The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-02-14
THE CUBAN SLAVE TRADE.

THE CUBAN SLAVE TRADE.
he London News, o! the Goth January, has
The following announcement of much interest
10 'his country and which is not al all courte-
oas to Spain:
:. ns attention Of Lord ohm Russell has NOT
- Jaiu seem, been directed in vain, 10 the re-
NJ .'e AIrican slave trade from Cuba
Iordsh;ns we understand, have, on his
;ss.'p instructions as Foreign Secretary.
issued orders for the despatch Of some sw;f,
steamers TO the coasts OF thai ;sl.nJ - 80
whe'neT II be not possible to checL ~ - :. go So
nsncement the renewal Of the inf ,ne,'' w.
III human beings, and, at all eyen,, ~ 10 ua.'e
.our! OF Madrid ins sense which Enaiara .ae
's.ta,hs OF the scandaious manner :, -
.He spanish colonial authorities dsre.,ra III
oictates Ut huraaniiy and the ohl;rss:alo 'he
treaties. Driven from Brazil. ,ha % atoms ot
dealing capitalists for a time sourh1 ra 60. save
Europe. DE Sa, Carneiro, Ne,to ana ose E 'h
CO. carried their i'll gotten wealth 10 Por,usI
ana the persons whom its former colonv E.
rejected, Portugal has ennobed. De !. m nau
been created the Baron of Villa Nova do Ms
no. Angelo Carneiro Viscount Loures: and nn
Netto was conferred the Cross of the Ords, nf
Vossa Senhora de Conreicao Whether ,hesa
particular individuals have returned IN ,h.;r
Old habits and practices we know not: bu
ments have been made in Cuba, by persons
ofgreat experience and capital, to fill up. Nv
fresh importation from unhappy Africa, the
void which cholera had made in the slave non.
ulalion of that island. The first evidence of
this movement was seen in the shipyards of
Baltimore and other American ports. Thence
were despatched, not to Havana, but TO the
minor and less frequen,sd ports of Cuba, clip.
pers such as only can hope to escape the
vigilance Of OUR cruisers. These met with
ready sale in The island. The Spanish auth.
critics closed their eyes to these significant
preparations, and rejected as impertinence oil
pr0tiered information on the subject. Ii thus
became only TOO evident that the presen, Cap
tain General was ready TO wink at, perhaps
80 profit by, the traffic. Tn. fittings for these
ships were despatched in other vessels, and
from other countries, TO the coast of Africa,
there to be transferred 10 the clippers as op.
por,unity served. And the hope 5 that, sail.
ing light and unequipped from Cuba, the
clippers will eiute the provisions OF the trea
ties under which, when equipped, they may
be seized.
1t is TO arrest this iniq quitous scheme ini Is
first outburst that the Admiralty now orders
additional steamers TO the coast of Cuba.
THE GRIPPE.-This disease, which p-ece-
dsd the cholera in 1882, and which since is
supposed by some 10 be herald of the chole.
ra, is now prevailing extensively IN Paris and
London. A Paris letter tJan. 24,) to the N,
Y. Journal Of fComInerce, says:
Ifeyer the epithet dismal could be applied
the weather, ii was never more SO than that os
our last week or month. The Medical 60
Zette informs US that, in London, every MIL
,-&I, L,1 tEa nd aH
our capital there is scarcely dwelling with.
out patient.
THEY WON'T "T'AKE SMoKE.''-A bill
mas been reported in the Pennsylvania Legis-
iature to incorporate the Grand Lodge of The
fhilanthropic Order of Auti-Tobacconis
HE FIRST OMNIBUs.-The New York
Herald says tim first omnibus ever run in that
city was by Niblo, the proprietor of the thea>
tre, who found it necessary to import the
springs from England. This was in 1890,
when the site of his Bank Coffee House was
tout of town.
"a" writer in the Boston Transcript con.
tradicts statement, circulated in the newspa.
pers, that the Hoosac Tunneling Machine has
proved failure. He says that it is now in
good order, and will soon be tested in the pre-.
sence eta board of engineers, a committee Of
the legislature, and other gentlemen.
ACCIDENT AND DEArH.-On SUNDAY quo.
ming las,; as Dr.. T. Salter and wife. res;d;no
IN Newport, KY, were sleeping, their he'd.
clothes took fire from lighted candle p,sced
on chair near the bed. The clorhes wars
soon enyelOped in flames; and before the DIR.
and his wife could get out of the bed they
were both badly burned. Mrs. Salter died
from the effects Monday night, and DIR. S. is in
a critical condition.
Manchester aiass.l Mirror says that counter
felt three cent pieces are quite common there.
They are clumsily executed.
CIRCUS BURNT.-The American circus at
Halifax, Eng land, was destroyed by fire on
the 25th ult. The amount of damage has aot
been ascertained, but it is estimated it will not
fall short of f500.
SISTERS OF CHARITY DEAD.-Sister Mary
Josephine Halsali died in the Convent of the
Visitation at Wheeling on the 2S,h alt, and
Sister Mary Antonia Bray at the Mobile Com
vent on the 29Ih.
u An attempt was made on Thursday las', ,
between the hours Of 8 and A, P. NJ, 10 FIRE
the Office Of the Norfolk Beacon. II origina
led in the Reading Room, and bat for the
Of those connected with he office, |
and the timely arrival of the Fire companies, |
The whole building ould probably have been
We are pleased to learn that the
damage sustained was trihing.
A GAsG OF SwINDLERs BROKEN UP.-A
man by the name of Writ Lombard, was ar.
rested in New York, Oh the 10th inst, on a
warrant issued ty the authorities of Chicago, |
illinois. wherein he stands charged with get |
ling up fraudulent operation called the " COM |
bination Company" or Health Association, |
purporting to have a capital of $4,000. A
dispatch from New York, gives the following |
in relation 10 a transaction of the same kind in |
that city
A similar operati On and scheme Of fraud on |
the public existed in this city, short time |
since, but was recently broken up by Justice |
Stuart. The plan was to induce people TO |
pay from two dollars up to twenty, and when |
sick they were TO receive in return about the |
same amount per week during the sickness.-
In this way, il is said, large sums OF money |
have been collected.
~ The non-commissionsd officers and prf.. |