New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-19
HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE.
Special q The New Orleans Crescent. !

Special % The New orleans CRESCENT
HAVANA, April Is, 1860.
M,. Editor--0n the evening of the 9th inst, at
about o'clock. Senior Don Antonio Gonzales
Ajueron, first officer in the office of the Secretary
of the political Governor of this city was assassin
ated near the Haeon Theater, as is stated, by q
mulatto, tprobably d hired assassin) who has been
arrested.
The murdered gentleman was relative of Don
Pancho Marty.
A fire took place on the 3lst ult., at the sugar
/ estate San Julian, near Guines; two cane fields
were destroyed.
Another fire took place on the LIST inst, at Sagua
la Grande. Several small houses were consumed
and five soldiers and three citizens were injured
Happily, no lives were sacrificed.
The railway train from Isabel to Matanzas. on
the 10th inst, got off the track and several of the
passengers were seriously injured.
The capture of the Standardization steamers
General Mramon and Marques de la Habana has
proved perfect godsend to the Diario de la Ma.
riNG, Of this city.
Without that event. its editor would evidently
have been !" hard up y for subjects upon which to
amuse or enlighten the readers of that paper. He
succeeded, as far as am individually concerned
in doing the former when first pernsed his article
Of more than two columns in length, in the i'm
preston Of that paper Of the lltf inst and which
article nnhesitatingly pronounce to be one Of the
most sublime pieces of twaddle that has fallen be.
meath my notice.
The writer of the article III the Did,sto III III
Marina is evidently one Of those men, that to pro.
duce a favorable opinion of his powers as a writer
and to induce his readers to coincide with the
opinions and doctrines he advances, it Is requisite
to write very iengthly apparently forgetting there
is such thing as e Foe Il Tfateiea aaisi.n / will
translate some portions Of that article to afford
you an opportunity of Judging if have arrived at
correct conclusion respecting it. He says
The New Orleans papers at first spoke of the
great victory of the capture of the steamers, but
recently appear to be getting little ashamed of
having done 50, fer in them we find the protest of
General Marin.
Thus. you viii perceive. it is attempted to prove
a confession of having done wrong by the exhibit
ing spirit of fair play. The :. audi sHe,a1s pu,
TEN principle it is evident docs not form any
portion of the ethics Of the Dia,io de Ia Marina
writer. After the above extract, follows some of
the twadde:
But others have undertaken to present it 10 the
pToeasfs,t 70 the men of honorable feelings of Inc
Y sloh, Who ere this have without donhf reraiva5
knowedge Of the matter under III tina as,aet
an
ana pesn enabled to form an exact idea Of ths
gsaa eat,e given by the Saratoga in the waters
aeitller now nor never have we, or are tlisnosed
TO DO the Anglo American Uniot. fhs
suppose there are not in It those who % y ~
with horror acts of such nature, With 80
dangers, and to no country more SO than he a
nation which possesses such great maritime i ss,e
ests, 70 see i exposed to constant dangers ran
questions. -
Il this last extract be not twaddle, pray tell me
what il? But he goes on:
What American interest had the Saratoga 10
serve in passing saerifcos at night, departing from
Vera Cruz without answering the signals of the
men III war anchored at Sacriticios2
Was IT decoroas for the United States flag to
undertake an operation with a legal intention in
hat form and with criminal appearance?
DID the Saratoga not expose herselfg Might
not her conduct have produced grave conflict?
!, HAD not those vessels fat anchor at saerincios)
been commanded by respectable officers, the con,
sequence of the conduct Of the Saratoga would |
have resulted differently. q
What will the commander of the Saratoga say 10 |