New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-07

educaiion ~ well rs the value OF citizenship. MI
Hanlin investigated the matter OF TINS einigra'oh
among the emIgrants themselves. RE has conVersfu
with great number. Of them. lie found them much
dissatisfied with their lot at the south. lhey ieit
tnat while their labor is necessity there was ns-
position TO disregard their interests. ana 10 inahe
the most ont OF hem that they were discontenteh
with the rate of their wages aud Win the payne"
of them IN goods at enor nous prices; that some
times when they attempted to emgrate they were
cruelty treated, even pursued and shot,
Thus they had lost all confidence In the
planters and, rather than remain, had pre-
ferred to die on their way to Kansas. One
emgrant said "They took all we made " an
other, ave left because we had TO do oil the work.
and got nothing for IT.; another, No mat
ter how hard we worked. we always came out IN
debit; another: Since the Fall Of 1879. over
twenty negroes that knew personally have been
killed and there has never been a man hung or put
into the pcnitentiary for It," They have had the
emigration I'm contemplation for years. Ihey
found It impossible TO acquire property. In many
localities holders wOnld mel her sell nor hire land TO
hegroes. The plan to keep them dependent
aud in condition Of serfdOm ! AMI they had I'D
submit or starve. Their right to vote. OF which
they very proud, was constantly interiercu
with Mr. HamlIn thinks that the whole country
has an interest IN keeping the negroes at the
SOUTH partly to Inaintain the authority OF the len
eral Government and partly to forward the cultva-
ton of lanis now unimproved. Their exodus would
doom these to remain n wilderness. One remedy
Mr.. HamlIn finds in the acquisition of large tracts
of Southern land by Northern capital. These may
be divided up and retaied to the blacks in small
parcels reasonable credit for the purchase money
being given. Assistance in making these improve
ments might be extended to purchasers; and as
much of this nnimproved land Is yet I'D Tue
hands of the Government, il might exercise some
supervision over its disposition
The scientific aspects of the evidence against the
Rev. Mr.. Hayden, of Madison. Conn.,, for the muir
der of Mary Stannard. are remarkable; indeed
the microscopic exhibition of arsenic and the COM
parison of arsencal crystals show that the law has
n powerful auxiliary in chemistry. Alter the ar
rest If Mr. Hayden. and the disnterment OF the re-
mains of the dead girl for examinations 1t was
claimed that all of the arsenic which Hayden had
bought was stIll in "a box IN the barn. There box
was found containing Il fall ounce. Ii was shown
that the arsenic found in Mary Stannard's stomach
could not have been taken from this box AZ TINS
point recourse by the prosecution was had To Iro-
fessor Dana. who visited England, studied
the manufacture of arsenic and then. by the use
of his microscope the rystals demonstrated that
the arsenic from the girls stomach was an entirely
d. fcrent lot from that hidden III the barn. ana that
It was identical with The arsenic sold by Iylor al
the time when Hayden Is known to have bought
his ounce. The conclusion sought 10 he es ao lshed
il that a part of the arsenic bought by Hayden
was used TO poison the girl, and that the rest was
flung away. ard that the barn-arsenic was bought
elsewhere afterward merely as blind. The crys-
tails of the stomach-arsenic three or four times
as large as those Of the baru-arsenic but none OF
them are large enough TO be visible without the
microscope Hereafter criminals VIII do well to rec
ognize IN science one Of the agents of possible de-
lection.