1 ..,7..‘ lEZ=3 ---2,- Ilittstiurgli 6lrettt, 2 OFFICIAL PAPER, Of, ,rittabargh, Allegheny City and Allegheny County. • OPIPICZ: • lIIZBtTB BbILDING SI, lAD 8i Fan Al VIEDNIPADAy. MARCH 23.1210 Gan closed in New York jester day at 112 i. • We surrender much of oar mace, this morning, to the very forcible aptechof oar Representative, General Negley, on the siuestion or protection to Amerieln im dostry, delivered In Congress last week. We, sincerely regret that we have not been kble to make roam for the full text of Mx sty:lntent. But our copious ex trintsh , 00ver some Or the most strtkine = points, and will bo react with deep inter tit by his todustrial.constltneocy. tIOGTHERN iNiUB4PRLINATION Mr. Frances% the Tennessee Beere tery of B:ate. a highly respected citizen 'lid sincere napublican, is la Washington to advise the Federal authorities as to they ; intuition of ,aff4irs in that State. Rial before the Reconstruction, Committee, will be of the greatest laid parlance, and cannot fail - to arrest thel attention of the country. It, may. probably result in persuading Con green and • the Administration that! the - Internal policy of the Govern.l meat is just now' of vastly more: , otmsequenoe- than any 'question - 0P the annexation of foreign lands. If the! :S; ( 44,Plat Federal laws do not inflict tee • Igeet present emergencies, they should to anwided without delay. If difficultlre, i4PVNbire spring from their nowenforeci th'ent . rather than from the aced of edit *anal remedies, It .getting to he high .41eartinat•the - country' sheltie! know ' iii But, on the other hand, it must he seen; 1 1 /41ali 4e4/d, Finds, that the Federal artq ,:ismonwiselytobe delayed to the lase .oaiskdo ...moment of forbearance thari that it should be,,raised .a. single :itai,66 3 lloon, We hive an 'timid faith 'aim,- • When astringent interventiosi gsn-rap-longer be avoided with , howir,l then ,the nesiclant will be fonnd . tUily equal to ell the demands of any situation.; We shall not amines the prudence whicli forbears, even to the verge of a seeming ,Ittfillference, when we know, as we think' do, that we shall, In due time, haw! reason to admire the firmness and vigor „sof : a too well merited vindication If the "Federal . authority. • If the President chill ' welt almost too long—and we apprehend not/lbw more—he will err, at least, on I thlieight Sidi. There Is a practical wls. ,4ozn In this patience, after all. TUB FUNUING BILL. The Indications at. Washington point, decided -eignificance, to comma &alio@ upon the delisted points in the nem ,frusding scheme. Its proposed contrail ton Of the volumaof the Curtelley CV! aeitly must be abandoned, The National , Vats may perhaps be relieved from the - obligstkm to take nay proportion of the ultra clue, four per cent. bonds, and, it so, that class and rate are likely to be the• bill altogether. since, :.eXclodlig the demand from %kabala/mad - -the - oblectloatible absorption „of green!- : bias, it would not bo worth the &me, Mary's while to ibratordi 'comities on the market. When the question of funding the legal- Madera shall come to be seriously cent& *red, sad the financial situation shall ad mit of their Anal withdrawal from circa Milan, not by payment but by thug changing the form of the debt, 'then it . might be an old fashioned but it would °Ortolan be an honest idea to dispose of Ohm as we originally agreed .to dca -What that was, any one may see for Ida; 'elf, who examines the legend on the back • of the older notes It reads °mat -olthiatiotel lea legal tinder Lir. all debts, j)itilldinaind private, except duties ea imports and Interest on the public debt eachraitgiabli for United /Nagai ri.n. psensitt tmeity years' bonds, redeemable atilt* pleasure of the tfaltsd States aftei 1 Ave y0u1t.". 4 , Later Issues of tkintimieh . Uri • different endortuunt, u follown ”Tbla note la it legal tender for all debti • wine. and private, except duties on hid twee and Interest on the public debt, and lireptiyable In payment of allioans noulb ,to, the United States." We hare' an i':lYeetldata:athand enabling to to state ;the prides liolociat of note of each els+ On#striespeitirely, but the figura! are on rtinii,txrcike ot.the Treasury. • • Whenever the country Is ready to spa* ritruTimil from its nee , there= t. ycer- be no fair obAection to fandingthis I'liter issues as 'nboye Into four or fair a. hilt per cent: bonds, flioserais dMins It wise to maim any, dintinctiod , But the earner lames should be fanded a:cording to their express timer, la alir percent. bonds, or 110/11 of ell. Thelast ,elternativamordd ..,rionlitless be adopted, ; Wr i six per Cents. would be worth, then, ;, pore than per, and their sale 'it premium. would leaven margin, to ''the ?reality after redeeming the greed . beekL All redeemed alike, there weabd be no intidlons discrimination bailed:l the two closes of legal-tenders. And, i t is by redemption .Ip. some form, sad az by any form of fending, except, th t option at slow rate be offered to the hold an,thatOweiireittrii, itreikdt,bo,ooo of li , greeirthaelia tirh steittudly to be priothiell fdr., „Ibilterrtles," - sisee",axeltangleg it tar bond is note paysteatof tae debt, wank' .It be Vita 1 .4 6 Wig to offer the holder's your per rest, bead, when we expressly' _protaisettlim two oar ant- sere I' - —Tao saner the pendist Propodtlois sary ittc tde,cl ,oppa .1)7 conrusoll e 'likettarter theicoinary. iflaanelal auto= , :vaergly walla ba evarywhan /mita) br,the kali; 'until all'the ttaastloas In. _Toped Is tlafatitilngtall ehall6e seitle4. MU MIES or Eon mom"' llgwech,of Non . lam ess% Negteg, N. c; la the name ot itepresentauves, Nero; ~..14 :•.; . -; ; - . , Notesly as a Representative o a 'hit ',7,ooriuntieweelth, which Its in nail ble irti.ru of mineral treasu by re has frantic --latereste at stake, but also as Rorie. 'Mutative of my entire country, I am in favor of protective legislation. • • • The Mane before no, between a protective tariff and a free Wads policy, wider Teri. one almoners, imeharassed our nation el ligelation from the foundation of the Re , 110. It doss not Concern internal ro. atklns between citizens, corporations, ' - Stater, or stallions of this Union, but 11 Metes only to our leternational /Limns ' sit oroomodillea with foreign nations. , If • protective tariff would favor mon. . 0001 y, and free trade advance the duel °paint of free labor; if the former would 11e'partial to the prestige of capital mem 17; and the latter would carry the banaer F of MUM handicraft against the-tyranny ','Onto arose—u the foreign dealer Madly Prochdies—l for one would say, away With 'nth s tariff I Or, if we were living -in the milleninm and countries having Immsonions Inte rests fostered them with tratcual impartiality, williagli would I become 'a free trade advocate, with the ready 'swat for epeeist our ports to all nations of the world. Bat when thz most enlightened economists, as well se the foremost patriots, tell usthat the so. called antagonism between capital and labor is but a caprice of local fallacy ; . that their tau relation is one of closest reciPlich, (the former being useless without the latter, and the latter helpless wlthoet the former.) I cannot risolve upon the immediate adoption of such a measure. When it Is a mended that equal rights and free trade rilethe internal relation of our entire continent, and that oroteo tive legislation is not a sectioaal -boon buts national demand, deigning a good and bleb tariff to Ire" our country from subserviency to foreign supremacy and to raise it from its present restricted con dition to the standard of highest perfec dos, when it can beconclusively shown that such a tariff is "nutmerely & Benefit to Clllllll industries, giving vital impulse and thrift to varied enterprises in new and unexplored sections, but carry i ng With it 'Me weighty - opiniois of preset • neat flllll3C.lOla that proper protection is the only sasurasce that will enhance our future. prosperity, maintain oar present -credit, - elevate, our national honor, and affirm the stability and progress of our industry; when our own histery testifies to the rapid and substantial development of our- Industrie' and natural resources I invariably. fellowing.• protective Nelda while with the same Impetus certain mines and disasters attended every ad.. eerie legislative measure; and finally, when the 'Conan chrimicles of air late fear faVitruggle demonstrate to as that to the superiority of northern industry ever the deficiency of southern skill and labor was due the final results achieved, and without this even northern bravery and puree- Terence could. scarcely have overcome southern courage and fanaticism, why then and always, so long as the industrial genius of my country or .any of its branches is Inferior to that of any other nation, Datong skim 'exert every possible effort for its sdirsneement and protection again; the combined competition of for tin capital and underymbilaber. • • Ishii' bring ti-your notice the haltent retinues only of, this question, substan. toted by the mathematical accuracy of statistical data, delineating our - true cora mucial relations with the. prominent for eign nations. * • Out territory, exclusive of Alaska, CDs braces 2,819,811 (quer° tulles _and has on estimated popultaloir of linty Lose.. The 'United Kintdom, in the neriow circuit of 1:1'0,879 miles, has nearly thirty millions. Germany (North sod - South combined) has 206,674 realms with over thirty sight millions. 'France 271,480 sgintre miles, with also' thirty-tight mil lions, and' Runs nearly two million Square miles With sixty-eight million A. comparison of these figures shows that the arm. of the United•Biates sur passes the territorial extent of these four countriu comleined by more 3 than two handfed thonaind square miles or by a stretch' oftland larger than Germany, or twice is tugs so 'the kingdOla of Great Stitalik: -The Population of, these four ,eoxintriee, however, Is four times as large as Dm, and evert thinly muted,. Russia lila:WC as mazy more inhabitants Ilea we have, or, in other worda, Great Bri tain hoe twenty buds and forty hands, Germany Mirteem. brains and twenty-six hands, France lea ten minds and twenty arms, and Russia has two heads and four . arms for the development, improvement, and defense of every spot of ground for which we have but one head and two What does this prove, if not that in comparison with them we are poor and weak In the midst of our immense mores and treasures as long az we are short of men to gather the former and collect and defend the latter? Need I say that our forests valueless without the application of labor, our fields refuse to bestow the gifts of nature without the skill of the husbandman, and our mineral wealth re mains hidden- forever without the com• 4 0 theri elements - of-, Industry? Need ',I state that, 'apposing we have rough labor enough to supply our primitive wants, without more "killed labor, we will be; for comfort, always In degrading depene dame upon countries, some of whom have mantfadesiditect hostility `against our national. interests and , most sacred rights? We Cannot at Ird to wal pa tiently until the necessary complement of skillful American labor utilizes the riel% es of our forests, coachmen bulletins of comfort and vessels of commerce, brings forth the treasures of the earth and melds, our stores of gold,' silver, iron, , ctipescr, and lcad into emblems of beauty and structuralist; use and defamer. • . What then is our beakpolicy,to remove thewe deficiencies and to elevate the suits; .darti 3 Of our indnetry. to an equality with that of this' favored capdalleta who are overbearing steighborat : The natural increase of population is a glowproesto uk flee of our pressing de. wands, and nothing but a continuous i : migration and especially 'a large 'Mile of mechanical skill can amellorete on present cpniillos. The access offoreig augfeoltural labor, valuable and deeirab as ftlialiinot half so important es Ott of other Indthdrial producers. Oar agrieul, !mid production is already gicatly in ex. can of our home consumption, .but our namtufactiuiag and mining activity is so insufficient for our domest'c demands that la spud of all tariff. our imports con: Mandy exceed our experte of , matufec. tures, and khereby exercise ooettaiilly a heavy drainage of our capital:: In proof of. Usiu.l.riter you to tie-table of valuer (front: Imports and iiporie in each of the twelve years from 1837 to 1 56 11 20141110 t namely: arr I#llll .... • . . 31.1 . 1.11.64 • ..,' - ,"a lame Ise! " . Z.... 771 7J ..I M.III) tea 2.3.1 /IV flag. 3%µ.W ... ' .. • ===i;itiri )564 iii 1.4.1.1 z 111141pir 4 """ .... VM• I T& 1,14 MG4AV 4.ca Lin itt,the Arst glance would seem as it , . :arm. DPrefi• Weald not confirm my eisternim4, but wben It is considered that our Imports repment inimitably ,geld prices, while our, export vilnea are cf.fett in currency xstes,...it sill be i founit Act ilh sioeptlon Of 1858, When the foregoing crisis, cor, the reduced tariff) tad 1889, when the imsalbenie et .war bad 'banal our 'credit in Europe, my am sertions are strictly correct It inns' be also remembered than of our exports 111 t least four fifths cousin of mgt.:uttering end mostly of agricultural products, such as cereals, tobaceo, and cotton, wbile_our imports, nearly in the same ratio. repro. ' seat ninntdaCtuu, and It will bo. gully underatimd Midge what enormous diced arming, aut. , bid nett" • Inmen. • In reply to the argureent advatmed:b the' gantlet:tin from New . York (Mr. Brookl) • sail other advocates of tree trade, 1 wi lt state that protection by Lentils ot deemed. 'necessary in this coustryr . anly. „Bump s :With Its crowded population, dkesphttnaiind Etat. capital, all giving superior eibrentsgest for. manufacturing, does not" - pritrest,,tu face of all ingenious prolusions for free trade, a single coun try, mot sten Great 'Britain, excepted, which dose not guard some branches of its i ndustry by ''tent • ' ash tfilded4n.thia martian by mini amtiationintolke custom . tariffs of font'-' tees leading mains, and,' acknowledge tbat theft' custom imposts are nithely low er than outs; yet *mere several instan ces of cued ' - smite of highm . Yrancet 'Ftsnne t ,,en- Whits quit. a numbsr, of articles entirely' prohibited, among which I hop, our free traders' sit'sj Dot overlook steel. , , Th. rates of , teriff are or should be regalated,autt, by theories or lute rules, thel a rates of Jaistott, wages, BMW. ane bt, eraPresottress,' &a., of sack ninon; and-what might be a to* -tatitf. „pa; one Conutry.rety be 'high one i n . eitilwerined eta sorsa. •. • - Is Yranceoilk mannfacturem 'are free Of anti; yet amasses li because the il4htest impost (a single - ant per pound,):Weuld etptal to pmillbitioa thereovhilelsere it would be ridiculously low, and would not pay the eiperim of noliantitna. Thus, reasons entirely Irmo lineable to one country may be conclusive. twdl,owtiifal with'other countries. Ihinton yarn hi charged In. B"rsaitte with leently-tune • cents of import day per pound, While we tax'. it with forty, per cent. ad votorem, and yet, in 1868, wo ' Imported .1.1,1428,461 of cotton manufati- , torte; mid eiported only #4,871,064 of the Pig iron In our Country now pays nine dollars per we, and the bill before" - the House proposes to radium the , duty .to seven' dolbut, . while .frsnee dunes $7 60, a fact which; la. itrlirtagly cant, and to which I wish to call your. notice'. • ' The duty on out iron pipes la proposed to b at one iirthree.foartki outs Per pound, and other- cut tree atthlity. five per cent. ad ealeram. while Franca (another illustratlye fact) prohibits' the imported all imlui =dings ant/may. , In regard to manufacture' of Iron It Is also worth obsermng that under the prosent tariff, which Is proposed to be-?e. ducedoee,imported in. ifiriS g 10,476,610 worth; - and only ' exported 1i2,597,e07 worth - of the Imo. TVS is this country An • PITTSBURGIFI DA ILI GA Z*TTE WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAR ( ; .',ll 23; 1870. •mport duty which the new tariff contam plater, to leceen to four came per "p , und, but in France it is entirely prnhi kited. Our imports of these et - ticks In 18113 may lie found exprease.ti in 'values in the following table IFporra. I:rsrets. Va hp. • 4,4 " , Ve limo pr ls, IMI Cret,th . r. yarm 911 911.11 • $1 ~ 7 1.t.1 Iron mgt. 41 fact .r.,.. 1.1.4 n r,t, b., aug•rapti 199..9. fid. ;41 313.3.9 MEI MIES tia these Imports the revenue alone Amounts to • a great deal more than our total values of the export as given above, which, howeVer, will he greatly reduced if the propose tariff be adopted. • • • I regret tha I am unable to present the specilledeiviaions of these—Wee dunes of pr nets, as they would 'dein., 'onstrate still re clearly that the Wit' thereon should of be moderated. But lam t by the gentleman frem .1,...1 Reii"Tork Orr. Brooks] and some of, his colleagues, that the prompt tariff, while favoring some branches of Indus-. try Is injurious to others, and 111 • vary onerous to cousumers generally. Even tie decline In our ship building is attrib• I uted to Its restrictions; one -Iron mane.. facturers'are said to be monopolists, and. the higivpriees of all commodities In the home markets an alleged to be caused by 1 the high import duties. • !How far from the plain truth these charges aro is most forcibly illustrated In the words of Adein Smith: "High prices and plenty are prosperity; low prices and scut are misery;" sad In the fact that heavy as our taxation Is, it is derived more than half from internal in/posts levied upon absolutely Indispensable things, while our import duties fell largely upon commodities not absolidely acCestary for life: As to calling our manufacturers monopoliele, It it simply preposterous, when it is known that their (Imre and tura for profit le I. exhume and utilize the bountiful mineral deposits and other resources In all parts of this continent; to inaugurate new enterprises North and South; to start new factories and forges in every direction; to col. strum' railroads and water communicit• Bose from every mine of nature to every mart ofcommercei in truth, to strengthen and develops our industrial resources wherever possible. The greeter tho'sunaber and variety of our manufactured the less danger or pos sibility of monopoly, and the more bens. at to the conanstrers. It Is by the depres sing and Inevitable result of.free trade, or any approach to it, that a taw rich and powerful companies only absorb the wealth and control of fite trade, while min of enterpried gloats or of moderate means, go down. And is for this res.. ion that Ism a protectionist. I believe in the words and sagacity of the groat statesman, IL Tilers when he says- "I wish to develop the labor of ray country; that is, I wish to create -it where it is not, andio maintain it where it • •.• - lam decidmlTY in laver 'of reducing taxation to the lowest practieab's tissue; but Such a reducthin must begin at home, and our citizens must be benelltied by it before foreigners can expect favors. I shall vote for reducing or abrogating the income tax. 'so obnoxious to ear people, the unequal licence, twiny other of our objectionable taxes; but Isbell not consent to curtail our only gold memos, which is the beit support of our credit, and which checks the burdensome coat. petition of our rivals. It is the internal - taxation that weighs heavy upon the purr and not the tirlff; the former being .paid by all classes of citizens, while the latter reaches only the wealthy end for eigiter. • • In view of these facts and reasons, and with die respect to the ability and bens,. oleat intentions of the committee that prepared the turn bit now before the &nue, I cannot agree with all the pro. tli\ u visions; and wi the exception that I, wish ' t., tee el ad vahrrems ditties cimaged into aleq ate specific duties, I am in favor of the' old tariff as it new stands..,: , , . I ssy this in the firm conviction that our government is daily defrauded of large arpountS by the ad valorem system, 'rrhilo It deludes legislation by Its tipper• entlyenonnous figures. lain also opposed to that portion of oar present tariff which provides for discrim insting.doties. For instance, the act of March 2, 1863, provides that*. all goods the grow ti'or product of countries cad of tho Cape of.-Good Hope, ' (excepting a' few articles,) when imported from pieces west of this cape, ten per cent. shall he collected to addition to the duty imposed. upon direct importationi The' bject 01 this acv wee to encourage American ship- Ping with the Dist, but its priacirml effect has bean to encourage. sharp deallig and fraud. There are but few imports the growth of which is peculiar to countries east of, r , Cape. of Good Hope; and when !emporia s are dishount enough to deny or conceal the place of growth it hi hard ly possible for the custom house officer to iloct troofs. of identity. Own arable, gem aloes, sweat and bitter almonds, ol rate of .potash, ivory and ninny other hr. Idea of commerce on either side of the ' Cape of Good Hope offer opportunities to defraud the Government; and for that tea• one l am in favor of repealing these dia. crinsinations.' IL Is IS very eloquent fact , that Dainty all the leading countries ar the pfd World have abolished ad wearers do: tin and discrimicatlons. ' now unde r liut told'thst the bill now under consideration proposes to alter the poss. eat tariff only slightly, and to install. 'rates in but few partlcalan, while it tually raises acme retest . I are aware of this, hot am opposed to any reduction of Its protective provisions at tYe present moment.. or nrail eta la dui try Is able to supply home demands, and nail; we have rrerfectod our railroad eye. tem throughout the tinkle, restored the prosperhy of the Stares devastated by wax, funded our national debt at a lower rate of interest and planed our Blanca, one permanent basic ' . • It may be Interesting and 'Pleasing to knew, Hist notwitstandi hg the prawbacks onr wart, we hnie built tram 1661 to 1.866 six thonsend miles cif. railroad, and coney thnusanda more eince then. But thit does, not contradict the fact that our railway' 'program Is cull far Itehind the growth of our-country, especially la the Setith end In• the new States, and that it aces not suffice - to accoosmodaue the crakes of - our internal - commerce. Our eequi.rements ought to be satisfied with our own iron, steel; and labor. and 'ler this we nted - more hands to kelp us in producing the millions of tons °Negroid . roe 'which we now ienfmrt from Englisid.. " One hundred thousand tone require the lobes:Of thirteen themind three -rittadred. men far one year, whom we may irippose .e 'ire 'head; "or . ' ferailiei of five each, or. stitY ;six. theinuid, tit' kindred In AIL .Ansuesing from lafecildulatlonaTtliat the couinfoduringssatiOns of Europe take - 01 , capita of population , ; seventeen and: ime half cuts worth per annum of • out aut.' cultural produce, the • producer • of L els hundred thoussad. tons , of „foreign Iron would 7 then . consume on an average, 1111,11E02 50 worth of American products, : the UM:scoot food beton e f foreign origin.. • - lithe production of one ton of railroad ' iron 'in - the United States there Ii con• united is - Milte of slB',lB. of; agricultural prodacec'end $lO 07 of American Menu. rooftree. 'Apply these figures to one bun :died thousand tone of Americus railnhad Iratilind - we fiadlt glues our, rip:knitunit and suditfacturitg interests a market, for 42,065,000; or; in. other words, we lad that a hundred thousand tons of American railroad Aron pay into the: National, Treasury • full "$.110,000 more; and to our farmers ands manufichwere $2,000,000 Inure than the unto quantity of foreign -- 'Strongly u this Calculation Slue. trues our lose, it Palle heloW the 141011. fact • But let un Celt :a glance at Englind. Great Britian tliougkt by,: free trade si/ chap labor,' she • would _Undersell,. the world. - She did not forget, hoWever, - to protect her beer makers bye dirty of , Aix tY-two cents on malt, and • of five ,dollars one lesirelor,-,beer.., - , .... : - • : • - Let us see „how the. tree trade system works there. We reedits the Manchester' Guerdlen, in the very seatand center of those views: "There le 'inrtestimiebly, a - reactimi itgalitet' free - trade. Tee,' a' remarkable and Matructlve reaction Is,' going. on In England; the forde of littiger is powerful sad the working ideates are forming as , sociallois against free trade, „Itsiewn.,ev 'rattier - Oa BOA indostrY....... : - . A letter la the Shtedleid -Trktwa,4o. a ye: !it re no . wonder people are: complaint inn of 'bad.times when we stand in , the [ midden • in • Width: we stand now . •131 11154 the 'total ,excesti otimporti wrarlArit -1 ii,..hL'elfictta was gd5,204,227: • In i lBBO . "'"'exiltla hit rear.hed £04;519,441, and . to 1866 it had amounted to the • ruinous our, of $ll6 042 921 more than the whole' steer Matt lemin ufacturcs exported to:the world: giving a balance against .us in our fcreigu trade of. X'110,000,000 aterling•lrt can aingle par." , •• -- • ' .. "At the present =intent about one, In every : eignteen persona In England. and ' Wales is in receipt of parochial Yellen There WM paid for pauperism In .1867 the nixie( £7,566 starling." • • • • tiSince 1853 upwards of three millions °C-our people have emigrated and princi pally 3.0 extreme protective countries, where their labor has blend a bdter re ward, but at the same time has been the 11V3121.9 of greater foreiga productiveness. We have tried free trade so long that It is almost time to protect ourselves." And now a word on wages. Mr. Hewitt, commissioner to the Paris ex• bibiition, rent by our. Goecrament to ex. amine into iron and steel mstters, says the difference in mat of iron making here and in Ls .. .viand is in the wages, which are iitorn Alma deMble here: 2 And even the Special Commieeloner "of 'nub admits In his report of Itieb therthey are on the avenge by more than sixty per cent higher than the English wages; but he attempts to make out that, con sidering the coat of living, the working Man is no better dr here than In Eng land., Thin will we believe when we fled niany children in Our 'poor kennel as Ist snr,ochnols, 'whoa ; the tide or ,immigra. [ion, made op of working men, ceases to 'aid when one In-twenty of our population is a pauper. lldt ouch caismities I trust are not in reserve fag our glorious country. Uom, rnissioner Wells presents in kin report of isms comparative tables of wages in Great Britain and 100 United, States; but. he neglecti to extend his' comparison over other European countries, and ho is Want to the fact that his averages, although they may be bona fide in figures, repro sent incorrect malts, considering the small number of laborers receiving high Wages and the much larger number of those receiving low ones, and- also coa -1 sidering the number of returns from which these averages are inside up. Granting, however, even - these averages, the following table comparing the wages paid In three European countries with those paid in the ,Unlted States most in. spike every American heart with pleasure and pride over the more liberal reward which labor tads in our country than in Europe. • . Tallast•totllar the vv rare wattle wart. Of allied and up...titled latntr,ax letting gatemen. V' rrrrr •nd elates, to t.iahlean branches or laduttre la Prase a. Saanay. etas, benzin sad etas lleattd .'c rd neat deflate!. - • I E 2 i is =II= 19t 3. 20, Woman nape ....... Iron le Man Mlll Waal Wa•ka • • itanlatoa,4lwpo Hardware. 1•111 ledge Teals. Agewadtaral Implements, UT $324 It C - 011=i 21 I IP 421'. I ill 979 ki 749' 979 40 t l nil 4117 •24. • 49, WAS 211 I WI, 91 2IT 7 tat 11 10 LI ill: I 71 n 211' 21I.;14:: 9.1 974 '2 12 7 ell 19 Si sot is a 1M Y 49 TO! 11 -gr }ire Mk...—. Sao Warne. Loath e.. mos ..... Wow Woot nl k illt,mat raper nl9l Wood ants. 2 nollriven Iron Ohlo-bellldlnk.. But these figures also fall short of re presenting the true difference between the condition of the laborer, skilled or unskilled, here and abroad. When the fact is considered that, with the exception of a few cases of extraor dietary skill and endurance;, the European journeyman Mechanic cannot earn more than his own scanty support; that tie can not marry and support his wife without the assistance of her own labor; that the combined industry of husband and wife closet maintain a family notwithstand. lag the so-called cheap prices of living; when it is known that in the majority of these families the lowest comforts of life are unknown, and food, like meat, tea, coffee and sugar, are only extraordianry relishes; when UM acknowledged that in entire sections and regions subsistence means nothing bn*- bad food, scanty fael, and scarcely • reef over the head for weeks, months, and even years; then the difference between cur country and . Bu• rope may he appreciated by our laboring catchsons and those there, and the claim for protection or Industry against free trade will he thoroughly. nailerstood. . We are new gradually tiling the va unt spaces which were lett in the ranks 'of our mechanics by the heroic victims of the late war. The South, by bountiful crops, to rapidly recovering her wealth, and by the blessings of freeand honored labor has already doubled her energy.: If, then, by 'a healthy tarif we atrengthen oar northern and. build up-our ramthern industry, there is ao doubt that before a great while we will astonish the world by our industrial and commercial expansion es wall all by our political progress and power. • Bat, laving already devoted_ much of my time to remarks ex intereitrot gen eral concern. for Olt national. Industry, I nutyjus, pot/pitted to say a few ord; in recognition of the claims of a ' "C staple for which nature his ulected Peanarlvania, as can of Ira largest depositories, and seblcts, by its tributary and. reciprocal functions, lone. 01111 of the most India pensible factory of.all coMmtercial and la dustrial purenits. I mean coal, and will not enlarge upon the veriatilitypf Its ca:, but simply:remind you' ot tie foot .. thet our steamboats and railway.. alenort.en tirely depend upon its plentiful and cheap supply; in brief, that next to labor, miii 'is Me most neeessary regulate of our • &ono of the Regliitt Weis sre neat) , If net quite exhausted: Soon we will be called upon to'slipply Other parts ; or. the world, and:eves now we must hate /90111 and cheaper coal at home. There Is no article. be the world the dentandef which will Increase so steadily and certainly, because there Is'no agent more powerful for the dliteriflcatlonof Industry 'and ill intarcorainunleation 'of tonsieeroe. • Let na therefore protect and• advance its production; let no open new mines en - every spot wliere usturobaeplead them, and not . 3mpein its prbditetipn, where MI in encouraging Propent • • .' It w Mild be as earrow.minded econo. My and as iviunotis legislation to enact nteasuss shad:log the ~muspects of the tronandecalisidastry, b. muse Penney I. viols, derives greater profits therefrom for a Poo than other States, as it. would be be to retard the gold and silver produc tion because Catharine or Colorado has how the greeted abort of Its benefit.: If the tariff must be chnoged to relieve the burden of tatitlOn Upon out.e.itbsens, ram is liver of reducing it upon articles which do nolinterfere with the progress of our .industry., irepeat, that I snob to lessee the load forced upon OUrtSX pay ers by the enormous aspertiesof our late war, and if our budget should permit, Taus in favor of reducing the taxation at ,anto by fifty Willman' but I veldt to , ice The benefits of inch legislation equally die tributed among all clamant. I do notwant to reduce the wages of the laborer "by taking of a portion. of the imposts prel• tcalag him, and therefore would- auggeet that at least thirty millions be taken' from our internal revenue tenet, whichilimigh oppressively upon all, and more seVerelk upon the boor. • • • '' Arid oniclusivil, If thetaritiatult ba . reduced, let, It be one .on Um and ciagio. The prottalve tanffiof 1824, sad 1628; and ;INA extiag,ulstied the .national debt. The samorisult will speedily foil** pro. tection hereafter. The vestoratlon of cash values will be accomplished without the derangement of business harmony. There will bo a. continued appreciation of the currency, with financial confidence and a rapid In. crease and heshby id:Update& lb. the products of coal, cotton s wool, Boor, and maeatacta . cu. Add to these &careful:collection of the revenues, with economy he pnblic ex penditure, aided by a, progressive splrit of Intelligence and -trolly of purpose: , and tyninty 'years We'shall.competo *against the world tti 'Wary Stpirtmentof art, me.. Main:deal , Isigurauity, , agricultural , cater. Mite, 'isad.k.clitalac AitaJn;etelitt: . . . Tam Senate Territorial Committee Lave under discasslon a bill to consolidate 'Gm Indian tribes under the form' of ir Texiiteriol Government, to be calleO the Territory of Oklahoose, , and lobe bottnd. td as follows: On the north by Kansas, on the *eat by the tasters boundary*. of New Maxie°. and ,Temss . ea theaputh by the northern boundary of Togas, and on -the out by the western bonadarlemof the . States of Arkansu and Missouri?: lt provides for ease - nave and judicial Mil. cers to be appointed by the President and legislative council• to consist of one - wh istember,from each tribt'br mittenose lot emceed five hit:tared. , This I 6 mintier' step In the inauguration of b-Petce policy among theindian tribe,. , , . . Tun. convention :at Ifesr. , York , school ..hoOk publishers 'of the United States, after session& occupying: three days; adjourned. A Bowl of Trade was organired. The retell 'prince 'for 'Alt school hooks are to be, Azad by. the re. .spection Publishers, fro= .ihich. &maxi: mum diseased. has been , fixed by the poord, and the terms of sale to be - cash in ddrzy.days. agents anti commission oto-. , unts aro to be withdrawn on Orbetbro July let. The action of the convention was harmonious, and the regulations unanimously agreed to. • • - GEN. BUTLift, as President of the Na.B tlonal Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, has made hie annual report to Congress. It appears that there arc at this time 3.802 beneficiaries In the various asylums. The report shows that most of .the begging, organ grinding, and other like pursuits, so commonly indulged in hi Cr in thecities, are•carried on by muwelations which pick up all the cripples to be willing to he employed in such puram,:% at starving salaries, and that these amo. ciations make large sums of money, fre quently as high use $2O per day, from each employee out of the misguided benevo.. :once of mankind. The managers of the asylums also, announce that they have full ability and accommodation to take. care of every disabled soldier in the UM. ted States, who applies to them; that they have never refused to take care of honorably-discharged fuddle* and that it is the fault of the soldier alone if he is either Supporting himself by beirging, or becomes dependent upon aline or the charity of anybody, or is asking - any aid front any State in the Union., No soldier, disabled in the line of his duty, and able to show it, who haabeett honorably charged from the service, bay ever been denied admittance Into the As Inure. If there are any disabled soldiers tOttli IZo not prOvided for, It is either because they refuse to go to the Asylums, or, having been, have so nnabnaed the/21101•614 after repealed:warning' as to the consrquencee of their conduct, no to becomeinneadees and a disgrace to 'Minima of soldier, and I have been, therefore, dishonorably din. charged or expelled: . trussavioxgt. telegram from New York says: The air Is full of rumors In regard to the coming &faculties in Wall street. The extraordinary frauds of the past week, the unsettled condition of financial prospects in Washington, the collapse of the paper money and Stock Exchange bubbles, have all oomblaed to mike the basks and money !Enders ex tremely careful of their colleterals for loans. Nobody wants securities in Wall street to-day; all want money. -If the Funding bill becomes a law, .financlens fear a violent contraction of the green.; back currency, and a disastrons Scandal" end commercial panic. During the cola ins three weeks there will be wide 1110- mations iti , gold and stocks, and It is felt all around that some enormous blow will be struck, which will fall heavily In a yusate,r least anticipated. The week opens in the midst of a general want 'of confidence, with the air full of rumors 'of the costlag.dlaaater. PURE LIQUIDIZE, PURL LIQUOR/ YKOICIPIAL PI:IttPOnES. Gnaw. nraady.• iborry OW w. nrandr. I Part Wine. PINCT.CCISTILLIAIN Tarr old COGNAC MadefrWlne, C art t Wine, Catawba artao, I billl•tel whit. Sattet Part. kir.. Wine: •Is• Earllsb and acvtrlt Alta Year. • beat% touts . .. l a. Cast , bell . • • Scala, •.is CO.. trarrasted the gen uine •racia Acid at taa leattt a/ Oa rasa at nettle, at JAlll=lll 6r.. 'S Lima ..tere sodiratally Medicine Dtpot, Coma , Pm,* 114,4 (OM Bt. Cr.)ini tie • Z. MINNS9 flo l d Drug Ile,. corner et Penn and ninth. (old Cie.! , Wert., tor ton Beret enn a Ike olta• Imported dad domeecleof !Linda wad lower um limed tare. Meitpdaner p ace. corner Fran lad Erna.; (old 51. FliON A aurtunc. The danger Prom reptant ls tea times irreales teas I. ataorally ►dieted. and-wLII.I we kayo se 4.lre T• excite Inordinate ft.. we would at the tame time Ikea. the att....lona( the allateel loss retards, and that remedy cum -11.5 la a properly maimed aid tillable Trust, toe rust •r whita le ler? little mote than or •sea aL erdtuary Intimate.t. In matt.. rrrrr tala- Ina Its health, and eran Ilia tteelf. so one can no tape artlal.. We Stanton. ketta a►.dlr acting trust to allows rnso no to Serowe namanageoloto and Wised the ce•trttl or Me parses so staldelid, p••• noon" bare been the man It a tress isa Won html 17 ...WWI lath. al of truly rag then. floe •Ttea kale ere so. 0a.... for Y.n ar ticled with Raben.i.ele or 'Rider. who 41.4 at snow IrkAi sued thew.. .4 hoe. allowed It