New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-21
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Rail Road Iron.


notice in your paper that meeting on this sub,
ject is called by the American Institute, at their
rooms Friday evening. The question. Can
America supply her own iron is very important
question indeed-or did our wise Creator intend
that we should traverse an ocean three thousand
miles, and then seek in another quarter Of the Globe
the embedded in the distant mountains OF It's ~
teror Free Trade would hire the working men Of
England, Wales, Sweden and Russia to work new
mines and pay for It's transportation TO this country,
then 10 be carried hundreds of miles into interior
TO supply those very portions OF our country where
iron exists in quantities that defy calculation.
Free Trade till recently has insisted that it our
best policy to abandon own coal beds, and I'M
port English coal 5000 miles. Fortunately, a ma
orty of Congress had wisdom enough not to be
fooled by such free trade absurdtes, and they Pro-
ected American coal and thereby reduced fuel fifty
per cent. TO the whole country. Had they carry
protected American iron, the immense unllq uldhted
debr of Illinois, created for imported Rail Road IRON,
u,oulJ NOT have cost over one-ourh the sum they
are bound to pay for IL. Is proof wanted we
affirm that since late tariff some OF our large
commission houses have received orders to reduce
the prices once equal TO the new duties charged.
Every friend of Internal Improvement should at.
tend. Ensure to the iron producers our market, and
confident that in three years much Rail
Road iron will be supplied as will meet every de-
mand our extended internal Improvements will re-
quire at not exceeding S35 per ton. CARBON.
THE HUTcHINsoNs.-Thesec charming vocalists,
who have never been able to find room for all the
friends who crowd 70 their entertainments, have Sc
ected the Tabernacle for their Farewell Concert,
which is to take place tonight. Amidst all the
vicisstudes and varying breezes of tickle fortune
which attend others, the Hutchinsons have compel
led constantly increasin gadmraton from public
charmed with the simplicity and captiyated by the
genius OF these exquisite artists. The Tabernacle
will present brilliant scene tonight.
CHICKEN Observation-Disclosures is getting
superhuous. We rather think she will soon be
voted out of fashion and dispensed with. There
is chap just our publication office Matching
Chickens IN a big box, fifty day, having
thousand eggs always doing. The trouble of
attending them is slight, the heat costs very
little, and the chickens crack their several shells
and walk up to their dough and water like wood
choppers to dinner sailors to their grog. They
are clean, strong and lively, grow fast and rarely
die, mot being draggled through the grass J and
whoever has Matching machine. can have
Spring Chickens every week IN the year. and at
small expense.-lf we could only invent ma.
chine TO lay eggs now, hens would be done with.
DARING kOBBERY-lhe house OF Rev. Mr.. Car
roll, about mile from Niagara, C. w. was entered
by three robbers, disguised with Grape their faces,
on the night of Saturday week, and robbed of two
gold watches and case containing money There
were no persons in the house the time except the
housekseper, man servant and two children The
man stood perfectly sill, completely cowed by the
threats OF the robbers but The housekeeper with her
tongue and hands made stout resistance. One OF
the robbers presented pistol at her head, but il
missed fire. when he struck her with il so violently
as 10 break the stock. Upon this the lady, instead
OF yielding, attacked in her turn, and cenched her
assailanr. Both TO the floor together and in
the struggle she biz of his fingers severely and
tore off his mask He finally exricated himself and
made off with his associates. The money case thew
dropped in the haste of their retreat On Msndav u
young OF highly respectable connections was
arrested IN Niagara, and identified by the house
keeper by the wound on his finger as one of the rob-
bers Two others have been arrested on suspicion
KILLED 81 AWHALE.-We find in the Friend of
Temperance ofJan. l, published a, Hanolulu, Sand
wich Islands, account of the death of Jehie PEN
nv. of Sag Harbor, Long Island. He was third mate
OF the whaling ship John Jay and was killed instant
" BY blow from the fukes of whale while stand
ing in the stern OF his boat the 18th Of last June.
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