Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-19

10 Mr.. Ward, and the three Messrs. Har-
goas parties Interested in the Garay Grant,
have arrived in this city from Mexico, and are
stopping at Wizards Hotel. Mr.. Gadsden, our
Minister to Mexico, who is said to have the re-
ported treaty in his pocket, is tarryng for
few days at Charleston, when he will come on
to Washington to make report to the Govern
ment.
H5-A negro man, the slave of Mr.. John
Harry, was found dead, and clinging to rope
beneath the Aqueduct at Georgetown, yester-
day morning. He had been MORALLY wounded
before being thrown into the river. The muir
derer is as yet unknown
The new gas works at Georgetown will
be in operation in a few weeks.
1.-THE lecture Of Miss Lucy Stone, at Ca
rusi's, this evening, will no doubt be we'll at.
tended.
15-The New York papersof yesterday after
noon, due here at six o'clock this morning, did
not arrive.
IMPROVING SENTIMENT IN THE SoUTH.-The
Raleigh Register, Of the 18th instant, says:
!" A writer in the Richmond Eraminer pro-
poses plan for removing the free cQlored
population, which we trust will find little favor
in Virginia or elsewhere He suggests that
tax of $40 per head be levied upon all free
negroes above the age Of twenty one years, and
that those between fifteen and twenty-one be
taxed So The penalty Of nom payment of the
tax il the sale Of The negro for a limited period,
until he or she works out the tax ut ten to
twenty five cents per day. 1t is estimated that
about $460,000 may be raised in this way tho
first year, which, with sum in the Treasury
already appropriated to the object will send
out about ten thousand negroes to- Liberia
At time when Alabama, Georgia and other
Southern States, are commencing q system of
meliorating measures in the management of
the colored population, it would be diegraeeful
to Virginia, and other old States, If they should
adopt the opposite policy. We deem il highly
impolitic in the South to pursue this course
1t is obviously for our interest to conciliate the
good opinion Of mankind, as far as is consistent
with dignity and honor. This is the view taken
by the profonndest thinkers of the Southern
country-even by the talented, though erratic
Editors of the Southern Press--and by the
leading minds in Georgia, Alabama, and South
Carolina
"The practical enforcement of such n system
of taxation as that proposed for the removal Of
the free negroes Of Virginia, would be attended
with an amount of cruel oppression which would
awaken the sympathies Of the civilized world,
and intensity the prejudice against Slavery in
q degree OF which We have hitherto had no
example.
@To say nothing of the injustice Of such a
scheme of colonization, its impolicy in this and
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elucidation while the opposite course Of hu-
mainly and kindness, would 90 far towards
opening the way for the gradual removal of the
free colored race to the tropics
A HOME FOR ACTUAL SETTLERS. One Of
The measures which the Free Democratic party
desires to effect is the granting OF so or 100
acres of Government land to every landess
man, willing to settle upon and cultivate such
land. With the growth of our party, this meas
ure IN growing in strength Ii il manifest
that If the Government freely gives land, in
small quantities, to the landless, the small
farmers will be encouraged TO go on the ma
tional domain, and pre-occupy the lands, to the
prejudice OF the great planters and their scores
Of unpaid laborers. This Is the ground Of the
hostility Of the South but il must be said, to
the honor of some Southern members Of Con-
gress, that they have put this argument aside
and supported the measure ON the ground Of
its Justice and expedency, in spite OF tho objec-
tons which Slavery urges.
No more truly benevolent measure has ever
been proposed in Congress. II does injury TO
no one, while il. confers o large and lasting
good upon a class who need and deserve the
fostering care Of the General Government II
appears like gift, at first thought but little
consideration shows il 10 be otherwise The
land IL Of no value to the Government, as IL lies
unoccupied; and its occupation by actual set
tiers would, in a few years put into the Na.
tonal Treasury by the increase of the receipt
Of customs and the general increase Of com
MERGE and wealth, much larger sum than the
$It4 per acre, IL held by the Government till
purchaser we're found for It,
We hope this measure will find it, way
through Congress this winter.
Detroit Free Democrat.
Tue BRTG NAPoLEoN.--Thc Boston Times
has obtained statement from three of the
crew of tho brig Napoloop which smoke the