Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-10
CUBA.

s NJ AMPERE challenge attention and Difference il may
be well to report some Of the heads Of his twenty eight
pages accorded to Havana and the Island Of Cuba He
arrived at Havana at the end of January Of 1852 The
aspect of the city and the brancy of the climate de-
lighted him the athletic forms of the laborers in the in
comparable harbor and their songs engaged his notice
he could not recoeet that he ever heard workman in
the United States hum tune while executing his
task the slaves if not happier gayer than the free
men, The American whites the grayest and most
anxious of all business people. AT Havana NJ Ampere
noticed ansperso looking every where. not work
ing which species of idlers is unknown in the Republic
Paris always exhibits crowds of Them decupe the
Der in London, although the greater Babylon abounds
still more in persons of leisure. He glad to enter
again into Streets having been fatigued with the
monotony Of the American wide thoroughares Of brick
He found agreeable variety in the painted fiat houses
and the ncful irregular architecture of the churches
The public walks for recreation and exercise were full
Of gay company and picturesque costumes and vehicles
In those of the United States he had few poor
devils only reading newspaper" The moonlight and
the skies and the merry ladies in their voantes reminded
him of his evenings Cadiz and Seville. He carried to
his small chamber in the Havana hotel poetcal impress
sions such as tropical scenery can alone produce.
From observation and inquiry the traveller concluded
that the lot of the slaves in Havana is
tain aectonate familiarity exists between them and the
families to which they belong The Cuban negroes have
peculiar facilities for purchasing their freedom ex-
changing masters. Muattoes admitted into society
and may buy regal license pass for rhites. church
half in ruins novelty not unpleasant after ramble
in the United States He reshed true French dinner
at table dhote and enjoyed himself in the crowds
the coffee houses, thewsnt of which saddens extremely
for Frenchman the American and the English cities
He learned that the yellow fever becoming much
md Vha Ipiv is ochor
spot with it's trees and flowers, but he could get
its library, the librarian being always absent
with the key in his pocket The scientific and literary
"movement" is not very considerable Nevertheless the
schools are frequented the police sensbly improved
by Gen. Tacon. The charitable institutions numerous
The tomb of Columbus in the Cathedral does equal
the magnificent Seville erected by the SON
of the navigator of the magnaaous heart as Columbus
designated by Tasso
He visited the sugar-factories at small distance from
Matanzas. On plantation he witnessed an array of
eight hundred negroes He thought the labor among the
rather hard. He was informed that no moral or
religious instruction impaired to the slaves. pre-
ferred the condition of the operatives the Louisiana
plantations. The strokes of thewhip may be many
in Cuba. He admits that the Cuban negroes are we'll
lodged toerably fed and attended in sickness Some
times the is called to confess the moribund The
slave trade is unquesonaby rife. Gen. Concha set his
face against it, and threatened the heaviest penalties his
predecessors had connycd and levied for themselves
ounce or two Of gold for every negro imported The traf
fc could be suppressed it was boldly and even OPEN
ly prosecuted.
The introduction into Cuba of perfected machinery for
the production of sugar is much difficult than it is
in louisiana owing to the necessity of greater outlay
The Chinese aborers in Cuba answer well they bear the
toll well the Africans They submit the lash only
when is inflicted by order Of of their ap
pointed by themselves The general agriculture of the
island might gain by the abolition of bondage Beet-root
sugar is potent adversary of the slave system it is
good the produce of the cane Maple sugar not
cordng to NJ. Ampere. 1t will be as long, think before
the beeroot rivals and superedes the cane the
Of the Eastern hemisphere that Of Southern and South
western States.
NJ. Ampere through several pages of the growth
qualities manufacture. supply, &C. oftobaccoin
Of Cuba He cites the American Almanac for the fact
bacco The aborignes of Cuba took snuff. Tobacco was
the Of the drilled reed through which the Indians of
Hayt smoked il transferred by the Europeans to
the plant Formerly in France sailors and soldiers alone
smoked the naughty habit is almost universal.
Cheering BELTS except sailors at
Before his arrival at Havana NJ Ampere persuaded
that the Yankees exaggerated the discomfort of the Gu
bans with the Spanish rule; but he mistaken All
classes, from the highest to the lowest complained Of
Spain He reports the alleged motives the incurabe
grefs Yet the whole the island really prosperous
Spain however, has the lions share. The Creocs saw
with keen resentment that lenity shown to their
people who implicated in the late disturbances,
whereas the Americans Of the United States were par.
dOned by the Queen with alacrity.
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