New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-30

By . Royal order, dated 31st May, Spanish Consuls
In foreign ports authorized to receive eighty rails
(uelon, suppose,) equal to four dollars, for each
manifest they dispatch Of any vessel bon nd to
Spanish port.
By q Royal decree, dated 9th May, money de-
posted in the Royal Treasury, in transtu, may be
re shipped without the payment Of any duty.
Some eight Or ten days ago there were rumors
circulated that various parties Of high commercial
standing had failed. Names too, were freely banded
about, and believe the rumors were so frequently
repeated, that people absolutely believed them to be
true. Due enquiry, however, enabled me to ascer-
tain that the only failures were those of Senior Espe
lus planter and Colonel of the Voluntarios, for
an amount exceeding $780, 600. He has, however, I
have been positively assured given up sufficient real
estate to satisfy every demand against him. and has
yetsuficent property remaining to entte him to be
considered wealthy man. A baker, too, named
Mantizi, contractor for the supply of bread and
biscuits to the troops and marine has also failed for
above $4,000, and report says he has absconded
Another baker too, named Sardu, who kept in the
Gale del Obispo has also failed for s30090 Of which
amount Mantiz was indebted to him to the extent Of
$4,000 and upwards!
declare had nearly omitted a very important
item viz that there to be sixteen companies, Of
Que hundred and twenty-five men each, Of black and
colored militia in this sand rules for the discipline
of which have recently been published. They are TO
be divided into two sections-ten companies for the
Western, and six for the Eastern Department. There
are to be six companies, half black and half mulat-
| toes, in this city.
The enlistment is to be voluntary as much as pos.
| sble, but in case voluntary enlistment does not
supply sufficient number, then forcible enlistment
will be resorted to. The recruits must be robus st,
between twenty and thirty years of age and not less
than five feet in hight They are to have sima
privileges those enjoyed by the white troops, and
| to suffer similar punishments.
Coored men in this island are subjected to military
service in the manner presented by the ensting g
rule, by any additional orders OF Her Majesty or
the Captain General of this island. The instruction
Of the colored militia Tin infantry actics) is to com
| mence on LIST November and end 1st March in each
| year.
| Does it not appear almost the act of madman thus
to arm and instruct in military drill such very savages
as are the free negroes and mulattoes Of this island
Or is it done to hold them, as it were in terroren
| over the heads Of the Cubans and prevent their
making an effort to obtain their freedom? 81
guess, though not Down.Easter, the latter is the
| fact.
A dreadful fire took place at Cienfnegos on 18th
instant. The stores Of Aviles Leblanc and Thomas
Terry were destroyed Property to the value of ten
thousand dollars consumed No lives were lost,
although several persons were very severely injured.
The 25th ST. Jago's the patron saint of Spain's
day. The customary salutes were fired in honor of
it. Our friends from old Spain (and there many
of them) were as proud as Lucfer. remembering
their old cry in the battles with the Moors, "San
tago Cierra Espana," Santiago and close Spain)
when they came to the hand to hand fight; but this
letter has already extended to too great length for
me to write what all may read in Spanish history
Or in "the battles of Spain with the Moors," there
fore as ever