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The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-12-09

countries from which we obtained these COM
modities, England and the West Indies, were
above all there the most extensive customers
for our agricultural products: taking more of
them in value than we of their merchandise
and paying us the balance in specie with
which 10 supply ourselves with the Silks,
Spices, Teas, Co6fees, Linens, Dye stuifs
&c, which we buy of countries that take
little of US, but which the Tariff men never
complain oi--and never include in their res
trictions. Our trade with England from
which we got Iron, Woolens and Cottons is
specially denounced and traduced. 1t is
constantly alledged that Great Britain exacts
enormously greater duties on our products
than we require ON hers: when in fact, our
trade with that kingdom and its dependencies
experiences greater liberality from her than
our trade anywhere else, much greater than
we accord 10 her in return. The duties OIL
Bacon, Beef, Butter, Lard, Pork, do not ex-
ceed an average of 25 per cent ad valorem.
The duties OH Wheat and Flour under the
sliding scale do not average more. In the
colonies the duties are still less. And yet
Great Britain who buys large quantities of
these articles, although under the necessity
of raising enormous taxes, permits them TO
enter at these rates whilst her own merchan-
disc is compelled to pay nearly double this
tax by us. Even The Tobacco duty is SO
modified by her prohibition of domestic cul-
ture, and by duty almost equally high on
her colonial, as to give us monopoly of the
supply. Nothing can inspire greater con-
tempt for the press and distrust in the people,
than the multitude of gross and positive
falsehoods ON the subject, (which in contradic-
ton Of public official documents, have per-
vaded the newspapers-and in company with
an equal amount of the shallowest fallaces
and paradoxes have mystiied and misled a
large minority of our citizens. In the five
greatest interests that constitute the pillars
of the existing Tariff system the West has
less than her proportion of men employed
| Thus
The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-12-09

which has since taken place on the west, we
present the following table. II contains a
statement of the product Of our shops, factor
les, and mines according 10 the Census of
le40--the latest account Of them that exists
Also view of the articles imported from
abroad that come in competition with them,
1.-The re.exporlation of these articles and
also the export Of our own products.--all
taken from the Report Of the Treasury for
lS4l the last year of revenue tariff
The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-12-09
KALIDA VENTURE.
Z JAMES MACKENZIE, EDITOR.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER o, Is45.

ar We have been compelled to omit several matters
of interest," notices of books &C. this week. hut
win endeavor to give variety the large
annual public documents, the messages &c. are furnished
,o our readersi
The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-12-09

0trThe snow which fell on Sunday prom
ised abundance of pleasant sleigh rides, we
were casting about sin our minds eye" for
the fixins,' but the melting weather of yes
terday told US very plainly that wc nigh, save
ourselves the trouble.
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NEALs SATURDAY GAZETTE, published in
Philadelphia, is in our judgment, not only
among the best. but the uery best weekly
family newspaper we have ever read. Tts
editor is JOSEPH G. NEAL, well known as
author of the Charcoal Sketches" We
have frequently made extracts from his edi-
torial criticisms upon men and things, which
must give better idea of the general tone
and high character of this journal than any
comments we can offer. Its price is for
single copy, So, for two, So; and for four,
S..
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The English News.

The news brought by the Hibernia, sketch
of which we gave in our last, is of great import
ance The revalson in the railroad speculation
the prospect of famine from the destruction Of the
potato and failure of the wheat crops-the calling
of cabinet council after cabinet council showing
alarm, anxiety and probable want of unanimity
on the part OF the British ministry-the agitation
of popular feeling in relation to the Corn Laws.
threatening to sweep them away-the sezing Of
this occasion of revusion and dsaster by O'Con-
nell to renew the agitation of repeal-the advance
of breudstufs and the depression in the price Of
cotton-show state of affairs more perilous and
fruitful of revolutionary changes, then has
existed since the pa ssuge of the reform bill
The effect of this state Of things upon our nsgo-
tatons with that power cannot be determined,
but in her present financial troubles, my other
policy than peaceful one is scarcely to be ex-
pected
After all the severe lectures Of our precise
step-mother England about our want of hon.
esy the gracelessness of repudiation, and the in
iquity of Yankee speculation generally, who
would have believed that the good old lady her.
self was all this time best, 'no better than she
should be-" But so it is. Ono of the English
journals describing the character of the railroad
speculation, says
GA more gigantic system of swindlng has
rarely been seen in these latter days, and tho
number Of respectable" persons who have
lent their names to support bubble compa-
MES, make us blush for the cupidity Of our
common humanity. T. y Asa proof of
the extent to which this huge system of
swindling has been carried, it may be men,
toned that even Ladies were not exempt
from its influence. The female friends and
relatives of those who pulled the wires Of
cortan imposing puppet schemes, were in
the daily habit of haunting the purieus and
Offices, of the share brokers in the metropolis,
in order to turn the letters of allotments 10
the best account, One of the railway papers
mentions certain batch of female speculat-
ors who contrived to realize, by this kind Of
chicanery, during the height Of the mania,
the astounding sum of E5OO,000"
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her power is at hand, and her destiny will
yet be accomplished.
With sentiments of confidence and regard
we are &c.
=. FISHER, Chairman.
w. F. JOHNSON, G. REEMELIN,
A. w. ANDERSON, J. CROFT, Committee
Cincinnati, llthlmouth, 4th lS45.
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For the Register and Journal.

CoNEcUH COUNTY. July 23. 1846.
 This communication would not, particularly at
 this late hour, have been written, but for the wonder fui prospects of Col Dunn, stated in the wing pa- pcrs from the cit, and in the couniry and ndeed it IS matter oi no great moment, in those days when news of every kind speedily finds It's way to the most remote corners of the country, for any particular person 10 trouble himself about much else than is immediately around him. But there is always some- thing Vt work not unlike what has been attempted in the commercial world for several years past; to procure high prices for produce, nothing 10 be done but to give continued and labored details of short crops of coon and scarcity of all articles of export; just as if the trading people abroad were so grossly ignorant 10 hazard their means in specu- aton upon the naked assertion oflhose whose great est interest 1t is to misead and deceiye, without any effort 10 discover the plain and simple truth themselves. In politics there are no few who prac
 tce similar acts of deception, guided by n common impression of certain politicians that the ignorant aad easily cheated ready set of trumpe tors hang around the candidates on ihe days of pub lie speaking, always the lookout for an oppori,i- nity to do up the wonderful in a fancy sketch; and many aad glowing descriptions come teeming from the press daily, of the rich and racy eloquence, and it's charming influence upon the hearers-tie mira. cuous effect-uhe sudden change of public opinion the opening the eyes of the bliRd, and the healing the wounds of the disafected; and the many and mighty wonderful works performed by the favourite candidate: all to have it's influence upon those in a distant portion oi district, animate and make poor silly fools who live in the back woods and ne- yer read the papers, have right to think for them selves being tho settled conviction of those who practice such shallow artiices to deceive. Don't dersiand me as sayIng such the course only Of particular party, but rather besetting sin of sI and
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THE MAGNETIC PRINTING TELEoRAPH.- Some days ago we stated that a specimen of printing had been shown to which said to have been made by nagnetic appartus ard we alluded then in brief and cautious terms to the possible merits o this new application of electro magnetism. On sec ing the machine itself in operation yesterday after uoon, we found that what had been said was very faint testimony in favor of one of inc most exiraor. dinary arrangements of mechanical power which the age in which we live SO fertile in in, ions, has yei produced
 The words pi ined before us are in fact better and more distinct than the specimen which had been shown and the rapidiiy of the performance Of the machine is beyond that which had been descri- bed. As fast as one spell the words they are printed of distinctly and without any chance ot CT. TOT. Tn give the familiar illustration of the pabilily ofthis telegraph, which happens to occur, is only necessary state. that editor from hia sanctum might serve his compositors al iheir cases with clearly printed copy of matter, as fast as he could spell the words of which it was composed. This would not do for long and prosv editorial hut il would answer much better purpose, by causing the news of lhe day be dgesied and condensed in small paragraphs suited to the heat of the weather and the patience of the reader.
 This invention of which we speaking, is one of those things easy and simple in it's cons ucon that IS surprised h,mse at not having thought of it before, and yet has the inventor, Mir. HOuse, months of funwearied and intense application, and is monument alike creditable to his ingenuity and his assiduity.-lN. Y. Evening Post.
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THEGRE FIRE AT MATAEzAs.-Through the New York papers we gel fuller accounts oi the destructive fire at Maanzas, ihe 26th uit., than we have previously seen.
 The fire burst out in he richest part of the city, and destroyed two entire squares and third part oi two more. Sixty houses were consumed, and the loss exceeds ssO0,0 ,0OO. Many persons were iniur- cd, and 1t is rumored that several lives were lost The progress of the flames was finally arrested by bailerng down the houses exposed with cannon- The fire bells rang for six hours.
 The following is list of the principal houses and establishments that have been burned down
 The house of Don Bartoomp de Ia Mater,-oi Don Vincente del Junco, (with 700 boxes of sugar and the adjoining provision store of Sis. Mulzerat k Atzara whose loss is estimated at $30 ,0O0. The house and store ofD. Jacnto Azanza. House and store called Pasaliempo, of Senor De vile.
 The store house or depot of Messrs. Mallory X Co.
 The Marina Coffee House. The provision store of Messrs. Markles & ''o. The provisinn store ofRiyas & Biro, with most of the gOods including many boxes ol sugar, Oags s coffee and pipes of wine i The sIore of Messrs Mallory & Go. The store of Carlos Aibtra. The steam oat stote house of D. Antonio Manza- net and several shops, the houses of D. Jaime or rens and D. Juan de SarI ia, the Fonda Fl Cierro de Gro, the house of Donna Catalina Guteras, ir which was the American Hotel, a beer shop, x de pot of provisions and fruits, and rnor shop trout ing on the Hotel de Comercip.
 Other houses and establishments have also los something, among them that of William Jenks anf of Snnon tie J.neuo; the hnlel of Mir. Babin, the house of Louus Iavalette and of SSr. Guanaud
 The Havana Diario estimates the loss al s2,OOO, 0O0.
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We have received several letters from inc conn,

We have received several letters from the county, denying ths assertion of the correspondents of the Advertiser, that Judge DARoAN ever declared him. self in oppositio" to the sub-ireasury. The course of his argument reply to DUNN's offer of the Bank of the United States as a whg measure, to be put in issue between the candidates. The Judge confined his speech in the main to an examination of Dunn's national bank arguments, and treated the sub-treasury as an incidental question, offering no argument. He said that the mere form of a sub treasury law was immal riaI-,hat we had now the principle adopted by law that dues of the gove nmen, should be collected in specie-ibat if that principle were rgidly enforced, he thought we might go on for the present and remedy any defecs in the opera tion of he law The machinery of the old sub-trea. sury law namely, the building of houses, safes etc. might he necessary, and if shewn to be, he would 80 to that extent, and any intermediate extent, secure the safety of the funds and their collection without Il use of bank notes. We are fully author ised 10 say, that these Judge DARGAN's views suggested in the course of his opposition 10 Mir DuSS's national bank.
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The intelligence from the country in relation to the canvas for Congress m this district, is very cheering A friend who was present at the debate on the 24h at St Stephens, writes us that DARGAK will have a considerable majority in tla county and that his prospects in the neghboring counties arc good and growing better as the canvas pi ioceeds He says f"MobiIe goes strait all is strait" Ano- ther letter tells that Dargan's vote in Monroe and Conecuh, will be decidedly better than Goldthwaite' 's m IS43.
 A letter from Wilcox county says that the di.tri- button scheme is got to be well explained, that the whgs begin to shy it. They go for taking their share of what has been distributed, but very few of them will confess that they go for further dslrbu- ton, having dscos cred that distribution is spported by taxation.
 We have several other letters from our friends. which are necessarily postponed, in consequence of the pressure of commercial matter upon our Satnr- days paper.
 The canvas out of the city looks we'll Here we believe the party will be united firmly and will give Judge DARGANa handsome majority, and thus se- cure his election.
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Grocery, Produce and Provision Market.


 GENERAL REMARKs- Business continues AS heretofore noticed limited principally to the consumption of the city and vciri i,y with the filling of few light country orders In wes'ern goods there still cont nues to be an up ward tendency in prices with very limited stocks aiho in nearly all articles sufficient for the request. TT weather has been dry and inoleaby hot during the week e for two three days has risen 9e99 in the shade continuing up to 0(0l2 o'clock p. over 9O Notwithstanding this intense heat have the satisfaction of reporting city in the enjoymen of good heath The rise in the Alab' b'ma noticed last week has already subsided and the river now barely un to the very smallest boats; the Tombigbee is re ported to have risen several feet recently bul there boats on at present On the Alabama the Bourbon, ported agro md by the Native arrived yesterday Nox bee, Native and Irene still running the Lowndes ly ingup.
 BAeelse AND RopE-Kentucky Baeeng l20i2l cnsh, and I3D 31ac. time rope 5(D5h and 5iz(D0zc-very dull with good supply.
 BAcos-Recepts continue light, with the prevalence o moderately a request for consumption of city and en quote hams at 509c bae and i6O 2a bag and cured sides 7hD1A and shoulders from 5H to 614c. in uuaty- advance of Ac. per h. since our last.
 bUTTER-Northern sells by the keg at i7t016c. and western lO0l4c-fair supply
 CHEEsE-Imitation English dairy 90l2c. and western 'CanpIrs-sperm 27@ssc.-dnll supply good
 CovyEE-No demand exsts-prces of Rio nominal, a, 7kO73sc. Stock moderate. Havana 7h07Zc. iron, Rrncers Stock In first hands small-grocers fairly sup lied. .,,.,. and good sweet flour has become quite scarce prices showing further improvement during the week of $ to soe per bblfresh Ohio s'SSI ana Msso a .h iron s' GRAIs-Corn remains without alteration 44l045c. fo sound white per bushe with regular, moderate request Cats, in reta lots 45c. Supply fair.
 aAy-Small parcels are imported from New Orleans b. .aers keep up supplies the stsck here being yer light and mostly held by dealer We hear of no arg lois selling-by retail Sih per 100 lbs. . I.ARD--We quote good leaf this week atsf09hc; lgh supply and limited sales.
 IIMESales in small builders at q DOT bbl Tn request |, fair. with sufficient present supply.
 f.uMBER-We hear of no new contracts for shipment " or three small cargoes previously ready, await suitable opportunity for shipment Cuba; cargoe fa ports now going on boari In slaves, Inoyement-prices nominal.
 ,oLAssEs-Last weeks prices, aIk0S2c continue thu ruling ra,e with limited supply and light retail request PoRK-We continue last quotations for mess, S,5 pei bb and addn soc to prime, now held for s3 There kbpsyey light saquiry'
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For the Register and Journal.

Having call upon particular class of oul citizens in yesterdays paper, under the signature of an 1rishman, I would respectfully call his atlen ion and Il others who wish the poor man paid fp, his labor, to the following extracts of the proceed ings of the Board of Aldermen
 November 10, 1S42. Alderman BROOKS offered the following reso. luiinn :-
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the Corporation draw order the city treasurer, in favor of each member of the city watch, for their wages for the months of August, September and October, as set down in their polls and certified by the captain oi the watch
 To which Alderman Curry offered the following l aipe ndment Resolved, That the Clerk of Corporation draw an order the city treasurer. in favor of each meln- Der Of the city watch and labore,s or the streets. for the months of August, September andO The yeas and nays having been called the amendment the members voted as follows
 Yeas-AldeIme Shreve, Hutchinson, Curry, Beroujnn and Todd
 Nays-Aldermen BROOKS. McLoskey, Clem- ents ,Rusi, Scott, Gould and Patterson.
 The guard were whigs of course-ihe laborers poor Irishmen. E.
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WALL STREET OPERATIoFs.-Every once in a while we are compelled to record some great hare up in the money market m Wall street.-the burst ing up of some grand scheme-the defa lcations of bank oficers-the embe zzIement Of clerks-or the com. mission of forgeries. and swindling operations by men who have always borne unexceplionabie charac- teis. and been looked up to as models for m'a'on' Only few days since, we were compelled to re- cord the arrest of Member of the Board of Bro kers, Mr. Higgins, charged with extensive forge res. and now we are placed possession o another more extensive proceeding. which we shall be able to give few days, after the matter has undergone the proper investigation by the authorities which time we forbear, lest it might seem be preiudging the matter. The operation involves many parties. and f we are correctly informed. will cause cons siderable degree of surprise in the mercantile com muniiy. more systematic game of swindling and fraud has not been consummaled for some time past --IN. Y. morning News.
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The Advertiser having rallied the whigs to the support ci MARTIN. for the good of the "whg c,use m Alabama has another paragraph yesterday for the uasi-democratic s,de the Martin combination; and while il abuses Terry, and prays the whigs to unite as,ins him. protests that i. IS no, for party purpos- at all that il has taken sides If any one democrat is verdant enough to suppose tha, the Advertiser really socits the whigs to avoid the nomination of whig for themselves "as snare" to the wbig nar- ty, and injury to the whig in preventing the success of Martin, without party objects, he wants somebody to take care of him and take hm under shelter when il rains He could hardly find the way himself. The Selma Free Press is more direct in
 ' avowa's of the whig calculations, when it says: | "it Martin can succeed in exciting among his po-
 hIcai brethren, feuds and fights which will be per pe'ua and terminate in breaking down his party. he deserves to be hailed as benefactor to the Sta,e sho 10 nave monument erected to his memory ai | the public expense"
 The Advertiser is working with the same purpose -ony it IS not frank in it's admrs,ons, and tries to talk quite moderately, in order not to shock too much its democratic co-laboiers in the work of dis cord.
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PRAIsEwoRTHy.-When we do find an oasis il the desert of political life, are moi willing to pasi il by unnoticed, and therefore we take pleasure 1T chronicng the following fact, winch we find stated in the columns of one of our oniemporaries:--"Ws announced some time since the appointment of Mich ael Hoffman the position of Naval Officer, at the Port of New York, an office having the patronage gift. Mr. Hoffman has two grown up sons, young of talents and integrity, well qualified to fill two of these offices. We understand he has refused tn use his official patronage to promote the pecsnary interests of his own family. and declines to appoint either of them to a cerkship His family are poor, and he prefers that they should remala 80, rather than grow rich from patronage bestowed by himself
 Whatever we may think of the policy, we cannot but admire the principles which dictate noble an acI.
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| The whigs ofthis county have male up their le. gisaIve tIcket. The next thing IS to elect il, if they can; aHd they will find that harder work even than getting candidates stand the chance and that has heen light labor thls hoi July, as we can very well understand.
 Our old political adversary, CHiLDERs, the favor lie stump orator pf whiggery-the deieated candi- date for Presidential eector, is up for Senator. His pariy have given hlm another opportunity 10 devote his time to their service; and with spirit of meek meas not 10 be disputed, he accepts the offer. We hope. for hs sake, that they may day find a way of repayng him for his abors and for his forgetful- of their ingratilue a late occasion. Some of | them would have made him Il candidate for governor which he politely declined as very barre and costly honor He would have been candidate for congress, but they had more tavmed closet poliIi- clan for that place. He now takes lhe senatorial nomination, and in good time too, for have heard ii rumorea that some were inclined to set him peg lower stilofering him the nomination for the lower house. tle did we'll to stop the further descent tn the line of office, he might have landed al last AS an Alderman. The Senatorship is therefore his mark now, and should be quite as willing that he should have il AS any whig among them, for he has right good qualities and taen,s, but to gn | him hard race for it, and beat him with our older | friend-a true and tried democrat, Coz SEAwELL, who will, in addition fine abilities give us the be- ne6t of sound politics.
 l The House ticket ofthe whgs is composed of B. | B. BREEDIS. w. RAPIEK aud RUFUS GREENE, all new candidates. Mir. Rapier, we be Iieve has never been in public office; Mir. Breedin has been State Sociior, and Mir. Greene is, unless re- moved or resigned, an officer in the Custom House. There is good deal of talking talent among them, but their bnaness capacity as legislators unried, and will probably remain so for another year. | The democ, atic candidate for Senator was a re- presentave last year and performed his duties with diligence and ability. Neither of the other ca ndi- dates has ever been in the legislature
 There are but few days more to the election, |, and the candidates on both sides must be up and stirring. Now for the canva. It is short, but it must be active.