jfBFTERSONIAN M3P0BUCAN
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Tlunrsctay, August 13, 1840.
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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
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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-
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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
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t it will rc-
Commissioner from Mexico has arrtv
ini an offer of his Gorernnfont that
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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
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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
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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
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llf.,,.:va emnlovments for those denend-
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,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
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nnriunn triih snlid rnmfnrt snrcad amonn
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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
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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
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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,
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an mc uouEcnoiu conveniences, wnai nanus oi
order and industry, what general education,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I from ,evy and sale under lhe existing insolvent
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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.