TWO DOLTiATIS PER ANNUM,"? HALF-YEARLY. IN ADVANCE. 5 AND FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' REGISTER. (IF NOr PAID WITHIN Tim VHAR. $2 5.) WILL BE CHAKUKO. ; i 1-1- Jl PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY JONATHAN ROW, SOMERSET, SOMERSET COUNTY, PA. New Scries. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1846, Vol- 4.-No. 42. O r a r i t u & r . Jf there one bright spot on earth, (Parkas it is and rude,) Jt is where kindness brings to birth The infant Gn vin vut; It springs as Hniies the summer mom, Within the human breast; It scatters beauty o'er the thorn, ' And lulls the heart to rest. It smiles upon the mountain head, It brightens o'er the sea. ' , , cred with the dead,' v; And thoughts long numbered Burst forth in ecstacy The friends who once to us have been The checrcrs of the heart, Aain arise -again are seen And in our lot take part. Can we forget them? we forget The days when childhood flew, When every joy with tears were wet, And joys were ever new? No! No! we may forget the day When life was young and rude, But ne'er forget the first display I Of early gratitude. From the New York Tribune. A 3IOXSTROIS Fit A I'D. That the Locofoco journals should be lie the Tariff of 1842 is but natural. We hardly know that we ought to com plain of it. But when their falsehoods are copyed into neutral and Whig papers as undoubted facts, we do feel that the injustice is too gross to be endured in silence. Thus the tables which we find running the rounds of the Country jour nals, including many Agricultural, Reli gious, &c.,and some that are called Whig under the title of the "Tariffs of 1842 and 1846 compared," is a villianous com pound of knavery and lying. For in stance, it gives among Luxuries. 1842. 12 9 5 1846. 30 30 30 30 25 Wine: Champagne Burgandy Madeira Carpets: Wilton Silks Pocket handkerchiefs, fine 23 16 Articles of General Use. Wines: Sicily Madeira, low priced 49 Carpeting: Treble Ingrain 73 Wood Screws: CO Glass: Plain Tumblers not cut 137 Pins: called pound or mixed Pins 53 30 30 30 30 30 Mouslin de Laines, 12c per yard 50 25 Cables and Cordage, tarred 120 25 The evident design here is to insinuate, because the Tarifl of '42 imposed high er duties on such imported articles as come in competition with the products of our own labor and lower on such as do not, that therefore the Whig Tariff de Mjrncdly discriminates to make dear the articles consumed by the Poor and to cheapen those consumed by the Rich: We despise the mean-souled villians who could make that insinuation too intensely to reply to their calumny. Every man of them knows better knows that no fucJi thought ever entered the heads of those who framed the Tariff of '42. There may be some who half ignorantly repeat the slander, but its authors and contrivers never drew an honest breath in their'livrs. To attempt a formal refuta tion of their deceit would be dignifying it and them unwisely and unjustly. A judge on the bench might as well argue with a convicted counterfeiter on the inutility and impropriety of counterfeiting cs a vo cation. But the direct unmistakable lalsehoods unbodied in the table now going the rounds of the journals, including some which cannot be conscious parties to the fraud, demand exposure. The following is the statement of the actual rates of duty imposed by the Tariff of '42 on the articles above enumerated, as compared with the rates: Tariff of 1842 Tariffofl84C Wines: Champaignc, per gallon. 40 cts. 14 Burgandy ;do. in cks. 15 ' " Do.if iu bottles. 35 " Madeira,in cks. or bot.00 . Carpets: Wilton, per sq. yard. G5 ' Silks: Pocket hdks. fine per lb: 250 " Wines: Sicily Madei- 40prct 40 " 40 " 40 " 30 " 25 " 40 " ra, per gallon. 2o CarpeLing:treb ingrain per sq. yard. 30 Wocd-Scrcws, per lb. 12 Glass: plain tumblers 30 " 30 " 30 " not cut, pr lb. Pins: called pound or mixed pins per lb. 10 20 30 " Mousiin de Laines, per sq yard. 9 Cables and cordage, tr'd per pound. 5 25 " 25 " These, be it remembered, are from a table of articles picked out by our oppo- nents to show the injustice of the lariffof 1842 and the superiority of that of 1846. Its assertion that the duty of 1842 on Madeira Wines is but five per cent, that on Wilton Carpets but 23, that on Silk Handkerchiefs but 10, etc. &c. are frauds J of the grossest character. Ask our ma- I kers of fine Carpets whether the new 50 per cent on Wilton will be higher than the unmistakable G5 cents per square yd. latives oj the poor mans interests'. of the Whig Tariff. Who can be made We thought the locofocos were the spe to believe that the 65 cents per yard on 1 4trr:pn.ia f tht Wilton Carpets is but 23 percent, and lhatthe 30 peryardoln Treble in- grain amounts to 73 per cent.? Is not grain amounts to 7i per cenui is noi here a manifest misstatement. 4, i t e Of course, the soul of Loco-focoism is ., . ., , ! i . m travail at tne spectacle oi nign specinc .... . duties on imported Wood-Screws, Glass, he himself opposed. He denounced Mouselin de Laines, Cables and Cordage, Dallas as a traitor, for voting for this Brit Arc, which come in direct competition jsn jjm and ins correspondent reproach- wim tne products ot American iaoor, as es Mr Stewartfor voling against it imported wines do not. The impression . . , , . P sought to be given is that our People have been obliged to pay higher prices since 1812 for the articles just named because ot the duties thereon. Glass Tumblers, Pins and Mousselm de Laines were nev- er afforded cheaper to American consum ers than they now are never so cheap before 1842 as since that time, ne be lieve such is the fact respecting Cordage, but are not positive. Loco-Focoism, how ever, has shown its discriminating regard for American Labor by imposing a duty of thirty per cent, on the raw material, Hemp, and admitting Cables and Cordage at twemt-five. lins is a complete ue- lusion to Hemp-growers, who are told that they have 30 per cent Protection, when in fact the foreign article is admitted in a manufactured state at twenty-five, be- iiig five per cent discrimination against the American makers of Cables and Cord- age. Yet the apologists for McKay s bill insult them with the inqury, " n Air- luper cent. Protection enough?" ANDREW STEWART. mm - - - And vrt thta misernhhtrirksfer who is here regarded as semi-iiliotic& a wholly selfish creature desires to be rejarded at hnm. as the friend of the industrious poor." Genius of Liberty, Aug. 13. , . ... . . ,T e suomn to me puonc wneiner Aur. Stewart, who is thus reterred to in a let- ter purporting to be written at V ashing- ton City, or the writer himself, and the AUn nl,i;A ?f ;a ! rmnt l. UllUl TV kl It UUllillU Ifcf J HIV t u.-h.sw:i aau uim.u. . uci - K'1 deal more such trash covering a column of the Genius, to which the whole Loco- (am rtv in Conorrss nre said for fear of the influence of Mr. Stewart, to have 1 o been driven against their consent, into the sunnort of the British Tariff Act. Yes! Mr. Stewart, who is deemed "semi-idiotic" "who receives more curses, at Wash ington, than any other man in Congress "who for his efliiciousness and for be ing personally interested in the manufacture of iron, disgusted all sides of the House" "whose farcical exhibitions were look ed upon as expedients to put mouey in his pockets," is represented as having driven the whole Locofoco party in Con gress into the support of the British Bill without an attempt to amend it. Such coarse invective and bungling falsehood defeat themselves. We wish we had room to extract the whole letter from the Genius. That Mr. Stewart was interested in the benefits conferred by the Tariff of 1842 everybody knows, and no one pretends to deny. Who, except the office hunters and holders whom no misfortune or op pression of the laborer can injure, is not interested in it? The writer of this letter, who is an office holder in Washington, or more likely a brokendown iron master at Uniontown, and such as he, arc the only persons exempt lrom the evils of vicious legislation and law, calm as a summer morning look down upon the misery they inflict. For the hundredth time these miserable vampires who feed on the life blood of the laboring poor, and laugh at the "ago ny" which they "pile up," on those whom they plunder, have been invited to point to the public act of Mr. . Stewart, injurious to the poor man's or any other deserving man's interest. His voles are all on record his public 'speeches are in the hands of every one. Let them lay their fingers on the thought word or ac tion uttered of done injury to his con slituents. But this letter writer is in favor of the British Tarifl Act. lie points out its ad vantages over the Act of 1842, and shows hatitredncGS the tax as he calls it,on man ufactures of iron, on gloves, flannel, shir ting, calicoes, &a. Against this reduc- tion of duties by the British Act, Mr. Stewart voted, and for so doing the wri. . .r , M . ... ,w """" f"'"" tchethir Andy s or is not the represent- ative of the rich man's interests.'1 Well- just as Mr. Stewart voted, so did Shlnrpm, nampron. and all the rest of the "J Wilmot. Are all these too the "represen- . , , , e Stewart alone reproached for voting the locofocos of his own State? with - wiiy does tne editor witnout comment, suffer his correspondent to denounce Mr. Stewart for voting against a bill, to which BUW is useless. The silly editor and hismore silly correspondent should have wit to ascertain before thev scatter their arrows, lW fTwiv t r,:PP fTinmlTO A their friends before they reach their inten ded victims. Uniontown Democrat. From the National Inteligeacer. TO THE ED MORS. House of Representatives, Aug, 8 46. l see tnis morning mat l am assaueu by the Editors of the "Union" in nearly a column of abuse for having had the "hardihood to propose in the House the formation of a "home league to use Jl merican instead of foreign goods to support our own mechanics, mauufactu- rers, and farmers in preference to those of Great Britain, and thus resist the de clared purpose of the Secretary of the 1 reasury to prevent the substitution oi American for foreign goods. I . .. . ,t . I . 1 1 l his the "Union characterizes as nign treason as a proceeding "against the Government. jow, how the prelerence of American to British goods is a pro cceding "against the Government" is be yond my comprehension. If he had said I againsi me uruiMi voeruuit;ni, i tuuiu , undersloo(i him. But this is nol all. 'r-ne Union threatens that, if this plan of "a home league to prefer American to British goods is persisted in, they will lor "a nonie league 10 prcier uruisii r l M a c . I . f If the Union, "rcAsc to touch an article nroduced bv American manufacturers." Let the Union and his friends form their "home league," and"rfw5C to touch I .i . . i i i an "ng pnwuceu uy ,v uencau, i.h them do this, see what the American shoemakers, hatters, and other, mechan ics and manufacturers will say to it. Let them form their British league to use British goods in opposition to the Ameri can leagne to use Americon goods, and see which will prevail. Let them try which is the strongest, the British or the American party in this country. To this I have no objection. I am further charged by the Union with favoring the tariff of 1842, which it says imposes a tax of eighty millions of dollars, by the increased price of sixteen articles enumerated by the Secretary of the Treasury, viz. iron, woollen and cot ton goods, leather, paper, &e the prices of which have been greatly reduced, as every body knows, since the tariff of 1842. Yet we are told that the people are taxed eighty millions of dollars by the increased price of these articles, of which the Secretary says wc now pro duce annually in the United States three hundred and thirty-one millions of dollars worth. But let the Secretary destroy, as he proposes to do, this immense home supply, and purchase them from abroad, and what will then be the tax paid to for eigners? Three hundred and thirty-one millions a year ! And where will he find money to pay it ? But how does the Secretary make out this tax of eighty millions, as the Union has it, or seventy five according to his own statement? By adopting, to use his own words, "the . po sition that the duty is added to the price of the import, as also of its domestic rival." To show the absurdity of the Secretary's "position" that the duty is in all cases added to the price of the "do mestic rival" pioduct, let us take a few other cases, (quite as fair as some of those selected by the Secretary,) and sec the result to which it brings him. For in stance, the duty on potatoes is ten cents a bushel,1 of which we imported last year 211,000 bushels, exported 274,000 and produced 150,000,000. Now, if the duty of ten cents is added to the price of the hime supply; then the potato tax is $ 1 5,000,000. We produced 128,000,000 bushels of wheal: the duty on wheat is twenty-five cents a bushel; so that, if the duty is added to the pried, as the Sec retary says, then the wheat tax amounts to $32,000,000 a year. We produce 1,000,000,000 pounds of cotton yearly. We imported last year, according to the Secretary's report, 13,000,000 pounds of cotton. If the duty (three cents per pound) is added to the . price of cotton, then the cotton tax will amount to $30, 000,000. Thus it will be seen that, ac cording to the Secretary's theory, the tax paid upon three articles of agricultural production will amount to $77,000,000 j per year, oeing more man me amount on the Secretary's sixteen articles above mentioned. These calculations as to wheat, cotton, and potatoes, 1 admit are all absurd, but not more than those of the Secretary of the Treasury. Having failed this morning in my eftort to get the floor to vindicate myself against this attack, I have to avail mvself of this the only mode leftfor its accomplishment. A. STEWART. EFFECT OF THE TARIFF UPON THE CURRENCY. We avail ourselves of the annexed par- agraph, from the remarks of the Hon. An drew Stewart, in defence of the Protec tive Policy, as furnishing a happy illus tration of the workings of the Tariff up on the Currency. Let every one who is seeking light upon this important sub ject, read the following: Cumb. Civilian. To show the effect upon the currency, as well as agriculture, suppose the gentle man from Virginia (Mr. Bayly j wants a new coat; he goes to a British importer and pays him twenty dollars, hard mon ey, and hard to get. England takes none of your rag money. A laugh. Away it goes, in quick time. H e see no more of it; as far as circulation is concerned.the gentleman might as well have thrown it in to the fire. I want a coat. I go to the American manufacturer and buy $20 worth of American broadclo'.h. He wore no other, and would compare coats with the gentleman on the spot. A laugh) Well the manufacturer, the next day,gave it the farmer for wool; he gave it to the shoemaker, the hatter, and blacksmith; they gave it back to the farmer for meat and bread; fc here it went from one to the other. You might perhaps see his busy and bustling $20 note five or six times in the course of a day. This made money plenty. But where was the gentleman's hard money? Vanished; gone to reward and enrich the wool-croweis and farmers, shoemakers, hatters, and blacksmiths of England. Now, I go for supporting the American farmers and mechanics, and the gentleman goes for the British that's the difference. Can the gentleman deny it? There are two sides in this matter, the British and American farmers and me chanics for the American market, and we must decide which shall have it. A LUDICROUS MISTAKE. A Cincinnati grocery house, rinding out that cranberries commanded six dol lars per bushel, and, under the impression that the article could be bought to advan tage at St. Mary's wrote out to a customer acquainting him with the fact, and re questing him to send "one hundred bush els per Simmons," (the wagoner usually sent.) The correspondent a plain uned ucated man, had considerable difficulty in deciphering the fashionable scrawl com mon with merchants' clerks of late years, and the most important word, "cranber ries," he failed to make out, but he did plainly and clearly read o?ic hundred byshels Persimmons. As the article was growing all around him, all the boys in ihe neighborhood were set to gathering it, and the wagoner made his appearance in due time in Cincinnati with eighty bushels, all that the wagon bed would hold, and a line from the country mer chant that the remainder would follow the next trip. An explanation soon en sued, but the customer insisted that the Cincinnati house shonlJ have written by Simmons and not per Simmons. Qtiincy, Illinois. A travelling correspondent ol the Cin cinnati Morning Advertiser, gives the fol lowing interesting account of the new "City" of the West: Stopping a day at Quincy, 111. I was as tonished to find so large and flourishing a City, and withal so beautiful after you have assended the high and rugged hill on which it is based. The population ap proaches 5,000, many of them Germans in good circumstances. About 200 build ings, mostly brick, and a large proportion good sized and tasty private mansions and business blocks were put up last year. This year there is not much show of pro gress. The country around is well cul tivated, but I doubt if it has kept up with the advancement of the town and especi ally with the opening of shops and dry good stores, which are very numerous. The Public Square is justly entitled to the high admiration of every stranger vis iting the town, and the citizens may well be proud of it, as they are. It comprises probably three acres, neatly fenced in, set out in beautiful shade trees, and carpeted with a green sward. On the four sides are as many streets, of good width, and the whole Walled in with blocks of brick and wood, tastefully erected, the more distinguished of which are the Court house on one side, a large and neat edifice, and the "Quincy House" on anothor side, which is very spacious, modern in archi tecture, and kept in a superior style. FR031 Till! All MY. We have accounts from the Rio Grande to the 1 0th instant, brought to New Or- j eans by the steamship New York. Gen. Taylor left Matamoras for Ca manroon the morning of the 5th instant, accompanied by about one-half the Tex an regiment of infantry, and a few regu lars. The American Flag says his de parture was deeply regretted by all ranks of the people, as he had much endeared . himself to them by his frankness and ur- 0 banity. Previous to his departure from Mata moras Gen. Taylor had found it necessa ry, in order to put a stop to outrages com mitted at that place by persons under the influence of drunkenness, to issue an or der prohibiting the introduction of spirit uous liquors into the city, and forbidding the vending of them altogether after the 15th instant. In case liquors are seized, they are sent to New Orleans and confis cated. Wines, cordials, ale, Lc. are not prohibited. A skirmish had taken place near Ca- margo between a large party of Indians and some seventy-five or eighty rangers, on account of depredations committed by i the former, in which the Indians lost some twenty men, and the rangers two. Speaking of Gen. Taylor's movements the Matomoras correspondent of the Pica yune says : Gen. Taylor and staffleave here to-day for Camargo, and all the troops are to leave by about the 10th instant. Gen. Twiggs is left to superintend the move ment of the troops now here and those that are to arrive, for a while at least. He is in execllent health, and was never looking better. Col. Clark, of the 8th infantry, will be left at this place in com mand, after all the troops have been for warded, and will have two companies of artillery and one regiment of volunteers under him. Gen. Twiggs, with Capt. May's four companies of dragoons, and Capt. Ridgely's battery of artillery, will bring up the rear as the army moves lor ward. Col. Hay's regiment of mounted volunteers and Col. Johnson's regiment of foot Texans are to inarch to-morrow. All the regular troops now remaining here, except Capt. May's and Ridgely's commands, are also ordered to march to morrow. It is expected that the army will not move from Camargo before the 25th instant. I do not choose to express an opinion on the probability of another fight with the Mexicans, but I know it is thought by many who will have a great deal to do in the matter if one occurs, that a fight, and a hard one at that, is before them. FROM THE NEW ORLEANS PAPERS. Governor Henderson is received in the the army as Major General. His staff consists of General Lamar, Colonel Kin ney, General Edward Burleson, and Ed ward Clark. Captain Walker is lying dangerously ill at Matamoras. Sickness among the volunteers is increasing. The schooner Delaware, loaded with coal for the navy, on the 6th instant, part ed both chains and went ashore on Padre Island vessel and cargo a total loss. In conversation with a friend, Colonel Twiggs lately remarked that the last shot in Ihe Mexican war had hern fired. This is more evidence, indirect, it is true, that a pence has already been con quered. Be that as it may, Gsn. Taylor has more volunteers under his command now than he well knows the disposition he should make of them. According to recent private advices from Mexican citizens living at Monterey to their friends at Matamoras, there are in that vicinity about four thousand soldiers, who can be concentrated on very short notice at Monterey. This comprises all the Mexican forces this side of the Sierra Madre. Gen. Taylor's advices, which are not, however, of quite so recent a date sta'e that there are only about two hun dred stipadores working on the fortifica tions at that the city in question. FROM THE GALVESTON NEWS OF AUGUST 11 Verbally, we learn that General Tay lor has sent forward to Camargo all tne troops intended for the campaign to Mon terey, and has himself followed the last. When Gen. Worth will take the lead from Camargo we cannot certainly learn, but presume the march will not much longer be postponed. We can get no very satisfactory information in regard to the Mexican operations in the interior. They are, however, represented to be in small force at Monterey, engaged in forti fiying that and other places, which they will abandon the moment the American array approaches. We hear nothing from Very' few of the inhabitants left the town of Camargo on the approach of the United States troops, and between them and the inhabitants a much better feeling exists than was evinced in Matamoras. The population of Camargo have always been friendly disposed towards American, and have permitted them to reside in tho , town and to travel to and Irom Uorpu Christ! at their pleasure, before and sbca tbe commencement cf hostilities. From the papers it woutd appear that, the camp at Matomoras continues very , healthy, but otherwise we learn that much sickness prevails at the Brao Island, on account of bad watfr, whera the hospitals are crowded with inmates. AVe learn from some of the officers that the Texa3 infantry regiment is about be- ing disbanded, and at the men composing. it are organizing themselves into mounted companies, whose services as such will, be accepted, together with the mounted regiments already at Camargo. These, troops are believed to be absolutely nec essary to Gen. Taylor, in order to mora forward to Monterey. from the matamoras "american flao." Deprture of General Taylor. Yesterday morning early "Old Rough and Ready" left Matamoras for Camargo in the steamer Whiteville, accompanied by about one-half of the Texan regiment ot' infantry and a few regulars. There waj no announcement of his departure, no firing of guns, nothing to indicate that so conspicuous a personage as the comman der of the American forces was about to leave a place he had taken to assume tho individual direction of his forces at anoih- er point. He left while half the city wa3 wrapped in slumber, and, ere the sluggard had quitted his couch, was many miles upon his journey. This is characteristic of the brave old veteran, for he would rather face an enemy double in numbera than hear the booming of the cannon and the shouts of men paying homage to hia well deserved tame. If we understand Gen. Taylor rightly he is a man who would travel twenty miles out of his way rather than encounter a host ot friends and admirers who had assembled to hon or him by a public demonstation. General Taylor, since the occupation of this city by the Americans, has created many warm and ardent friends, and his departure will be much regretted. Ho has endeared himself to the people by hii many acts of kindness, snd first impres sions are hard to be erased or superseded. From Camargo. The steamer Bij Hatchee arrived from above night before last, in a remarkably short time, bringing; some further particulars of the depreda tions committed by the Indians, and an account of a skirmish between them and the rangers. There are a number of re ports in circulation relative to the skir mish, from among which we will state that the Indians, after collecting a number of horses, destroying several ranches, started off with their booty, taking some of the women with them a? prisoners. A portion of McCullough's and Gilles pie's companies united, strated in pur suit, and overhauled the "spoils-incumber-ed" savages. A fight ensued, in which, the Indians lost some twenty men and the rangers two, the latter bringing about 150 horses. The Indians numbered some 600, and 'he rangers 75 or 80. We havo selected this as tha most probable account, although it is doubted by many. Murder. Yesterday morning-, about 1 o'clock, Jack Haynes was instantly killed by a man named McCanan, a ran ger bcnlonging to Tom Greene's compa ny, from Lafayette, Texas. Another. On the 30th ultimo, at Burita, a member of Capt. Mclutosh's company of Louisiana volunteers, named Win. Overton, stabbed another of the company named King, who died immedi ately. Overton made his escape. Caution. Passengers who came up from Burita yesterday on the steamer En terprise report having seen several dead bodies floating in the river. Deeds of blood are being perpetrated nightly some where, and the victims cast into the river to wash out all trace of the murderers. We will again caution persons to beware of getting drunk and exposing themselves to the knife of the assassin. More mea will fall by the assatsin's knife in Mexicj than will ever be killed in battle. FLATTERING FOR THE FAR MERS. The New York Morning News (Lo cofoco) says : The farmers in Michi gan have got in but light crops of wheat, which is not worth over 31 ccnt3 per bushel." Light crops and low prices ! The New York Express well asks, what has become of the good effects of the re peal of our taritl and of the change in the Corn Laws of England, both of which we were told would put up the prices cf our produce ? When i3 the advance tj commence? Richmond Whig. ERIE RAILROAD. The Commissioners appointed by foe Legislature of the State of Ne.r Vu' (0 locale the Erie Railroad, from t'., p-ernt termination to Binghainpton,hve derided against the interior or Sul!injt rou'c, rnd in lavor of the Pennsylvania i-oute. and al so in favor of the rente aro ind the Great Bend of the Susquthr un:t. T.o whoh line is now located to the sa i.-fnct:on of the company, and it is- srM the work will be proecrifd immediately aa j with g?tat expet'i.ion.