Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-15

1t is remarkable fact that Mr. Broderick
and his defeated candidate for Governor-Mr.
DR.. OWNS caucus nomina-
ton for the United States Senate, two years
ago. They received about dozen votes, each
on the fifty ballots for Senator; while Dr. Gwin
received upwards Of forty. Mr.. McCorkle was
also one Of DR.. OWNS prominent competitors
for the Senate, last winter. That gentleman's
friends must feel highly elated at the complete
and unequivocal endorsement he has received
from the Democratic party of the State.
LAND AND LrBERTY.-The price of lands is
the thermometer Of liberty. The laboring class
are freest when lands are cheapest. Lands do
not breed any more than money, and rents are
the uSurious exactions Of capital. When a few
own all the lands, they can and do prescribe
the condition on which the laborng masses
shall dwell Upon "the earth" These condi-
tons in many parts of western Europe have be-
come intolerable; and famine is the normal and
chronic condition of the laboring masses. They
who rear all the fruits of the earth are allowed
to enjoy scarcely any of them. The idle and
luxurious capitalist has "muzzled the OK that
trcadeth out the straw" He lives in luxury,
and pays the laborers who support him nothing,
and does not allow them from the proceeds of
their labor half as much as masters in our
southern States allow slaves-and hence free
labor is cheaper than slave labor Hence,
lands are dearer in western Europe than in
Russia or Turkey. Land monopoly destroys
liberty Rome struggled for five hundred years
to prevent the grasping Patricians from mo-
nopolising her public lands. Her policy in the
disposition of her lands was just the same as
ours. She endeavored to sell them only in
small parcels. This was the object of her Lii.
cinian and (miscalledD agrarian laws. But the
Patricians evaded all such enactments. Ex-
treme wealth, extreme poverty, and universal
corruption were the consequences of this mo-
nopolising system. Roman senators became
usuers and extortionists, living in city palaces,
instead Of cultivating small estates in the
country, like Cincinnatus and the Scipios
The decline and fall of the Empire were mainly
owing to these causes.
The Emigration Aid Society is acting over
again the fraudulent game of the Roman Pa
tricians, and their silly rhetorician, Sumner,
boasts that all its anticipatons of pccuniary
profits are founded on the hope to stock the
country with permanent settlers, by whose
labor the capital of the country shall be made
to yield its increase"
Slave labor can do no moro for the southern
landhOlder than this; and we would warn the
deluded victims Of this company of their ne
farious schemes, and advise them as soon as pos
sible to become Independent land-holders, in
stead of tenants or hirelings to these Shylocks,
who boast that free labor is cheaper than
slave labor
Widely rs we differ with the soc alistic no.
tions of Horace Greeley, there is salutary
bearing in some Of the language which he en-
ploys in his controversy on Association" with
Mr.. Raymond; language in which he in effect
asserts the proposition with which we commence
this article. that " The price of land is the Their.
mometer of liberty"
So We GO TRAVEL AND TRADE.-A letter
in the Baltimore Amsr,cau says:
81 gentleman who came over the Orange and
Alexandra Railroad, yesterday, says that the
present travel over that road Is unI,ar lelpd in
its annals. Nine cars filled to their utmost capa-
CITY ldnued their living CargOeS in Alexandria
last evening. He also states that the freight
trains brought down about 10 900 bushels OF grain
yesterday
We have repeatedly endeavored to impress
on our city readers the importance to their bu-
siness future of the great Central Railroad to the
Mississippi, Of which the Orange and Alexan-
paragraph, however, embraces arguments to
that end far more potent, practical and tan
gib!e than any that we have cudgelled out OF
our brain. Now, out of the nine car loads of
passengers, at least one hundred, if not twice
rs many, stopped over in Washington city
The arrivals at the Washington hotels pub
lished in yesterdays Star prove that fact
They must necessarily expend among us-for
some remain over hero days and weeks-an
average of S.. Say that they spend here but
an aggregate of $500 per day-no mean addi
ton to the amount Of money in circulation al
such q season among the classes among whom
it is spent.
Those who sent down the 10000 bushels Of
wheat to Alexandria, can hardly avoid spend
ing more or less of its proceeds here, or leaving
some of it with our neighbors of Alexandria
whose business prosperity must necessarily ben
efcially affect ours.
When the great chain Of railroads to which
we refer above shall be finished, it cannot hap
pen otherwise than that nine full car loads O
passengers will be brought not once day over
them, to Washington, but twice, thrice, or of
tener. Our interests (of Washington are a
this moment far more intimately bound up will
the speedy completion of the extension of THU
Orange and Alexandria railroad than with any
other or all other public works in the United
States together; and it is but our duty to our
selves to leave no stone unturned to expedite
that so desirable conclusion.
The WESTERN INDIANs-Information ha
been received at the Indian Bureau from thu
Special Agent at the Sioux Agency, Minnesota
under date Of August Sd, Of everything being
tranquil at that point The Superintendent
informs the Agent that the Indians have dis
persed. The Yanktons, Yanktonees, Tor Cut
Heads,) and Sesetones no longer remain en-
bodied in threatening attitude, having de