1 }
' *' The Russian reenibrc©-
: menu .
; , pwb]^^fv^|^^P^i| iern OR?R *
, Gpro(j buke| p’ptl, Nimlw, ajtdck.ed
Nov, sib.,tbe right of the iEflg*
poMUonbefore&yMtopol.,
•• .The Eailish army j ■«« ck
Wifi. remarked and »ol.d;
to*. ; I Supported H \°T. PW»‘
Bomttet’e division-—whtcft. fcoghl with admi
. w!, ‘
werp-PMrWt VUW’S^gltof l P°* l M°P*
••The edemy, wbofdf outnumbered our
force, beef a yetrea.i; with* lew estimated at
from fI.OOO to 9,000 men.
«• J%e *(r ugglc latUdint ykole das*
“At the same time, Gen. Forey was
forced to repplse a sortie made by the garri
son, and, under his energetic command, (he
enemy were driven back into the place, with
a loss of 1,000 killed and wounded.
•> This brilliant day, which woa not pur
chased without considehtblo loss by the allies,
docs the greatest honor’ to our arms.
‘►The siege oontimies with regularity.”
Signed CABOBSB T,
The Morgen fort,of Vienna, has the fol
lowing dispatch from
“ Cxkbnonitz, Nov. ll.—On the 6(h, the
whole garrison of Sevastopol, amounting to
65,000 men, made a sortie.
« A furious battle ensued, which was not
ended when the messenger left; but the all
ies had the advantage.”
It was reported in Paris that the French
Government had received a dispatch announ
cing that the storming of Sevastopol com
menced, .pa the slh, under very favorable cir
cumstances.' Nothing else was known.
Another dispatch confirms that on the 4ih
November the allies’ batteries were but 150
yards from the walls, and that they had effec
ted a practical breach.
Tins Russian Account.
A telegraph dispatch from St. Petersburg,
dated NoveutberlS, stales that Prince Menchi
koff reports to tha Emperor, under date the
6th November, from Sevastopol, that on the
sfh the garrison made two sorties—one against
the right (lank, which was successful, and re.
suited m the capture of one of the enemy’s
baueries.the guns in which were spiked.
“ There Was greqt loss on both sides.
“ The second sortie was also completely
•uccessful; the Russians having spiked fif
teen guns.
“ immediately afterward a French infant
ry division pursuing the retiring Russians at
tempted to moont to the assault, but was
thrown back with immense p.”
Letter From Gov. Du!ton, of Con
necticut, on The Prohibitory
Liquor Law.
Ds ah Sin :—l lake the earliest opportuni
■ ly of replying to your inquiries regarding the
practical operation of the prohibitory liquor
law of Connecticut. 1 hazard nothing by
asserting that no candid enemy of the law
will deny, that it has proved more efficient
than tts most sanguine friend anticipated. It
has completely swept the pernicious traffic,
as a business, from the Stale. An open grog,
gery cannot be found. ( have not seen a per
son here in state of intoxication since tbe
firs! of August. In our cities and manufac
turing villages, streets that .were formerly con
stantly disturbed by drunken brawls, are now
as quiet as any other.
The* change id so palpable, that many who
have been sirongly opposed to such a law
have been forced to acknowledge the efficacy
of this. At the late State Agricultural Fair
ii'whtt estimated that on one day from 20,000
to 30,000 persons of every condition in life
were assembled, and not a solitary drunkard
was seen, and not tha slightest disturbance
whs made—the effect was so manifest, that
the law has been regarded with more favor
since than it was before.
The statistics of our courts and prisons,
■ prove that criminal prosecutions are rapidly
diminishing io number. Some jails are al
most tenantless.
The law has been thoroughly executed with
much less difficulty and opposition than was
apticipaied. In po instance has a seizure pro
duced any general excitement. Resistance to
tfie taw would be unpopular ; and it has been
found in vain to safit at defiance. The long
er the beneficial results of the law are seen
and felt, the more firmly it becomes establish
• ed. The ridiculous idea, so industriously cir
culated, that the sanctity of domestic life
would be invaded, has been shown to he mere
bugbear. The home of the peaceable citi
sen wat never before to secure. The officers
of the law have' no occasion to break into
his dwelling, and he is now free from the in
trusion of the lawless victim of intempe
rance.,
, r&mnecticu/, by bef own law, and by the
laws of the adjoining States of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island, is now effectually guarded
against the invasion of one of the worst ene
mies of the human race on all sides except
the west. The principal obstacle in the way
of complete success consists in the importa
tion of liquors from the City of New York
into this State in casks and demijohns profes
•apdly for private use.
May we not indulge the hope that this evil
may soon be remedied, and that a* the Em
pire State is the first in population, wealth,
and influence, she wilt stand foremost in ibis
great effort to repress immorality and crime,
awi io premotq the happiness of the human
racsu Certain lam if bor citizens once try
tbe experiment of a stringent prohibitory law,
all the gold of California would not tempt
it&jiMO abandon it. With the highest res
peel,, .■ You* ob’t serv’t, Hbnrx Dutton.
,3'u Edward C. JDelavan, Etq.
There was a deacon in a town in New
Hampshire, by (he name of Day, by trade a
• cooper, Ope Sabbath morning Re heard a
Roys playing in front ofjiia house,
out, to atop their Sabbath break
ing! ‘ Asaumi.ng a grave countenance, ho said
iq-them “ Boys Ido you know what dayjhls
isT" “ Tei sir,'* immediately reptjedopa of
the hoya,i‘i OeacpnDay, UyuMPper,* J *'
j' 't Ir
:t'l» i Spamgjh maimTthat “ he'ihat loseih
wealth IqMth much; heWbo loaeth a friend
Inaeih all. So kaap ; up yoitif apirits, and a
fig /pr-careT'
THE AtlfAfC^J
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„ jnr Sss JUilsy A-Foiey's -a*w-«dv»rt'nßmanl on'
■fa.ci-00. \ir .er fjf fjfj
IT We re&mmend’ Owes wbe VWlo'ptirCMSe
asefhlbooks, to; examine tbe CsUlogne-of-Mesere.
Fowlsredt ;,Vye|U in another polainn. ,;
O'Woanderstand-thit the the Episcopal church
edifice/'his been thoroughly; reiJOfityd indj much
hesatifietfinside, and 1* again Open fbr service.' f --
It-T'i’nVmuch Ulked of Seminary hss'bGea loce
dted fpjoeieOtively,) Inf Minified jjy jhtt M- Bi Con
ference.' it meeting df'llie Wciisbortf
will tbs Coprl. House, tbiy ,aftffJl?op »l 9'
o'clock. r
A Fdv Words about Protection.
Wx notice in several exchanges that an sgitation
of tbb Tariff question i»,anticipated in the next Coo
grew, preparatory to • remission of duly on severe!
imports,.the most important being iron. The duly.
on iron imposed by the tariff of 1846, by msny.in
corporated companies in the main, is considered to
bate impeded the progress of many roads in profc
ess of construction, thereby paralysing tbe enterprise
of capitalists and depreciating, Uio value of rept es
tate in Uion remote districts-which, for want, of
market facilities, are unable to'develop Uio strength
of their resources. It U likewise claimed. by the
advocates of Free Trade, that the present duty on
iron has not benefitted the home.manufacture; and
further, that fbr revenue purposes it is superfluous—
the National .Treasury being in no want of it. We
dissent from this view of the matter entirety, os it
does not seem borne out by the facts end'figures.
Id another column we give a lengthy extract from
an article in the H. Y. Tribune of the SOth inst,
some of the views in which seem to bo just, while
others do not.
Tho laying of a tariff is of such a delicate and
difficult nature that the greatest skill must fail in so
adjusting it that it shall have unequal bearing upon
all classes and communities of interests. This fact
seems to He at tho bottom of the whole scheme of
Free Trade. Mon have accepted the latter doctrine
for the ostensible reason Unit the Protective System
most be oppressive to a class illy able to sustain it.
But this does not include consuming monopolies,
whose Free Trade notions come from a baser motive
—Self-Interest. A thorough knowledge of the va
rious and local resources of a country so large as
our own, as representing the interests of its numer*
ous districts, joined to great sagacity and provident
capabilities, is requisite to such an adjustmepl of
duties oo imports as shall have the greatest equal
bearing upon all.
To secure to Labor its proper income now, and to
provide qgainst its diminution in the future, is cer*
taialy not tire least duty incumbent upon tho mana
gers of our national affairs. To do this, some de
clare that dnlica should be laid upon imports consist
ing of manufactured stuffs particularly, not only lor
revenue purposes, but to enable our manufacturers
to enter into succcsslul competition will) foreign es
lablishmenU, or, in other words, to protect and foster
home interests. The tariff of ’42 was of this kind.
It was designed to protect manufactures which
the abundant resources of the country seem intend,
ed to conduct to a prosperous and successful issue.
Perhaps it was designed to protect the manutaclo.
rers of cotton and iron, as much as for any other
objectJ we think it was; but while it seemed pc
culiarly just and beneficent to the country so fat as
the Iron interest was concerned, wo do not consider
it so in so far as the Colton manufacturing interest
was affected. The burden of increased prices, con.
sequent upon protective duties, comes necessarily
upon the hands, of tho consumer. Now, there is a
.wide difference in the circumstances of the classes
which consume manufactured Iron and cotton. Tho
iron interest depends upon the .demand created by
tho extension and multiplication of railroads and
like enterprises for its sustenance; consequently, the
burden of increased priees'falls upon an oggregaled
money capital. But tho Colton manufacturing in
terest depends upon thf) laboring classes, who are the
greatest consumers, for its support. Thus, tho bur
den of increased prices fell upon, those who had no
capital oilier than Labor. The difference in the ef
fect of protective duties on public interests, imposed
on these branches of foreign industry, ia certainly
obvious.
The effect of a high tariff on manufactured cotton
goods, is simply to erect Uic home manufacture into
a powerful monopoly. Now competition is the best
and only safeguard against an. exorbitant demand
for the necessaries of life. We may observe an 11-
lustration of this fact m the squlless exactions of
speculators in breadstuff’s. These speculators form
a distinct class, or a community bf interest - ! and
when they can control the grain market, exorbitant
prices are demanded and paid for trend. But let
a successful competition he established, and thofioUr
market subsides into a state of comparative health.
The same is true of the cloth market; while the
home manufacture is led open to foreign competition
the poor man oan cloths his family at a reasonable
expense.
It will bo urged that this branch of industry
builds op cities, and cities are famous markets for
the products of the farmer. Now this is true; but
there are oilier no less important truths connected
with, and flowing out of the growth of, cities, such
as the increase of crime, pauperism, intemperance
and its kindred vices—all of which is consequent
upon the aggregation at individuals of different dc- j
grees of moral development and general training.
Even these facts are by some philanthropists deem-1
ed no slight objections to the multiplication of cities, |
But there are other objections which perhaps will:
have greater weight with the masses, because more
palpable.
While the demand for the necessaries of life is
sensibly increased in tho neighborhood of large i
manufacturing districts; end the farmer enriched I
by tbs consequent rise in value of teal estate—it
must be remembered that the means to purchase, of
those by whom the demand it increased,-and the
farmer enriched, do not, as a general thing, and nov.
er necessarily, increase in like ratio. .The wages of
factory operatives are not subject to the fluot nations
thal regulate those of mechanics and day-laborers,
and.for this reason: Large Manufacturing Comps
nice hire not only a community of interest, but of
capital likewise. Now it is evidently for the inter
est of all to keep wages at a steady paint. We da
noil bear of an.increase of wages in factories when
the market for such fabrics is aausslly brisk i for
there is generally a.surplus of opera lives in overy
district, willing to supply tho places of the dissatis
6ed at any price.- But it is different with,the ws.
gee of farmers and mechanics, in p dairying conn
try the price of bqlter and oboes* i* regulated by
the demand, and. this price regulates the iarm-labor
trsf JVfgev There is po such.jiving as a 'stated
price Tor farm-labor, year after year, without refer
ence to the profits of farm products.' So, while the
labor of factory operatives creates s demand, and
form-laborer receives iqcreaspd wages his em
ployer by reason of the increased value offurtn-pro.
ducts, the operative gilns nothing, comparatively.
E „TI
T|j| loolta llke.ji&»i<fed-pkoepSHty. 1 Thefiihrity
cffiMed hoy^eM ind; chilflreiaj tlid ColicBf«H»-.
legacy & &f IWO do not believe
iiflsg.by
rlficoofhoajth. Since lhe hanrs of labo; have beep!
out ■
yet tqwf to>s.ch&k. M i
ilbp- J hr«''c6tto&' factory. Am 'if tho- fcfiiititix Km
golnedfrom tbeiaoreaae of manufactures, that gain
has been wrested, atom by alotp, .frpm.mongpoUa.fe,
while they wore straining every nerve'to' lessen lire
income of Labor.' ' ' '
’j duty on ,the .ootmhoh .nCocj*arle*.;of
life and the Consumer mint bear it. Then the poor
matt most always feel thrdnty-tnoro than the j>a*
bdb( beenuao he is the’greater consumer. By the
■tariff'of '43, if wb mistake; norths dOly on fine
fabrics was leea'.lhan on coarserfabrics. This ent,
bled the. manufactareri to' control the market >by
Underselling Uie importer,-and at the same timojrc-J
alize a good advance uponold prices. And ■wo pro.
.by .go moans convinced that the result, had that pol
icy been extended to thcpreacnl time, weald have
compensated tho poor man for this oppress
ion. , For. as a general rale, no measure that tends
to build up locally and individually and oppress the
masses, is just. . .
But (be tariff of '43 was short lived. Still it la
undeniable that ip some way- it infused new life ipto_
the sinking energies of the industrial interest, ibr a
season, by decreasing the exports of specie. Bat this
is to be accounted for in the most part, on other
grounds than that of protection to such manufactures
as ore here spoken of. Producing the raw'material
in our very midst as England docs not, we ure. sna
bled to compete With her without the aid of protect
ive duties. The cotton manufacturing interest has
worked its way up to a high place in the ranks of
homo industrial pursuits without protection. That
there are isolated instances of failures in this branch
of industry is true ,• hut on lull investigation every
failure of (his kind will be found not the result of
foreign, but of home competition. They are (lie
victories of vast aggregated capita) over small ones
—nothing more. An illustration of this once came
under our notice; A company in one of (he inter!
or villages of Connecticut engaged in the manufac
ture of wood .combs. Scarcely bad they commenced,
and belbre they had got their wares into market,
(he original manufacturers, backed by a capital of
nearly a million, glutted the market at a merely
nominal price for the article, and kept it glutted un
til the first named Company failed. This was homo
competition.
We view the Iron interest in a different light.
Protection it must have, and protection of the most
jealous nature, ere our manufacturers can compete
with the foreign interest. Neil week we may pur
sue the subject farther, giving all the statistics of
this branch of industry wo may be able to pick up.
New Publications.
Godev'b Lady’s Book.— The December No. of
this popular monthly is a gorgeous one. The en
graving entitled, “ Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow!” is one of the best executed lino en
gravings wo ever saw. To young Misses as well as
to ladies generally, lips Book is an interesting win
ter evening companion. Single copies $3 —two do.,
$5. N. B. Wo don’t lend ours.
PHRENOLOGICAL AND WaTER-CuRE JOURNALS. FoW-
Jcrs& Wells publishers,3oB Broadwify New-York.
The December numbers of both thoao Journals
Come to us as fresh, hoalthy and sparkling as over.
After wading for a whole month through the politics
horrible accidents, murders and nameless villainies
that combine lo make up newspaper literature, it is
a real comfort to sit down and read these two month
lies. As a Iriend of human progress, wo earnestly
recommend them lo all; for no one can read a sin
glo number of either without becoming wiser and
belter fitted for the part that he or she i» lo act in
the drama of true life. Parents nnablo lo give their
children an education in the higher branches of sci
‘ence, may, by subscribing for these two monthlies,
put their children in the way of gelling a complete
knowledge of physical, mental and moral science,
(br the little Bom of two dollars yearly. By raising
a club ol twenty, each of these works, containing
32 three column pages, devoted to eVery branch of
useful knowledge, and beaulifnlly illustrated, may
be had one year for AO cents, or both for one jdollar.
For 83, both Journals and Life Jllustraltd;» week
ly paper devoted to everything usefnl, may be had
pne year. We with to raise a club of twenty, qt
forty, to commence with the new volume in January.
Persons in any part of (his county may join (ho
club and receive their papers at their respective
pual-ofitqes- Specimen numbers may be seen at
(his office. Persons at a distance wishing to join
the club by addressing us immediately, will be pn.
rolled. Address, M. H. Cobb, Wellsboro' Pa., or
the publishers as above.
To Oar Friends,
Wo hops that our friends will remember us w. ion
they come lo town next week to attend Court, It
is an old story that wo arc about lo tell—bow tpat
wo cannot buy paper without money ! how lhat|we
cannot prevail on printers to work for nothing and
find . themselves; how that merchants somehow
think that Hour, sugar, butler and all kinds of gro.
cerics are worth money ; how that nobody charges
us less than they do other folks, and how wo arc
subject lo liuoger and cold tike other human beings
—nil this yon expect to hear, as you have heard it
often before, and we etc sorry lo say that is all true;
—as preaching. Doubtless it is all wrong, but we
can’t help it. Tho papermaker ought lo know bet
ter than In ask us to pay him S3OO a year for noth
ing but white paper, bnt ho doesn’t. The printer
ought to know better than to ask pay, for work, but
he isn’t n whit more reasonable than the paperma
kcr. And this is the reason why wo ask our friends
to aid us a little with subscriptions. How would it
read in the papers—“ Died from tho non-payment of
subscriptions !”
1 Gmt Keeults.— The late elections in tlia free
: Stales have completed the work of overthrow com
menced by Arnold Bangle*, under the patronage of
tlin Administration. Never waa signal defeat more
justly mated out to offending man. find never - did j
men discharge their duty more nobly, and in vindi
cation of (rue manhood than, did Northern freemen
in the late elections. The world 6wes.lhem a debt
of gratitude, and if they continue failhlal it will
discharge the debt to the enriching of-
Every Northern efalo that has held its election
since the passage of the Nebraska bill, has condemn
ed that iniquity in unequivocal terms. Even Illinois,
his native Stale, has decided against hhn 0 . Michi
gan, with a veteran Case to whip her into iha'pto.
slavery traces, has cast her shackle* and gives free
men and free-sorl a noble - majority. And- N ow
York, which lor a season seemed given over to ruip
and slavery has at lari declared herself .triumphant
over krili. Spch a revoliuipp in political and moral
santiiqent the.men of this agq never before witness
ed. The.ego is ripejsith progress' and humanity.
The heavens of Frepdpn) are freer from troubled
clouds than ever. Troubled faces begin to look
chcerfijl. Hopes that had almost lieon nipped with
the flroslof. despair are bursting iota a fresher bloom
—spou Jo die in fruition* let ns hope. The old Pay-
State ban gone K. N. and anti-Nebraska hi onwards
of 30,000 majority. 1
flA"jßX>tr t STY AGITATO
f ,TuxmxmauipA* a course of i orijS
&e.«iwUaaejpek&ot,Uinay be well ei jgMf
®ifetd?|o tho Jalurhow the matter wasibr lOgta
mat yAa it vm knbwn that high prlceii womK
JmWtd be paldSjr.thoJervicos of fir»t-elas|klectm
Jetaj a number of our citixens came forward and be-
Ctliot
eiblllty ddcs not feeema tbihg: 1 Td lighten •
it,-3S«ealaibt. adults, cenls lor children have
as the admission. Ticket*
iiave Seen provided', and the places'where they may
be o)fdcured wßri>e a'dvefiisOdTn gOdd seasOtr.'- ~~-
TliSj is t ri(f it/i* «l
any particular class or indivlduals, but for all classes
—riofa andpoorf fafack aud white; HSfaoold there'bee
ahy sdrplds rarisingtromTecbipfe Ist the cad! of tho
cdarset'it ' Will te-appliodlo tbo/vesldblishment aT bi
free Libriry.far the ibenefit ofi all, and! to.thc aeepb
ing «f*. contra ..of Lepferos Ifoclnexbwidter,; We
jdp hoppjtbatThe 'people hereabout? will eoabje fbe,
lecturers t 6 bepr witpesni they go, to -Useir
public spirit and lire deep interest Ihey Tpel ia the
oeose-vf pu - -
Jails G.BigMhe noted wjtjjud humprpns poet,
sonsAimescalted the “ will read,
a poem, end probably lecture before the Institute in,
January.' Bijhop Potter wid JiTobably lecture in
tiie latter fart of'the samd months '■ 'CtssnrsM. Clay
of Kentucky, yyill com? in March, probably.. -
Snuoot Ary.—Sevastopol is not, yet taken, but
there he* been considerable hard 'fighting before tiie
city in which both parties claim the.victory., The
allied army is evidently in groat danger of utter de
feat. The Russians on (he Danube, not being feir
samples of the Russians in tiie Crimea A rather
strange accident happened in Beslan harbor on last
Friday evening by w|poh several persons lost their
lives ini {a number. more were injured. The British
steamship Canada,'came id collision with the steam
er Ocean, crushing the latter and selling her on fire.
To add to (ho horror of (he scene, the hot ler of the
Ocean exploded, carrying death and destruction in
its course.. Five persons are known to have been
killed ahd drowned.’,.. .The ship New Era, from
Bremen with 330 passengers on bdard, was lately
wrecked off Long Branch. N. J. Only 130 were
saved.
Mb. Cobb: — Having slated' the general
Character of North No. 2, is it tvorth while
lo account fur'll? Will a knowledge of Hie
causes of her instability lead to any irrtprove
meni ? These questions cannot be answered
intelligently without an understanding of (he
nature of (he causes. So much of them as
lies without the sphere of moral or social in
fluence is inevitable, of course, but all the
rest it is possible lo counteract and 1 abolish-
This is the proper work of the reformer j and
in this age of boasted progression, there is no
field where he may not enter and work—
work alone if needs be—co-operate will)
others, if so the work may be best accom
plished.
One of the causes of the unsteadiness of
character alluded lo is undoubtedly lo be
found in hereditary nature. It takes all
sorts lo make up a world—the inconstant as
well as any other. Many me born, as it
were, with a faculty lo appreciate the true
and the noble, but without the ability to “con
tinue id well doing”—endowed with a strong
sympathy for right and justice, without cour
age to “face lie lion in the way.” Others
are so constituted that the vvliold; or principal
aim, of their life is personal distinction.—
Who regard the world as a singe and them
selves the playbrs. In all the highways of
life, these lore found to be. the ritoSt active,
dnd tile “tyisest in their generation.” They
have all been taken up into some “ high
mountain,” and there liavd sold themselves
for some “ kingdom of this world j” and
hence Ibeir life of Devil-worship—the price
stipulated. The theory of* their life is all
built upon secular, if not selfish, considera
tions ; regarding ’man as only an intelligent
brute, limited in nil'his interests to the term
of his “natural life;’’ or if,poore' (him that,
only transmitting to his children wealth and
a name. This is not to say that nothing
better is'ever in their thoughts; but, that so
much, is all that their prbJifce implies. We
may add lo these a'very largo number who
are not utterly told ; but who, so far as the
interests of humanity are concerned, might
as well be.
\Vell, whal of all this ? Is it a fixed fact—
in its preseni extent irremediable ? If it is
so, wl^efe'is the religidus or moral teacher
that Has any business in the world! lie
can do ftd good; and might rpdre wisely
spend' hii.lirtife in seeing to his own selfish
interests.. Is it not true that, thousands or
teachers' have approximated to this conclu
sion, and therefore fallow the business of
teaching as a mennp of living, merely ? But
if it is not’ so—if mint is teachable at, alt peri
ods of his life, whal has the ' teacher'beeh do
ing and how far is he responsible for nur topsy•
iurvy North, and also for that other North,
libl yet 'described, that sins with a Steady
Hand and unflinching ey| against the dearest
rights Of humanity 7 'I will not undertake to
answer ibis, question. The responsibility is
nut measurable, because we have nOt capaci
ty to discern how much is due to nature and
how much fo culture. One thing appears to
be certain, to wit: that the teacher needs to
be .taught. Any well informed person will,
nay, must admit, that very few teaclierd of
any class are to be found, who have both the
proper amount of courage, ahd ilW'iipe’pbr
cepiion of whal the ago : need's idhavelStoght
I undertake to say,'that nearly'all who real
ly understand the need, do riiore or less etvadn,
the responsibility ofintav'aljon, and wait, and
wait, and waif for the blessed day when men
will hear therti gladly. .'Meanwhile, (--hall 1
except the pulpit?) they falter with the lower
motives of covetousness and ambition, ns'a
kind of substitute fqr the higher inducements
—which are to be presented—’“ when” 1 the
world is. read yto hppreciaib them.” And so
a kind of re igioV)—anil it hioriilism if you
exla'i if-,-Which' ignores’ he great' tWf,
that man is :apable of a better, a,Higher, a
’isa fee,' .arid;' happier ‘ pursuit ■ (Han
thosfe of wen Ith, office 1 nod fa he. Did any
body ever,hear children in acht ol encouraged
ip pereeverai ce any Highei bait than (he
pbssibility'ol' '’being President, or Governor, 1
or Senator, < be., or, of beodpii ig the Wife of
such] I HaveViice, wh’eif a very young pu
pil, heard from ifie triouth of a visitor, a ven•
erhble and Worthy religioiis lbetc.her, iherniix
im—*‘ diligence tnaKoth 1 rich, and I woh
dered, even then, if to ‘ acquire wealth was
the H chief. end" of school probation; That
cwMmmiois.
tpaiMras M not set a high
valuMtpgjp he positlohs or President, Gover
nor, SVealih the vest material
goodlas m undented it. Without doubt
heJmw.aMetnethiog'better.lhan wealth, but
was of opinion that we boys could not under
irfftnfitrnsutd' give ptemjnofextrmptea like
’.thsiß. npr off in time or
iocalff/. Trobahfy Itierd fer’nol a school au
perintendent imhe StaißTvho thinbs of lec
luring either pupil? or parepta in ?py higher
strain., “ Some of thue \oytmqy,fpr ghat
Flthy'piie or Preti
4irtfi”lor mgtboyt of some sonand there
fora they should be diligent, orderly and mb
rdir of a Tjfe (n the iJoing
of good, and .'culiivuliin of.Thd IWellpcl and
tiJ l^ffedtl, ‘ seems to be Morally ’{br
'coiteh, nb'd'ihe'idea of notability and 'fame
Ts aj|l ’in qIL In sjjort rthe ifiewspapers also
Ifeat chiidreoj and adults with the same doc-
Iriiie, as a general thing ; and all over this
t American, world, prevails a shyrteSs fegarding
' the of humanity, so that it is, in
most places, and at nearly ail limes, consid
ered bad manners, to mention the Higher
: Ldw by any yf it snatnes, or Id hint at anything
worthier thdn maierial thrift. Is it not a
fuel that our popular, religion is a pure mate
rialism, and does not this account for the ex
istence of that large portion of the North
which is go impracticable for political fthilan
ihropy 1 Scieb Facias.
Wcllsborongta Academy.
Tho fall term of this institution closed last
week. The comminee, who by invitation at
tended on Thursday and Friday, deem it due
to all concerned to say, that, the good order
with which the examination was conducted,
■and the correct deportment pf the school gen
erally, were highly creditable lo the skill and
friilhfulness of the Teachers, and to the intel
lectual nnd moral character of the Pupils.
The progress evinced in the various brunches
of science, gives promise of future usefulness
io our Academy under the conduct of the
present Principal, Mr. Hevholds.
E. PRATT, ■> o
R. G. WHITE, |
W. B. CLYMER, 3
ISAIAH MoMAHON, ( =
ffl
Right years since, says the New York
Tribune, the crops of Europe failed, and our
farmers were calietTupon' to supply the defi
ciency of food thereby produced. We then,
under “ the benign influence” of that policy,
which had in the brief period of five years
raised the nation from the lowest depth of
gloom and despondency to a state of high
prosperity, were enabled to infuse into the
circulation of the country no (ess than twen
ly-tvo millions of gold —and the reason why
we are enabled lo do this, was, that, by help
of the tariff of 1842, we were supplying our
selves with home-made iron, home-made cloth,
and home-grown sugar. The revenue tariff
of 1840-43 hud given us shin-plasters, but
the protective tariff of 1842 gave us gold and
silver. Simultaneously with this failure ol
forciun crops, (he Polk Administration, With
Mr. Walker for ils manager, had succeeded,
by help of corruption and intimidation, in
forcing, upon the people an abandonment of
that policy to which they had been indebted
for a resuscitation more remarkable than any
elsewhere recorded in history—and forthwith
we were assured that it was In that change
these results were du.e. While repudiating
the protective policy, Mr. Walter stole its
thunder. The crops, however, had failed be
fore the lariff had been besides,
the unfavorable wealher 'of the spring and
summer of 1846 could scarcely be at'.ribu
led to an act of our Congress that had no liv
ing existence until the expiration of nearly
half.of the fiscal-year in which the cbm was
exported and the gold imported to pay for it.
These results were,-however, too brilliant
not lo be claimed for free trade ; and thus it
is that our neighbor df The Journal contin
ues to clainj 1846-T as a free trade year,
and, by help of tables so constructed, to mys
tify its readers as lo the tendency of the ex
isting system. So, 100, was it with Mr.
Walker, Under free trade, all future years
were to surpass the last year of the lariff of
1842; and we were, before this time, to ex
port food to the amount pf a thousand mil
lions of dollars n year,’ import gold from ev
ery quarter of the earth, and have iron so
cheap,that almost every man could hove a
rnilrotid lo his own door—the comment upon
which is to be found in the fact'that, lo reduce
the price of food si home, we have just
ogreed lo admit dial'of Canada free of duly,
as a stop (6 the Canadians to keep them out
of the Union —-that gold is so scarce as lobe
worth two per cent, per month—and that the
difficulty of making roads is so great that
the author of the tariff of 1846 has just failed,
or, if all reports are true, has Imrely, escaped
failing, in all his efforts lo raise the wind to
thp extent required for the first; payment on
the Moonshine Railroad ! He is punished,
“I Curses,” says the Eastern proverb, always
come home “ lo roostand such would seem
t)ow to be the'ease with Mr. Walker, who,
whether he has now raised §300,000 or not,
'fill never make his road under his system of
policy.
I Pour fears after the passage of the act of
1840, California Gold was discovered. This
was a god-send to the free traders, as it gave
a brief respite to the sysiem under which, in
1850, we were gradually closing all the mills,l
furnaces and mines of the. country. Since
then, our product of gold has averaged about
fifty millions of ddlldrs a year, and yet ore
we everywhere surrounded with evidences
that money is rapidly becoming an unntiotnv
ab|e commodity. From day lo day we Hear
of stoppages of bnnks and bankers in almost
every part of the Country, unable lo redeem
tho circulation that, in the present prostration
of trade, is so rapidly “thrown back' upon
them; They haVe securities in abundance,
but no money. From day to day we hear of
fatfores of tnetchahls Svlth' property in bbun
dance, who cannot command money, Manu-
Incffirdfa are everywhere stopping foe want of
tnfm'eij/. ; A thoilsahd -men a re jUst'discharged
by one ealablishntenl twMaryland for Want of
motiey. • Railroads arb Everywhere stopped
fur wont of money. Houses cease to be built,
clolh/iroti ariffollother commodiiies eCash to
be bought formant of’money. Paralysis is
thus gradually cbniing otter the whole sysiem
foiLwatjl of » taegna of qychanging the pro
duels of labor—* ad yet K«,tho
United Slatep, Bpfferine r«
want of ip jitipplicdto tbe world , n !
are s*por«ng weekly ,/rora one to i» 0
ions of throlmriWdkyforwant of which 11!
laborer fcdflprtyodrof llH} “»
chant
comp&iedwefosn h«; ddors.tbe f arme 15
likely rtarkiif, arid the owner,
housesfnd shops are lik.u ,
«f their
it dpea not se^tntostay;-for she like ou ,
typing a free trade'experiment ,J
r °r“n? eat,foreiga wheal,
ore fofeing-ours to consume foreign iron
goes to>Praooe, Belgium and Germany,' !tld
there it and the'reason why it star,
is that these couMrieilare steadily pursuit
the tame polief'Hinder'phiek this comill
was so tesuscUatu
from 1842 to 1647—the policy that tends i 0
place the drl»san*bjf thp ; si(le of the
(be policy of. (trolpctioh for the sake of oro.
tfiction, and not as/merely iocidenial to Hit
collection of revenue. . In all those countries
money is cheap,apd tnanufaclayers, farmers,
land-owners and house-ownere ate pros or,,
ing together; whereat, in all the free trada
poPßlfjof °.f Jbe jyorld, all are being ruined
protection,
that is daily and hoirly evaded lyi means 0 f
falsehood and perjury, all seem likely son,
to be Involved in one common-ruin.
If we would avoid this ruin, we must sioj
(he drain ofgbldr '• Without-(hat, this pars
lysis (must goKin-uiltil it shall result in \U
Same near approach to death that was «ii.
heised id 1842. ' Without m medium o( cir
colatiou there ciin be nb motion in socieiv,
anffthepCnny [tapermust suffer in commas
with (ha factory, the flirnace, the coal mine,
and the ship. Ail prosper together, and mini
decline together, and the owners of all ue
called upon to unite their efforts to produce i
change in the policy under which all— ifts
money lender excepted—are now so severed
suffering.
For'years we have admonished the mi.
road makers that their roads could never l»
completed unless they determined to 1 look >1
home for iron ; and merchants that their
trade could never permanently prosper white
it remained dependent on the sale of bomts;
and the property holders of our City that their
rents could never be maintained under theei
isting system—but the answer has always
been that we were wonderfully prosperous
that fto change wa9 to be apprehended, that
wc were croakers, and that we desired o
build up one interest at the expense of all
others. The change predicted has, however,
come. Real estate cannot now be sold.-
Rents have greatly fallen. Ships command
scarcely half their cost. Stores'are bemc
closed. Carpenters, masons,- machinists fur
nace men and laborers of all kinds are bane
discharged, and now the question is ansin»,
Why is it that this change has come, over
“ the spiret of our dream’’ of prosperity I
The answer to this question is simple.—
W e are exporting the money which consti
tutes the basis of the credit. of banks, mcr
chants, manufactures, ship owners, carpen
ters, bricklayers, masons, furnace men, ma
chinists, and enables all these pedple io effect
the exchanges of society, Exchanges art,
therefore, gradually ceasing. The .aborer
gets no wages, ahd he ceases to be a custom
er at the store. The storekeeper cannot sen
c/oth, and he ceases to be a Customer to lie
manufacturer. The manufacturer cannot
sell, and he censes to want iron. The ron
maker cannot sell, and he ceases tq want coai.
The coal-man cannot sell, and he censes a
want miners. The miners go out of ampler,
and they cease to be able to buy food, too
thus, because labor powef of the countrv s
rendered idle and unproductive, the conse
quences of which fall then with greatest se
verity upon the owners of houses, lots m
lands.
idf.
While-bonds could bft solcjf-lhal is while
we could obtain iron and cloth upon otir
promises to pay at some future lime—we kepi
part of the gold of California, and this gave
an appearance of prosperity, but it was ex
actly the samp that is enjoyed by Ihe man
who lives in a large house’, dresses well, ana
gives good dinners, but leaves his butcher, tus
baker, and his tailor unpaid. For a time nis
.credit is good, but at length he pays 10,12
or 30 per cent, for money, and again, after 1
(ipie, be figures before the world as a bank
rupt. Jusfso have we been doing. In 1846,
we had commenced paying off the debts con
tracted from 1836 to 1842, and we did so be
beeause we then had that real prosperity
which results from-malting cloth and iron tor
ourselves. "Th 1648, we commenced the
work of* closing mines and furnaces and mills
and went abroall’lb buy cloth and iron “iih
bonds; and so long as the bonds would sed.
all went well, but that resource is now -x
-hausied. We have tried eight, ten, ana
fwelveiper cent, and now are selling s ,n cKs
and bonds bearing large interest at enormous
discoupts, and the larger the discount 'he
nearerdo we approach to that abyss of nun
from which we were extracted by help of the
tariff dr 1842.
hoßßistE Accident. — A very distressing
accident is reported lo have occurred in Wil
liamsport on Monday last, in the family »'
Mr, Ai J- Troui,, lately connected with lbs
Sullivan Democrat, but now of the Indepen
dent Press. He' wps residing with the editor
of the Press, and on the morning of the d«f
mentioned, when the family were at breaß
fast, Jtheir youngest child, an infant some
stven months old, was left steeping in the
cradle in an adjoining room. After breakfast
when the parents returned 'to' the room, it
way found lying on thej'hfearth literally burnt
16 death / As the cradlewas .near the fire
it is supposed that it Whs. tjjiset by the move
mefals of, the child, wjiich, failing info the
fire, thus perished withput "uttering a cry.—
The accident was one br the most heartrend
ing character, and fell with the force of ait
avalanche upon the bereaved parents.- Nes*
Leliir. 1
Dkspjiir makes a despicable' figure, and
dcsebds IVom a -mean, original. “ Tis the
offspring of fear, of iatioess, of impatience I
it argues a defect 0/ Spirii iod jespimicß an l !
oftenthnesbf honesty too,".