New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-08

however, entering into stipulation not to Asrbo'
ruaawsJs from the plantations. There 10 no very
recent account Of Surinsm, but these two inde
pendent reHo communities stil exist we believe,
n the interior.
During the wars Of the French Revolution Surf
cupied By the Epgsh; but although they kept the
adjoining territory now constituting British
Guiana, q. tie peace Of 1914 Surinau was re-
stored to the Dutch. During the English occupa-
ton large part Of the plantations had passed into
the bands Of English propneIors, and it is chiefly,
We believe, to English proprietors that they still
belong. Ever since the abolition Of the slave trade
the population of SurDam has been on the decline.
An official return, dated in 1912, gave for the total
population, So 900. OF these, $500 were whites,
of whom half were Christians and half Jews. The
colored population population OF mixed bloody
was Ieckoned at :, 900, of whom 200 were free
and 1900 slaves. The black population was set
down at 46,5OO, Of whom only 1900 were free.
Paramaribo the capital, had population ofl5,Ooo,
including {, 900 whites The decrease in the popu-
lstion of the colony in the preceding ten years
was reckOned at 5000, caused by the annual dimi
mutton Of slaves. According to statement
purportpg to be official contained in The Sarinam
Courant, the number of slaves in Surinam on the
st Of January, 1856, was as follows: belonging to
plantations, nales, IA, l90-females, 1892; be-
longing to persons not planters males, a, O32-
females, 1894; total, 5000; showing in the
last fourteen years diminution Of 10000. 1t is
evident from these fgures that the alternative is
between the abolition of Slavery or the gradual
extinction of the laboring population under the
discipline of the plantations.
In addition to the Colony of Surinam, the Dutch
pcssess on the south shore of the Caribbean Sea
the three islands of Bon Air, Aubs and Cura
Goa, and in the LeewaId Carbbee Group the little
islands Of Luba and st. Eustatius, with half of ST.
Martins, which they hold jointly with the French
ST. Eustatius, at the time of our Revolutionary
War, was, as neutral island, a seat of trade, SIM
liar to that which st. Thomas afterward became;
but it never recovered from the blow which it re-
ceyed in being plundered and sold out at military
auction By Admiral Rodney, and, with its neigh.
bors of Luba and St. Martins, it has now but few
hundred inhabitants, whose chief employment is
the cultivation of tropical fruits for expectation to
this city Bon Air. Ambs and Curacao have a
very dry climate, and are chiefly known for their
salt pans, especially the former. The thousand or
two slaves on this island employed in the salt
works appear to be cross between the Indian and
nesro--a good looking sprghtly race, who speak a
sort of broken Portuguese. Curacao, which once
had the same Governor with Ourselves in the per-
son Of PetIus Stuyvessnt, has few plantations,
ard perhaps two or three thousand slaves But
the whole number of slaves likely to be affected BY
any scheme of emancipation which the Dutch
Chambers may adopt will not, probably, exceed
forty thousand.