New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-24

'tte southeast OF Havana On- OF the most delightful
situstiors in the New Void there ,ou see plains
care'u y planted With ,ugarcsh- and coffee vet
there plains are aered riiI nc sreet Of The At =
can siarel RsraI life ioses ITS charms Thss II IS
iAseporoble fro~ The MISERY Of our race" I'LL,
p.7l
" Here Is story have never seen in English. 1t
DOES honor alike to the subject and the narrator:
TIE Catholic missionary OF San Fernando h-d ed
out bis lpoian. 10 toe banks Of the GgvIs-e River,
% hottie expedition, which sss, properly, on a
ran-hun, in violation ot the lass OF religion and Of
'tbe Spanish Government. On this unchIsti eIpe-
dition, 10 in Inoi.n hut, they found mother with
& three chdreb-t~o II the three Of teoder age Sle
wss buy preparing the M7nioc meal; her husband
was absent fishing. and che could not withstand the
aan-luuiers and Christian opPress"rs wh- forced
tbeI way IN. The mother Sought to escape with
her chI.dres but bad hsrcy reached the open psla
wien ,he was seized By the maB.buu'ers Of tue mis-
,op with Der children, bound AID conducted to the
fOre. Tue missionary sitting IN bi, boat, wait
for the results Of the chase, whose p-rs he hai
MT shHed. II the mother had made any violent re-
ss'arce she would have been killed by these ruff
sns; for in these missions thing j. ull1 we'd for
the sake OF gaining souls - special psios are
taken to capture children, IN order TO bring tnem up
as slaves Of the Christians.
"Tle mother, With her chilare,. was brought to
San Ferrsndo, and it was hoped she could not fod her
WY back BY land to her home. But the maternal
heart lor ged for those children were with theu
father on the day Of the capture. In her despair she
made several attempts to escape With the stolen
Children, but was sez-d again, numerically beatea
with Whips and FINAL, sep4rstedfrcm her two youoger
children. She was carried up the river Atabapo to
~ In ni,,N he sat m he
part If tie boat tightly bound, and not nosing her
fate. Size burst the buncs t'rew herself into the
wster auc swan to the left bank Of the river, where
the stream bore her to a wall of rock. Here she CON-
ceaec her.eifio thickvt. But the overseer Of the
mission cent his lrdsn people thltheii the woman vs.
| brought back aud cfuehy besteu with whips; her
hsbd- we've tied behind her back and she sent to
| tie Christian mission of Gabts 1t was the
rsiuy sca,cn; the night very dark. On &C.
cunt of the iupturusbleDess Of the woods, the
| streams are here the Only means Of communities
ton between village snd village. Mothers love
| drove the imprisoned woman TO attempt Whist
Sc, med imp, ssbe; she felt but impulSe-to de-
liver htr chcren and carry them back to the others
| .,lli in ther home. She was not WATCHED as her
am S bed with the cutting of the cords, tho Indian
servants Of the missl,hary, cut Of pity, secretly
with her teeth. Early in the morning, she was gone,
sno four day. after was seen in the peghoorhood o'
| San Fernando, where her children were confined IN
tie missoD She had rapidly passed through the
weeds at season when the sky is continually covered
Nth clouds. and the s1~snis are greatly swollen
| Often she uust swim the rivers, and with bleeding
limbs force her way through the twipipg yine' cav
| cred with sharp tborns Sue lived on thelarge DlacS
! ants The Christian missionary thus rewarded the
tounoless instinct Of desperate maternal oVe;-ai'er
she was captured, he sent her to mission on the
upper OnnOco where she bad no hope Of ever seeing
| Ter children sgan She refused oil food, aud SO
! starved heis.lfto oeath
| with eeat emotion, Humboldt saw the rock on
tie west bak Of toe Atab,po where she first sought
to escape. 10 this cay it Is called The MotneTs
E.ekr lie says, Ia tn Sc solitudes of the wilder
L.ss il man l,aves .carcey aty trscs of his exist
erce yet u the of tu,s rock-an iudss tru ,t,e
'n4uuu.It If patufe-there will sail be preserved
the uem y OF the moral corruption OF our race. tue
Gourmet between the viru. vf the savage aad the
'barbsr SIN OF the lied mao! Here In the M mo-
mol If -acr flee the big try and cruelty Of mrer
able eretcbes who called themselves the minister's
| of Religion which makes ,oSe a. DOR neg ibNSne
Of its cnie comm. ndments : h encke's Aexssder
ven Humboldt lL-pzig, 1851, P 252, d'eql
"In 1896, Humboldt published work at Paris, in
two volumes, called Political Essay on the Island
Of Cuba (Ess0i Poitiquc sur Isle de Cabdj. 1t
as treatise the state Of Agriculture and Slavery
in TIA, Island, and contained all the matter relating
thereto which previously lay scattered in his great
and costly work Travels 10 the Equin ,ctal Regions
# the NV Continent Voyage aur Regions Eqai-
norioies du noursau con,ineat) 1t translated
l.. ~ .,A hal
10 those languages without suy omission. But in
1856, Mr.. j. s. Thrasber published at N-~York
Lew trapslation vf the work, with the title, The
Island Of CUBA by Alexander vob Humboldt. Trans
lated from the Spanish, With Notes and P6elimn-
| ary Essay, by j. ). Thrashsr New-York: Derby
& Jackson. 1856 II is l2mo. volume Of ab ,ut
400 pages Mr. Tbrashsr had lived long time on
the I.land, where, think, he American Consul.
He added many things TO the original, and brought
the statistical details down to times ard in
rous avs enriched tue original. In his preface, he
does not state tbet be intends make any abricg,
uert If the original, to emit anything But in
Inv. 1856, Won Humboldt wrote al article for the
Spererseke ZetHng, complaining that the entire
seventh chapter Of the Spanish work was arbitrarily
omitted That chapter related 10 Slavery, and in 1t
be discussed the matter with freedom and humanity.
Mr.. Tbrasher omitt-d il all
In 1858 julius FIoebsl published two handsome
volumes on America, which not so valuable as
bis reputation and the judgment Of bis friends would
!, ad one to expect He sent copy to Mr. Hum
bo.dt. who, in his acknowledgment ssaio expresses
bis indignation at the treatm' Mt his work bad met
with 81 Trasher's hands. He says his work unmutl-
lated can circulate freely IN France and SPAIN bur
the Americans are not allowed TO read his thoughts
on the Institution of Slavery!
Il think DO American library contains a. Mr..
Hun bodis works. Even the great ones were want
NJ La all The uuhlic cnlrct LIZ OF N-M-E II g.and.