jfBFTERSONIAN M3P0BUCAN ii-L: . -.-r Tlunrsctay, August 13, 1840. Terms, s,:n advance- $2.S5,"naifycariy;Vnd $2,50 if not ! - f- vear- 0 V. B. PALMER, Esq. is the Agent for this paper al his office of real estate and Country . Newspaper agency in Philadelphia, North-West corner of Third and Chestnut streets; Tribune buildings, Nassau st., N. Y.: South East corner, of Baltimore and Calvert sts., Baltimore, and No. j j. oiaie street, Dosion. mr. ramier win receive and forward subscriptions and advertisements for ihe Jefferscnian Republican. Messrs. MASON j- TUTTLE, at 38 William street, New York, are also our authorized Agents, jo receive and forward subscriptions and adver tisements for the Republican. Democratic Whig Candidate. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, JAMES M. POWER, OF MERCER COUNTY. JXj3 A terrific hail storm, accompanied with sharp lightning, passed near Siroudsburg, on Sunday lhe'9ih inst. From what we can learn,! il was about a mile in wium, anu pursued a i '"course nearly east and weai. ine miiry io MM . fields of buckwheat and corn was very consid - .ruble: income instances the destruction is complele. Some of the hall stones were said to be as large as hens eggs. The barn of Val- entine Werkhiscr was struck with lightning and one cow was killed. Several trees wero aho struck, and many were blown down by the : violence of the tornado, and some were twisted off near the root The Teeth. Dr. V. M. Swavze, Demist, of Easton, has taken rooms at the Siroudsburg House, where ho will remain uniil the 20th inst., and will bo j pleased to wail upon all who need his services. I We have every assurance thai the Dr. is an j nrlim in n.m.,1 Q. , mm.,.; ; 11 I "" ' utuioi uuici), aniiicu ill ail iiju ou creis of his profession, and can, wiih confidence, recommend him to all who wish to restore or prevent the further decay and loss of teeth. The .Wilkes-Barro Advocate of the 5th inst. say: "Just before our paper went to press we learned that the Iron operators at Danville have given notice to their hands, that in Octo ber next the wages of hands will be reduced 30 per cent. Eighteenth Concessional District. The Hon. Andrew Stewart, has been nomin ated by the Whig conferees of the district as a candidate for re-election, and, we presume, will without a doubt be elected. Appointment!), by the President. By and vcitk the advice and consent of the Senate. Robert G. Grier, of Pennsylvania, to be one of the Associaio Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Slates, in the place of Henry Baldwin, decoased. James Page, Collector of the Customs for the District of Philadelphia. John L. Gow, Eq., is the Whig candidate for Congress in the XXth District of Pennsvi vania, now represented by John H. Ewing, Whig. The District gave Clay 519 majority. The Bill to Organize a Territorial Govern . meni in Oregon was passed on Thursday last in the House. An amendment proposed by Mr. Thompson, of Pa., to exclude Slavery from the Territory forever was adopted by a, vote of ' IC8 to 43. . Letters Irom Washington state mat me 1 res- - - -. a f T-t t Jdent sent a message to the Senate on the 5ihjycl sprungiup.' Except their color, and some inst. wuu a proposition lor reace wmi wni.f(ff gcneraj 8jgn8 of belonging to civilized life, co. it is believed toat Mexico is wining to rc- ceire a Commissioner or Minister from this country. Mr. Slidell has returned from Sar atoga to Wabluncton. J here is a rumor that a ' d brir . ' ... t it will rc- Commissioner from Mexico has arrtv ini an offer of his Gorernnfont that , . ....... la f 1 .1. . . I. I)-.. ...IAn V. u I V x ib itibu rumureu inai me i leaiuuiu nas auu miiied to the Senate that ho will send Mr. Sli dell as Minister to Mexico, if the Senale think proper, and be will ask of Congress an appro priaiion of three millions of dollars to purchase ssomc of ihe Western departments of the Mexi can Republic. Hon. George Howard, Ex-governor of Ma-, ryjaf.d, died at hi residence in Anno-Arundel on the night of the 2d ifisl. ''It is said that Sir Robert Peel is coming to Whisjcounlfy. Perhaps for'the purposnof con prattilaungmr Sir Robert on the succeTs'bf his finish Tariff Bill. - Whom does Protection Concern? This question, asked as to the Tariff, and as to the greater interest of the poor or the rich in Protective duties, is a good deal like asking, Who have the greater need to be defended by the laws, the weak or the strong 1 For, as the strong are able to live with less aid of laws than W"V T 1 7 ! '177 of themselves than the destitute, rorthelai- lerj thero may be need of poorhouses and other public charities; these, therefore, though a pure- ly artificial contrivance, all Governments find it good to create ; but is it the rich who require xiem i We apprehend not. " protective tariffs are adopted ,u oaJ ,,,a t"w for the benefit of the capitalists is just about as true as tnal iaws are made for the benefit of lawyers only, or that poorhouses are built mere ly for the sake of the overseers of the poor. Hut there are others that have a much greater interest in ihe existence of law than the law yers, and in that of poorhousos than the over seers. It is all the difference which a man has between the necessity of living and that of gel ting rich. Laws and poorhouses may enable lawyers and overseers to grow richer; but the rest of. the community could not exist without i ihe laws, and the naupers would perish if there not noorilouses. So is it with laws that. by what we call the Protective System, creaie ! i . .- i r .i .1 1 llf.,,.:va emnlovments for those denend- .... , ,. ,,-i ,ir pu0 ,4111 IUI 0UU3ISIC11UO Ull U1C1I Utllljr muui. .int. aame ,aW9 he,p ,he c3p5taIi'sl.a man already ! possessed of s0me VveaIth-to gel more ; but , wha u ,he ,i(llo anJ vaifl enjovmenl 0f bU0Wf . - . . , , w ... fo hi, com. nnriunn triih snlid rnmfnrt snrcad amonn 1 1 ,. r u., ,i.. ioti-c ..'iiini. WUU1C UUUIC3 Ul llln jiuui ujr uicou 111v.11 b- ,heir ,ab()r ;mo conslanl (leman( and a(. vance its compensation still more in that con tinual employment than in mere rate of wages? If, then, protectivo duties are to the advan tage of one capitalist, (who could, however, live without them) they are of vastly more rel ative advantage to perhaps hundreds of poor, in each manufactory, who could scarcely live, even without them, and about whom, at any event, they double and triple and quadruple all the se curity, and comfort, and respectability of life. To judge more surely of the fact which we are asserting, let any one look at the compara tive condition of the laboring poor, in those quarters where the Protective System has reared up these artificial employments, and in those other quarters where it has not. In the former, you see all busy, diligent, and well paid; the women as profitably occupied as the men, in proportion to their strength; and the very children either at work, or at school, upon funds which the surplus of their own wages has in reality often supplied. No rags, no wretchedness, no melancholy cabin, half-roofless and with floor of mud, a tattered troop of wild children about, a sad mother looking half-famine-struck, to be seen occasionally through the dismantled door or brokon walls, her husband probably gone a fishing or a hunting, because he, the sole worker for the family, cannot get employment more than half his time. This latter is the description, familiar to every body, of the poor of all those parts of the country j where the beneficient action of the system we speak of has not yet created employments. Among them, the habitation is such as scarcely defends from the weather; the raiment is scan ty, coarse, unsuitcd io the season, and full of rents or patches; the food itself is bad, insuffi cient, and always uncertain fur the morrow; and t live dollars at a time in money is a ming no more to be dreampt of than' the possession of the Bank of England. Add to all this the sad dest of human deprivations the absence of 9 neaily all hope of ever bettering their condition This is the situation of the poor of those who have not farms of their own over neatly the , le connlrVl vvhere manufactories have not b . m bett ofr h gavafre. Oil ihe other hand, see what general comfort, what cheerfulness in the dwelling, what deceit' 1 ,ness aPParc' wnat abundance .and nicety of the food, what a multiplication of, ., , , - ... 'Y , an mc uouEcnoiu conveniences, wnai nanus oi order and industry, what general education, I - J what respectability, what cheerful expectations of the future, grow up for the laboring classes around every centre of the employments which iheso laws for the encouragement of produc tion at home bring about. Let nny man look on all this, and tell us, if he has the conscience, that this System and these entabliohments are for i ho benefit of bloated capiialisis !" For one benefit to thoso capitalials, ihey confer hun dredn of benefits on the working classes. Thi: wc will take another occasion more minuiely and .systematically to explain, and to develop as-wrll as we can, the whole necessary rela iUnLantl depency between the .employer and the laborera dependency (a8 we havcJsaid) much more necessary to the latter than to the former. National Intelligencer. The Luzerne Democrat, a thorough-going loco-foco paper, concludes an article comment ing on tho passage of ihe British Tariff Bill, by the House with the following remarks : " Poor old Pennsylvania with her mountains 0f ironand vallies of coal, must now put her neck on the block and permit ruin, wild and certain, to stalk over her almost dead ruins. What has she done whai has her sturdy yeo manry done, that she and they are to be thus severely punished. Must the furnaces that burn by day, and light up the night with their cheer ing blaze from tho Lake shore to the Delaware like the pillar of fire tho hope of the Isra elites of old bo put out ? Must tho thousands of our canal boats that are daily passing our great inland thoroughfare, and yielding employ ment and bread to thousands, be laid up in dry docks, and our fires be kindled with British Coal? & " But let us look at one or two of tho features of this British Tariff and free-trade law of Con gress. Under the provisions of the Tariff of 1812, coal was protected by a duty of SI 75 cents per ton the present free-trade bill puts it on an ad valorem duty of SO 50 $1 25 off the duly imposed by the law of 1842. Now mark the effects this mad policy will produce. The coal mines of Nova Scotia lie upon ihe seaboard and nearer to the manufacturing es tablishments of New England, than tho vasi basins of the Wyoming, Lackawanna, Schuyl kill and Lehigh the consequence is that Eng lishmen will take the coal operations out of the hands of the American miners and want and hunger will be the reward to our laboring men by this kindly fostering hand of southern poli- cy. iron too, mc oilier great staple oi renn sylvania, comes in the leveling horizontal sweep. Duty is reduced one-half on iron com pared with the law of 1842. How does this operate on the prospects of old Luzerne. The iron mills and furnaces of Columbia county consume, this season 150,000 tons of coal call this $2 00 per ton which brings back to us S300:000 in cash. The country is not im poverished by the trade. Who gets this $300,- 000 ? first, the miner and coal operator sec ondly, the farmer for his grain and the mechan ic for his labor. Is there any fiction in this 1 Is it not fact? Open our ports for the intro duction of foreign iron, and the low labor of Europe will destroy our iron trade and our home labor. What kind of policy is this that destroys the industry of the land? It may be sport to the south, but it is death to the north and unless the people of the Middle and East ern Slates stand up and maintain their rights they are overpowered and destroyed by -south ern cupidity. What free laboring man wants to be turned out of employment to please t he southern slave holder and protect his slave la bor! It is monstrous. Senators of the United Stales, slop in between the country and this leveling paralizing arm of destruction save our laboring men and their families from want have the coal and iron trade of Pennsylvania." Naked Spying. There is a table of comparative duties under ihe Taiiff of '42 and that just passed in a. pick ed list of articles now running the rounds of the Locofoco papers. It commences thus. Articles of Luxury. 1842. 1S4G. Wine Champagne, per cent. 12 30 Carpets Turkey 23 30 Now the actual duly on Champagne Wine imposed by the Whig Tariff of '42 is forty cents per gallon (see sec. 8, clause 56,) and on Turkey Carpets fifty-five cents per square yard, (see sec. 1, clause 3,) which wo are confident will average higher than these articles will pay under ihe new 30 per cent, ad valorems. The Wine duties have in good part been destroyed by an absurd if not corrupt decision of a Loco Foco Secretary, who look tho responsibility of pronouncing them inconsistent with our treaty with Portugal in levying sixty cents per gallon on the costly Madeira while the ordinary cheap red wir.es of France, Austria, &c. are admitted at six cents per gallon. By this outrageous de cision. ihe duly on Madeira has been cut down io a trifle, but through no fault of the Whig Ta riff or he supporters. Tribune. A Good One. The Village Record says, an honest Demo craiic J arm man remarked the other day, " that he would not be surprised if the Whig Senators did pass the bill to repeal the tariff of 1842 ihe Whigs would do any thing! But if thev did Mr. Polk would veto it ! .'" Thai's rich, de cidedly. He says that Mr. Polk is in favor of universal protection of protecting all classes ihat he is a better Tariff man than Mr. Clay.' Beuer and beiier. He says he knows it he read it in the Wesl Chesler Republican in 1S44 and the. Republican )i wuni liu !" " Keep it before the People. ' j The excitement which followed the intelii That the sum proposed .by ihe friends of the gencc of the passage of McKay's British Tariff administration, as a compensation, for the sol-J bill in Pottsville, is said by the Miners' Journal diers who were to fight in tho Mexican war, ' ,0 have; been perfectly wild and infuriated. was the poor, pitiful amount of seven dollars a Effigies of Dallas were hung and burned m eve month, while they were pocketing the public jry direction. Tavern signs which bor his money themselves at the tune of eight dollars a hkeness were forcibly dragged down, and the dQy ' most violent denunciations and imprecations That Mr. Stewart, a noble and liberal heart- vented upon the head of the traitor. Who can ed Whig, with a proper sympathy and just re-1 gard for the poor soldiers, moved the following amendment. "Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pay of all Volunteers in the Mexican Warf j senator ueciareu eiect irom me tate oi Matne, shall be nine dollars and fifty cents per month: ,hat his rihl 10 his seal wil1 be contested, and that those Volunteers, who serve to the end of',1,at deP09'n wi" be lken from 54 members the War, and ihe heirs of thoso who die in ser- j of ,he Legislature, declaring thai they voied on vjee, be allowed one hundred and fifty acres of. lhe ,asl ba,,ot for George Evans. whc'es only J I m . .... i r .1 . land. That this proposition was supported by the whigs ; and that tho loco-focos in a bodu voted it. Let the honest, hard-fisied veoman-! against it ry of the country, who have io fight its battles, ; treasure these facts in their memories. Extract from a speech delivered by George M. Dallas, from the door of his house to the Democratic procession, on the evening after the Presidential election, in favor of ihe Tariff of '42 : "Gentlemen The Tariff of '42 is a Demo cratic measure; it was passed by the Demo crats, and it will be safe in the hands of James 1 gentleman went on board the flag-ship, with K. Polk. If the Tariff is not high enough, J acceptable presents of fruit, &c, and before we will make it stii.l higher!" i leaving obtained a promise from the Commo- Extract from a speech delivered before the , dore io dine on shore with him the next day at Senate, on the 28ih of July, 184G, previous to ' his residence. Commodore Conner all uusus giving the casting vole to destroy the Tariff of'picious of treachery was just in readiness to '42 : j leave his ship when he received an intmaiioii " The responsibility is great, and I feel it ; of the kind intentions of his would be host. deeply, but whatever may be the consequences it must be met." The Way it Benefits the Farmer. An agent, says the Delaware Republican, was lately sent to Ohio to purchase from $300, 000 to $500,000 worth of Wool. Owing to the disturbance of the tariff, the order was counter manded. One of the manufacturers on ihe Brandywine, states that he lately sent orders to an agent to purchase a large quantity of wool at 26 cents per pound, but he shall now coun termand the order, and will not take ihe wool unless he can get it for 20 or 22 cts. per pound. Important to Laborers. The Newburvnort Herald, savs : A letter from an American, who is making a tour of - Austria and Italy, says railroad laborers there receive 25 cents a day, and consider them selves well paid. Women, w ho perform near ly all the drudgery of agriculture, the young men being in the army, receive 15 cents a day. The roads are kept in repair by women, who broak the stone and mend the roads for about 8 cents a day. The general fare is a piece of rye bread for breakfast: for dinner a soup about as substantial as a mixture of warm water and salt, a boiled sausage, and rye bread ; in the evening their frugal meal is solaced by the company of beer, which is used in excess to the exclusion of tea and coffee." Now, it is this kind of labor, and with such wages the Loco Focos here wish the Ameri cans to enter inio competition with. Who's ready for it I meeting of Laborers in 1roy. A meeting of the machinists, millwrights, blacksmiths, laborers and others, employed by the Troy Vulcan Iron Works, was held at the Works on the 30th ult., to consider the effects of the repeal of the Tariff of 1842. Resolu tions were unanimously adopted expressing their conviction that the owners of tho Works had no alternative but to close their business, and delariug that without reference to their for mer political principled, they solemnly pledged themselves, the one to the other, from this day forward, to oppose the party which advocates or carries into effect a measure which deprives them of the means of supporting themselves and families. This U talking to some purpose. The British Tariff! The Sidney and Picion coal mines in Nova Scotia are owned by ihe Duke of York. Un der McKay's bill these mines will again fur nish coal to the United States and the differ- ence in income to his highness the Duke of! York it is ciedibly stated will be half a million of dollars per annum ! This is Pennsylvania's tribute to a British Nobleman ! A Lead Mine discovered is Chester County. Two gentlemen in passing through Chester county, Pa , near Phmnixville, a few days since, saw a lead mine which was discov ered lhe day before by a laboring man, while digging on the farn of Peier Kinsey. 'They! saw the ore tried, and ten pounds of ore pro duced ix pounds of pure lead, of which they have samples, tq ihov be surprised at it 1 Maine Senator. We learn that notice has been regularly served upon Mr. Bradbury, tho C .1 I i- . ..... i 'iv voies were reiurneu lor inai oent email hv the committee. One also deposes that he voted for W. P. Fessenden, for whom no vote was re- turne(K This wiI1 form' we be,iere ,1,c 't i,,stance in which a scat of a United States Senator has been contested. ffol Caught. A letter has been received in Boston, says the Transcript, from an officer of one of the vessels in the Gulf Squadron, which states that quite a cute attpmpt was made a short lime since to entrap Commodore Conner, probably 1 as an exchange for General Vega. A Mexican He didn't go ! Property Exempt from Erecalion. We extract the following from the Pamphlet Laws of 1846, page 477. ; Section 7. From and after ihe passage of thii act, the necessary tools of a iradesmanshall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of any warrant or execution. Section 8. The following property, n addi tion to that already exempt from levy aid sale by virtue of any execution or distress for rem, shall when owned by any person actuilly en gaged in the science of agriculture, in like man ner be exempt from le-y and sale, vis: am; horse, mare or gelding, not exceeding jn value r.c... .1..M . . ..r t i i UUUdra ' "'ae Sea". "'u " plougn; or in lieu tnereot, one yoke oi oxen, with yoke and chain ; and one plough at the option of the defendant. Section 9. That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the wiiow of any person dying inleatale in this Cuumon weahh, to retain for the use of herself aad fam ily, the same amount and description of proper ty which is now by law allowed and exempted ft A I from ,evy and sale under lhe existing insolvent n r .t.:.. t. . ... iaws ui mi uwuniiuii weaui, exclusive oi wiku is allowed to the widow of an intestate, under the intestate laws of this commonwealth. Kain Rain. On Saturday afternoon last this vicinity was visited with the heaviest fall of rain. during the season, which, although much needed both by the earth and air, and with copious additions on the following day, was refreshing to every thing, proved rather more than was desirable to some of our housekeepers and business men. It came down in such a torrent that dwelling houses were flooded in a fow minutes, cellars filled, and other damage done. At the tan-yard of Peter Snyder, Esq., the water from the street overflowed the vats, causing a loss of several hundred dollars. Easton Whig. Raining Snakes. On Wednesday during a storm of rain in Bal timore, a small but perfectly formed snake, re sembling the copper-head, fell in lhe back yard of a warehouse on the wharf, and was picked up by one of the clerks who put it into a bottle for preservation. It is well that such shower are few and far between and that the snakes fall sparingly, or we might have a generatioa of vipers. Emigrants. One hundred and thirty threw emigrants, says the Saturday Courier, arrived in Philadelphia on Saturday last, from Bremen . They were mostly farmers, and left immediate ly for the West, where they intend to purchase land. Among the number was a man 94 years, of age, in a very feeblo state of health, Whose purpose it is to visit two favorite sons living in Pittsburgh, but from his appearance, it did not seem probable that the old man would ever reach that place. The value of the salt manufactured, in New York Slate, in a single year, exceeda.a .million of dollars, and it gives employment to about tyro thousand persons.
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