The New York herald., 1851-08-06
VERY LaTEFROM THE WEST INDIES
Ady,tcs from jamaica, sy tae Empire CITY
-Tntorestipg Letter fren uenry Clay, on
Free Negro Labor-A Comet-Ths Cholera:
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The EmI ire City brings adyices from Kingstos,
Jamaica, to tie 29th ult. We have received the
jamaica DcSpatah, Morning Journal and DE Cor
dorra's Adrotiso, to that date.
The news is Of no importance. The skipping
intelligence will be found under The proper head.
The Empire City made Port Royal late at night,
and put out to sea, but entered port early in the
morning. 1t would be great convenience to
merchants If these splendid steamers would call OF,
and land the mails at Kingston, on their way to
Chngres.
The market for -four and meal was improving,
but tho bark Edward, frcm Baltimore. had arrived,
with 900 barrels OF -FOUR and 500 barrels Of meal
Her Majesty's steamer Devastation sailed on the
18th ult., for Port au Prince, to protect British
intereets, as rumpus was expected there.
The Mail Company's steamer Conway sailed on
the 18th ult,, for 81. Thomas.
The Court Of As,izes, for the term, was opened
at Kingston, ia, on the 18th ult What with SO
many country people in the city to attend the
court, and the arrival of the Empire City with
20 many Cafornans, Kingston is rather lively.
Mr.. Mcpherson, who was tried, las. court, for
forgery, and found guilty, was brought up on the
2sth for sentence, which was fifteen years trans
general pcnitentiary at hard labor. There were
some points CT law argued, but oycrruled.
The cholera was still lingering about the island,
but none in Kingston.
The weather was very warm. The strong sea
breeze all day makes the city dusty and dsa-
grocabo.
The Kingston Despatch, Of the 2lst ult says
comet was seen by gentleman Of this city, Fri
day night between the tips Of the horns Of Taurus. or
be that Of star Of the iirst magnitude with nebus
ndistincs elongated. About o'clock It was az
angle oabout forty dve degrees with the horizon and II
set due west at about eleven.
WANT or LoBoRERS IN JANAfcA-HENRY cLAl's
LETTER.
- lfiom The Kingston Despatch. July H.
Inc scarcity OF labor which is experienced
throughout the island at the present moment, rom
ders necessary that some means should be at once
adopted TO increase our laboring population, or ii
Is beyond all question tina! many OF the best sugar
estates in the Island must shortly be abandoned.
There are not many in the towns who know the cx-
tent to which the want Of labor is felt in most ofthc
agricultural parishes 1t is melancholy fact, how
ever, which official returns will shortly pr )ve, that
the present years CROP which should have exceeded
inquantty that OF any other year since the aboli-
tion of the apprenticeship, viii actually fall short
ofthc cropof baibadoes-an Island whose is less
than that Of the single parish Of st. Thomas in the
east, but whose redundant population enables IL to
apply every acre TO rcmuncratvc cultivation. The
bcseting evil Of Jamaica Is the extent of her acre
age, and the disproportonatc number of her popu.
dant, and every of land Is applied to profta-
bic cultivation, population presses on the means of
subsistence, and the people arc industrious from
cessity. In Jam iica the reverse Of this obtains.
Here The acres redundant, whilst the population
is scsnty and independent. The results are obvi-
Gus. Barbados increases her productions, whilst
Jamaica retrogradcs and Barbados not only in.
her exports, but at the same time decreases
the cost Of her manufacture. The consequence is
that We arc told that in Bar badoes there arc some
estates on which the sugar Is all profit" II used
to be 20 in the days Of slavery in Jamaica IL was
said then, that the ium crop paid the expenses Of
the year, and that all the sugar was prsGt. This,
however, Is now sadly reversed in Jamaca. In
many parishos-and We instance particularly the
parishes Of st. Mary, Mctcalf, and st. George
such is the want Of labor that on numerous estates
the present years outrageous taxes must, every
penny OF them, be paid out of capital, whilst one
third part of the crop will have been lost for van.
Of the labor to take Il oil
The question then arises, how Jamaica can act
for HERSELF since Earl Gtcy has resolved that the
government, at any rate, shsll not act for her We
have mofs than once directed at.sItion II the