The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-18
Our Havana Correspondence

Uur Havana Correspondence.
HAVANA, Dec II, 1882,
The .auths,es at Warrington and the Crescent Cy 7Gay
Reception Of the Cherokee-Posonng IN Hacans-Er..
eutiors By the Gsryoe-Rslease Of Capt Gray and the
Cseu Of the Lady Su6ek-.1cticitv among The Slaps
7'sders Reinstatement Of Gen. Para Gooeras, Of Ms-
bfar,ataaent ef Eco English Napa Officers anl
efthe Mate cfas Y7n,e' ican Tesssl &c &c,
What earth possessed the authorities at Washington
to forbid mails being brought here by the
They have been that all this governmeat
quired Of Purfer Smith his declaration tha.
he had nothing to do with the matters Of which he had
been accused By the anonymous correspondent Of an
Havspa Journal and this obtained in his affidavit
which had previously received here via Charleston
You better insgne than describe, the annoy
and vexation Of merchants upon earaig that
the Cherokee had brought mails ana that too, BY
order Of the Postmaster General at Washington The
action Of government Throughout the whole Of this
ridiculous Crescent City SMITH affair is nsx-
pcatle and Gen. Caneoo has every causs to laugh i'm
his sleeve while observing the humiliaingeye
and very Sstissctory--po assumed by tho
United States government in matter respecting which
they had sueA ssiious right 10 complai9
Tbs Cherokee ss1iyed here from New York on the "a
inet Immediately boarded by the nsusl officers and
admitted to pc2ue The officers expressed themselves
entirely satifed with the sfidavt 70 BY Mr. Pur
smith, at New York time ago. and it int
mated that in consequence of that document copy OF
which had been sent the Csptsn General lhs difficulty
vas now settled ard restriction put upon
the movements of Nr Smith, who might come on shore
here whenever he pieseed
Att Nj of the 9th mat two men and a womsn were
publicly executed by the gaTote The circumstances
which brought these unhappy rretohes 70 the scsfod
lave created good deal II sensation among the people
oi havana, who went cut Ia thousands TO witness the
terrible spt otacie IL Is said ano sunent, bsoved mere
that the vas far with chd st the time sne
was executed but great paine are being taken 20 csny
she cnesietnat, indeed her being vss the
of committing the horTia crime tor which she hss
sufleIe cesth. a certain wealthy woman Mrs Lance
Fove became upwell about this I'd Sd of septsmeer,
and fingered ttl the 9th when she died SONS days
after her blsl IL oitcorereo that robbery OF some
money had been Comnte in the house Of the deceased
lsoy whore HUSBAND Nj. Fonlc ah,le prosecuting his
insestc alton the theft learned with dlsmay from
" bis negro servants that hi wife had been poisoned
1t sppt that Mrs Fo~les maid servant Mercs6 be-
by tcme living cut VI the house and
oieRane her mtIess'e anger whep tho tact cou'a no
lobger be oeBle3 IN evil hour she allowed herself
he berusasd TO poison her mistress, being instructed
how TO adm mister the potion without detection By
notorious scoundrcl mulatto named juan Gucvrero,
who aso procured the arsenic which he dissolved Ia
ter. Strange TO say. that notwithstanding tie long
Illness of Mrs FoNie, who aad sone mae or teE Of the
fret phyicisrs OF Havsna attending her night ana day
of them able detect the real Of her
ntISdy, when she died they unable 60 come 10
any decision 10 what had been the matter With her
Ihe Dulstto Juan Guovreto, dissolved a qusu,ity u
aeeepic IN wSter which sss put into small shsls and
given to the girl MeIcsd who especially attended, upon
her sick nistreF herced, from OF che p1iss,
which shs kept concealed her dress poueds ies drops
6 the aIsonc raer ino everything that prescribed
foi her takcin the lemo dade he- in
fact in every hing but in such small doses and
fully, the poison given that although mans OF the
ordered by the phyaiclsns had contrary
t.ot to that whion they had right TO pect those
worthless unable to detect the The muatso
Guowero, 1t tuIrs out was professional poisoner and
This accounts for the Wedge displayed in this ahar
which, but for the robbery probsbly would
have b. dieceytred This vlsn attended regularly like
oocter every DAY to inquire the symptoms and resu
Isec the doses to be gwen less ion Gsht
require Ihs body OF Mrs forlo having beeR exhuiaed
aisepic detected Besides Guo'refo and Merced
ether enc woman servants belonging TO tbs
house, were coccfint6 in the affair The girl Meroed
the mulatte GuovTero and mr. FoVle's coschman
having been copdsmeI TO suffer death were dragged
D ocnfcfnapcs to the sentence OF the judge at the tail
ofar outside a the Jail from whence they
picked up the Brothers Of Charity and carried to the
sosfoia where they garroed In the pteseHoo OF
the.r con panions in guilt the other and womaB-
the eeDg sentenced to ten in the chain gang
a. oeuts, sie the woman to imprisonment FOR life IN
the Havana jail,
Captain Gray and the Grew lately belonging to the
chip Lady suffolk shicn vessel has recently sailed from
Bstia Honda pirssicsi expedition all been
LEASED fro jail and most cf them their way
10 the United States One clerks, belonging TO
ths house Of Zuluets, bsve been ar-csted--a mere
shsm the part tbs authorities for they are
be baed out None Of the principal real offenders
hays been molssted and are not listly to be
Tts Rvs traders making greater preparations than
IT being understood they will be fully protected
stOuld they De able to seot landing Of slaves any sers
0tneiai Pavia, who was dismissed his employment as
GovtEnor OF mstsnzas by General Conohs because OF
the heavy bbes ne had received from the irsders
IN that district few days ago formally reustated
in the govsrnorho Of that city TO the scandal Of the
tire community the Of hi Oh aissal by General
CoScha having been matter Of public notoiiey Can
you have convincing roof than this Of the Dad
faith Of the spanish government with regard to their
TREATIES for the suppression Of the slave trade and the
hare faced ccpnvencs Of the actual critics Cuba
very currently rumored In town that tbs captain
OF the Engsh fga;e Ysta nos In this hsrbor has aid
formal omysint before the Captain General respecting
somt unhesEo Of cruelty Prscsed towards two first class
petty tcets belonging TO that vessel The story goes
that the officers, who had shore leave
nvt'sled Into come chop where they fallen upon
and beaten and robbed and suppcnx them to be Amer
osn they taken to some quartet prison and kept
fsre ft days whoR mcvsci " fcod mater IL is said
thst ono of the in consequence OF being aimoi
starved 4 IN very p1ecarcus sats very dangerously Ill
tvtrJ day hear OF such bsrbsrous act
the ttoyc. few ago, the master Of bark belong
iDs 20 Bceop -ded st the wharf in his boat with bis
second cicer and sailor; having 10 20 up town bust
hs captain gave the dollar and told them to
20 TO Getting house hy and &c. dinner Tos
vho could not speak word " Spsnsh had
~ nisbed his meal vhen he seized and carried OF 20