On these schemes only some six millions are
sion. The State is already in debt to the
amount of thirty-five miiuons and a half,
chiefly for improvements in the eastern sec
tion. The slaveholders are now disposed to
shut down on improvements, espeoialiy as
they anticipate that after 1865 they will be
compelled to pay their proper share of the
taxes, growing out of the debt. Here the
controversy is distinctly between the interest*
of freedom and slavery, with nearly a moral'
certainty that the former will prevail, and
that the result will hasten tbe day of Vir
ginia's deliverance from the curse of ignor
ant and t'hrlttlvb5 Isb-Jr.
In North Carolina there is a similar con
troversy. There are comparatively but few
slaves in the western part of tbe State, and
not long since a movement was commenoe4
by the Democratic party for taxing slavec
according to their vaiue, like other property.
But the slaveholders began to make a row
about the matter, and the leaders of tbe
party saw that they were likely to lose by it,
and so dropped it. But a workingtnen's as
sociation in tbe Western counties has taken
of slavery are irreconcilably antagonistic.
And whatever may te the intent of the move
ment, it must act against slavery to just the
extent it sucoeede ia turning ike attention of
the people to Ibe subjeot.~[ Sprtny/i«/d,
(Mast.) Refub.
(pr a oase of bribery has recently been
deoided by tbe Supreme Court of Vermont.
