The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-10-23
Hauana Correspondence of the Crescent
HAVANA. Ootober II. lisa.
Brilltunt Festivities.

A4..a. BriniGnt Festivities.
EDS. CREscENr-Y Yesterday being national day |
OF jubilee, in commemoratiOn Of the birth Of our |
Queen, was here celebrated with all the crcum. I
stance and magniicence that the excitement Of |
recent events could elicit from grateful people. |
The morning was ushered in with salvo from the |
wa!l-ordnance Of Cabanas and the sea-girt barrier
OF the city, that looks upon the entrance of our /
harbor repeated at meridian, and bearing with it |
the oy-echoes of the evening demonstrations Of our
citys loyalty. The levee of the Captain General,
at u o'clock, was jam of rank and dignity. |
Church and State, law, divinity, physic, commeice
agriculture, industry, schools institutes, plebean
wealth and titled dust, were all in various social
phases represented; and to fl blank, an Ameri- |
can Consul was found in the throng of naval and
military buttons. had no scale to test the value
Of the show, but there was a heartiness in the
demonstration that betokened sincerity. and cer-
tainY desire to avoid the appearance of dis
affection. The gentlemanly Conde Penalvar, the
rough O'Riley, the courtier Fernandna, and
free living Santobenia, were noticed in the throng
Last, not least, of the beso-nanos crowd, appeared
Mr. Crawford, in character, the personifcation Of
downrghb" John Bull" a straight foward-dong
man. not to be csjoled from his duty, pushing his
way, with some obduraey, through all obstacles,
for the protection of the interests Of his Govern
ment or her cizens. and making a social refuge
for these Of the same language who have no repre-
sentative. As good Consul as ever went abroad
from any land is that same Mr.. Crawford.
The officers, of all arms Of the service, were re-
presented the field and staff in full, and the line by
details from each corps as it would have been i'm
possible to have packed all in the Palace halls and
they presented, intellectually and physically, the
developments that should make good soldiers and
geod men. The halls were filled in the evening
with gay throng, where beauty made war upon
all hearts, and all captvated, of course; for,
who, with soul to sense dead as 70 resist the
sharp witchery of the dark.eyed senoritai None
here. The ball was brilliant thing, surprising
all precedent; and the noble tthey need no title to
make them SOY couple who did the honors Of host
and hostess, every where the observed of all,
without the cramps of official or social strings to
check, doing personality he thousand nothings that
make people at home, the heart light, melting the
o. frost work and scattering joys upon the whrling
path OF the young.
The rooms were gorgeous in adornment, the sup
per recherche prepared by the proprietors Of the
Diana, and--but il is impossible to particularize,
without becoming transcendental. Night passed,
and the fair ones went home-with their mothers,
in the morning.
We have no news, but much peace and dull
business. While the P. Soule is getting under
way. ~.
HAVANA. October 10. 1851.
Eds. Crescent-The man who has been remark
ably kind and provdent in visiting and comforting
the unfortunate remnants of the Lopez party, has
himself become obnoxious to the authorities and
is prisoner. John s. Thrasher, editor and pro-
prie,or of the late Faro Industrial, was placed
in arrest on the morning of the 10Th ins just after
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his packages by her taken possession Of, as well
as all documents and letters found in his establish
ment, for examination by the secretaries of the
Government.
His treatment has been altogether of a gentle
character, and there has been no commitment te
prison, only for the first day. simple detention in
his own office, and the night and day following, al
the residence of the chief police officer of the dis
trict in which he resides, without being permitted
to communicate with his friends. We are no
aware of the nature Of the charges which have
been brought against him, do we know th'
parties who have been occupied in the small bust
ness of nformers, or denouncers, Of a man VIII
has, at least, devoted his talents much as an!
other to the development of the Islands industria
interests, and who has, to the knowledge of hi
friends, not been occupied with matters hostile il
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ing knife In the DARK ana the constructive feec'
lat'on sometimes weooed under spanish laws
notice IN the ficayune Oh tne iSth' e1tfacu
from the mobile Adver'lsef' an account OF the
ception OF Captain Maury' OF me schooner Moo
and the effect upon our community oil MS arriV
with the passengers and crew OF the Spanish br
Ferdinand Spvanth. wrecked on the coast OF tlC