lea?a??jagilgjp???a?? ? From tbe N. lO. Piravuno. Aug. 23. r'!:ST. L }?? /. \Ni- Ilid FOLLOWERS I ; .c <>;' tn*t evening .publishes the Julv ,vi iotler troin Adjutant Stanford, which ' explains partially the manner in which our un- 1 fortunate countrymen.met their untimely fate: i . Havana, August 10, 1S51. ?)bak Hultng: We arrived on the Island of .Cuba after the most horrible passage you can conceive of, cooped on board with 400 or 500 men. * 1 AVe arrived on Sunday last, I believe?dates I * * A nnvf mAPlitnrr ( I -Tl.'lVe nilliuht lurguiwn, j uc iitiw iiiuuuiig, Lopez, with Clen. Paraguay, and ai! the com- 1 inntiding officers, loft us--(I mean Ciittenden 1 and his battalion.) We heard nothing more of him for two days, when Crittenden despatch- ' ed a note. fie then requested we shouli join ' him at a little town 'some six or eight miles j off, leaving us in the meantime to take care of 1 all the baggage, Arc. I We started for him on Wednesday morning s at 2 o'clock, a. m., and had proceeded only three miles when we were attacked by 500 Spanish soldiers. In the. first charge I receiv- <' ed a very severe wound in the knee. We re- ' poised them, however. They made another ' ^ charge and completely routed us. We spent ' two days and nights, the most miserable you 1 can imagine, in the chaparal, without anything 1 to.eat or drink. 1 We made the be?t of our way to the sea j shore, and found some boats with which we put to sea. Spent a night upon the ocean, and ^ next day, aboni 12 o'clock, were taken prison- ^ ers by the Habanero, were brought to Havana last niirht, and condemned to die this morning. We shall all be shot in an hour. Good-by, and God bless you. I send the ' Masonic medal enclosed in this, belonging to 1 my father. Convey it to my sister, Mrs. P?n, ( and tell her of my fate. Once more, God bless ' you. STANFORD. ' From this and front a comparison with off* J cial reports of the Spanish officers, we are enabled to construct a more connected and probable narrative of the events which led to the i unhappy catastrophe than has yet been given. Gen. Lopez, on landing near Baliia Honda, ^ with the main bodv of his forces, consisting of about 300 men, advanced towards Las Pozas, J a small town a few miles in the interior, leaving Col. Crittenden and his command, 114 f strong, in charge of the baggage. That night or the next day, the steamer Pizarro landed 700 Spanish troops at Labia Honda, and these advancing towards the place of Lopez's landing cut off Crittenden's men from their companions, j. On the second night afterwards this party de- j tennined to attempt to form a junction with Lo- }, pez, but on the road were attacked by an overwhelming body of troops, and after a short t struggle were on the second charge routed g and dispersed. After wandering about in the v thickets, fifty of them got together and made g their way to the. sea shore, where they seized g , four small boats and endeavored to make their g escape, when they were captured as has been 0 related in the official report of Admiral Bustil- j los. There are still sixty-four of this command ? to be accounted for. Of these, forty were sur- n prised and shot at a small farm bouse. r] A Spanish lieutenant reports that on the 14th t he came upon twenty "pirates" guarding an j, equal number of wounded comrades, all of j whom were immediately put to death. The i remaining twenty-four, or such of them as had , e not been killed in battle, probably continued to ! ( wander in the vicinity until wo are iorceu iu u believe, they also were taken and slaughtered. ( The othar party, under Lopez, it seems; re- ^ ceiving the attack of the Spaniards in a farm s house at Las Pozas, and beat them off with se- s vcre loss, at least so it is to bo supposed, since |, the Spanish official reports state tiiat they do- c Bisted from the assault in order to receive reinforcements. Whether any subsequent fighting took place at this point we do not know ; at t all eveuts Lopez held his own for t\\ o days? t till on the lotli, he left (or the interior, and was | d not molested on his march by Gen. Entia; all c of which we learn from the Spanish official ac- j v counts. This was the state of affairs on the I li 15th, the date of our last advices from the j ^ scene of action, through Gen. Enna's despatch, | .J dated at 3:30 on that day. If Gen. Lopez v reached the mountains in safety, he will discov- 11 er soon whether he has relied with too much ? confidence on the assistance of the native in- c habitants. The True Delta publishes the following let- ^ ter from one of the victims: Havana, on board a man-of war, ? ^ 8 o'clock, a. m., August 1G, 1851. V Stanton & Go.?My dear friends: About fifty of U3, Col. Crittenden's command, were j taken prisoners yesterday, have not received our sentence yet, but no doubt we will all be j; hot before sunset. Lopez, the scoundrel, has 4 Hpccived us: there is no doubt hut all those re- v ports about the Cubans rising were all trumped " up in New Orleans. Lopez took nearly his command and deserted us?we were attacked by some 500 or 700 of the Queen's troops the 0 2d day after we landed. Our own gallant Col. Crittenden done all that any man could do? but we saw we had been deceived and retreat- 1 ed*!o the sea shore with the intention of get- f ting off to our country if possible?got three v boats and got off with the intention of coasting * W until we fell-in with an American vessel, and 1 were taken prisoners by the steamboat Ilava- | nero. , iCj Explain to my family that I have done nothing but what was instigated by the highest mo s f tives, that I die with a clear conscience and " like a man with a stout heart. I send my * watch to you, it is for little Benny, my nephew. s. Goodbye, God bless you all. Truly yours, , G1LMAN A. COOK. ,h l< m ~ *** s The Letter*.? Letters written by the vie- 0 ' ?? iino tliajp frionds in this city have ? tin>8W tat before. * * * Death of a Governor. The Richmond papers announce the death, o e 24th ult., at his residence, of Governor Mi well, one ofVirginia's most distinguished son 10 had been for several years a member of tl; S. House of Representatives, distinguishe ke for his commanding eloquence, his lofl triotisni and varied accomplishments, lie die livtrsally regretted by all parties. Fur the CamrJen Journal. The Plank Road?Facts. (Continued.) A gentleman in Montgomery, of the highei Hiding, rem.h!; i i i ! -tt**: to a gentleman < linden: ".?!. ?. s. viiimer and Winter, pr< sed to write out for your nee some practici orniatiot) . o.icerniiig i'latik Roads. One ( ;se gentlemen is President of the Souther unk Road, and both have been engaged e; isively fur some twelve months past in Plan >ads. One of these Roads extends froi ontgoinery to Outiter's landing on the Tei ssee River,'' (it is about 100 miles,) "and under contract." This road occupies, gei illy, the route and region of country, traven by the Solma and Hunter's Landing R. Roat uiing directly in competition, therefore, wit e of the most favorably located R. Roads in th lion. The character of Winter, for sagacit cl prudence and excellent judgement, is notf ins in all this region ; he is a man of gre: alth, acquired within the last 20 or 30 year >m nothing, and under many disadvantage such a matter as Plank Roads, his opinio d example are conclusive. We have also been favored with the perus; a letter from Win. Gregg, Fsq., of GrauiU lo, than whom there is no more reliable at ority in the Southern country, touching sue alters as that wo are now commenting upoi r. Gregg, it seems, with .Mr. Royce, stun udy to back the'r opinion with a large expei ture of money?not as in the case of Can n, to save existing interests from (lcstructioi t as an investment of capital with a view I ofit. Mr. Gregg says,' Mr. Roycoand others ha view the building of a PI .ink Road to Abb* le, 150 miles, iScc., hut for the present tl; ivernent is suspended, in consequence of tli litical condition of the .State." "I have," he says, "lull confidence in Plan lads, and 1 believe Mr. Royce is quite assai :ine as myself as to the prospect of protitnhl suits. Iam not acquainted with the countr rough which you propose to build a Plan iad, but any oountry that is suthciently sel id to maintain good common roads, ought t nder Plank Roads profitable. It is a singi r fact and one worth notice, that, there ht ver oeen a Plank Road built in the Unite ates that has not paid a good interest on tli pital invested, and wherever the work ha en commenced, in any country, the profi; the capital invested have so far exceede blic expectation, that an impulse has bee en to their extension that can scarcely I ilized by those who have not kept up an ir course with the people who arc building an ing them." "The people of Georgia and Alabama nr ing ahead with them, and 6ixty miles Dein mplcted in the vicinity of Montgomery, thos gaged in that enterprise give the most fiatei ' accounts of complete success, and did t know tiie parties to ho practical men, uid scarcely realise the truth of what I lear m thein. "It we in Charleston think of bnilding a _ Plank Road nearly in the immediate vicinity of a Railroad for sixty miles of its lower end, and - the balance of 150 between two Railroads, de_ pending entirely for support on the country ,n which these two roads were built to drain, what ought you Camden people to do who have no such competition ? A Plank Road leading from Camden to Charlotte, cannot do otherwise than make your place, and satisfy you that it was a fortunate circumstance to your town that u, the Charlotte road did not pass through it. The only unfavorable feature to my mind, is the inr; jury which will inevitably be done to the Char ? ? J ? r?i__u r?r_ I?? je iotte itanroaa, ny a nana ituau irvui vomuc.. ;il Camden and her children will rise up and call them blessed. THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE LAWS. Two successive Whig Presidents have made st blustering pretentions and proclamations ajf gain6t all mannerof fillibasters,?lovers of Cuba 3 more than lovers of law. The world has been J told th it the laws of the United States would be inexorably enforced against all who shared >f | in these attacks upon the peace of a friendly u J country, and that the President would employ | the laud and naval forcps to suppress and frusk ! trate such attempts. In the face of these ofiicial mouthings, what a spectacle does the coun11 try present! In three of the great cities of the i- Union, almost at the same moment, public is meetings of the most violent character are ( held, virtually to demand that the Government of the United States shall assume the protecs" tion of those whom it denounced beforehand as pirates. In one of these cities the former h Whig .Mayor presided. In another the Spunie isli Consul was publicly insulted. In the third that functionary was assailed and driven out * of his Consulate, and the officer of a Spanish newspaper lawlessly invaded and despoiled, 't In this same city a powerful expedition had bes, fore been fitted out, with scarcely a pretence of s disguise, and set sail in open day amid the cheers of a great crowd. We shall not pro ounce whether the administration was right or wrong in making its d pledges,?nor whether the fillibusters were right or wrong, in treating it with contempt;?but j tho administration having made these pledges, and with endless iteration renewed them, what are we to think of its course, its faith, its states" manship, in allowing such acts to be perpetrad ted, without even an attempt to control them! j. Whero was the army,?the sphere of whose i duties Mr. Millard Fillmore is so intent on en1 largiug! Ah, thereby hangs a tale. All the disposable forces of the Government are needo ed in Charleston harbor, and therefore there were none to interfere with Gen. Lopez, or to j protect the Spanish Consul from outrage?an outrage as disgraceful, we must say, as ever '* was perpetrated in Boston or Philadelphia. 10 One tiling is certain,?the administration is ie . not executing what it claims to be the laws of I the United States in the case of Cuba, nor k | has it made even a decent attempt to perform what it has assumed to be its duty iu the premil" ses. We have a right to conclude that this it e has by design. It is a favorite policy with all y weak and mean-spirited statesmen, to get rid k of domestic difliculties by breeding foreign j. broils. The recent conduct of the Administration will make it extremely difficult to avoid a 0 foreign war. The American Consul at Havat* na can hardly fail to be paid with the same is compliments as tho Spaniard at New Orleans, j Then we shall hear hursts of patriotism "to make all split." Has not the Administration been preparing for this? Nowhere has it made 3 any effective preparation to "execute the laws ts of the United States," except in South Carolid na, and that avowedly against the supremo tl authority of the State.?Mercury. 10 From the Columbus Ga. Sentinel. i- THE CO-OPERATION PARTY OF d SOUTH CAROLINA. It appears to us that those who propose to ,e wait for co-operaticn are pursuing a strangely fatal and suicidal policy if they are sincere in ? their professions of a desire to act at all. "Put e i your own shoulders to the wheel, and then call :* | on Hercules," is an old adage, and one full of 1 meaning and sense. They profess a desiro for j! a Southern Confederacy, but they wish to wait j until other States are ready to form it with 11 them. Suppose no other State will move? will she continue to submit? We hope not. " , i - ?i, the buiy way in which there can be co-op1 4 eration is for somebody to begin We reeeiv- | ed in our revoiutiobary straggle no aid front France until we had put our shoulders to thd *4 wheel. Suppose Massachusetts had postponed her resistance until she could have got the oth- I er colonies to declare their independence.? We should have been dependencies of "die "British Government perhaps ta this day. Tjfbeit Lopez, some months since, attempted to revolutionize Cuba, every body said it was a great pieco of folly. "Let the people of Cuba," said they "begin themselves, and they 'will have , plenty of help." So say wf now of South Carolina ; let her begin, and she wift soon have plenty of help. If the North should have the I wisdom to let her alone, quietly to manage her own affaire, why the South would go with her, | as a matter of course, and so will the West?But, if in their arrogance and folly, they should attempt to make war upon her, the whole South will rise up in her defence. The great evil that will result from the coi operationists of South Carolina, is that they render their frionds in other States powerless? they destroy the chance of co operation. As | States, Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi, can' i not co operate without a majority to gwe them the control of the Government. Henee, although the Southern Rights party io Georgia j may be in tho minority by only dire hundred, thev can do nothing to bring about eo-o'pera tion whiiH soutn Carolina waits lor 1C JL?et South Carolina move, and she will not only have the Southern Rights party orGedrgia, A Alabama and Mississippi, to co-operate with her, but she \Vili soon have the whole of all the States. There is not a candidate for office iir Georgia now who dares to say that he woold be in favor of using force against South Caroi lina. If the North were to attempt it there ! would be but few who would riotbdin favor of using force in her defence. There is not a Union press, or a Union candidate in Georgia, so far as we know, who dares even to discuss fairly the right of secession. Even those who were wont to talk so much about treason and J traitors and this glorious Union, no longer dare deny the right of secession." It is true that while they admit the right, they endeavor to mystify it by talking about revolution but there is not a man of thein who dare advpcitte | the right of the General Government to use force; and if they dared plaiuly rfnd openly to \ deny the right of secession, there could not be a Union man elected iu Georgia, riot; even Toombs and Stephen*. #J ! Then if South Carolina wants co-operation, r let her act If she were out of the Union to- I day, we have no doubt that the Southern Rights party would carry the elections in Odfofier by an overwhelming majority. . 0^7"The cholera and small-pox have committed fearful ravages among the Missoari Si| oux Indians. The St Louis News Letter has i the following article on the subject, condensed from a statement made by Major H. Picot, to the Republican: Tn 1850, near Fort Pierre, cholera first ap' peared on the 4th of July. 'JTie disease did a not subside until nearly four hundred of the ! Sioux Indians had perished. Some' disease i which Major Picot thinks to have been cholera, also attacked the cattle, and was very fatal. In 1 the utmost raging of the disease, the Sioux held I a council, at which it was decided to strike ' camp and separate. Part iledio the mountains, and part took refuge from tfieir inconquerable enemy in the North. Cholera followed to the ; North, committing frightful ravages?and to add tothe fearsof the |>eople, small-pox,scarce- ?: ly less fatal, sprung out iu their midst. The I traders were most happily provided with vac citic matter,and Major Picot estimates the namber of Indians who received it from them, at no less than 15,000 to 20,000 men, women and j children. The panic had spread amongst them, that no feeling of blood, or tie of sympathy, could keep them together. In this state they were, the cholera and small-pox remaining with them, from July, 1850, to July* 1851.? Of the Indians who tied to the North, the majority were not vaccinated, by which it is-lear ed, that on their return, while appropiradng the j blankets and clothing left on the prairies, the I disease will break out again amongst them. ' Major Picot gives a fearlul incident not i known, that a party of Sioux, numbering some thousand families, in travelling to the North, j (this year,) fell in with a smart war party of i Blackfeet in pursuit of^he Crow Indians, attackj ed them, and murdered ettry soul. On the first appearance of the small-pox, the m j Sioux who had goue to the North, were averse | to communication with strangers. Guards i were placed round their encampment, with or: ders to shoot down any who should persist it) crossing their lines. Many were, in conse! (juence, killed by disregarding this precaution. I arv measure. | ^^^TFKmrrHECINmNA^G^H^5* itr Physicians presrriba Dr. Rogers'* Liverwort and I Tar in the la>t stages and most hopeless case* of cdmumpi linn, after ull other medicines have failed, as it has proved j itself to be the most extraordinary medical aid in curing , , that disease. Now this medicine is as valuable in the icecipient stages, such a* Cough, Colds,