New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-19
HAVANA.

HAVANA, Nsrcs, 1865.
The bland of Cuba, with iss immense natural
resources, has advanced 90 rapidly within the lss
few years, and the imm grafton of foreign sborer'
has been 90 insenifcant tina, wages Increase With
every day in the towns. and m.Dy field reuAiss
sneultivaitd for want Of hands. There 10 hardly
suy public sale Of negroes as in the cities Of tae
Slave states il the North, and whenever negroes
are sold on account of the death or insolvency OF
their masters, they are generally bough,up i,nme-
dately, without any public suctisn. The impor-
lance and necessity Of increasing the laborng
forces in Cuba if the island is not to be checked
in it's progress, seems to have mpellej the present
Government in spite Of its treaty with England,
to be less severe against the importation Of slaves
from Africa, provided it did not come to their
notice, or if the savevessel were not seized BY the
British cruizers before landing. We know from
the best sources that upward Of 5000 negroes
annually imported from Africa. They generally
land on very marshy places along the coast, VIII .re
there is no port nor any settlement in the vicinity.
And smart are the slave-traders in their way
of importing, or rather smuggling human fesn,
that there is not a single instance known where
they have been discovered, and the vessel seized,
although the British authorities quite aware of
the fact that every year new importatiOns take
place aid although one or two men of war are freq
uenty cruising along the coast. In 1853 an American
vessel, the Lady Suffolk landed in the vicinity Of
the island Of Pines, in Cochnza, with a cargo Of
1000 slaves from Africa, but the slaves were ill.,
s,autly scattered aud sold over the country. Be
fore the fact became known and investigated it
was too late. Formerly the Governor received
four ounces (about S64) for each slave imported
or smuggled. We are not aware whether Gen.
Concla is mean enough to accept the same bloody
sum: we don't believe it. But it is q fact that
Concba fay0rs the importation, because he thinks
it necessary for the further prosperity of the
Island. The slave population of Cuba amounts
actually to more than half million, or about the
half of the whole population Of the Island. The
General seems not to be afraid of the sad c0nse-
quences which the increase Of the black popula-
ton may exercise one day upon the rhite nhabi-
tants. He 10 not Of the opinion OF Queen Eliza
beth when she wrote in 1862 to Sir John Haw-
kns, that the importation Of Africans, without
their consent, would be detestable, and caN
"doun the vengeance Of Heaux upon the under
taking"
Within the last few years, also, Chinese and In
dams from Yucatan have been introduced into
Cuba. The Chinese amount already to TO- 900 in
number, the Indians to ,0O0 These wretched
immigrants generally belong to the most miserable
OF their class and commonly SCI their labor to
the tra6 ers for FIVE and even eigvuccessive years
at the rate of from 50 to "a month, and free
passage from China or iucatan to Cuba. The
traders sell their rights in these poor immigrants
again to private citizens OF Cuba, who are in need
of servants, and charge besides an extra fee of
about 5000 per head. After the lapse Of five or
eight years the servant il entirely free, and may
return or hire out more advaDtageously. The
British Consul in Cuba Tucker Crawford, Esq,
has protested several times against the introduce
ton of criminals and outlaws from China and Yu-
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miserable beings have again arrived from Cam
peacby, and been publicly exposed for sale and
hiring, in little country-house in Buenos Ayres.
outside of Havana.