The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-04

the uauAl Editorial news matter, local summS-
~, aad commercial review.
Price 3 ccnte At the counter, or cents when
In wrappers ready for mailing to friends in the
Cradsases frem slavery In Dema nd.
The Leeds Eng Msesry contains letter.
written from Jamaica by an English emanci-
pationist admitting ~ . fact which must at
once Be Acknowledged, that "a very large part
Of the sueAr-l&nd In Jamaica 10 fast returning
to bush, though he denies, as might be ex-
pected, that this condition Of things is attrib-
utahle to the act by which the negroes were
freed. This denial, however, must pass for
what 1t 10 worth, 1t being weli-known TACT
that the decline Of the property Of Jamaica
began with the date Of emancipation, the same
effects being witnessed there which, in all 9TH
ar countries where negro emancipation has
been tried. have followed the same causes
The writer, however, declares that nothing is
required to bring hack prosperity to the ruin
cd e. tates of that beautiful island, but an 'ade
Quate supply Of regular labor" There is said
TO be plenty Of laboring force on the ground,
and yet this labor is not available for the pro-
duciion OF the most remunerating crops
known to northumberland princely estates
are fast relapsing to wilderness OF rank,
worthless vegetation. The writer gives up
rs hopeless enterprise, all expectation of in
ducing the free negroes Of Jamaica to work,
and looks elsewhere to discover by what
means the requisite amount Of labor can be
obtained. The system of Cooiie immigration
is considered and pronounced impracticable
for, although Coolie laborers might assist the
proprietors of the soil, the free negroes will
not submit to the introduction of a competing
race, the taxpayers are represented as appre-
pensive in regard to the ultimate advantages
Of such a resort, aud the experience Of Cuba
10 full Of warning-the condition Of free Chi
nese in that island being seven more deplora.
ble'' than that of the newly. imported African
slaves. All other resources falling, panacea
is found in the Southern States of America,
if it was only available. There, among that
class who have been in process OF emancipa-
ton for many years past through the liberali.
~ Of masters, are the combined requisites OF
intelligence and industry. The English Eman
eipationist says:
1.-THE system of Coolie immigration, as so sue
cessfully carried on in the MaurtIus, from IT'S
Proximity To- India, Is too costly for Jamaica; put
1t Coolies, Chinese. or free NEGROES from the
Southern States of America, could lie induced not
to come to the island for few years, bu: to SET
tie with their wives and children in villages hpt
for them In convenient situations. not onl, would
the planters save the heavy expense of the re-
hands, but the natural increase of such families
would greatly tend to keep him supplied win
permanent and we'll trained body of labOrers.'
Thus it appears that, in the opinion OF this
English Emancipationist, the best resort of
Jamaica is to the manumitted negroes Of the
South, or to their immediate descendants
What becomes, then, Of the excavations which
Exeter Hall continually hurls upon the So
cial system, which qualities the negro for
greater usefulness than any other system
known to modern philanthropy!
West India Cotton.
Among other regions suggested at Manches-
ter, as suited for the growth Of cotton, the
West Indies, and especially the Island of Ja-
maica, have been favorably mentioned. The
Manchester Cotton Association has establish
ed an active correspondence with a society III
Jamaica, the results of which have not yet
transpired. Many years ago, considerable
qualities of cotton were exported from ia
maica, but it was superseded by the sugar bu-
siness, which was found more profitable
The sugar business was however ruined, like
every other branch Of business, by the eman.
cipation Of the negroes, and tho question of
the cotton culture has again been revived. In
Jamaica, cotton is Indigenous and perennial,
bearing for several years without replanting
but the great draw backs are the cost of labor
and the irregularity Of seasons, two formida.
BILE obstacles which the wit Of man has not
yet been able to surmount. The negroes pre-
fer working upon their own miserable house
lots to laboring in either corn or cotton fields
They have the insuparable aversion OF their
race everywhere to useful industry, aud will
make no exeriion Of any kind, save that which
is absolutely necessary, for the supply Of their
own daily wants. Taking Jamaica as a type
of the West Indies, the Southern States have
no reason To fear competition in that quarter
in the growing of cotton. Besides, the in
creasing demand for the Southern staple will
more than keep pace with all the sources OF
supply which British enterprise will be able
to discover in any quarter of the world
England cannot shake off her dependence upon
the South, and would better make it a friend
than an enemy.
''Independence Of Virginia and the SOUTH
We are indebted TO DANIEL II. LONDON, Esq,
for copy of his able and instructive speech
on the Commercial, Agricultural and Intel
lectual Independence of Virginia and the
South, delivered in the Hall of the House of
Delegates on the 5th of January, 1860 and his
letter TO JOSEPH SEGAR, Esq, respecting the
Pilot Laws" This production is full of yalu-
able and interesting facts. The aggregate an
nual cost to Virginia for her dependence upon
others to conduct her export and import trade,
is set forth with Il great array of facts and
figures, which must have cost much research
time and labor. This aggregate is astounding
On the two items Of wheat and tobacco alone
the loss to Virginia amounts annually to more
than three millions of do liars, or, in the Ian
guage Of the speech, ION these two crops wheat
and tobacco, We absolutely lose and take less
than Northern man takes for similar arti-
cles on his seaboard, (more than three millions
ofdollars,) under any circums tances.'
MIR. LONDON comments with just emphasis
upon the oppressive policy Of Virginia to-
wards her merchants, the absurd and unjust
pilot laws, and other features Of her legislation
by which she does more injury to her own in
forests than could be inflicted upon her by her
worst enemies. For sale at the various book
stores.
''Phyxician, Heal Thyself"
Inc Republican Senator from Wisconsin,
who is appropriately named Do.L,r1Lg, has.
been on mission lately to New York, where
he Is said to have been very graudiloa uent ON
Kansas, but dumb Oh Wisconsin. The N. Y.
Express thinks the Wisconsin missionary
would have been more in teresting and ms ruc-
oSeh he had discoursed ON Wisconsin cities
fepudiating their city obligations; Wisconsin
railroads which don't pay interest on bonds
created 10 make them; Wisconsin nullifica.
ton Of a declared constitutions, l.v =, ~.
United States. 1t IL Wisconsin which ns.a~
re.vivincauon-not Kansas
Unien Cenventio.-
The Union Com ii Tn tion.r