Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-07-27
Land Plunder.

passed Il bill granting alternate sections of pub
lie lands to The Mobile and New Orleans Rail
road. AS we are not aware, and cannot believe
that the Government owns any land on tlli:
route, we suppose, by fiction of law, it will b.
enacted that all the pnblic lands in Louisian;
and Mississippi shall be deemed and taken to be
adjacent to the Railroad, and their value 10 be
Increased by its construction in the same man.
ner, and 10 the same extent, us if they lay upon
It's borders. Perhaps even the preteXt of pub.
lie consideration has been dispensed with, and
the lands made plain gratuiiy by Congress to 4
Railroad Corporation.
This would only be following the precedent
OF another bill which has passed The House, and
is now unIler discussion in the Scnale,-ihe bill
to give 100 acres of land 10 every man who will
take the trouble 10 settle on it, commonly called
the Homestead BILL. This bill, contrary 10 The
whole tenor Of our laws on The inject of real
estate, gives the same privilege TO aliens rs TO
gilizen>. provided only tnat the former shall de-
clare their intention 10 become citizens. We
are not surprised that Senators should have de-
cared that the passage Of such Il bill would
warm into existence a new spirit of Native
Americanism. Our laws surely are sufficiently
favorable 10 strangers. As aliens, they are pro-
tccted in Inc pursuit of every branch Of trade
and labor and if they desire it, five wears resi-
dence gives them all the civil and political rights
of naiire-born citizens That no other nation
offers The same advantages, is sufficiently proved
hy the fact that emigration of foreigners 10 The
United States is greater than The whole col.,ni-
zaiion of the rest of the world put together.
There never was anything like it known in the
tide of time.
I,,,n F,r prrb1 NOT
laws sufficiently liberal? Are we now TO break
down all barriers between citizen of the United
States and 4 stranger arrived yesterday? In
Republic, citizenship is the proudest and most
precious of distinctions Are we prepared to
strip it of its honors, to drag it in the dirt. and
actually offer a reward TO strangers to induce
them to accept the rights and privileges of. ma
tire born citizens! The thing is preposterous
and insulting 10 the pride Of every citizen.
We have sad misgivpgs that this bill, squan-
dcing away the public lands as gratui,y 10
settlers, will pass the Senate. At one lime We
had confidently supposed that, at the worst it
was sure to meet its proper fate at the hands of
the President. But The Washington Union has
warmly supported it from the first, and it will
be urged upon General Perce's acceptance by
numbers of his strongest friends 1t is not i'm
probable that he may yield 10 their instances,
though all the principles of his admirable Veto
Message on the Insane Bill, demand that he
should set his foot on this If he signs it, The
act will, in our opinion, greatly, if not fatally,
impair the power and popularity Of his party
Charleston Mercury. "a .
of The New Orleans PIcITune, u. w: TeuuUT1'
in his letter from Paris TO that journal, gives
the subjniued recipe for destroying vermn on
animals, plants and trees. The remedy Is SIM
pie, easy of application, and worthy OF at least
Il trial:
"The celebrated Raspial, well known as one
of the best French chemists. has given an I'M
por;ant recipe for destroying verInin on AMI
mails, and also on plants and trees important
at least if true The process he recommends
is 10 make il solution of aloes-one gramme OF
that gum TO litre of waler-French measure
and. by means of large brush, TO wash over
the trunks and branches of trees with his srIu-
ton. This simple process, says haspEl' vii,
speedily destroy all The vermn on The trees, ana
will eflectually prevent others from aPProachl-
ing. In orler 10 clear sheep and animals win
long hair, they must be bathed with The solution
or be well washed with il. RaSpaIl mentions
several trials he has made with this mixture AL
of which have been attended with The most
complete success, and he recommends 1t very
strongly to general use can only say that II
4 simple solution of aloes and water will kill or
drive away ants from peach and other trees in
Texas and oiher parts Of the South, the dis,
covery will be hailed with pleasure. At all
events there is no harm in trying the experiment.
A French IiiIe is Il little less than three of our
pnts-a gramme is the five hundredlh part OF a
French pound. A little aoes, if useful at all,
will thus 90 great way. Were | troubled
with ants or other vermin in Texas, l should
certainly try Raspail's solution"