ket to us ? The American market consumed annually nearly a thousand millions of Ameri can grain ; the British market one-quarter of no million. 'Great Britain took of uur. flour 'not a tenth pari of the amount taken by the n-i and Weal "Indies:; not a ihhd part as much a- Biazil; not as much as the Utile Island of Cuba ; and not much more than half as much as Hayti. Poor, miserablB, negro Hayti, took last year 53, H I barrels of our flour, while England, Scoiland, and Ireland Together, took but 35,355 barrels of flour and one barrel of orn-meal. Yet we are told in -the face of 'hese official facts, by the Secretary of the Treasury, that we must take more British goods, otherwise she will have to pay us "cash for our breadstuff's, and, not having it to spare, she w ill not buy as much of our cotton." What an insult to American farmers is this. As an hon orable mart must he not blush for his reputation when he looks upon these facts ? But what tetter could we expect from this American Sec retary, who, over and ovor, in his report, de nounces ihe substitution of American manufac tures for foreign goods, and declares that direct taxation is more equitable and just than duties on foreign goods, especially in its operation on the poor! Better levy taxes on our own pro ductions than on those of foreigners ! Such are the doctrines openly avowed by this Secre tary 'o favor his miserable system of ' free irado." Away with auch British doctrines as iheso! They could never find favor with the American people while a spark of patriotism animates their hearts, or a drop of Revolution-; ary blood run in their veins. j The gentleman from Alabama will no doubt dis-! cover another terrible absurdity when Mr. S. sta- j ted that Great Britain exported and sold more ag ricultural produce than any other country in the -world. Yc: i: is strictly and undeniably true. Exported, not in its original form, but worked up i and converted into goods, iron, cloths, &c, con sisting of raw materials and breadstuff's. Great Britain exported, on an average, more than two hundred.and fifty millions of dollars worth of man ufactures, one-half of the whole value of which consisted of the produce of the soil. The United States took about one-fifth part of all the exports of Great Britain being more than all Europe put together. In a report of a committee in the Brit ish Parliament, made some years ago.it appeared that the British goods consumed by the people of the different countries of Europe, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Belgium, &c, amounted to fourteen cents' worth per head, while the people of the United States in the same time consumed three hundred and fifty-four cents worth per head! This showed the immense importance of the A merican market to Great Britain, and accounted for her great solicitude to retain it. It also show ed the superior wisdom of the European Govern ments in excluding British goods by high and pro hibitory tariffs ; thus developing and relying upon their own resources, encouraging and sustaining their own national industry, promoting their own prosperity, and thus establishing (as we should do) their own national independence on the most solid and lasting foundations. Mr. S- invited scrutiny into the facts he had stated ; he challenged contradiction. He put them before gentlemen, and begged them to examine and disprove them if they could. He invited them so reflect upon them in a spirit of candor. To dismiss from their minds all party bias ; to rise for once superior to the low grovelling prejudices of party ; to wake up to the great interest, and feci for the real strength and true glory and inde pendence of their native land. Malignity Rewarded. If the business of " biting files" be at all plea sam, we rather envy Mr. Charles J. lngersoll for, having permanent employment that way, he must be the happiest viper alive. All the charges made by viper lngersoll, against Mr. Webster have been disproved. Indeed, the testimony in favor of Mr. Webster was so tri umphant that the viper's friends, on the com mittee, were forced to abandon him. Nor is this all. He stands convicted of falsehood in rudely interrupting Mr AUimun to deny that he had endeavored to tamper with John Tyler. Mr. Ashmun stands corroborated by the testi mony. Mr. Webster stands proudly vindicated by the testimony and the report and the viper lngersoll is left to the acorn of those who did previously detesl him. It is a great pity that he was not, as he desired, born early enough to have been " a Tory in the Revolution," so that the present generation might not have been re sponsible for Buch a human hyena. Albany Journal. IKJ3 Most of our roaders are doubtless in formed by this time, that the British Tariff", passed the American House of Representatives week before last, by a majority of 19. Thus is the thin veil that covered the foul fraud which made James K. Polk President, at length torn entirely away. This infamous bill should have been headed, " An act to encourage Eu ropean Industry, and depress that of the United States."-J3eZ. Apollo. Arisla sent 450 dollars to General Vega and .,250 dollars to the officers who accompanied him to New Orleans before their departure he also authorized him and his companions to draw on the Supreme government for their pay which will bo reimbursed to any commercial house which might advance the money. A young lady in Cincinnati on Sunday night a week, knocked or pushed a young exquisite backwards out of a second story glass door, for making advances to her of an ofTensivo nature. He fell some 12!feei; his hat and cane were thrown after him. After recovering a little frm'the jar he nfado off". I JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN Thnrsday, July 16, 1846. Terms, $2,00 :n advance: $2.5, half yearly; and $2,50 if not paid bcfoicthe end ef the year. ffT V. B. PALMER, Esq. is the Agent for this paper at his oftice ot real estate ana country Newspaper agency in Philadelphia, North-Wcst corner of Third and Chestnut streets ; Tribune buildings, Nassau st., N. Y.; South East corner of Baltimore and Calvert sts., Baltimore, and No. 12, State street, Boston. Mr. Palmer will receive and forward subscriptions and advertisements for the Jeffcrsonian Republican. Messrs. MASON $ TUTTLE, at 38 William streot, New York, are also our authorized Agents, to receive and forward subscriptions and adver tisements for the Republican. Democratic Wilis Candidate. FOil CANAL COMMISSIONER, JAMES M. POWER, OF MERCER COtfNTV. We are indebted to ho Hon. R. Brodhead, for a copv of hia speech against McKay's Brit ish Tariff Bill. Wo hope our readers will not fail to notice the Card, contained in another column, an nouncing the FAIR to be held in our town; and in the second place, we hope they will not fail tobe there, when the lime comes, with plenty of the needful. Wo take great pleasure in speaking a good word for the Ladies, in re lation to this matter indeed we do. If we were to take a little pains, we might produce twenty reasons, perhaps, why wo should help them on in their enterprize. Two or three may suffice, especially as our readers, doubt less, are convinced already, as well as they could be by any rhetoric of ours. The object is decidedly good, as we are informed the pro ceeds are to be applied to the liquidation, in part, of a debt against the Church, and in part, to certain needed improvements in and about the Church It will be an occasion of inno cent festivity, very rare in the history of our staid and quiet place ; it will relieve, somewhat, the monotony occasioned by the constant re currence of familiar objects; and be promotive of kindly feeling, we trust, by bringing together in a kind of unceremonious and promiscuous concourse, our worthy citizens, all of whom are members of the great brotherhood of man kind, and should govern themselves according ly. Again, we do hold that as the Ladies have been at considerable pains to get up this Fair, it would be in decided bad taste nay, worse, it would manifest an unpardonable lack of gal lantry to give it the go-by ; and we trust this last consideration will be allowed its due weight, whatever may be thought of the others. Having thus, in all sincerity, commended this worthy object and its fair promoters to the favor of our patrons, we dismiss the subject by offering a sentiment, which, albeit unused to the art and mystery of making up poetry, we will essay to inflict upon our readers, all in rhyme, thus The Fair at Stroudsburg, to be held by the fair ; May it meet fair success, and be fit to compare, With the Fairs held in Easton, Honesdale and elsewhere, In things good to look at, to eat and to wear, Things pretty and neat, and tasteful and rare ; In short, may it prove to be no small affair. The Land Graduation Bill. Congress appears determined to do its worst at the present session. Not satisfied with the attack on the Tariff, an endeavor to re-establish the thrice condemned Sub-Treasury, and sev eral other matters of general importance, they have at length succeeded in forcing through the Senate, by means of the locofoco majority there, a Bill to reduco, in the course of a few years, the price of our Public Lands, to twentu- fivc cents an acre. The Bill, when called up in the House, was laid on the table by a vote of 89 to 85, but subsequently, a motion to re-consider was carried by the casting vote of the Speaker, and it is now thought that the Bill will also pass the House. The members of Mr. Polk's Cabinet were on the floor of the House during the time it was under considera tion, and it is mainly owing to their influence that the motion to reconsider was carried. This Bill when in operation, will have the ten dency to throw nearly all ihe lands into the hands of ihe capitalists and speculators. They will purchase them at 25 cents an acre, and after holding them a while, demand at least ten or twenty times that amount in the event of disposing of thorn. Thus, then, is our great national domain to be squandered not for the purpose of aiding the laborer, or mechanic, but for the purpose of making the rich capital ists lords of the soil, and swelling their means, influence, and importance. This is tho kind of Km c Democracy bears to the poor man now-a-dv '. The Tariff of 1S42. Since the passage of Mr. McKay's free-trade Bill to repeal the present Tariff" act, a number of interesting little incidents have-been raked up to show by what base means the people of the Union (and particularly of Pennsylvania) were deceived into voting for Mr. Polk. It is stated as a fact, that at nearly all the loco foco mass meetings in this State, banners were car ried with inscriptions approbatory of tho Tariff of 1842. We know that in Monroe county such a banner was actually carried not only at one meeting, but at a number. It was made in Stroudsburg, and read as follows : The Tariff ol 1 842. ?! The Monroe Democrat also repeatedly pub lished articles in relation to the Protective Pol icy, and endeavored to make its readers believe that James K. Polk was a better Tariff man than Henry Clay. Yet now, since the contra ry is clearly established, the Democrat does not whimper a word against the base deception. The only inference, therefore, that we can draw from its course is, that its editors knew better all the time, and that they are now glad hat the Tariff of 1842, is in a fair wav of be ing destroyed. What must tho honest yeo manry of Monroe think of such baseness 1 Stewart's Speech. On our first page will be found the conclu sion of the Speech of the Hon. Andrew Stew art, of this State, recently delivered in the House of Representatives, at Washington. It is one of the ablest arguments upon the subject of Protection which we remember ever to have seen. Every American citizen should read it. The Treasury of History. We have received the 12th number of this truly valuable work. It concludes the series. We have already so frequently spoken of the merits of the Treasury, that we can do noihing more at this time than again to urge our read ers to subscribe for it, if they have not already done so. fcuery ? Can any person inform us where the Banner is which bore the inscription " The Tariff of 1S12," and which was carried at the Locofoco meetings held in Monroe county in 1844 1 American Ingenuity. The London Standard of the 14th May has the following paragraph :-- " The United States would seem to be, all places in the world, the worst adapted of to manufactures abundant land, dear labor, no neighboring market, yet the United States are making rapid progress in manufactures, and it is a remarkable fact not we believe, as gen erally known as it ought to bo that nearly all the mechanical contrivances introduced into our factories, for dispensing with human labor, are of American invention ; proof that, where money or credit can be had, a dense population is not, as has been supposed, necessary for the ad vancement of manufactures." On this statement the able Paris correspon dent of the National Intelligencer remarks--- " American ingenuity is so superior, intrepid, and various that a repressive baffling policy, or any other than one of encouragemont and scope, would seem against the favor of Providence and the march of destiny." " Phifty-phour 'phorty, or phighl," has now phortunately phallcn to phinal, phlat-phooted, phixing at phorty-ninc, without the ' phioht" against a phoreign phoe. A'. O. Tropic. It would seem, by the following paragraph from tho Boston Traveller, that somebody has been questioning the 14 guessing" talent of the good people of that city. It was nobly vindi cated, however, by tho champion selected for the trial. Here is the report : Guessing. A Yankee connected with the Eastern railroad, on Monday morning guessed, before any count or estimato was made, that 8,000 persons passed in and put of Boston ovor that road ; on counting it was ascertained that there were just 8,030 ; about 5,000 into Boston against 3,000 out. We. wish to try this Yankco on a guess: When will the Mexican war be ended? An swer that, and gel the thanks of Mr. Polk. Patriot. The venerable Ashbel Grek.v has been re elected President of the Pennsylvania Bible Society. This venerable Jerseyman, who was Chaplain to Congress during General Wash ington's Administration, and enjoyed a familiar intercourse with the great men of that day, is, the country will be pleased to learn. enaed "Oft in writing out the minutes of his diary a faith ful daily record of public events and the course of opinion, embracing the whole period of our nistory troin the commencement uf the Rc Union, The discussions of the war with Mexico by j The Peace-maker Outdone, the Btitish press, which have just reached us, j A few days since, a stupendous piece of ord are remarkable. They charge us with being t nance was cast at Algre'a foundry. South Bos the aggressors in the war, forgetting that, be- j ton, under the immediate superintendence of fore hostilities broke out, we first sent a mes-1 Col. Boinford, who was the first inventor of this sage of peace to Mexico through our Consul, ) species of weapon, called by him in 1S09, thu and then followed up our message by a Minis-1 "Columbia." ter, fully accredited, upon the same pacific er-j The quantity of metal used was 40,000 lb3., rand. Washingtoti Union. j and lite amount of coal requisite to reduce it to It is true that it was proposed, through the t a proper state of fusion, was eight chaldron?. American Consul, to open negotiations, but it! The weight of the gun when finished, will bts is not true that the United Stales, in despatch-j 25,000 pounds, exceeding that of the Peace ing a Minister, fairly carried out the under-Maker by 5,000 pounds. Length, ten fee; di standing with the Consul. The Mexican Go-, ameter at the base ring, 39 inches ; lengih of vernment agreed to treat, in regard to the Tex-1 J bore, y feet 1 inch; diameter of bore, 12 inches, an boundary, with a Commissioner appointed ' Weight of round shot which it will carry, 230 specially for that business; but the United j pounds; weight of shell, 180 pounds, Rango States, instead of sending such a special Cum- of shot or shell, 3 1-2 miles being 1-4 of ;i missioner, sent a Minister Plenipotentiary. mile greater than the recorded performances gC There is no reason whaieer :o doubt that Mex- the largest and latest invented mortar in Eng ico would have received the special Comrnis- land, and half a mile beyond the reach of any sioner and treated with hint. In the corres-j gun in the castle at San Juan de Ulloa, at Vc pondence wiih Slidell, the Mexican Minister of ' ra Cruz. Foreign Affairs slated repeatedly that the Mex- The cost of this immense instrument for har ican Government was ready to receive ihe bor defence will not exceed $1700: or ono Commissioner, and to negoiiate about the mat-' sixth the cost of the wrought iron gun procured ters in difference with the Untied States ; but in England by Captain Stockton, that that Government could not consent, in the . This gun is intended for Fort George, in then state of affairs, to the resumption of friend- Boston Harbor, where it will be placed in about ly relations implied by receiving a Minister ( 5 weeks, as it requires that time to complete it Plenipotentiary, whilo the United States held ready for use. military possession of a part of her territory,' and had a fleet hovering about her seaports. ! A Dangerous liife Trap. It was barely consistent with these hostile de I appears by the Pittsburgh Chronicle, that monsiratioiis to receive a Comn:issioiier io ad- for a few years past a point in the Mononga just the boundary, but the Government of Mex-, hela river, opposite the gas works of that city, ico could not with self-respect do an act which has been the grave of so many more person- would imply the existence of friendly disposi- hy drowning, than any other point on the rivrr. lions on both sides. We entertain hardly a as to be a subject of special wonder, and a mya doubt that tho war might have been averted if.tery which has at length been solved by tho ' a special Commissioner had been sent out, ac-, cording to the arrangement made through the American Consul. Louisville Journal. ITIr. McDi:ffie. The following pithy extract is from the Wash ton correspondent of the Boston Atlas: " Mr. McDuffie told me with his own lips. that it had become the duty of every conserva- tive Statesman tO take ground against the reck- lessness of the Administration, and he meant to do it on the first occasion that offered." Scott ia the hour of Trial. At the battle of Queenstown, when General Scott?s little band of American troops had withstood a terrible fire from an overwhelming force, until ihe dead and wounded were urotind them, and death or surrender seemed the inev itable fate of every man, SCOTT mounted a log-, in the midst of the fire, and appealed to his comrades to stand bv their country even though every man were to fall in its defence. He said : 11 The enemy 's balls begin to thin our ranks. His numbers are over whelming. In a moment the shock will come, and there is no reireat. We are in the beginning of a national war. Hull's surrender is to be redeemed ! LET US DIE ARMS IN HAND OUR COUNTRY DEMANDS THE SACRIFICE. The ex - amplo will not be lost. The blood of the slain will make heroes of the living. Those who follow will avenge our fall and their country's wrongs. Who dare to standi" They did stand, and "Queenstown Heights" ! is associated with the honor and glory of the American arms. Yet this the man that tho To ry Ledger says should be "SHOT," and his office given to some pauper whose only merits are those of a pothouse brawler. What say the people to it ? An Attack on the Castic at Vera Crnz ordered. A Washington letter writer, says that the Cabinet have formally decided that there shall be an attack by our fleet, on the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa ! Tho subject has been under consideration a long time. Wc are waiting anxiously to hear tho result. The Secretary of tho Navy has made arrangements to receive the earliest intelligence. War Expense and War Debt. Tho National Intelligencer says : " In the House of Representatives on Monday, the Chairman of ihe Committee of Ways and Means reported a bill making additional appro priaiions to the amount (within a fraction) of twelve millions of dollars for tho expenses of the war with Mexico ; and also a bill for the borrowing, in the form of treasury notes or loan, ten millions of dollars towards paying those expenses. A slender provision for the next six months !" Oh! Cracky. Whilst Gen. Scott was ta king his Soup, Presidom Polk was engaged, in swallowing "the whole of Oregon"--he made one tremendous gulp at 54 40, but it would not go down, it mick in his throat 'till at length he- p:i out .ill bui l'J, whni down it went ! engineer of the gas works, who says that there s constantly issuing from the bottom of tht j river in front of the building, containing tho Receiver, a highly noxious gas, composed in ! pari of ammonia. When the river is disturbed, . it rises to the top in bubbles, which burst, de I positing on the water an oily substance, which floats off glistening with prismatic colors. j Should a swimmer, while his head is under the water, inhale nne of thesa huhbles. it insiantlv produces asphyxia, and unless the sufferer is immediately relieved he sinks to rise no more. It is a singular fact that in almost every case of drowning at this point, the sufferers have not risen to tho surface after first sinking. The other day a mall alligator breathed somo" of this gas, and after floundering on to the shore with his mouth open, died of the effect. The fall of bodies, or meteori'; stone, ha. it seems, been unusually frequent this year, in the south of France. M, Arago has recently received a letter giving an-account of another instance of a conflagration caused by one of those bodies, or fireballs, near Bagneres-de-Luchon. Fire was communicated to a barn at about three o'clock in the afternoon, by a lu minous sheafjwhich whizzed through the air with inconceivable rapidity, and a loud noiso ! and fell upon the building. In a few moments ( af,eri lh0 whole building was wrapped in flames and all the cattle and other beasts in tho stables were consumed. Evading the New York License L.air. Since the selling of spirituous liquors has been prohibited, the landlords are adopting all sorts of tricks to evade the law. The follow ing are the latest we have heard of : In one tavern tho landlord has caused a box to be put up in his bar-room, on which are painted, in bold letters, "For the widow and orphan fund of the village of ." Any body wanting a glass of liquor gives six pence to the cause of charity, and the landlord treats. In another place, a landlord refuses to sell any liquor, but he demands from each traveller a six-pence for backing his horse under tha ahed the liquor of course being gratuitous. Lock-Jaw Cured. Dr. Isaac Hiester, of Reading, Pa., in tho month of April last, cured Charles Sassaman, a. lad, sixteen years of age, by the use of a. solu tion of the extract of cannabis Indicator Indian hemp. An aqueous solution of tho extract of cannabis lndica, containing two "rains to th teaspoonful, was directed to be administered. . at intervals, and in the course, of a few day the patient was entirely relieved. This is an -important discovtuv. Tho facts of the easa are to bo found recorded in the last Boston Medic al and Surgical Journal. One of the most remarkable facts in the diet of mankind, is the enormous consumption of tea and coffee. Upwards of 800,000,000 lbs. of those articles are annually consumed by the inhabitants of the world, Fine ponies may now be bought at Matamo ras for five dollars each.
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