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Show 228 Al'l'.EN DIX '1'0 NOTBS . permanently. Tn the first instn,ncc, if negroes, they su~cr ~llUCh in the journey from the place of purchase to that of sale. Eor Instance, it lms been known, in the journ?y from :Sclfllnttr :uHI. Darfour to tl_w sl:-tvo-mart at Cairo, or C\·cn tho mtermcdt:Ltc ono at S1out, the loss m a sl:we cant.van, of men, women, camf'IS, and horse~, amounted to not less than 4000. The circumstanccf! of the mart itself scarcely appear inn more favour:ohlc a~pcct than those of tho journoy,-whcthcr wo re.,.a,rd the miscmblc being~, ns in the market at Cairo, CJ·owtlcd together in enclosures like the sheep-pens in_ ::iruilhficld market! amid. the n.bominablc stench and nndc3nncss winch result from then· roufinomcnt; whether, as r~.t another p;rcat mart n.t l\l uscnt, wo pcrcci\'o tho dealer w:dking to and fro, with n. stick in his hand, between two lots of ill-clothed boys and p;irls, whom ho is offc1·ing for sale, proclaiming n.loud, n.s ho passes, the price lixed on each; or else lea.ding l1is stl·in~ of flla.ves throug;h tho narrow nnd dirty ab·e('t.~, and call in;; out their price as he exhibits them in this ambuht.tory auctiou. * * * 'J'ho sl:n·e!l, ''n.rio u.<~ly exhibited, usually a.ppea.r quitP i11dif: fcrent to tho process, ·or only show nn anxiety to be sold, from knowing that as sl:t\'CR, fin:tlly purchased, their COJu.lilion will be much ameliomted. * * * Ilow little Rla''"''Y is dreaded is nlso shown by tho fact that even J.foltammedult porfnl8 OJ' 1·elatit-es arc, in ca:;:c.s of emerg;t:ncy, ready enough to vm.•r their children for s:tlc. ]Jtn·ing tho fnmine which a few years sinC'e drove tho people of l\Jo~ml to llen~al, one could not pass tho strC'cts without hoi ng :Lnnoycd b,Y the l:lOiicJbttions of p:Lrcnt>; to purchase their boys a.nd girls for the mc1·est trifle; and C\'Cil in Koonlistan, whf'rC no cons! mining motive app eared to exist, we hn.\'O hecu ~oundcd ns to onr williugnes~ to pur- ~~~:::~el~o~~~~i~~:~~c~~,~~n~:;~ [;;~~~i~~~-· g!~::~rc~~~~e~: II b~l~c c~~··ti~~ i:~~~~: p:cncrally arc not allowed to po~SN!i! any oth<'l' th:tn negro ~'>lave~." }..AJtUlOI~ Pcrmy 1lfa[J. 1834, _pp. ::!·13, 244; also, Skclcltcs of Persia, :u1d Johnso1t's Journey from India. APP.El\'D1X, c. Fno31 liAYAXA. 'fhe Cherokee-The Slave 'l'rade-Gencral News. Correspondence of the ]\~cw 10rk Daif.IJ 'l'imes, II.\VA:-<A, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1852. • * * * • • 'l'he mysterious worki11~ IJf t~10 In.w. is still retaining .Capt .. Grey and his son under bond11, wevcntHJt; then· return to the Umtcd Stn:tes. There should Lc in all this month two barks deared from the Umtcd Stales Lound for the co:\st of Africa.-one from Ballimore and one from New York, or an E:tstorn port. There arc. two ~tting out }n tho h:ubor of llayana., as I was informed by a fneud wtcrcsted 10 the APPENDIX 1'0 NO'r J~S. 229 ~~~~t~· i~~~~c~'~o~f c~~i~~~~~~;,\~''u ~: ~~~c!~ii~~;ss,c~~~~n~r;P~~~~i~!~~i~ ~t~~g:~,t~ cast end of the i:;la.ntl there are two brigs now ready for sea, and one or two to Le ready very ~;hortly on the south side-so tho work for r edemption from b:u-barism goes bra.J·ely on. The lig:hter vessels, if it should provo oxpetlient lU1· .sueurity, nrc used between the coa . .:;t and the islands on the coaHt l'f lhazil, :llld tll('y frequently pack into a. space whe1·o twenty or thit·ty men wou\U he uncmnfort;~Llt>, from ono lmnd1·ecl :tnU fif't.,Y to two hundred anU fifty negrves-a.ud often they }~~ ~~r!~~ ~ i~~~~~ ~ 1~1;; t!~.~~ 1~1; ll:~ ~ d011 1: :~t~'l;~;] v~ ~ ~~ ~~ 0 ~I~~~ dO 0 rc~ ~~~~~· ~~ ~~ ~~ tho,Y a rrive with the nuu1Ucra vastly di n•inishml Ly the discount of dcal l1, n;~·~~ifr..f~~. t:;~C t'\~~~g a~~J~:~~~IlL t:;l~a ~~~l~Sq ~;:~~~~a~~ C \~t11\ii:.:~~~r;l :~~~~;~~~~:~ of noLOrious slavers, and their clearance from the port8 of Cuba, be accompli:shed without the kuowlcJgc anJ consent of the authorities? It is impnt:sihlo; and this chnrity that CO\'ers a. multitude of s ins, [ ~~~~lfi~~n~Fe~ll~~y ~~u~~:~t~xt~1r;!~~ ~~~;~d~~~~~~~~h~~ ;~~~s~~~~IJ {~s;l1~:i~e~!:~ of Alcoy, we had a J"Cm:u·kaU\e in.stauct', which ~ho\\·s the power, ev~n nftcr pocketed compellsatiun, of control o,·er the inu·oductiou, when there :u·c found tlwsc buld enough tu make dcnun~;iation in given cases. A cargo had been introduced nut f.tr ft·om Havana, within tho reach. of ~he mi.lr~ad, bef?ro .bre~kfast, and regularly paid fOr. .Hut tLn oflicer w the ndcetcU d1.str1ct was to be rcuwrcd to make pla.co fur a. p:~rasitc f:t\'Oritc, and bcfo1·e goiug out of office, he seized some two hunJt·etl of the negroes, .and they were Jwou~ h t within the reach of the" British and Spanish mixed Uourt of Justice," and thus secured their eventual freedom, unless they should happen to die, by rcpo1·t n.t~d well authentic~tteJ documeu.tary cvit,lcnce, befOre the cxpit·:ttion ¥~ st1l'~~~ t~~~~~~~:~v~~:~n~hcli~~n~o!~Ja~e:e~~~S ~~~t~~B~,'~se~/\t~ct~~,~~ Go\'ernmcnts. Tho uct.uating: motive wa.s revenge upon the Captain Geueml, who had rccOlveJ the bonus-but his objed was very far fro~n being accomplished. The parties called upon Alcoy, with great dehca.cy, to refund tho fOur or SIX ounces he had received, but it was ono _of those cases whore C?ITCction wa.s impossible--they knew not_hmg of nny such transactiOn a.t the palace! The money was not doln•cred ; but u.ndcr lite usage, tho nogrues were sold to the Lc3t Lid~ dcrs for _th~ serv1eC of seven ~cars, nud a good part of the price paid, fell agum mto tho :tl~-absorbmg purse of the Cuptain-Ucneral, whieh he kept well bound With Lhc clasps of charity. Prom tl~e Baltimore Sun, of Dec. 8, 1852. I~c~EASF. OF TH E.St,AYE 'l'uAoE IN CuB.\.-Ail accounts represent a. la.rgc. mer('~~ of ti.JC slave tJ·adc in Ouba, n.t wh ich, it is al leged, the Spamsh of~cJals wmk. A letter from )lavnnn. gi\·es a l ist of nine vessels, whJCh have landed at difl'crcnt ~orts of Cuba, durin" the presen~ yca.r, 4,170 1:1hwes fi.·om Africa. The letter refurrcd to ~J.Us: u |