Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1855 — La Habana. [ARTICLE]

La Habana.

As we were making the best of our way out of “Tlie Havana." we could not but realize the appropriateness of the name that had been given by the old Spaniards to this city —"La Habana,” the haven or harbor. The entrance is so narrow as j 1 to be commanded easily by a much less | . formidable forge of foi tress than opposes j tiie approach of a hostile fleet, anfl yet, ! when once indde, the harbor is one ol the most spacious and safest in the v/orki. Tiie Aloro and-Funta are models in their way, and enlist the admiration of all beholders, The city is situated, relatively to tliese defences, as it seems to the eye of the traveler, impregnably. Ramparts here, bastions There, trenches otherwhere —artillery projecting its biaek muzzele from every “cpigne of vantage"—? floating gun-boats on tiie surface —-long rows of cannon overhead sleepless vigilance everywhere apparent—give the peaceful and reliant visitor from the United States the idea that here is a vastly unnecessary expenditure of precaution." What need, thinks the Yankee, as he is into the j beautiful Havana, of such an array of soldiery as he sees, like bees around their hive, swafmiag upon the skies of the. Cabanas! Beyond doubt, this idea very naturally vanishes, or rather melts away, before the convictiop that always follows a more careful study of the geography of the Island of Cuba. If this beautiiul haven is ever transferred to the list of our cities, it will not be through the medium of any attack made directly thereupon. There is a long line ofsea-Doard,or rather Gulfboard, which it will require all the vigilance of the Cuban authorities to delead against the attacks of those who sympathize with the spirit of revolution that, say what they may w r ho say there is none of it, does really exisf. ainohg tHe people' of this beautiful island.

And is it possible, in the nature of; things, that there could exist, within /f/ty 1 miles of thin freest republic the world has ever known, a province like this, made up in a great degree of people emanating , frum that repubhu, carrying thither the' feelings, the sentiments, the principles, , i the example,the statistics, the proofs ol the : working of that republic’s government and institutions, without its catching, without its becoming impregnated with its 1 spirit and its genius? As well, it strikes us, might a rational mind expect that the Horal pollen, escaping from stamen of one ffoWfrry-imfl alighting upon the stigma of another of the same species, willnotfowux-, date and produce a bud. But bless us! We are getting flowery and political; some might say fillibustcrish. The powers that be forbid l But a ; man musk think of something as lie is going out of this charming Havana, and

“what is written is writton.”-

N. O. Pic.