New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-22

the season. The embassy, the late residence Q
W. w. Corcoran, Esq, was filled with the peaut.
and fashion Of Washington. When one sees tn
thourhtlessness and extravaganza now prevalen
in high stations the words of the French king VII
| constantly recur, apres moi, lie delaJe.
| KANGAROO.
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Especial Correspondents OF me Crescent
II FROM HAVANA.
4 HAVANA, Feb. 18th, 1866.
4 The nolitical news is nothing more than what
has already appeared in the United States Journals,
viz that the insurrection in Spain is suppressed
! and that General Prim and the "sublevados" are
seeking ito enter Portuguese territory. The AFFAIR
created not the slightest Excitement here.
Il You have heard something of the progress OF
4 abolition here. IT'S true there is growing up an
emancipation or abolition party, but It Is oy no
Il means so formidable as is supposed. Inere are
weak and illiterate creoles, from sincere natrea
to Span and to Spaniards, who are someone's,
may say frequently, to be found, who would be
1 glad to see slavery abolished, bnt they nave an
influence cutie trifing. There are also few Span
iards, bus remarkably few, similarly afflcted.
They fear, / suppose, sudden abolition following
! on the heels of our great war, and would like to
see the thing brought to an end by gradual means.
In fact. believe, that with most Spaniards, the
total abolition of the domestic institution here,
is regarded as a question of time" What will
then be the fate Of the Gem of the Antilles? Like
that of our own once proud, happy, contented
country or will the "ever faithful island,' I'M
ike the Northern States, afford in sugar hogsheads
and boxes, in moasses casks, cigars tobacco, ETC.,
the proof long sought for and so eoquently pro-
claimed, that the highest interest of a country is
only to be secured by an unfettered, unrestricted
free labor?
In warm climates there is, Il may say, a natural
dissemination to labor; and as Cuba is consdera-
bly, farther south (25.15 lat. than the middle belt
of the Southern States (say 33. lat) much fear
that the disinclinaton to labor would be so much
greater with the Cubaneros. as difference of lati-
tude indicates the difference of heat.
In our country, probably, in the lapse Of revov-
ing years, white population will replace negro
labor, say in cycle Of 80 to go years: Emigrants
from foreign lands may settle in it in such numbers
as to make again the fields smile with rich harvests;
but here, on the other hand, nobody is willing
to live except with the well understood object of
getting rich. Nothing holds here the intelligent
white population but the prospect of dollars and
trade. First no religion is tolerated in Cuba but
tile nOIuail, SdtilOllC, apUStOiiC. IA
protestant cannot be inferred here unless the
proof is made that he died Roman Catholic.
Secondly, an intensely warm climate, breeding
dangerous fevers and the everlasting vomito' will
continue to be, in the past bugbear to emigra-
tion Thirdly thousands go to the United States to
get rid of monarchies, but this inducement
will not, most probably, be held out here. Fourth
ly, the creoles far behind the laborng classes
in the United States, whites well as negroes, in
knowledge and in the use of the appliances of life
and, par consequence, much less aptto labor
and to become good husbandmen, adapting them
selves to the changed aspect of Fittings. These
considerations determine me to believe that there
will not be in the Western world more miserable
and wretched country than Cuba after the abo
ton of slavery within its borders. Its taxable pro-
now amounting to 100000 per annum,
will dwindle down to a comparison with Hayti and
Jamaica.
Il conceive that her days of prosperity and glory
are, in that event, rapidly coming to close. Woe
We merchant princes who WELD millions of capital
shipbrokers and bankers, wealthy landed proprie-
tors coffee and sugar raisers the handwriting is
on the wall. Beautiful Habana with your 100000
your glory is drawing to an end. Like
POUR prototypes of the past, Tyre and Carthage,
ind Alexandria, your days are fast being num-
oered. The white man is soon to cease to be lord
Ind master, and the negro is to bear the palm of
victory and to be the measure by which the white
man s.to be measured and have his position fixed
sis bas - eae se5a
+ The opera is the great rage. Grau sold Tor
Pancho Morty the fish merchant, did for him) all
the boxes on the first day before 10 o'clock. The
house was densely crowded, and continues to be
on regular nights but the ftsneltiots eatraoriaaa
ria which follows each opera, and is but repeti-
ton of it, prolonging thereby the twenty-four
to forty eight nights is COM
mencng to weary. Gazzaninga is the CO."
The other singers are quite good, except Ogilini
and particularly the tenor, Musiani, who is great.
Grau will line his pockets we'll.
Apropos of this, serious affair happened the
other day. The 'palcos'' or boxes being all sold,
the proprietor of one, the other morning, entered
the theater and found two or more of the singers
in his 'spaco,i' (where of course, theyhad right
70 be IN the day time ordered them to vamose,n
but in reply to the rich but ill-bred and ignorant
fellow; one of them had spunk enough to say
"no.n Thereupon, an emeute Misunderstanding
with the hand on the part Of the singer, the
Spaniard drawing dagger, and though not
piercing the head as he intended, ripped opened
the skin across and down the top of the singers
skull. The man is not dangerously ill--will re-
cover, and the affair will doubtless put many
ounces in the pockets of some lawyer, and take a
good many out of the pockets of the rich par
venu.n As to the carnival, in the language of the
Tiglo Of to-day, it was not a great thing
Adieu, Fs. W.
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Auo
HAVANA, Feb. 16, 1865.
The carnival is over. Farewell to flesh. We
are now Tor ought to be) fasting in Lent. In