The New York herald., 1845-01-03

News FROM CUBA.-Advices from st. Jago to
the 10th ult. have been received. letter OF that
date to the Philadelphia Gazette says:
regret to state that owing, as it is supposed,
TO the intensity OF the hot weather, which has sue
ceeded TO the rainy season, the fevers : del cam
intensity far battling medical skill, and in its
daily augmentation producing the most fearful re-
suits. A new and startling fact has been discover.
ed IN these fevers, viz: that quinine, SO long and
faithfully used as the only remedy against this class
OF diseases, proves at presentto be totally inefca-
cious.
The mining interest of this region of Cuba is
daily developing itself, so much 80, as to call tor
the establishment Of paper devoted TO this inte
rest. The magnificent fountains ordered by the
city authorities from the United States have arri
neral, O'Donnel, is expected to arrive here to-
morrow, and great preparations are being made tor
his reception. -
Intelligence from Havana to the 2lst hasJ also
come to hand through the same channel. The
correspondent says
My opinion is, that the sugar crop of the island,
of Cuba for lS5 will fall short at least 20 per cent,
compared with that of 1874. do not advance this
opinion without having made il comparatively sure
from careful inquiry. Some persons say that the
damage from the hurricane of Oct 4th and 5th,
and the long continued previous drought, have not
affected the coming crop to the degree asserted,
but all accounts agree as to damage the
amount of which is yet to be determined. Allow
ing II to be ~ per cent, 1t makes at any rate de-
fciency Of over 200, 600 boxes on the crop Of last
year, throughout the whole island. What this
decrease will be from Havana alone you will Judge
by the following statement of the exports Of this
staple from the lst of January, 1874, Up to date
Sugar 535, ,057 boxes.
Now, if the "Cowes and Market" and the
Russia trade will call for their usual 200 900 boxs
pure whites, you must see cause for the mainten-
ance of high prices during the whole Of the co.
ming sugar season. q.
The laccounts to which have alluded are from
all the sugar growing districts ofthe Vuelta Arraba
as well as from the Vueta Alb 10. Up TO date
the exports of coffee from January lst, 1874, have
been 575 934 arobas OF segars l56, ,26Oh M, and of
tobacco 2j4 268 lbs. This latter article is Iow,
not only very scarce, but extremely high priced,
worth fully 12t reals per manoja for old. What
the prospects for the coming crop are, it is hard to
tell, as the tobacco planter in most instances lost
ALL or greater portion of his crop by the hurricane
of Oetober. should add the exports Of moasses
Tor the period mentioned above, 80, ,456 hhds, and
of wax 80, 456 arrobas.
have yet no means of giving you the total
value of imports into Cuba for this year, but sub
Join that of I843 subdviding into the three greet
districts Of the island:
Habana and Matanzas. .......... .$l6 6I3, 666
Puerto Principe, &c. IL, ,7O6,a65
CUBA. &c. 3,7l7,1O2 +
Iotal. s...s .TS5,V0v,loa
The amount for this year will undoubtedly be
much greater, as the necessity occaeioned by the
drought and hurricane caused the introduction of