The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-20
Talk on Change.

Cotton elosed rather quiet Flour was "a 500 - SO for
common State brands. large transaction in provisions
was reported Within fortnight since, sale OF 1000
hhds of smoked HAMS made export to California,
the value Of which was estimated At about $4,000
The Sea Buck, on shore at Long Branch ct last ad-
vices had twelve feet Of water in her hold, and was likely
to prove total wreck The cargo, exclusive Of Franco
mis- big chariot insured in Wall street for about
$4,000 The vessel valued at $4,000 and said to
be insured to the eastward.
News had reached the city from the ship Persia ashore
the coast Of Long Island the particulars Of which win
be found in the letter to the President of the Atlantic
Mutua Insurance Company
It stated that this was the fourth instance in
which the apparatus placed along coast by the Life
Saving Benevolent Association had been instrumental in
saving large number of lives The passengers by the
four ships referred to- averaged two hundred each
This excellent association said to be under
the management of of most active bust
ness men, and that their apparatus lined the coast from
Mohtauk Point to Cape May. This practical humane
association deserves the aid Of benevolent and veal
thy citizens
The Persia vessel and cargo were valued at $70 900
The latter was insured in New York. and the former
probably, in Baltimore
According to the accounts Of a returned merchant,
from Havana, an interesting experiment making in
the Island Of Cuba, with cooley aborers 1t appeared
that they being introduced from English vessels
and that there existed good demand for them Planters
paid vessels $160 head for adus-the cost of their
then had them bound to service for eight
at So per month"; and found food but clothed their
own expense.
II was believed that very few would regain
their former homes. That those whom hard work
cholera, and the yellow fever spared, would be too
poor at the end Of the eight years to leave In other
words it was slavery of the worst kind in disguise.
African slave trade and in preventing the introduction
Of Africans into Cuba, who better adapted by
ture for the cultivation Of sugar. they toeratng
much cruel trade in coolies Their ships
allowed to transport inofensve coolies and virtually
sell them and doom them to slavery for life and to the
worst of all taskmasters, the Spaniards whose system
of servtude alike successful in discriminating Indians
negroes and coolies In Demarara large numbers had
been introduced but they prohibited in the British
colony from aborng in the towns because their services
came in competition with those Of free blacks to whom
they said to be superior in such places The result
English policy English philanthropy has gone,
has been abolish black slavery and reduce another
less adapted for such labor to barbarous servitude
its place. intoerabe than that OF the African
A merchant who had returned from the West stated
that the emigration to the Pacific side of the continent
would be very large the present spring. Numbers
preparing for the overland route to California and yet
for the territory Of Oregon 1t appeared that the
government grant Of $40 "a mile square) Of land
allowed to each family actually settling and cultivatng
it for term Of years, operating strong induce
ment in favor of emigration to Oregon.