Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-09-22

Luis tcS eAACnt3 UStA pIOfl0eu Win Dali
cartridges. At sight Of this, the rioters
ceased their disturbance, when the Ceor.
CLANS were disarmed and put under I.
strong guard. Col, BAKER, who ret,e;v.
ed his wound while fighting hand to hand
with the Capt. of the Irish company Of
the Georgia battalion (also severely hurtl
will recover, as will also Capt RoBERrs.
There were thirty lying wounded on the
beat and on Shore on. the morning ofthe
lst INST. Those who were killed ov-
!. right some eight ten. were. said to have
Deem thrown overheard. An inquiry was
to have been Immediately instituted. to
asceftaintfe causes Of this sad affair."
Next arripai'will giveas more details.
at ayis9 :, q # ron, BE isinlan Times.
si The American Tariff in England.
The American news brought by the
steamship Cambria is Of considerable i'm
portance. The battIeiof Importance
The battle ofproleetion has boen lost 81
maltaneously in the eastern and western
hemispheres. While the last wall over a
departed corn law was resounding in ous
House of Peers, the accorlant elegy over
defeated tariff was chanted In the A..
inerIcan Senate. Whllsthere Lord Stan.
ley was making decorous. show ofre-
s 81 IN hopeless cause. bets were
lad with difficulty in New York as tothe
division in the Senate. There the cause
OF protection was more obstinateIy defsn-
ded and more hopefully wagered on
There no illustrious general brought the.
influence of time honored name and
highly valued services to COW the express.
sion of private feeling or thwart the ad.
yoeacy OF particular interests. Therefore
the senators spoke and voted according to
their consciences ortheir interests. And
SO equally balanced were the chances of
free trade and protection, that even after
the votes on distinct divisions were known
the final result could not be safely proph.
esied, A majority of % to 81 eventually
decided measure of concumrnate impor-
lance to all engaged in commercial trans
actions with America. which means to ey-
cry nation of Europe, Henceforth the
principle OF duties for protection must be
considered as abandoned In the United
States. The duties which remain, insult
ticient to compass the objects of protec.
ton, are quite high enough to insure a.
revenue to the state ranging, as they do
from % to 40 per cent. on their value.
81 The alteration in the American tariff
cannot but be regarded asa great triumph
gained by the principles of free trade
With US, various other Considerations
were imported into discussion which
ought to have been decided by reasoning
alone; and the interests ofindividnais were
enlisted in cause which ought to have
regarded only the interest of tho public,
Ii was made a question: between town
and scountry-between the landed gentry
and the mercantile class--nay, even be.
tween the peerage and the people. Ev-
erything that could stimulate the spirit of
partnership or whet the appetite for limo.
vation, was pressed into the service Of
doctrines, whose native truth and excel
lence inthe end indicated them Selves
But in America it has been otherwise.-
4 new country presents fewer materials
tor civil dissensiens than n old one
Glasses are less distinctly marked; caste
has fewer external symbols, whatever
Play be its esoteric signs in a republic
like the States. But, besides this, every
new state inherits the commercial doc
triaes of the older kingdoms of Enrope.-
They all hare Inherited some portion oy
another of the COMMERCIAL system
which Spain first employed, and after
wards impaired to England and France.
This hereditary prejudice in confirmed by
a spontaneous impulse Al false knowl.
edgeis pressed4into the service ofa natu.
raj ambition. Each new State desires to
produce everything independently of all
other nations. hwishes to anticipate The
fruits of many generations. II is ambi.
tIouS of becoming at once an agricultural,
a mercantile, and manufacturing coun-
try. Following the lights transmitted to
it from former days, it inagines thatsuch
results can be attained By restricted stat
ues and high customs duties.
1t thus creates an artificial branch of
home manufactures; but it does SO at a
vast expense. While It diverts no small
labor of its citizens from its natural chan.
nels, it imposes heavy burden upon the
rest. L in the first place induces many
to transfer their industry and their capital
from natural and obvious sources of wealth
AMI then It torceSths others to remunerate
an unnatural sacrifice. Itimposes a tax
upon every Consumer in the state on pur-
pose to repay the cost of an artificial pro.
duction. With the hope of encouraging
industry, It fosters monopoly; and profes.
sing to'cxtead eomHlcrce, il strikes II with
a fatal blow.
An error of this kind must, sooner or
later, be found out The benefit off few
will not conceal or palliate the loss and
the injury ofthe many. There has long
been in the United Statesa party anxious
to realize doctrines of free trade Their