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The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-10
From the New York Evening Post

PUBLIC OPINION ON THE TARIFF QUESTION
We pleased to witness the spirit and zeal with
which the democratic papers in the interior Of the
State of New York defend the late reduction of du-
ties against the attacks which are made upon it by
the wing party 1t liz fair, we think, to regard this
as an indication Of public opinion. If the measure
were unacceptable to the readers of those journals
they would hardly venture to maintain its Justice
and policy with so much warmth and earnestneas
Praise the quality of independence as we may, the
conviction that an opinion is unpopular, makes a
great difference in the enthusiasm with which most
men adopt and avow it.
Among the newspapers from the western part of
the State now lying before rs, in which the policy
Of free trade is vndcaed, we find one, the Batavia
Spirit of the Times, going to the length of affirming
that the true commercial policy of a country like
ours, is to abolish altogether the custom house re-
stralnts which we have copied from the practice Of
the Old World and to depend for the support of
government upon taxes levied upon the capital and
not upon the labor Of the country The same paper
quotes an eloquent passage from discourse dev-
cred by DIR. Cheney, before the Mercantile Library
Company of Philadelphia, which we cannot deny
ourselves the pleasure Of transcrbng:
"Alow me to say word to the merchants of our
country on another subject The time is come
when they particularly called to take vet more
generous views of their vocation, TO give commerce
universally as yet unknown. | refer the ulster
principles which gaining ground the subject
OF free trade, and to the growing disposition of ma
tons promote it. Free trade! this is the plain
duty and plain interest of the human To level
all barriers to free exchange; to cut up the system
Of restriction, root and branch to open every port
on earth to every product; this is the Office Of en-
ghtened humanity. To this free nation should
especially pledge herself Freedom of the seas;
freedom Of harbors; an intercourse Of nations free
MS the wind;-this il not dream of philanhropsts
We are tending towards it, and let us hasten it,
Under wiser and more Christian civilization, we
shal look back on present restrictions as we do
the swaddng bands by which, in darker times,
the human body was compressed. The growing
freedom Of trade is another and glorious illustration
of the tendency of our age to universay
That the doctrine of protection was rapidly losing
ground in the country before the passing of the new
tariff, was most evident In opinion il has lost
Lr1und still more rapidly since. That law has, in a
manner, forced the consideration Of both the prnci
pie and practical effect of free trade; its equitable
generous principle, and its wholesome, beneficial eff.
feet, upon the minds Of many who were before mat
tentive and Indifferent to the matter. vast num-
Der of friends of free trade have been recently re-
cruted from this body Of neutras.
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EFFECT LIFE IN PARIs.--ln Gagnani's new
Paris Globe, we find the following statement, which
may supply matter for medical we'll as moral
speculation. If the facts be as here stated it is i'm
portant to inquire whether they be found similar in
other large cities, and what can be the cause or
causes of such result:
at has been remarked that families constantly
residing in Paris soon become extinct and that out
Of the whole population Of the town there are, per
haps, not more than 900 individuals who can reck-
their ancestors, as Inhabitants of Paris from
father to far back the reign Of Louis Kill
The effects of this mortality observed to he
active upon males than females. A Partisan youth
of the second third generation has almost the form
and manner of n woman! He has seldom any chill
drcn that live, and hence it may be inferred that all
families which, whether from taste or necessity, pass
their lives in town residence a shop, rrevo
cably doomed to ultimate extinction. Those that
pass the summer in the country last longer than the
others, as may be seen in the of some ancient
noble families that have not been established in the
capital more than century. The class Of the noble
has, however, become much weakened since they
have given up inhabing their castles and manors;
and the massive architecture Of the hotels Of the
Faubourg ST. German no longer corresponds to the
diminished statue of the inhabitants"
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From the N. Y. Journal OF commerce

Face TRADE AND THE TARMERs.-Fscts multiply
upon US, demonstrating the entire fasehood ,of the
theories of the protectonists. They assured the
farmers that protection and home market were the
only guarantees of high prices for farmers products
and that after the passage Of the ad vaorem tariff of
l546, universal ruin would spread the country
But since the passage of that tariff -four has risen
half dollar barrel, wheat in the same proportien
corn five cents and rye one two cents. They
told that they would he ready to adopt free trade
when other nations would do So and especially, if
England would take our breadstufs and provisions,
ought to trade freely with her. When Great
Britain adopted the liberal policy and reduced her
duties on all things to a revenue standard, and on
most Of our great articles Of farming produce abol
Ished them entirely, the proectonsts false to their
pie dge, declared that England was selfish STILL that
she only took what she was obliged to take, and
peciay that her repeal OF duties of no value
us, for her market would be supplied from Germa-
ny, the Baltic and the Black sea, cheaper than it
could be done from the United States. They have
evidently been lying to us, honorable gentlemen
though they be, all of them. Most of the recent ad
vance in our breadstuffs has been caused by the
news from England by the last steamer On Mon
day the English market lifted -four to a Sc For
that market 5000 bbls. Genesee Ohio, and Mich
gan flour were taken at that price. The English
market and nothing else has done us this benefit
Here are the facts in the records of trade. Argu
ment, theory, prophecy all frustrated, denied,
demolished. Breadstutfs in fact now going from
US, TO some of these very markets from which it
said England would be supplied, to utter exclu-
sion. The farming interest must credit the free
policy of England with three cents pound on
cheese, ten cents bushel on wheat, five cents on
corn, and so on, lust for this recent advance. In
addition to this the farmer will find the articles he
wishes to purchase cheaper that if he gets per
cent more for his produce, and buys his family sup
plies at 20 per cent cheaper prices he is gamer of
30 cents on every dollar of his earnings. This is
quite q moderate estimate of the value of the new
policy Of England and the United States, to the agri
cultural interests of our own country. This is the
way the farmers and laboring men to be ruined
by free trade.
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From the N. Y. Morning Telegraph

THE REPEAL OF THE SUGAR DUTIES, AND ITS
EFFECT UPON POLITICAL ABoLITIONIsM.
Our last accounts from abroad warrant the truly
satisfactory conclusion that the greatest and most
mIschievous humbug Of the age is on the eve of an
explosion. From the earliest era to the present
time the nations Of the earth have been periodically
afflicted by vlsations of fanatcism and impostnre
which have sometimes covered the plains and strew-
ed the highways, and choked the rivers with the
carcasses of their vctims and at other times, have
almost banishcd common sense from the world and
filled the habitatons Of man with madmen and fools
Political aboitionsm is a remarkable example OF
one Of these vsitations, modified in its influences,
and circumscribed in its powers Of i'll, by the en-
lghened spirit Of the present age. Growing out OF
the action Of the British Parliament, (Which, in a
moment of excited vanity, was willing to sacrifice
every consideration OF justice, humanity, and
sound policy, to a misplaced and exaggerated sym
patty for class who needed it far less than the poor
Of England and Of Ireand0 the snti-slavery hum
bug has been fostered and sustained, until its bulk
has become appalling, and its weight serious
jmpediment tothe movement Of the wheels Of state
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PENNSYLVANIA AND THE TARIFF.

The following extract from the Pittsburg Morn
ing Post, nails 10 the counter the thousand and one
circulated throughout the Union IN the
whig papers, charging that the democratic party in
in the canvass of 1874, committed It,
self in favor Of the tariff of 1912;
"During the contest of 1874, Notwithstanding the
clamor of the wings in favor of the tariff of 1872
Notwithstanding their vehement efforts TO make the
election in Pennsylvania turn on that question alone
the democratic party stOutly refused, by any Off
eial act, to pledge itself to that particular measure
individuals in the party who were friendly TO the act
of 1912, declared themselves IN conversation and
il may have been, that some Of them inscribed on
their own banners the tariff of 1912 But no con-
siderable section of the party--no State convention
ever, TO our knowledge, pledged the party to
maintain the act of 1912; nor did any democratic
candidate, within our knowledge, ever declare him
sefa supporter of that act and ask for UOtS on that
ground. When President Polk was a candidate,
we all know that the wing papers ana speakers made
our whole Commonwealth reyerberate with the cry
that he was opposed " the ldB Of 1912; that he had
not committed himself To the measures and we
know too that for this meridian, Mr.. Clay was in
duced TO write letters pledgng himself not to favor
its repeal IL is matter of history now, that the Bal
umore convention did not pledge itself TO the act Of
1912; our large convention for western Pennsyva-
MIA did pledge the party TO the act of lS42 our
county convention, when the ticket was nominated
that year. did not pledge itself nor Its candidates 10
the act of lS42. And all these things printed
by the wings in every newspaper on their side, and
every spouter in their employ from the mammoth or
gan of the fifteen wings down TO the puerile Hen.
Ty Of the West" and from the talented ex-Secreta-
ry Forward down to that two-penny trumpeter Of
wing humbugs, Moses Hampton
"ln view OF these matters how can any man say
that the democrats obnoxious TO the charge oil
'gulhng' the people Of Pennsylvania in 1874 the
subject Of the tariff of 1912"
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COHESIVE POWER OF wATER.-EXPLosIoNs IN
sTEAMBoILrRs-The London Chronicle states that
Professor Faraday, in n recent lecture before the
English scientific societies, mentioned that a young
philosopher, by the name of Dome, had found that
when water is carefully deprived of the air in sou-
ton, it may, if there be no breach of continuity
among the particles, be raised to heighth of one
hundred feet; while, under ordinary circumstances
thirty feet IN round numbers, is the greatest altitude
at which 1t can be supported. This phenomenon
depends upon the strong cohesive force residing in
these particles of water when deprived of all eX-
traneous matter, for the moment a bubble Of air il
let in--that is to say, the moment a breach of con-
tnuty occurs, the water obeys the natural law and
finds It's own level
The learned professor also mentioned another I'M
porant experiment of young Dome, which may
lead to a new theory in relation to explosions in
steambollcrs, and account for many phenomena
connected herewith which have heretofore been in
explicable 1t seems that water carefully derived
Of all the air by boiling, in solution, instead of
boiling at 2l2 degrees, the boiling point of water
under ordinary circumstances, may be raised to 275
degrees, Fahrenheit, without showing any signs
Of ebuIltion, long the continuity of the par
cIes of water is not broken. Thus a force equal to
three amospheres is restrained orly by the adhesion
Of the particles Of wItar. the temperature of 275
degrees, it suddenly bursts into ebuIlItion, with a
loud explosion, dashng the containing vessel into
fragments.
The investigation of this subject is well worthy
the attention of scientific men; for anything calcu-
lated to throw light upon the phenomena connected
with an element which now enters 80 largely into
all the departments of mechanical industry, should
not be suffered to pass unnoticed by those whose
avocation and position, enable them to pursue such
examinations. g. Chicago Democrat.
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"THREE CHEERS, ''-LUDICRoUs ScENE.-One
Sunday recently, during high mass at H. in the viii
lage ofGentorif, Ireland, three ladies' Of the Prot
estant faith obliged to take shelter from one of
those heavy summer showers which so frequently
occur in the south Of Ireland The officiating
priest, knowing who they were, and wishing to
appear respectful to them, stopped down to his at
tendant, who was on his knees, and WHISPERED to
him, "three chairs for the Protestant ladies'. The
clerk, who was rather an ignorant man, stood up
and shouted out to the congregation "three cheers
for the Protestant ladies !" which the congregation
took up, and gave three hearty cheers, while the
clergyman actually stood dumb founded -Ldgsr.
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From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE MARKETS OF ONE COUNTRY, OR THE MAR
KETS OF THE WORLD


THE MARKETS OF ONE COUNTRY, OR THE MAR.
KETS OF THE WORLD?
In spite of the vivid descriptions with which the
wing press has furnished the country of the "home
market" and in spite of all the blessings which
they promised would flow from it, delusion it will
prove to be, after all. Home market When VIC
hear such thing talked of in common parlance, and
out of the newspapers, our minds revert to the
huckstering which daily carried on around
us, to the Hanover man who hawks his water-mcl
through the streets, or the WAGNER who sells
his hay at stables. man finds home market
when he disposes of the produce of his labor in his
own neghborhood. But to speak of the New Eng
land States affordng "home" market for Virgin
ans to resort to, is an absurd misnomer.
But let it be- Call the whole country home, from
Maine to California, and let there be markets in eve
ry portion Of it, what merchant legitimate or spccu-
ative, will con6ne himself to them alone' Is there
any man, with anything whatever to sell, who will
seek the markets of the world The very tariff
tes themselves do The very persons who
preach the home-market doctrine have the sagacitv,
in their business transactions to look abroad and
adapt their purchases to the markets of Europe
They do not themselves lean upon the broken rec
which ~ commended to others. And were the
farmers of Virginia to do so, they would soon wish
to sell out 1t is very we'll to wish for more diver
| shed pursuits IN Virginia. Ii ia very well to talk
about establishing factories Throughout her limits; but
when will such state of things occur When will
the climate change, and the character and habits Of
the people change 80 MS to render manufactures on
large scale, proftabei 1t would be well for Rich
mond city if she had more factories in operation.
They would add to the population and the wealth of
the place. Not however, upon the home market doc.
trine There several factories here already and
they do not depend on the Virginia market for the
sale of their goods but send considerable portion
of their cloths to the north to be sold. They are
compelled to eschew reliance on the Virginia mar
ket. And our farmers will have to eschew depend
ing altogether the markets of the United States.
The price of cotton is regulated by Lowell but
| by Manchester. The price of wheat is sensbly in
1uenced by the price in England-a fact illustrated
by the last steamers news, which cause rise in
-four. As the trade in it increases under the lbe.
ralized tariffs OF the two countries the barometer af
forded by the London corn exchange will become
still more accurate.
The Times thinks that the tables published bv
US refute the comments made upon them We
can hardly thirk Those who read can Judge
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HIGH TARIFF.
mon TARIFF on lS42.

We should he sorry to have offended the quiet,
and, we must add, shrewd and useful eotsrie who
congregate at ShOckoe Warehouse. We call them
shrewd, because they have been usually successful
IN business, and useful because they have rendered
so much service to the farmers, by sending one Of
their great staples out of the "home market" into
all the markets of the world. In quoting the prices
them in the papers. Merchants at the north have
often remarked that the prices current of Richmond
were not compiled with very great care and it Is not
improbable that there in the tables we
published. But their general correctness cannot be
denied and though Shockoe Warehouse may
laugh, the farmers Of Virginia will examine and re-
Acct.
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THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The condition Of the British colony at the Cape
of Good Hope 10 exciting much attention IN Eng
land. This colony was iounde by the Dutch IN
1850 and was coded to Great Britain in 1915
There are settled at Cape Town, a BRUSH PAPER
says, sat least ) 900 whites and persons Of color
some of them persons Of large, and many Of them
persons Of considerable prOperty-and nearly 10000
blacks; and the number of whites the colony full
ly amounts to, # It do not exceed 100 900 souls,
exclusive of slave population Of nearly 40 900,
making total OF 900 souls This vast aggre-
CATION Of human beings are many Of them engaged
the peaceful pursuits Of commerce. but the greater
portion employing themselves agnCuturiss -
The colony has been recently attacked by the ksfirs
in formidable numbers, and pundercd of its horses
and cattle. The marauding expeditions thus far
have received sensible check Its political his
tory IL thus summed up by the London Herald;
"From 1895 to 1902, during the governments Of
General Craig, Sir Alfred Clarke, and Lord Macart-
ney, the colony was well administered; disorder and
characterization were suppressed, and the revenues
and commerce Of the Cape increased. At the Pc
Rod Of Lord Macartney's surrendering his trust a
of 300 900 rx dollars found IN the treasury
after all the expenses of the government had been de-
frayed When the BaLayIan republic resumed the
sovereignty in 1902, peace and tranquility, the re-
suits of a good BRUSH administration prevailed
Now, however, for peace and possession of 81
years, the whole frame OF the colony appears dsor-
gained, property and person alike insecure, and
the frontier Is daily threatened by clouds of
ders. This surely ls spectacle unworthy of the
power and civilization Of Great Britain"
Pho commercial aspect OF the colony, until the
outbreak Of the Kafir war; is represented as en-
couraging. The fourth annual report of the Cape
Town commercial exchange. details the gratifying
success that has attended the progress of the con
sruction Of roads and bridges throughout the land
and the increase of its navigation and trade. The
number of ships entered nwards for the colony is
- i
al 1882 tons; total, 954 vessels GAG Gel TONS which
is an increase on the last year Of 2l5 vessels 934O
tons; SO of which were coastwse.
The imports for the year ending April 5, 1916
exceeded those Of the previous year by f222, S23
the exports, by eS5,95O; the quantity Of wool ex.
ported last year over the year previous, LOIS.
525 lbs, and the value of this increase in wool
f63 234.-.N0rIUich aurora.
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Sept 9-dls
INTENSIVE sale of excellent House.


L hold Furniture.-on Tuesday next Ii,
18th inst, at 10 o'clock a. m, shall SELL at Ii.
corner Of a. street and Pennsylvania avenue, h,
furniture Of that large boarding establishment whic.
IS very good, and amongst which will be found
Several dozen cane-seat and other chairs
Handsome haIr-seat sofas
Mahogany dining and card tables
Marble-lop centre and pier tables
Pier glasses mahogany sIdeboards
Mantel and other clocks, wIndow-curtain orns
ments
Dinner and tea sets
A large quantity Of glass ware of various kind,
Large oil painting, astral, hall, and other Ismpi
GlrandoIes, plated candlesticks, casters, dishes
&c.
Dish covers, ingram and 3-ply parlor, hall step,
and chamber carpets
Passage and Franklin stoves, handsome SET
fre-Irons
High and French-post double and single bed
steads, best double and single feather bed,
mattresses, &c.
Blankets, comforts, linen and other sheets, pl,
low cases
Mahogany dressing and other bureaus
Wardrobes, washstands, toilet SETS, &c.
With great variety Of other articles necessary 70,
such establishment, and general assortment d
kitchen requisites, refrigerators, &c.
Terms Of sale: All sums of and under 800 cash
over $50 credit Of two, four, and six months for
notes satisfactorily endorsed, bearing interest.
r. w. DYER,
Sep. 9-dts Auctioneer
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ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY,
Class E, for lS4G.
To be drawn at Alexandria, ID. c., on Saturday,
the 26h Of September, 1916.
80 prizes OF $1,000!

&c. &c.
IS number lottery--l2 drawn ballots.
Tickets Sl0-halves s5--quarters ~ SO.
Certificates Of packages of 25 whole tickets $50
DO do 25 half do IS
Do do IS quarter do 30 so
Orders for tickets and shares and certificates Of
packages in the above splendid lotteries will receive
the most prompt attention, and an official account of
each drawing sent Immediately after is over to all
who order from us. Address
J. G. GREGORY & CO, Managers,
Aug. 22-d&cpl1d Washington, ID. G..
LNOR RENT.-One of the most desirable resi-
Il dences in the city, situated on the corner of B
and Third streets. 1t embraces every convenience
necessary to the comfort of Il family. Inquire on
the premises.
Sept Git
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NEW FALL GOODS.
HARPER & co

w MIA avenue, between 9th and 10Th streets
have opened this day their first supply Of fall goods,
and will continue to receive, regularly through the
season, the newest and most fashionable styles OF
fancy French and other goods, they are received
in New York
We would respectfully call the attention of our
friends and purchasers to our choice assortment
Of
Rich fancy dress silks, new style, very cheap
SIX highland plaid, high colors
Wool do do do
PLAID lama cloths, new article
English and French ginghams, fall style
Mourning gnghams
Sllk-warp alpaccas
New style cashmeres and mousselines, French
Highland plaid nantes
Cashmere, Terkerri, and silk shawls
Irish linens, unusually low
Flannels assorted, Of the best make.
Our ass rtment of house-furnishing and domestic
goods of every description will always be found
complete
Sept 7-d3t
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RANDIES, Gin, whiskey, Wine, d,

RRANDIES, Gin, Whiskey, Wine, &c.
ID at Auction.-On Friday next, the llth In
slant, at II o'clock, a. M, shall sell, without re.
serve, in front of my auction store, to close In.
voices
half pipes "Hennessy" brandy, very superior
quarter casks J. J. Dupuy do do
do Pelvoisin do
10 barrels old Monongahela whiskey
20 do and 10 half pipes do
90 do domestic brandy
3pipes very superior Holland gin
10 quarter casks Lisbon Madeira wine
10 baskets champagne
80 dozen caret wine
gross new wine bottles.
With many other liquors, and variety of art
ces in the grocery line.
Terms of sale: All sums of and under $50, cash,
over $50 credit of two and four months, for sat.
facorlly endorsed notes
r. w. DYER,
sept o-IuIh&F Auctioneer