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The SUGAR TAx.-The people of the United
States numbered, in 1850, in round numbers,
twenty-four millions the sugar planters of
Louisiana 1858, who produced that year
226,0OO,00G pounds Of sugar = enough to
furnish nine pounds to each person in the
country. In three years more, our popula.
ton will stand, 3l,5IO8O2. The production
OF sugar, meanwhile, has fallen off. Only
portions of Louisiana are fit for the culture.
The plant has never thriven there vigorously.
The planters, protected against competition,
are lhdolent, unenterprising, constantly taking
from the soil, and giving back nothing to it.
Forcing legislation cannot supply the place of
climate and enterprise. So the production has
steadily decreased, until now it is little more
than one hundred thousand hogsheads year
not enough to furnish five pounds Of sugar a
year to every person in the country!
Louisiana is q small State, containing less
than i've millions of acres, improved and un.
improved. About sixteen hundred thousand
are improved (; but small portion of the unim-
proved will ever be brought under the cultiva-
ton OF the cane. Add to this small district
IN Florida and Texas, and that is all we have
to supply a population which is filling up a
Continent; which, in 1860, will number thirty.
one millions-in 1900, one hundred and seven
millions. Judge of the future by the past, and
say whether, by all the forcing processes in
the world, the small tracts of sugar lands in the
three States named can ever beg gin to supply
the wants OF such an empire. AS protection
has utterly failed to stimulate the sugar plant.
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MEETING OF THE ONO LEGIsIATrRE- -.
tunlbus, OHIO, JaR 5.-The Legislature of Ohio
convened to-day in adjourned session. Hon
Lester Taylor was chosen President yr0 tenn. II.
theSenate. After the reading of the Governor
message, both branches adjourned till Wednes
day, to make way for the grand festival to-mor
row night at the opening of the new State
House.
The message of the Governor is mainly de
voted to State affairs. He recommends tb.
organization OF a board Of railroad commission
ers to exercise supervision over the continua
uon ana operation of the railroad of the State
urges the resumption Of the geological survey
OF the State, and recommends that provision be
MADE Tor the payment Of the public debt The
exhibit OF the finances of the State shows that
the expenses Of the fiscal year, ending Novem
Der last, were less by over 100000 than the
year preceding.
lie recommends the energetic prosecution OF
the public works, a revision of the militia laws
and the laws relating to married women, and
also that increased compensation be allowed
the Judiciary
The Governor thinks that Ohio should give
expression to demand for retrenchment and
reform in the administration of the National
Government.
Within the last two months, he has received
several appeals from Ohio emigrants in Kansas.
asking for protection and aid. He had address
ed a letter to Governor Geary in behalf Of the
prisoners, deeming that Oeio was entitled to
demand for her citizens emigrating to the Ter
rltories free ingress and egress by the ordinary
routes, and complete protection from the inva-
sion and usurpation of the lawless. If the
General Government refuses, he does not doubt
the right or duty of the State to interfere. He
has now good grounds to hope that the worst
IS over. In respect to Governor Geary, he SAYS
he now feels disposition to respect and pro.
tect the rights of the Free State settlers.
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PENNSYLVANIA -hrrrjsBiy,,B
January The annual message of Govern
or Pollock was read in the Legislature to-
dag. From it we learn that the financial con
dition Of the State is satisfactory. The receipts
OF the year, including the balance at the end OF
the last fiscal year, were nearly Sc, G22, 0OO and
the expenditures Sl,ll3,000, while there is a
balance in the treasury of 81 PCS, 900. The
State debt had been decreased during the wear
S366,OOO. The message calls the attention Of
the Legislature to the prevention of illegal
voting favors a reform IN the naturalization
laws by the National and stricier
guards upon the exts ~s"ifi
zenship by the State -
peal of the Missouri Cot
the conduct of the ofiieS
in Kansas in attemptinN
an unwilling people; and -
MIA expects and demands tina
free,
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PROSLAvERY NoTIoNs Amour A TARIFF
Mr. Boyce, of South Carolna-a State which
excludes poor white men from politicalinfuence
and seeks to exclude them from employment
by the re-opening Of the foreign slave trade and
bringing in black slaves from Africa-has
moved an amendment to the Tariff Bill, in
which he proposes to subject tea and coffee
now free, to a duty of 20 per cent This is
an original way of carrying out the free trade
principle, and reducing the revenues to the
tax point equal to the necessary expenditures
Of Government Whatever the Iaboring masses
Of the South may do, the masses of the People
in the Free States will submit to no such tax
No member representing them, who should vote
for so wanton a tax, would ever be suffered to
misrepresent them again.
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The Wool TAx.-Other countries admit the
raw material free of duty. This helps the man,
ufacturers, whose demands, increasing, react
by stimulating the home production. The tax
on wool, from all appearance, is closing some
Of the woolen factories, and others are unable
to run all the time, for want Of material. If the
manufacture is thus checked and paralyzed
how is the wool-grower to be benefited? Where
will be his market Give fair chance to the
enterprise of our citizens. Let them have the
raw material, and there will soon be an increas
ing demand for it, stimulating and repaying
production by steady prices.
When will people learn to consult their cir
cumstances, and depend upon their own skill
and enterprise, instead of the hot-bed devices
Of legislation, which almost always operates
unequally and oppressivelyP No legisla
ton can be beneficial, in comprehensive
sense, which taxes the many for the benefit o.
the few.
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SUGAR AGA1N.--In this country the coDsump-
ton of sugar averages almost 30 pounds head
to the population. In the best season, under
the most favorable circumstances, the home
production has not equalled one-half the con-
sumption. For one-half then, that is, for
45O, 1000, 900 of pounds, in the best of seasons,
we have been obliged to depend on foreign
countries, paying thirty per cent. taxation. At
this time, allowing that the home supply will
not reach 2OO,OOO,OOO pounds, and assuming
that our population is almost 28,OOO,OOO, we
need some Gao, 900 900 pounds from abroad
and on this, too, we must be taxed 80 per cent,
while our Treasury is so full, that we do not
know what to do with the money. What wise
people we are-taking money out Of our own
pockets and sending it to an Iron Safe at Wash
ington, to stimulate the greed of plunderers
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PoLITrcs IN CoXNEcrIcUT.-The Peoph
Connecticut, of all parties, opposed to
present Administration, to the Cincinnsir
form, and especially the extension of Sla,
in pursuance Of call issued by the Americ
Republican, and Peoples State Commute
met in Convention at New Haven last Th,
day. agreed, after lively debate, to sink
questions, bat that of Freedom and opposition
to the present Administration, agreed upoh ,
ticket to be supported at the spring election
and adopted as their platform the afiirma.iol
of rights contained in the Declaration Of In
dependence and the Constitution of the UniteS
States. Strenuous efforts were made by somt
delegates to obtain an endorsement or recog
milton of the principles of Know Nothingism
but they all failed the great majority of tn
| Convention, without distinction of party, bsinC
anxious to unite on the one great question OF
which all agreed.
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DrsUNIoSIsM IN THE SENATE.-On the 9Th
inst, Mr.. Bright being absent, the Senate elect
ed Mr. Mason, of Virginia, President pro tenn.
The vote stood, Mason &c. Foot IL, Weller l,
blank q Mr. Mason is the Senator who, the
other day, proclaimed himself in favor of the
expansion of Slavery, and is one Of the leaders
of the Disunion Democracy of the South, that
declared its purpose to dissolve the Union in
the event Of the election of Mr.. Fremont North
ern and Southern Democrats in the Senate en-.
dorse his views and position by eecting him
President pro tenn. of that body.
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EQUALITY. Michigan, at the late Presiden.
tal election, cast larger vote than either
North Carolina Georgia, Missouri, or Ala.
bama, and but twenty-five thousand less than
Virginia and Kentucky; but Michigan sends
only four representatives to Congress, while
North Carolina sends eight, Georgia eight,
Missouri seven, Alabama seven, Virginia thir.
teen, Kentucky ten.
A correspondent wishes us to present some
statements, showing the comparative influence
of Free Labor and the Shareholder, in deter.
mining the character. Of the institutions OF our
Territories. We haze not time =" o',.l'r-v'
GeldII. II IL" prominent facts must suffice.
The statement above is one fact but there are
several others.
Without the representation allowed for
slaves, who, having no political power them.
selves, add to that of their masters, Free La.
Dor would have l59, instead of l44 represent
atives, and the Slave Power Is instead of 80.
By such a change Kentucky, Louisiana,
North Carolina, and Tennessee, would each
lose one representative Alabama, Georgia.
Virginia, and Mississippi, each, two; South
Carolina, three while Indiana, Illinois, Maine,
Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and
Vermont, would each gain one; Ohio and
Pennsylvania, each, two, and New York, three.
The free population of all the slave States,
which have representation of 90, is but 9, 900
more than the aggregate free population of
New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts,,
which have but 60 representatives.
The total vote Of New York State alone. at
the late election, was almost equal to the az
gregate vote of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
and South Carolina, which are entitled to 60
electoral votes, while New York has but 35
Without slave representation, they would have
but So, and New York 35 electoral votes.
That is enough for the present. There is a
little book, entitled " The North and the
South" compiled from official documents, by
Henry Chase and Charles W. Sanborn, and
published by John P. Jewett & Co., Boston.
Massachusetts, illustrating, by a great variety
of comparative tables, taken from the Census
of 1850, and carefully classified, the political,
social and industrial conditions of the free
and slave States. We commend it to the at
tention of our readers, as a selection of facts,
always ready for use. 1t ought to have been
entitled Free and Slave Society,"" not The
North and the South" and we would suggest
to the compilers that some Of their tables need
careful revision, especially those relating to
the nativities of the population. Nothing is
easier than typographical blunders in tables
of figures
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" Wednesday, January z, 1857.
SENATE.

The President transmitted to The Senate in
reply 10 a resolution of inquiry, letter from
the New York, Newfoundland, and London
Telegraph Company, in which the President is
informed that contracts have been made for the
Manufacture srbmarine cables to connect
the eonlinents 81 Europe and America, and it
is expected 70 have line between New York
and London open for business by the fourth Of
July next.
AS the work has been prosecuted thus far
without American capital or aid from this Ad-
ministration 10 ascertain the feasibility of the
enterprise, 1t is the earnest desire of the direct
ors to secure to the Government of the United
States equal privileges with those stipulated
for by the British Government.
In this desire the Lords Commissioners of
the English Treasury have acceded in a most
liberal spirit, by providing that the British
Government shall have a priority in the con-
veyanee of their messages over all others, sub
iect to the exception only of the Government
of the United States, in the event of their enter
ing into an arrangement with the Company
similar in principle to that of the British Gov
ernment-in which case the messages of the
two Governments shall have priority in the
order in which they arrive at the station.
The American directors say that they can
not doubt the reservation made in favor of the
and therefore ask the President to take such
action in the premises as he may deem the in
terests Of this Government require.
The Company will enter into contract with
the Government of the United States, on the
same terms and conditions as with the British
Government. Such contract, they suppose, will
fall within the provision Of the Constitution in
regard to postal arrangements, of which this is
onlv a Few and improved form. Her Majesty s
Government engage to furnish aid by ships to
Law the cable, and it is suggested that our re-
Gently finished war steamers are the very best
TO assist in this business.
To avoid failure in laying the cable, the
Company request the President to make such
a recommendation TO Congress as will secure
.b;s end The President makes no recommend
atom. but merely submits the above and the
nronosition of the Lords COMMISSIONS No
renIv Of Mr.. Marcy accnmEsaies the document.
fep ~. w-,sf reported bill to increase the pay
i Il
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phia, demonstrating against the renewal of the
Woodwork patent for planning boards, &c.
By Mr.. Millson The memorial of G. B.
Fitzgerald, R. W. Bowden, and other citizens
Of Norfolk, Va, asking such legislation as may
tend to prevent accidents occurring on railroads
and>steamboats.
By Mr.. Phelps: The petition of James A.
Tut and others, citizens of Henry county, Mis-
souri,, praying that the entries of land made
under the graduation act be legalized.
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PosT OFFICE, CoLUMBUs, GA.
Igo,y1r,.gy - 1Z.~

HoRRBLE DEATH.-A correspondent writing
from Dubuque county, Iowa, December -,
1856, says:
Last Sunday, the Dist, within few miles
OF this place, six persons were frozen to death
five grown and one child. Two were Irishmen.
who lived about four miles from here. and came
to this place and got drunk, when the doggerv
keeper turned them out Of doors in the night.
and they troze before they got home. The
others lived in the edge of Jones county--one
man, two women, and child They started
with sledges and horses to 90 about two miles
1t appears they lost their way, and run their
team into q creek. We got the women and
child out, and poked q place for them in the
snow, and spread piece Of carpet and hi.
over coat over them, and went for help, bat he
was found dead about sixty rods from there"
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FREEDOM IN GEORGIA.
COLUMBUS, GA, Jan. 6, lSj

COLUMBUS, GA, Jan. 6, 1887.
To the Editor fthe National Era:
A Vigilance Committee, appointed TO prevent
the circulation of abolition documents in this
community, request me to have your paper dis
continued. 1 hope, therefore, never to see
another copy Of your base sheet.
Yours, J. 7. HOLLAND for
p. 5. l hope you will not wait for the sub
scrption to expire.
By the same mail, the Postmaster sent US the
following:
Posi- OFFICE, CoLUNmus, GA.
January 6, 1857.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
SIR: Your publication which comes 70 this
office addressed to J. T. Holland, is not taken
out. Please discontinue.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
r. {. FoRsYTH. r. "
Reason refused.
J. T, Holland is subscriber. and, like other
Subscribers, pays for his Era in advance. The
note addressed to US in his name was evidently
-. 'a-1'-i- FHIy- Ot course we
shall pay no attention to it. The paper will be
sent to that post office to his address, Just 50
long as it is paid for. Il is a fair business
transaction between him and the proprietor of
the Era, and we shall complete oar part Of the
bargain, the impertinent Vigilance Committee
TO the contrary notwithstanding.
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Saturday, January 10, 1857.
The Senate did not sit today.

Inc SENATE Olu not SIT to-oay.
HOUSE
The Speaker appointed Messrs. Kelsey OF
New York, Orr Of South Carolina, Davis OF
Maryland, Richie of Pennsylvania, and Warner
of Georgia, the committee to investigate Ger.
tain statements Charging that the members Of
the House have entered into corrupt combina-
tons"
Mr.. Grow, of Pennsylvania, remarked that
for two weeks past he had had in his possession
the petition of some fifteen hundred citizens OF
the Territory of Kansas, demonstrating against
the admission. of John w. Whitfield to seat
on the floor of the House as Delegate from that
Territory. He would take the opportunity to
present the remonstrance which he held in his
hand, with petition from A. H. Reeder, set
ting forth his reasons for contesting the seat OF
John w. Whitfield, for the purpose of having
them referred to the Committee of Elections.
They were so referred
This being private bill day, the committees
were called for reports on private cases.
Several private bills were discussed, and the
House adjourned.
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[ q: go Iowa s' Election case
.s Sssssayard argued az lst the right of Mr.
Yah to his seat III
Mr. Foster took the OPP fite ground, in favor
of Mr.. Harhns right to pat.
The President pro ted submitted a letter
from the Hon. Hannibal Hmlin, resigning his
eat aa Senator from the|State of Maine.
The Senate adjourned Friday.
HOUSE
II The t;resome debste on <he Presidents mes
soe was resumed. Mr.. Barclay, having the
~ was partieuady severe on the President,
sodfhe views expressed inhis message.
Mr.. SaAdidgs, Of Louisiana, after few re-
=. marks in condensation of the Know Nothing
- 5efended Suthern rights and institu-
The HOa>Se ito adjourn.d until Friday.
Friiiy, January 9, 1857.
SENATE.
Mr.. Hdnter, hon the COMMITTEES on Finance,
- which WAS nfsrred House bill making ap-
r-oor;ations fo the payment Of invalid and
pensions Of the United States for the
ending th 3Oth June, 1858, reported
Insane nth an amsndmsnt, and asked
m16iate consideration which vas agreed
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cence-an act which -
consumes more than 80
States, by giving q * Y q, III
men TO become land s+VA.Ea 90
Element Of the Tcrit #fE q
ductions of the countr &A
all the older States -
every great public inter
When shall nave
Mr. Dc BoIs, MryIsrr Sc "A
LANDS, who Witnessed III -
in which Mr. Herbert v <HA
to testify, because, being %A
a foreign sovereignty he - - \.
prety appear in a court y - u la
country, where he would ~ "a
examination. BY direction Ak "a III
Mr.. Belmont our Minister A11 ~ ~
the attention Of the King 80 IL
sustained the POSITION of NJ I
the same time protested tll Ia ~
for the Government of the iIs - III
is the substance of documen M -
to the Senate. ~
FAILURE FREE SOCIETY," ~ r.
MAssEsA correspondent at M%
e., in sending US q club of Nd u
marks at is surprising to
papers are taken, not only in N A.
in the farming districts. On ~ n
the other day living six miles
Office, found the Era, Post,
Journal Rural Nac Yorker. b.
are instanc &C." Ten
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DIR. MORSE.
THE INVENTOR Or
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PILLS.

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Ileh the various passages become cIt,yy,-i
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It's aetioii. Becomes thick, corrupted and dis
easea thus causing pains sickness, and dis
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our health we are deprived of, and If natlr. is
not assisted in throwing off the staenant fu-s
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