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A Problem for .QboHfionists.-The State
Prison of Connecticut, by the late official report,
is in 9 fourshing' condition. There have
been in it for the year past, 264 conyicts, of
which 10 have been discharged, and 4 have died,
leaving 100 within the walls, which is seventeen
less than at the commencement of the year. OF
these, III are white, and even in Connecticut,
where negroes are rare as ssblack swans,''
there are no less than forty-nine persons of this
description, making about one-fourth of the whole
number of State conyicts! The report itself ac-
knowledges that Ito quote its own words) 'sThe
number Of blacks in confinement, compared with
the whites, is ten or tWelDe times greater than is
the proportion of the black to the white popula-
ton in the State" The nett earnings for the
year have been $20,544 Al leaving nett profit
over the expenses Of $5,O52 OF. lEp The dis
proportonate amount Of colored persons demon
strates in our mind clearly what we have SO often
urged, that the madness Of fanatics in trying to
make our Northern States an asylum for that
worst species of population called Free Negroes,
leads in fact to the extension of crime and pauper-
ism, and the consequent multiplication Of prisons
and poor-houses, which are the receptacles in
which the deuded, caressed and degraded chill
dren Of Africa generally terminate their career
~. I. Even. Star.