New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-15

ice was one to the effect that their knowledge, supe-
rior to that possessed by the Africans, prevented
their submitting so readily as do the latter to the
discipline of the sugar plantations; that s, in other
words, that they do not submit so quietly as do the
Africans to The torture Of the lash. The cheap
rates, too, at which Africans have been obtained,
and their being compelled 10 toll without receiving
the wages of their labor while the Asiatics have to
be paid four dollars per month, must receive ratons
for their support and medical attendance in time of
sickness, was another of the arguments used in IA
vor Of the Africans. 1t appeared, however, to be
entirely forgotten that it takes two parties to
make a bargain" it being apparently assumed
that as many Africans as might be required would
willingly come here upon being invited 10 do so.
A lengthy communication " appeared in the
Diario de la Marina Of the 3lst ult., advocating
the introduction of Africans in preference to Asia
tics. From a tedious mass of verbosity extract
and translate the following:
" The plan that propose is, that the Africans be
brought here free, but under certain conditions TO
labor, and that they be exactly paid when their time
expired, they should be Immediately sent from the
Island unless they with to continue here under the
previous conditions but never to continue FREE in the
leland"
We may admire the candOr of this writer while
we totally dissent from his plan, which, it is self
evident, is but prolongation of Slavery. Let me,
however, do the Diario de la Marina justice: in
introducing the communication from which
the above extract is made, and which it stated
emanated from " respectable planter" it was
distinctly observed that its impartialIty alone In
duced the publication of such articles, which were
at variance with its own views and opinions upon
the subject.
There are it is believed, no less than two if not
three vessels, at this very moment, fitting out in
this harbOr for the coast Of Africa Sufficient evil
dence has not yet been obtained to lead to their
being denounced, but they will be narrowly
watched, and percbance bounced upon when they
least expect it.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday last, were the
three days of the Carnival here. Except some few
carriages in the streets filled with females of IN
enyiable reputation wearing masks, | noticed no
difference in the appearance of the streets of this
city from ordinary occasions. True, there were
public balls each night of the Carnival; a grand
one at the palace" as it is called here, on the
evening of the second day, and splendid masque-
rade at the residence of Count CanngO, near the
CerrO, on the evening Of the third day. Tickets
of admission were sold for this last ball and all the
proceeds were devoted to aid the funds of the
Ladies Benevolent Institution of this city. On
the evenings of the second and third days, there
were also masked balls at the "Lyceum," the in
stitution of which the patriot Pinto was the pres-
dent These last-named balls, am told, were but
very slenderly attended
On the Saturday preceding the Carnival was
observed the feast of the - Publication of the
Virgin" which the Roman Catholics celebrate by
lighting innumerabe wax candles in their churches
There was also a procession at a" Guanabdcou
distant about league and half from here
The first battalion of the volunteers of Havana
marched to MaranOs on that day, where, if Gre
dekce NAV be given to the newspapers OF this CITY,
they went through the evolutions of a sham battle
in highly creditable manner.
There was murder perpetrated in one of the
suburbs of this city in the early part OF the present
week. As the tale was told to me, married
woman, with the knowledge of her husband who re-
ceived the wages of her infamy became the mistress
of "young man of respectability," who, doubling
her fidelity to him, murdered her and hed-whither,
no one seems TO know.
The season, except last Monday and yesterday
has been cold and uncomfortable since last wrote
YOU am told that in one sugar-grOwing district
the weather last week was so very unfavorable
that cessation of grinding necessarily took place