The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-29

| paper, is rich one, but characteristic of the
whole system, which is but an imposition Oh
the labor and industry OF the country.
Indiana Election.
Charles Fl. Test has beaten John Petit, ID
| D., for Circuit Judge by large majority In
the Tippecanoe Circuit. The Lafayette Jour
nal of Wednesday claims 400 to 500. This is
| gratifying result for Mr. Test is as well quail
fled for the post as his opponent, and is a de-
| cent man. Mr. Petit made good Judge, but
he debased himself by his course in the con
tested election case and lost all claim to respect
| even for his judicial character.
Cass county elects John w. Wright (Rep.)
Representative, in place of Cullen, (Dem.,) ap
pointed Indian Agent. This is a Republican
gain.
White co.. unity has probably given Republ
| can majority, but the returns were not al
known at Lafayette.
Jasper county is Republican, as usual, while
| Fountain has given Democratic majority
| ranging from to 100.
In Tippecanoe county, Ellis (Rsp.) for clerk
has $40, and Test has 400 majority.
| In Allen county, the Democratic majority il
| 1853. Last,yea it was 1921.
Laporte county gives Republican majority
of 200 to 600. st. Joseph county elects al
Republicans, but, there being no opposition
the vote was light.
The Grain Crop Of Illinois.
An estimate of the grain crop of Illinois fol
the year 1857, which has obtained extensive
circulation, fixes the number of bushels at
280,000,000, upon the superstition that the
| number of acres under cultivation was ten mil
lion, and the yield per acre twenty eight bush
els. This estimate, based upon the supposed
increase in the area Of cultivation, and the
average yield of the land since the statistics Of
the census of 1850 were published, is pronounc
ed by the Prairie Farmer to be grossly exag
gerated According to the census of 1850
the number of acres under cultivation in that
year was 5,039, 545, of which not more than
100000 were planted in grain, and the yield
was 1922, 1874 bushels, or about twenty-five
bushels per acre. In order, therefore, to realize
the estimate of go 900, 900 of bushels the area
of cultivation must be nearly three times as
great az that of 1850, asd the ratio of increase
per acre more than twenty-five per cent. great
er. The following is the estimate of the
| Prairie Farmer:
"The number of acres under cultivation in
this State has not kept pace during the las
seven years with the increase of population
But~an unusual quantity of land was planted
in grain last autumn and last spring and sc
did unusual quantity of that which wa;
planted have to be planted second time. MOI
have we yet mentioned the other fact, tha
since 1850 the town and city population of Hi
nois has increased at least fifty per cent. faster
than the rural population, thus still further re
ducing the proportion of grain-raisers, and, a:
a conseq uence, the number of acres sown
Subsidiary to all this array of testimony, stock
raising has, during the period alluded to, in
creased much faster than gran.raising. But
that there may be no room for quibbliDg, We
shall call all things equal; in other words, We
shall admit that the number of acres planted il
grain in Illinois has, since 1850, kept pace with
the increase of population. And what has beer
the increase of population About 70 pei
cent. If the unmber of acres of grain harvest
ed in 1850 amounted to $500, 900, the number
this year was 5,950,000. Suppose we call i
100000, and the average yield % bushels PEI
acre, the sum total will be l68, 000,0 bushels
or nearly 100000 bushels more than doubl,
the crop of 1885,"
The American Missionary Association.
The anniversary of the American Mlssionar,
Association was held last week at Mansfield
Ohio. An abstract of the Treasurers report
presented by Mr.. Whipple, showed that the re
ceipts for the last year were $5l ,000, and tn,
expenditures the same amount, leaving an Tn
| paid debt of 81 ,434. More than one fourth o
this expenditure was for home missions.
Rev. l.. V. Sawyer, of New York, preached
York, was chosen Vice President, and Almor
| Underwood, of New Jersey, member of the Elk
ecutive Committee. With these exceptions
the officers OF last year were reelected.
The Association adopted resolutions express
ing the encouragement which it finds in the
tone Of the discussions of missio airy and Other
benevolent societies on the subject of Slavery
ard its regret that any of them are still willing
to give their powerful influence. to sustain it
Churches, Missionary, Tract, Sunday School
Bible, and Ecclesiastical associations are called
on to have no completely with that sin, and tc
give their support only to institutions which
aim to uphold Christianity in it's purity anG
| strictnesa.
| Senator Hunter
This distinguished gentleman has at length
been goaded by the current persistent effort,
to represent him to be an opponent of the pres
ent Administrations, into writing letter EN-
phatically denying that allegation, while taking
ground with reference to the propriety of 8
portion of the course OF Governor Walker com
mon to almost all the I. S. Senator'S, without
distinction of party, representing Southern
States.
Douglass Organ on Kansas.
The Chicago Times, which has the credit oil
rejecting the views of Senator Douglas on pub
lie affairs, endeavors to digest the Democratic
defeat in Kansas, unpalatabe as it is to poll
ticians Of the Little Giant school. Forced, by
its former avowals on the subject of Popular
Sovereignty, to admit that Kansas ought to be
come free State, as the People have now
clearly willed, it endeavors to make virtue Of
necessity, and boldly proclaims that the Const
tutional Convention should yield to this decis
ion, make an Auti-Slavery Constitution, and
submit it to the popular vote. Sentiments &c
incendiary as the Times now utters, it would
have been very dangerous for anybody to utter
in Kansas a short time ago, under the laws