Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-02
Eacts for Cons,et, ration

| In 1850, prior TO the Revolution, st. Domingo
ported 76835,219 lbs of coffee, and 14000O,0OO lbs
of sugar. in 1913 the export of coffee had fallen ia
26 600 00O the export of sugar had ceased entirey
and su-ar is now imported into the island
/ In 1884, the year of the emancipation OF the
slaves Jamaica exported to England 1S ,26o,S83 lbs
coffee and 5625, 300 lbs sugar iii 1899 i've years
after those exports had decreased to 1923 1877 lbs
coffee and 70, 5O7, 800 lbs. sugar.
! The whole number of slaves imported into the
English West Indies was 100000; in 1884 only
1850 900 remained TO be emancpated, being 1,O4O,0
less than the number imported or decrease of over
three ifths
The whole number of slaves imported into the
United States prior to the prohibition of the slave
trade, in 1903, 375, 600 By the census of 1850
the slaves in the United States amounted to 1924,
3l3 add to this the free blacks 434 ,495--total Of
the negro race was 3638, 1903, having increased g.,
| 263 SOS, or nearly nine for every one imported.
The free black population in the New England
States, in 1910, was Is, 479. In 1850, a period Of
forty years, it he'd increased to 23O21, eighteen
per cent.
was ,191 1865 In 1850 it had increased to 3,204,
3d. or 264 per cent, nearly fifteen times the ratio
of the increase of the free black population
From the above facts the following conclusions
may be drawn
| ist That in consequence of the revolution in St
Domingo and the emancipation OF the slaves in ia
maica, those islands fast reapsng into deserts.
| 3D. That slavery in the United States is very
different institution from what slavery was in the
English West Indies that in the United States Ow-
ing 10 their kind treatment, the slaves had increased
nine old while, The contrary, in the English West
| Indies they had decreased three ttlhs.
Sd. That the negro race increases nearly fifteen
times as fast in Their state of slavery in the Southern
States, under the of their masters, as IN their
stale of freedom in New England, when dependent
on their own resources and the charity of the white
race.-Ne0 York Day Book
SERIOUS DECREASE IN THE YIELD OF SALT.--On
Saturday evening Mr.. Samuel Bracegirdle salt, pro-
prietor and shpbulder, of Northwich called at liver
pool Albion Office and made the following statement
The great salt district is composed of two divisions,
the Winsford and the Eorthwch. I own and work a
miEe in the latter division For some time past there
has been gradual decrease in the quantity of brine
obtained throughout the district but within the last
few days the yield has decreased so per cent The
| higher mines at Winsford have completely failed,
and those of Anderon and Northwich have fallen
off within a Fortnight something like so per cent
| My mine has decreased to that extent the brine
having subsidized 10 Is yards from its previous height
| of sc yards and it is still on the decrease The
brine in Lord SANKEY'S mine in the same division,
within the last two days, has decreased eleven yards
II is not unusual fol decrease to take place gradu.
ally, owing to the gradual subsidence of land in the
neighborhood, but we never remember instance of
so great change occurring within so brief per-
od We account for it from the fact that the land at
Dunkirk which is about a mile distant from the
mines and which had been gradully 'setting' during
the past few weeks, suddenly sank to the depth of
three story building day or to ago. This, we ina
CINE, has altered the position of the Strata and has
caused the brine. instead of flowing towards the sea-
in which direction all the working shafts are now
situated, to flow inland. 1t is calculated that
this decrease will take away fully onehalf the pres
emf supply of salt which cones to Liverpool from
that district Mr.. Firth, banker Of Northwich who
has salt mine at Winsford, stopped working yeser-
day (Friday3. Dunkirk is high land, il is supposed
that the brine being withdrawn by the mines has
caused the subsistence. The present export of salt
from Liverpool, obtained from this district is about
100 900 or 100000 tons year, of which about three
fourths go TO the United States"
London Times, Nov "a