New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-28


80, into service are to pay $25
nsr head when they receive 'nS"' A"o " rnonsd-
r 10 # s. for males and 50 for
S,r.,es betweeo TIE eyes Of elght AID
Sf,tp. and of SC for males aud 81 i5r females
over hfieen, which payments are to be made for
each Elk months IN advance, 3 provision which
seems 10 D. Intended to pieyen. tSeir employers
from bresking them down by too sel-ere i''or
The number Of these Airi,s is yariously e. H"A
led Vt from tbo0sAtd to six hundred. Both tn
Captain. General auc the British COnsul have taken
active measures to clect every African landed.
Unless, before the text meeting Of Congress, Mr..
Buchanan should succeed 10 collecting and setting
free tho Africans imported oy Mr.. L4mHs late
yachting expedition De can bardly have the face to
repeat the charges conts nrd 10 bis last annual mes
against the SpatIsh government for not eXertng
itsef to sup ress The slave trade. The vessel which
If seems was an0oy m Us, ss. new, bark. tgged and
A., erlcan bu l., bur her commander and Gre were
~ sn,s ards aud they have all been committed to
n,;.o, .. HE Havana. Various cOpjectures are
armed about re yes'el. According to one &C.
CONT. she WAS destips for Cuba, bur, finding that
Island too strictly watched, bad resolved to try
Porto R,ro aDo, lrou gOorsDco Of the coast ran on
the rocks in the night According 70 another ac-
count she was org nall destined for Zorro R'co,
and wa. purposeJ ruD on tho rocks, under tho idea
that the slaves mjgot be Struggled on snOre aud PIT
out Of the reach Of the Government, jus, as tho
sayetrader Lamar 30 successfully managed the
came thing ID Georgia.
The sugar crop Of Martinique is set down for
last year at p 600 900 tiogrsmmes (about 630OO,-
900 pounds Eogu-b), against 2G, 300, 600 kllo-
srsmmes (5S, 00O, 900 pounds Engllsb) in the pre-
ceding year. AZ both these crops very consider.
ably exceed the average produce Of the island
twenty years ago, lOpg before Slavery was abol-
ished, there Goes DOT seem much ground for The
complaint Of the scarcity of lsbor which is made
tie excuse for the so-cailed emigration from the
coast Of AfncA The Dumber of these emig ants
ihus far introduced into the island cannot yet hsge
been sufficient to 1aye material aided IN pro-
ducIng the crops above stated.
1t would seem a. # the anters OF the Danish
leland Of st Croix were about 70 try thclr hand at
tie tsms sort Of Immigration. 1t appears tnat
French commercial house at Marseiiles has pro
posed to cont, act fer TIE introduction Of COO 700
l,borers from Arc.. atd that public meeting
Of planters has been held on the subject.
The proposition 10 "a bring them IN two lots, yne
during the first half Of the present year, and
another ten or twelve months later It is stated
that the proposition was eagerly accepted by the
paners pres, nt and that some 500 EN- grants were
subscribed for by them Toe lmP Irtad'ns to the
French colonies bave been made, a. iswelI known,
under the SPECIAL prote clion Of the Emperor. The
thps OF NJ. Reals Il Co. have been clothed with
semi pubhc character and have thus been protected
against interference on the part Of this English,
Portuguese and Liberians. How is this importa-
lion into 81 CIOi1 TO be made Are Nj. Regis N
Co. the firm who propose to contrast, and, under
COser Of the Empr,orF protection, do they mean
70 90 into general speculation for supplying all
who want Unless toe supply of st. Croix IA to
be carried on uooer some such cover we apprehend
That the speculation may be exposed to some inter-
ference.