New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-23
NUMBER BOA.
HAVANA ooaRE8PoNDENCE.,-.


H4vAxA, Feb II, 1851,
Nl. EIt,0;'-The fire that was raging oBtsi4e
the wah9 Of this city at the time = P NJ placed
my Ie.ger Of lGtl inst. 10 the hands Of PHrser Ham
burger, On board the stean7tp HAbana, vas not
ealirelg aa,lias1sied untjt naxt morning. II COM
meoccd aboH. Ii . cock on the morning of Igth /
a.t, in the house No 70 Gale del Prado, and the
entire square formed by the Gales Trocadero Ami
mas Prado and the Alameda de Villa Nueya Was |
consumed
The chief part Of the buildings consumed were
wooden houaes OF small value. The tremen, as is
usually the in this city, were not on the ground
| until The flames had gained firm hold, that
with the great scarcity Of water in the neighbor-
hood aad the general nefieiency alike Of the fire.
men themselves and of their engines, their efforts
to subdao the flames proved utterly useless.
The scene Of this fire, as believe informed you
! in my brief note made on board the Habaua on Is tn
| inst, was in the immediate neighborhood Of the
| Villa Nueva theater. The wind blew the flames in
the direction of the Tacon theater, and, but for
heavy shower Of rain that descended soon after |
| left the Habana, which somewhat quenched the
flames and saturated the roofs Of the buildings be-
tween the fire and the Tacon theater, fully be-
| lieve the latter building would have fallen prey
| to the devouring element. Rules, regulations and
subordination are all very excellent IN proper
p'aoeS 'u' 'Les D'"' - O;, w.
"a ''le !. a,-,Sa, =; +,,i
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wy "'4"U'" :, st III
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i'' ens'1e' 0ii''i JIG 'D'7tf'
pearance.
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rIl a,sto-. l,s,o.v> ,oro oe corrsa at tbe
fire in rgc numbers: thew exercised the authority
h -, md ,,a,,ire, 4bo ossora.
ule! Po7SeSS' "y N'io.N'i5 "ito pS''.''a y N"0
bled crowd about as pest suited their Nthe soiaeTs)
:. nnrn0ses MANY persons were seriously injured
l. ,, ,ro1 c.1,o, ,,,1 ho 4 hnan artivaI, pnpo eed
anu so 's'tei' " ~ ,. a.
III trying 10 eXtihgHlSH Tue iahles Mele, "Neh .hS
; withdrew from the heat caused by them. seized
i will, c,,o,,,,,s circumstance which as far as my
T n,-ra1,,o xtsn5S is ,oeuiia- to this climate
{ AAU"
- The party seized with the cramps NPaSh'S'o0s'
" they term it in Spanish, becomes perfectly sense
l. las. f +ra +,,o bis ,nrzcIec GROW ririd and some
Y It'll ,,,,-o, haforo h. is raatnrad to his norma
It l4ata
n Tbaro soan f7raa in other West India islands, a
,,I;oh ,othirr of tbis kind occurred. The oues
n tio, +harerora arises whether these attacks are
Il ,,al b, eorna naculiaritv in this climate or by
o ~, i5;zrncrocv in the constitution of the peope,
II 1ba qnonish steamship Pdjaro del Oceano, Ocea1
5, p;5 or;,od 1e+h instant from St. Thomas, Port,
S. Rico atc etc bringing papers from Caraeca
IvanezuoIa> to g2d. from St. Domingo to 26th Janu
a. Nv, ,,,tir,o and from Porto Rico to 9Th instant
es r}o Coraccos nanars contain nothing later tina
to +bo ,apra 7 sent Won on 10th inst.
translate and condense. as is customary wit
at mo the following Intelligence from st. DOming
he o,1 porto Rico from the Prensa of this city
ng 18th mt: