HAVANA.
The correspondent of theHveningßulletin writes, under date September 12th:— -" Havana is said to be very dull, the yellow-fever prevailing to a considerable extent. The second Spanish Armada, this time designed for the chastisement of Mexico, is mostly lying at anchor in the / spacious harbour, with topmasts housed, in anticipation of a hurricane. The yellowfever has so decimated the crews that some of the ships have hardly men enough left to work them at sea, much less to man the guns for a tilt at the castle of San Juan de Ulloa. One line-of-battle ship, it is averred, has lost three hundred men. No one anticipates now that this fleet will ever go against Mexico; and indeed it seems scarcely possible that Spain should ever have contemplated such a folly, in the face of the rampant filibustering spirit of the universal Yankee nation, which wouldmost certainly have availed itself of the occasion to seize upon the rich sugar-field of the '.siempre.fiel Isla de Cuba.' "A horrible tale of murder on the high seas was the theme of Havana on our arrival. A vessel had arrived a few days before, having on board a Belgian, a negro, and a young Irishman, picked up in an open boat on the Bahama Banks. When taken on board the negro and Belgian told a story of the captain and mates of a Portland brig having been washed overboard in a gale of wind, and of their having subsequently to 'abandon the vessel in their boat, not being able to manage her. But the Irishman, as soon as he got an opportunity, told a different tale. He said that while, the captain and one ofthe mates'were asleep they were killed with hatchets by the negro and Belgian, and that they then murdered Jhe second mate and one man in the same manner. The Irishman says that he was compelled to hold a latern while the murderers hacked and cut up their victims in a horrible manner. After endeavouring for a day or two to get the vessel over the Banks, not being able to navigate her, these brutes set her on fire and took to the boat. Being imprisoned separately at Havana, the negro, after a while, confessed his crime, and the Belgian confessed, relieving the Irishman of a direct part in,the affair, but charging him with complicity in it. The three will be sent to the United States, the Irishman as a witness. Our passengers not being allowed to go on shore, for fear of the fever, I was unable to learn the name of the brig, but the captain's name was Humphrey's."
HAVANA.
Colonist, Issue 23, 8 January 1858, Page 4
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