulmán,
William Little, Georgi W; Arnold, B. J.
Wregy, Robert Cantley, Hogan G. Sands,
William Niseman, E. T. Collina, James
Stanton, Thomas Hnriidtt. A. T. Hernandtz,
Patrick Dillon. Alexander M'llcer. Thomas
Hearse, Samnel . Reed, John Stubbs, . James
Ellis, T. H. Viniie. William Hogan, M.
Philips, Charles Robinson, James L. Manville
For this paper, ami these particulars, wo are
jndubted to Captain Garrison, who was upon the
ground when these unfortunate men were
slaughtered, . within five minutes after their
capitulation took place.
Before we conclude our remaiks we will add
tlmt ve aie further informed that General Loprz,
with 1700 men under his commnml, was within
tU'i'ty niles of Havan», upon which he wu
advancing i R,,<' '""''1 his torco» to disposed as
to C."1- °H **" I'umniunicHtiun with the interior,
anti .that the native Cubans were dully Hocking
to hi* standard in such numbers, as to leave but
little eli >úbt that the whola population was willi
him.
.lt ia til " impression of Captain Garrison that
:L';pez thl* d.\y in in possession of the city
of Huvuna, as it was well known, when ho
left, that a French war steamer was detained
for ihe exprs. s« purpose of carrying away Hie
Captain Genet al .of the Island, who, despairing
of the support «uf tho soldiery, had resigned his
ofltce..
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