New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-15
VOLUME XIV.


! LETT Eh FAGOM HA F4ANAs
HAVANA, June 2, 1866.
AT twelve o'clock precisely General Dulce en-
tered the state carriage with General Lersundi,
and repaired to La Machina, which is directly in
front of the postoffce. There was lying the Isabel
La Catoca, with steam up, ready to sail. In the
meantime eight steamers had been chartered by
the ex-governorgeneral's friends, and men and
women to the number Of some fifteen hundred to
two thousand had gone on board. The excursion
on these chartered steamers was free to the gene
raj public. All these vessels displayed numerous
| flags, some with "AdOs" at the mast-heads, the
whole combining in their decorations much taste
and beauty. One or more bands of music had
been engaged, and were on board, discoursing
sweet notes to the assembled thousands on the
Mueile. The vessels sailed around the bay, and
gave repeated cheers to the departing general,
while there was visible emotion among the great
throng that lined the bay.
| Soon after say at u! o'clock, the steamers took
their positions and Immediately after there steam
ed along slowly the Isabel La Catolica General
Dulc6 was upon the wheel-house in citizens dress
and waved repeatedly his adieus to the assembled
throng The band continued playing all the while,
the exeursonists cheering The general was deeply
affected, repeatedly pressing his handkerchief to
his eyes There was large number of the fair sex
in the windOws-and altogether it was a most bnl-
| liant and courtly affair. The vessels accompanied
| the general out beyond the Moro, then waving a
| last adieu, his strong and warm friends returned
| to the city. There is one thing very sure, the
people believed the general when he said in his
last address that "he was a CUBAN While not
popular withEthe Spanards he is the idol of the Gu
bans. Probably no other governor-general was
ever so popular with the creoes. The affair must
have cost some 5000 to 0000 dollars; besides, he
was presented on board with box, to be opened
by him out at sea- and said to contain over s25 900
in hard cash. The Office of governor.general is a
| very lucrative one. The salary is twice tha. OF
our President, while the inside pckings are sup.
posed to be much larger, Concha was said to have
carried away $3,000,000. Serrano was almost
bankrupt, and being fayorite of the queen was
at his own instance, appointed captain-general
here with the view of recuperating his fortunes
He made enough. l do not know. but intelligent
and knowing people say that Dulc6 must have
made "a million. Each new captain-general has
a new state carriage and four horses, furnished
free of expense, and he has three palaces.
| Only one of these buildings is called palace
but the one in the Cerro, called Quinta de los Mo
limos, is what we in the States would term palace
1t is large and exceedingly lovely spot, with al
| the appliances and comforts of advanced cviliza
| tion. The other, and summer residence, at Ma
rianao Give miles from the outer limits Of Ha
vana,) is also magnificent residence. The gov
ernor-general of Cuba is well provided for. Hav
ing an almost royal sway, and representing in hil
person and powers his sovereign-with, in somt
| respects, more authority than the sovereign her
self-he is recognized emphatcally as "persoI
great in authority"
Lately there appeared in the New York Herald
an article which spoke Of the suppression of news
papers, literature, ETC., by order of the chief o
police here. This is gross misrepresentation
There were some few revolutionary clubs here
composed Of artizans, who, under pretence of ly
ceums, or literary societies, were nothing NOR
than a set of revolutiOnists. At these clubs, tina
famous paper, the siglo, was publicly read, an
its articles encored and indorsed. No other paper
or books, l dare say, were ever read there, unles
sheets entertaining the same radical and reyolu
tionary views. The editor of the Siglo is comte
His title is Pozos Dulces, or ''sweet wells " in Eng
lish. he is man of talent
His articles to an unprejudiced mind are calcu
lated to do mischief, foster revolutionary spirit
create trouble and disturbance, and in the en-,
produce no substantial good Doubtless the lat
duels we have had here, and the occasional out
breaks in the island, though small and nsignif
cant, are to be attributed to his course. Enter
tanning these views, and viewing the assembling O
such clubs, composed of such people and for sue
f purposes, the government wisely suppressed thes
| meetings Who says they were wrong2 As t
any serious revolution on the part of the CubanS