New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-04
HAVANA.

liza AVA.
ira United s,ats Mail steamer Black Warrior,
J. ID. Bullock commander, arrived At this port on
1lur,dsy forenoon. She brings 1872 passengers and
Aeay, freight She kf, Havana on the 2eth Of April.
The Uni,sd States steamer San Jscnto v~ 10 port.
TIE United States steamer Princeton ssiied for Key
Wet on the morning OF the 2ssh OF April.
Tie officers AID crews Of the chips were vel.
There wa, nothing new at Havana. No new arrests
had been made, and he Island returning 70 iis
uual quiet
On The 29ih ult lat. 2Go, lon. 100 30, exchanged
sieDsL with an American brig showing red burgee
win white lie ters On The ,sme day lat 10, lon.
7so So e1cbsr ged signals with an American clipper
ship steering north showing white colors with red let
leIs. OF Cspe Hst'erss, pessed The brig John NJ
Clayton, Of Boston, bound south.
From Our Own consspsndsn-
HAVANA Saturday, April %, 100.
1. il again my duty to report 70 you the land
ing vii hin the few dsJs past, at Bshis Honda oil
another cargo Of .ix hundred Africans. lac
"Governnent, that Ia the "supefier authority,
Cereal Concbs instantly, upon being maze
aware of the TACT, dispatched a commission -
Bahia Honda to mske inquiries into the clrcam-
stances Of the case, sbd declares understand,
that be will di.uist from Office, and puash TO the
utmost extremity of The law, all parties who shall
have been concerned or who shall have cOnnived
at tbis landing. This is, perhaps, all that eau be
expected OF him, yet he might, BY this time, be
convinced that the system OF Registration
enacted by biz immediate predecessor, the Mar
quis de Pezuela, and which was abro gated BY
Gen. Concba himself, together with the certainty
Of prompt and severe punsbment following upon
detection, was far more effective method oil
putting an end 10 the inhaman traffic than the sys.
TEN Low in force, adopted by him, of which /
have sometime since made you fully aware, aud
10 which therefore, / need BOt now more partlc-
ilarly refer he temptations OF the enormous
profits of the trade and the large brides the slave
Traders are enabled to give 70 the officials IN the
various country places wnere slaves may be landed
in this island are so potent, that | really
fear the slave traffic with Africa VIII never
cease until Spain shall consent that all
parties who are detected engaged in 1t shall
be treated pirates, and this she has hith-
erto steadfastly refused 10 do. The last adj
wees from Bahia Honoa Inform ps that some three
hundred ard twenty Of this tdSt cargo have been
traced and would be forthwith csptSred. 80 Tar so
good, but what has become Of the remainder OF the
uDfortunates Where have they been spirited to :
viii they not in July next be each found to possess
q cedula, dated perhaps ok months since, when they
still in the Lossession Of the fret of blessings after
heak--Frf edOm
Mssrs Pereda Mschedo 4 Co have imported, in
TIE Eraiisb ship RO1burgh Castle Blk hundred Chi
ntfe from Annoy. That this traffic in ULte men is not
ore whit better than ttst Ia blacks, 10 evil
denced by the feet that the whole number Of these
Chnese have been purchased by specu. tors at seven
ounces lsll9 EACH while the price at which they re-
tell the m is ten ounces $l70 Theee miserable Chi
nese ar now, in mercantile phrase, in second hands
-sId this is coked upon here a. " fair business
"iransaciiOn but u must not be forgotten that
the cspacious NAV Of the leland Treasury receives
pabaium from each sale Of Chinese, and c0nSe.
queniy is materially Der Gifted by their having been
bOueb t ard sold a stcOnd third time.
have seen one Of the contracts made with Chit
nsse; l should have been pleased TO obtain il
10 send 10 you, but it would have been cruel 10
depve its unfortunate pofseesor OF the sole proof he
pOsstssts Of the contract he hes entsred into.
The Spanish part of this contract certainly does ex-
ORE ~ that the man possessing outlandish name
sgees to the party to whom he msy be assigned
for The term Of e years TO be paid Jour dollars per
month wages Whether the ChDese part of the con-
tact expressed the thing am unable to state;
the document apparently properly attested by the
Spanish authority in China, but when We come to re-
member the general character, or rant OF character
rather e Spausrds in tuch matters. II is probably
not jumping at violent conclusion 10 be OF opinion
thai the Chinese aud Spanish portions Of these con-
gusge to the other
Commodore hCCsuey, Captains Engle. OF the
United States ship Princeton, StrIb5ling. Of the San
JsoiDto aud the COmmOdore's Secretary, Mr. -
cined with Gen. Couoha on Thursday last.
The weather is becoming rather warmer than Is
agreeable, and Yellow jack is already performing
bis deadly mission among the unacchmated.