Latest from Havana.
The Havana correspondent of the N. O. Delta, writes to that paper the following letter:
Havana, Sept. 18, 1861.
Our communication is not quite as open and free as our hearts would desire; but such as it is through the mal-providence of Lincoln and his fraud dent blockade.
I will endeavor to take full advantage.
We have a midshipman of the Sumter here, who will get to his country and into active service again shortly.--Hicks, prize-master of the ship Jessie Maxwell, who was ordered ‘"out of Cienfuegos within twenty-four hours, etc.,"’ and who subsequently put his prize on shore to the westward of the port, and then claimed the right of shipwrecked persons for himself and crew, was allowed to come to Havana.
The Consulate-General and the advisory corps of spies, which gathers there, do fill that comes within the reach of their power to obstruct the interests of the Confederate States of America; but fortunately their power is not in proportion to then intense malignity, and their action falls with its accumulated venom on their own heads.
In consequence of the unjust representations and unreasonable demands of that Consulate and its advisory associates, it has now been determined that the vessels and flags of the Confederate States may enter the ports of Cuba, discharge, sell, buy and load cargoes, and clear for Confederate ports, having all rights and privileges of the most favored nations in the transaction of their legal business.
This has put the Consul General's denunciation, as pirates, in abeyance with the dirt where it belongs.
The order does not presume recognition of the nationality of the Confederate States, other than the purposes stated.
The friends of the Confederate States, who are the hirelings and spies of the U. States Consulate for the vile usurpation of Lincoln, are well known to you, and should be remembered. They are as vindictive as the most rabid of Abolition snakes which have crept into the heart of the Democratic ranks of the North; they have no magnanimous rattle to apprise of their lurking upon your path, and their names are furnished herewith for future use and reference, when the fallacy of their constructive treason is fully exposed and defeated in the field and in the Cabinet.
I shall ask, as a favor, that this may reach you through a sliding express.
Two or three vessels, loaded, will be at their wharves in due season.
Sugars--No. 12, $4.12½ to $4.25 per 100 lbs.--Demand less, but prices firm. Stock, 90,000 boxes, against 170,000 last year.
Molasses--27 to 3 lals by the keg. Quiet.
Freights — Nothing doing for Northern vessels.
Exchanges — London, 16½ to 17½ prem.; 60 days do. Northern, 67½ to 77½ prem.; 60 days do. New Orleans, no transaction.
The health of Havana is good.
We have in Cuban ports over twenty-five vessels from Confederate ports, which have not seen a blockading vessel of the enemy. I send you the first of a series that will be continued.
