The southern press., 1850-07-29

From the Chayiesfos Mercury.
Arrival Of the Isabel.
The steamship Isabel, Captain Rollins, arrived
this morning. The Isabel brings number OF
passengers, and full cargo. Among her pas
sengers from Havana, We notice the name of our
distinguished fellow-citzen, General Campbell,
! United States Consul at Havana. Below will be
found letters from our Havana and Key-West
correspondents.
h Correspondence Of the Mercury.
HAVANA, July %.
GENTLEMEs: Since wrote you, one of the
prisoners, A. B. Moore has been pardoned, and
forty-one absolved under the conditions that they
should not be put at liberty here, but sent from
the country under vigilance, and with penalty of
imprisonment if they be fonnd within two years,
either in Cuba or Porto Rico. Com. Morris ac-
| cepted them, and refused TO allow them TO choose
their own conveyance 10 the United States, and
sent them to Pensacola in the Albany Captain
Randolph The fate Of the others is uncertain.
Seven Of them will probably receive soon the same
sentence with those who have already been sent
away, but Captain Benson, his mate Grafton, and
Hall, mate OF the Susan Loud, are in danger Of
the galleys. Com. Morris saw them all few
hours previous to his sailing, but am told he took
1 little or no interest in them. He found poor Ben
son at the Hospital raving maniac
! The little interest that has been showed by the
naval officers that have visited this port with the
only exceptions Of Captains Randolph and
Lowndes, in the prisoners, has tended more to
| confirm the Spanish authorities in their course,
than any conviction in their own minds Of the le-
! gality Of their proceedings.
General Campbell goes in the steamer IsaLal
| and trust, when he reaches Washington, he will
have the boldness, as well as the honesty, to tell
the Government the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. The Americans here have
given him letter, expressing their confidence in
him, and recognition of his courteous deport-
ment as Consul.
i There is no American man-ofwar in port, and
but four or five merchant vessels. The cholera
has again subsided, and We have only the usual
epidemic Of the season. Yours,
AMERICAN.
| HAvANNA, July %.
OF the men who were taken prisoners in the
captured vessels, forty-two were pronounced not
guilty after Judicial investigation, because they
| took passage on the supposition that they were
going to Chagres, and one whose name is A. B.
Moore, was pardoned on the ground of having
gone with the knowledge of the obj cts of the ex.
| pedition. These forty-two men were delivered
over to the American vessel of war here, the
Congress. There now remains ten whose case
| is still under exaination, being the officers and
crews Of the Georgiana and Susan. Loud.
The two vessels have been confscated.
| There is very little Cholera in the city; the
weather is very hot and rainy.
| The Falcon, from Chagres, brought ffty-six
passengers for New Orlens and New York, and
about $40 900 in gold dust, &C., of which $50 00(
was in the hands of passengers.
HAVANA, Odd July 1850.
We beg reference to our Report of 9th inst
e. -
/ very steady, while the supplies have been re
stricted, although great facilities exist for bring
ing the article to Market and the state of prices
affords good inducement for doing SO. Thes.
facts together with the information received from
different ports of the country, render it certain
!. that only small quantity Of Sugar now remains
The stock in the market is very much reduced anl
it is evident that the yield of the crop will be con
siderably less than was anticipated at the begin
ming Of the season. Prices have advanced still
more and it is likely that they will be upheld, al
planters have strong reasons for remaining firm
Besides the fact of u much smaller quantity ex
listing for shipment, the prospective wants of thu
United States, where it is ascertained that tn,
stock is fully 200 tons short Of last year, are ar
important feature, although that country has re
ceived from this port and Matanzas alone, 1000
boxes more than at same period IN l649. Their
it is also interesting to observe the division of the
exports to other places. To the Baltic abou
so, 90 boxes more have gone forward than las
year, being composed Of white Sugar. To France
there is an excess in the shipment from th
North side of about the equivalent Of ,00t
boxes, and an excess of nearly the same quantity
has gone forward to Italian ports, as compared
with last year. a
In thus analysing the exports, it will be found
that the other markets of the North Sea and thos
Of Great Britain taken collectively, have received
; much less of our Sugar than last year, and they
are likely to find active competition, from those
tt,a taI rA
yet left for shipment, which divided among til,
various consuming markets abroad will be com
paratively trifing and of no Importance. At th
! moment the shipments Of Sugar to the United
States are suspended as there no vessels in por
that car be employed for that object.
These facts, Of which planters are generally
well informed, are likely to encourage them il
maintaining firm attitude. There is yet anothe
consideration Of melancholy nature, the tenden
cy of which is the same. Much anxiety is fell
and great degree Of uncertainty exists in regard
to the progress Of the Cholera in the interior o
the Island and as to its probable effects upon the
, next and subsequent crops. This disease has not
vet become general, but it continues to spread in
various directions, and its ravages in many cases
!, have been appalling On several estates the de-
struction Of life among the negroes amounts to 2s
i and 80 per cent. and in some cases even 40 and
so per cent. of the whole number, and the mos
efficient are generally the victims. Should the
disease diffuse itself throughout the Island, the
loss Of life among the slave operatives would in
this ratio probably not be short of 100 to 125, 900
Even at the present average rate of mortality or
the estates the estimates as to the ultimate de-
struction Of life among the negroes, in the
event of the epidemic becoming general through
out the interior, are not less than 70 or 10000
The period of the year is unfortunately, not fa-
vorable for checking the malady The laborers
carried off are irreparable loss, because there
is no source available at present from which they
can be replaced. The loss falls heavily on the
production Of Sugar, because that branch has
already absorbed the available laborers previ-
ously employed in the culture Of Coffee, the yield
of which article has been insignifcat for several
Il wars 4 opnears fherefore inevitable that the