New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-01
WEST INDIES.
AFFAIRS IN ST. THOMAS.


ST. THOMAS Saturday, March ls, 1854.
The Hurricane Months during which vessels directed
bv Yankee enterprise are wont withdraw beyond the
customary track Of those destructive gales rarely witness
such en- entire dtseron Of harbor BY American shp
ping as !. suffers There oaly three Aurcsn yes
se here sDd of these lies in out ohe way part Of
the hsrbor dsnsntled hulk another has jus; eonP@ted
repair having changed owners since her arrival while
the ,h,d ship vi,hou, raider eswnrny l.ziiy away
OF in the light anchorage just the breeZes ani the
currents will have her This lat the snip North Star
Barclay from Liverpool Jan. ls, 70 New iork. Sac Us
coupeled 20 put into Cork twice for repairs When in
LAT . deg lon g deg she los: her ruiier several spars
reach her original destination compelled - away
for this port vh-n within $40 miles If New York The
cholera having disappeared month and the place
being again perfectly healthy business men have been
houing and expecting every day t. witness revival OF
The shipping season There are 10 lonse- existing tie
obstacles TO vessels in the West Iniia trsie visiting th.
port which cid few weeks since. Communication is
now re.tabirted with Porto Rico and Other p)- in this
reichtorhood ~ least there il only s.. ht aal merely
nomrsl quarantine This cessation Of business Is the
f, that the pre.eni l. tn very harvest season Of
tie year for tie - Thomas nerchtnts
Tie hsrbor resened yesterday, very lively and
citing scene by the pfesence Of eight large steam
ers by means Il which Great Britain i establishing
complete not work Of communication aDd securing her in
fueIce In these regions while British capt1L By the
.sr.e rr.srz lsyiry them under button spi prob
eby prptrrg % extend - CONNER ia relations in t1is
direction To day half OF them are 0f-one 20 England.
CHER g t1er and routes or % poTe on NAN lui
and the remainder will leaye To Ike de-tins,0ns
except ;he European steamer which lies over according
10 custom two weeks until the Inter Col0aisl bOs
turn again We Americans csnnot but feel Little chS-
grin thar British cspiis and enterprise shocd also
py tie route from New York 10 st Thomas 10 i conf
denty believed that line of fast steamer leaving each
Of the above nsmed ports - ice month and touching al
smsics - D0irgo and Porto RlcO, would veil sustain
itself One thing i pretty cer,sin it would argey tsp
the European lire hence. The charge 'or paeage 70
Southampton by that neis sj0 and the time Of making
the Iass8ee from fourteen to seveut-en iay- while By
the proposed lire II need not be more than 900 70 Law
erpoO occupying longer time, or, A. tie case would
probably be-. giving the bu,iness community an opP9aa
ny u attending personally Ia their concerns in New foT8
The Brinh Consul, ". J. EncrOn, week since, al
great personal sacrifice of dignity and public esteem gene
routy volunteered to relieve little the inolerabls dun
ress which eigns since the cholera and business ef,
ly entering the ring in forcble assault On j Cane
ron sgtnt Of the Royal 5 Packet Co, knocking b, n
doen the fret instance and following thai stroke up oy
severe cO8hicng. The p-OvOcsuon was the gratlit0us
ard unYorthy s,tenpt of The latter prejudice the Con
sui APPLICATION for the Office he now holds by private
let,ers of fs-e and scur-Ous character 20 parties y
home having iIfgeIce with the government and followed
I'D since The appointment made by irritating notes IN
official intercourse Emerson il condemned almost uni
yerstly for this gross assault by the same community
vhioh extended 10 him with Ike unanimlty their sym3a
tties ard influence in his contest for the office.
A. 10 the slave bark alluded in my last letter since
wrote you that subject have been unable to gather
impaired by the captain Of engmstical nature
IL only known that she was compelled 10 abandon the
coast Of Africa but under what circumstances il not de-
f1itey known that she sold here from prudential
considerations. and that this attempt not her hrst enter
prise in the abominable trade having tgo year. ago
RED eigtt hundred slaves 10 Havana.
The condemned American ships, Severn of NeTYork,
and Atlas Of Baltimore have been sold this the fret
for elo,600, the latter for $4,000
The whaling ship Henry Kneeland Vnal pat in here
for repairs last week and sailed again for New Bedford
Wednesdsy of this week. She was four months from
Honolulu with cargo OF 1920 bbs OF OIL which with 900
previously sent home is the result OF thirty months in the
Moth Pacific