litornlng Post. J t.YH F 1110Litit. Lollon ITS131311(01, MONfl'Y, DEcEmßEti 8 illst — r V;3 I's Lit Kg. Agent lot country new,plipliret, is the Azent for the Pittsburgh Daily Alornisig Po .o, and IVecisk. Mercury uti , l Al.inufactorer, to receive ativettisentents e ndsubscriptions. Hr tins offices in New -Yong, at the Coal Otli - .e, 30 Ann street, (ad joining the Tribune (Wire.) BO4TON, N.. 1 , 2. Stagy. .treet. PHlLAni . t.ruis, Real E,it.ite and Coal Office, 59 r:, , ~, reet . . 1141.-tissotte, S E corner fietitimnre sod Calvert lit where OUT ono, c3n be seen, and terms of advent sing Icnrned. Taa PILESIDENT ' s MIIMAOC.--The Commercial abut, hard to make political capital by lie sailing, tin of the President on the Tata ques tion. In thie we p/ • t h.. editor o ill fail most signal ly. The Pieeident recumineirie a revenue Tariff, and capreeme the nninien hat it .•ill afford (goal plO - of the caiihti ; he iti tection to the dome...tic rurrn4 Cenves, I !here rxistft great ineTteilities in , and recommend. its reduction and mod- the act ”f ...lan; he recommends the abolition of the specific a minimum and favor)) the ad valorem system tore equal and just: we fiird to.a on an examination or the report of tho Secretary of the Treasury. that home valuation and cash duties i■ recommended by that loricti.utary. The horizontal system. it appears, has found n n foyer a ith the admiristratirm. 7 lose te e monendatious are nar.le it) the tilost f ark and manly A. :he Jitr4r , of decrption Lt. 1•eon 1111,1 e, let 11, e Milelt jar lia (eft, i'l/Ct• to dee "tuning purer;' line iho rigi,t to exercise. "Care ~houH tie rlLcn 11111 1 all grt al iu;rn• sts or cowl!: y. ir:eheiMg Mui,htelure,t, agriculture. !la% ig:111,11. and the mechanic al I•, thouith no far eta may tpe pi A:tie:shim Jot i.e ' , pat navareage. front die ieciiental Lich a illat a Atrui Ma!, This is clearly a re-itetaln,n of the a it,,s expres,J .y him in his leiter to J. K. KANE.. and his inaugural No reatl),{ll.l•• Mon .rill ufliffn dint laws %Jerold he passed ret:ert4oca to foster and protect any tole gl ear i ntereat of the ration at the expense of anofhe r all are enl it let to too eufiffa a: the hauls of the government so for to it can he afforded them in dw collection of the refs rime required for the government. Ah, hot seyn nne he recommend, a reduction of the Tariff of 18.0. ❑e cannot Letter explain what is meant by the red:teflon o, modifi'ation proposed, tbAll to tree his Own laff,gulge. lie •uys : By the introdoet ion of minimums. nr assumed and false vaitte.i, tied by tim imposi.ion of spesiiic dutie, the injustice and ite quality of the net of 1312 in its fructiral operwians t.n different rlasses and pursuits are cern ;Ind teh. MII.O!, of the urpressere duties imposed by it under ;he operation of these prineiples, range frurn one tier cent. to more than two hundred r , r cent. Th e , a re p ro hibitory on some articles, and panicky sn on ;ohms, and bear most heavily nn rles of ccmmon necessity, and but lightly on articles of lu sac ry." is that thti rcitsiltat favirs wily ench reduc ti I and modifications es will give the law a fait character, ar,ci ••ie!LI to 01l the great intewsts of the country, including nutoufactote., agriculture, corn rncrcc, ruo igaiiun und 11,e mechnnic arts. equal advan tapes from the Hic ttissT•f. PROTECT lON a jual legUißt ion (,r rvveriue duties Mb:, litrOid." The Presideut recommend, the ad valorem ”Strlll, and in die ..uurse of hi> teniarlss touching the quest ion "A svetero of ad tra:orear revenue Julies. with I proper discriminant., s and proper guards against frauds in collecting them, it is not doubted, w ill affori ample incidental advantages to the manufactures, and enable them to der ixe an great profits as can be' deriv ed from any other regular business. It is bells red that such a stern, cr icily within .lie revenue stand-; ard, aill place the manufacturing, interests on a sta- I ble footing, and inure, to their permanent advantage: while it as nearly as may be practicable, extend', to all the great intetests of the country the incidental I protection trhich can be afforded by our revenue laws. Such a system, u hen once firmly established, would be permanent, and not be subject trithe constant complaints, agitations and changes ablelt must mer recur, when duties are not laid for revenne, but for 3. Discrimination to be ma,le beloW such rate the "protection merely . ' of a favored interest." 4. Highest duties to be imposed on luxuries. Thu Secretary of the Treasury also recommends !, 5. Minimum and aperific duties to he abolished and that minimum and specific duties be abolished, and duties to be assessed on actual market value. duties be assessed on actual market ratite. 6: Duties to be in enforced as to operate cannily, a. WC can see nothing in the Nlessage of the President ! far as possible tlitoughout the Union, discriminating to which any reasonable man can object. The ; dictions of the Whig leaders that he would favor free for nor against ram class or section. lie does not recommend • horizontal scale of duties. trade—that he ...mild recommend a horizontal Tariff, have ell fulicn to the ground; and we arc not at all cur. lie urges a graduation of the price of the public lands; prised that great di s appointment should enrage them, the reldc'n'ti"" erthe sub - lreavleYl the establishment of they fondly hoped that a course of policy scald be the wruTl.'°"'ing system; the establishment of a ' , tench °f the P. S. Mint in the city of Sew York; a hich adopted at variance in Itli the viral the Presideot had mint expressed before the election, and of-course are shall also be the auletreasury there. ly chagrined. , estimates the total receipts and means for the We will now direct the tetcrilion of our readers to , fiscal year, ending Jane 30 , 11, 1847, at t'9.8.50,2.54. an extract from Mr Clay's Hanover speech, d el i vered and the expenditures at 128,578,313. '27th June, and report, din the National lntelligencer The report of the Postmaster General exhibits a deficiency in the revenue of that department daring of July 13, 1840, as corrected and revised by himself. Speaking of tie tariff, Mr Clay the last fiscal year, of about a million and a riarter, lle recommends the adoption of the old plan of char "The TlQslioncanrwt be, ought not be, one of prin.- iple, but of measure and degree. I ADOPT ; ging by the sheet, instead of by weight. lie also roc'l THAT OP THE COMPROMISE ACT, not !ommends the purchase by Congress of the patent le.curisrl that act is irrepealable, but because it met' right of Morse's Telegraph e th the sanction a the nation. Stataty, with. mod- • e..ele and certain protection, is for more important 1 , necesnnry consequence of high -e!cctio,t. But the protection of the Compromise 'WI will header - pare in most, if rot as to all. interest.. THE TWENTY PER CENT WHICH IT FIPULA TES, rash duties, home valuations, and r! list of free articles inserted in the act for the pm'. r!.•11111, EId,(INIFIrP of the mannfocturer, WILL IN- E, I TRUST. SUFFICIENT PROTEC 'IION. Although they will amount probably to nut than thirty per cent—a greater amount of prtrice ido than was secured prior to the act of 1828, which ran olio stands up to defend." After the perusal of the above extract, we ask the re, ler, to turn to the messsgo of the President, and bo will see that the views expressed, are strikingly so for an they relate to the i nportance of pet - - to-c.c../ in our revenue leas: they both express the o- dill t$ the necessary consequence protrc , ion r. Clay, in a li•ttr. la Mr. NI , r, i ion. of Gcor gi Oct f.! 1843, sa•i; ' I NEVER WAS IN FAVOR OF WHAT I i:ECARDED AS A 111011 TARIFF. NO ,11()RE REVENUE SHOULD BE RAISED THAN'S NECESSARY TO AN ECENOMI IL -ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOV- I HS:VENT. I SHOULD HAVE PREFER- It THAT THE COMPROMISE IN ALL I I's P A RI'S [inifnim (klieg of twenty per cot,] UrLD HAVE BEEN ADHERED TO." We cannot sec how men who voted for Mr. CLAY, thetehy sentionin.s , the views expressed by him in his innumeruble letters and speeches written end delivered la'fore the late Presidential election, can find fuult with tle dews of President Poll; at expressed in his lute Mr CLAY, in his letter of Sept. 131 h, 1943, to Dr F S Bronson, rrtet ring to the Tariff of 1842, wit: "If • re be any EXCESSES Or DEFECTS in it (of which I Inive not meant of judging) they ought to be correct• President POLL, in his message, does Dot recom. mend the repeal of the Tariff of 1842, he merely pints out to Congtera its ''excesses" and "defies" u•.d says .they owed to be corrected." .Ve Lave heretofwe said, and now freely admit, that e cuuntry has been in a flourishing condition since ihe passage of the Twit,' of 1842, but we also believe u Tut iff more eiritable in its provisions, such an .e . " 7 1 4 - - .• .42".= c`, I one for im , tatica, as the President advocutes in his message. uou!ti hive produced in the same time,escn 'greater and mote general prosperity. Front our Washington C. , rrespondent ASHINGTOS, IVEdilfdday, Dec. 3, 1E45 -In Senate, to day, no business of importance aos 'transacted. A Report from the Treasury OPplill• meat was mucked, and the motion of Senator Allen i of yes' ethay rim 0.5 000 extra copies of tho I're lsidents Message accompanied by the Documents in !relation to the Oregon controversy, was adopted. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Davis, from Kentucky, renewed his sematks id relation to the pub lic printing. inimlucing a communication from Jesse F.- Dom.& Co. of the U. S. lout nal, proposing to do t he work at 40 per cent. discount of prices, autbori i,ed by the law of 1819, and 20 per cent. less than the ; rates paid during the ids,. session. Ile was followed Ibv Mr Bayley, of Virginia , is a very animated speech, ' ;and alien the vote au* tdken, it stood for Ritchie & Hirst, 108; Dow & Fisk. 69; Gulet & Seaton, 4; Jets. l'orattn &Co, 2. Duet. Lane, was then elected Ser. ~ :rant•itt•Attna; Mr. Whitney. of Illinois, Door Keep ;cr, and ME Johnson, of the District of Columbia !Postmaster. t There is Lut little excitement in the city. Every junto appear to be absorbed in the Meosage, ar malt (trig lira atrangetnents for the hnlidny recreation!, or I what is nulll more unpalatable, for removal or llppl/111l ment to office. All who express an opinion at all, :freely accord tc the Executive the merit of having pro duced a mate paper equal. if Out superior, to that tol any of his predeccowiro. ('eritrin it io. that every , [mint is fairly and plainly put forth—that it is relieved of et Image and ditoingniobcd for point and decatOon— that it is, in f ter, take, nil in all, ouch a document as the people had a tight to expect, and la MI 01011 111 .Ll4'll 11 ,, blendcoil tie government can La- forced to a blush Ito the reputation of its Chief Magistrate It) !eit her fair reasoning. o f the combined l'il..121011:S of sorlit dry or sarcasm. Rut tint season ul edmparntdee quietude u ill 404111 be ..yer, a. d wiilh be holidayg, and mirth. and bis o:by, a magazine may explode which will cretter to the four corners of the rani), solfroaroial evidence of the value of Republic. peaceably regene rating nntions,•nd revolutionizing the civilized world or. involvi• g all in a bloody crusade for the grand era of tiniverrsal freedom. Sooner or later the blow must t come, and while all Europe in armed to the teeth fir elle serrie 4 le. and even amid her verifying millions. vaunts her p•uvress, airy not let it come now T and now and forever seal her doom, fur weal or ace ! Chou.w., she mu•t—the indomitable nation of freemen has shown her color, the • II be of use free" will never be furled. four., 5.,. A•l4l , :tos Cll V, Dcc 3.1315 This morning a greut number of reports from the Department. were presented and ordered to be print ed. Among the numh••r, were the annual reports or the Secretary of the Treasury and the Post Muster General. They are both muster ly productions. The report of the Secretary of the Treaen is very lengthy. and I hese not been able to gl,. it ■ full et.amination. The following, is the stoic of the Tretssur Reeripia and 3lrna• From C.worn; From sale of l'ub;ic Lund. Frum misctilarmous sources TOLIII ieceirta, Add b Lmce in Tirs.ury, lit Is, IZIS, Tots] mean• fhe ex rendit ul es tittring the same 1=11!MEMIII!I Leasing a balance in the Trea,uty Me Secretary recommrid 1. Di.,c no m m iney be collected then is necessary for the 'rents of an ecenomical administra- o . llle, not In bre, above the in t rate which wd! yivld the Free test ret enue MASON IC FUN ORAL RITY.S,—ThR NeW Orken2 Delta of the `29th um.: The Masonic funeral rites to !rho memory of Gus ASDREW J•CKSON, and the de ;ceased Grand Masters of the Greed Lodge of the State of Louisiana, in the Methodist Church, Poy dras street, last evening, were grand, solemn and im posing. The rich and dazzling paraphernalia of the Masons, the numbers of beautiful women that throng.; ed the galleries, and the mourning drapery in which the church was hung, formed a rich picture of sccor dant contrasts. One felt himself • witness or a scene partaking somewhat of the unearthly. and the inscri bed cenotaph which rested on a platform covered with flowers—the sonorous, swelling notes of the orchestra —seemed to increase rather than dispel the illusion, We hove not space to give a detail of the proceed• Mg, An oration was delivered in French by Mons. Mooluire, and Mr. Finley, President of the Masonic College, Kentucky, delivered one in English, in which 114 reviewed the life and eulogised the actions of G rs• ERAL Leadoff, and defended Freemasonry form the objections urged against it, contending that it Ives a great moral intsitutinn, founded on the Bible; having for its object, the inculcation of faith, hope and charity, and the benificient exercise of the virtues, justice, tem. perance, fortitude and mercy. The exercised were prolonged till ten o'clock. iVo noticed among the auditory—having no MISOIIiC symbols—the Governor of the State, the Attorney Oen_ ertl, the United States District Attorney, the Mayor, Recorder Baldwin, and the Naval Officer of the Port. Mojor roamer, a rnember of the New Yoek Bar, so well known as an exiled Pole, is in Washington ,city, and has been admitted to practice as an Attornry and Counsellor of the Circuit Court for the D. C.— Ho is retain,•d by the heirs of General Thaddeus KOS. CIUICO in suits which are pending here for the recovery of the assets 'remitting to $40,000 which Gen. Kos• ciusko Irk in this country. ANOTITFR DIaIIONIAT CLlClM.—Aadrew Archibald, a clerk of Jui. Beck & Co. of New York, has been arrested on a charge of robbing Ws employer, and a bout $3OO worth of the stolen property found at his ilsolling. A clerk of the sarne firm was arrested a kw days ago on s similar charge. We are ibtiebted m :Newt , ' StulwEUY and CASIK tto:e ,of the Senate; Messrs Ftextats, Dovot.,tss, Fos TER, GARVIN, Ha span and DARRAGH, of the House of Representatives for copies of the President's mes• Ig" Persons having in tlwir possession memorials with signatures, in favor of granting the 13altimore and Ohio Rail Road Company right of way to Pittsburgh. are respectfully reque,ted to forward the same to Jet, see Carothers, F.sq. This request of coarse extends only to the people of Pittsburgh, Allegheny city, and Allegheny county. Or The , attention of nor readers is respectfully directed to the suggestions of our correspondent, ..A Taxpayer." It is ce t airily time that :he city authoii• ties should give the nul,ject lel - el-redo° by our curves• pondent, proper attention. The market place is en. their too contracted—many market mornings it is almost impossible to rearb those having /wicks to dispose of, owing to the small space allowed for the great crowd of people nrcesaarily in attendance. THE LATE 11,a ng A MUlll.t.NOEflu, -- Mc Strrck et , Ridge road abote Buttonwood street, an). the Pennsylvanian, has just completed a beet:lit - 01 mono• mint to be elected nt Reading, to the memory of this distingnished individual end statesman. The style i. Grecian, and the ornaments licit and chaste. A !au• eel wreath end funeral torch elahotutely carved, en rich two sides of the slob, whilst no the others are re raided the ster!ing tailors and many abili•ies of the dereastni The shaft is crowned with a cap, orna mented with the richest scrolls and foliage, and for whole appropriately sornottnied by a highly hit bed hourglass. The monument is about II feet Isigh.und was designed and mien:mod bt Mr. Strecker and is is his best style. It will h., rem iced to Reading early this work tube placed star the remain. attic lament. ed patriot and .listinguithrd citizen. RI.MAISi or 61:NDRI DA, DAUnHirllor THY. CoNqvcit , rt.—The ( Eng.) Ad‘erii..r late. an irreleming anlivaiian discu.ery in s part ni Lear. Priiisy where the 14,11. men sic et- gaged in excasations for tin• Brighton, Lewes, and Hi•tings Radioed. digging rlose by, in fact ai midst the ruins of the old ['luny, the W'.l tneti loi upon a bard substance, %filch on closer inspection proved to be a Ittaden boa, summated by a (.•w s.piare Caen stone.. Alter clearing array the roil, it was carriully trtno‘ed; and turnrd mat to be a 6.1, in abich were human 64 , t/ell. Further examinatunt led to the •rid more important discovery that it contained the remains of Gundreda, daughter of William the CO0t11111 . (0f. the name (rondreda, as it is spelt, hein: cut upon its lot. Thl..;rr of the rist is about a yard in length, a firot in width,and nine inches in depth. The b.l, sal a, and ends, ale 10 Vl,lierllpre•er vstion; but the bounce is destroy-J.—an triter ■pl.arrntl% (,to- dured by the honer, orb. If' they lay, rbere ihr lead DU QUES\E it welt cia nwled 1 he lea.] ie ornamented by being ca.t iu bends d compartment. of ilpe I:,zoow form, five inches k there; arid the ;o1 Gt. on, or rather lope orrt the sided. Silitttly uhni th id nurinu. and in tere.ting ft tic had been luutul, the wor.men lit " 0 „ ■ ...con,' cid% rtcrisnv similar in f trm, shape, chat over and material, but loug.r. The 1,,,ti-om wax rutrn ■way In the name manner as that or it• corn roknion, •nt On The hd ana inarraand be word with an abhrenirrtion (or rite a x, an old but usual way 1!:27.52r, 11`2 70 :077.0^' 30 Eruzza of writing fiulielrnur. This oar •nti