The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-17
INTERESTING NEWS FRoM CUBA.


HAVANA, sept 5, 1871.
-aSsa6resfures Of fAe Sisve Tyade-.7notaer
-fgYesf Of -faleyiesa Sailors-Fn.eresting
-seeounf OF Their shipssent on a Sla-er at
-Neto Yoyk-- Tke Ran to the Stare Coast
1aA~g ia CGrgo-Landing u at Cuba and
~C0pture Of the Murine rs om pii1,enfs Of
Me Seamen to Gen. Pezusla-Re Reported Re
sSit Of the .Matcnsds aud Trinidad Troops
Detention Of the Captain General &c.
The misadventures of the slave train; are
tAose chiefly which now come 70 our kn rwledse,
aad am furnished with the details Of case OF
some interest, although the data taken, r,qs
soee, through the bars of the Tacon prison,
without being allowed TO take pencil notes, are
not as perfect al shall be enabled to make them
10 a few days
On the 30th ult. Two american seamen, with
several Portuguese, claiming to be natura lied
elite MS of the United States, were brought to
this city from the town of Guines, and placed
in the Tacon Jail, char led with having been
Part of the ere of u Saver which had landed
negroes upon the island of Cuba or the adon-
hug isles pat of whom had been discovered by
~ government, as intimated by an edict re-
Gently issued, calling upon certain parties in
Havana and The owners OF the plantation Sla-
nSs~, to preset themselves At the common pri-
son for trial, &c. The names given to me by
The American sailors. who appear to be as they
represent ihems elves native born, from Ian
puage and conduct, were Mark Cbannoey, hail
ing from Philadelphia, and William Wlnn, State
OF Mane--thc town | do not recollect- Oh.
others were evidently Portuguese, and doubt
Ner story as 10 being entitled 20 American
prote Jtlon. as they could give me no intellgib'c
account OF how and where they acquired their
naturalization papers which they report lost.
Moreover, my impression IS that they have long
siDce been Initiated in the mysteries OF the
slave trade, and this is not the first voyage Of
the kind INTO which they have been deceived,
at New York or Havana.
The two American sailors agree In stat
ing that they were shipped in New York
IN the 4th or 9Th OF March last for an honest
tsdiDg voyage to The Cape OF Good Hope on
board of the American schooner EsperanZa, of
about $50 tons burtben: that the day folio wing
their Shipment they were pat on board at the
dock in New York, and the schooner was imme-
a,ately cropped into the stream and taken in
tsw by steamer, and in few hours they were
at sea. The matches were never opened after
they went on board, to enable them 10 judge Of
The nature Of the voyage, and they we're not
when they were called aft by the captain, and
Informed tina, he was not going to the Cape,
but should take in cargo of negroes for Cuba.
They state that the whole crew rem n trated,
rs in violation of their obligations, and invOlv-
ing them in serious trouble; when they were
told that those who refused sheuld be put on
thsre, where, il they lived they might remain
hr years, without being able to get home
Their only chance Of return, as well for per-
sOnal safety from the want OF food themselves,
OF becoming food for the cannibals, Jus they
were tOld,) was to continue the voyage, in
which case they were promised high wages, and
. safe pass thr ugh Cuba 10 the United States
They had no alternative, as they conceived the
Captain advising them that in two days run
he could supply ther places with good Portu-
geese and Spanish sailors who were used to the
trade. They were sixty sht days on the voy-
age out, and five OF six days on the coast and
taking in their cargo Of four hundred and fifty
negroes, OF which iorty-one di,d and were
thrown over. on the run 10 Cnba, occupying
II IN the coas, forty eight days. The vessel
being short OF provisions and water, was the
cause Of starvation and thirst among the ne
groes in the contracted space allotted to them,
creating disease, OF which they died
On arrival at the Isle OF Pines, where
they expected to meet the necessary
provisions. and the customary care Of
the contractors and consignees, they found
no preparation whatever, aud were COM
PEELED after burning the schooner, to secret
themselves in the woods, and subsist ~ they
could upon the wild peas, berries, snakes, &c,
which poisoned the negroes. aud many OF them
died. After twenty days o. suif ring two
schO0ners were sent to them on board of which
they were embarked-the captain and mate with
enc hundr' d aud sixty.fvc negroes on board OF
ere, and the stranger seamen, with one hundred
ard seventy negroes on board of the other.
No oil Tn hc md s1p
sight Of the other schooner which we have not
seen since. The man in command Of the
schooner on board Of which we were, seemed to
be a man of authority (posibly Alcalde of the
seas being short of provisions, We we're coal-
PEELED again to put into the coast, after eight
day Of light weather and head winds, where We
were secreted near q village called Rosario,
and compelled to hunt the woods for food for
sODc days until we were surprised by soldiers
and made prisoners, since which we have had
food in rather small parcels. for furnished men.
We do nOt.iinow what was done with the pc-
4rots s, but think they were returned to tue
schooner to be sent to the Havana. We We're
b. ought to Guincs by order Of The Governor Of
that district, and from thence to this city By
railro Dad under guard. The names Of the cap
tain and mate We do not know; the one, Ia
'ship duty wac always called captain, and the
Other mate. Weraave not, nor have any OF the
crew, received the promised wages for the voy-
age, except our advance, paid in New York,
which was taken af by the shipping master.
We think the two schooners were sent for the
negroes by those who were to pay for the job,
and that the other with one hundred and sixty
Eve must have ESCAPED the pursuit OF the
NOrit.es.
The captain and mate, they think, are well
known in New York, and their names easily
found By examination OF the Custom House
clearsnces for the month OF March, schooner
Eepcranza; ana they believe that both officers
will get to your city as coon "a possible. bat
probably by vessel from some port on tue
south side.
am informed that the acting consul, Thomas
Savage, has made an application to the Captaio
General for information as to the two seamca
Of the United States; but they were caught in
the act: aid the story of decpntnn and fraud.