The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-01

the "Tombs." am told that the average number o.
inmates in this prison amounts TO l60; at presen
IL is 80 full that they have had To erect pens OUTSIDE
the main walls While this is the ease in the city
the prison on Baekwell's island, East river is full "a
overlooking. Large cities like New York gather
the worst characters, among whom are discharged
convicts, with many Of the most low and vicious
| from abroad . .. ...
Oliver Lee, president of Oliver Lees bank, Buffa
| 10, is dead. He was well known TO the business
world in the western part of this State
The Great Britain steamship, which sails to-mor'
| row, has sixty passengers engaged.
| The packet-shlp Europe sails for Liverpool, and
the packet.ship Baltimore for Havre, tomorrow
and the Prince Albert for London, on Monday.
The stock market was firm today.
800 bales Of cotton sod-prices firm.
Tobacco is inactive; lead and hemp do. Sugar
quiet, and sales moderate, without any change IN
price. .r-
Exchange, sterling for the steamers, is firm al u to
7lc.; some large houses ask Sc. On Paris, 40 to
5s7l.
Freights fair. The packet to Havre Of the lst il
full and that of the 9th do. nearly filed at Sc.
for cotton. To Liverpool no change, with fair
amount offering.
Yours, G.
Extract of letter from .Nts York, July 80, 1886.
"Mr. Simmons asked Mr.. MsDufie whether the
bill would raise or depress the price Of provisions
"Mr. MeDufie said il would raise the price OF
provisions.
"Mr. Simmons said then this is the way the Ia
borer is to be rewarded for the reduction Of his
wages. His wages are TO be reduced, and the price
of what he consumes increased.
"Mr. Lewis. No one admits that this bill will
reduce the wages OF labor"
The above dialogue is extracted from the New
York Tribuae's telegruphic report Of the sayings
and doings Of the Senate when about TO take the
final vol nnt ha hill Mr.. SlmmOns
incautiously TO have leaked out what the friends OF
free trade have ever held To be the desire of the pro
teetionistsviz: TO depess, as much as possible, the
price of the agricultural productions OF the country
so as to enable the mammoth capitalists engaged IN
manufacturing to depress the wages Of labor IN
the same ratio. When The struggle is between cap.
ital and labor, everybody knows what the issue
will be. Reduce -four at Lowell to ~ per barrel,
and good Ohio mess pork 10 50: think you not
that the proprietors Of the huge establishments
there would very soon address those who toll at
their looms and jennes something after this wise
"a dollar now will buy you as much bread and
meat as two dollars would IL months ago. We there
fore feel constrained to reduce your wages" Those
who know an thing of the history Of manufactures,
and the disposition Of the large and wealthy manu-
facturer, both in Europe and America cannot doubt
that on any material fall in the price Of provisions,
the poor laborer is greeted with such a sautatlon.
Why have the wealthy and powerful manufac-
turers Of England 80 recently and unanimously
struggled to break down the corn.laws' II was to
secure to the men, women, and children IN their
employ ment cheap bread, thus enabling them (the
capitaliss) to reduce the wages Of labor and in
crease their own dividends. IL Ia the pal pable in
terest al il is the obvious desire, Of capitalists
gagged in manufacturing, TO bring down the com
modities of our toiling millions OF farmers to the
lowest possible point; and Is 1t not time the latter
should awaken to this TRUTH now virtually admitted
by one Of the most prominent champions of "th6
lords of the oom3" The census Of 1910, and the
statistics since gathered, have told us how insignia
can't after all is any other interest compared with
the great agricultural interest of the country. Now,
when the tariff of lS42 is said to be scattering
abroad its choicest blessings, those hardy tllers OF
the SOIL whose name is "LEGIoN," find the fruit OF
their labor lower than it has been known to be for
the last thirty years. But this, according TO Mr..
Simmons and the proprietors Of Lowell and Paw
tucket, is lust as il should be! We rejoice to SEE
that the great farming States of Illinois, Indiana
Michigan, Ohio, New York, Virginia, Tennessee,
and Missouri (would that we could add Pennsylrd-
pania, know were there true interest lies, the i'm.
posing fallacy of a "home market to the contrary
Mr.. Simmons very candidly
shadows forth what kind of "home market" is con-
sonant with the interest Of the manufacturers We
are glad to see that -four in New York has already
under the repeal Of the British corn-laws.
Let us 30 shape our policy to give to the farmer
the whole world for market, and we fear not the
competition of the NORTH the south, the middle Of
Europe. The cheapness Of our lands, and their su
perior productveness, will more than counterba
ance the advantages which the European farmer de-
rves from cheaper labor.