Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-04-01
Mississippi African Slave Trade.
From the v. o Delta, of Feb. 60. ]

come to our kuCwledge. We have hesita-
ted to disclose them, but after inquiry, ex.
amin alton AMI consultation, we are con.
vinced that both duty and policy demand
disclosure. The facts, We say, are startling;
they are crucial. They will surprise and
encourage many in our counting-rooms and
offices, and many on the plantations and in
the towns, bu: most of all they will astound
the Cabinets of Western Europe, and emf
nently assist To confirm between the genial
French people and our own Norman and
Huguenot South an unwrtten but hearty
magnanimous and uncunquerable league
against the allied avarice and envy, cant
aud rapacity of England and the Northern
States. Although the foiled and furious
enemies of our institutions may shake up,
uncork and pour out on our battered brows
though the great parties of the Country
may be bitterly disappointed and imbran-
gled. let 1t go forth that Souiherners haze ta-
ken into their opn hand the iaD. and opened
The African Saue Trade ,oith the South; that
Africans are nop imported into Mississippi
and other sea-shore States; that in Missis-
sippi there is market for African Slaves,
and that on plantations in that great and in
irepid Stale, negroes recently imported from
Africa are at their daily trork. The author
! ity on which we make this announcement
is indisputable. We even have advices
that IN Mississippi, Henry Hughes and some
of his party now privately urge the Labor
| Immigration movement, not to open the
supply OF Africans, but to lgitmatize, NOR
alize, regulate and equalize the supply
already opened and impossible to be clused.
| We have some further details. Some ne
groes are disembarked on the Atlantic
coast and brought overland to the MiSsis-
sippi cotton fields, but the Mississippi sea
coast's peculiar facilities for landing and
secreting clrgoes, and the conveniences oil
| Pearl River as channel for distribution,
are not overlooked.
The profits of the Mississippi Slave Trade
are enormous. We have beer So fortunate
as to procure from undubted authority some
interesting details. They relate to the
operations of the Mississippi Slave Trade,
and are authenticated by operators. 1t
Iced not be said in the first place that the
bark engaged in the traffic TO the Snuth
must be a ia: t sailer:f,r this is indispensable
| to the security of the officers and crew, the
health of the cargo, and the rapidity of the
pecuniary returns. For a trip from the
Mississippi coast to Africa and back, there
must be captain, supercargo, three cooks,
ste md hotuppn w and thir.u
first-class seamen. The vessel must be
well supplied with extra running and stand
ing rigging, and also supernumerary spars,
ropes, topmasts, and suits of sails. An as
sortment of Lhe. flags of .lRaiions a0iH be par
t,cularly desirable, bat The most useful is now
the French flag, because British cruisers ,0iu
not verify the colors and take tie same liber-
! lies as wih The United States flag. Tie fare
of she ships crew must be the very best,
and their good will must be carefully con-
clliated, because, during the voyage, mu-
tiny is disastrous; and after the voyage, a
treacberous or vindictive information is, to
say the lest, troublesome and expensive
To procure the good will of the men, much
depends upon the mates, over which the
captain ought tc keep a strict watch. For
the subsistence of the negroes there must
be plentiful supply Of hard bread, corn
meal, rice, and an abundance oc vinegar,
red pepper, pure water and drugs. In dis
tributing diet, the greatest regularity is to
be observed, and the very first symptoms Of
disease promptly treated As to the capac-
ity of the superior officer, it may be safely
suid that SLAYER requires in it more cour-
age, talent, honesty, fidelity, skill and dis
cretion than any other trade. Indeed, the
captain and supercargo must, between them,
act as navigator and naval officer, merchant
and physician, diplomatist and magistrate,
not to mention the functions of chaplain.
As to the expenses and profits of the
voyage the last advices were from the cap
tain OF bark which sailed from one of the
Georgia ports. He has quite recently re-
turned, and reports that Oh account 6f the
vigilance of cruisers, negroes had accumu-
lated on the coast, and in a manner glptted
the markets, and that in consequence of
this the price had fallen to under thirty
dollars head. TIL payment, however,
must be in GOLD or silver, as the head men
will not, as formerly, barter for merchan-
disc.
We NAV estimate q cargo to number
seven hundred negroes, although many
more than that are often carried; but what
ever the number, none purchaIed should be
over twenty five years of age. Seven hun
! dred. at an average cost of thirty dollars
apiece, will amount to S2l 600, and their
price in this country OF Cuba will range
! from $3.50 to 81 200. Blu, if sold for $500
say the carge will net S35O.OOO. Freelv
al lowing. then. SI5O,O0O for the entire ex-
penses of .he voyage, and all possible loss,
the profits of one round voyage will amount
TO 5000 900. Where the profits are so ex-
orbitant, tce can ,reH understand tcty he busi-
ness has been begun in The South. We can
well understand the impossibiliry of closing
the trade now begun. and most of all, We
now can unders. sand that the great question
is not whether there shall be for the South
supply Of African labor, because that is
now settled, and The great and absorbing
question is whether, according to Hughes
method, the supply shall be 50 modified as
to be legitimate, far, regular anu equal.
| REPUBLICAN SIMPLICITY the mar
riage of ex-President Fillmore with Mrs.
Mcintosh, recently at Albany, only 'orty
guests were present. What cons,rast
between the marriage of an American -ex-
President--ihe proudeSt position in the
world--and that of an English Princess!--
Is there an American who does not feel
proud OF hi, country and its ins;itnt ons
when viewing the simplicity of the one and
the. .tomioolery OF the other -iidrrtS'urg
Telegraph.
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