New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-25


millions OF wool either exported raised the last census
shows that there are only thirty I'VE m,ons on pouI
raised in the United State, free of dnry Sy
hose American manufacturers who have such an sonor-
r. This man insane, or only incapable of be-
corning sog We had estimated the entire con-
sumo,ion of Woozeas in the Country at $90, 000,-
| ooo-a mere guess, which, if Ave hundred per
cent. eco high or too low, would make no odds TO
the present purPose-and he conJutes' US by as
.er,ing tina, the importers Custom House valuation
| IF the Woolens they have sworn into our ports Is
but six or eight millions Doubtless the real cost
to as OF these very goods least SIS, 600 ,000
70 say nothing of those smuggled I'M and then we
have our whole Home Product to add, including
| household manufactures, which of themselves pro-
baby exceed the whole import. Just SO of Wool ::
we had supposed that the price of Wool, if we had
no choice but TO export il, and sell it for what it
| would fetch abroad, would be far less than under
| an efficient Tariff which would secure to it ready
market at home. Yet Free Trade overlooks
the point in dispute, and falls to carping at our
| estimate of the probable amount produced in the
country, which is wholly aside from the question.
But hear him again. We said that our Farmers
would pay for their Cloths, if produced at home,
in Wool, Grain, Potatoes, &c. &c. at certain
orces, which they could not hope obtain if their
Cloths were produced abroad, because the Home
Market for their produce must necessarily be
greatly restricted. We never imagined that the
manufacturers were to eat all the GRAIN Meat
Vegetables &C. that the Farmers would pay for
their Cloth-nothing like it. We referred to the
we'll known law Of trade that the price at which
the surplus of a product must be sold affects the
price of the uhole product: as, for instance if the
country produces ten millions of barrels of Flour
and one million must be sold abroad, the price at
which this could be sold, must govern the price Of
the whole and if, instead of exporting, we were
20 import million barrels the cost of this million
would likewise govern the general price, and lour
would now be twice as high as in the other case.
Yet this Free Trade luminary founders on in ut
ter innocence of the whole matter he thinks he is
discussing, as follows:
"The reader is led infer, also that these American
Manufacturers only hundred millions bushels
# potatoes annually, Of crop OF hundred and
hrleen millions which all that are raised, according
The in the United States The quantity that would
lett for all the animals and seventeen millions of people
besides these who occupied in manufacturing wooles
.voud be about thirteen millions OF bushels.
And then, again, what gratifying reflection to think
that there consumed in the manufacture OF wooen2o
millions of bushels appes BY the census Of ie4o there
wen thousand eight hundred and persons;
cordpg which. if the Editor OF the Tribune be correct
Table Of article, consumed BY each indi0idua employed
LFulling Mills and Reo len Manutactories.
2l4o bushels Of Wheat.
s07 :. Apples.
72z7 or nearly 200 bushels per day bulk FOR
Having thus given at length the ret utation which
this genius gives to our argument, we retire from
he field, leaving him to reve in astonishment
his own elasticity and irresistible power.
DIR. SMITHS LEcTuREs-CoRREcr1oN our
sketch Of DR.. ]. A. SMITHS first Lecture on
Geology he was represented as comcedtng that the
facts of Geology contradict the Mosaic account
# the Creation; and as giving some reasons why
philosophers were not called upon to decide upon
be respective claims Of the two authorities. We
,re convinced that the purPort of his remarks
vas misconceived, and wrongly presented. The
oll~wing more correctly indicates their meaning:
After stating that he should have to prove the
.ach an opinion was contrary to the received no.
ions Of the Mosaic account of the Creation: and
le further observed that, were ne to permit the
rev he was obliged to take to go forth without
Comment, disagreeable impressions might result;
hat, for the reasons we gave, ne might abstain
rom such comment, but, from the peculiar nature
f the case, he preferred Offering explanation TO
prevent the remotest danger of giving the slightest
,nea.iness to the most sensitive mind. de then
vent on to say that he had read every attempt al
/, solution of the difficulty which had fallen in his
way, and that every one, in his judgement and in
he judgement of others, had failed; that he had
ut upon conjecture which, if admitted, removed
very objection that had occurred or would arise :
that conjecture was, that the Bible was intended
or purpose widely different from that Of teach
ng us science, &c. &c.--And he wound up the
whole discussion By the quotation from President
Moore of Columbia College, which we gave,
md 10 which he maintained every intelligent Chris
ian who examined the subject must come-thnt
ne Holy Scriptures were not given to teach US
,cience, but 10 make US wise unto salvation
We cheerfully make the correction, in justice to
Or. SMITH as well as to prevent all suspicion that
we had wilfully perverted hi. meaning.
TENNEssEE.-The Legislature of Tennessee ad
.ourned on the 18th, after the Senate had refused
70 go into the election of as United States
senator The bill for dividing the State into Con-
uessonal Districts finally passed both Houses
me Senate by vote of ID to 10, and the House