Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-16


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Our attention was rrested, yesterday, by the
following paragraph n the New York shines
of Monday last:
"sAILISG OF THE O. s. SLoop- oF-W WAR CYASE.-The
soopofwar Cyane which has been lying in harbor
for few days past was owed down the bay yesterday
morning by sef 4m-tug, and proceeded to at
1t is said that 81 is to proceed to Havana where she win
be at once join ed by the United States steamer Mississippi
and the Conn sanders of both vessels look the
interests OF American commerce at that port"
The " Times" is not likely to have made this
stateme At without some warrant for it; and, that
our re Aaers may not be behind others in the news
OF u day, we give the statement, as we find it, on
The authority of our New York contemporary If
II sse national vessels in reality going to Ha-
cana, their visit may possibly have some connection
it can have no other than friendly one-with the
incidents of which we annex accounts from papers
in Philadelphia and New York, which are not in
the habit Of exaggerating, papers do, every
incident occurring in intercourse with foreign
Powers that can be tortured into intentional offence
on the part Of the public authorities of those Powers
In cases such those which form the subject Of the
subjoined articles, we should in the absence Of any
information from official sources, rely with great
confidence upon the consentaneous judgment of
these journals.
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER OCTOBER IL.
The SPANISH AUTHORITIES AT HAvANA.-The Spanish
authorities at Havana refused allow the American mail
steamship Crescent City to enter the port to land the
mails and passengers and accordingly the Captain imme
datey proceeded to New Orleans, after having sent
protest to the CaptainG of Cuba, which not
received OF course the newspapers of New Orleans and
New York in great excitement about this conduct of
the Cuban authorities and calling loudly upon the
Federal Government to demand immediate and full salts
faction of the Spanish Government They denounce this
proceeding of the Cuban authorities violation Of in
ternationa law of treaty with Spain and insult
to the American flag
With quite as much patriotism and nationality any
American newspaper and perhaps little than some
we do participate in this indignation regard the
conduct Of the Spanish authorities presenting
be or to ascend to plain English, occasion for
In reaching this conclusion take the accounts
find them and make allowance for exaggeration,
though it be prominent feature in most from Gu
ba through New Orleans The Crescent City arrives
New Orleans with officer board the purser who in
the belief of the Spanish Government had obtained on
former VISIT information concerning the
ments of the Government and of consprators against it.
States, in which it published, and in which it had
been brought back to Cuba The authorities now say to
the Captain of the steamship that this purser be
permitted to land and must be kept under the superv
sion of the police while board in the harbor The Cap
tain objects to the supervision board by the police
and if recolec complains of the refusal let the
purser land The Spanish authorities say that the vessel
will not be permitted to enter the harbor again with that
purser board As the ship approached the harbor of
Havana on the next voyage the boarding officer at the
mouth of the harbor ordered it away Dsregardng this
the Captain proceeded to anchorage without pilot.
The officers then went board and finding the of
this purser the books officer of the ship ordered
it away by command of the Captains General The Cap
tain of the ship refused to obey this order till he had
protest to the General who refused to receive
excepting through the American Consul and the latter
absent, the ship was obliged to leave the port.
In all this, where is the insult 10 the 4merican fag or
the violation Of treaties Of The lars Of nations which has
called forth much indignation from portion of the
press? The Spanish Government believes that certain
officer of American ship communicates with conspira
tors and says that the ship will be allowed
the harbor again with that officer board Had such
Government right to insist this We admit that
they have no right prescribe how and by whom Ameri
can ships shall be manned But they have full right to
decide whether foreign ship shall their ports
not and have good for the interction they be-
ieve that any officer board would be dangerous their
community. The laws Of Louisiana forbid colored
from landing in that State from American ships sail
ing from American ports and have been enforced by i'm
prisonment against such in ships from Massachu-
SETS The newspapers of New Orleans very indig
nan against the people of Massachusetts, because ships
from that State entered New Orleans with such
board and treated all complaint against the proceed
ing with derision Have the Spanish Government Of
Cuba done than this: They have not done much
and if the authorities of Louisiana right those Of
r,ka &ha Lap1 Tha a,thn If
the slave States very sensitive about the circulation
of abolition documents and the efforts Of "aboton
preachers" among their slaves Their caution against
instruction necessity, and therefore cannot
comprehend how they justly censure the Spanish Go
vernment for similar caution
In defiance Of this warning the ship approaches the
harbor with the same officer board and thus the
Spanish authorities set at defiance The Governor had
right to order the ship away, and the Captain had
right to dispute the order And the Governor had right
to refuse all communication with the Captain excepting
through the American Consul; and If he were not pre-
sent discharge his duties the fault his and the
Spanish Governors Where is the insult to the Ameri
flag in this indicaion Of their own authority by the
Spanish Government? IL any flag nsulted, it was
the Spanish in this defiance of previous warning and
this refusal to obey Spanish officers in lawful order
And wherein is treaty with Spain violated in the
fusal Of the Spanish authorities admit suspected Anne
rcans within their territory at the very time when
of their subjects engaged in conspracies and
when piratca expeditions had already invaded them from
the United States, and more pratical expeditions
in preparation in the quarter? We think that
SPAIN and not the United States is the party aggreved
FROM THE NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
CuBA AND THE CoRSELIA-We subjoin o narrative fur
nshed to the Herald probably by the captain, Of the
treatment experienced by the American barque Cornea,