Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-02-10

Assembly would at this time of day be an mpossiblitv
but one thing at all events is in our power-we may
ABSTAIN IRON nduglng IN that false philanthropy which
would Justify the Legislature of Jamaica in its delays
and would deprive the planters of the necessary supply
OF labor.
After all, capital has rights and the planters de-
serve some consideration Willing as they to trust the
statesmen oil England IN preference to the statesmen
Jamaica, we ought TO have some sympathy for class Of
men who rely on the mother country as they do Nothing
Il more peculiar, says Mr. Trolope, than the way in
which the word "home" is used in jamaica and in all
tue British portion of the West Indies With the white
people 1t always signifies England, though the per-
using the word never has been there III could new
or trace tue use OF the word in jamaica Mr.. Trolope
proceeds, las applied by white men or white women to
the home IN which they lived though that home
had been the dwelling of their fathers well of them
selves. The word home with them is sacred and means
something hoher than habitaton in the tropics. 1t
refers always TO the old country IL different with the
French who in their islands regard the West Indies as
their country Sometimes this love OF the mother cOun
try takes ludIcrous shape. Mr.. TrOope fell in with
sister OF the famous Mrs Seacoe who kept inn, and
could never be induced to abandon the idea that beeseak
aud onions bread cheese and beer the only yiands
fit for an Engshman So throughout the islands the din
ner Will be RECALLED with oxta soup when turtle would
be much cheaper beef is consumed in great guam
titles, when vans avocado pears plantains and many
other nice things might be had for the gathering bad
English potatoes are in great demand timed meats
religion, and pickles are passion Taking this feeling
into account both in its serious and its udicrous as
pecs taking also into account the numerical and poit-
ica ascendancy OF the African and half caste popu-
latiOn in Jamaica, Mr. TrollOpe specuates on
the future of the island He finds coloIed people every
where pushing themselves forward-at the Governors
table, IN the House Of Assembly, IN State parties; he
finds the other hand the white race in minority a-
lcted with sort OF home sickness and he naturally in
quires what is TO be the result in the course of time It
likely enough that bis expectation will be realized
and another century may African cOOlie aud white
amalgamated into mixed race, among whom very
few pure whites will be found And here arises ques-
ton for the politician viii this mixed of black
aud white, with slight infusion Of cOoie blood be able
to hold its own in the face Of the world? Are they ca
pabe of managing matters for themselves? win they
be able to assert their independence throw of the sense
and habit of servlity and enjoy the rights OF master
dom? The question is not one Of immediate interest and
only allude TO in passing having reference
the nature of the TO be pursued for the ben
eft of the planters. If the coored and pure African
races which now pushing their way and working up
to A complete ascendancy in the island are capable of
craftsmanship and not what Mr. Carlyle would re-
gard as miserable nggers gone maseress, the
which Mr. TrollOpc discusses but does recommend
namely the controlling if not the entire ablton, Of the
House OF Assembly might be even less desirable than
present it appears be- IND ought to seek for the
planters advantage in less radical method of cure
As it is we find that continually fewer Europeans now
turn to the West Indies in quest OF fortune and very
few indeed think of remaining there permanently. As
far as Jamaica is concerned what is there to tempt the
Englishmany II Is fact that half the sugar estates AID
more than half the coffee plantations have gone back in
to state of bush and great portion of those who
now growing canes in Jamaica persons who have
lately bought the estates for the value of the copper
in the sugar boilers and of the metal IN the stills
The Anti-Savery Society will scarcely believe in the pow
erty and ruin of the planter because they hear wonder
cl accounts of his hospitality I'VE send word 10 the
people at home that we are very poor says the plan
ter They don't believe us, aud send out somebody to
see For this somebody kill the .Atted calf and bring
out a bottle or two four best lie goes home and
ports that these Jamaica planters princes who swim
in claret and champagne the planter accordingly
makes the complaint This il rather hard seeing that
our common fare is salt fish and and water" Mr..
Troopc advised the planters TO produce their ordinary
fare on such occasions, but the reply was Yes and then
We should get it the other cheek We should be abus
ed for our sugiuess No Jamaica could stand that
In England we are scarcely in position to understand
the full force Of such reply. We do not understand
why any should indulge in Inequalities which he
cannot well afford, but then in land where hotels
abundant and good the duty OF hospitality not felt
in district nhere travellers can find no houses Of public
entertainment and depend for their comfort the
sderaon of private individuals In such district hos
pitay becomes the first OF all duties and prefers
rather to starve than be uugenerous. 1t may be that
four or five travellers come in upon the planter at nine
o'clock at night and expect dinner which it Is not easy
to provide such hour, meat will not keep in SO
warm climate; but it il provided freely The best OF
everything is before the unlimited guest and the hos
pitay is claimed with freedom which sometimes as
toui,hed Mr. Trolope. ~ hat no Worcester sauce?
said one guest his host If he talking TO inn
keeper NO Worcester sauce Cannon. Make the
fellow 60 and look for it, aud the sauce was orhcom
ing.
If we might trust Mr. Trollope statistics the French
. q Ill Ind la.
better than DO. Gauialoupc aud Martinique not
very imposing islands on the map vet the one manages
TO produce 900 and the other nearly 20 900 hogs
heads of sugar Compare this with the yield Of our own
colonies. Trinidad produces 10000; Jamaica IN spite
of s size aud It's fertility produces only tue guam
uy Barbados exports about 5000, and Gniana con-
triyes 10 sell 7OOuU OF these it will be that Guj-
ma +, the British colony which produces the largest
quantity though for is size, Barbadoes seems to be do
ing the best Guiana too produces the largest quantity
Of well a of sugar though the quality o.! the ia
mica fvuor still maintains it, superiority. The sugar
capabilities OF Guiana indeed, enormous sugar.
saws Dcmarara planter "are you talking OF sugar? Give
me nv hearts desire in coolies, and will make you
million of hog-heads of sugar without stirring from the
coony"-a very brilliant prospect seeing that at the
present moment the worlds supply of SUGARS little more
than million and half There is unlimited supply
of the most fertile soil. From the ocean backwards to
the roots of the Andes the planter might cultivate 1t If
he could only get the coolies and Guiana has been more
successful in that respect than any OF our colonies In
the use of machinery well Of the cooe the Guara
planters have exhibited great enterprise. Mr. Trolope
without protesting 10 be either sugargroSer or mer
chlnc states very positively that three four
tates in Denarara he machinery and management
which much exceeded anything that he had observed many
of our own West India Islands The machinery indeed
equal TO what he had seen in Cuba. Everything is done
on great scale. In the islands 1t is great thing Tor
planter to produce 200 hogsheads.
In Guiana they turn out S0l, lOO0and ,200-a hogs
head being something less than ton, and in value let US
say roundy E2J Unlike the usage of the island estates
there is steam on every estate IN Guiana. The vacuum
pan and the centrifugal machine for extracting the mo-
lisses-scarcely known in the iSands-are common APP
pances in Demaara The result Is that the sugar Is OF
quality which such an island Is Barbados cannot equal
Barbados being pucky little island in its way Is quite
tshed with its own performances, and 1t has no va
cum pans aud centrifugal machines declares with great
tibet manages TO clear greater pohts than
Guiana spite of machinery. That however, is just the
question tissue Whether is better small yield of sugar
with large profits per hOgshead, or very large yield with
smaller profits In the long the latter method IS sure
to prove the profitable. Sugar Is made in Blrba-
does in very old-iashioned way, the only modern inn
provcment that adopted being, we believe, the use OF
Guano which, after all is very doubtful improvement
The guano it is true prOcures great crop but seems
to ipure both the soil aud the sugar. The canes do not
ratoon as they used TO dOthat is to say they do not
Weld their second crops and third and fourth OF the same
value as before the use of guauo There cases in
which canes have been known to ratoon-hat Is, after
being down grow again and produce-ior twenty
YEAR, but no such thing is possible win guanO.-
Still the Barbadans are quite satisfied with them
selves aud are inclined to at the machinery OF
Guiana and the dougs of all the islands except their
own. The superiority OF Barbados cannot be doubt
ed" said Mr. Trolope, meaning to humor them, " but
which colony is second in the race II Is Impossible
TO say none OF them are doing well They have no la
bor-they can't make returns Just look at their clear
anceA and then look at ours" Jamaica sugar paying
now" observed our author Jamaica has been destroy