Litchfield enquirer., 1832-06-07

heen presented by the Committee on Mann- factures, in the House of RePresentaIlVes q Washington. and the Report which was sup mitted with it, by MT. Adams, ills eleven COZ ,,mna nf inc National Intellgencer. !ne ne- nort is d;stinguished, like all the elaDorate rcc,cos;f;ons of MT. Adams, by massive sense and knowIedge, put forth with great strength of exnressiOn and earnestness Of splrlt.
 He admits that the revenue should De re- duced to the point ofthe proper expenditure es and duties of the government but he con- tends that appropriations for internal improve l ments, and imposts for the protection ot dO- mestic manufactures, are among those duties and expenditures. being embraced within that object and text ofthe Constitution which makes it virtually imperative on Congress 70 provide for the common defence ana general welfare.v He observes that the common de- fence must be eprOvided for as much against commercial riUdlry as against warllke invasion and he notices particularly the hostile com mercial policy of Great Britain, proved Dy her statute hook and her orders ln Council and avowed by her statesmen. He says
 "The argument which denies the power ot Congress to levy duties for the protection of domestic manufactures, pronounces unconsti- tutionsl the two first acts by which Congress exercised their powers-acts among the most memorable, among the most beneticcnt ex- ercises of power which have rendered the constitution itself blessing to the nation. It expunges from the constitution the grant of power to provide for the common de etence."
 Mr. Adams refers to the periods--those of our embargo, and our second war with Great Byitain--when q the conviction became gen. cral, that domestic manufactures of ali the ar ticles essential to the comfort of human life, are among the primary elements of national independence." He ayers that our restrictive system throughout, and the war, were pre- eminently Southern measures. He traces the formation of our manufacturing establish
 ments, describing them as not Z" the estates, ,Ol idle and pampered iordlings," but the abodes
 of productive industry and the palaces of the
 poor. He ascends to high and luminous
 philosophy respecting the obligation and ex-
 pediency fthe improvements of the condition
 Of the whole community by means of the
 Government, as an object essential to that in-
 stitutiOn. and distinctive of our rational na-
 lure. He urges that the enlightened Ameri-
 can people never could have meant so to
 frame their political institutions. and in fact
 did SO frame them. as to exclude the power
 and the purpose of full self improvement, ex- .ternal and internal, and for after ages as we'll
 as the present ttime.-NationaI Gazette.
 Ihe Tarif Bni.--T The Committee on Man
 ufactures have taken the bill of the Secreta- " of the Treasury, as the basis of their plan, but have very materially modified it. The duty on woolens they raise to 80 per cent. and that on wool to S5 per centswith specif- ic duty of cents pound on all IwOol costing more than cents. Hemp is to paya redu- mnA A.,krp p..G Q xloOl as.A HR as now, aud 50 as in the Treasury bill. The pound sterling is 10 be calculated at $4.8O, thus raising the estimated cost of merchan- disc upon which duties are to be calculated, near ten per cent. without any corresponding reduction in the duties. Oil is raised above the rate in Mr. McLane's s bill. and several oth- er duties restored to the rates under the ex- sisting tariff; among which is the duty on salt. which the committee on manufactures report in favor of keeping at its present rate, 10 cents the bushel, instead of reducing it with MT. M'Lane to cents. These are the main changes. Boston Courier.
 ZHe Flood Sii Maine.-The Portland Adver- tiser of Wednesday evening says :-" On Sat- MFday, Sunday and Monday last, the rain poured down in this city in almost unremitted torrents. Wide and devastating havoc has been made on the Kennebec. The vast quan- tity of rain failing on the snow not yet melt ed near the source of our large rivers, has probably done immense damage."
 The Augusta Age states that several dwell lings in tho upper part of the village are inun- dated, and the families have abandoned them. One incident occurred which strongly marks the fearless and enterprising character of our lumbermsn. A large pile of boards, appa- reltly event from the pillRg place of a saw mill. was borne along by the current with fearful velocity while upon it were three men, and two in boat alongside, employing their energies with great coolness and effect in directing it's course. We understood they had nasigated the stream in that manner for ,l8 miles, unable to land and secure their charge, and unwilling to abandon it. A part of Ticonic Bridge at Waterville has been swept away. The abutment which supports the east end of the Kennebec bridge was part " undermined by the water. and stone after stone is dropping away. The loss of lumber on the river is immense. e.
 Poisonous PlGats.-'A writer in the Salem Gazette gives description of number of poisonous plants which grow in this tAie.--- One of the most virulent isfhe W xleF Heille lock, which is common in wet mead slps7s and by the side of brooks it is from tlIFee 10 SIX feet high. The root forms eifIstef fesetl1z bling small potatoes or artichoies lIle celi- tral root penetrates deeper in the cart, and resembles carrot. A young man ia Ando-