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COTTON CULTURE IN CUBA.

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J. General will be en- route to England befor
Q this reaches you, to promote the interest
r OF the Cotton Growing Company, in Eng
land, and other European countries. 81
: your cotton growers must be on the look
3 out, or Cuba will drive them from some o
the European markets. do not write this
IN Jest, but with more of sorrow than any
other feeling"
That well concerted and powerful ef
: tort IS about to be made to grow cotton on
large scale on the fertile island, is a fact
worth considering. Coolie labor, obtained
at mere nominal price, is to be used to
cultivate the plant; and as the supply Of
the Asioticos is ten-fold larger than that Of
the africans would be, if free trade existed
alike in both, slave holders have far more to
fear from this new source of competition
than is generally believed. In the same
letter this correspondent says:
"The French ship Alexandra arrived on
the 9th ult., from Macao via ST. Helena,
in one hundred and ninety five days, with
three hundred and ninety seven "Asiaticos
free colonisis," consigned to Messrs. Fernan.
dez d schimper, Of this city. There were
thirty-seven deaths on the passage. The
American ship Live Yankee arrived I'd
instant, from Macao via the Cape of Good
Hope, in eighty eight days, with seven hun
dred and eighty-eight Asiaticos. She had
but twelve deaths on the passage"
When every "live Yankee" is able to
bring seven hundred and eighty eight labor
ing people from China in eighty-eight DAYS,
ready to engage at once in tho cultivation
of cotton, in every West India island, and
in Central America, it is easy to see how
powerful competition may grow up in our
Immediate vicinity in the production of this
great Southern staple. Our exclusion of
both Coolies and negroes operates as boun-
ty on the importation of both Africans and
As'atlcs, into Cuba, to grow the crops which
might enrich our own agriculturists. Our
commerce, and our manufacturers. We
copy from the Courier, another paragraph
from the pen Of the same writer:
"On the 3Oth ultimo, about half past s
o'clock, p. m, quite crowd was attracted
to the wharf to see bark towed in by the
Regla steamer Jir, whose crew only consist
ed OF two or three persons; she proved TO !
be our old acquaintance, the J. J. Cobb, of
New York, which sailed last December on
pretended legal voyage to the coast of
Africa, but which legal voyage, there is am.
pie proof on board Of her, was for a cargo
OF slaves, which had been landed and the
bark was then abandoned. She was found
derect twenty-five miles from land, the pan
of Matanzas bearings. S. W., by the schoon.
er Cumberland, of New York, who brought
her to this port, where she now is. The
bark Ardennes, about which so much was
said and written near the end Of last year,
is also expected daily to arrive from the
coast of Africa, with cargo Of Africans.
Thus. the stars and stripes have again, in
two instances. been used as a shield to pro.
tect the Spaniarda in the African slave
trade"
Taking all the facts together, rs present.
ed in ths'current history of Cuba, they fur
n'sh much food for grave reflection. Be.
yond all question, double slave trade ex
ists-carried on between China and Cuba
oy live Yankees" and between Cuba and
Africa, under the folds of the "Stars and
Stripes" The present policy Of the Uni
ted States creates and sustains this double
traffic in persons held to service; and who
will say that our system has improved one
odlous feature of the slave trade as it exist.
ed sixty years ago2 What is to be the f.
nal result Of the constant importation of
cotton growers from Africa and Asia into
all parts of the New World, where the cli- ,
mate is adapted to to the production of tbs ;
great staple, except into the Southern
States9 We present the naked facts as fur o
n'sbed from reliable source. for the con-
sideration Of intelligent readers. We may
close our eyes, but that will not extiuguish
the light of day.-Fields ard F;reside.
Some one blamed Dr.. Marsh for chang. t
ing his mind. &sWeIl,' said he, that is the
difference between a man and jackass; e
The jacksss cant change his mind, and the b
man can-it's human privilege
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about four years old, a star, said, That star .
you see up thersis bigger than this world. u
No, it amt said he, Yea, it is.' Then
Why don't it keep the rain Off
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