Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-03-23
Correspondence Of the New York Tribune.
Seizure Of the NIaiss-Trial Of PO-
lilica1 PrisOners-Slave Grade
Chinese,
HAVANA. Thursday Feb. "a 1853.

HAVANA. Thursday Feb. "a 1853.
| Since my last. sen: by the Crescent City on
the Goth, the most remarkable events have
been the capture of the mail bags of that
steamer, by our police, and the examin alton
of the contents after the seals had been broken
by the same ] am told that the Consul remon-
strated with the Captain General We have
now to see what the Government at Washing.
ton will do in the case. Such Liberties would
this foreigners infer that the Lion is better
guard than the Eagle. There is much to cen
sure in the meek and mild gentlemen In
W ashington, who overlook these insults, not
from Christian motives or love OF country.
The trial. or rather sentence on as of the
political prisoners arrested in August. was
commenced on he 23d inst. The affair will
require several weeks, and was preceded by a
solemn Mass being performed in the prison
chapel. The official notice says that this is
| the first batch. therefore, our assertions last
summer to the effect, that the prisons were full.
which information was derived from good
sources. turns out to be true, notwithstanding
that The Cronica Of your city and Peter Hicks,
the correspondent of The Diario de la Marina
contradicted our reports, which circumstance
is not to be wondered at. as they are employ
ed to deny facts that we furnish. which only
require time to correborate.
The Cumberland British line-of. battle ship
was here last week, when the commander had
interview with the Captain General, i'll regard
to the slave trade. which did not turn out sat
isfactory to the commander. l have heard
that the General gave him to understand that
the traffic was necessary evil. The morning
after the interview, the seventy four left for
Jamaica to report the result of the visit. Since
it's departure the Buzzard steamer and the Yes.
tai frigate have returned to the harbor
An angry article against those periodicals in
the United States that denouEce the slave trade,
was published in the Diario de la Marina on
the 22d inst. It is very bilious and the writer
makes evident everything that he endeavors to
deny, and by his fury contradicts entirely his
own assertions. 1t is like most of Spanish
Logic and causes an effect contrary to the in
tended one, 1t is the scorpions sting turned
against itself.
OF the Chinese brought to this place, about
10 per cent of their number has fallen before
the cholera and ship fever; since their arrival
in port. The Gertrude which, left China with
$50, arrived with but 206. The majority of the
Cubans are Disguised with these importatons:
they neither wish white nor black slaves to be
further imported. and are quite DESTROYS that
all kinds of slavery should cease in the island
However. l suppose. that the few of your
northern gentlemen who own sugar estates in
Cuba. are not influenced by the same wishes
that the Cubans are in this respect A society
was once formed here by Cubans of wealth, to
redeem the negroes from slavery. but 1t dissolv-
ed upon the persecution of the blacks by o.
Donnol, soon after it's formation. as they con-
sidered that their philanthropy exposed them
too much to the Governments resentment.
Yours, &c. FAITHFUL.