New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-06
STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE OPENED AT
THE SOCTH
From The " o. Data, FEB. 2s.

From The " 0. Data, Feb 2s
Some startling and significant facts have come TO our
knowledge. We have hesitated to disclose them but
after inquiry, examination and consultation, are
convinced that both duty and policy demand disclosure
The facts, We say, are startling; they crucial
They viii surprise and encourage many in our counting
rooms and Offices and many the plantations and in
the towns but most of all they will astound the Cab
nets Of Western Europe and eminently assist to con-
firm between the genial French people aud
Norman and Hugueno, South, unwrtten but
hearty, magnaninous and unconquereble league
against the allied svarice and envy, cant and ra
pecty Of England and the Northern States
Although the foiled apd furious enemies of
institutions may shake up uneork, and pour out on
our battered brows the fosuing viss Of their wrath
although the Presiden. may be shocked and embar
raised and although the great parties OF the country
NAV be bitterly disappointed and mbrangled let go
forth that Southerners have taken into their own hand
the law and opened the African slave trade with the
South; that Africans are now imported into Mississippi
and other ses-shore States that in Mississippi there IS
market for African slaves ard that on plantations in
that great aud intrepid State, negroes recently
imported from Africa are at their daily work. The
suthority on which We make this announce
me1t IS indisputable. We even have adyices
that in Mississippi Henry Hughes and some
lis party now privately urge the Labor Immigration
movement not TO open the supply OF Africans but to
legitimate morslize regulate and equalize the supply
sready opened and impossible 70 be closed We have
some further details. Some negroes are disembsrked
OF the Atlantic coast and brought overland 20 the Ms
.i;sppi cotton felcs, but the Mississippi sescoasts Pc
culiar facilities for landing and secretDg csrgoes and
the conyepenoes Of Pearl River a channel for dis
trbution, are not overlooked
TIE profit Of the Mississippi slsve-trade are enor.
NOUS We have been so fortunate a. TO procure from
updoubted authority some interesting details. They
relate to the operations Of the Mississippi save-rade,
and are authenticated by operators. Il need not be
laid in the first place that the bark engaged in the
traffic TO the South must be fast saler, for this l. in
dpeBsabe to the security of the officers and crew, the
health of the cargo and the lapdity Of the pecuniary
returns For trp from the Mississippi coast to Africa
and back there must be captain, .upercsrgo,
thee mates. three cooks, steward, snd between
twenty and thirty frstc!ss. The vessel must
be well supplied with extra running and stand-
ing rigging, and also supernumerary spals, ropes,
topmss,s and suits of sails. An assortment of the
flags Of all nations will be particularly desirable, but the
most useful Is DOW tie French flag, because British
cruisers viii not verify the colors and take the same
Eber,ies "a with the United States Aag. The fare Of
the ships crew must be the very best and their good
viii must lie carefully concls;ed, because during the
voyage mu.ny is disastrous and after the voyage, a
tr,scherous or vindictive information s 70 say the
least troublesome aud expensive. To procure the good
vii Of the men, much depends on the mates over
whom the cap.an ough; to keep strict watch For
the subsistence of the negroes there mus; BE- a
plentiful supply Of hard bresd, corr.mes rice, and
abundance of vinegar, red pepper, pure water aud
drugs In distributing Diet the greae.. regularity IS
10 be observed and the very frst symptoms of disease
promptly trested. A 10 the caps,y Cf the superior
officer Il usy be safely said that ssver requires IN
tnore courage talent honesty, fidelity skill, and Dis
creton ;hsu any other ship N any ether trade. In
deed The captain and supercargo must between them,
act az navigator and naval officer merchant snd ply
.cjap dipouA;-t and magistrate not 70 mention the
functions Of chaplain.
As 10 the expenses snd profits Of the voyage, the
l.;ee. advices were from the captain OF 8 bark which
q ed from one Of the Georgia ports. he has quite
recently returned and reports ;ha, on account OF the
vigilance Of crusers negroes had accumulated on iee
coast, and in manpcr gluted the markets, and that in
Consequence of this the price had fallen to under so
head. The paymer. however must be IN gold or ell
veI as the head men viii not formerly barter 'oF
| merchandise
We may estimate a cargo to number 200 negroes
although mary more than that sre often earned but
whatever the number, purchased should be over
- wears Of age Seven hundred, a, average cost
OF >" Peoe, viii amount to s2l OOO and their proe
N ihs country or Cuba vii range from $50 to sN.
but sod Tor 900, say, the cargo will net $50 700
Freely allowing, then, sl5o,ec0 for the entire ex-
penses Of the voyage ard al possible loss the profits
81 sne round voyage will amount to so, GEO. Where
the profits are 60 exorbitant can well understand
Why the Business has been begun in the South. We
can well understand the ippossbIity Of closing the
trade now begun, and, moes Of all We now can under
stand that the gres; qDes,ion is not whether there
shall be for the South supply of African labor, be-
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