linaiM HE PO' R. 11 Wgdaesday, March" 6, 1844, Alor President in 1814,:' , MARTIN VAN DUREN, OF NEW :YORK. For Viet Presided, 1 COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON; T OF KiNVICRY. ' {Subject to decision Of a National Conirention.l As the Senior Editor must necessarily be absent for. several Weeke, the entire charge and control of the office will devcdr upon his sob, E. o;GoonniCe, who is equally interested in the , publication, and to wit, all payments, communications, &c., can be maile. A New Hand at the Widows! The Bradford Argus occupies a truly fortunate'position as far as regards the facilities for the production of iits,edito fiats. Any whnse imagination has become so fraught with ideas , for tlie speedy and complete adjustment of all the 'cotnplicated machinery of go vernment, ihat there ). is dangerin a lon-- ger Suppression, may find a mental safety valve in its columns. Indeed, the ebullitions of the genius anti talent .and . knowledge of any anonymous scribbler are thankfully received; and -conspicuously inserted, provided they abound with denunciations'of democrat ic principles; and use pretty plentifully interspersed with such . hackneyed terms as- Albany Regency," 4. Loco foco," &c., which- are all potent in an argument, and against the logkof which there is no contending. The editor 4ont we'have in hand' now, was once:_forni lar with the busies .f ness, and it appears that he has, after a lapse of yearsibe lerrielied with cacoe thes scribendi, and wishing to'. try his hand at an editorial, has poune4cl upon an article which appeared , in the Pot ter, giving an illustration of - some of the effects of the present tariff. In he commencement thiso. tariff editOr t \ " - for the. Argus, used pf,obably to picking Haws in indictments, has dis covered, as he thinks, an ambiguity' in the phrascidogy, which renders it uncertain whether the Bostoncapitahsts own die stock of the "York manufactur 'ing company," or the town'of Saco, and cavils at our authority for declaring that the "York . Manufacturing company" at Saco, had declared a semi-annual divi- ;lend of li:per cent. Now this will do for an editor ivho is unable to answer an argument, or controvert a position, but his a flimsy way at best, and co vers withan attenuated veil, the:hideous deformities of a protective tariff. Now we ask those who are most di rectly interested, if the York Manu facturing company " should enjoy or exercise' the right of compelling the consumer to pay thetii prices for their fancy goods, se that they may declare 'a dividend of 17 percent: in six months. Is it not compelling. .to shut out the manufacturers of other countries, and limiting us to the York Manufacturing company, with the - expression; If you do pay 30 or 50 per cent. more than you _would otherwise, are you not protecting hoine manufactures ?" Again, thilo . ,Profound thinker, begs the question by a s serting .that this large dividend is probably owing to some perfection,ln machinery=solue local or ether peculiar advantage •which - .this Yankee company, enjoys, _ and not on account of the advanced price of the ar „tiele t produced by the tariff. Ah ! in deed. Where then is Your ,need of a tariff ? If our manufacturers can sell their goods as cheap 'as foreign coin petitors, shOu t h ( l/‘ be Oiled to pay thi em hone of 34 per cent. per an to -swell their coffers!..; This com pany is not anisolated ease. Scarcely a paper comes to us but srecan read in it, the - evidence that our population are paying their treasure to the boated ar istocratic and , grasping capitalist.s.:of our own _country, through these restrictions and duties, to themindeed “protection.” Ilia case illustrating the seffects of a protection, would,. at lint Idush,.seert,t pretty and plausible enough, if we did not kneW that corporations are noi'apt to be liberal enough to place their goods at, priees which will ensure them semi , annual dividends of 4 per cent, when by combination "they can procuret 17 per cent.._The capital" of this coun try is in the bands'of the few, their in- - ' terms are closely identified ; and - we believe that it would be as difficult to procure the repeal of a tariff, after' it had ..protepted" the purse-proud our land into immense' wealth, as it is for the suffering and starving ,popula tion of Great Britain to repeal the laws which are grinding them:in.& very dust, steeping their children in ignor ance and vice,, and - - hurrying t 4 heat by thousands`to = a premature grave, pro duCed by the overworking and over.' tasking of their physical powers, in their manufacturies and - colleries. _ The people, of England ire in favorof free trade. In that country we can dis ' tinctly trace the practical effects of high duties. : They are written oneve ry page °flier history in letters of blisod, depicting misery and vice and degrada tion in its most hideous forms. Pover-. ty and bloated wealth stand side by eide,4and. the history_ of her tariff laws is fraught with the misery and suffer ing of the poor population of that King. dom. But her•aristocratic and grasp ing capitalists are entrenched behind' a triple barrier, and the justice of the claims of those who are phrenzied by their wrongs. and G maddened bY their sufferings, fall unheeded upon their ears. We are taught a terrible begot) by the history of her protection ; every sigh which has been wrung ~from her suffering popelation,_ every prayer which has been offered up for a Fedresi of their grievances, should warn us of the danger of granting exclusive powers to the few. . We believe that her system of grant ing legislative favors has been mairtly instrumental in bringing her to her pre sent state; and we hope and' trust, as we have a belief in the intelligence of the people, that our -country will not follow her mad and disastrous example. The national interests of -our country should be encouraged and fostered ; and the inott6 of the. democratic party is, PROTECTION TO ALL ; EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGES TO NONE:" FATAL RENcourrrEtt.—A dispute oc curred in Philadelphia, Y between two 1. • boyi which resulted in the death of one and the committal of the other to prison. They both kept stalls in the , market, and after some words, had become en gaged in a pugilistic encounter in which the deceased, named Peter Doescher, h6d the advantage, when the other ran to a stall, seized a . butcher knife, re turned, 'and Doescher's back being turn ed, he plunged the knife into his left side below the, , ribs, from the effects of which hidied in less than an hour. Accumwrs.---The Star oT the North, published at , Berwick, gives an account of an accident which occurred on Mon day, 26th ult., to Mr. John Klinetob, of Salem township. A tree'which he was falling, rebounded and crushed his 17 in a most shocking manner. On Wednesday evening last, at Sikm met Hill, in ,the same county, a lad nam ed WHose started for mill with a team, and upon descending a..slight hill, the tongue.of his wagon-Was broken and the 'horses ran away, -v throwing him off and 'shatteringhis'Skull f most awfully. One of the horses was killed. Altmms COUNTY, BANft.—The esami ation of the officeriof the Berks county Bank has , terminated. The •two most im portant facts elicited are— r ist, That the overissue, as it is called, is about $20,- 000. 2d. The money went into the coat 'mon funds of the Bank, -without resulting to the personal benefit of the officers. The ,President; Mr. Dechert, stated on oath, that the bank is at this time indebt ed to him from $12,000 to $15,000 .for cash advanced and notes redeemed, to keep the bank afloat. DEATH OF NICHOLAS BIDDLE.-- Nicholas Biddle died at his- residence, at Andalusia Bucks county on Tuesday morning 20th-ult. aged 58. Mr. Bid, dle was.a member "of the State Legiela ture in 1810, and of the State Senate in 1814. In-1822 he was elected Presi. dent of the, United•Siates Bank, in place Of Langdon Cheves.. MELANCHOLY DisAsnitto---The dwel ling of Dr. Lucien Spencer, of Bethany, Conn., caught fire _about midnight, on quesday'evening, the 2fitlf ult., and Dr. Spencer perished in the Ilarnes with , two ,children whdrn he attempted to save. ENLanozarerrr.— . —The semi-weekly United States Gazette comes to us this week considerably enlarged,' and other- wise iiaklroved. FIRE - AT . , BAril.--We- observe - in a •• 'Philadelphia"-,paper mention , made of 'a destructive 6re at Bithl,kl:` 1 , bill have • not heard the iartieulars!* The Latest itiaiebug: "Thelatest " mare's nest” which the Whigs have discovered is in the shape of a circular, which is paraded. i& ; the columns of the Argus with aMost.im. posing display of capitals and steal) capitals, italic and bold face. It aP: pears that through a similarity of names, a circular letter of a committee appointed by the derhocratic members of the Lek islature, was obtained by ,a Whig, and straightway transferred to the columns of Bradford Argus. The letter contains an appeal to. the demociaey to organize, and endeavor to carry (he' state in favor of democratic principles, with an infunction tO t keep their own counsel, as a matter of course. IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.---ThO news by the arrival of the Hibernia is of considerable . importance. ° The State Trials had gone through seven teen days, each day being a perfect farce. There is said to be a ,11aw in the in dictment, and that if convicted anti brought up for judgment, the traversers will be diicharged on the legal defect • , being known. OR the fourteenth day of-the trial, the Attorney General took offence at some remark; of Mr. Fitzgibbon one of the counsel for the defence and 'sent him a challenge, in court. The Chief Jus tice gave a severe rebuke to the prose cuting officer. Every Catholic was challenged off the jury by the counsel for the Crown. Mr. Lalor Shiel had spoken for the traversers, r and Mr. O'Connell was to speak on the next Monday. Mr. 9-VConnell had mass celebrated his drawing room, at Merrion-square, on Monday, the 15th ultimo, before leaving for trial at the FrrCourts. One Dium has been leommitted to Omagh gaol for sedition.. He had said that The Queen ought to be shot, and, o'9ounell put itriter place." Mrs. ChristinatAilmour, who was apprehended in this county for the, mur der of her husband in Scotland, and carrid back to that country bas had her trial at Edinburg, which resulted in her acquittal. The news of the death of Prince Albert's father, the Prince of Saxa Coburg Gotha, Was received in London on the afternoon of the 3d tilt. MRS. MADISON. IN CONGRESS.-MTS. Madison paid a visit to the House, on the 7th ult., accompanied by two young ladies. They were- handed to seats placed for them on the right of the Speaker's chair, on a level with the Clerk's seat, and remained for half an hone, listening to the speech of Mr. Baser." GovEnnon.--The 4th of March Con vention have probably•before this, se lected a gentleman as the democratic candidate for Governor. We are glad to see , this vexed question settled at last, and trust that the personal prefer onces of every one will be laid aside and p cordial and' unanimous support given to the;nominee. TREMENDOUS FIRE IN CANTONLA most destructive fire occurred at the city of Canton in China; on the 24th and 25th of Oetoher last. Twelve hundred hou ses were destroyed, together with a large quantity of teas, and an immense amount of other property. SPECIA,L.ELECTLON.4he Governor has issued a writ, directin g a special election to be held in Alleghany county on the ,15th of March, for the - choice of a representative in congress to supply the vacancy occasioned by the-resigna tion of Judge Tilt FIRST Pntazzp Boomr---The earliest printed'book is a Latin .Bible, printed in 1455, in Mentz. About twenty.different copies exist; . PAINFUL OCCURRENCE.-A. Loomis, Esq., a lawyer in Pittsburg while pleading a Case in coui; oa Sri- day was disabled by;a stroke of apo plexy- r 'AMERICAN MERINO, ' SHAWLS are now manufactured at Blakel4township, Pa., from wool raised aCLancaster. • They are said to be ailarge and handsome arti cle, and sell readily at 95. NOT Tues.—The rumor of the change of theTost Master at William• sport is not trui. Col. Titus is 'still SciEnvison.—Mr. of Wilkes.. , Birre;has been appointed Supervisor on the Mirth Branch. News teem all Italians. Viscount Napoleon Bertrand has ate ,rived in . Baltimore.:frotn. the eastwardi and, taltSn apartments it Barnum's ci i ty Hottl. 1n ; digging.a - hcsuscf Grein'Bay. Wisconsin:lecently, where . titelrst Catholic 6hurCh *was erected by the French' missioAaries, n silvfir plate was iound, with 41 inscription in French, dated 1681. The grand jury of ;Lorain county Ohio-bave pond sixtee4 - bills ofindietH merits against 11.' TaylOr, late edittir, ofthe , Oberlitt Evangelist, to most of ivbich, if jnot all, it islutuierstood, .he will plead "guilty... - , Miss Trimble, "a yOung lady about 23 years of age, left lier l house at -I • 10, and has not been henrd of since. • Miss Gleasbn,l a tngnetiier down , ..- east professes to tell by lohing`at a lock of haiohe character of the disease atrecting its original (tier, and pre scribes with unerring certainty the proper remedies. " Two young women.were baptised in the Mormon taith in Salem, Mass.,.on Sunday week: The administiator cut a , hole in the ice ,, and dipped the young gyls into the freezing im Mrs. Celia Dunn; w i fe l of Mr. Dunn, of Garrard county, Kentuckyl, commit ted suicide on_ Tuesday exerting week, by hanging herself by a rope to a peach tree. We learn from the N ew Haven Cou rier that Mr. Wm. Peek, in the cm= ploy of Rich & fletchkiss,,of that place, fell dead on Sunday as he was stirring the Are, in his own houSe. cause=—the bursting of blood vessel. The! Treasury, Warrant. - in favor o Gen. Jackson for $2700. was forward by special messsenger to the Hermi tage. Commodore Stewart has written' a etter that has been laid,before Congress, in which he' advocates the establish ment of the rank,of A l tirniralAn - the S. Navy. , They have a delicate way of announ cing a cock fight in , few York, .they call it a. "'chicken diSimte." ' The-schooner Amidtad case is reviv ed, and a claim tlr the Spanish Minis ter for 310,000, for slaves and cargo, is now before the Congress cornrnittee'of Foreign ; affairs.- I The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says, the sales of real , estate by- auction' and property, in New York,' are very large, and at rapidly advancing prices. A brute named John Peters has been arrested in New York for stabbing his wife with a jack knife. A little boy near Norristown was sent after a jug of wen, became intexi- . eated by it fell into the Schuylkill, and was drowned. A national salute iwas fired at 12 ecloelt, on Saturday, on the Battery at N. Y., under the direction of Major Jos. Hopkins, in horior of the passage of the law, by o:ingress, rettoring the fine of 81000 imposed by Judge Halt on General Jackson. Young Cochrane died the Saturday after the duel' was foUght. A cow, with a most perverted taste, was killed in Trentcin last week, and the 'Gazette says, more than _ eighty pieces, consisting of large and small nails, horse shoe nailS, tanks, and bro. ken pieces of.iron, w ere l taken frorfther m ato ach. - The roughness of the Ira had been polished dOwn by the gastric , fluid. The Supreme court of Rhode Island will - hold their next * regular term at Newport on the first-Monday of March; at which time it is Presumed that the indictment against Mr. Dorr for 'the allege& crime of treason against,, the State, will be calied . for trial,, Pigeons are - killed by thousandi j 'at, an immense . roost flezir fH.OlmeslArg, Miss. ' . • Mr. Lambert S. lliomas, a druggist Of Baltimore committed suiCide'by liberatelf taking 10Ei grains of corrosive sublimate. The village of . MUntgomery, Orange Bounty N. Y., was *tell by a destrue: Live . fire on Saturday e.vening, loss alit* 820,0001 - • : King Hewit was, connoted ofmnr der in the second degree at the F,ebu ary term of f1y4 , 1 and Tenniner of Westtnoreland county. Re was charg ed with the murdei i of James Rafferty, on the 10th of November last. The, poor honse.it Nantucket,- Mass. eras destroyed by, #ke: on- night of the 20th nit. and, eight persons inmates thereof, perished in the flames. : • • • -1 • FRACAS A'r Hamsßusu.—A person. al rencothiter 'occurred in the rotunda of the Capitel, of the afternoon of the 1:1th ult., in which Mr: :William Stew. art and Mi. Thoiaar 3. 4'14'4 though' not very extensively, the whole affair being for Buncombe " .319 they 'say of Congressional speeches ; Mak ing more noise abroad thin at home. MR. TAYLOR'S SErirexcE.—The Rev. H. C. Taylor plead guilty ot the charges preferled'• against him, and the Court sentenced him to be• imprisoned in the jail of the county for one year, pay a fine of two hundred dollars and costs of pro secution, and fined twenty five dollars each on three charges - of larceny. His situation in court is stated to have been humiliating in the. extteme. • STATE DEBTS.—The proportion of state debt PER HEAD in the several states, is as follows ; New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Lonisiani, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, TEE Finn CONVICTION.-_,-On the 16th inst., a man froin. Erie County, Pa., - was sentenced / t 6 the Penitentiary in Allegbany Cit 7, having been con victed of seduction under the law against that crime, passed at the Jast session of the Pennsylvania Legislature. This is first conviction under The new act. FL A. KERR, formerly ,of this place, but more recently.editor of the Lycom ing Gazette, has received a hicrative situation in the .War Department. So says madam rumor. lie will be super seded in the editorial management of the Gazette by C. D. ELDam, Esq. of Lock Haven. DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION.-AI Erie on the 13th ult., a tremendous explo sion of gas occurred in the blast furnace of the Presque isle Foundry company which set fire 4 and reduced to` ashes the whole building, an area of 240 by 85 feet. Loss between $20,000 and $25,000. . SUICIDE. OF A Govrusou.--Governor Thomas Reynolds, of Missouri, com mitted suicide at JefTersdn city,. onhe 9th ult, by shootinghimself through the head with a pistol. He lingered several hours in great agony. He had been in'bad health for some time. CHIVALRY AT .A.DLSCOUNT.--Air. Pool er, the individual engaged as Mr. May's Second iu the duel in . which young Cochran was murdered, has heeu arrest ed for purloining money froMthe pocket . of a fellow boarder at - Barnuut'sHotek, at I Baltimore, and committed for trial. 1- ,NATIONAL CONVENTION. is answer to an inquiry, the _Glebe states, that Ihe fourth Monday of ,May'nexf;.being the 21:11 day, the time fixed ~for the meeting of ; the democratic National Conventioiti, at Baltimore. SroucTiois4—The Legislature 'of t 7 l\ ichigan has passed. a law , declaring at crime of seduction a ciiminal sf ffen\cce. The term ofimprisonMent is limited to aye years. GR AT DunEs.--The receipt; at the Ne Yorko .4ton' House on Thurida 'week $140;000; and far this month, so far, they have averaged about $100,1)00 a ay:, ' ' , VALUABLE : `Anoo.—The ship Mo sells arrived a , Boston frinn Havre, on Thursday week, and broucht a' earg,o, P 11 , of which the invo e amounted to near s6oo,ooo—duties 76,060. • _ N. JERSEY • Cox rrwrioN.--The bill providioglor the •lec,,ion of dele, gates.to :revise the , _ •corri nation of the State of New Jerseyt has 'passed both houses of the Xaegislature. .• . '• • DELAWAREH-The Demos convention of Delaware met at. the 22d ult. After much was concluded not to send anydei to the Baltimore 'convention. SUICIDE.--Mr. H. Parker, of Adat i s, Jefferson county, aged about aixtx; co mined suicide on the 16th link, by hang ing himself. Ile was an intetupetate man. = • - STATE PRENTNE.—Advieesfrom Har risburg states thSt the public printing will iviii mast tindoubtedly be given to-the loti•est Correstiotdente from RAIIRIB mitt, IIVIla; PZlfittFit td February 22 ." TM! . 10 4 aska, kih.day. the W n tiff; no a 2 ds itt th t *maim. At ten o'clock the both &Ines, aseemiQ 141141 „ % to listen:to the farewell addr e " Washington:Mier feliding 444; Houses adjourned. Febrinry 23. No busiook of I - • - 1 4 40 tura was transacted in either branch of t 4 1 iskaure, but a barge amount Of local disposed of,: a,t4i February 24. It k th e s emeet .. mt. from he select committee to whi t! , wit r ed so ranch of the Governor's raesa,,,,,,' fates to the trait, and also a resol t : by Mr. Hughes some time ago on th e 4 reported the resolution with line maten,, .eompanied by a lengthy rep ort ai it,,L 4a e ' s ti on . ' Th e rePort — tpkes a meth and conde mns 4em p, system fre e i t 4 a piaihibiting tariff. It is assig ne d ulte policy of Ce genera government, th an 4 ,0 3 , 3 g E tAft, with . the prinCiple of• .• in favor of domestic products would 84 , reasonable and suffecient. , pretreti on , to 14 wrests of Pennsylvania. The comp waste concessiodof 'public opini on , ay. , an abandonment of the priatiple of 1828, in regard. to which arevend oot. .. , has taken place. i'he present tadh lit r e d to and its principle approved. 11 s is taken that the minimum redaction et, riff, under he compromise act %meld he insufficent i as a revenue measure, and increase by 'the present act was requi a 4 wants 'of the governments and th e Pennsylvania. Extracts from the opn a Jefferson, Jackson, Buchanan, fea-116,. Johnson are incorporated to suntan e t pie of a revenue tariff, with discrimini4i favor of domestic products, thereby them 'incidental protection. The pief e i the report was postponed until Tuesdahe instance of the minority of the comae, signified their intention to make acetre ...• port. $lO 25 23 17 10 25 22 00 po 45, .42: 72 57 75 18 38 33 00 38 00 A large number of loc'al bills were diii 4 of in the House. Mr. Dicky, from tee on vice and immorality to which red the petitions of citizens ofThiltulell ing for 'the repeal of the law of l'alZ prohibits the saio of intoxicating, drini , Sabbath, reported -at length against tl of the petitioners. The rrpott was ur ly adopted, and the committee (11'am! February_ 36. • The business of thi pretty tnuclr of a local nature. The of 'instructions relative to the survey Lionel road from the CuMberland 1113 Erie Harbor ri:as defeated in the Sena tie vote.;eon motion of Mr. Rouratur State Tr i easurer was requested inform tb of the tenon ft still due on the • 1841, '42, '43, in each county respectit February 27. Mr. Stewart, ou the the minority of the select committee or riff question,. submitted a report. no essential particular front that of ty except in reference to the publi( distribution principle is advocated, ports were, ordered to be printed. Ur d,,r reported a bill for the constructi outlet lock at Black's Eddy. Mr.• then called up the resolutions relatin to thelariff, and the same were under ration the remainder—of the day. Tbr refused to recede from its amendment appropriation bill for repairs, and r of conference was appointed. February 28. The bill .giving out tic printing and binding of the Soli lowest biddei was called up this nor it passed second reding by a vote of .S In the .House, the bilt to erect a I out of carts of Ilunti4don and Bt called Blair, was debated for ti long —no vote was taken. On motion 01 olson the committee -of wars and instructed to -inquire into the match( amending the license law as to compel who deal with a stock of less than $ pay a license. I omitted to notice in my List' the portant bill of the session. On last, Mr. Iloumfort, from the commiue and means reported " an act to provide' secure the permanent revenue of the wealth, and redeem the public fai Wilson submitted a resolution that tie on the Judiciary be instructed to to the expediency bf so amending law, that no tax payer shall be deprivi one scholar to school whether s be his own child or not. Adopted 'FITE GAINES eASE.---A decisim a few days ago in the Supreme of the United States, on the es which Gen. Gaines and his wife plaintiffs, and the executor; 01 Clarke; of 'NewCrleans, defelt A Washington correspondent ol; Y. Evening Post says that 11).5 on which the defendants appealec been decided against them. One' Pails has been decided absolutel3 the two other points with a qualnii that requires the cause to go g 3 i fore the Circuit Court, but which not probably..-iaffect the result. recision mattes • the- General and ire the lord and: mistress , as° at nse property,; route say:fifiecH. /ion.op - /ears. Ecr.toTr Aso W ourithanks for favors. EIEZIEZI over on :tion it