New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-16
HAVANA.
BRISB AHS.

Fran Our Own Correspondent
HAVANA, Monday, Oct. {, 1856
The two last posts have brought me cOmmunici-
tons from my various correspondents in the differ
ent parts Of this island Those who reside near the
small outports all speak Of their neighsorhOod be-
ing thronged with Africans who have been recently
disenbarked; and although, with q single exceP-
ton they do not appear to be aware of the pre-
cise localities where the several disembarkations
have taken place, yet there cannot be any doubt
that the African savetrade is at the present time
prosecuted with more yigor than at any previous
period during my residence in Cuba
Two or three OF my correspondents allufe, al
most in the same language, to the fact that 1t
would be impossible for the slave traffic to be car
ried on to so large an extent were II not that the
officers Of the government "are made safe" from
the captains Of districts to even the Lieutenant gov
ernor by large brides being given them, while the
few Africans that are occasionally captured gener
ally prove to be inyads enfeebled by disease as
not to be marketable, and who are therefore aban'
dored purposely to be captured in order that the
Government may make show of activity.
The single exception above referred to is the
landing Of q cargo of Africans on Tuesday or
Wednesday Of last week, four hundred and fifty
in number, somewhere between Msriel and Bahia
Honda, and for permitting the landing of whom
Don Morales De la Rada, the man who was always
on the "pista" (trace) of Narcsso Lopez, re-
ceved bribe of four ounces or sixty eight dollars
per head.
1t must not be supposed that this acceptance Of
brides is susceptible Of judicial proof The re.
cevers are too cunning for that. A third party is
employed between the slave-traders and the Off
Gals and all the latter are required to do is to be
away at the North under the pretense of being on
the track Of newly landed Africans, while the
Decentralization takes place at the South. Who
can believe that the supreme head of the govern
meDt of this island is not as well informe1 as to
the immense number of Africans tina. have been
landed during the present year as is your CORE
spondentl for one must believe that he is per
feetly eOgnzaDt of every cargo that is landed and
/ cannot avoid expressing my suspicion that he
too has an itching palm, and that good golden
ounces serve as well to render him sightless in
such matters as we know they do others-interiOr
officers of bis government.
1t is pleasing, on the other hand, to be enabled
to praise any of the acts of General COncha; and
therefore il is with pleasure that am enabled to
announce to YOU that he is apparently devotng
some attention to the allimportsnt subject Of es-
tablisbing an increased number OF primary schools
throughout the island also to instituting various
minor reforms, which cannot but render the in
habitants more contented with the harsh form OF
government by which they are ruled.
We have had one or two rather cool days since
last wrote you, but the past two or three have
been as oppressive as any at midsummer. Even
now as / write, at 2 A. NJ, the thermometer
stands at so Fahrenheit.