New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-23
HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE.

Gpecia TO the New orleans breSceht'}
HAVANA, March IS, 1861.
HI. Editor, so verv few hours have elapsed
ssce placed my last letter to the Crescent in the
ha7as of the polite purser, Charles Hamburgher,
on board the steamship Habana, that fear this
letter will be not only brief but dull and uninter
estpg. vet the steamship Cahawba being here en-
route to your port, feel bound to write you espe-
cialy as now feel at liberty to send you the name
of the highly respectable firm that has failed, and
which hesitated to DO when I last had this plea
sure. The name of the house is '' Arrigunaga,
Pedroso &c Co.. than whom few, il any, had stood
higher among our mercantile community
Messrs. Noriega, DINO & Co. still keep back
from presenting themselves to the Tribunal OF Com
merce nsolyents, although ! hear fheir very
Office furniture levied upon the other day, ana
friend who happened to be present, rather than
see the very chair upon which of the partners
of the house was sitting, taken from under him.
became responsible for that particular debt EVefy
one asks what is the object of Messrs. Norlega'
| Olmo & Co. keeping back from declaring them
selves nsolvents?
Without doing SO, they cannot hope to restore
their lost credit whilst when they ghaVe once
| presented statement showing the state OF their
| affairs to the tribunal and their creditors, feel
| justified in expressing my belief that they will
| be permitted to collect their assets themselves,
and thus, perhaps, be enabled in the course OF
| time to again establish themselves as merchants IN
fair standing. fear. however, the state OF thelf
affairs is so very bad that they dare not present
statement of them to their creditors and the world
The Spanish house of GueeneZ Il Casai has
failed. Their Indebtedness and the state OF their
| affairs have not been enabled to learn. have,
| however, heard that it is not considered very
bad failure. The truth is that all the houses that
bought sugars last year on speculation must nave
| lost large sums of money, and those who had not
''stid backs" must go to the ground under them,
because responsible for that particular debt.
hear that the head of one of our late large com
hat has failed has accented q clerk
ship in the bank Of Pedroso & Co..
4 few days ago a man entered the eating house
called the Golden Lion, at the Plaza de Vapor, "a
| market place outside the walis) and called fcr MS
breakfast. Having partaken heartily Of what was
placed before him, he called the waiter and e&-
pressed his regret that he had not any money
wherewith to defray the charge for what lie had
eaten. tThe proprietor of the eating-house was
called, and he told the man he must pay. He re-
piled, che could not then do so, but would on the
morrow or next day" Torrents of abuse were then
hurled at him he was called ''Sin Verquenza,
| Ca man without shame) which is the bltterest epi
thet that can be applied to Spaniard. Saying ht
could not stand that, he attempted to Leave th'
eating house. but of the attaches OF the hous
G attcmnted TO hold him. saying he regretted he wa
obliged to do what he had hoped not to be com
PEELED to do He drew large knife, ana WIN
g nearly severed the wrist from the arm OF the ma
e who held him. The standers-by, atlrighted, ra
away. and the man with the knife cut one of ther
- all down the bank, laying the spinal column bare
and to end the tragedy, cut his own throat, near
4 separating his head from his body.
The Chilian ship Greyhound arrived on the lat
inst, in one hundred and fifteen days from Whan
pom, via the Cape of Good Hope with two hti
dred "Asatcos free colonsts" ] have not bee
1t able as vet to learn the number of deaths she ha
If on the passage; they always try to keep thes
. | matters secret here
-. They have been taking the census of the island
II Housekeepers were required to state the names {
all parties who slept in their house on the night {
the l4th inst, their ages, whether they could rea
and write, and the name of their father in full ais
, the maiden name of their mother, the country
their birth, etc. ,
o The weather continues delightful. Public heal
unaltered. AS ever,
Nv The British war steamer Gladiator arrived ON u
~ lGth inst from Vera Cruz. cannot learn that 81
~ | brings any news of Importance.
w. ~, TEe schooner w. e. Alexander sailed for Ne
= Orleans on the Nth inst.