Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-11-21

sustenance and shelter. Save ali il pos
sible. and ss long IS possible: but save
these TO the last.:-.NeD York Tribune.
Loss OF LABOR TO MEcHANIcs.-We
are informed upon unquesiionable anthoil.
ty that three merchants IN this CITY mad
contemplated building, or having built,
each, ship n piece IN case Of the cleo.
tion Of llENRY CLAY to the Presidency.
Since, however, il is rendered certain
that Mr. Polk s elected, they have aban.
donrd the ides, fearing that the policy
which will be pursued by him and his
patty would Sd parslyzs business and
commerce ss to render the enterprise con.
templa,ed by them Improbable. Thus
have the mechanics end labprers Of Felps
Poiut, 10 this one instance, been deprived
the opportunity Of Obtaining employ a
81 airing an the distribution Of at least six.
~ thousand dollars. We are we'll as
cured that the gentlemen who purposed
building these vessels would have enter
cd into contracts for having thea bull,
irnedistely after il had been announced
that Henry Clay had been chosen TO pre-.
SIDE over this nation as It's Chief Magis
lrate. Whether times will be any worse
or not, remains 10 be experienced. One
thing, however, is certain, that such men
as those mentioned above, who TO a great
extent composed the Wing party. have
eady lost confidence, aud viii, we have
no doubt, withhold their means. Prom
this course we very much fear many will
have cause TO regret that they voted for
JAMES X. POLK. - Baltimore Patriot.
PEoJEcT KNOCKED IN THE HEAD
We understand that arrangements had
nearly been completed TO start large
woolen manufacturing establishment in
this city, with a ca ital OF 500, 900, the
| foundation Of which would have been
laid this fall, but 40 the people Of the Uni.
ted States have decided in favor of the
Brit sh manufactures, the design viii be
abandoned. Thus an annual distribution
IF from twenty to thirty thousand dollars
in wages, which would have found their
way 10 our M rchants, tailors, shoemak-
erS, &c, and the farmers in our vicinity
is prevented, and tho money will instead
be shipped to pay the wages OF British
operatives.
1t was in cons derntion Of this fact
probably, that jourueyman shoemaker's
shop in this city WIS illuminated on
Thu day evening. --Utica Gazette.
THE BEGINNING The probability Of
Folks election has compelled several large
manufactures in this and Abany counties
to adopt measures for the immediate cur.
,ailmen, Of their 5usiness.--Troy ". "
Wing.
NEW YoaK. The Poughkepsie Jour-
nal and Eagle OF Saturday last says: A.
mong the benefits secured The people OF
this State by the elevation Of Slas Wright
AID the Polk party, is that Of having fix
ed upon themselves for ten years a direct
State tax of six hundred thousand dollars
per annum, to lay in the Albany banks
at three per cent. interest. They have
also efiectualy stopped the progress OF
the public works, so that the fifteen mil.
lions Rlfeady luid out on them will be as
unrwoductve and as eaectually lost as il
cast in the oc, an, although at the same
tlme the interest on that fifteen millions
must be regularly paid!
We learn that purchases Of land and
more County, and that necessary prepa.
ratons were in a state of great forward
ness to erect two extensive Iron Work -
one On the York Turnpike, and the other
| in different direction which were 10
have been Put in operation without delay.
The defeat of Mr.. Clay, and the apPre
henson Of areduction Of the present du
ty on iron, have caused the projectors TO
suspend operations: and we learn that the
projects, fnot abundond altogether, will
at least be suspended for some tlme.---
Baltimore American.
The FIRsr FRuITS.--Several capital
lists, who had intended TO expend III re
than a million Of dollars IN the erection
OF iron and other establishments in the
! Valley OF Virginia, have gwen up their
projects, since the result OF the Presden.
tal election has been known. So with a
contemplated outlay IN cotton ard WOOL
len manufactures in the neighborhood Of
Harper's Ferry.
This may he called an eff TT to create
panic; but II the statement of facts
have that effect, we cannot help ii. The
blessings of Lecofoco instability in public
affairs are yet to be developed in many
ways. Winchester Rep.
EFFECTs OF THE LATE ELEcTIoNs. -
| The lowest price at which Ply Metal has
be-, sod IN this market during the sum
mer, has been $2s 90. On Friday last
sale OF 1870 tons was me- do at that price.
ca Friday night we received the news OF
the New York city election, and the
probable loss to the Wings OF that STATE.
On Saturday Pig Metal was offered and
refused al S25 90. Another lot was N
negoiiat on Tor on Friday. On Saturday,
We lrarn, IT vas declined. -PHSJurg
finer. Nor. l3.
WooL FALLING The Western State
journal (SyIacusc) says that wooI has
fallen in that place five to ten cents on
The pound, and one woollen factory was
immediately to curtai its operations one