Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-08-20

-.-.-.--szzs Cuba. e--
In 1880 summary was made OF the value OF proper
ty in Cuba and the aggregate was some nine hundred
millions of dollars So our contemporary OF the refers
bvrg Democrat asserts upon the authority OF MAGREGoR
writer of considerable weight on such SUBJECTS lrop
ca products have since risen in value and the annual
produce of the island has also grown 1t is therefore
reasonable to suppose that the value Of the island has
grown with the increase of its productions and their
enhanced value in the markets of the world,
The exports of Cuba arc between thirty and forty
millions annually and would be much greater under a
more liberal commercial system.
But Cuba, like Hayti, would become valuelcSS were
her fierce Africans turned loose for her slave population
really and literally African not simply as is the case
in the United States, Of African origin They are
heather Africans hardly speaking the language Oh any
civilized people In Cuba there is also large Tree ne
gro population
Now there's the rub In the event of hOstilities we
could take Cuba from Spain. Our small regular army,
from which Europeans led to form low estimate OF
our military capacity affords NO criterion OF the force
that could be almost instantly called out-sulcent Ill
deed to ovcrrun Cuba before Spain could well realize IT.
But one thing is nearly certain. Spain would never
permit Cuba to be orcby taken from her without ren
derng it curse to its cOnquerOrs, like as the Russians
On leaving Moscow opened the prisons and let loose
the felons to fire the city SO would the Spaniar8 do
with the terrible clement existing i'll Cuba and England
would secretly advise not openly abct such course
She has sought the Authorization of Cuba, We have
dreaded it. and are determined to prevent it at all
hazards. Might not attempt to seize it, really pre-
cipitac the omiuous nsumnation of our worst fears
a. I;o, DeIl,,
ing social order be far more difficult than even the poll
teal conquest of the island.
It is for these that We are compelled to &c
with those who go for making haste slowly waiting foI
the wagon. II VIC cquire Cuba by peaceful means,
get not merely tho body we get the life that gives il
value We get Cuba unmarried and prosperous. A
forcible acquisition may give noisOmc unwhoesOmC
carcass 1t is a risk that ought not to be lightly run
obedience to any camor. 1t is risk that President
Buchanan will not lightly run, feel almost certain.
| BARNUNIzING.-1he papers have tcemed with &C
counts of the enthusiasm got up the arrival of the
news that the Atlantic telegraph Gable had been laid
All or nearly all this has been made out OF the whole
cloth People wonder talk, speculate but do not feel
about this thing 1t is British affair. One of the
times in which John Bull has got the weather guage
Brother Jonathan. 1t may be that Mr. Fields did start
the thing and work hard for it, but it is wholly controll
ed in Engand-subec to the dictation of the British
government, under English charter on English soil
and vet the first vessel OF the American Navy was EN-
ployed in the service of this English monopoly w
don't believe in the reported enthusiasm The Southern
people are not manufacturing people, and at any rat
don't manufacture mock enthusiasm fast as those
some other sections. Some of the poetry that has beer
expended is really disgustingy foolish toadysby con
temptible.
But our people in no section are quite as great oo
as our sensation journals would make them out tt
be- On the evening of the 9th inst. it rained il
torrents in Cincinnati and the streets deserted ye
the agent of the associated press tcegraphed to the pa
pers at distance flaming despatch setting forth tn
brilliant illumination OF the City-thc fireworks, tn
" fair women and brave men that crowded the streets
etc etc. all in honor of the telegraph cable Something
like humbuG ono would think.