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l,o,ate 10 the demand, was Of necessity a
,ory slow process, the growth of sugar in Cuba
ani Brazil was powerfully stimulated by the
new markets opened by the Free Trade policy
Of England, and the planters having the abso-
l,,o control of their slaves, worked them all,
men women, and children to the last degree Of
h,man endurance Nor was this all. They
made heavy drafts on Africa for additional la
borers for table compiled from official re-
firms shows, that while, during the five years
preceding the Sugar Act of 1876, the number
of slaves imported into Cuba and Brazil was
1868, for the FIVE years following that act,
when the British markets were thrown open to
foreign sugars the number swelled to 259,665,
or twice the number. In the same period,
too, great deal of the labor on the coffee
plantations in Cuba was transferred to the
sugar plantations; for in lS47, the amount OF
coffee produced was lO6,9li quintals, and in
1851, only 1874.
The facts we have stated show that the reason
why the planters of the British colonies cannot
sustain competition with the planters OF Cuba
and Brazil is that it necessarily costs them
more to produce sugar than it does their COM
petitors. High discriminating duties might
place them on an equality, so that they might
come into the British market on even terms
lint while a few thousand planters in the
colonies would be the gamers, the millions OF
the British People would be the losers. 1t
would be better that they should abandon the
Growth of sugar as an article for expectation,
and turn their labor and capital into channels
where they would be remunerated.
There is one way in which, probably, with
ont anv discrimination, they might be able to
compete with the Cuba planter. Let the sys-
tenn of Slavery be re-established. Give to a
few thousand planters the absolute ownership
Of six hundred thousand people Let the
women and children be turned ont to field
labor Let their schools and churches be RACED
Let marriage be abolished, and concubnage be
ro-;nsttuted Let these six hundred thousand
human beings be treated like brutes in the
smear season be worked night and day, and
every day in the week, Sunday included lei
the idea of raising new hands by the natural
process of procreation be abandoned, and the
slave trade be looked to as the means for sup
plying the lack of force caused by the diaboli-
cal waste of life Let these six hundred thou
sand human beings have just rags enough to
cover their nakcdness, just food enough to keep
them ins good working condition, just shelter
enough to save them from death allow them
nothing that an Intelligent being needs or de-
sires-then, perhaps, the prosperity" which
the Southern Press talks Of might be achieved
few thousand selfish sensual avaricious
scoundrels, wotd be able to realize - enor-
nous fortunes out of the labor of six hundred
thousand human beings, transformed into
beasts This, we suppose, is the true republi-
can idea of prosperity.
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DIPLOMACY or THE REVOLUTION. BY VIM. Henry
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ITO he Editor of the National Era
" In your last number you ask, Where are
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one hundred sheep in the fall on his tur-
nips, dividing off the field in small spaces
at time, allow the sheep to feed, trample
and enrich the field during tho whole win
ter at proper intervals, would not that
field produce nearly double the Quantity
OF cotton or corn the next year that it
would do without this preparation 2 And
the field Of sweet potatoes treated in the
same way with one hundred hogs, would
it not produce great improvement And
then the rye for your Devon Cows !
what yellow butter, what abundance and
improvement would follow, and still have
More Money for your cotton, than you
can possible obtain at present.
Hear me, my fellow planters, for tell
you the truth wish this might be pub
lished in every paper of the South, and the
cry enter every ear.-SOutheIm CuitjUdtor.
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LEGAL OF INTEREST,

IN THE DETERRENT STATES & TERRITORIES.
Maine, g. per cent; forfeit of the claim
New Hampshire, 8 per cent; forfeit Of
thrice the amuont unlawfully taken.
Vermont, 9 per cent; recovery in &C,
ton and costs.
Massachusetts,, per cent; forfeit Of
thrice the usury.
Rhode Island, 9 per cent; forfeit of the
usury and interest on the debt.
Connecticut, per cent; forfeit of the
whole debt.
New York, Z per cent; usurious con-
tracts void.
New Jersey, per cent; forfeit of the
whole debt.
Pennsylvania, 6 per cent; forfeit ofthe
whole debt.
Delaware; 6 per cent; forfeit of the
whole debt. ..
Maryland, 6 per cent, on tobacco con-
tract 8; usurious contracts void.
Virginia, @ per cent; forfeit double the
usury.
North Carolina, 6 per cent; contracts
for usury void; forfeit double the usury.
South Carolina, per cent; forfeit OF
interest and premium Ia ken, with costs.
Georgia, per cent; forfeit thrice the
usury.
Alabama, 8 per cent; forfeit interest
and usury.
Mississippi, per cent; by contract 10;
usury recoverable III action for debt.
LOUISIANA, per cent; Bank interest u;
contract 8; beyond contract, interest VOID.
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AGRICI l. I j R AL.
Cotton. Planting.

Like most nwitiatcs, we are some
What vain of our incipient attempts at far
ming, and have been frequently tempted
to bore our readers with an agricultural
article. Upon n visit to our farm a dav
or two ago, the CdcoetheS Scribedi returned
with all its violence, and more from the
desire to alleviate the symptoms, than
from any expectation of doing good, we
arc induced to give our plan of cotton
planting. In the first place, we will frank
ly confess that it is rot original with us,
and for ought we know, may have been
adopted 10y half the farmers in the District.
b'lt it is new, and in the hope of finding
some one as green rs ourscf, we are deter
mined to make it public.
Instead Of opening the furrow for the seed
with small scooter or bull-tongue plow.
We take a block Of heavy wood about
twelve or fourteen inches wide, few inch
cs longer, and some three or four inches
thick, and bcvcl it off at one end to the
width Of two or three inches. On the an
der side of this block, we make fast bv
pegs a triangular piece OF hard wood, a
seasoned red oak or white oak rail is the
best, of the width and depth that VIC de-
sire the turrow to be, which receives the
seed. On the upper side of this block,
after bevcIing of one end so as to raise
the other to the proper height for the horse.
we secure in the same way the BEAM
We then fastcn an upright piece to the
block for the purpose of FIXING handles to
1t as in the ordinary plow. Ii the ground
Is hard, clody, or rocky, Il small tongue
plow or coulter may be let in the beam
in front of the block, and gauged to the
proper depth. This unwicldy looking
machine, which resembles big tcrrapin
more than anything else that occurs to us,
Is placed directly upon the bed, and its
cwn weight when put in motion will be
sufficient to sink it in the ground, and
cause 1t to open an even, strHight, and
beautiful tumow for the reception of the
seed. After the seed are planted. and
covered with thick block rounded .son
the under side to fit the bed, they viii
come up 50 regularly that the vouna
plants may be covered in any part of the
row with the three fingers. The advanz
tagc of this. is at once Obvious. In spite
of the most unskiltul chopiug the stalks
will be in straight row and can be much
more close y and advantagcously cultiva-
ted. At the suggestion of a friend and
experienced farmer, who, i'll consequence
OF our inXpcrcncc, took some interest in
us, We tried this plan in planting the last
cron, and we therefore "spca!E; lat ~e do
know, and testify that We have secn,' and
whether any one receives our witness or
not We have accomplished our purpose
LourCRSriNe Xer0M.
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Specchless and motionless they gaze,
AS round. .theisased king they stand.
Strange are the forms, and strange the guis
OF that unknown and brilliant host,
And as in nearer view they rise,
The more their minds in doubt are lost
But as their aspects they bcho1d,
When the advancing line drew near,
All other feeling was dispcllcd,
By mingled reverence and fear
From breast to breastamong the throng,
a gentle murmur passed along;
They wondered if some heavily race,
Descending with celestial face,
Had come the rowing wars TO sean,
And chidc the sinful heart of man:
Orit' the god Of some bright hcuvcn,
Had from his shining presence driven,
y band Of Wayward children forth.
To hard probation doomed on earth.
gro be coatinued)
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u 1T And III NJ 0 R.
Remarkable Adventure.

y few nights ago, Il fresh cmigrant
from Ireland, who by some means or 9TH
cr found himself burlcmed with a very
heavy brick i'll his hat, in attempting to
find his place Of lodging, between the
hours of Hand ~, by back way, came
to door, and surprising it to be the door
OF his room deliberately walked in and was
pTecIPitatod to the bottom of well. si.rty-
tco .ttrt IN dcpM! The noise of his dcs-
cent attracted some attention, and upon
examination, Paddy was found safely
slowed away in the hole, knee deep in
water but luckily right side up! He
however had rot realized his Staution. but
still imagining himself at the door of his
lodging, was clamering Justify for his
mate To open unto him, and venting cur
Ses loud and deep upon the inhumanity of
keeping him exposed to the cold and wet.
Eventually he Slung his coat and cap, and
was preparing to avengc the ill-usare bv
regular sct-to, when the appearance of
light at tie top Of the well, disclosed to
ham that he WAS too far down stairs to
play at tisGlu.lr and he was after a while
prevailed up N TO allow him elf to be
iished up. His anger in no wise abated
on his landing on terra firma, but still re-
garding himself the victim of ill-usage,
ne vas with difficulty restrained from
pitching into the whole crowd.
The well into which he was prccipita-
ted being very contracted and walled in
with stone, it is certainly remarkable thai
he should have made the descent without
any INJURY beyond a few scratches.
a night or two afterwards the same
gentleman, having met up with another
brick in his hat, concluded to do another
adventure 10y falling hcadIong into the
fire. Time about, he thought, was fair
play, and having had an application of
water he Thought to cqualizc the matter
by an application of fire. This time he
escaped not so well, being very badly
burned.
OF his next adventure we hone to keen
our readers duly advised. He IN engaged
we understand in the Linen trade Chcs-
ter StIMddrd
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Diy er3ify You. Prod les.

Mcssrs. Editors.-It has always appear
ed to ire surprising that the planters of
the South should persist in -" -" cultivation
of large crops Of cotton, to the manifest
injury OF their lands, and the lesscninp of
the amount of money received for their
crops. That the lands of the South are
deterlorating, must be evident to the most
superficial observer.
How is this evil to be rcmedied II
must be plain to every one that to plant
less cotton, and more of every thing els.
is the only way; but will the planters do
1t 1t is so obviously their interest and
that they are intelligent, think doubt
cannot remain on the subject. The only
ditticultysit seems to me as to obtain con-
cert of action. The large space over which
cotton is planted renders it difficult 20
get the planters together to consult on
what is best for them TO do but at the
next meeting of the Cotton Convention, a
system of sub-societes, or sub-committees,
in every coentrysh the Cotton States,
might be adopted, that would effectually
accomplish the purpose. If half or two
thirds OF the present breadth OF iana was
put in Cotton, the crop would yield More
Money than the whole breadth. Then the
remaining land might be proiitably culti-
waited IN sweet potatoes, tUrnips, and in
small grain, with an additional quantity
OF corn. What additional quantities of
hogs, sheep, cattle and mules might be
raised, and the lands enriched more and
more every year. Ii this system was adopt
cd, the South would become the most
abundant the happiest and most inde-
pendent country in the world. Add 20 all
this, every county might have Cotton
Factory, TO spin yarns, and export them
to the north Of Europe. The spinners, in
Lancaster county, in Englandsare wealth
ier, and subjected to fewer vicissitude, than
any of the other cotton manufacturers in
the country. Isay thento my fellow plan
ters, begin to manufacture, even with one
hundred spindles, begin. say again begin
You can find labor in abundance as
cheap as any where else,and all the mate
rials and appliances in the greatest abun-
dance. ! say again begin, nay, beseech
you to begin.
: To descend to few particulars: suppose
a planter TO lessen his cotton crop, and
plant one hundred acres Of sweet potatoes,
one hundred acres of the red top turnip,
we, Oats and wheat, in such quantities as
nc f"eV deem sufficient. Suppose heputs