The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-02-01
The Press Despatsla.

The Pross Despatch.
HAVANA, Jan. IS, lso6
By tho English steamer Hdeg, from 81 Thomast We
have dates from the republic Of San Salvador TO the 10th
ulk The Presidential e,ecGoa had taken place without
any popular disturbance and resulted In tho reelection
Of Senior DuenaA
The government has placed at liberty the pirates John
Bradshaw and Thomss Reynolds VINO were arrested on
thor way oonnivsnce with others take forcblo pos
session OF Of the California The tribunal
has declared that the government has no right to nct
any punishment although they confessed their inten-
aons, and they have therefore, been liberated The
British vice consulaes have been suppressed by order
Of the English government.
Tho indigo trade is reported buoyant and business to
be generally increasing Considerable harm has been
caused to the cotton crop by the rains and II will there
fore be smaller than anticipated though larger than
was expected at one time
From Jamaica we learn that the Jamaica Bank has
ceased TO exist All Us business has been turned over to
the Colonial Bank and compensation has been given
TO the shareholders Of ten Thousand pounds sterling
Business is dull and the 9th ult additional duties
imposed on various articles among them tobacco;
two ponce per pound cigarS penny and half ON
leaf and sxpenco on cigarettes and snuff
From Trinidad we hear Of excessive rains though the
prospects Of the sugar crop good Up TO December
10 there had been exported $3.50 hogsheads, 6,7oo
terces 5375 barrels Of sugar. 1909 hogsheads and
4O7 tierces Of m0asses GIL hogsheads Of rum, lilo
pounds Of coffee, 373 bales and 30 ccroons Of cotton
The French of Amaranthe has arrived at Santa
Lucia demanding the delivery of four deserters from the
French navy. This was denied the courts declaring
that they had committed CRIME; they free from
the moment they trod upon English soil.
We have had bad news In regard TO the sugar crop
Of Granada.
Considerable anxiety is felt here in regard to the
arrival of the Spanish mail steamer from Cadix she
due here the 10th inst at most the Goth. There
Ia report TINT she has been lost but II can have
possible foundation As write steamer is signaed on
the MORO as being in sight, which mag prove 10 be tho
refer TO.
We have received with joy the glorious news Of the
fall of Fort Fisher The CHIEF Importance TO Havana Of
this victory in tho closing Of the port to blockade
nera Those decidedly down in the mouth. How
ever the principal traffic hence d this kind is with the
port Of Galveston.
The English steamer vuture arrived the 22d from
Nassau She Is fine steamer, Of three hundred and
thirty Eve TONS and mace the passage in twenty five
hours As she In she carried the rebel flag at her
foretap The General Whiting Of which wrote you in
my last carried bcrgee, with 8. s s. Co. This am
pany. There report that she dipped her
that this salute was returned II not returned.
However when the Colonel Lamb passed this flagship,
am credbly informed she sautcd and that salute was
returned by the dipping Of the ensign three times Our
government ought to investigate the latter In the
OF the Colonel Lamb II tho flag OF the socalled
Confederate States that saued In tho Of the
General whiting it would have been the English,
We have had cold, rainy weather lately, which still
cOnttnues