Show THE CUBAN expedition concluded from the page after the boat had gotten golten out to sea from cardenas a vote was taken ken to determine their course A majority voted for coming to key west gen lopez then asked to be si sit t ashore at la vuelta de abajo y where troops were stationed wali the spanish soldiers who had joined them and were anxious anxious to have colom al d him A number of the Americ uis vis were also willing V to follow ni m the supply of fuel juel was small that it was thou thought ali t th r ra would not be bild to take ube them back bick to the shore and itch etch ch this place and they deberr ined not to ret orn lopez LOCZ still sang sanguine nine IT ha says thai that his name will wiil yet cad a lost host to his standal stan stad daid d the 11 sleak seak ill iri in oie vie ti highest orns runs of hs h eo courage coinage urage he was to I 1 found throughout the fight where whre the bullets flew fiew fie lie A thickest they rhey things t though lough that he was deceived as to the tho extent of his popularity ill lii cuba and this was th tha canse cause il 0 the failure of the tile cx ex heltion ped peL tion 1 I s I to the fact in m this re speet it ts s difficult cosay to say lopez has tius lon ion long had the reputation of ding the moat most popular man mali in caba C iba but bu t h s popularity is eli ell chaeny I 1 fly in tho th southern sout licin part where his estates lay and c lle lie lived when a pt iii lii ili i li general had the project of mat ands and fortifying fortin g annist it in in the m ull nil Uti tams su sat cuba might have been becil ut bt this moment revola tion zed As ri in many odar great attempts however the ne carrence of an hour may have thwarted and d df a well formed plan pian inac writing the above we lirar hrar through gli the llie spanish condill it r this port that the pizarro un on saturday last captured the brig susan san loud and tile tiie bacque barque georiana rana gantz tile tiie ti vessels lefure before mentioned as having carried part of tle vie tie exposition to hin Mu geres geresi tily til tiley y aera gera cra cro on oil heir their way froni from thi tivit it is to ine IS cw ori orl orleans eans cans they had on oil biard hoard besides brides their crew some 15 or D U rilea rilen ci some ick ack sick and athers others others who backed out and concluded i clouded to return th the q pizarro took them in into to havana land band i immediately hine sailed after the creole there were taken on these vessels a great number of letters which were brought here A smack arrived here an hour ilour ago from havana and communicated with the pizarro she is just going out with the smack int iii tow haste for the tile mail prevents me from giving you further details I 1 should have stated that some of the wounded americans were left at cardenas from necessity rile the governor and governor of cardenas were released oil on giving their word of honor that these men should be well treated a pro promise they remembered most probably only while tile the creole was in ill sight tile the city is full of rumors of other expeditions expeditious having been fitted out from mississippi and pennsylvania this is gathered from the adventurers adventurer si I 1 yort FORT it is proper to state that not an article articie of property was molested at cardenas Gardena snot not one woman or child injured or insulted the officers I 1 and men of the tile expedition paid liberally for what they ate and drank A large jewel jewelry restore ry store came camo into their possession during 0 the fight but a guard of soldiers was p placed laced over it and aud not an ail article artice was touched charleston mer wounded col wheat of the tho louisiana regiment 0 slightly ool col ohara ara of tile the kentucky re Regimen regiments 0 ament tf slightly n gen gonzalez do do slightly 21 capt logan angan do mortally since dead capt smith do do slightly jones of the louis Louii louisiana iana lana I 1 hegt seriously riou sly col of the general staff 1 slightly sligh 0 siy sly quarter master INI aster of dla ota mississippi hegt ti mortally nor tally dead col cul Y of G S staff missing zi major hawkins I 1 of the kentucky t serious seriously I 1 y conri courier cr the follo follows fol ool lowi wing is is the account giam given by a 11 military man mail of the ai t backon cardenas Rard enas pu published is ed i in 11 t the h a couriers Couri era erf r at least an au hour was spent lin in the disembarkation ri by the preg order of the Coni commanding mandit general the troops were landed as follows the kentucky regiment first firsty the louisiana regiment second and the mississippi battalion third they all got into action however within a few minutes of each other pi half tile tiie kentucky regiment were detached under their colonel to the right of the town to attack any alty force that might be foyed and to prevent ogress egress if possible from the place but the latter duty was impracticable company A of the mississippi battalion went to capture and hold hoid possession of the railroad rail road cars engineers employees ac who xvi e had learned would leave for matanzas at six hoplock op lock A M after a short contest this company succeeded jn wing taking possession of the railroad rail road cars and in capturing twice its iia P own wn number of armed cropps and arid them as prisoners I 1 y the action in the te city soo soon a b became e general te tile garrison was concentrated under the he governor in iii tile tiie citadel in the efforts of our men to storm this place the colonel of the Kep kentucky tucky regiment was shot in iii I 1 t tie tle J heleg leg wh while il L gIl gallantly antly autly fighting at tile the head of lus lits men soun boon after tile tiie colonel of f the llie louisiana troops was wourl wounded ded in thu shoulder sli sll while leading his ins regiment ent against again stilie the same eit adel adul and und almost simultaneously I 1 the adjutant general of the army was shot ill in the le leg ta soon after tile the colonels of thee these regime regiments its were wounded tile the three divisions respectively under their majors and lacut colonel colonels made a combined attack upon th the citadel while mile this tills attack was bein I 1 V made the tiie guard of at tile iho pr isoif at the ine corner of th the e G M 1 I L square square of the town fired into the froin the windows the colonel cwm manding immediately ordered two of its is companies colip anies B and 6 0 to about face and fire into the building the order was obeyed with such promptness thess and effect as to compel coin coln pei pel its immediate abandonment under the orders of the colonel they then battered down tile tiie doors and took possession of this important position having D left a guard in this building din g these thesel companies again joined in the attack on the citadel and materially assisted the louisiana and kentucky troops who were svere still eli elj engaged a ed in storming that place with great loss and with unsurpassed gallantry in the kne meantime antime company D of the tile mississippi battalion had battered down the doors of f the corner I 1 house opposite the citadel arid and opposite the prison house and with their rifles did deadly c execution on the spanish garrison an independent company from mississippi having no place assigned them in the battle connect od itself with the four companies of tile the rifle battalion from that state and fought foucht with it until the colonel observing gen lopez without a body guard fear jestly lessly exposing himself to the fire from the tho citadel detached this independent depend depena ent company to that duty they gallantly performed it and had llad an officer killed in joining the general about sunrise sun rise a torch was lighted by gen linzs own hands against one of tile the doors of the citadel and soon the building below bolow was in anies names fl nevertheless ic As the spanish garrison continued long ZD after to keep up a destructive str active tive fire from the flating fiat flat and tind par roof above it was not until it became manifest that the building would soon blow up that the tile governor of the city oui off eders iders cers aud and garrison came down and surrendered rell reil dered they fought with a gallantry unsurpassed by any 11 the hs authorities f now cde rde cje city billed on or both hoth at we were re demut cd and the th woun ded taken care of tie tle troops of the expedition bivouacked bivouac ked in tile the great square general lopez was now busy in in organizing those who seemed likely to join them and in preparing to march towards matanzas that evening at two he ordered two of the remaining three companies of the mississippi battalion one being at the railroad depot to march to the steam shiland ship and place all III tile tiie ammunition and stores of th the expedition on the cars in an in hour or less the work was done when orders came to place them back again arrain on the steam ship in another anoche r hour this also was done and the work vork was just accomplished plis pil lied shed when the battle of the evening be began bean an an in the town the colonel of oatlie the kentucky regiment during the evening had marched arched in his force into the town and they with the louisian ians did this whole duty the colonel and the ma ia jor in command of the mississippi battalion at the steam ship against tile the positive orders of the general in chief formed their men and 9 quickly nickly coined joined their fellow follow soldiers in in the city the enemy had been repulsed however with great loss by tile the time of their arrival gen lopez now ordered the whole force to re embark on board the steam ship and the vessel tood tod out to sea at three in the morning she run hard aground the weight of the men and of the ammunition made it clear that she would remain rei nain aground and be captured by the first spanish man of war who discovered I 1 her tier unless lightened they had no tio artillery and a man I 1 of war could stand off andi andt a nd batter her to pieces in this extremity coin com mandin landing Il general order ordered cd thie ifie rie ammunition to be thrown overboard with the th exception of a email lumber number of boxes pitr thi fhi t wy war done a and nd ibe the vessel at dalli daylight lit was afloat smyrna the I tung turig states that consternation ster nation perva Ferva pervaded ded the city iw itis consequence of continuous shocks of earthquake thousands of pe per i sons have fled from their homes and were lodge lodged din jn the open air notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather and others had taken refuge in the vessels lying inthe harbor tile the greek church the armenian consulate and sev eral mosques were greatly injured and part of the city has been thrown down a large rocky mountain about 4 miles from the city has been rent huge buge masses of rock have been dislodged and in their fall have hurled down trees that have stood for centuries and over whelmed a part of the he city the river has been forced from its channel and the water suddenly became brackish all the hills surround surrounding lug ing tile tiie harbor are full of fissures prayers to almighty god bod to arrest further evil are being boing being in put up in all tile the churches it appears that the tiie earthquake lias has traversed tile the whole of the archipelago and may be traced to the uttermost bounds of carmania it is authentic authentically all ali y announced to be the intention of the dublin glasgow 0 and cork steam packet company to send a vessel monthly on the galway halifax and new york station the viceroy ahiah has been selected to make the firn first experimental trip is ti to convey her tier Maje m ails alls and the post pat office autho authorities aties have been ben prompt in affording all the requisite facilities towards carrying out the object in view sir percy nugent NT P R and other gentlemen are determined to avail fhern themselves selves of the opportunity by the viceroy to traverse the abial atlantic if possible in the space if f one week from galway to halifax A proposal I 1 hasteen issued lri iri i f england for fot a conference of alisi tia fians ns of all ail nations nat rons ip ip conne tinn tion hh Z the cf ll 11 |