Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-12
From the New Orleans Delta.
stan fling INSTRUMENTATION Opened at
the South


stan fling DisciOsurc~-African Slave Trade Opened
the South.
Some startling and significant facts have come to our
knowedged. We have heSitated to disclose them but
after inquiry examination and consultation are con-
WINGED that both duty and policy demand disclosure
The acts We say, startling they crucial They
Will surprise and encourage many in counting rooms
and Offices and many the plantations and in the towns
but most of all they will astound the Cabinets of West
ern Europe and emnently assist to confirm between the
genial French people and our own Norman and Hngue
not South, an unwritten but hearty magnanmous and
unconqGerabe league against the allied avarce and en-
Wy cant and rapacity of England and the northern stat
Although the foiled and furious enemies of our ns
tuoa5 may shake up, uncork and pour out on our bat
TERED brOws the fOamng vals of their wrath although
the President may be shocked and embarrassed and
although the great parties of the country may be bitter
y disappointed and mbrangled let it go forth that south
ernels have taken into their hand the law and opened
the African slave trade with the South the Africans are
imported into Mississippi and other seashore States;
that i'll Mississippi there is market for African slaves,
and that on plantations in that great and intrepid State
negroes recently imported from Africa at their daily
work The authority on which make this announce
meat is indsputabe. We have advice that in
Mississippi, Henry Hughes and some of his party now
privately urge the labor migration movement, not to
open the supply of Africans, but to legitimate moralse,
regulate and equatse the supply already opened and i'm
possible to be closed We have some further details
Some negroes disembarked the Atlantic coast and
brought overland to the Mississippi cotton fields but
the Mississippi coasts peculiar facilities for landing
and secrcng cargOes, and the cOnvenienceS of Pearl
river channel for distribution, are not overlooked
The profits of the Mississippi slave trade
We have been SO fortunate to procure from undoubt
cd authority interesting details. They relate to
the operations of the Mississippi slave trade and
thenticated by operators 1t need not be said in the
first place that the bark engaged in the traffic to the
South must be fast saer for this is indispensable to
the security Of the officers and crew. the health OF the
cargo and the rapidity of the pecunary returns Fora
trip from the Mlsslssp coast to Africa and back there
must be captain supercargo three mates three cooks
steward and between twenty and thirty rst-class
The vessel must be well supplied with extra run
ming and standing rigging and asosupernumerary spars
ropes, tOpmaSts and suits of sails. An assortment of
the flags of all nations will be particularly desirable but
the most useful is the French flag, because British
cruisers will not verify the coOrs and take the lib
critics with the United States flag. The fare of
the ships crew must be the very best, and their
good will must be carefully conciliacd because
during the voyage mutiny is disastrous and after the
voyage treacherOus vindctive information is to say
the least, troublesome and expensive 10 procure the
good will OF the men, much depends the mates, over
/ whom the captain ought to keep strict watch. For
the subsistence of the negroes there must be plentiful
supply OF hard bread corrmea rice and an abundance
q vinegar, redpcpDcr, pure water and drugs. In dis
ribung diet the greatest regularity is to be observed
and the very first symptoms of disease promptly treated
AS to the capacity of the superior officer it may be safe
y said that SLAYER requires in it courage, talent
honesty fidelity skill and discretion than any other ship
any other trade Indeed the captain and supercargo
must, between thcm act gator and naval officer
merchant and physician diplOmatst and magistrate, not
/ to mention the functions of chaplain.
AS to the expense and profits of the voyage the latest
advices were from the Captain of bark which sailed
from one the Georgia ports He has quite recently
returned, and reports that on account of the vigi
ence of the cruisers negroes had accumulated on the
coast and in had gluted the market, and that
in consequence of this the prices had fallen to under
thirty dollars head. The payment, however, must be
made i'll gold or silver, the head men will not, as
formerly, barter for merchandise
/ We may estimate a cargo to number seven hundred
negroes atOugh many than that often carried
but whatever the number purchased should be
twenty-five years OF age. Seven hundred at average
cost of thirty dollars piece will amount to twentyone
thousand dollars and their price in this country Cuba
will range from four hundred and fifty to twelve hundred
dollars But if sold for five hundred dollars say the
cargo will net three hundred and fftythousand dollars
Freely allowing, then, one hundred and fftyhOusand
dollars for the entire expenses of the voyage and all pos
sibe loss the profits of round voyage will amount
to two hundred thousand dollars. Where the profits
are exOrbitant, well understand why the bus
iness has been begun in the South. We can we'll
derstand the mpossbity of closing the trade begun
and most of ALL we now understand that the great
question is not whether there shall be for the South
supply of African labor because that settled and
the great and absorbing question is whether according
to Hughes method, the supply shall be modified
to be legitimate, fair regular and equal.
DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL FROM ENGLAND.
The London correspondent of the Philadelphia
American, writing on the 9Th inst. says:
The Princess Royal embarked according to the
program, at Gravesend, on Tuesday. Her emotion
very great when parting with her mother aud brothers
and sisters at Buckingham Palace indeed through
the whole route her aspect was one of grief and sad
ness. The demonstration at Gravescnd admirably
done. The display was protuse, and the view down
Iarner street extremely pretty and interesting
A visit on Wednesday morning enabled me to see the
decorations, though under eaden sky and petng rain
Banners, flags and Strcamers of all kinds garands for
ming arches the streets, windows decorated with
evergreens and flowers everywhere to be seen and
when filed with people the streets presented scene at
once excited and animated. The Prince COnsort, the
Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred accompanied the
Princess Royal on board the Victoria and Albert, and
a parting of very keen emotion ensued the
Prince of Wales betrayed by his wetcd eyeashes how
much he felt, and little Prince Alfred, with his face
buried in his handkerchief, afforded the public
ceent opportunity of knowing that nature will assert
her rights even in the bosom of royalty But grief is
not eternal and the accounts from Brussels state that
the Prime looked we'll and cheerful her arrival at
the home of her relative, the King of the Begians
CorToN SPINNING IN THE ZoLLvERE1N-The follow
ing statistics from number of the National
Gazette, published at Berlin:
Statistics Of Cotton Spirnin the ZOltUerein Customs
Union according to the most reliable authorities.
l. Prussia ..... 26 mills, with 425,O0O spindles
2. SaXOny. .........1 .134 604500 20
3. Bavaria. ...... 18 $4,000 q
4. Wurtemburg ..... II $4,000
| 5. Hanover .....A 55,S0O g
6. Baden ... II 100
| I. Oldenburg. 4O,OOO
I 8. Nassau. ........ L 3O,OO0
Total 2lO 100000
Including l6 mills, with $4,000 spindles, not yet