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apptNpAtAtthlls TOT Nic n NtIAAutts ~. VI
the White House al Washington, for the
benefit of such OF our friends. as are about
10 become Candidates CIR the Legislature
in their respective Counties. lit should
have the ef'eciof driving into Mysteries or
epilepiic ils, those ofour neighbors whose
nerves have been So much shattered by
Governor Morehead's Ice House and Hen
Coop, we cannot help il:
APPROPRIATIONS.
FOR GENERAL JACKSON.
March 3, 1929. For Furniture
Of Presidents House, Sl4.C0O
March 2, 1881. For do. do. 5000
March 2, 1888. For do. do. 10000
Besides the proceeds Of The sales
OF dccayed Furniture, BY the
same acl; and exclusive 81 Q
or sums al different times,
OF $1,000 each for improve
ment Of grounds about the
Presidents House.
FOR Nh. VAN BUREN,.
March 3. 1887. For Furniture
Of Presidents House, 10000
For alterations and repairs of
Presidents House and 70.
superintendance Of grounds
around the SAME 1900
April 6, 1898. Proceeds ofsale
of old Furniture, 10 b. appli.
ed 10 the purchase Of new.
March 3, 1899. For alterations
and repairs Of Presidents
House, and superintendent
OF grounds 3,465
May &. 1910. For alterations
and repairs Of Presidents
House and Furniture, for
purchasing trees, shrubs and
compost, and for superintend-
ence 1905
FOR GEN. HARRISON.
March 3, 1871. For Furniture
OF Presidents House Of Ame-
rican manufacture, so far as
may be practicable and expe.
deaf, to be expended under
tie direction OF the President,
IN addition 10 ayails ol sales
OF decaycd Furniture. he
sum OF e.o30
Even tie last sum, so small in compa-
risan with The $4,000, VITA which Mr.
Van Buren,, awidower, commenced house
keeping, that ii seemed designed to re.
duce tie venerable Harrison 10 a style Of
log cabin plainness, was voted, as will
be seen from the date, BY Loco Foco
Congress. The Wings, since they have
obtained the ascendancy, have appropri-
ated nothing for Furniture The accira-
cy Of, our statement may c tested By look
ing to The Civil and Diplomatic appropri
alton Bills, of The foregoing dates. in the
Acis Of Congress, 10. be found ip the
Clerks Offices Of The several Counties.
Those who saw nothing wrong in these
expenditures of thousands oi " the Peo-
pies money" hoped to effect political
revolution in Nnrth Carolina, because ul
an outlay Of S75 on the Government Lot
in Raleigh. Had an individual in any
other STATE, offered such an insult to The
understanding Of orr people, there is no
man Of any party, having the least regard
for the land Of his birth, but would have
resented il as an indignily, personal to
himself. lie. the people mark the an
tliors Of this attempt to deceive, and dis
trust them Ter the future.
Rai. Register.
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Il is stated thai there are al least 5000
persona, male and lciadls, in Ncs York
ua, Of work.
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I.,.lii.sDes TstsissI i Nee inIk %
Ffi6sy norninE isnm PseEileoes
s.ms ne lsass hsFslnfpfs exrfss.se
,,eeued dissusb.nrr saa ppsFsge u lieeDs
l.l,ng. From ths energetic sad aFeaose
rr,rrsSires Of The i.wfai sushoI..,fs :. :
s,ideus shss me sdhffruls q Der s's
prepariSg Tor nsw sr's Of sss.ssson 80
.,.i.nes. We lesfn fhsl on lhutseas
Gov. K,ne lsli PEosidenes % tas us
s.rhus.u n a'slock laf Ns~for'. lie
10 adhered sll she militia d TIE Sale 70
D,ors,d ID Prosidenes. The siesme,
pnor,dsncs had been ehaEsffst. anu rnsia
l.ks lhe lroops from NewPeIt Dsss'ol.
Warren, and Other luwns on me iisei-
a that 1000 rsem wsrs expeelrd 2 Dc
undsr arms al Presiisnes On rt.ss1'
They sill march vilhoai delay 70 Sns
nsehsL sixteen milss distant, .he Asa.-
Quarters Of Dor lsnd bis sdheftnls. y
sss ssnersliy bslisyeJ that Prosicsrse
would be placed under martial lav. we
think il no, vnlikely that ihs fnns,pal
object Of The rsselliOus raElisans o. poli
Ia ,I.e DEMONSTRATIONS uhirh have p.asoh'
ed such proapi seiion fon NE Cover
nor Il 10 create fgesh exellemenl nbiel
.Lall prevenl The Legislature ifom pass
ing any acts favorable 20 lhe extension o
,he nehl 81 suffrage. - that would 2
once lru,lrsie sll their schemes ollaslss'
violence. We trust that ihefe consider
allsss vii not Be allowed 10 iahsenee nc
members of The General Assembly; eu
that the seps already iskea towards cal
ling Convention Of The People 10 res's'
The Constitution will ., once &c e.ffle'
into foil elect We understand TIA
some Of The most desperate ,uilisns q ~
FIVE Points ian New Yoak) have sishil
les d IS gone 10 ffoyldenrs.
NtO FORK Tribune.
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O.. K,
ELECTIONS IN NEW YORK,

Rochester Redeemed, The Daily .qdrsrti,sr
Of That city says; " We have the satisfaction Of
announcing to our friends, both fur aud near tina,
Rochester stands forth redeemed an1 Disseminated.
We have elected our esteemed fellow citizen.
CHARLES J. HILL, Esq, Mayor, by TWO
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY minority, and our
Marshal by FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY
SEVEN! and our Aldermun>IN EVERY
WARD! ! In fact we have swep, The entire city
with the exception Of one supervisor, one collector.
and one constable.
Utica all right. The Utica Obmrrsr Extra
of The I'd inst, says:--" We are e1ul,ing in tho
election of our Mayor, Justice, two out. Of three
constabes, two assessors, md Of democratic
council. The election has been contested with
degree of acrimony on the par, Of The wings hardly
excelsd by the hard cider campaign Of ls4O."
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MR. BOTTs AND SECRETARY UPSHUR.

Mr. Bolts has published an address to the public
occup, ing five columns of the " Independent -
Ii i, little curious that we the humble editor ur
the Statesman, can neulrallze and utterly demosh
the entire force Of two of those porlenious FIVE col
umns, by dash Of the pen. These two columns
consist Of extracts from an article published in Pc
tersburgh some iiue since, in the "soulhern Maya
zlne,' periodical, Of which only two numbers
were ever issued. This article is STYLED "Revo.
luton in Disguise and is explicitly charged by
Mr. Bolts us having been written BY (him) Judge
Up,hur. From " Revelation in Disguise Mr.
Bolts makes numerous extracts, comments upon
them, expounds their reasonable character, and
very satisfactorily 10 himself at lcas,,) demon
incendiary, &c. That the reader may Judge for
himself, whether Mr. Bolts expressly charges Mr.
upshur with the authorship Of that obnoxious ari-
Gle " Revolution in Disguise,' We beg leave to
quote the honorable gentIeInan's own words:
I" In The Southern Magazine and Monthly Re-
view published IN Petersburgh, Virginia, find an
article from the pen Of Mr. Upshur written rs late
as January 1871 entitled " Revolution in Disguise
or the process Of inlnslng me- principles into Il
constitution Of government without changing lis
FORM"
Agi,n-Mr Bolts, after quoting and annoialing
upon number Of passages from " Revolution in
Disguise comes 10 the following compliment COLI
cluson Of the result Of his labors
81 have now proved, as promised. from hi,
own writings ihTt he is not only dsunionst. but
one at leas, times dyed ia the wool, snd that
there was studied prevaricaion in his letter Of
denial
Let these two extracts from Mr. Bolts snfIice Tor
he present without quoting at large his ingenious
proofs hi. logical deductions, and his enbiered vi
t1beraions. These all would he very fine indeed
hut for small difficulty in the honoahe gentle
mans premises. We happen to kaow personally
add absolutely. that Mr. Uphsur did no, writs one
sentence. word syllable. Of "Reyu.non in Die
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WAR TO THE KNIFE--THE FEDERAL
TAX ON LABOR.

Our contemporary Of the Burlington Free Press,
has at length wheeled his guns into position, aud
opened tremendous fire upon Us on the Tariff or
TAX question. We understand the white-fnger-
ed, orange gloved troops he commands the order
to charge them in Their faces, VIII send them all
tripping to their ladies' sofas, whimpering mos, lus-
lily for "proteclon"' In the days when we went
sogering up in "spunky little LamoiIle," we re-
member that it was only necessary for one Of our
Johnson farmers to draw his brawny fist from
hi. trousers pocket, to set the hearts of the whole
federal host ticking like so many watches in n
Jewellers shop; we shall see If hard cider has pu,
any metlc in their vers, or if their late exercises
in carrying coon skins has strengthened their sin
ews.
In default Of no, being exactly prepared himself.
this week, Mr. Stacy orders "Wesford Farmer
TO head the charge against us; who, misaprehendng
an article Of ours has made very Aourishing on
set.
The paragraph which he quotes from our article,
was intended to illustrate the principle Of pro,ec
ton, and to show what the farmers of this State
would gain by the protection Of one article, so far
as he lrished 10 use that article, the article OF
broad cloth. meaning, that it should be inferred
from the operation of protection on that one arii-
Gle, what would be the operation Of protection on
all other taxed articles.
At 40 cents per pound, it would take l25 pound,
Of The farmers wool 10 buy SIS worth of broad
cloth at s 90 per yard, and hi. 1875 pounds of
wool would amount to $500. Then, if tariff Of
20 per cent on his wool be raised and the price Of
his broad cloth be increased 20 per cent. as we
have supposed, his 1875 pounds Of wool would
bring him 5000 and his broad cloth would cost
him $500 Now we repea, what has he made by
the protection on this article 50 much US he wishes
to use OF ii
But as the Free Press affects tables we will hu-
nor The gentleman in that line, little.
To make the case clear, we will take enough
out Of The "Wcslford Farmers" wool, he says he
raises 500 pounds to purchase his broad clo,h,and
pu, the matter in this way.
He buys Of the msrchan. ivs yards cf broad
! cloth, At $500, per ,sId $500
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Year. Imports. Exports.
1887, S44,ss6,9i3 S54,5s3 $40
1888, 4l,s6l,6 SIS 52,l79 $50
1899, $685., 5ss 47,267,742
1910, 33,737 500 59,3l7 1862
$50. i5O,9OS S2l3,34s,264
S9,45O,9OS
EAce" Of exports over imports in
four wears
S23,S97,356

Excess Of exports over imports in
four years S23, 1897 1856
We trust the above will be deemed and taken
as a sufficient proof of the fasehood Of the high
tariff doctrine that England will buy none Of our
goods: and also Of the doctrine tha. high duties are
necessary TO prevent an excess Of nporaions
About all the high duties which The tariff men
want, are leveed against England, and YET Eng
land, as we have seen, buys Of US good deal
more than we buy Of her. Further, ii may fairly
be deduced, from the abo 20 facts, that high duties
no no, necessarily diminish importnlions; iflhey
do, that they diminish also the exports. in at least
an equal ratio. BY an examination of the 6rst ia
ble above published, it will be found that from
1928 to 1882 inclusive, embracing the perisd Of
the highest tariff that ever was in force in hi,
country. the excess Of Imports from the British
domnions over the exports 10 the British domin-
IONS was SIG. 433 1882; or two thirds of the whole
excess III ,wonty years. How will the Tariti,es
reconcile 'hs f,-' with their theory that tho way
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$l76,6iS,94l
l27,772,553
$l27,772,553
s''. '''. ' E'' e.: !: ; { ;''

BY an examination Of this table it will be seen,
that from 1929 to 1882 inclusive embracing
the period of the highest tariff that ever was in
force in the country, as has been before remarked.
the imports exceeded our exports 6,9ss, 76l.
In four years, then under the highest Tariff
our imports of specie exceeded our exports on
ly about six millions, and from 1888 TO ls4O,
inclusive. period of nine years, our imports ex-
ceeded our exports, 40 ,OO9 1887, being an excess
of twen,y-one million, sxty-lhree thousand, eight
hundred eighty three dollars over our imports dur
ing the four years of lhe high Tariff!
II will be seen also that in one year Of the high
Tariff there was carried out oihe country l,70s,-
OS6 more than was brough, in, and yet, the High
Tarifliles say that this measure will prevent for
eigners carrying The specie nut Of the country
tina, if we have High Tariff it will prevent other
nations from importing goods and draining the coun-
try ofspece
1t will also be seen by the table, that in the
two years Immediately preceding the abolition
of the high Tariff, our exports of specie exceeded
our imports by the small sum of 1855, O22!
and that for the two succeeding years, onr i'm
ports of specie exceeded our exports 2l,O63,-
$780,! In the face of all these facts the high
TariiIies endeavor 10 cajoe the people into the old
policy during four years of which, our imports
exceeded our exports only 5000 600, and induce
them to abandon the policy that followed, under
which, our imports exceeded our exports in only n
few years more, 49,0O7 1887 difference ngains,
the high Tariff policy of almost FIFTY MIL
LIONS of dollars.
Now if the high Tprf papers can answer these
arguments let them do it, All we wish is that The
people may see the subject in all its bearings and
act underslandngIy. If the papers, in the State
which advocate TAX ON LABOR, for the ben
eft of spectators, will say less about "norlhern
dough.iaces," leagnes "belween southern slave
holders and northern Tories" and such balder-
dash, Land more of the subject under discussion they
will enlighen the people much faster We say
in conclusion, that the facts and figures we have
put upon the stand in this case completely over
throw the grand argument that high Taft, or
Tax snecessary to prevent excessive imporlalions
and save the country from continual drain Of its
specie. lfthey have any thing but blackguardism
to adduce in reply, let them bring it on.
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about Home Leagues, and keep up the constant
cry Of give, give, give. 1t il only the big bugs,
who never soed their hands by days labor,
that require 100 or $50 per cont, protection. and
now put themselves forward as the exclusive
friends of domestic industry. They are for taxing
all creation, 10 enable them to roll up their mil
lions us have the Boston nabobs, out of the earn
los of their operatives" in Lowell, Nashua ard
Norwich.
But, say the "lords of the loom" borrowing an
argument from the AboIiloniss, "wlll yon en-
courage this sending of southern cotton, raised by
shares, to Europe, to he exchanged for foreign
goods Is not a question between northern Tree
labor, and southern slave labor" Those who are
forever ringing the charges OH that subject, take
good care never TO mention, that nearly all The
southern cotton sent abroad, is first bought in the
southern market by northern men, and paid Tor
directly or indirectly by the mechanical prodac-
lions of the norlh-by our hats, buttons, cabinet
ware furniture leather, harnesses, boots and shoes,
japanned ware, clocks, candles, Carriages, Wagons,
tin ware, plated goods, millinery, hoes, spades,
pitch forks, axes, and other implements of husbnn'
dry, in short every thing that our mechanic shops
turn out The cotton thus purchased, IS shipped
cOastwse to northern poris,in northern ships, man
ned by northern sailors, and then sent to Europe
III OllltI HUIlHcIl sHil'S, h'HhS' ~ "''"'" 49,
iors, which bring back foreign goods in RETURN
1t is the same thing rs if we sent our hats, car
rages, clocks, buttons, &c. 10 Europe aud ex-
changed them Tor cloths, or whatever else our
market required; for the cotton exported represents
those articles, which have been used TO purchase
it with. This cotton trade, instead of being the
trade Of slaves, is the trade Of northern mechanics,
northern sailors, aud northern ship owners-and
are they Of no account with those who are so loud
in talking about " domestic industry" Must the
mechanics and the ship owners, and The brave tars
who man our ships, all be turned adrlh, to accom-
MEDIATE few incorporated capitalists, who employ
their " operatives" in c!othweayings and who are
not content with the same measarer protection
tina, common mechanics have? lnstead Of its be-
Ing struggle between northern free labor aud
southern slave lnbor-lhe struggle is between
few " lords of the loom" on the one side and the
great body Of northern mechanics, farmers, and
sailors on the other--.NeU Haren Register.
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MIR. WOODS SPEECH. PROTECTION,
ANDS SOON.

We call attention TO tho speech Of Mr. Wood 10
this weeks paper. We have published several
speeches on the Tariff question this winter, Tor
The purpose of allowing the people to get view
Of the whole subject.
We have published the speeches entire because,
we do not wish to garble the speech Of any man,
at the same time, we do not agree with the au-
'hors Of some Of them, so lar as the doctrines Of
rREE TRADE are concerned. Understand %:
we believe in those doctrines theoretically, but We
have no expectation Of seeing them carried out in
practice, and therefore we do not advocate them,
deeming it Of no practical use to do 30 at present.
WE ARE IN FAVOR OF A TARIFF FOR
REVENUE, BUT NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL
PROTECTION, and such we understand 10 bs
the view, Of the great Democratic partly The
revenue of the Government must be raised by q
Tax or Tariff on foreign LUXURIES, then i, will
be horne by those who are best able to bear it, the
rich; but let tho NECEssARIEs Of life come 10
the poor as cheap as possible. Let those who are
able TO wear silks and jewelry, and drink wines,
pay for them, and e..lhe oppressed 60 free;"
free to obtain what he must have 10 live upon, a.
easily as possible. Make as light tax for tho
protection Of Government, as may be, and not any
for the protection of individuals. The motto Of
the poor man on this subject, is, "nons for de-
fence, but moi n cent for tribute" or all who la
Dor for their daily bread, there is not one, poor as
he may Oe, who will not give Of his mite to protect
the Government, bu, when you usk him to pay
tribute to the Lordly Manufacturer, he bolts, and
we bolt with him. We shall submit to no such
injustice as that, while we live. neither will any
poor man when he understands the matter.
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Sss3,435,sl3 Ss55,363,sl
s55, 363,sl3
F e: :: &C.; !, :; '" i'm:

These figures show the value of imports at the
places whence imported, and the value Of exports
at the places whence exported. The difference be-
tween the home value Of our exports, and their
value when conveyed to foreign countries, must be
equal to the freight, insurance, and profits; which
is probably, on an average, not less than 10 per
cent. That i',in paying for goods to be imported
into the United States, they will go Is per cent.
beyond their home valuation. This Is per cent.
on $685., 1868 ,Sl3 Ohe amount of exports in iwen-
~ years) is SIPS ,30i,572, which, added TO said
amount, makes the foreign value Of our exports in
twenty years, 1888 ,66s, 1856; exceeding the a.
mount of imports during the same period, by more
than ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. This,
be ii remembered, is the excess Of our exports to
the British dominions, during the last twenty years
ofwhich the returns have been published, over
our Imports from the same countries: reckoning
the value ofboth at the places whence the imports
were taken. Here is FACT against THEORY; Of
fetal returns against conjecture.
Ifonly Grea, Britain and Ireland be included in
the comparison, emitting the Colonies. the result
will be in abou, the same ratio. By way Of illus
tralion, we here give the imports and exports to
and from Great Britain and Ireland during the last,
four years Of which we have returns:
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guise;" and five are mistaken in this, we are
ready to admit that Mr. Bolts is the wisest politl-
clan, and most modest, char liable man in The whole
Union, nay in the wide world. We saw "Reyo-
luton in Disguise" in manuscript, heard consd-
cradle portion of 1t read from the manuscript, dis
cussed its merits, and were thus in manner privy
10 its publication, and if there be reason in it, we
are pariiceps crimmnis and asort OF accessory be-
fore the fact.
Mr. Upsher. we have every reason to know, nei-
Their wrote "Revolulion in Disguise" nor saw that
article, or any part of it, until published to the
world. Whether Mr. Bolts is in II fair way to dis
tingush himself for the scrupuous accuracy of his
saIemcnts-at least as far as "Revoluton in Dis
gnise" is Commemorative now submit TO the judy
mont of the reader.
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W. find that the Yankee Nation 10 playing q

We find that the yankee Nation 10 playing a
beautiful game on its subscribers in the county
We hear complaints fiom all quarters. One gen.
,leman in this town paid and holds Bradley 4
Co.'S receip, TO the first Of this month"; and has re-
ceived no paper since the first Of January although
he has written TO them on the subject. II the
people who conduc, the Nation would spend
little more time in SEEING their contracts fulfilled,
and les, in manufacturing Fish River, and St. Al
bans bear stories. it would ccnduco to their intern
in this dirocticn.
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spirit of tie age.
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT:
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH, IL, ls42
HIGH DUTIES NOT NECESSARY TO
PREVENT AN EXCESS OF I'M
pORTATION.

One the most vaunted arguments 1.-THE friends
Of high Tariff is That such Tariff, is absolutely
necessary to prevent an excess of importation; in
other words, it is said by the party who wish 10
TAX NORTHERN LABOR, that unless we have
high Tariff Of Protection, as they call it,
other countries will bring INTO this country, or i'm
portslore than we cun send out, or export, and
consequently, drain the country of our money
This is the grand argument, as all know. Nowwe
invite attention to the following tables of figures,
taken IN part, with the explanations ,fiom the New
York Journal Of Commerce., which answers this
argument completely There are a number of
faacies current among high tariff men, which
might easily be exposed and corrected One Of
them is, that high duties arc necessary in order
70 prsreat an ercess Of importaiions. As ii Is
chiefly the manufactures of England that come in
competition with our own " industry" these dis
interested patriots very loud in procaiming the
inequality oC our trade with tina, country. And so
often has the assertion hecn repeated that probably
large proportion of the people believe it to be
true. Yet nothing is farther from the truth, as we
shall proceed to show, by facts derived from Off
cial documents. For this purpose we have cx-
amined the annual statements of imports and ex-
ports prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury,
and published by order Of Congress, for each year
since 1920. The result is given in the annexed
table; which, il must be understood, exhibits the
imports and exports to and from Great Britain and
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Ohio and Michigan are democratic in botn
branches Of the Legislature; and they have both
ordered an immediate resumption by tho banks
Who arc opposed to an irredeemable currency the
democrats or their oPponea.s' Facts speak lor
themselves.
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to prevent excessive importa,ons, is to impose
heavy duties'
We will now show by another table what has
been the difference between our exports and imports
of specie. and the effects OF High Tariff on that
question.
The following table derived from official sources,
will show the amount Of gold and silver imported
into and exported from the United States between
the years 1921 and 1910.
Imports and exports of gold and silrer from