The New York herald., 1845-11-10


some important intelligence by the fine brig Hun
.ress Can, Baker. from Port au Patt She sailed
thence on the 24th ult 1t appears by the news that
Dom;nican feet of five sail leftPort Platt Jon the
18th. TO attack Cape Haytr. About 1000 troops were
aIso dssoa,ched bv land to attack the same place
decree had been issued by President Santa Anna,
Of the Dominican part of the Island previous to the
SAILING Of Cant. Baker, to compel all foreign resi-
dents. including Americans, TO lake up arms and to
act as a civic guard They, Of course, pro tested
against such procedure, which protest was imme-
diately sent to the President, but no answer had
been received.
This decree was issued last summer, but was no,
enforced or attempted to be enforced till the mid
die of October We make few extracts:-
sd CONFERENCE.-The people who have proclaim
ed their liberty and political independence, and who
have in mass their arms to defend their rights
shonid not Law the until they have secured their
STABILITY especially while principally combating with
an enemy who knows nothing Of the principles ofreason
rtics lat All those who at the signal Of alarm given
by the Legitimate authorities do not present themselves
to take part in the defence OF the country ana our Jus,
cause will be considered as liable to suspicion treated
and punished as suspicious persons with the punishment
law or ordinance statute or whatsoever more may
be necessary or the circumstances may exact
Art ID All those who, called upon to take up arms
are not inscribed any body Of the troops Of the line
cal fights NOR the advanages which conceded by
the Constitution and the Laws . , 49,,
Art 9th. Strangers who according to the 18TH article
the Republic will likewise form part OF the CIVIC
Guard three months after their residence in the country
rsAr 3O To maintain the subordination and discipline
which is indispensable in whatever body OF troops is
declared that the Civic Guard once on the move and IN
active service the officers of whatsoever grade they may
be- corporas and soldiers will be the
punishments established by the ordinances OF the army
which shall be read the most minutely possible on the
days OF reviews or when they ma themselves uhoor
arms 49, 20, -,
active service will be soldiers and receive rations like
the rest of the standing army, without any distinction
It will be necessary for government 10 see that
Americans are not forced into any foreign service,
especially that OF Hayti or Dominica
FROM KINGSTON, JAMAIcA-By the Backus, Capt
Maloney,we receipt OF our files OF fJamalcapa-
pers to the 7th ultimo. ,
The crop of Sugar is coming In and the article seiss
readily at rather higher prices than usual in conse
quence Of the shortness OF the crop Sales or
ton are made 22s 3D. to 2ss 3d. according to quality
Flour and Rice in demand at improving prces-halt
cargo of Csrolna sold at 22s while the other half was
held at 24s Holders of American produce were crcua
ting reports that Mexico had declared war with TINS
conry in order advance the market but no credit
was given the rumors and the market remained fiat
The population of jamaica in 1874, according to the
census saws the Despatch 377 43s. OF this number
no less s3 were returned as having no
tom that IS to The
Agricultural laborers were returned as being
~ 200 less than the number without put from
A. ~
.i % thor only by name-who labor only on their
cultnLai iaoos. i've occasional labor to sugar
own iana or OF, y ne T. ,rc axertionb by necessity Mr.
Knibb in his speech at Exeter iIcn> rsunar Estates
labor had thus beer withdrawn from " he multi.
work with their families s5osc that s 70 -ber Of
each family At the period OF the cessation ci siavery
remember rightly the slave population Of this Island
estimated at something like 800 900 souls or these
fully 20O 900 agricultural aborersn 1884, at tho
end of 10 find the laborng agriculturalists OF
all denominations down 1872 1872 from whom to
be deducted Mr. Knbbs 95000 leaving about 40 900 to
perform the entire work of the staple cultivation Of the
soil throughout the Island Any one who has acquain
with the labor which is obtainable Sugar
estates will bear out in stating that the rage num-
Der of effective aborers to be met with throughout the
Island not exceed forty for each estate We speak
OF the average because some estates may have more
while many never large gang. The Journal Of
yesterday estimated the number OF Sugar estates at 64
that at the above estimate there not than
aborers engaged in the cultivation of Sugar out
of aborng population amounting, ten years ago, to
900 ,000.n
This is condition of society," continues the Despatch
we deserving the attention OF the British people 1t
fraught with evils far beyond the injury to private
interests which must result from the impossbility OF
cutvating estates and producing sugars without labor
holds out prospect OF public calamity az the results
of emancipation, which the most reckless will fear to
contemplate Ithe secession from profitable labor that
is TO say from that description of labor which enriches
the nation well the individual shall continue in the
ratio in which it has receded since the abolition Of slave
ry another decade will find us without estate in pro-
ftable cultivation Wealth will have lett the sol-com-
merce will have deserted shores-tho cashaw and
the logwood will have assumed possession of the
field, and barbarism will dwell in our high places. Are
the visionary professors Of Uopan philosophy prepared
for such catastrophe the final results of all their phi
lanthropic theories ?"-Sapannah Georgian, Nor. A.
CITY Intelligence.
SERVICES ST. PErER's.-There was very able