of Messis. John Magimnis & Co. You will please communicate at once with Capt. Forno on the subject. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, To the Hon. J. N. HAWTHORN, A. D. CROSSMAN, Mayor. Acting Recorder of Municipality No. 2. No. 6. MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS, August 22, 1851. SIR: As I have good cause to apprehend this evening a renewal of the disgraceful disturbances which took place last night, and as these outrageous proceedings must be stopped at all hazards, I direct you forthwith to assemble the whole police force under your control, and to station them in St. Charles street, and other thoroughfares, with instructions to disperse all assemblies of suspicious persons. You are likewise authorized to increase your force, by accepting the services of every citizen who may volunteer to assist in preserving the public peace; also to call upon citizens to enrol themselves as a special polien, and to patrol the streets in such detachments as you may deem necessary, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. D. CROSSMAN, Mayor. P. S. I have given the requisite instructions to Acting Recorders Elder and Hawthorn. You will please to communicate to we, from time to time, the state of affairs. Capt. HENRY FORNO, High Constable Municipality No. 2. No. 7. PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR. MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS, Whereas, there is good reason to apprehend, during the day and evening, a renewal of the disgraceful occurrences which took place last night; and whereas, it is due to the maintenance of law, and the preservation of the public peace, that these disturbances should be put down at all hazards; therefore, I, A. D. Crossman, Mayor of the city of New Orleans, deem it proper to issue this my proclamation, calling upon all good citizens to abstain from gathering and mixing together in crowds, and to do all that lies in their power to allay the excited state of the public mind. And, in order more effectually to suppress the riotous spirit which has unfortunately manifested itself in our midst, I appeal to my fellow-citizens. to e. r. I themselves as a special police, and to report themselves forthwith in readiness to the offices of the various recorders of the three Municipalities, for the purpose of performing patrol duty. L. HEYLIGER, Secretary. A. D. CROSSMAN, Mayor. No. 8. MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS, August 25, 1851. Sta: Although at the present moment everything is quiet, yet the pos sibility of exciting news reaching us from Havana renders it necessary that you should continue to keep up your organization, so that at a moment's warning you may be enabled to concentrate your whole force on any given point. I trust that no further disturbance will occur, but in the meantime it is proper that you should be on your guard, for under no circumstances cau a repetition of the scenes of Thursday last be tolerated. Resp ctfully, your obedient servant, Captain Any Forno, A. D. CROSSMAN, Mayor. High Constable, Municipality No. 2. No. 9. MAYORALTY OF NEW ORLEANS, August 27, 1851. Sin: Although I sincerely trust that no further attempt will be made to disturb the peace of the city, such as occurred during your absence, yet I deem it prudent to be prepared for any sudden emergency, and would therefore recommend to you the propriety of having the police ready to act at a moment's warning, in the event of the receipt of any further disas trous news from Cuba. I addressed similar recommendations to the acting recorder and to the high constable during your absence from the city, and think it proper now to apprize you of the necessity of being prepared. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, To the Hon. J. H. CALDWELL, Recorder of Municipality No. 2. [Extract from the New Orleans Picayune of 23d September, 1851.] MAYOR CROSSMAN AND THE SPANISH CONSUL. We take pleasure in publishing the following from Mr. Crosaman, in correction of a statement which has appeared in our Havana correspond ence. As similar statements have been telegraphed to the north from other sources, we do not regret that an opportunity has been afforded our worthy mayor of refuting such a calumny on our city. It may be proper to say that our Havana correspondent gave the statement as coming from the Spanish consul. without endorsing it in any way. * NEW ORLEANS, September 22, 1851. “EDITORS OF THE PICAYUNE: My attention has been called to the following extract from a letter of your Havana correspondent, under date of the 9th September: I myself heard him (the Spanish consul) say, that he left the city by advice of the mayor, Mr. Crossman, who informed him that his life was in danger, and that if seized by the mob, he (the mayor) would be unable to protect him.' "A similar statement was conveyed by your correspondent some time since, but in this instance the writer alleges that he heard the Spanish consul make use of the language above cited. It therefore becomes ine to say, that Mr. Laborde must have either strangely misinterpreted the meaning of my words, or that the excitement of the moment has made him forgetful of the purport of my remarks. In the only conversation. I had with that gentleman at my office, on the 21st ultimo, I distinctly assured him, on the contrary, that he need not entertain the slightest fear of any attack on his person. Other gentlemen were present who doubtless have a lively recollection of the fact. “A. D. CROSSMAN. Mayor." Letters received by the Spanish consul from Cuba, and delivered into the post office at 3 P. M., 21st August, 1851. From Mr. Brincio, passenger on the steamer Empire City," New Orleaus, Augut 21, 1851. M. MUSSON, P. M. Mr. Calderon to the Acting Secretary of State. [Translation.] SPANISH LEGATION IN WASHINGTON, The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, notified his government at the same time that he addressed to the government of the United States the reclamations contained in his notes of the 26th August and the 5th September last, respectively, in regard to the excesses which were committed in New Orleans, after the piratical invasion of Bahia Honda. The undersigned has just received a reply from her Majesty's government, expressive of the very deep grief it had experienced, (as it was to be expected,) in consequence of such ominous and abominable events; nor has the Spanish government felt less pain in seeing the futility of the numerous and constant efforts it had made with a view of preventing the catastrophy which has been witnessed in the island of Cuba. It is certainly not its own fault, if, turning a deaf ear to all its warnings, and persisting to disdain the voice of reason and of justice, a set of wicked agitators have succeeded in carrying into effect an undertaking which has been denounced at all times by every civilized nation, and which had been condemned beforehand by the enlightened public opinion of the country. Since the Cardenas expedition of last year, military preparations have been going on without interruption at various points of the confederacy, keeping the island of Cuba in a constant state of uneasiness, until finally the new attempt upon Bahia Honda was consummated in spite of our repeated protests and constant reclamations. And as if the scandal which the New Orleans agitators presented to the world, in sending piratical expeditions against a country from which not the least insult or provocation had been received, and with which the Government was entirely at peace,--a peace guaranteed by solemn treaties, and preserved until this moment through the medium of the most friendly intercourse-had not been sufficient, these and other agitators, in the frenzy of an unjust resentment, have comunitted upon the territory of the United States, acts of violence which are of public notoriety, and which would not even have been justified under circumstances of an open state of war between the two governments. Apprised of all the facts, her Majesty's government has ordered the undersigned to persist in asking, as he again asks in the name of said government, for full satisfaction for the aggravated insults committed upon the Spanish flag and upon her Majesty's consul at New Orleans, and also that the Spaniards residing in that city shall be indemnified for the losses they Have sustained at the hands of an infuriated and licentious mob. Her Majesty's government has been likewise informed, and it does not deny the fact, how painful it has been to the illustrious President of the epublic to see his authority set at defiance, and the noble and imperishale principles contained in his proclamation of the 25th of last April undervalued. His Excellency, however, cannot fail likewise to acknowledge on his own part, and in the plentitude of his liberal sentiments, how impossile it is for Spain to put up with such outrages, which it has never tolerated before. If the excitement produced in the South, and at other points by recent events, has been tumultuous and far spread, the sensation which has een caused in Spain has been equally deep, as well as unanimous among I classes and parties, with the public press and a private life, at court as well as in the provinces. In the island of a there also exists an pinion on the subject which the Spanish government is bound to respect, ecause it is at once just and honorable, and in view of this expression of national sentiments, her Majesty's government, whether optional with it or otherwise, could do no less than to sustain, at all hazards, the honor of the Castilian flag a flag without stain, notwithstanding the unforeseen disasters and misfortunes through which the Spanish nation has had to pass for a long series of years; a nation which never shrinks from any species of sacrifice when it is a question of maintaining her honor, and of vindicating her rights. Her Majesty's government has been gratified to observe that a respecta1 portion of the United States have expressed themselves openly and restely against the criminal excesses committed in the South; and relying, moreover, upon the support which the cabinet of Washington will meet from all good and sensible men, her Majesty's government hopes, also, that the former will succeed in suppressing and restraining all similar misbehaviours. The undersigned has been instructed to inform the Government of the United States, that the Captain-General of the island of Cuba has received positive orders from her Majesty's government, efficiently to protect the persons and property of all Anglo-Americans established there, because, with the same severity it has used towards the piratical invaders of Spanish territory, it would likewise punish all who should attempt to commit any ffence against those respectable foreigners who reside there under the uspices of our good faith. Her Majesty's government fears, however, that if these agitations and these hostile designs should continue, the supreme authority of the island might be placed in such circumstances as not to be able to avoid ordering all those who belong to the southern States out of it, and even to compel the United States' consul himself to quit, in case the Spanish consul in New Orleans should not have received due satisfaction. But this reparation, together with the indemnifications due to those Spaniards who were deprived of their property by forcible means, have heen verbally promised to the undersigned, who has communicated the fact to his government. He has no doubt, therefore, but that he will soon receive an explicit reply from the Hon. J. J. Crittenden on the subject which he earnestly requests, and he flatters himself with the hope that justice will shortly repair the injuries and excesses which have been caused by injustice to the detriment of those friendly relations which existed between the |