The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-04
Our Trinidad Correspondence.

TRINIDAD DE CUBA, Dec. 70, 1859.
More Decentralization of Negroes from 4frca-
Death of E,ghse~ Slavss on The Eogage-Psb!I
Sale Of the Hssan Cargo-Caruptio. Of Spa~ssk
OGc,als-TAe Crsoes Pstitto~ing Agai1st he
Immense IsRvr of Slases-7her Representations
Diuega,ded-Adopttng the alternative of Es-
posing the Save Trade Through the CsiSns~s Of
the HERALD, &C., 8c.
As Creole Of the idand Of Cuba, and sns whs
is warmly interested in the welfare Of shs IaaA
Of his birth, l trouble you with sha following
statement of facts, notorious to the entire oommn.
nifty Of this district, respecting dissnSarka
ton of negroes from the coast of Africa, which has
just been effected near this city, .. p;aos called
Rio Punto de ZaIza.
A few days ago there arrived as tho lat nsatioa-
Cd place . gnayro, auch a. those which ar, zssA
for cosstiDg in the river Congo This yesssI which
had been leDgthened some time previous to sailing
from Africa brought 273 slaves She vas sixsy.fre
days on the voyage, during waioh time Gig atsen Vi
the negroes died. The slaves we're landed aad re-
oeived at Zarza by Don Salvador Castro, Of this
place, who immediately had than conveyed to ths
estate called Quay inAro, belonging TO Don Marsns
Borrell, where, In tho most open and audasiom
manner, they were publicly sold. In lots Of eight.
twenty, thirty, and forty negroes. Thors ars now
for sale forty eight, in the hands OF MssHs. Maru-
gat Psiun & Co, ami Don joss San Martin,
which will DO taken on Sunday next In ths Spanish
steamer Isabel, from this point, probaslg 20 Oisa-
fuegos, AMI there sold
The vessel vhioh brought those negroes from
Africa was burnt in tbs rive, Za5za, after every.
thing had been taken out Of heS. Tho Lisat,nan
Governor of Trinidad, Ell Senior is Elixslds, having
nrot4a 81 shs .,A~n ~.
coivsd the SUM of one ounce. seventeen dollars,
for csoh negro which was 40 lsaGoi, ia oontravsn-
ton OF tie existing treaties The Lieutenant Go
vernon Of Ctbfuegos. Eli Senior Eeyes also received
part of cargo recently landed 10 this neigh
bortood, ana takeo, 10y certain sPoouissors to Csn
fuegos, nhere they we're sold. The said Governor
Reyes expects to receive q similar sum Tor che
forty eight which are to leave this plaza in ths
steamer Isabel ON Sunday next, fer the port Of
Cien!uegos.
Petition after petition has besn addressed, by tho
oval Crcoles of this Island, TO the Queen of Spaia
epreaeniiDg to her Majesty the danger whi,h IL
likely TO result, and mas already, upon several o.
ast me- threatened to disturb it's tranquility, from
the enormous majority OF the colorsd population
that Of the white, aud Its immense increase by
reason Of tho slave trade wth Africa, but to wnsh
not the slightest attention has been peid oy the
Spanish government; but, on tho contrary, ths ~
thori.es of Spain in Cuba appear to'ccnaivs az, aa5
oouI tenance ana otualiy promote, by every nesDs
in their peuer, this illegal and dangerous traffic
Tbs Creoes fms thomesyes under tho necessity A.
adopting other means Of exposing 10 tho world the
dishonesty practised by the Spanish oHioiss In
Cuba the above case being but one Of very maoy
which recently have occurred In .his district
by giving this an insertion in your yaI1sbIs
journal yoa viii ob2e, without, ! will ysntur, to
say, one single except every Creole in tho isaa6
oiCuba, who are one and all bitterly opposed to the
inhuman trafc in slaves, which is entirely cArrisd
on BY the Catalan aad otaee strangers resident in
Cuba. OqEoLy