The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-06-16
FARMERS wIvEsLooK ATTHt.
s. sALA, sec'y.

Mr.. Ssltonstall the whg home lenguer, has brought
bill Congress to tax you two cents per b. on your
sugar, one dollar and fifty cents per barrel on Your
mlckerel and two dollars barrel on your salmon, and
this at time when these same wings offer you butiour
cents dozen for your eggs, six cents pound for your
butter aud three cents pound for your lard, Wlll
you make any more flags for these "TipPeoanoe and
Tyler Too" home leagues.
Walter Forward, Mr. Tyler's Secretary, has also
sent in bill to Congress for taxing sugar. tea, and coi-
fee. His sugar tax is from to cents per pound ac'
cording to quality. Tho tax on Green Tea 10 cents a
pound and Coffee cents pound. The Democrats
defeated this odous at the extra session Of Congress
but Mr.. Clay solemnly pledged himself that the TAX
should be put at this session, and the federallss are
now preparing 10 obey his orders They care not how
much the working people oppressed as long as they
get their eight dollars day, while they sitting for
seven or eight months at a time, and eight dol liars for
every twenty miles they travCf which frequently does
not cost them one dollar for that distance Chill Adv
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LATE FROM EUROPE AWFUL FIRE-TERRl.
BILE RAIL ROAD ACCIDENT-ANOTHER
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE
FRENCH KING. 30.
From the late news from Europe we haEo the tpl-
lowing:
The steam ship Columbia arrived at Boston on
Thursday morning end inst, having leh Liverpool on
the 18th May.
A great Gre is said to have befllen the Austrian
were consumed and tbree-fourhs of the inhabitants,
who were celebrated for their iron manufactures were
LEFT without shelter.
Seven more ships, with sixteen hundred troops. hod
sailed for India, which shows determination on the
part of the government to push the war against Aghan'
is,an.
FRANCE.-Another plot has been discovered, and
several persons supposed to have been connected with
it have been arrested, ..
The police had discovered, a vast number Of ncen-
diary bomb shells at the residence OF tailor in the
Passage violet, aad other places.
The proiectlles made in a perfectly new manner
stone bottle, not very thick serves as the envelopes:
this is covered with thick coat Of the in6ammable
matter which is appedto the extremity of those mat
ches called ehimiques aemandes. Inside, quantity
Of powder and bullets strongly pressed together so
as 10 produce terrible explosion, if the Btiamma-
HE coating of the bottle should come in contact with
any resisting body. -,
porabe catastrophe took place on the Versailles
and Meudon Railway, by which one hundred and
twenty persons were killed or have since died Of their
wounds, and many manned and wounded.
CONFEDERATION The city Of Hamburg, the
great commercial emporium Of Germany, one Of the
most Aourshng on the continent of Europe, is heap
Of ruins"
The fire which broke out on Wednesday night the
4h inst, and which, there is every reason olbelieve,
was the work of an incendiary, extended to fifty two
streets, most Of which were reduced TO ashes On a
EOugH CaCudtiOu1 uo lOoe vi PioPOtV ""oo
to four millions sterling, but It's believed that the to-
tal loss will be double that amount
No person can tell how many lives were lost, bu
great number Of persons must have perlshed. Ths
The canals through the city dry, so that no wa
ter could be found. The fire ragged from Wednesday
night to Saturday morning On the latter day, at 9
o'clock, the Danish hanoverian, and Prussan troops
entered the town, and being well supplied with gun
powder commenced blowing up the houses to arrest
the progress of the Aamess This was completely sf
fected BY Sunday morning. The Senate ordered every
person TO leave tie town. and nothing could exceed the
heard.ronding spectacle of thousands of poor people,
frantic with their losses and without the Of pro-
curing food or shelter.
It is stated in the latest accounts that go Streets courts
and alleys, and is public buildings, in all about 400
houses, have fallen sacrifice ThS number of lives
lost is said TO be between 250 and 800.
Two splendid churches, with steeples, exceeding
400 feet in height, another church with ito tower the
Rauh EIaus where the Senate hold their stings, the
old Exchange the repository Of the archives The bull
ding Of the Patriotic Stcietyi are all destroyed.