The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-20

some four or five briggs and bsrks including the tW9
American vessels-the Susan Loud aud Georgian.
which were captured by the spaniards two a. three
years ago, ct the island Of Coatoy and now used
rs government transports. With tho exception a
the steam sIoops Bazan and Congress-, which Az
almost useless al these vessels are in capital coudSs
ton, and would doubtless make . very imposing app
pearance whenever necessity might cal theun anA
perhaps. even might, in the concluding words Of the
editorial referred TO, have the efeC1 Of Ming with
hatred and alarm, the impotent caemes Of our
Escelsa Espana Query1 who are the inpotent ene-
Julian Zulueta ia confined 10 his own house. He
has been for some days past suffering fronsdanhUAs
but ever since the news has been confirmed Of do
escape from Laguna Of hs pirate ship the Lady 6af
we'll
Very serious apprehension is now felt for the rasv
OF the ak remaining American sailors belongtAk .
the slayer bark Jasper Their names are Ge5ffe
Hunt, William Hersey, John William Leo. CharfB.
Robnson. William Huxzy, and John Redcifc. Our
worthy Consul, Colonel Robertson, has been indSl
faigabe In his endeavors to obtain satisfaoto
information regarding these much abused and uHor-
tunate men; but up to this date, all that is
known regarding their tate is, that it is stated
the highest authority, that the said six nsa
were taken of the day upon which they bad
been secreted by vessel bound from Caimiso, with
cargo OF molasses 70 this port of Havana. to clear
at the custom house, Camito not being port ef
entry; but as It has been stated that the six men
were taken of the Cay 30 long ago as the l7th e
July and neither the vessel nor the men having ysk
arrived here-now the l4th Of August there arg
were taken OF the Cay at al, but that II they aEe
not still held at the mercy Of the vilanous owners
OF the Jaspers cargo Of slaves they have been made
away with to prevent their falling into the hands of
the government, and thus afford still greater eviden0o
OF fact which no less than four government OH
cials commissioner have sought to deny that there
Bailen In May last The other three who made
their escape In the Jaspers long boat from the Cay,
on which they lef; their now six missing compor
MONS, are still here in jail; nothing has yet traas
pred to what ia to be done with them. Not oAe
Of the parties Except the American saios) who
were concerned in the scandalous and notorious ~
fair OF the Jaspers expedition, have been arrested G.
Don Mariana Torriente sailed on the 10th instant
in the British mail steamer Clyde, commissioned hF
General Canedo to proceed to London. and use hia
best endeavors to humbug (really no other word oa
be used) the English government into the belief tha
the slave trade will not in future be allowed to be
carried in Cuba. In the meantime, the tribunal e
the Royal Audiencia have expressed their opinion
that his Excellency was not justified in causing the
arrest Of SO respectable person as Don julian Xu
lueta much less in ordering newly imported AMI
cans to be followed and seized aer they had reached
an estate, even whether they were intended to be-
long to that estate or not; and great number e
vessels are known to have recently sailed to the
coast Of Africa, soon to return with fresh cargoes q
their unhappy victims, doomed to supply the I'm
mensc loss OF human Life caused by the ravages made
by the cholera.
Information received from Belize confirms the No.
port that besides the owner j. Ancluse the master
and most of the crew of the schooner Jenny Lind,
which vessel had been employed kidnapping lndiAms
from the villages Of Sancti Spirit0 and Asuncioa,
Yucatan, and selling them to q certain Don Paneh0E
Marty y Torrens, at Havana, as slaves, were all -
prison at Belize. Here Mr.. Marty has satisfied ~
authorities that the ITO or $50 Indians which he has
in his employ all came here Of their own free wiz
under contract.
There has been good deal Of yellow fever amoae
the troops; otherwise Havana ia not more unhealh0
than it usually expected to be at this Of tn
year. In the Interior however the cholera has with
in certain districts. On Mrs. Scuus estate, Harme-
MIA, Jurisdiction of San Nicholas one hundred al
twenty-sx slaves died between the 4th and 7th of
August At the latest accounts forty were In IA
infrmary.
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