The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-27
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The steamship Columbia Captain Barton, from Havana
on the 22d inst, arrived at this port yesterday.
Our thanks due to the purser Of the Columbia for
prompt delivery Of our dispatches and nlsa
Treatment or CooIies-Large Numbers Of
Thorn Raining Loose-Naval Movements
Yellow Fever aad Mortaiity-Financial and
Commercial.
HAVANA, June q, 1857.
II 10 no metaphor to call the Coolis immigration in
Cuba "the white slave trade" The HERALD published
full exposure Of 1t in ts columns or the Goth Of March
last The statements which then laid before your
readers wore all gathered from faOs Many proofs
could bs brought forward TO expose the miserable
condition and the bad treatment generally 10
which they are consigned after arrival u the
plantations II may BE- supposed that on signing
their contracts In China the terms apparently made
acceptable to the coolies; but does anyone inquire
whether those terms and conditions are fulfilled on the
part Of the hirer or his underiingsi No. No one
investigates how these deuded bondsmen treated by
their taskmasters There scarcely any estates, how
the gangs Of coolies may be- that have
an interpreter even of the most ordinary kind, and
when such happens TO be the he 10 deficient
the language Of the country that only increases the
confusion in any special cases OF disorders or com.
plants from either side-the laborer or his master
Even supposng the contracts to DO acceptable 10 the
coolie before he commences his hard experience
all know that the conditions on the part Of the hrer
seldom carried out and never in strict accordance
with the terms OF the contract In the absence OF any
proper interpreter and the impossblity OF the China
man establishing his complaints before proper court,
magistrate even the only appointed sndico who
sides In the capital and whose attributes but nomi
nal the poor cooe has no redress whatever, and the
only difference between the arbitrary punishment of
negro slave and c0oe Iaborer is that the bamboo has
been substituted in some cases Of the latter for
the lash in the former In cases Of real sup
posed crimes the Chinaman has no counsel
to defend his case What is the natural result OF all
thisf That according to fair calculation made BY
competent judges there at present less than
runaway coolies lowering about the country whose
labor is entirely lost 10 their employers. while these
ncous to the rest OF the aborer both black and white
The planters the first to exclam against this Of
things, although they are mainly themselves the
tons. They find that the number OF those runaways
quite dproporionate 70 the c0oe population Of aborers
and perhaps exceeding ten per cont Of the whole num-
Der OF the Co0le laborng population. In other words
causing dead loss 70 the planters Of ten per cent OF
their profits. Surely, the government knowing that
the Chinese cooe 10 In fact the only substitute for negro
slavery ought to this serious matter; for all
know that the Chinese immigration Is the only sup
posed BY the government to be exempt from the sup
posed dangers any other white colonization But the
paramount question s Will tho cooe trade be allowed
BY the civilized world foreverf think Now that
ws a 70 the and
American and English phlanthrophy.
The French gunboat Bouvst sailed for New York on
the 18th inst. Tho spanish steamer Ulloa after
taking ship stores &C. sailed for Vera Cruz ON the I4th
inst, 70 remain stationed ct Sacrtcios The Carmen,
Spanish rgate returned from Santa Martha on the 18th
inst but whatever intelligence she brought from that
quarter Is only known 70 the government and kept
According 70 the ofaciai statistics Of the Sanitary
there have been two hundred and eight Of
yellow fever Ia the whole island and that the deaths
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cent Havana alone shows mortality q dfty.on ne,
or 1880 per cont out OF two hundred and sixty
Gases In csniSes0s, out q twenty cases
deaths out Of ten cases. or twenty per cent.
At Matansas There case, At Cardenas one and
In there was only one case which resulted
death You will recollsct that did fail last year
report the favorable condition OF the sanitary stua-
twenty I've cases the whole island showing NOR
talty q only sixteen per cont The total number In
thirty turned out fatally. With respect 70 the smallpox
disease there were forty deaths out Of hundred
and hsshs Ssss. 10 n.y las: st.. on the whole
dred cases during the Same month last year.
In the face Of the above onca data, and
new Orleans last year despite the favorable reports Of
our sanitary condition. and that Il 10 enforced every
year. whether the newspaper reports be favorable or
ceive citizens at homo and make reports which the
accounts but too plainly contradict can give nothing
Official since the above date, but from my own invest
cations fear thar June will compare much more I'm.
favoraby than May. Rain has fallen in torrents, and
almost continuously the atmospheric changes have been
tom: o. shs fever this yssT cOmmsnos With rheumatic
The financial situation looks in some respects i'm
proved The price Of bank shares has suddenly taken
upwards and the money market Is oppressive
than Il has been; albeit, 10 discount paper 81
al. must b Of an 1 me char
parativs statements Of 1863 and 1867, Published
monthly by the Diorso de- Ia Marina Of the balance
sheets Of the principal banks notice that the decrease
In the cash account OF April Lass a. compared with
same month in 1855 609 was reduced In May
l,s4o, 1877; In other words the Improvement in May
TO 81 The decrease In deposits with
out interest," which in April was $1l 335 IT. down
IN Nay 70 $40, 306 9b4, and consequently there
has been an smeIoratiol Of sl.oss. "a But In de-
by e2Ss 500. being In May 81 206 24 against s9l7 $3.50
In April The dminuton which bills receivable showed
81, 36l 5Sl and therefore compared unfavorably BY
81, 1872 2S3 But the increase which the loan account
In April OF So 2O 7e3 was reduced In May
. To-, s2sss'S7s' thus presenting an improvement Of
The firm attitude which tho sugar market has lately
large N % a.
with last years yield good deal Of speculation has
been rife Of late, and nearly the whole stock of sugar
Of sK to sK reals for No. IL no good can
be done for any foreign market, and therefore the
animation which now exists 10 almost exclusively
one real per twenty-1ve pounds has not arrested the
ordinary course Of the market the tendency still
upwards rather than the contrary. The market has
already taken the aspect Of the haphazard excitement
which Wall street oiers to gold spoculatons, and the
merchants being held back from shipping are not
acking in the stake the spot as every feels per-
'uaded that prices can only rise, leaving the atss.
takers 70 burn their 1ngss Tho whole stock and
hatanxss docs not amount TO 400 900 boxes against
100 900 last year. Tonnage continues and ia de-
nand. Exchange London has somewhat recedcd
BENG 1oz premium; Paris Is ~ discount. United
states currency sells ~ % 10 90 per cent discount
rhe Labor Question and sIavery-Associatio
Among the Coolics-rhe Municipalities and
rho General Tax-QucstIon OF a Mint mt
Havnna-Reduction In spanish Postage
Deficiency In the sugar Crop.
HAVANA, June u, 1851.
The rapidly declining population OF negro Geld labor
M. and the increasing demand n necessity arising
rom the steady augmentation In the production OF
ugar render 10 expedent TO provide for some kind OF
'ubssitutes Various have been the suggestions and
he press has not allowed the topic to pass unno.
iced; but mono have been found 90 far TO supply
he negro laborsr but the Chinese coolie No one
will DENY 10 these uperoy in In ollireucs which ran