New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-21
HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE.

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HAVANA, May 10, 1860.
Ed. G.escent-Permission has been granted to
the g Marques de Real Proclamation z and to ST..
Don Fernandez Rodriguez Berengner to have a
line of railway surveyed from the Gnanabacoa
branch of the Regla and Matanzas Railway to
Cohima, q small fishing village four or five miles
beyond Guanabacoa, around the Moro Castle-a
railway which will soon convert 1t into fashiona,
BILE watering place, there being admirable sandy
bottom the sea-hathing excellent, and it is always
cool there in the hottest months; the delightful
breezes, coming direct off the Gulf, temper the at
mosphere and render it quite invigorating
The Diario de la Marina has received ntelIi-
gence from Honduras to the 10th March. I trans
late the following from the above.named paper:
| decree had passed the Senate and been con-
| frmed by the President for the extension Of agr
| culture. The decree provides
l. That proprietors of land shall have three or
more fields planted with canes, and field of ten
thousand feet of Coffee cacao, quina, = car
nibar " or black balsam, or five Thousand "punosn
of aromatic VANILLA or those who have been in the
habit of planting annually may, instead Of the
above, plant each year ten squares of hundred
squire yards with cotton or jequilite, corn wheat,
beans, or any other grain Of the first necessity.
2. Agricnlturists and their farm servants are to
be exempt from military duty during the time of
peace-the servants only whilst in actual service.
8. Logwood, sugar, panelos, coffee, eacao, quna,
carnibar, black halsam, vanilla and cotton may be
exported free of duty.
cent, or sl2 per quintal, when exported over the
frontier.
From Yucatan the dates are to the 29th ult.
Nothing is said in the papers from Merida of In
dian risngs; therefore, it is presumed that all is
peace.
From Porto Rico the dates are to the I'd instant.
The Prensa of this city Of the 18th instant gives
the following few items of news
On the sth ult., the foundation stone of new
church was laid with much pomp and ceremony.
The building, it is estimated will cost upwards of
s26o0 900.
An address had been prepared by the Captain
General and the Real Audensa to the Queen, con-
graduating her Majesty upon the suppression of
the rebellion of Gen. 0rtega.
slight shock Of an earthquake was experienced
at Porto Rico on the 10Th ult.
The only news from St. Domingo is the appoint
ment of commission of three gentlemen, who are
to g fx'' the offices Of the Treasury.
The British fifty zone gun screw frigate Emerald
Capt Arthur Cumming, bearing the flag of .Admira
Sir Alexander Milne, arrived in this port on thu
evening Of the sth instant, and sailed for Bermuds
on the afternoon Of the 18th, and from thence She
ship, of which any nation might well be proud
Her officers patronized the Dominica, laying in
stocks Of guara dolce for their friends England.
BY a royal decree, dated 18th ult., it is decided
the intendente Of the island Crreasurer) is to have
entire charge of all the accounts relating to the
Island Treasury.
Madame Keller, the artistic, died at Cienfnegos
| the sth inst.
4 On the 10th inst the French ship Emiie Pereira,
4 Porieer, master, arrived in one hundred and SIX
4 davs from Macao via st. Helena, with four hum
dred and ffty.one Asiaticos free oolonists, con-
/ signed TO Messrs. Campbell Il Caro-, of this city
1 Don Pedro Antonio Bereew, late Promoter Fs-
caI attorney General) at Guinness, has been dis
missed from his appointment by the Queen, still
receiving his stipend.
The Nest Excellent Sehof Conds de Casa Mont
albo bequeathea the sum Of six thousand dollars,
to be put ont at interest, which interest Is to be