Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-27

Negro labor is very high in Missouri.
In some cases $3.50 per year has been given
for farm hands. The high price Of hemp is
the cause
DIVISION or WISCONSIN The Ripon Home
has an article on the subject of dividing Wis
corsin. 1t proposes TO run line due west 10
the st Croix, from where the Michigan line
strikes the State of Wisconsin, west If Lake
Michigan, and embracing all the region north
t. the British Possessions, which il says would
form State Of ample dimensions, besides pos
sesaing all the requisites necessary for a rich
and dense population.
an INDIAN REpUBLIC -Twenty-fve Dakota
families, living at HsElewood, some forty miles
above Fort Ridgeley, on the st Peters river,
Minnesota, Lave renOunced their tribal char
acter, donned civilized dress, and formed
themselves into sort of republic, with q writ
ten constitution, President, &c They are In
corn to sell At the Red Wood Agency there
is similar organization, with some ten or
twelve families uniting in il.
B The citizens of Pittsburg are nobly eI-
erting themselves to relieve the sufferines of
the people Of Cincinnati at the present june
ture, in return for the liberal contributions
extended Themselves by the latter on the Oc-
casiOn of the great FIRE some years back Sub
scriptions are collecting, and the employees Of
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail-
road had generously subscribed funds sufi-
cient TO purchase three car loads Of coal,
which would be promptly forwarded to the
care Of the Mayor Of Cincinnati.
SUFFERING AMONG THE Poor IN NEW YORK.
The Herald says that the cold weather throws
thousands Of poor people out Of employment in
that city, and conseq uently there is much suf-
feriDg. On last Monday the almshouse was
thronged with applicants for relief, and over
one thousand OF the poor wretches aided hun
dredS Of whom had never before had occasion
TO ask for relief. The calls on private chsrit-
able institutions have also been enormous II
is usual for poor families to receive quarter
of ton of coal from the almshouse depart
ment, it is with difficulty the demand can be
supplied for the quarter tons at present.
HIGH PRICE OF MEAT Every head of a
family is feeling alive to the increased price Of
animal food. According TO the statistics for
ten consecutive years, in the Eastern and Mid
die States, while the population steadily aug
mented, the stock Of cattle decreased nearly
$500, 900 head. In the States Of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri, there has
been an increase of 100000 head Of stock,
but the ratio Of increase In people has been
vastly greater. At the same time the export
of provisions was, in IS45.'46 inclusive, SllO,-
52I, ,06O; in 1852 inclusive, s2SS o1s 600.
To account, then, for the hlgn Cost OF proVl-
sions, we have an immense increase In popu-
lation, decrease in stock, and a vast increase
in expectation.
~ The Marlboro (Md.) Gazette reports
that during the heavy snow storm on Mon
dsy last Miss Virginia, daughter of Mr Thos
Clsgett, residing near that place, and a negro
girl were frozen to death. It appears that the
deceased was on a visit TO her brother-in-Isv,
(Mr. wm. L. Berry, and, having been in-
formed Of the illness Of q servant woman In
one of the quarters, some distance from the
dwelling, she determined to 90 and see after
the sick, and, accompanied by a negro girl,
started; but had not gone far before they
were so completely surrounded by heavy drifts
and blinded by the wind and falling snow that
they could not get to the house and when
found they were standing erect, almost en-
tirely covered In the drift, and lie was az
tiDct. Miss G. was q very amiabie young
lady, beloved by al who knew her. The nm
fortunate deceased was in the twenty 1sasrth
year Of her age"