Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-01
VOL. 3.---NO. 226
DAILY VIRGINIAN.
Negro Government.

Abolition theorists of tho New York Tribune
sends them tho disagreeabe and troublesome in.
telligence conveyed in the following:
There is not the least doubt, and we express
this with real philanthropioal regret. that tho
negro empire Of liayh Is going down rapidly
with every year. and will be lost, without help.
The rotten machinery of state and society went
ON pretty well for while, rs long as the illusion
OF tho paper money lasted, and tho ignorant NO.
gro, by habit or wnnt Of reflection, received the
bad shinplnsters of this government for good
current money. During tho time of the Repnblc
tho rulers of Hayti were so prudent as not 10
carry to an cxcess the manufacture of this paper.
which has no specific basis Under President
Boyer, the whole island formed one single State.
the expenses of the Government were moderate,
and living in llayti was cheaper anywhere else
in the West Indies.
Even under tho last President, Riche tho
amount of the paper money in circulation was
but Sl7,OoO,0O0. During the reign of the En-
pcror Soulouque, the expenses OF the State have
increased immensely and in an equal proportion
tho poverty Of the masses has augmented The
circulating paper money has reached the i'm
mense sum of $50,0O0, 900. Forged bank notes
have been imported in great quantities. and are
not easily to be distinguished from the good
ones The paper has almost entirely lost its
value. All kinds of goods have risen in propor-
,ion and living is actually as expensive in Port
nu Prince IA in nny luxurious capital in Europe.
t1oyprn-
ment costs now almost three times as much as at
the time of the republic, which, it is true, was
| likewise by no means model State, yet even in
! it's worst condition did not attain such high de-
| gree OF rottcnness and corruption az the Empire.
Sonlouque seizes, as is well known, a fifth part
Of the whole annual coffee crop for his civil list,
or rather for himself The coffee oultvating me-
| groes obliged To sell their crop to certain
| privileged spectators. from whom alone foreign
merchants aro permitted to buy. 1t is from the
| privileged "specuntors' that the Emperor re-
eeives this fifth part. The coffee crop is decreas-
ing rather than augmenting with every year
| According to n gentleman we'll informed in these
matters, tho coffee product now amounts to about
! 10000, 900 of pounds annually, while under tho
administration of President Boyer, il reached
more than 6O, 200, 900 of pounds. On account of
the increasing depreciation of the paper money,
nnd the great injury suffered from tho usury of
tho licensed spectators the profit of the cult.
yaiors of coffee becomes smaller and smaller;
| they dissuado certain things which they had for
| morly bought from foreign manufacturers.
Their dress resembles more and more tho sim
plc, primitive fashion OF their ancestors in Sou
dan Guinea. They hardly know shame, and
tho climate of llayti is so delightfully."- warm, that
its inhabitants require hardly more luxury in dress
| than it the fashion to wear in tho old Para
disc. : No bacon and few plantans are suff-
| cient. ne negroes are not so strong ind robust
|
and we have the conviction that small corps of
n few thousand disoi iplined white soldiers would
be perfectly ahlo to put an end to Soulouque's
imperial grandeur and the whole negro empire.
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PRoHIpIroRy LIQUOR LAws..-The rise and
progress of laws in various States prohibiting the
sale of Intoxicating drinks, is to be seen in the
following abstracts prepared by the New York
| Herald
I55l-Passed by the Legislature of Maine.
lS52-Passed by the Legislature Of Mnneso-
's5s-Passed by tho Legislature of Rhode Is
is52-Passed by tho Legislature Of Massaohu-
sets.
1852 Ratified by the people of Minnesota.
ls52-Passed by tho Legislature of Vermont.
lS53-Passed by the Legislature of Michigan.
l853-Ratifed by the people Vermont.
lS53-Raitied by the people Of Michigan.
lS53-Its submission to the people pronounced
unconstitutional by tho Supreme Court
in Minnesota.
1853 Pronounced unconstitutional by tho Uni
ted states supreme Court in Rhode Is
ls53-Suprelne Court equally divided in Miohi-
ls5i-Pronounced unconstitutional in Massachu.
I85i-Passed the Legislature of New York
| ls54-Vetoed by Governor Seymour of New
York
lsA-Passed by ono branch of tho Legislature Of
New Hampshire.
l55i-Passcd by one branch of tho Legislature
of Maryland.
l55i-Passed by the Legislature, but the two
branches failed to agree in Pennsylva-
mia
| lS51--Passed by the Legislature of Ohio.
lS5l-Voted for by the people of Wisconsin.
lS51-Pronounccd unconstitutional in Ohio.
1854 Passed in a modified form by the Legisla-
ture of Rhode Island.
lS5i-Passed by the Legislature of Connecti-
ls55-passed the lower branch of the New Jer-
sey Legslature-de by one vote
in the Senate.
l755-Passed by the Legislature Of Wisconsin
and vetoed; modified apd passed, and
again vetoed by Governor Barstow.
l655-Passed for the second time by the Legis-
lature of New York, and became a law
of the State by the signature of Gov.
Clark.
Eight States and one Territory have thus pas
sed prohibitory laws. The question has failed
in four States through Legislative disagreement.
1t has been submitted to the people and retained
by them in four other States. 1t has nowhere been
repealed by legislative action, though it has been
four times set aside by the judiciary, and in one
instance re-enacted in modified form.
| FROM LIBERIA.-The Liberia Herald of jan
17th has been received in Boston. The French
Emperor had promised the Liberians 100 new
uniforms and a vessel Of war Dies have been
struck and aquantity of copper coin cut for the
Republic. The light to vote had been confined
to those holding property prohlbitory liquor
sionary under the auspices of the Southern Bap-
fist Convention of Foreign Missions, died at