The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-20

| brated romancier and poet, the Viscount Victor
| Hugo, who was, it will be recoected, taken fla
granite delicto with the wife of an artist, some time
before the revolution Of February. A prosecution
took place thereupon and the poet fled ngloriously
| from France; his flight, however, being said to
| have been connived at ; but his frail companion
was brought to trial and sentenced to three months
| imprisonment, punishment which was actually
| inflicted.
| CUBA AND THE UNITED STATEs.-El Nacional,
Of Cadiz, of the 9Th ult., has the following state
ment regarding the rumors prevalent few months
back, OF contemplated sale of the Island Of Cuba,
| by the Spanish government, 10 the government Of
| the United States
Sin the session Of Congress, held at Madrid onthe
| 3lst of January, on the motion of Senior Moyano,
for the production of all correspondence, which,
cordng to the proceedings in Congress of the United
States, was said to have passed, respecting the
| neXation of the Island of Cuba, his Exceency
Senior Pidel replied that no proposition whatever
had been made to government for the purchase of
the Island of Cuba, and that the supposed negota-
ton published in the United States newspapers,
was denied by his order, in the official Gazette, of
Madrid, and at the same time in the Parish jour
mails, by the Duke Of Sotomayor. Not content
with this, the ministry directed suitable instructions
| to our agents in America, that the reports should
be contradicted entirely; and, in conversations
with certain foreign ministers, care was taken to
denounce, in the most emphatic manner, the pro-
ect as impossible, to the end that all doubts might
be removed. Senior Pidel, moreover, expressed his
belief that no ministry composed of Spaniards
would ever listen to such a shameful proposal if
made, and that we should never cede the Island OF
Cuba
g la the Senate, also, Gen. Narvaez confirmed
The above discussion, and added that rumors of a
cession were entirely nnfounded, and that the island
of Cuba would always remain, as now, a part of
the monarchy of Spain.'
ROME.
The following is the decree passed on the 9th of
February, by the Roman Constituent Assembly by
which the Pope is deposed, and the Roman States
erected into Republic The decree has been sent
to all the diplomatic agents and consuls of the Ro-
man States. Already the Roman authorities have
adopted the republican form of address. Titles are
laid aside, and letters addressed to Ctadino etc.
Roman Constituent Advantageous mental Decree.
ART. The Pope dsposad in fact and in right from the
tempora government of the Roman States.
ART. Tia Roman Pontif has ali the guarantees
Say Tor the Independence and the exercise Of his spiritual
power.
ART This form of the Government of the Roman States
will be that of pure democracy and will take the glorious
name Of the Roman Republic.
ART. The Roman Republic will have with the of
ltcy, the relations which the onaly may
quire. February 8, 1919, 0 clock, A. NJ.
NJ GALETTi, the President
GIOVANNI PENEACCm, ANTONIO ZAMBRANCHI,
ARIoDANrE FABRErT1. QUIRIA +. BARILLI,
the Secretaries
M. Canuti, who was residing in Paris on spe-
cal mission from the Roman Government, has
written to headquarters say that ia the event of
the Pope being deposed he should consider his
mission as Terminated,