The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-29

limited 10 portion OF the confedeacy every interest
and every State is embraced in il.
There imported into Cuba in 1858, the following
schedule Of articles with their value according to the rev.
enue tariff
Provisions
Iiouors and wines --.-..-. 81, ,s3l Sfl 90
Meats salt, jerked, &c.).-------.-- ,625, ,657 90
Groceries -.-------------.--- SO, ,545 06
Fruits ------.--.--------- 275, $40 ~
Grains 4, 1879, 97S 90
Fisheries ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 599, ,2ss 90
other provisions. ,T63, 62f 90
Manufactures.
Cotton shirtings and stufs ------ 3,OsO, ,s74 90
Linens and cloths 2, l9S, ,592 90
Wooliens. 4S7,ls0 03
Silks --a--.-.-- 5S3, las or
Furs 703,sO2 oil
Miscellaneous
Timber and building materials - s6s 900 90
Metals --.-...----- $50, ,02O 0G
Cattle ------------- 80 800 04
Railroad materials ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2T3,49l 07
Sugar-house and engine materials 496, 1863 05
Articles not included in the preceding divi
sions. -------------e---- 6,09J,5t5 oo
Thus Cuba imported in 1858 provisions to the value of
Sll 37s27o; manufactures, s7,o53,6 ,622 anG other ar
ticles, S9277 900.
Can any one look over this schedule of imports aud
say that every interest and every State in the uno
not deeply interested in the trade with Cubal Have the
South and West interest in the twenty millions of pro-
visions and metals and lumber annually imported Have
the North interest in the millions of anfac
lures annually carried into the island Of the wholcim
poration amounting to S2T 7S9 800 the Unitcl States
contribute So 49, 733, within fraction of oneourt
We deeply Interested too, in the exports rom
Cuba These in 1853 amounted in value to So, ,2l0-
4O5 of which the United States received s2 l3l 095,
or more than third In that year the following
| the chief exports from tho island
Brandy rum, (pipes)- ------------------ l4,29t
! Cotton, pounds -- ---------+----- l3S, ,625
| Sugar (boxesl- ---------------I 657, 1872
] Coffee, (arrob1s Of % pounds) -------- 442, T30
! Wax, arrolas)- --------.-------- f5,94G
Mahogany and other woods value in dollars ffs, 43t
Molasses and battery srups, ,hossheads --- 3o3,33i
| Leaf tobacco pounds S,03919I
Cigars ,thousanls) ------- 237, $50
These articles which cheer the homes of every grade
Of population within the limits of the republic sme
Cuba from the geography of the world and how much Of
comfort would be abstmced from the people OF every por'
! ton of our contederacy2 a
But it is alone in the articles of export and import
! that Cuba concerns We deeply interested in
| the mode in which is conducted. Whence
the vessels in which these productions carried
from port to another The following table gives
significant answer and tells the interest have in il
brazilian, 2 Italian, 6 Russian, a Austrian, Span
ISL American l3 Prussian, II Swedish and Norwegian
II Danish, 20 Netherlands, "a Belgian, 45 Han
seattle Towns, 81 French l26 English, 348 Spanish,
90l United States, 2,307 Out of a total of 3,9lS
merchant vessels engaged in 1853 in carrying the exports
and imports of Cuba, the United States contributed
2,301 The total amount of tonnage for that was
7l3,330 The tonnage of the Spanish vessels l62,
S77 Of foreign vessels $50 f53 The proportion of the
United States can only be approxmacd as there are no
complete data According to the returns made to the
Treasury Department the Of the United States
with Cuba for 1851 and 1852 carried in shipping
rated follows Cleared the United States American
vessels, 2540lS tons foreign 29,703. Entered the
United States American vessels, 2i9 307 tons foreign,
49, 030 tons Thus deeply implicated in our commerce
with Cuba is this large and increasing branch of in
! dustry
The geographical position, resources and political and
commercial relations of Cuba with the United States, thus
unfold the importance of acquiring the island. That
ackn but
superior to the advantages The character of these
drawbacks will be from examination into the
character of the population the interior economy of the
island and the attitude foreign powers. Cuba is d
vided into three departments tho western, central and
eastern. The population Of the western department,
cording to the latest estimates, numbers whites 225
500 free colored ss 800 slaves, 320 500 The middle
central department Whites 1853 900; colorcd,
AZ, 800 slaves, $500 and the eastern department
whites 81, ,060 free colored 1910 slaves 65 100.
These tables give an aggregate of population Whites
f65, ,560 of free colored, 205570 of slaves, 436,l ,l05
The total population ,I0T $50. There conflicting
statements but they do not vary very materially The
American Statistical Annual for 1852 puts the population
at l2ls, 30 thus subdivided whites, native and Eu
ropean,) 605, 800 free colored, 205,570 slaves 436
| 100.
In 1775 the population of the United States without
the guide of census estimated at fully 3,000 600
In that year the population of Cuba l7o37o Our
last census, in 1885, shows population to be % 0OO
000 in round numbers According the indications of
bills of mortality and the working of the principles
which the science of social statistics is baseball OF
them controlled by the laws of modern hygiene well
of political economyCuba, with deduction for tho
intrusive addition OF emigant laws to popu
lton and by the rule of proportion, should show. for
the period have traversed increase of population
amounting to 1903, 1888.
This population is distributed under three divisions
fenced round with strong distinctions The lowest dvis
ion consists of the coored population the large majority
of which slaves. The second made up of free men,
but who represent the most motley and hcerogcne-
compounds imaginable in the class of hybridsm A
of antipodal castcs of conflicting human
elements of clashing not blending characters;
and types de ao constitute this Cuban social organiza
tion in which the European Spaniard rudey taboos
natives and of the sos and claims and
precedence the dsnherite fius tsry and
the foreigners protected by pretended treaty puations
and settled in the island with their family amxures o
every degree of parentage The third and what they
call the ''herarcby the highest class of society in the
order Of rank and statons composed of the large land
holders the weahiest merchants and the principal finc-
tionares of the colonial government Most OF these
creoles in large number excepted in perfect ac-
cord WITH and due suhservcnce to, the political yiews
intcnts, aud interests OF Spain
IL is objected that the number of free negroes in tho
island would make ITS incorporation into conicsloracy
Troublesome IT not dangerous IL yet to be revealed
that the African Withstand the domination the
Anglo Norman that he will not readily a,,se
into appropriate submissiycucss If Cuba acquired
this population would be tractabe and safe OF It's resi-
dence i'll the island terminated. In event could it
occasion serious social disturbance No enable objection
can bc derived from the laws which regulate slavery in
Cuba. No matter how stringent on savage they
may be, they wond Immediately he relaxed under The
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