The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-13

cessful. One person, from stalks grown ON a
small patch of ground, made seventy-dve gal
Ions of good molasses. The difficulty which
has stood in the way of this branch of sgricul-
ture at the North is the liability of the cane to
be injured by the frosts, and the want of
sufficiently warm sun for a period long enough
to bring the cane to maturity. 1t is now hoped
that this obstacle may be avoided by the singu-
lar hardness of the China variety, which is
said to be peculiarly insensible to all the in
tiuences and agencies which destroy or hurt the
more tender species of the plant.-Erchan9e.
TURKISH HoNEsTY.-The Messrs. Abbott
were heavy sufferers by the recent great fire at
Salonica, in European Turkey, having lost their
books and papers, containing bills to large
amount against some of the principal inhabit-
ants and merchants of the city. On the day
after the fire, old Yusseff Pasha, who is debtor
to M. M. Abbott for sum ofnEeral million
piastres, went to them and said, that, having
heard that all the bills they held of his had been
destroyed, he had brought copy of his &C
count with them, taken from his books, and
also fresh bills for the amount due. This ex-
to the firm.
IMMIGRATION TO VIRG1NIA.-A party of thirty
German and French emigrants passed through
Lynchburg on Monday, en- route for Wythe
County Va, where they intend settling. The
Richmond Dispatch says they are the pioneers
of colony to be founded in Southwest Virginia
by capitalists of France, who have already
made purchases of land in that region. They
design sending 1900, of which number 800
will be over shortly. The Governor of the
colony, Charles Hatmsn, was with the party
which has just gone, and among the number
were three Crimean veterans
DISTRESSING CALAMITY. A calamity of a
distressing nature occurred at st. Louis, Mis-
souri,, on the night of the 3lst ult. Between
II and o'clock, fire broke out Tin the large
cabinet shop of Messrs. Henry and William
Benker, and the building, being filled with
combustible materials, was quickly consumed,
with its entire contents. The saddest feature
of the occurrence is the supposed burning of
six men who were sleeping in the building.
Quite crowd had collected around the fire,
witnessing its progress, when some one sudden
ly remembered that ten men, hands in the es-
Enlistment, were sleeping in one of the upper
rooms. Four of the men were aroused, and
succeeded in making their escape. The remain
ing six are missing, and are supposed to have
persisted in the flames. Not one of them was
seen on the ground, nor have they been heard
from since. The charred, crisped remains of
one has been discovered in the ruins, and it is
supposed that the bodies of the others are burnt
to ashes.
EMIGRATION FOR TEN MoNTHs.-The total
number of emigrants who arrived at New York
during the ten months of the present year end
ing with October was l20,640. OF this num-
Der, 37,457 were Irish, and 46,26l Germans.
EXPLORATION OF CENTRAL AFRICA. - DR..
David Livingston arrived at the Mauritius on
the 18th of August, on his way to England.
This traveller has succeeded in traversing Afri-
ca from ocean to ocean. He started from the
Cape of Good Hope, penetrated north and west
to Angola, whence he returned as far as Sishi-
XII, and thence eastward to Tete and Quilinauc,
on the eastern coast. These great achieve
ments were performed not at the public ex-
pense, but with only his limited means as a
missionary. The great interior of Africa will
not, therefore, hereafter be marked ON our
maps as unknown"
A FREE STATE IN TExAs.-Some may look
upon such thing as free State of Western
Texas as improbable, particularly at time
when such strenuous efforts are being made to
carry Slavery into Kansas, where Slavery does
not now exist by positive law. Yet there is
strong probability that such an event will occur
based upon the fact that foreign immigration
is greater than domestic, by at least ten to one,
and upon the well-known fact that foreign i'm
migration is opposed to Slavery from principle,
prejudice, and education. And there are many
of the Immigrants from the older States op-
posed to Slavery, who quietly tolerate it so
long as it is an institution of the State but who
will vote No Slavery when the question comes
up whether Western Texas shall be free or q
slave State. This fact is not generally known
if so, it is not duly considered. The vote of
the adopted citizens of Texas now numbers at
least $4,000. In less than ten years, it will be
increased to three times that number unless
the naturalization laws are changed. This in
crease will be in much greater ratio than
that of the native-born vote.
San antonio Team.
ONLY AN ARMIsTICE WITH THE BORDER RUF-
FIANs-ANoTHER RAID ON FOoT.-La,orence
Oct 3, lS56.-Many of our people are leaving,
for fear of famine in the winter. Can they be
treasured? We are having an srmistice till
after election then we expect the storm to
come. Gov. Geary is a failure. His only OBJ
ject is to make Buchanan capital for the East.
l have learned from a reliable source that
it is the intention of the Missouri ruhians to
make an attempt upon the Free State men of
the Territory, and to drive them out, sometime
between the middle of November and the first
of December. This can only be prevented by
an immediate effort to supply and strengthen
the Free State men, who are suffering and
struggling with despotism.
I trust our friends in New York and New
England will see the necessity of forwarding
all the means they can spare before the first of
December, so as to supply provisions and
clothing for the suffering.
USE OF GUANo.-At the recent meeting of
the Herts (England) Agricultural Association,
Sir E. B. Lytton stated that within the last
three years, independently of the sum expended
on ordinary msnures, the farmers of Great
Britain had laid out Ave millions sterling
in the purchase of guaHo, and that within the
same period million of fresh acres had been
brought into. cultivation.
THE TEHUANrEPBC TRANsIr.-The Mexican
correspondent of the New Orleans Delta gives
a favorable account of the progress of the work
on the Tehuantepec Transit route, under The
auspices of the New Orleans company. of
the carriage road from Suchil toward the Pa
cifc terminus, fftythree miles are now open
and capable of use.
BREADsrUFFs FOR ENGLAND.-The Philadel-
phia american says: "During the last month
there was shipped from this port, by packets
and steamers, over $4,000 bushels of wheat,
$4,000 bushels of corn, and 10000 barrels of
-four to England"
GREAT Snow SToRM.-The Auburn IN. Y.
american of the LIST inst says:
yesterday a few fakes of snow sifted down
here, but in Oswego and Jefferson counties the
storm was very severe. A friend informs US
that passenger train of two coaches, drawn