The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-26


mind, and not give the uDgrateful scamps an
other opportunity to heap their blllingsgate
upon those who have furnished them the means
TO keep their heads above water. Let them
have no view of the vaults of Wall street until
they learn decent Manners and can remember
favors better than they have done heretofore
Cuba and It's Resources-rhe sugar Crop
OF 1860.
A useful work, by Senior Carlos Rebello, has
just made its appearance at Havana, giving the
statistics of the sugar crop of 1860, taking the
production Of each estate separately as we'll as
in the aggregate. From the authors figures 1t
appears that the crop of this year was cut from
ZOO 900 acres, or about one forty fourth of the
total area Of the island, which amounts to 3d.
TAI 900 acres. The average yield per acre was
about fourteen hundred weight, realizing, at
four cents per pound, about s62 rs.
The total crop was 5o32S0 tons, and its az.
gregate money value s45, 270,O00 being in ex-
cess of that of 1859 by 65 900 900 pounds, or
aboa, six and quarter per cent AS compared
with the crop in Louisiana, the figures will
stand thus
| 1880
7ors Tns
Cuba. 500, $50 Average per estate about. sy6
Louis,a ia COO Average per estate about. 81
Showing in favor of the former an excess Of
$50 900 tons, which is due entirely to difference
OF latitude and the absence of fros,s, there
being more care and skill expended ia Louis-
ana in bringing the crop to maturity than in
Cuba where the climate favors the planter
Ii will be seen by the annexed table that the
amount Of steam and animal power employed
in Louisiana is relatively greater than that en-
| ployed in Cuba, where crop four times larger
| IL grown
Estotes Sim. Pr. Anin.nl rr. was1 ofsxam.
| Cgfa.i 366 Q4Q 400 10 per ceut
LOUISIANA Sos e92 3lS IS per cent
There is not on the surface Of the globe another
country which yields such rich returns for the
labors of the agricultural as Cuba or whose
land owners are 80 wealthy as class. The
incomes derived from the sugar estates range
from IS 900 to 5000 900, and as several Of these
are in the hands of one proprietor, the revenues
of individuals are in many instances almost re-
gal in their amount. No small proportion OF
these incomes are spent here, it being the Gus
tom Of the wealthy Cuban families to send
|
Gated, and to pass themselves portion Of the
year at our Northern watering places The
names of the Alfonsos, the Aldamas, the
San Fernandos, the Montalvos, the Her
reras and the Duquesnes are almost as fa-
miliar at those places as those Of our
own commercial magnstes. If we were to esti-
mate the sum annually expended by Cubans
| - a. ac,rtrv ~ O00 000 ehould MT ha
far from the truth. Besides the sums which
they leaye here, they also spend large amount
annually on the continent Of Europe. There is
scarcely a country in fact, which offers any
attraction that does not benefit, more or less,
by the wealth Of the Cuban aristocracy.
OF course ii is to slave labor, and slave labor
alone, that our Northern people owe the advan-
tages which the presence Of these rich stran-
gers, and their liberal orders, confer upon
our trade. If Cuba were dependent on white
labor 1t would be reduced to the condition Of
the British West India Islands, and its planters
would be unable to crafty their love Of travel
and luxurious tastes. But for the prizes
which its agricultural requirements hold out to
II the slave trade would have been long since
extinct 1t il maintained, aud will continue to
be maintained, despite It's risks, simply because
IL pays. So 1t is with smuggling, and every
other Illicit and hazardous traffic. II British
and American abolitionists are sincere In
their desire TO extinguish It, there Is a
simple and efectual way Of doing 1t,
without imposing upon their governments the
expense OF wagng useless war against It.
Let them drop the use Of sugar in their tea,
their coffee and their toddy, and they will
End that the importation Of negroes into Cuba
will diminish and finally cease, for the same
reason that smuggling is discontinued, because
the profits derived from 1t no longer compen-
cate for the dangers incurred in carrying 1t on.
The abolitionists have not however, the self.
denial to do this. Their philanthropy is exer-
cised only at the expense Of others. Cuba must
therefore 60 OF supplying her labor market as
at present, and furnishing the world With the
products which modern civilization deems es-
sen,ial TO Its comfort As the demands upon
Der resources increase il is something to learn
from the figures just quoted that her ability to
produce can keep pace with them. To what
extent that capacity could be pushed, were the
island annexed to the United States, Is fair
matter for speculation. Judging from the small
extent Of Its soil al presen. cultivated it is no
exoggeration to say that instead Of si5 900 900,
the annual value Of lite sugar crop would in ten
years amount to 100000, 900.
MR. DicKNsoS's ExPLANArIoS-we have re-
| ceiyed the following explanatory note from