New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-01

years 10 have been the unvsrying reporters OF pro-
uacfed aud uno enable prosperity, If the condition OF
the Colony could have justified Us in adopting that
line Of public policy; and therefore, il is with heart
felt satisfaction that during the last eighteen months
we have been enabled to announce the gradual pro,
press Of affairs toward improvement, and il ia still
more gratifying to feel that this improvement proges
sive it has been likely to be Of at least cousd
cradle duration, if it be not Of actual permanence.
From another recent number Of that paper we
copy the following
"The Port Of Kingston presents an animated ap-
pearance. II is said that there are more vessels IN
the harbor now than there have been at any one period
we learn that no less than upward Of 900 barrels Of
-four arrived"
This -four, be it noted, comes from the United
States; the laboring population of Jamaica, in spite
Of their alleged return to barbarsm. now consuming
large quantities Of -four in place Of the corn meal
the only imported article Of food e1cepta little
salt fish to which, during the slave time they were
ever treated.
We also give. elsewhere, copied from the same
paper. an account of an Industry School," which
would 20 to show that while sugar making is
attended TO- the fact that the Jamaica people have
souls, however disregarded BY the large landed pro
prietors. is not wholly overlooked in humber quar-
ters. We give, Also another still more interesting
article from another Jamaica paper, The Kingstos
Morning Journal, letter containing an account
OF the epanting with Of one of those abandon
ed plantations over which the advocates OF slave
labor have hurrshed and shouted 80 Justify. Great
Valley Estate, the property in question, used
Al. .<.<o - at,,a
in the parish Of Hanover. 1t comprises freehold
Of four thousand acres, well situated and easy
Of access 1t bad made formerly five or six hun
dred b. gsbeads of sugar and since emancipation up
ward Of two hundred But like all the other estates
of whose abandonment we have heard, it had the
misfortune to belong to nonresident proprietor,
and to be managed by an attorney who made him
self famous for running out and throwing up ali the
estates with which he was connected. Though
there was large population near by, including the
former slaves Of the estate be quarrcled with them
and then pretended that he could get no labor.
Each succeeding crop became less, until some five
or Elk years since the cattle were turned into the
few remaining cane fields, the coppers scattered,
the mill sold, the engine sent away, and the works
lift to fall in ruins. Of the ruineus condition
Of this once fine estate the letter to which we refer
contains graphic account.
A few weeks since this estate passed into the
hands Of resident proprietor, who has determined
again to reestabsh it. In the letter which we
print elsew here Will be found an interesting ac-
count Of the planting of the first cane to which the
reiehbcring black population joyously and gratui-
tously contributed both labor and plants from their
OVID sugar patches. This evidence Of the growth
Of the idea of common interest between proprietor
ard laborer is most fortunate sign for Jamaica,
since il has been the hostility and suspicion with
which-almost entirely through the fault aud folly
of old-time attorneys and Overseers-these two
classes have regarded each other which has con-
trbuted more than anything else to diminish the
sugar produce of the island. 1t is only necessary
that the other abandoned estates should pass into
hands of intelligent resident proprietsrs aud that
they should be reestablshed with all the modern
improvements in manufacture, to carry the pro-
ducti,n of sugar in Jamaica to higher pout than
il has ever yet attained These abandoned estates
are already attracting attention. We find in The
Colonial Standard of the 9Th of Juue the following
1--WE have learned with much pleasure that among
the passengers for this island by the present steamer
il geDtemansnamed Evans who visits Jamaica with
the intention Of investing such amount OF capital a.
he may room for employing in the cultivation
Of sugar. J. nave to believe that the improved
prospect Of Col, NAL agrcutur, is likely to tempt To
this island considerable amount OF that money
support wh has for long time been sought for in
VAIN and our only hope is that the influence likely to
be brought into immediate connection with the Colony
may be sufficient to induce the Government to
whether some active measures may hot b. immediately
taken fol increasing the supply Of available labor"
The Falmouth Post, another Jamaica journal,
speaks follows:
Capitalist. in England not the only parties 10
whom we look for the restoration OF the country to
prosperity. We have capitalists among Us who are
t mined to aid in the good work, it is sasiac
tory 10 learn that the speculations into which they
have already entered have turned out well. Liberal
o,r made for all the properties that adver-
iised to he cold by public auction otherwise and
iber. every probability that our annual export will
be doubled as til. capabilities vi the soil
fully developed. With the Introduction of capital,
in lgrstioL of the right kind will follow matter
o course, and increased population will lead to the
revival Of commerce."
Without looking, however, to immigrants from
abroad, of which, except the recent ship-load Of
released slaves captured of the coast Of Cuba
Jamaica las received none for several years. there
is considerable amount Of resident labor available
for sugar planting. Although large part of the
former slaves of Jamaica have become landed pro-
prietors and are now engaged in raising provisions
their own lands-a result to which the precipi-
tate abandonment Of sugar estates has not little
tended-stll these cutyators are ready to dispose,
for wages, Of certain portion of their labor. TIL.
Morning Journal, while expressing the opinion that