The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-16

protectoral division The CAPTAIN General of Cuba,
BY tho omcen q the army end our writing chief.
It was magns6csnes q smau things-no supper,
no Creole hdies, no dust. nolan. and very Gopsd-
cradle quantity0 modification at which the French
officers seemed 70 curl their noses and mustachios
towards heaven In awful scorn.
The Captain'General has sprung the registration
upon the planters by surprise having published
that the law was TO 60 into effect on the LIST OF Au-
gust. He now determines that 1t shall be done in
eight days. more or less according to distance from
the city; and 30 il will be- and the most exceeding
humbug yet-of Cubs-will be played upon, or by
consent, Of vice regal intelligence. My substitute
must carry on the balance; have to 90 back. You
God speed the right; and you and your readers may
have one comfort, no matter what happens to the
weeping child Of the ocean," you have the last Of
TROUBLE.
Our Relations with Cuba-sponish Views.
From the New Orleans Bee, June ~
The Dia,io de Ia Marina Of the oath Of May de-
votes over four columns to an elaborate examination
OF the charges Of outrage, injustice and iniquity
preferred by the Washington Union and other jour
mails against the Spanish government in its relations
to the United States That our readers may COM
cal journals Of the Cuban authorities we shal sue
cncty epitomze the article In the Diayio combining
ourselves to rapid condensation of its statements
and positions. It win be that the entirs con-
tents of Mr. Soules note to the Spanish government
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editor.
The Diario commences the array of grievances
with the case of the seizure Of the American YES
sells Susan Loud and Georgiana, which, 1t says, was
fully justified, and Is illustration of the impair
TALLY of Cuban justice, and Of the benevoence of
the Queen, since liberty and pardon were granted
to THOSE who had rendered themselves amenable to
penal sentence, convicted as they were of an un-
successful attempt at invasion.
The firing upon the Falcon in August 1851, and
on the American schooner Lamartne in February
OF the same year next Investigated. The DiGri0
admits that had these been really outrages, they
these vessels repeatedly refused to hoist the flag
when summoned to do so, and that this refusal was
intended to provoke difficulty.
The expu lsion of the Crescent City from Havana
authorities to send her mails ashore il treated by
the Diar1o as follows:->
The Crescent City sought to impose laws on our port
wished to assume the position Of foreign fortress within
so h s1s the ,St
thortes to their face, after having DETAINED them in
New York. 1t was necessary to make her understand
alone prevailed and that he who failed to respect them
could not be admitted into territory But who docs
cargo supplied new cause Of diculties and brought
about another wished for bone of contention palo
deseado
The case of the detention Of the Ohioin March,
1852, during three days in Havana is treated as an
lodged precept of municipal law, that useful and
necessary sanitary laws may be maintained, though
they may create Individual hardships.
The boarding of the schooner Manchester by q
Sp ansh vessel of war; and her detention for TWEEN
ty-four hours is treated by the L6aTio as lawful
act. The schooner was found among the small
islands of the coast, having deviated from her
route without apparent motive. The Spanish cruz
at the time, and boarded her. The Diario adds
that the Union ought not to complain Of this, since
the Manchester had got aground, and was relieved
and taken into port, without any charge for salvage
having been made.
The next charge is that in February, 1853, and
the mail sacks Of the United States
were broken open by the authorities of Cuba. This
says the Diari0, done in consequence of the i'm
mense number Of seditious papers, tending to sub
vert the government, with which the mail bags
were filed. 1t argues that the act was justified BY
existing laws, which interdct the admission of such
documents and that while the law stands on the
statute book the authorities cannot be censured for
enforcing its execution.
The seventh accusation is the arrest during the
month of May, of the same year, of three American
sailors, on suspicion Of being engaged in the slave
trade. This the Diario admits and justifes adding
that the sailors were released upon establishing their
innocence, and that the United States would have
acted similarly, had the case been reversed.
The other Outrages referred to by the Union are
the arrest in lS50'5l Of two American citizens, and
the expulsion Of two more in 1853. The Diario de-
cares that the first two strongly suspected of
flbusterism at period when the country threat
ened with "piratica invasion" The third was
expelled for connivng at the printing of incendiary
proclamations, and the fourth was banished at the
request OF his own father, whose family had been
dsgraced and ruined by his disorderly conduct The
Dia,i0 implies that these four individuals, though
claimed citizens of the United States were sub
jects of the Queen Of Spain.
logue of complaints. This, contends the Diario Is
purely case of enforcement of the revenue and
port laws, and is 30 viewed by European journals,
and by the moderate portion of the press Of the
United States itself.
In the note addressed by Mr.. Soule to the Spanish
government, he mentions number Of causes of
complaint not referred to by the Union, and on the
other hand Omits all notice of nine of those stated
by that Journal abiding only to three of the latter.
The Diari0 undertakes to examine Mr.. Soule's
charges One Of them is, that in 1874 the bark
Juliet was fired upon by the fortress of Taria and
that the government Of Spain offered explanations,
but did not make PREPARATION. These explanations
rio, since from 1874 to 1854 the two governments
have preserved friendly relations. Another is the
disapprobation expressed by the Spanish govern
ment Of the remission, by the authorities of the
Of s5s Rucaes Of # in
American commerce is estimated at two hundred
dollars, which the Diario considers somewhat in
sufficient motive for plunging two nations into war.
third source OF complaint stated by Mr.. Soue,
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captain of vessel named Goofral, who were ruined
by the compulsory payment Of certain duties. The
Diao does not profess to know the merits of these
cases, but ofsetts them by that of the captain of
the Spanish brigantine San Jose, who, being dis
masted near Baltimore, by astorm on the 9Th Of Sep
TENDER, and having reached Baltimore on the 10th,
was compelled to take q tow-boat, with q view of
being made to pay more than q thousand dollars by
way Of salvage. The court reduced the demand to
fortyeight dollars, but condemned Captain Tonga
to nav atOQether the sum of 4484 9(AIO0-viz. 1880
bonus to the pilots fortyeight dollars for pilot
dues, and forty five dollars and ninety cents costs
of court.
The case Of citizen Of the United States arrest
ed at Sagua la Grande in 1850, and that of shot
fred at the Black Warrior in March, 1853, are dis
missed by the Diario, with the remark that it il
not aware whether any claims have been based
upon these occurrences.
The case Of the vessel North Carolina figures
largely in Mr.. Soules note. The Diario's account
of this affair Is, that the North Carolina was wreck
ed in November, 1850, at Gusnico, on the southern
coast Of Puerto Rico, and the crew were taken to
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