National Intelligencer. (Washington [D.C.]), Vol. 47, No. 6789, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 27, 1846 Page: 3 of 4
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that I gave my support to the policy of Gen. Jackson’s admin-
istration on this subject. I voted against the tariff act of 1828 ;
I voted for the act of 1832, which contained modifications of
some of the objectionable provisions of the act of 1828 As a
member of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House
of Representatives I gave my assent to a bill reported by that
committee in December, 1S32, making further modifications
of the act of 1S28, and making also discriminations in the im-
position of the duties which it proposed. That bill did not
pass, but was superseded by the bill commonly called the com-
promise bill, for which I voted.
“ In my judgment it is the duty of the Government to ex-
tend, as far as it may be practicable to do so, by its revenue
laws and all other means within its power, fair and just pro-
tection to all the great interests of the whole Union, embracing
agriculture, manufactures, the mechanic arts, commerce, and
navigation.”
To meet the arguments of the Whigs it was necessary to
get something to satisfy the people, and, as his colleague (Mr.
B non he ad) had said, they “ manoeuvred” in this way to per-
suade them to vote for Mr Polk, in the full confidence that he
would be a tariff man. The present bill showed the result of
trusting such assurances.
The gentleman from Georgia had alluded to the duties on
coarse cottons, and had asked why those duties were retained
when the manufacturers claimed that they could make that
species of goods better and cheaper than they could he made
in the world ? He would tell the gentleman why. We
Wanted the market, and all the market, and if vve sold to the
gentleman from Georgia and his Southern friends as cheap
cottons and as good ones as they could buy any where else,
what possible difference did it make to them ? Their doctrine
was to buy where they could buy cheapest, and where would
they buy cotton goods of the same quality so cheap as in the
market of their own country ? Mr. E. said he was sorry to
witness the feeling which prevailed here and in certain por-
tions of the Union in regard to this matter of home produc-
tion. He was sorry to see that gentlemen possessed so little
American feeling, and that d certriiti portion of the American
press seemed totally devoid of the pride of country. This re-
mark applied eminently to the government press in this city.
Instead of exulting, as any one would do who possessed a
true American heart, in the progress of our country toward
real and practical independence, that organ seemed not to
know what such a feeling meant. It was constantly quoting
English articles against our American policy ; and, when the
late exhibition was held in this city of the productions of
American ingenuity and industry, and a spectacle was ex-
hibited well calculated to move and to warm the breast of every
man that loved his country, that paper breathed nothing but
a spirit of contemptuous ridicule. It was called a humbug,
and held up to scorn and contempt, and a constant effort was
made, by daily editorials in this spirit, to produce an unfavor-
able impression throughout the country toward our own na-
tive industry. The editor of that paper should have been
silent, it it were only for shame. He of all men should have
been the last to hold such language and breathe such a spirit.
A man whose whole living was drawn from the work he per-
formed for this Government, and who received for that work
the most extravagant pay that had ever been lavished on any
public press.
, Mr. E. had already shown that the country had flourished
almost beyond ail precedence urider the operation of the exist-
ing tariff But what had been its condition immediately be-
fore ? The business of the country was prostrated, its finances
at the lowest ebb, its credit destroyed, its notes at a dis-
count, and its efforts to obtain a loan futile. But no sooner
had the biil passed which gentlemen now wished to over
turp, than, the whole scene was changed : business instantly
revived ; (lie Treasury was replenished 5 our credit restored ;
our finances flourishing, and the whole country awakifig as
from a dead sleep or a troubled dream. This was experience,
dnd it was better than all theories. From that hour till this
the prices obtained by the farmer for his produce, and the la-
borer for his work, had been improving. As to the labor di-
rectly engaged in manufacture, Mr. E. need say nothing, be-
cause that had been fully explained'by a gentleman from Mas-
sachusetts who had preceded him, (Mr. Win Timor.) The
wages in the factories were every where higher than they had
been when duties were at the very lowest point, and the
same state of things existed in the factories of Pennsylvania.
There was-a great manufacturing district near Mr. E.’s own
residence:, and no part of the cotiiitry witnessed more decided
proof to the influence of a protective tariff. Under the free-
trade system the business of that whole region had been de-
pressed and almost destroyed. Most of the factories had
stopped, and t.jie few which were kept in operation did only
half work. Thousands of ihddstrioiis and hard-working men
were thrown out of employment. But now their wheels were
all in motion, every body was busy, every body was paid,
while the factories furnished a market to all around. It
would be hard for gentlemen, with their free trade theories,
to satisfy any common-sense farmer within fifty miles of Pitts-
burg that it would promote their interest to break down all
these factories .and drivfi all the hands there employed to seek
refuge in agricultural employment. They very well knew
that the turning ail these men into farmers, instead of bene-
fiting them' would be a great injury. It Would destroy the
market they now enjoyed in supplying the manufacturers • it
would bring more agricultural produce into a home market al-
ready glutted, while it would give them in exchange no perma-
nent or reliable foreign market, but only the possibility of in-
troducing a small amount of produce during a temporary pres-
sure abroad, and that in the face of competitors who were con-
tent to labor at Sixpence a day. t Surely, it was most evident
that, if we would enjoy real iWdepehdeiicfe,' We must have a
division of labor among ourselves, so as to be able to sustain
and to benefit each other. Under the fostering influence of a
protective tariff, manufactures and agriculture mutually sus-
tained and benefited each other.
Sr. E. said it was natural, that he, as a Pennsylvanian,
should feel a deep interest in the subject. He was proud of
his native State, though she was now, as to her finances, in a
depressed condition; she had involved herself in great liabili-
ties for the promotion of works of internal improvement. Ow-
iug to these great public undertakings, she had become bur-
dened with a debt of forty millions. It had been incurred for
the construction df railroads and canals and great public high-
ways,’ undertaken for the purpose of Carrying the coal and iron
iff the State to a market; and now, wheii she had in some
measure got through the worst of her difficulties, so as to be
able to sustain herself under the burden, a measure was pro-
posed which must strike down her prosperity to the dust.
Pass this bill, and Pennsylvania would he no longer able to
meet the interest on her debt. All the valuable improvements
which, at so great cost and sacrifice she had accomplished,
Would become comparatively useless. And was this no con-
sideration to be looked at by a body of legislators who were
chosen to promote the good of the Union ? Here stood the
Second State in the Confederacy, asking of this House to con-
tinue a policy under which she had invested millions. Did
gentlemen remember that Pennsylvania was the largest State
in the Union, save one ? If they did, he would venture to
say there was one other thing that they did not forget, and
that was that Pennsylvania commanded twenty-four votes on
that floor. If the interest of their country had no influence
With the dominant majority in the House, he hoped that a
calculation of voted would have more effect.
Mr. E. said it was his desire to place the Government of
his country in a high and elevated position. He sought to
have this country an asylum for the oppressed every where ;
but he would, at the same time, have her protect her own in-
terest and not sacrifice the Welfare of her people to a policy
borrowed from other countries in circumstances wholly differ-
ent from our own. The Government could only be sustained
by a hearty union among the people and a regard to 'each
other’s interest. This was not to be done by breaking down
the protective policy under which every interest was flourish-
ing, arid bring down the free laborers of the United States to
a level with the paupers and the serfs of Europe. It was not
for American farmers to see their daughters turned out like
beasts to labor in the field, because the women of Germany
were compelled to do so by the oppression of their Govern-
ment. We must have a different state of things, different
hopes and aspirations, and a higher and nobler ambition. It
was false reasoning to compare the freeborn children of this
happy Republic with the ignorant, the burdened, and the de-
graded population of the kingdoms of the old world. Ours
was a different system ; our Government was different 5 our
habits were different ; our education was different; our home-
born comforts aiid enjoyments were far superior. Mr. E. was
for having us sustain our position, and not sacrifice it to wild
speculations and baseless theories.
It had been objected against the Whigs in that House that.,
let what would be proposed in the way of appropriation and
expenditure, they were always ready to vote for it, that they
might increase the necessity of revenue, and so keep up the
tariff. Indeed ! Who was it that reported the .bills that
came into that House ? Was it the Whigs* Who held
the power of the House in their hands ? Was it the Whigs ?
Who passed the appropriation bills ? The Whigs ? No ; it
was a Democratic Congress. The Democratic party held
every thing in its hands. They reported the bills , they ori
ginated the expenditures ; they voted and they were responsi-
ble for them. If the Whigs voted against them it was a crime,
and proved that they were opposed to the interest and honor
of their country ; if they voted for them, then they were guilty
of all the extravagance, and did it all for the sake of the tariff.
This would not do. Gentlemen on the other side had all the
power and all the responsibility, and for whatever was done
in that House they, and they alone, must answer to the people.
Mr. STROHM next addressed the committee, and com-
menced by observing that the deep interest of his constituents
in the subject now under discussion must be his apology for
occupying any portion of the time of the committee. He should
not enter on the details of the hill. That had been done by
those who were far better qualified than he to speak on such
a subject. All who desired to understand the arguments of
the friends of protection must by this time have become pretty
fuily informed on the subject. Before he got through, how-
ever, it might become necessary for him to advert to one or
two of the items in this bill; but his chief object was to take
a rapid view of the protective system as a whole, and its gene-
ral operation on all the people of the United States.
Mr. S. was aware that the Representatives of the people in
that hall, however learned and however patriotic they might
be, were still but men, and had the same liability with other
men to be controlled by their passions and their interests. But
the protective system, when rightly understood and considered
as a whole, was so manifestly advantageous and beneficial in
all its effects that, if it were unpopular on that floor, it must
be from the strength of opposing prejudice, or from a want of
ability on the part of its friends.
In a country so widely extended as ours it was hardly to be
expected that any general system of policy operating on the
whole could be so constructed as equally to foster the interest
of each particular portion. Any such genera) system must in
its nature he a sort of compromise. As in the first formation of
human society each individual had of necessity to yield up a
portion of his natural liberty for the security of his person and
property, so here, in a confederacy which might be styled a
great community of nations, some sacrifices were, in the nature
of (he case, unavoidable. The revenue of this Government
had from its commencement been chiefly derived from the im-
position of duties on imports. This had now become the
settled policy of the country—a policy which none were pre-
pared to abandon. Whilst its constitutionality was admitted
on all hands, a strenuous effort was making to withdraw the
Government from the policy of so regulating those duties as to
foster our own infant manufactures, and a system of horizon-
tal duties, to be applied alike to the whole revenue system,
was advocated by some as the only constitutional mode of im-
posing duties at all. Little, however, was said about this doc-
trine just now, though there had been a time when it was
strongly advocated, and at least with an apparent sincerity
which secured for its authors a degree of respect to which the
doctrine itself would not have entitled them. But it was re-
served for the present Administration to propose a tariff in
which a discrimination was made, not to protect, but to de-
stroy American industry. In the bill now proposed for the
adoption of the House there was throughout a studied effortto
discriminate, not for but against American labor, and to bring
down those who were engaged in it to a level with the tax-
ground victims df European tyranny—men whose utmost ex-
ertions were barely sufficient to sustain in life their famishing
families. The denial of the constitutional power to enact a
tariff for protection might have been tolerated as the error of a
perverted judgment, inasmuch as the practical working 6i such
a tariff was said to be injurious to some classes among us. But
to discriminate for the very purpose of embarrassing American
laborers, who earned their bread by the sweat of their brow,
was an enormity reserved for the present Administration. It
was a perversion of power which approached, he had almost
been about to say, to infanly, but he did not wish to use harsh
epithets; ff certainly did approach the depth of ingratitude,
and this. Administration enjoyed the honor of being the first to
fathom It.
In the adjustment of any tariff, whether constructed for pur-
poses of protection, of revenue, or of the destruction of Ame-
rican industry, a greater or less amount of.inequality must, in
the nature of things, always take place. Some sacrifice must
be made; and, that being the case, it only remained for those
who devised the system to inquire what arrangement would
produce the greatest good to the greatest number.
Mr. S. would, therefore, proceed to inquire what would be
the practical effect of this nfew tariff bill as it had been re-
ported from the Committee of Ways and Means, supposing
it to be possible that such a bill could pass ?
The first in the train of evils it must produce would be the
prostration of domestic manufactures. Multitudes now en-
gaged in them must at once be thrown out of employment.
Rise comforts they now enjoyed, and even the necessaries of
life, would soon be found wanting. Bitter experience would
soon teach the laborer that though in the purchase of his
little necessaries he might get the full benefit of the two or
three hundred per cent, saving proposed by Sir Robert
Walker, yet his practical condition Would be far worse than it
was before.
The second evil would be that we must sustain the loss of
millions of capital, now vested in manufactures. Much of
this must inevitably be rendered useless, the business of its
owners would be ruined, their prosperity' blighted, and they
themselves brought to bankruptcy and want.
And how would agriculture be affected ? One of the chief
arguments in favor of the bill was the alleged benefit which it
would confer on the agricultural classes. The doctrine sound-
ed in the ears of our farmers was that the tariff of 1842 was
directly against their interest ; and if any doubted this they
were met with art air off triumph, and pointed to the repeal
of the corn laws. The Britisli ports were to be thrown open
and a rich market furnished for American breadstuff's. But a
moment’s reflection was sufficient to teach any man of com-
mon sense that if the British ports were thrown open the Bri-
tish market must at the siinie time be open to the competition
of all the world, and when the American former sent there
his wheat, he would find that the farmers from the Black Sea
and from the shores of the Baltic would be there before him.
The wheat of Odessa, the wheat from Hamburg, the wheat
from Dantzie, would all have anticipated his, and at prices for
which he could not sell. He would now discover, in spite of all
the fine doctrines which had been told him by the advocates
of free trade, that, after ail, it was the demand that regulated
price and not the duty alone.
But; even admitting that there might he sortie demand for
American grain, the advantages derived from this source
would be far over-balanced by the burdens imposed upon
labor; and, from a view of the whole case, Mr. S. could not
but conclude that even the farmer would not be benefited by
the repeal of the existing tariff. Its practical result would be
to destroy the best market he had for all his produce. It
should, be remembered that our farmers did not live by the sale
of their wheat and corn alone: they wanted a market for
their barley, for their oats, for their hay, for their wool, for
their vegetables, for their wood, and whatever else' their farm
produced. The home-market took it all. Experience was
the best teacher, and it taught a man who lived near a forge
or & factory that he could earn more money in a week than
all the duty he had to pay in a year.
Who then would be benefited by the proposed repeal ? It
was the importing merchant. In our great commercial cities
the importers were for the most part foreigners, who Lad no
sympathy with us or our interest, hut who come here solely
for the purpose of making money. They were, for the most
part, agents of great manufacturing establishments abroad.
Nor need this be wondered at when one of their agents was
admitted within the Walls of the Capitol of our Government,
and invited, by the display of his fine goods and flattering re-
presentations, to mislead members of that House. If the
object was to promote the benefit of the subjects of Queen
Victoria rather than of our citizens, then the bill answered its
object. But even if gentlemen were so benevolent as to seek
the benefit of the operatives themselves, they might fail in
their design, for they would be the very last to he reached by
any benefit we could bestow. That wretched degraded class
of men were, in England, at the mercy of the capitalists,
who gave them what wages they pleased, and usually as
much as was just sufficient to keep them out of the work-
house. Nine-tenths of ail the advantage which the passage
of such a biil as this would throw into the hands of Great
Britain would go, not to the relief of the poor operatives, but
to augment the treasure of the wealthy, whose whole capital
was actively employed to our injury. The whole benefit of
the bill would go to augment the treasures of men like these
and the revenues of the pampered aristocracy. A design like
this Would, Mr. S. believed, find but little response in the
American bosom, and would end in the acquisition of not a
very enviable fame to those who were the projectors of such
a scheme.
Having then briefly noticed the consequence of repealing
thd present tariff, Mr. S. would now proceed to point out
what he conceived to be the advantages of the protective sys-
tem. Next to providing for the .security of the person and
property of our citizens, and the perpetuity Of that precious li-
berty purchased for us by the blood of our ancestors, it was the
duty of Government to sustain the great leading interest of
the country, to make us independent of other Governments, and
in particular to provide the means of the national defence.
The truth and correctness of the maxim “ in peace prepare for-
war” was universally admitted ; to render a nation independent
required many things besides the providing of men and arms,
and fortification and the munitions of war.
Money was commonly said to be the sinews of war, and yet
no one would say that, in order to be prepared for war, the Go-
vernment must hoard up a vast amount of money and keep it
ready in the Treasury. It was against the whole policy of our
Government, then, to accumulate large sums by taxes on the
people, only to lay them up in store against a time of war.
The corrupting influence of such a hoard would in its effects
be even worse than war itself. We must not then prepare for
war by laying up money.
Next to money, came troops ; nothing was to be done
without men. And yet here again no man would undertake
to maintain that, in order to be prepared for war, we must
keep in readiness a large standing army in time of peace.
Wars happily were comparatively of rare occurrence. The
intervals between them were sometimes long; and it would
be the very height of folly to raise and keep on pay a large
army, that we might be ready against war, should it come.
In the intervals of a long peace, our soldiers become super-
annuated ; and, after being on pay all their lives, might die
without being called to meet an enemy. A large force, col-
lected and drilled and accustomed to obey without question
the commands of a military superior, could not be present in
the midst of a free Government without constant danger to
liberty, and were the fit tools for any ambitious spirit who
sought to trample on our liberties. So that we were not to
prepare for war by keeping up standing armies.
How, then, was the spirit of the maxim “in peace prepare
for wav” to be carried out in practice ? Evidently by adopting
the policy of gradually and fully developing all the resources
of the country, and by the encouragement of every form of
domestic manufactures, so that, if war should arise, and we
should be cut oft by circumstances from all supplies from
abroad, we might still have all our wants supplied at home.
It was a mistake to suppose that it was the soldier only who
endured hardship and privation in time of war. It was true
that the privations of those in the field were the most severe ;
but it was not less true that every rnan and woman in the
country, from the highest to the lowest condirions of society,
all felt the painful effects of a state of war. Some in the loss
of their business, some in the loss of luxuries and pleasures,
some in the endurance of unwonted burdens, some from the
enhancement of prices. In many various ways the whole
community and every individual in it partook more or less of the
general suffering. Now, in a Government like ours, where
public opinion exerted such an amount of power, the citizens
must be made to feel content with the policy of their Govern-
ment, or some of them would take means to make themselves
heard. The true policy of Government, therefore, was to
place them in such a situation that ail could sustain their
burdens with cheerfulness ; that the new States might be
enabled to pay their debts ; and that the General and State
Governments might be in such a state of credit as to be ena-
bled to command loans when they were needed. This was
the true way in peace to prepare for war.
There was another mode of preparing the country, on
which Mr. S. would say a few words. The resources of
Government ought to he applied to works of general internal
improvement, such as were calculated to promote the com-
mon good of our citizens. Those resources ought to be di-
rected to providing means and facilities of intercourse between
the various portions of the Republic 5 to the extending of
our commercial relation and internal trade, thus binding our
whole population together by the strong ligaments of mutual
interest and a common sympathetic feeling. The construc-
tion of macadamized highways, of railroads and canals, would
not only be a means of accomplishing this, but also of pro
viding the most efficient means of defence for the nation when
engaged in war. The facilities thereby afforded for the transpor-
tation of troops, provisions, ordnance and military stores,
would soon save to the Government more than the original
cost, and Would enable a thousand men more effectually to
guard our coast against the approaches of an enemy, than
three times that number without these facilities of assembling.
How were all these advantages to be obtained ? Mr. S.
answered they might all be secured by rejecting the bill how
proposed, and leaving the country in the uninterrupted enjoy-
ment of the benefits it was every hour deriving from the tariff
of ’42. This was the way, and the only way. If any man
doubted it, let him turn back his recollection to the actual
condition of the country five years ago. Let him remember
the wide-spread distress, the universal embarrassment, the
stagnation of business, the prostration, of credit. Our facto-
ries, our furnscesj our forges, our bloomeries, all stood idle,
and the thousands of our operatives Were left without employ-
ment. The general business of the country suffered a paraly-
sis ; produce would not sell at a profit, and in many parts of
the country it would not sell at any price ; and the pecuniary
embarrassment was not confined to individuals, but drove
even States to the verge of bankruptcy. Contrast with this
our condition now 5 produced, as in a moment, by the influ-
ence of the present tariff, which awakened the whole country
as from the dead. Now, the house off industry, the clank of
machinery, and the roar of commerce with her ten thousand
wheels, had replaced the general silence and desolation, just
as the carolling of the feathered songsters of the grove
marked the return of spring and the awakening of nature
from her wintry sleep. Universal prosperity arid individual
and public happiness were now diffused throughout the
length and breadth of our land. In our harbors a forest of
masts was seen ; in our towns and cities, buildings sprang up
in a night; and the language of poetry was converted into
literal truth, while our “ wilderness was made to blossom as
the rose.” The precious minerals and metallic ores were
raised from the dark beds where they had slept for ages, and
converted into silver and gold, or, what was better, into bread.
All this was not the work of the alchemist, nor of the wand
of the enchanter It was the glorious achievement of our
own productive industry.
Gentlemen from the South, when pointed to all this, replied
that all this prosperity was enjoyed at their expense. To Mr.
S. these gentlemen seemed to be laboring under some delusion,
some hallucination of the mind. They were infatuated by
some false theory, which prevented them from taking ja
calm, deliberate, common-sense view of facts before their eyes.
Let them awake from such mental thraldom ; let them fully
examine facts which were incontrovertible ; let them recollect
the past; let them scan the present; let them cast forward
their vision and behold the prospect of the bright future, and
they would not be able to withstand the conclusion that, for
this country, whatever it might be elsewhere, protection was
the greatest of blessings. The mere fact—which, however they
might evade it, they could not deny—that every single article
manufactured in the country, and protected by an adequate
duty, came to them cheaper than it could ever be obtained be-
fore, and that the articles best protected were sold at the cheap-
est price, ought of itself, one would think, to satisfy any man
of the correctness of the protective policy.
But (said Mr. S.) we are charged with inconsistency, and
efforts are made to invalidate our arguments, because we
advocate a course that gentlemen suppose would operate
against our owit interest, as if gentlemen acting in the high
capacity of legislators could not rise above the grovelling mo-
tives of sordid interest and selfish views. Do those gentlemen
wish us to estimate their patriotism and their exalted disinter-
estedness by the same measure which they mete unto us I
We do not claim greater perfection than usually falls to the
lot of frail humanity, and make no professions of sacrifices in-
consistent with a reasonable regard to our own interests. Gen-
tlemen, however, labor under a great misapprehension when
they set down as manufacturers, and the advocates of the ex-
clusive manufacturing interest, all those who are in favor of
the protective system, and this mistake in the premises leads
to still greater errors in the conclusions ; and hence they are
unable to see how it is that the manufacturers, as they call
them, are such strenuous advocates of a policy which they allege
is calculated to diminish their own profits. Sir, many of those
who are unflinching advocates of the protective policy are not
particular!}' identified with the manufacturers, except so far as
the prosperity of those establishments conduce to the general
prosperity of the whole country. The district which has given
me the honor of holding a seat upon this floor is emphatically
an agricultural district, anil raises more agricultural produc-
tions than any other in the State wherein it is located, and is
perhaps not inferior to any of the same extent in the United
States. It is our interest, then, that the manufactured articles
should be reduced to the lowest price for which they can he
made in this country. We have no desire to see the manu-
facturers realizing a profit of thirty or twenty-five, or even fif-
teen per cent., whilst we, as agriculturists, cannot from the
cultivation of our lands realize more than fcUf or five per cent,
on the capital invested, and very often not that much. Nor
do we believe that the manufacturing business is so profitable
as some gentlemen allege. If we could be persuaded of that,
we are ready to sell our lands, and embark in their more pro-
fitable pursuits.
The calculations which produce the results on which
gentlemen place so much reliance here are founded upon erro-
neous data. Many of the manufacturing establishments that
are now doing a fair, perhaps a profitable business, have been
purchased, during some of those revulsions which your unsta-
ble fluctuating policy has so frequently produced, at great sacri-
fices ; in many instances less than one-fourth of the original
cost. I know, sir, an instance in the county in which I re-
side where a factory was erected by a company, which, toge-
ther with the machinery and the dwel lings necessary for the
workmen, cost some fifty or sixty thousand dollars, perhaps
more. In a few years the company failed ; the whole invest-
ment was almost a total loss. It was purchased at a very re-
duced price by an individual, who, after carrying it on for a
number of years, also failed, leaving his creditors to pay for
his experience; and, within the last three years, this same
property was sold for some $7,000, if my recollection serves
me right. And the last purchaser has since been offered
$3,000 profit, making more than 40 per cent, on his invest-
ment, and refused to take it. Is it fair, then, to argue that be-
cause this man refused an advantageous offer, under peculiar
circumstances, that may not occur again in an age to come—
is it fair, I ask again, to infer from that that the business is
highly profitable, when those who preceded have failed entire-
ly, and when from sixty to eighty thousand dollars have been
sunk and sacrificed in this very establishment ? This is the
way, sir, in which these enormous profits are calculated, when
the people in the vicinity of those establishments, who have
had an opportunity of forming accurate judgments on those
interesting cases, know them to be false and delusive in the
extreme.
Strong cases, (continued Mr. S.) make bad precedents ; and if
any one would take the trouble to search for them, cases equal-
ly strong, and perhaps equally delusive, might be found in
agricultural pursuits. I have been told, sir, of a farmer who
went to the Western prairies and took up one hundred acres
of land at the Government price, $1 25 per acre. He went
to work, had the whole broken up with the plough and seed-
ed in wheat, and the crop thus produced not only paid for all
the labor and expense, but enabled him to pay for his land
and had a considerable sum left; while, at the same time, his
land was worth three times as much as when he commenced.
Here, then, was a profit of 300 per cent., in the depressed
and over-taxed pursuit of agriculture ; and yet we are asked
by gentlemen from the West to relieve them from the burdens
that oppress them. I have only adverted to this, sir, to show
that isolated cases form very fallacious precedents upon which
to found general principles. And the calculations which gen-
tlemen rely upon to sustain their arguments are frequently
made by persons not fully acquainted with the facts connected
with the case ; and in this way results are obtained that have
no foundation in fact.
The gentleman from North Carolina, (Mr. (Biggs,) who
addressed the committee on yesterday, told us that moderate
and permanent protection is all that manufacturers ought to
ask, and that is what a revenue tariff gives. I agree, sir,
that moderate and permanent protection is all that manufac-
turers ought to ask, but he and I .differ in opinion in regard to
what kind of a tariff will effect the object which we both have
in view. I believe that the present tariff affords such protec-
tion as gives proper encouragement to manufactures, without
affording them more than a reasonable profit.
Gentlemen professed a very strong sympathy for the opera-
tives in our factories, who they seemed to consider as objects of
profound compassion, the victims of avarice and oppression.
But let them go to the spot; let them examine these men,
and look into their condition, and they would soon discover
that a more intelligent, more cheerful, better fed, better clothed,
and more contented class of men was not to be found in this
country. Calculations of profit made by men not themselves
engaged in the business, and who had no practical understand-
ing of the case, were at once adopted as undeniably true, and
relied on as arguments. The immense profits supposed to be
realized by our manufacturers were imaginary ; they realized
on an average no greater profit than was generally enjoyed by
our citizens who were engaged in other branches of business.
The tariff of 1842 protected the wholesome industry of the
country. It secured to it a reasonable remuneration, and it
did no more. Did gentlemen expect to give to that industry
the protection it had a right to demand by the adoption of a
purely revenue tariff, a tariff that must go up and down ac-
cording to the amount of revenue needed ? The Government
now wanted a large amount of revenue to meet the expendi-
tures of this war. It was said, indeed, that the war was vir-
tually at an end, and that we should have peace with Mexico
within sixty days. He hoped we might; yet, still the Gov-
ernment would want millions to discharge the debt already in-
curred. To meet this, the tariff must be raised ; when this was
paid then the revenue would return to its ordinary standard,
and then, according to their doctrine, the tariff must came
down, and thus duties and protection were to be kept in a
perpetual state of fluctuation of and uncertainty. Could notgen-
tiemen see that, of all other things, this was the most perni-
cious and destructive to men who wished to invest capital in a
permanent branch of business ? What calculations could
they make ? On what data could they proceed ? Permanency
was the great thing they most wanted. When a man was
about to invest his all, he wanted to know beforehand on what
he might calculate, and he had a right to demand from an in-
telligent Government, created only for the good of the people,
so much certainty as it could give.
The State Mr. S. represented was, as every one knew,
deeply interested in this whole matter ; and, though several of
her representatives had already spoken, and there were others
who wished to speak, she had .not Occupied more of the time
of the Hotise than, on the whole, she was fairly entitled to.
Having expressed the principal views he wished to submit,
Mr. S. would no longer trespass on the attention of the body.
In the Committee of the Whole this day—
Mr. CHASE, who was entitled to the floor, occupied his
hour in an earnest speech in favor of the bill, and against the
whole doctrine of protection. He was followed by—
Mr. GORDON, who, while partially in favor of the bill,
made an argument to show that its provisions ought to be
wholly changed in relation to wool, by imposing greater guards
and a higher duty on the importation of that article from
abroad.
Mr. ROCKWELL, of Connecticut, then delivered an ar
gumentative and animated speech in defence of a protective
tariff' and against any change in the existing law. Our Re-
porter has full notes of this speech, and we may hereafter be
able to present it to our readers.
Mr. BEDINGER obtained the floor, and moved that the
committee rise ; which motion prevailed, and the committee
INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS.
Mr. McKAY, from the managers appointed by the two
Houses fd conduct at the conference on the disagreeing votes
on the amendments of the Senate depending to the bill making
appropriation to defray the expenses of the Indian department
for the year ending on the 30th June, 1847, made a report,
for which see report of the proceedings of the Senate.
The report and recommendations of the conferees being
read, were adpted by the House.
And so the bill has finally passed both houses.
And the House adjourned until to-morrow.
WASHINGTON.
« Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparable.”
PROPOSALS FOR MEATS AND MEDICINES.
Washington Asylum, June 26, 1846.
^PROPOSALS will he received until 3 o’clock P. M. of
JL the 3d July next, for furnishing and delivering at the new
Almshouse, on the Eastern Branch, free of all expense, such
quantities of any or all of the following named Fresh and Salt
Meats that may he required during the year commencing the
1st July next, viz :
FRESH MEATS.
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, and Lamb.
SALT MEATS.
Beef, Pork, Hams, Shoulders, and Middlings of
Bacon, Sausage and Dried Beef.
The Intendant of the Asylum to order the kinds and quan-
tities the orders to be promptly fulfilled ; the meats to be of
the best quality of the kind ordered; and the Intendant to
have the power to reject all that shall not be approved by him.
The proposals must state distinctly the price asked per pound
for each article and kind above named.
MEDICINES.
Proposals will also be received until 3 o’clock P. M. of the
3d July next, for furnishing and delivering at the new Alms-
house, on the Eastern Branch, free of expense, all the medi-
cines that may be required during the year commencing on the
1st July. Persons desirous of offering are referred to the Phy-
sician at the Asylum for a list of the articles which will pvoba-
My be required. The medicines to be of the best quality, and
to be delivered in such quantities as may be ordered by said
Physican, and all to be to his entire satisfaction, or they will
not be received. june 27—
I&/FATH.EMATICAI1 TEACHER.—A gentleman, who
J3JL is a graduate of a respectable university, and who has
had several years’ experience in teaching, is desirous of ob-
taining a Professorship in some Literary Institution in one of
the Southern or Western States. He has been engaged for
some time in teaching the Mathematics and the Physical Sci-
ences, and can furnish the most satisfactory testimonials of
moral character, scholarship, and competency to teach.
For further information address H. L. C. BURKE,
june 27—law7tcp Richmond, Ya.
~\‘T OTICE TO TEACHERS.—The Trustees ofWash-
inglon Academy, in Princess Anne, Somerset county,
Maryland, wish to employ a Teacher to take charge of said
institution from and after the 1st Monday of October next.
They will give a salary of $600, payable semi-annually; and, if
the Teacher have a family, a house or $100 additional, at the
option of the trustees.
It is required that the Teacher shall be competent to teach
the Latin and Greek languages, and the higher branches of
Mathematics, of which he shall furnish satisfactory evidence.
There are two vacations, one in the Spring, of two weeks,
and the other from the last Wednesday of August to the first
Monday of October.
The undersigned will receive applications in writing, accom-
panied with recommendations, at Princess Anne, Maryland,
free of postage, until the last Wednesday of August next. The
successful applicant will be notified ofhis election immediately.
WILLIAM W. HANDY,
J. W. GRIS FIELD,
S. W. JONES,
june 27—t20thAug Committee.
TAIVE DOLLARS REWARD.—Strayed from the sub-
jP scriber’s livery stable, in the city of Washington, a buffa-
lo white and red speckled Cow ; no flesh mark recollected.
I will give five dollars for the delivery of her at my stable,
june 27—3t LEVI PUMPHREY.
"MiTRS, BjRAWNER has a parlor and chamber, pleasantly
If I situated on B street, which she would be pleased to let,
either with or without board. june 27—3tif
T EARY’S “PALO AUTO” HAT5—Something
jU New!—M H. STEVENS & EMMONS, Hatters, will
introduce, this day, Leary’s new and elegant style of Summer
Hat, called the “Palo Alto.” Since its introduction (one
week since) in the city of New York, it has met with an unpre-
cedented run there. The “Palo Alto” is decidedly unique
in style, and a remarkably comfortable summer hat.
M. H. STEVENS & EMMONS,
june 27—3tf Fashionable Hatters, Brown’s Hotel.
rip HE PROBE.—The author ol this highly approved book
I has been reduced to needy circumstances by long protract-
ed sickness in his family and by the great fire at Pittsburg, and
appeals to the benevolent to purchase without delay. The
book is for sale at all the bookstores on the avenue, and by the
author at the Exchange Hotel.
L. C. JUDSON.
Refers to the Hon. D Wilmot, M. C. and the Hon. S. R.
Hobbie, First Assistant Postmaster General, june 27
A CARD.—The subscriber would respectfully return his
j\ thanks to the public for the liberal patronage which he
has received, and solicits a continuance of the same. Having
on hand and daily receiving a good assortment of Mahogany
Furniture and house-furnishing articles in general, he flatters
himself that he can give general satisfaction to all who may
favor him with their calls.
Those indebted to him are particularly requested to call, on
or before the 1st of July, and settle their accounts.
A. GREEN, Auctioneer and Com. Merchant,
Concert Hall, Penn avenue, near Brown’s Hotel,
june 27—3t [Union&Fountain]
IriLY PAPER AND ROACH BANE.—This paper
_fj will effectually destroy flies immediately upon their light-
ing upon it; it is perfectly safe and convenient to use ; price
12| cents per sheet.
The celebrated Roach and Bed-bug Bane, so efficacious in
destroying roaches, bed-bugs, ants, &c. ; 37 cents per bottle.
For sale by J. F. CALLAN.
june 27—eo3t [Union]
WISTAR’S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY,
The Great Remedy for Consumption.
FROM THE BOSTON MERCANTILE JOURNAL, JANUARY, 1845.
rgriHERE are so many “ certain cures ” for coughs, colds,
1 and even consumptions, that we are sometimes disposed
to question the efficacy of any of them. Mr. S. W. Fowle, a
druggist of the highest reputation, at 138 Washington street,
has the agency of an article called Balsam of Wild Cherry,
which seems to have won for itself a good reputation where-
ever it has been introduced. We have seen letters from vari-
ous parts of New England, from persons of the highest stand-
ing in the places where they reside, bearing testimony to the
benefit themselves or friends had received from a trial of its
properties.
Extract from a letter dated
Petersburg, (Ya.) January 15, 1845.
A gentleman of unquestionable veracity informs us that his
brother had been confined to his bed for weeks with some spe-
cies of cough that baffled the skill of several eminent phy-
sicians, and by the use of two bottles of Wistar’s Balsam of
Wild Cherry he has been restored to perfect health, and he is
now “ a fat and hearty man. ” Yours, respectfully,
ROSSER & ANDERSON, Druggists.
93" Beware of Counterfeits!—None genuine unless sign-
ed I. BUTTS. The genuine for sale by R. S. PATTERSON
and F. W. FULLER, Washington ; also, by E. S. WRIGHT
Georgetown. june 27
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1846.
FROM THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY.
We received by the last mail from the West two
communications from the Cherokee country, both
of a nature to satisfy us of at least thus much-: that
the state of affairs in that country is at this time
most critical, and demands from Congress much
more seiious consideration than most of the Mem-
bers are in the habit of bestowing upon Indian af-
fairs generally. One of these communications
being accompanied by the name of the writer,
and free from personality, we publish it, as sub-
joined. In doing so, we mean to intimate no opin-
ion of our own, for we have no personal know-
ledge of the matter to which it relates ; we give the
letter as it stands, without changing a word of it,
on the authority of the respectable gentleman from
whom we receive it.
The other letter, unaccompanied by the name of
the writer, comes to us under the signature of
“ Justice,” with an intimation that the writer is an
Officer of the Army, who is responsible, and whose
name can be had if desired by us. Without a re-
sponsible name, we could not certainly publish any
letter concerning things of which we have so little
knowledge ; and, even with a name, we should hesi-
tate long before we published a letter containing
charges against individuals so grave as those which
the writer makes. There are one or two passages
of his letter, however, which we copy in the hope
of rousing the attention of Congress to the necessi-
ty of close investigation of this subject before defi-
nitive action upon it:
“Every road side for miles around Evansville is white
with human bones, now bleached by every day’s sun, and
whose lives have been taken by ******** *5 aside
from those who had the fortune to be interred. During this
Spring, since those who were so disposed commenced their
crops, not less than seven innocent Cherokees have fallen vic-
tims whilst at work in their cornfields, and when suspecting
any thing but that a foul murderer had his rifle levelled just
ready to pull trigger and end his existence. In this way have
they dragged seven from their fields, which has caused so
much fear to be entertained that most of the fields have been
deserted where there is the least probability of their frequent-
ing.”
“The troops here for their special protection cannot leave
their camps alone, but in bodies and well armed, lest they are
attacked.”
Letter to the Editors, above referred to, as being
accompanied by a responsible name :
Cherokee Nation, May 24, 1846.
Amid the excitement of the Mexican war, the nation must
not forget the Indians on our border. The unwise acts of the
Government in managing the affairs of the Cherokees in
times past have been productive of vast evil. It is now pro-
posed to mend matters by dividing the nation—drawing a line
of demarcation between the two parties. Divide the Democratic
and Whig parties of the United States ? Let the Govern-
ment buy off the malcontents, and let them go into the States
as citizens, (they are worthy whites and half breeds,) and the
matter will be settled, if the Government will put over the
Indians as Agent or Commissioner for a year or two some
man of eminence. The evil does not lie in the Indians, but
in our Government, which has mismanaged for them. Let
the nation look to it. Something must be done, and that
speedily ; for there is a wildness growing among these people
which will seek a vent in a resort to massacre. The knife is
in daily use ; the stabber is lord of the country; peaceable
Indians are shot down in the fields by an unseen and unan-
swerable foe. The two parties do not communicate ; both
constantly excited by false reports. That desperation should
follow such a state of things is not to be wondered at. Let
not the Administration lay the flattering unction to their souls
that there is no guile on the side they favor. There are un-
hung villains on both sides. Rascality, in fact, rules the land,
and honesty looks on in fear and trembling, not knowing when
the time may come for its annihilation.
Let the Government, I repeat, buy off the malcontents and
make peace with the rest by using some proper peacemaker ;
but do not hatch a cocatrice egg which shall produce like the
treaty of 1835. If the Cherokee Nation is divided, the move
will be made immediately to have the Chickasaws separated
from the Choctaws. Better lar consolidate the Indians than
divide them. SHAWANOE.
TRIUMPH OF THE LAW.
New Hampshire.—The House of Representa-
tives of this State on Tuesday ordered to a third
reading a bill to divide the State into districts for
the choice of Representatives to Congress by the
overwhelming majority of 183 to 35. This is one
of the subjects upon which the Radical Democracy
of the State have heretofore made stringent opposi-
tion ever since the law was passed by Congress.
Some few of the leaders still resist, but the sound
good sense of the House has prevailed.
The bill divides the State very fairly, both as to
politics and population. No county is broken, and
each district is as compact as it well can be, while
the population is nearly equal. The districts are
laid down as follows :
Counties. Population.
Rockingham, Strafford..................68,920
Merrimac, Belknap, Carroll.............74,231
Hillsborough, Cheshire..................68,923
Sullivan, Grafton, Coos.................72,368
The St. Louis papers announce the death of
Shadrack Penn, Esq., editor of the “ Missouri
Reporter,” in the 56th year of his age.
A. Cummings, Esq. has retired from the manage-
ment of the Philadelphia “ North American.” The
remaining partner, Geo. R. Graham, Esq., has as-
sociated with him in the editorial department of the
paper R. T. Conrad, Esq., a gentleman of distin-
guished talent.
We learn from the “Union” that the Mexican General
Vega, now a prisoner of war at New Orleans, has asked per-
mission of the Government, through Gen. Gaines, to leave
New Orleans and visit different parts of the United States.
The Union intimates that his wish will be acceded to without
difficulty.
The Annual Commencement of the College of New
Jersey at Princeton took place on Monday. Among the
speakers in the Junior Class we notice two from the District
of Columbia : Mr. Charles H. Key, whose theme was
“ Modern Heroism and Mr. Frank K. Dunlop, who de-
livered an address “on the Progress of the Arts.”
The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on the Hon.
James McDowell, of Virginia.
(ffp “ Leary has got up a hat this summer which takes be-
yond’any thing remembered by the oldest inhabitant. It is a
strange hat, and such a one as was never made before, as all
Broadway will testify.”
The above is from the Journal of Commerce of this morn-
ing. We suppose that it refers to the hat popularly known
as “ Tiie Leary Hat,” of which our opinion is that it is the
most sensible and comfortable summer hat ever introduced,
and well deserves the almost universal favor with which it has
been received.—A. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
LATEST FROM THE ARMY.
Accounts from Brasos Santiago to the 14th in-
stant bring news of a report that the town of Rey-
nosa, against which the expedition of Col. Wilson
had started, was surrendered without resistance.
In addition to the above, the Mobile Tribune
says :
“ Camargo and Reynosa had capitulated in advance of the
movement of General Taylor, and he was waiting only the
means of transporting his troops up the Rio Grande to march
towards them.
1 he main body of the regular army is on the right bank
of the river ; Capt. Desha’s command and the Washington
and Jackson regiments of Louisiana volunteers occupy the
left bank. Governor Henderson, at the head of about one
thousand Texan troops, reached the banks of the Rio Grande
on the 10th instant. Seventeen warriors of the Tonkaway
tribe of Indians accompanied the Texans. The sight of
these Indians created much alarm to the inhabitants of Mata-
moros and its vicinity, as they fear that Gen. Taylor will let
them loose upon them.
“ The Alabama companies, St. Louis and Louisville
legions are at Brasos island. Col. Dakin’s, Peyton’s, Davis’s,
and Featherston’s regiments of Louisiana volunteers are at
Brasos.”
We have no conformation of the report, noticed a
few days ago, that Gen. Arista had sent proposals
to Gen. Taylor for an armistice, and that he had
established his headquarters at Monterey with fif-
teen thousand men. It was, no doubt, untrue.
THE EXPEDITION AGAINST SANTA FE.
The St. Louis New Era of the 18th informs us
that a number of wagons, loaded with ammunition
and provisions, have already started on their way
over the prairies, and that Colonel Kearney sends
them ahead as fast as he can get them in readiness.
More than two hundred dragoons have also taken
up their line of march, but it is not known when
the main body of the troops will start.
The Lexington (Mo.) Express mentions the arri-
val of a trader at Independence from Santa Fe, hav-
ing made the trip in twenty days, who brought in-
telligence that the authorities of Santa Fe were for-
tifying the place, and, besides two thousand men
then under arms, had made a requisition for five
thousand men from Chihuahua.
(IjP The Annual Oration before the Belles-Lettres Society
of Dickinson College will be delivered, on the 8th of July, by
Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama.
The Ladies of Bladensburg and its vicinity will offer
Refreshments for sale, at moderate prices, on the Fourth of
July at the Spa Spring. Visiters will be furnished with Ice
Cream and Cake. A dinner will also be provided. The ob-
ject of the Ladies being the liquidation of a church debt, they
solicit the patronage of the public.
-—«SB»—-
DEATH.
At his residence, near Courtland, Alabama, on Sunday
morning, 24th of May, after a protracted illness, Col. WIL-
LIAM McMAHON, in the 66th year of his age. Col.
McMahon was born in Augusta county, Virginia, on the 12th
of August, 1780, and removed thence to the adjoining county
of Rockingham in 1809, and from thence to Alabamain 1838.
93= By Divine permission, the Rev. Mr. Appleby, of
Baltimore, will preach in St. Paul’s English Lutheran Evan-
gelical Church of Washington on Sabbath next, at 11 o’clock
in the morning, and at 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
9Cr Preaching at the Capitol.—The Rev. Septimus
Tustin may be expected to preach in the Capitol on Sabbath
morning next, at 11 o’clock. june 27
D3- N OTIC E.—The K ev. Mr. Tarring, of Georgetown,
may be expected to preach in the Central Presbyteriau Church
(the Rev. Mr. Tustin’s) on Sabbath morning next, at eleven
o’clock. Preaching, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, pine 27
93" Mr. Charles M. Nourse, a Licentiate of the Pres-
bytery oi the District, will preach in the Second Presbyterian
Church on Sabbath, at 11 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M.
The public are invited to attend. june 27
93= Columbia Horticultural Society.—All persons hav-
ing books or pamphlets belonging to the Society are respect-
fully requested to return them to the Librarian,
june 27—It [Union] C. McNAMEE, Librarian-
93= Mechanical Riflemen.—A meeting of the corps
will be held at the company’s armory (east \ving City Hall,
basement story,) on Monday evening next, the 29th instant, at
8 o’clock.
Such young men as are favorably disposed toward, and are
willing to unite in, the effective organization of a rifle corps,
are respectfully invited to attend the above meeting.
By order : WM. F. CONNELL,
june 27—2t Secretary.
93" TEMPERANCE MEETING at the Medical Col-
lege on Sunday night, at 8 o’clock. Several distinguished ad-
vocates of the cause will address the meeting. The public
generally, and the ladies particularly, are invited to attend,
juue 27 GEO. SAVAGE, Pres. F. V. T. A. S.
T GST, on the first of last week, either in the court-room,
1 J City Hall, or between there and the corner of D and 8th
streets, a pair of Gold Spectacles. A liberal reward will be
given to any one leaving them at the Marshal’s Office, in the
City Hall, or to Thomas Woodward. june 27—eo3t
Y> APPLE OF SPLENDID PAPIER MACHE
JA- FANCY GOODS,at GUION’S, under Gadsby’s Ho-
tel, corner of 3d street and Penn, avenue, consisting of—
A magnificent Papier Mache Parlor Table, richly inlaid
in mother of pearl, representing Mount Vernon. (This
table was expressly manufactured to order.)
A large three-tune Serenade Musical Box, of superior
quality
A lady’s rich Scrap Book, inlaid with mother of pearl
A lady’s Parlor Portfolio, inlaid with mother of pearl,
being a view in Italy
A lady’s Parlor Portfolio, with bouquet of flowers and
birds
Papier Mache Papeterie View in Scotland
Beautiful Papier Mache Card Basket, inlaid with pearl,
with a bouquet of flowers in the middle.
The whole valued at $150, fifty chances at $3 each.
Those persons wishing to subscribe are requested to call im-
mediately, as the list for subscription will be opened only a few
days. june 27—3tif
Sales Tills Hay.
QADDLE MARE AT AUCTION.—On Saturday morn-
O ing next, at 9 o’clock, I shall sell, in front of my auction
store, a Blooded Bay Mare, a first-rate saddle animal, six years
old, perfectly sound and gentle. She can be seen on applica-
tion to the subscriber at any time previous to the sale,
june 26—2t R. W. DYER, Auctioneer.
By B. HOMANS, Auctioneer.
/CARRIAGE AND HARNESS, CART, FURNI-
TUBE, &C. at Auctioa.—On Saturday morning next,
at 9 o’clock, I shall sell in front of my store, without reserve,
a handsome family Carriage and Harness, in excellent order.
Also, a Cart, with double set of gear.
After which, a general assortment ofHousehold and Kitchen
Furniture.
Also, several whole and half-boxes prime Malaga Raisins,
with a few boxes brown Soap. B. HOMANS,
june 25—3t Auctioneer.
"Iff UR NIT CJ RE, BOOTS, WINDOW GLASS, &C-
_Jj On Saturday morning, 27th instant, at half-past 9 o’clock,
shall sell, in front of my store, a large lot of new and second-
hand Furniture, kc. viz:
Mahogany Sideboards, Bureaus, Dining Tables
Marble-top Centre and Pier Tables
High and low-post Bedsteads
Beds, Bedding, and Mattresses
Cane and Wood Chairs, Carpets, Looking Glasses
Also, 16 packages of Plain and Cut Glass Ware, from the
Fair, viz :
Plain and Cut Tumblers, Preserve Dishes
Fruit Bowls, Specie Jars, Water Goblets
Champagnes, Wines, Molasses Jugs, Pickle Urns
Salts, Soda Glasses, &c.
june 25—3t WM. MARSHALL, Auct.
riUIlNITORE, CLOTHING, &c. AT AUCTION.
JU On Saturday evening next, the 27th instant, at 3 o’clock,
I shall sell in front of my auction store, a variety of Household
and Kitchen Furniture, embracing a general assortment.
Also, a lot new ready-made Clothing, consisting of Coats,
Pants, Vests, and Cloaks, made in the best manner.
Terms cash. ROBT. W. DYER,
june 26—2t Auctioneer.
COMMUNICATED.
A friend of General Scott accosted him a few weeks ago,
a little before the brilliant victories on the Rio Grande, thus :
“ Do you not apprehend, General, that, by achieving a bril-
liant victory, General Taylor will become President. “ Sup-
pose he does, we shall have for President an honest man and
a good Whig,” was the magnanimous reply—characteristic of
General Scott.
HALE OF DESIRABLE PROPERTY.—The sub-
lO scriber, by virtue of a deed of trust from Thornton A.
Doniphan, dated 27th of May, 1842, and recorded among the
land records of Washington county, will offer for sale, on Mon-
day, the 25th of May next, on the premises, at 5 o’clock P.M.,
lots numbered six (6,) seven (7,) and eight (8,) in square four
hundred and thirty-six (436,) with the improvements, consist-
ing of a very good two-story framehouse, with brick basement,
and a large and beautiful garden. This property is situated on
F street south, near the corner of Seventh street and the steam-
boat landing.
Terms : Four hundred dollars in hand, and the balance in
three and six months, for which the purchaser must give notes
fecured by deed of trust. If the terms are not complied with
in three days after sale, the trustee reserves the right to resell
at the risk and expense of the purchaser. All conveyances at
the expense of the purchaser.
RICHARD WALLACH, Trustee,
ap 27—Saw&ds C. W. BOTELER, Jr., Auctioneer.
93= The above sale is further postponed until Sa-
turday, 27th instant, at same hour, at which time it will posi-
tively take place. C. W. BOTELEit, Jr.
june 25—diftd Auctioneer.
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