Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-23


The Gfficial returns of the new census of Hi
nois make the population of that young State ex
coed 300 600 bringing it very nearly TO an
equality with Virginia. In five years it will
exceed our popueionand the Old Dominion will
have dropped point lower in the scale of State
rank and another frcesoil State will have taken
position in front of her. This Notifying result
will he trnccabe to two causes. both flowing
from democratic policy. First: Illinois has re-
crved from tho Federal Government, for pur-
poses If internal improvement, appropriations of
Public Lands equal to "A small empire. Demoera-
cy has forbidden Virginia to receive like,or any,
appropriations Socond Immigrants by thous-
and- have been attracted to Illinois, hy the in
ducemcnls of Public Lands, obtained at "a tribe
the easy mode Of acquiring citizenship and the
absence of all competition in labor by slavery.
Democracy refuses TO interpo>e any check to
immigration And thus Democratic policy con
tributes to build up the free States. to the de
preston and degradation Of the slave States
but this does not prevent Democracy from as
suming to be the best friend of the South
Ex-PREsIpENr FILLMORE IN IrALY'-A cor
respondent OF the Philadelphia Ledger, whiting
from Lcghorn,says;
The only person whn was permitted TO land in
advance Of all the rest was n Young Austrian of
fcer IS me l9"r % years oi1,l the other pas
sengerS among whom were our most excellent
* President Fillmore, and the Duke oi Mont.
pensier. (son of the late King of the French: nnd
II capital. handsome fellow withaO had Ia stay
on board 4 an exceedingly filthy steamer until the
| police were satisfied that none Of the strangers
| brought into port were likely to give the State
| danger or trouble. The passports. hy the by,
must be handed to the captain of each steamer
at the time of your taking your berth, md are
returned by him during the voyage, SO as to hand
them to the police officer rs soon n you enter
the port The police officer then comes on board
and counts off the passengers like sheep, to see
whether their number corresponds to the mum
her of passports handed to him. For the first
time in my life real hibuster feeling came over
me, aud felt as if could throw the officer
board, when saw the xPresident of our Re-
public, (may God preserve her from the fate of
III" Italian Rcpuhcs) walk past the petty officer
OF the absolute power of a petty State. in ohedt-
ence to his brutal mandate. The Duke OF Mont.
penslrr followed with a smile, and | co1ld not
help whispering to him in English that he rob.
ably realized himself that America and England
were the only two free countries in the world
Nothing, indeed. can exceed the unostcnta-
hous carriage and simplicity of the American
ex President on his whole journey through
Europe. He goes and sees everything, yet no.
body finds out who he is nor what elevated sta
ton he occupied till he is gone In Paris. while
ut the Hotel du Louvre, the landlord never knew
who his great guest was until some American had
inquired for ex- President Fillmore; and the same
occurred in Marsees, Piza Genoa and Leg.
horn. When the people learned who he was,
there was considerable empressment to serve him,
but he afforded them no opportunity Living in
the simplest manner, and exacting nothing that
is not usual with the most unpreten1ing and UNI
assuming gentleman he only leaves people with
regret that they cannot show him some proof of
their respect, some attention corresponding
with his station. MIR. Fillmore has now been in
England, France, Prussia, Austria and Italy and
will have seen all of Europe before he returns to
the United States. Heshas every where been the
unobserved observer of the people and their insti
tuons, and will return to the United States bet
ter Judge of the European governments thnn the
whole body of unfedgcd diplomats wa are in the
habit of sending abroad tina, they may become ac
quanted with court gossip and court manners
much TO the detrment of their knowledge and
usefulness in foreign parts. The manner IN
which Mr.. Fillmore travels is the only one by
which an American can really become acquant
ed with Europe, and learn to 1--we and cherish
his own country.
ILLNESS OF MADAME RACnEL-A letter from
Havana, published in the Charleston Courier.
furnishes the following paragraph with regard
10 the movements ct the great French rrcge,iien-