The situation in Havana.

A correspondent wrote from Havana, on the 3d of May, as follows: 

“The dispatch boat succeeded again to-day in opening communication with Havana, and your correspondent brought away with him the morning papers of yesterday.

“The City of Havana is a sad sight.  There are still a few of the reconcentrados about the streets now, but starvation has ended the misery of most of them, and their bones have been thrown into the trenches outside of the city.

“Starvation now faces the Spanish citizens themselves.  Havana is a graveyard.  Two-thirds of the inhabitants have fled.  The other third is beginning to feel the pangs of hunger.

“The prices rival those of Klondike.  Beefsteak is $1 a pound.  Chickens are $1 each.  Flour is $50 a barrel.  Everything is being confiscated for Blanco’s army.  Sleek, well-fed persons are daily threatened with death to make them divulge the whereabouts of their hidden stores of provisions.

“Several provision stores in the side streets have been broken into and looted.  General Blanco is being strongly urged to sink artesian wells to provide water in the event of a siege, as a joint attack by the Cuban and American forces would destroy the aqueduct.  It is not thought that Blanco will attempt this, as he will not have sufficient time.

“A bulletin posted on the wall of the palace this morning announced that the mail steamship Aviles from Nuevitasa and the Cosine Herra from Sagua arrived last night.  It is also stated that the Spanish brig Vigilante arrived at Matanzas from Montevideo with food supplies for the government.

“The palace of the Captain General is practically deserted since the blockade began.  Blanco has personally taken command of Mariena battery, and is directing the erection of new sand batteries all along the water front west of the entrance to Havana Bay.  Lieutenant General Perrado is making Guanabacoa his headquarters, and is planting new batteries and strengthening the fortifications as much as possible.  Over 300 draymen are engaged in the hauling of sand from the mouth of Almandres for use in the construction of the earthworks along the coast, and in the city suburbs all draymen have been ordered to report for volunteer duty with their drays.  The streets are riotous with half-drunken Spanish volunteers crying for American and Cuban blood.

“At night the city is wrapped in darkness, all gas and electric lights being shut off by order of Blanco.  Spanish soldiers are taking advantage of this to commit shocking outrages upon unprotected Cuban families.  In spite of these direful circumstances Blanco has ordered the decoration of the city, hoping to incite the patriotism of the populace.”

Blanco makes A personal appeal to Gomez.

On May 4 General Blanco made a supreme effort to win over the Cuban forces, writing a letter to General Gomez.  A copy of this letter and the answer of General Gomez were found upon Commander Lima, who was picked up by the Tecumseh fifteen miles from Havana.  The letter of General Blanco was as follows: