The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-06-12

O1O0H pAOpOitlOI, |
aud atfording admirable paturage
for very large herds. Havana. |
derives her principle supply of |
cattle from this portion of the is |
land. The average annual value |
of cattle sold is etimated at over |
81, 100000. The enormous amount |
Of large and valuable timber, of |
which the untouched woods of
this section are full, including
mahogany, cedar and innumera-
BILE other kinds, must some day
draw capital thither. At present
owing to the want of faculties
for getting timber from the inte-
rior to the coast, this branch of
commerce is almost neglected.
Moreover, this district of CANA
guey is the most sparsely popu-
lated Of the island. Geographic
cany, few countries in the world
offer such advantages for com
merce as Cuba, from the very
large number of spendid harbors
with which her coasts are studied
from Maisi to San Antonio. Of
these many are almost unknown,
such as the magnificent ones of
Nipe and Levisa on the north
shore, in the eastern department.
The population of the whole is,
land of Cuba is under one and a
half million. The last census of
1861, which was pretty accurately
compiled by the Government,
gives the figures at-white, 1884,
$50; free colored, 1,417, and
slave, 373,071; total, 1859, 23S.-
We are not inclined to believe that
thepopulation has greatly increas-
ed since 1862, the excess of births
over deaths of the white and free
colored races being more than
counter-balanced by the decrease
of the slaves. The number of the
latter can only be maintained in
Cuba by importations from Afri-
ca, which, thank God are ended,
unless the Spaniards should sue
coed in reconquering the island.
| The apparent anomaly that only
about one-tWentieth part of an is
land SO prolific of valuable crops
should be under cultivation, is ex-
planned by the statistics of its
population. Crops are raised in
Cuba exclusively by slave labor,
or, in other words, deducting one
half the number of slaves for
young children and old men.
and from the remainder at
least 25 per cent. for slaves EN-
pl0yed OF house servants, coopers
ightermen, ETC., we find that
some 80, 900 field hands raise ag-
ricultural crops to the annual value
of $3.50, 900, 900, an enormous aver
age of over $3.50 each. The freed
men are very exceptionally seer
in the country. When manumit
ted they take, as elsewhere, to the
cities.
The profits arising from com
merce, trade and manufactures il
the cities of the island, in 1861
are authoritatively stated at S154,
10000, and in this statement th'
/ city of HAVANA figures for nine
| tythree millions. In other word
, the industry of Cuba, in cities AM
) country, produces annually nearl,
$300,0O,O0O.
+ The property, GoyernmentlandI
> and other real estate IN the except
I ed, is estimated as follows:
, Real estate in thecountry. $380;0A0,0 C
Real estate IN the cities l7Q, O00, O(
r Capital invested in trade. 774,000,0(
: Total --...s-.........-... 1924 900 OF
These figures are deduced, a
the current rate of interest o
the Island, ten per cent. from th
J. annual income derived from il
vestments of all sorts, whic
Q amounts to about 1882, 100000
L N. Y. San.
It ~ There is couple living i
q Chattanooga Tenn, who hay
> been married "a years and hal
It 20 sons and 4 daughters-all si
II gle births. ~.
> GV The inhabitants of the ce
i tral part of Austria nearly all e
0 arsenic. Many deaths occur fro
g over-doses.
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