The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-23

The CUBAN SLAVE rRADE--Two American sailors, calling
themselves Mark Chauncey of Philadelphia and William
Winn Maine brought from Guyes to Havana August
go and placed the Tacon Jail They charged with being
engaged in the slave trade and state that they shipped
in New York. the 4h 9Th of March last for an honest
trading voyage the Cape OF Good Hope on board the
American schooner Esperanza of about lao tons burden
that the day following their shipment they were put on
board the dock in New York, and the schooner was
Immediately dropped into the stream and taken IN tow by
a steamer, and in few hours they were at sea. The
matches were opened after they went board to
enable them judge of the nature of the voyage and they
of il until their arrival on the coast when
they were called aft by the captain, and informed that he
was not going the Cape but should take in cargo of
negroes for Cuba They state that the whole crew remon-
srated in violation Of their obligations and involving
them in serious troube when they We're told that those
who refused should be put shore where they lived
they might remain forty years without being able to get
home Their only chance of return well as for personal
safety from the of food themselves becoming food
for the cannbas Gas they od was to continue the
voyage which they promised high wages and
pass through Cuba to the United States They had no
alternative, they conceiyedthe captain advising them
that in two days run he could supply their places with
good Portuguese and Spanish sailors who used to the
trade. They were sixtyeight days on the voyage out
and FIVE days the coast and taking in their cargo
Of four hundred and fifty negroes of which ortyone died
and thrown the TO Cuba occupying from
the days The vessel being short of pro-
visions and water the OF starvation and thirst
among the negroes in the contracted allotted to them
creating disease of which they died
On arrival the isle of Pines where they expected TO
meet the necessary provisions, customary
the contractors and consgnces they found no preparation
whatever and compelled after burning the schooner
themselves in the woods and subsst rs they
could upon the wild peas, berries, snakes &C, which
poisoned the negroes and many of them died After TWEEN
y days of suffering schooners sent to thcm on
board Of which they embarked the captain and mate
with 65 negroes board of one and the stranger sea-
Men with ll0 negroes, board OF The other. We made
sail the westward and lost sight OF the other
schooner which have not since The man in COM
mand of the schooner board owhch we were seemed to
be Of authority, possibly acade OF the sea- Being
short of provisions compelled again TO put into
the coast eight days ofgh weather and head winds
where secreted village called Rosario, and
compelled to hunt the woods for food for days until
surprised by soldiers and made prisoners since which
we have had food in rather small parcels for tamisbed
men.
1t is said that the acting consul Thomas Savage has
made application TO the captain general for Information
rs 70 the two OF the United States but they were
caught in the act and the story Of deception and fraud
without testimony will not them from punishment
The landing made the isle of Pines about the Sd of
July the vessel burnt the 9th It'll the 9th
or ZSth the negroes crew. and officers, taken off by
two scheoners leaving "a Africans dead in the woods
ana cactus lunglcs of the islnnd The schooner with no
negroes and the American sailors must have arrived at
osafio on the 4th or 9th OF August since which the time
has been used up IN their search food apprehension by
the authorities OF Guyes and journey through the country
examinations there, and transfer Havana for trial.
The captain and mate the sailors think are well known
IN New York, and their names easily found by examine
ton Of the customhouse ceBrances o The NOR IA of March
atopner Esperansa; ind they believe that both officers
will get to New York as soon as possible but probably by
vessel from port of the south side