New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-24
Especial Correspondence Of the Grasceat.l
LETTER FROM HAVANA,

HANAEA, CuBA, April II.
Learning that the quarantine prescription of
your port even extends to the "mails," laval my
self of the opportunity furnished by the Guiding
Star to communicate with you via New York.
AT last we are in luck. A new era is about
dawning on our, island. Havana's commercial
celebrity for sugars and cigars is to pale before
the new article of commerce about to be opened
to us. And what think you is to work this
great revolutions ! Nothing less than ollie"
Petrolia has found anew kingdom, richer ana iar
vaster than its old domain in Pennsylvania. For
a year past the attention of scientific oil proprie-
tors has been turned hitherward. Specimens upon
specimeps have been sent to the States for ana.
lyzation, until at last the numerous chemical
identi6cations of the old Chapapota springs with
petroleum has relaxed the purse strings of CAPT
tal. and the arriving Of machinery and the great
bores under way in several parts of the island,
show that we are in for it. have seen several
specimens of the yield, and if nauseating odor is
apy index of the coveted article assure you
there can be no doubt about its identity. To
what extent this new discovery will rouse the list
lessness of the natives, remains to be seen; but
from present appearances it will be the people of
the United States who will reap the golden har
vest. As yet the knowledge of its existence is
only whispered around, but the fact is too i'm.
portant to the interests of all to be longer con-
cealed. One well at Madraga is well under way,
and the borers expect to strike vein in about
three weeks, or in about the time the extreme
sensitiyeness of your public health will allow this
dispatch to reach you. By the by, do they fumi-
gate our letters? 1t is satisfaction to a cor
respondent to know that he is " fumigated," and
something am anxious about. r.,.5.gs
Since my last we have had arrivals from St.
Thomas and Vera Cruz. By the former we hear
of destructive fire at Port au Prince on March
10TH in which the greater portion of the city, in
Guiding the palace and public arehieves, were
totally destroyed. 1t was evidently the work Of
incendiaries, and the people are reported to have
made little or no effort to arrest its progress.
Great dissatisfaction with the present government
exists, and another revolution is evidently brew
Ing. &7+F -4s
The news from Mexico reports additional I'M
perial successes. Gen. Aymard is said to have
defeated Regules with fifteen hundred men, and
drove him a fugitive to the mountains. The
Liberals are, however, stli. active. Last Sunday
week they had fight with the Imperialists and
gained some success within seventeen miles of
Cordoya, the site of the American Colony. By
the by passengers who visited that place report
the tide Of emigration now setting from there to
Jalapa, lands having increased SO fast in value as
to place them beyond the reach of parties of
moderate means. ~
Gen. Elmonte, the new Minister to France, ap-
pointed in the place of Hidalga, is expected here
by the next steamer in company with Gen.
0xholm, who visited Mexico at the command Of
= IA IL 4ho- -
ing the Emperor with the Order of the "Ele-
plant" If the King of Denmark had any public
reputation for Righteousness, we would be inclined
to view this huge joke upon Max.
[ In our ever faithful city everything is dull.
Last Sunday the election of delegates to Spain
took place and resulte1 in the choice of Don
Ramon d'Armas and Sr. X. MARITIME. The latter is
a Spaniard by birth and his choice gives anything
but satisfaction to the Creoles. The whole six
teen delegates are now chosen and will depart for
Spain forthwith; and when you learn that it is
estimated their labors in representing the wants
political and otherwise of Cuba, will occupy them
for two years, you will agree with me that the
| g Barnacle" family must be well represented il
CASTLE. I.m ..-.....
The English transport Urgent arrived here OIL
| Saturday having on board 1000 troops of the q
West India regiment tcolored) en- route for Seirrs
Leone. The red coats of the officers are seen wei
| represented on the promenades and at places o.
public amusement. @s~n4s.LS ,4.0M.m.-
Sugars still hold firm at rls for No. IL
Exchange do. Freights show symptoms of de-
cline. This lull in trade cannot continue much
longer Either the holders or buyers must give
way in prices; and from the unfayorable foreign
accounts received I think it will be the former.
Cotton continues to arrive slowly from Matamoros.
800 bales arrived last week, and but little more is
expected. .7..4. -.-,
We are not yetbadly off for amusements. Opera,
theater, circus and lyceum, are all under weigh
and attendance upon the whole good. The
weather, with the exception Of one or two show,
ers, has been exceedingly pleasant for the past
week, and at present, with light north wind blow.
ing, is delightfully."- cool and saubrious. This year
winter appears lingering in the lap of spring
rather longer than usual-a fact that my letter
shall not correspond to-so, ados. ,~4-.s ~-
REFUSING TO BURY THEIR own DEAp.-The
freedmen's bureau for the district of West Ten
nessee have given notice to the city authorities
of Memphis that the bureau will no longer relieve
the city from the responsibility of burying it's OWE
colufeu paupeiS' ~
The unfortunate negro who is old or infrm now
realizes the meaning of the Presidents words
g the celored people will soon find out who are
their real frends' As long as Sambo is strong
and healthy and able to earn wages, the bureau is
his good friend---he is able to pay charges and to
contribute to the luxury Of the assistant commits
sioner; but the poor devil that has been decoyed
from comfortable home, without the pith in his
arms to earn his daily bread, is thrust away from
the precincts of the bureau, and his corpse left
upon the wayside like the carcass of an animal, to
be buried by the tardy officers of the corporation
What language would now be more appropriate in
the mouth of such misguided wretch, appealing in
vain before the paupered commissioner Of freed
men, than that addressed to the robbers By
Valentine, in Shakspeare's "Two Gentlemen o.
Varona:" es. 9ss....r-..... .I...-
my riches these poor hab'impnts
Orwhich if you should here dsFurni4h me, >
You take the substance and the sum l. avel"
THE Ice BRIDGE AT NIAGARA FALLs.--The
Niagara Falls Gazette, of April IL, says:
The ice bridge at the ferry passed away yester