The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-11

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isrE1IrGEssE rkoM the British WEsr liz
piEs.-FeAyfI rartgss Of The Choiera-Great de-
preciaiion In Real Esiate-Ldie from Honduras
und Guatemala.
BY the steamship Empire City, Captain Will
son, we have received fall files of the Morning
Journal and Colonial Standard, published in King
ston, Jamaica, but we do not find in ITEM any
news Of interest to our readers.
We regret to learn that the cholera is making
the most fearful raVages througi out the British
West Indies. IL has been very fatal at Kingston,
jamaica but ID now more severe IN other parts OF
the island Kingston is reported To have lost 5000
by that disease, and proportlonate number al
Port Royal; II had entirely disappeared from the
latter place. The most melancholy accounts are
received from the interior and agricultural dis
tricts. The Journal says that, in the Pantain
Garden river district, one thousand persons have
been swept away by the fell destroyer. 1t states
that: From st. David, fiightful accounts have
been brought TO town. Not only have the great
mass of the population between the Eleven Mile
tavern and Yallah sand large number of the in
habtantS in and around Elsington been sweDt
away, but it is said that the whole police force,
sergeans, corporals, and privates, have been i'm
moated-the whole force dying, it is said, un-
der literal want Of susteDance, in consequence of
the non-payment of their pay. The statement
has been made for some days in the columns Of
contemporary, and has not been denied. ii is i'm
possible, however, that such a charge can long es-
cape inquiry. The money, we have reason to be-
ieve, was forwarded from Kingston, and some
one must be responsible for its non-distribution.
1t is thing too frghtful to contemplate, that an
entire detachment Of police should have been left
to die of cholera, without even the comforts de-
rived from their hard earned pay.
In the mountain districts of the same parish, the
cholera Is said to he equally destructive. Ii has
appeared at Radnor, u property upwards of 5000
feet above the level of the sea, and the finest eli
to lEI,ns fl,a al,
touched similar attitudes in the parishes Of Port
Royal and ST. Andrew. IL has been frightfully
malignant at Middleton coffee plantation, the y. o.
perty Of the Duke Of Buckingham, and it has
manifested itsrlfat Charottenburgh, Chester Vale,
Newton and other properties all situated at all alt
tude that has hitherto defed febriIe diseases
Another account states that-"When any one
Of them, sis attacked with the disease, he or she
Is at once forsaken by father, mother, brothers.
sisters, and left to the white people to attend to
them AZ they best can One unnatural mother
when an infant three years old was attacked and
carried to the hospital, having Teen requested bv
the manager to go and attend to her child replied
cody that the child might die, but she was not
going to risk her life for the sake of child The
result has been that she last night herself at
tackled, and died at o'clock this morning. and
that the child is recovering in the hospital. In
deed, unless you were on the spot, you could
hardly conceive the want of feeling displayed by
the people towards each other. | have been com
PEELED to pay five shillings before they would strike
a hoe to inter the dead l am sorry TO say the
disease has broken out afresh at Winchester, and
| hear of thirteen deaths at Bath several at Hol-
land and Duckenfeld, as also at Stokes Hall,
Hampton Court, Pleasant Hill and Philipsfeld y
The journals are complaining Of the great de-
probation in real estate in the British West Indies
especially in Montserrat. The following are in
stances Of depreciation almost without parallel
Lately sold in this island, by Marshal's sale,
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estates, including stock Of every description with
variety Of furniture silver and plated articles,
&c, three houses in the town Of Plymouth, with
plantation stores attached, and lumber yards to
two of them, twenty hogsheads ofsusar and three
puncheons of moasses, the whole Of which did
not exceed the amount, or realize more than
twelve hundred pounds sterling. Six sugar es-
ta,es, comprising by estimation 1000 acres Of
cane, pasture, and provision land, with two wind
mills and two horsemls, in complete repair three
sets of works, all recently repaired, with clari6er
and coppers IN them, sufficiently capable Of boil
ing of, annually, 400 heavy hogsheads Of sugar,
with large still, condenser, and worm attached to
one OF them, also dwelling house, containing
large dining and drawing rooms, FIVE bed cham
bers, with marble gallery round the house, with
out Offices attached, all recently repaired, and
large garden contiguous.
-Four of these sugar estates gave the late pro-
prletor, when sugar was very high, CO, 900 ster.
ling III one year, and for several consecutive wears
upwards of $4,000 per annum, after deducting ex.
pe"seS.
Two cotton and provision estates, situated at
the south part Of the island, containing upward
of 600 acres of land, with fifty mules one hundred
and fry head Of cattle, forty asses several horses
and flock Of sheep, with furniture, silver and
plated articles, and extensive and valuable library,
a four wheel carriage and gig, with harness com
plete to the former, twenty hogsheads Of sugar,
three puncheons of molasses, the whole Of which
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enumeration Of property specified, and which has
been sacrificed for onefourth part Of its value is
only brought under the notice Of the public to
show the manner in which property is confscat
ed in this island when brought under the ham.
MGR Of marshals sale and sold.