Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-29

cry cattle farmer is not President, and has
not private estate, 600 miles square, pas
turing 100000 head of cattle, and yielding q,
net income Of half million of dollars 81
MADNESS IN VIRGINIA. :
The State and people Of Virginia, it is well
known, are deeply in debt, and much both.
cred to pay the interest on their obligations
in consequence Of the impoverishnient of her
sid, and the weight of taxation, there is
great outflow Of population, and farms and
slaves, are being sold in great numbers The
New York Post Of the 9Th has review of
the present state of affairs in Virginia, sug
gested by the insane fury of the opposition
in that State to emigration from the North
We quote from the Post:
X Ss
The effect Of these burdens are beginning
to tell upon the prosperity of Virginia very
seriously One Of the first effects has been
to increase the sales of slaves for the purpose
Of paying these taxessand interest on mort
cages During the last year, it is ascertain
ed that Virginia has exported twice us many
negroes as during the year previous, and Of
course proportionately decreased the amount
of her productive labor b
posed, will amount in gross to some $75 ,000,-
900, while the usual crop amounts to but
about $25 ,00o0j0 Heretofore the sales
have been confined to adult males; the pres
sure of debt and taxation has compelled, this
year, extensive sales of women and children
The character of these sales for some months
past, and the proportion of women and child
| rem to grown males, may be inferred from
the following paragraphs taken from late
Virginia papers
yatc sale at West Erd, Fairfax county, Va.
on Tuesday for s., 40 cash-an average Of
81 ,123l each. 'fherc were three men and
three females The men were aged respect
lively, 20, - and "a; and the females 3,
j. and % years. At sale in .Lynchburs,
Wednesday, anosro boy II years old brought
81 400 as
"The Culpepper Observer saws: Messrs j.
slaves belonging 70 the estate Of Martin Nalle,
negro man aged % or GO for $3.50; one wo-
man aged A and child aged 5, for 81 40 !:
one woman aged 81 and child aged l year,
for 81 400; one girl aged IA for 81, 100; one
girl aged Is for, ST ,275; one girl aged 10 for
pSou, OIe SiTi a1Eu . ZOE poCU, ana one man
aged y for 81 lHI So
1t will readily, he perceived that in so far
as this practice of selling women and child
rem obtaines, the future returns from the
sale of negroes, for many years the principal
product OF the State, must be proportionably
diminished, and Of course, the productive la
Dor Of the State in a corresponding ratio
Another and still more alarming symptom
of Eirginian decrepitudcis the general tide of
emigration which is setting from the State
We can scarcely take up paper from the
interior of the county which is not filled
with advertisements of farms for sale The
Alexandria Advertiser, now lying before U.s.
publishes three whole columns Of these ad
vertisements, arpl generally the venderzgives
as n reason for So Hing, that he is going to
another State. ~
Some of these advertisements arc quite
significant. Among them is the farm of
Commodore ihpnRis Ap. g. Jones, embracing
$50 acres in la.ifiax county. %@
The Prospect Hill post Office, stage-ofIice
aud hotel, new wheelright shop, blacksmith
shop, ice-hnuse and stone dairy, belong to
and are on this tract where aSreay Of stage
horses are kept
Symmetrical itszhugh, one Of the Oldest
families in Virginia, alyertises his farm of
| four hundred acres Prince William coun-
ty.s'~al
James Rogers advertises Waveland, form
| erly the property of the late Governor Bed
ford Brown--eight hundred and sixty acres
| Having, 50 runs the advertisement, de-
! terinined to go West"
\ A valuable farm ofseyen hundred and ff.
~ acres and fifty negroes, in King George $
county, are offered aud recommended to pur.
chasers in the following terms:
| Until reduced by scourging system OF
cultivation, few estates had higher reputa
| ton for productiHeness A short period OF
! good management would restore it to its orig
| inal fertility "a
! The advertisement states that most of the
negroes are "yonng and unusually likely.
We infer from what we have quoted, that
this has been u breeding estate .v.-r
| Albert G. Sinms, OF Culpepper. being de
sirous to move - the West" also offers his
residence, a farm of two hundred acres, in
Culpepper countv.
Glover Hill, IN london county, embrac
ing some three hundred and eight acres, is
offered and described as land of the first
quality, and whea properly cultirated has
been noted for its fertility" -
|
| Such is the condition OF the State and PEG
! pie who would beat back with insult and
violence white laborers, and Northern CAPT
talisss, from then. soil. Hopelessly in debt
both as SIA-- "a * ivid.sa.is :.saxed be
You'd their resources for inter 1sls Improve
/ ments which are not completed, and there.
fore unpro ipt;iyc; deluded by false notions
OF political eeouo.ay and personal dignity
| her most productive population deserving her
| in battalions the oldest and historically the
most famous ef the AMERICAN States, is hur
rying on to inevitable bankruptcy, and she
will not allow the familiar and benifceni
laws of coumcrc to come to her rescue.