The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-05-14

industrial pursuits and social instituuc
TO Cuba. Even now French is the almg
universal language on these estates, BOZ
among the owners and their slaves. As
agricultural pursuit, coffee planting is I
hnltiveIy preferable to sugar making. I'll
estates are generally on elevated aud hi
lands, from the intense heat OF the loi
seething sugar districts the nights a
always delciously cool, is infinitely less Il
we're to the field hands.
/ The tobacco districts are to the s0ut
west of Havana The estates are in ii
4 hands of small planters, who in some cas-
! pay enormous rent for very choice land
and obtain an equivalently enormous pra
for their crop. Tobacco of an inter-
! quality is raised in other districts, such
! Puerto Principe, Yara and Santa Clara.
The central portion of Cuba, includill
the large jurisdiction of Puerto PrinciII
known locally as Camaguey, is the gre
PASTORAL district of the island. The cd
tie estates in this section of the count
are Of very great extent, consisting OF Vi
gin woods and savannas in about eau
proportion, and affording admirable pa
turage for very large herds. Havana d
rives her principal supply of cattle fro
this portion Of the island. The averas
annual value OF cattle sod is estimated
over four million dollars. The enormo,
amount OF large and valuable timber,
which the untouched woods of this sectic
are iull including mahogany, cedar and i
Vulnerable other kinds, must some d.
draw capital thither. At present owing
the want Of facilities for getting limb
from the interior to the coast, this branS
OF commerce is almost neglected. Nor
oyer, this district of Camaguey is the mo
sparsely populated of the island. &c
raphically few countries in the world off
such advantages for commerce as Cub
from the very large number of splend
{ harborS with which her coasts are STUDIO
from Maisi to San Antonio. OF the
many are almost unknown, such as Il
magnificent ones OF Nipe and Levisa
the North shore, in the Eastern Depal
ment.
The population Of the whole island
CUBA Is under one and a half .miliio
The last seusus of 1862, which was pref
accurately compiled by the governm:I
gives the figures at--white, 1850; fir
colortd, 22l4i7, aud slave. $3.50. II; tot
I,3j6, 239. We are not inclined 10 belle
that the population has greatly increas
slEcG 1862, the excess Of births over deaf
OF the white and Tree c0lorcd races bel
more than counter balanced by the decrea
OF the slaves. The number Of the lat
can only be maintained in Cuba by impC
tauoIs from Africa, which, thank Co
are ended, unless the Spanlards shot
succeed III rCconquerng the Island.
The apparent anomaly that only abe
One.twenueth part OF an island SO proli
Of valuable crop, should be uader cult,
tIon, Is explained by the statistics of
population. Crops are raised in Cuba
ciuelvely by slave labor, or in other wor
deducing one half the number Of sla,
Tor children aud old men, and from the
malnder at least 20 per cent, for sla'
employ cd as house servants, coopers, Hg
urmen, etc, we find that some one huI
red ard fifty thousand field hands raise
rcntural crops to the annual value of G
hundred and thirty million dollars,
enormous average Of over $3.50 each.
freedmen are very exceptionally seen in
country. W hea manumlttcd they take,
elsewhere, TO the cities.
The profits arising from commerce, tri
nd manufactures IN the cities of the isla
IN 1861, are authorltatlvely stated at SIS
, no, 900, and N this statement the city
Havana figures for ninety three millio
La other words, the Industry Of Cuba,
cities aud country, produces annually ne
~ $500 OOO, 900.
The property, government lands :
other real estate excepted, Is estimated
follows
| Real estate in the country $3.50 900,