The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-21
THE DAILY DISPATCH
LETTER FROM HAVANA

The following letter from the Journal of Com
merce, although containing illusions to events
which we have heretofore noticed, ia still in.
terestng. Affairs in Cuba have assumed an
aspect of so much importance that our readers
will readily excuse the frequen, introduction
of articles upon the subject:
HAVANA, Oct. 12, 1852.
On the 2nd instant arrived the Spanish war
steamer Isabel 2nd, with correspondence from
CadiZ, Canares and Porto Rico, in % days.
The Sd instant the American mail steamer
Crescent City, Porter of aud from New York,
entered, and was ordered out CT the port by
the Captain-General, without being permitted
10 land her mail and passengers, or have COM
munication with the shore; after remaining
some three or four hours at her anchorage for
the purpose OF noting protest-raitiag for the
acting Consul-she was compelled to leave
without accomplishing the object, on account
of the Omen-distaace of the Consular residence
from the city OF Havana.
The Spanish war and mail steamer Velasco
left here on the evening OF the 4th instant, hav-
ing among her passengers six Creoles, SEN
fenced to banishment, for connection with the
publication of the Il" Voice ofthe People,"
We had agrand review Of Her Majesty's
troops on the 10Th inst, by the Captain Gen
eral, in celebration of the Queens birthday"
and it was not a bad 'miiita training" Or
muster" as we say down East. The galooa
was brilliant, and the feathers very red, yellow
and green-the material not SO much uader
size, as had anticipated. The arms and or
naments, we'll FURNISHED, and the tout e2sem-
bic presenting rather pretty picture, if not an
imposing military spectacle. The line was
formed upon the "PaSeo Tacon," reaching
from the head Of Queen street to near the foot
Of the ramparts OF the ''Principe" fortifcaton
and numbered some four thousand troops,
principally heavy infantry, garnished on the
left flank with a small corps of sappers--a
squadron oflsncers, and in front the left wing
three baitalions of mounted artillery, adapted
to service in the interior or rolling country. |
saw no light artillery.
The Captain General, with his military fam-
ly surrounding him, appeared, of course to
great advantage.
If"Major Downing should happen to tray
ell this way, he would find great deal to guess
about, both in regard to the military and the
civic departments Of our government;-but as
every man has right TO govern his own fami-
iy as he pleases so suppose the good Queen
and her Royal representative here may do
pretty much as they please, so that they do not
tear The skirts of "their eighbors'" garments
to unbecoming exposure. The great first
principle, which has been since the world be-
gan, .'Let there be light" has been often op-
posed by things, rathOut the power or the dis
cretion of Canute: Yet the waves roll on,-
and the light of intellect is every day lifting
the veil of ignorance from the communities of
the earth. General Canedo will not prevent
its dispersion among the masses by mere brute
force:-for which all his premonitory care, we
have the New Orleans and Mobile papers,
with full accounts OF the proceedings in New
Orleans on the arrival OF the Crescent City,
He may put out the sun we'll as stop the
circulation of the universal principle,-tor it
springs from that Intelligence that held creation
in his breath: it will not die.
We do not find any reasonable men here,
Spanish or OF other nations, that approve OF
the late high handed and arbitrary measures
towards the Crescent City" 1t has been n-
tended as a covert insult TO the flag. 1t was
we'll understood by the interested advisers of
| the great chief, that Mr.. Smith, purser of the
ship, was acting as ''mail agent Of the United
| States" and could not be at all amenable to
| the Government of Cuba; besides which he had
| done nothing to justify even unpleasant feel
| ings towards him the exaggerated account
| given by the unprnspied Quadrate reporter
| from New York, If il had been sted, would
| have shown that Mr.. Smith had been imposed
upon by "Spanish mers moxgers" here,
while much of the most important matter was
iruth-verifed by daily reports OF the aNhori-
| ties themselves.
| This community have suffered much incon-
venence from the arbitrary conduct of Gene
raj Canedo, and he will be recalled by his
| Government, undoubtedly, as his conduct has
a tendency to involve the two countries in
war-a consequence very desirable to many
who surround him, and would influence hun
| to violent measures-tittis caring that ne
| should be able to justify himself, or account
| for his stewardship of the "cr0wn jewel."-
| They will not Ier me have time to write.
| BROTHER JONATHAN.