Hushing Havana Fortifications

Havana, June 6. - Work on the fortifications about Havana is being pushed without an hours' intermission. Even the civil governor of Havana and all the employés of the governmenare at work on the forts or batteries and all person out of work are finding similar employment. The cultivation zones are turning out very successfully and are proving a great relief to the poor. It is announced from the palace that a Spanish column has defeated an insurgent forcé near Pausada, in the province of Pinar del Rio. The insurgents are said to have left seventeen men dead on the field. The insurgents, it appears, were almost naked. The Spaniards admit they lost fifteen men killed. In a number of encounters which have taken place recently between the Spaniards and the insurgents, the former claim to have killed thirty-seven of the latter, to have destroyed several camps and thirty-nine huts and to have captured a quantity of arras and aramunition.