The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-24
Poor Cubn.
Tho Havana correspondent Of tho New York
Times writes ns follows OF Cuba:

Tho Havana correspondent Of tho New Yorl
| Times writes follows OF Cuba:
No longer tho incxhaustib,o Edorado whore
and then returned to the mother country; nc
longer tho paradise of ulco holders and eIyBum ol
Inring slaves, whcro tho doubloon was considered
OF misery, with ali exhausted exchcQuer and plenty
OF debts; it's merchants Mt tho will Of foreigners,
ana ~ ,e shipping in dread OF priyatccrs; tho plant
tuntls Thile commercial crisis is still thrca ton
in, and every body il ground to tho very earth by
tho enormous tnxntion which affects both tho
planter and tho merchant, and which they will bo
compelled TO pay in spite Of their appeals and re-
Tho last steamer brought a Commissioner 10
inanSurato and direct tho now system Of taxntion,
anu llo has already opened his olco in tho old
assistants. Many Of tho smaller farmers % don't e
know how TO road or write; thcy are taxed accord
Ing to tho supposed value q their plantations and
can easily charge them what no plcascs, or olso
net enter it in tho books A now tax collector
nSy again tho bill already paid and tho
obtain Rs ss oS %oa IsSSp Is sure II fo &c
complaint before tho Intontcnto who resides in
Havana, and the. expense OF travelling and loss of
limo, not counting tho usual delay in all cases,
where Justice q to be mcted out or asked for in
this country, is perhaps quadruplo tho am punt in
dispnt., aud the farmer nnkes wry face, indlIges
bt tho I'm orer agan about tho
Tho highor authorities in tho island aro very
nn2ious to do justice to oil nnd watch any ofcial
who should transgress his authority, tho present
Cnptall-Generai being worry honorable and up
TiSik SontionIan, but tho familiar Russian saving
Lat God is good and the Gear lives far away,
finds pienty OF application horc. Tho ill educated
or timid countrynan will suffer and submit to tho
insults and ovorboaring behavior Of somo potty OF
itcial for fear OF molestaon, especially ga charge
can BIO trumped up 30 cosily hero, and 'mSn
might 10y for months in prison bofuro his Trial
comes on; and although ho may be declared inno-
cent by tho tribunal, there Is no rcmody against
anybody, and in tho meantime the mans business
has boon ruined during his absence.
Tho rutnor about tho landing OF q cargo Of
slarcs near Remedies, spread by nobody knows
whom, has proved to DO false. Tho timo for lnnd-
ing cargocs OF ebony hns happily gone by, but tho
Chinese trade is in full blast and ship loads are ar
irving ovory week. Tho coolie trado Is in tho
hnnds OF q Fronch company, OF whom J. N. Zan-
Eroniz is tho agont. and Homo English and Span
ish houses. No American house or firm Is ongag-
ed in this traffic, which is only another kind OF
slavery, nn1er sugar-conted exterior. Tho phi
ianthropic English seeIn to take great interest
great majority Of Chinese to this island. The
cooic emigrant is better treated on any ship than
on tho English. or course this will bo deniod by
John Bull who will cite statstice but who will for
got to state that tho ship has boon whitowashod
in Hong Kong or Marao and is consequently no
longer nn English ship. After ariying horo tho
resscl loads for Now York or Falmouth end is
again as good an English vessel as tho coaster on
tho Clyde. Tho stoicism md bull dog nature Of
concerned, r# '.'