The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-22


squabbles over the Street Commissionership and
such like. On which side will those who repre-
sent the wealth and commerce and property of
New York range themselves We trust and be-
lieve that the universal answer will be, ION the
side of municipal liberties" If it be so, then
salvation is at hand.
Gen. Conchas Recent Proclamation-Ths
Prosperity OF Cuba.
Gen. Concha has lately issued an important
proclamation against the promoters and abettors
of the African slave trade in Cuba, which con-
tains two important points These are, the Off
cial announcement that most Of the new elave
expeditions are fitted cut in foreign ports" and
that slavery is the base and foundation of the
wealth and prosperity" of Cuba.
These points merit few remarks. The first
one is levelled at New York and Liverpool, for
it is well known fact that nearly all the YES
sells for this trade are fitted out in our port, and
that quite, not all, the goods for the purchase
of the negroes on the coast Of Africa are shipped
directly from Liverpool. A combination of the
English and American flags is requisite now for
the safe prosecution of this illegal traffic. This
combination, however, is not made by English
and American citizens but by Euro
pean Spaniards and a few Portuguese
who reside in Cuba. The native Gu
bans in Havana, and the several COM
mercial firms established by them in this
city will have nothing to do with it. The
slave traders accordingly seek agents here and in
England, who for handsome per centage trans
act all the necessary business. So profitable is
this trade that it is currently stated in our COM
mercial circles that young house, which started
in this city two or three years since without CAPT.
tai, dissolved this spring, and divided two hum
dred thousand dollars profits. Both in this coun-
try and in England these agents contrive to keep
within the law, and thus escape punishment. If
General Concha, however, will rigidly scrutinize
the circle Immediately around him, he will find
there the principal contrivers and capitalists of
the traffic he proclaims against, and in those sub
ject to his authority the chief abettors Of the in
PRODUCTION of slaves into Cuba
The wealth and prosperity of Cuba, which
General Concha says is grounded on the institu-
ton of slavery, is indeed q striking social phe-
nomenon. And it is the more remarkable in its
sudden growth from the fact that none of the Eu-
ropean free communities has exhibited anything
like the came material progress. But it ia
not to slavery alone that this prosperity
and wealth are due. They arise in part from the
great increase of the laboring population, caused
by the slave trade, which has been carried on
during Gen. Concha's last administration to an
extent never before known in that island, and the
thousands Of Chinese that have been brought from
Asia, and worked in the cane fields on parity
with the slaves. Another element of them is the
liberty that has recently been given iu Cuba to
industrial associations, under which Credits Mo-
biliers, banking institutions and corporate COM
pancs have sprung up on all sides, creating
spirit Of speculation and imitation that must ex-
perience reaction. These elements of wealth
have proved very profitable TO Gen. Concha him
self, for ii is stated in well informed circles that
he has sent home million of dollars on his own
private account. Some parties believe he has
made this by conniving at the slave trade but
his friends insist that he has realized il in sue
cessful stock speculations
While the past year has been very profitable
to him, II has enabled him to render good ac-
count Of his stewardship 10 the mother coun-
try. He RENTED last year surplus
from the revenues Of Cuba of four
millions of dollars, and the present one promises
to yield still larger return. Here we have the
secret of his tenure Of power amid the changing
revolutions In Madrid, and in opposition to the
earnest efforts Of the British government TO have
him removed He has more than doubled the
supply that comes from Cuba to the exhausted
Golfers Of Spain, and the Ministry are 10th TO
change him. Perhaps, too, in this fact may be
found a solution Of the political enigmas that
have surrounded the STANDARDIZATION imbroglio.
war excitement has been kept up In order to d.
vert public attention in Europe and America from
this immense connivance at the profitable slave
trade, and the political fostering Of spirit of
speculation in Cuba. Under cover of threat
ened war, that might involve many nations
thousands of negroes have been brought from
Africa and millions of dollars have been sent TO
Spain. This Mexican question cannot be kept
open much longer, but II is still very doubtful If
Spain will consent TO lose 30 profitable Captain
General as Concha has been in Cuba
A Grand Coronstion-Humbug Night at the