The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-15

do New Orleans do. at Ga 81 cts. A small part
prime al 7 4, and $50 Cuba, terms not stated. The
market closed firm.
Rice sells at 50 50 SGT, Nothing doing in to-
baeeo No change in ashes.
Sterling bills for the Hbernia aye firm at n 8,
On Paris no change.
Freights TO Liverpool are stiff. Flour is taken al
D. Sd. rs. Cd, and cotton at I'd. ID. No change
to Hayre. Yours, &c, c..
Mr. Levi Chamberlain who has resided twenty.
three years in the Sand wch islands, arrived in this
city yesterday in the ship Lucas, from Canton.
| Neither of the young oGcers for whom the swords
&C. intended were present yesterday. Lieut..
Morrlss father received the sword for his son; and
| Lieut.. Alyord who was also in the engagements of
the 9th and 9th received the sword and epauetts in
tended for Major Hawkins. Ex-Recorder Talmage
offciated in the place of Mr.. Hoffman, who was abb
| sent, G.
New YoRE, August 7, 1876.
To the Editor Of the Union:
Truly, the present democratic Congress deserve
well of their country More wise acts have passed,
more great principles have been established than by
any Congress which has gone before il. When be-
fore have all the just and wise measures recommend
ed by the Executive been adopted and passed into
laws! When before has presidents policy been
so thoroughly sanctioned and approved by intelll-
gent legislators as President Pok's'
In the one or two bills which have failed to be-
come laws, like the graduation bill, for example,
the failure has been owing to the details Of the bill
while the principle was acknowledged to be right
Few, surely, need ask, after this, "WhO is James
X Polk" The Oregon question is settled, though
| not exactly as he and others could have wished
and this measure was mainly effected through the
determination Of the President II he has not OBJ
tanned all he wanted he has secured more than any
administration which has gone before him could
cure--more than Great Britain was ever before will
ing to yield
The question /, settled; and it brings with it
peace and prosperity. Texas is ours; and with il
Mexico will soon be forced into honorable peace,
and additional territory be secured to us in perpetu-
| ity upon the Pacific.
The independent treasury bill--a bill which sepa-
rates the peoples money from the trading and spec
ulaling banks-is, after a disastrous struggle of
years, adopted; and, in conformity with the letter
and spirit Of the constitution the government is TO
know nothing but gold and silver. This was the
crowning glory of Mr. Van Buren's administration
Repealed by hard cider Congress, It remained for
| President Polk TO re-recommend it, and it is hrm y
established the law of the land; and there it will
stand proud memento Of the 29th Congress.
The warehousng bill has become a law, which
will vastly benefit the merchant, and greatly in
crease the commerce Of the country. Under this
bill most of the products Of Canada will float down
our own canal, and be sent to Europe from this port
in American vessels. This is one effect Of the bill
little thought of by our own people, but 1t is fact
that Canadian produce can be shipped 10 Europe
cheaper by the way of New York than by Quebec;
and this bill opens warehouses for its recep-
tion, the advantage TO commerce and to the rev.
enue of our State will be immense The tariff, too,
is reduced, thanks to the unbought and unseduced
democraCy-thanks to the lndomitable energy, per-
severance, and clear Sghtedness Of Secretary Walk
er.
His labor has been almost superhuman, and the
protectionists have found him guarded at every
, IL al hp
were ready to establish his position If his facts
} wee denied, his pen was ready TO overwhelm the
bold man who dared to call in question his evidence,
and ne has the proud satisfaction of seeing the
fruits of his great exertlOn the law of the land; law
to take the place Of one more unequal unrighteous,
and unjust than any ever before fastened upon an
industrious people. This bill will only be sus-
tnined, but approved by the masses. The cry OF
repeal" falls like lead upon the Of the people
of this section. They heed it not. They have too
long felt the evils of grinding taxation not to be
well pleased with any measure calculated to relieve
them in measure from the fangs of the protec-
ionists Depend upon 1t, if the high tariff men in
sst upon an alteration repeal" the people will
take them at their word, and repeal" the present bill
for one establishing still lower duties. Let these
grasplng and avarlclous proeCtonists beware, or
they will raise a storm which they can no more
control than they can the onward progress of the
country, and of the democratic principles Of the
country With the question thigh or low tariff, OF
high or low taxes, it is not difficult to decide on
which bar ner victory would perch Let the high
tariff men go on then, the democracy are fully ready
and willing to meet them. | wish some Of those
noisy hIgh-tariff men would come into this section
of country. they would not be burnt in efigy, but
they would find the farmers in the interior all
throwing up their caps for the tariff They would
find no noisy cliques the corners of streets,
denouncing the new bill, and preaching ruin and
destructlon but general and almost universal feel
ing Of Joy on every side. The aboring masses are
pleased, our shipping merchants are congratulatng
each other, and the entire mercantile community,
whig as well as democrat, prasing the new tariff
bill; and the President and Vice President Mr..
Walker, Lewis, and Mckay are toasted on all sides
} Look, too, at the proceedings in old Tam
many Hall, of the old mems and young
mems democratic committee. They speak the SEN
, tImens on the question of the new tariff not
only of the democratic party but of majority of the
wings. OF this have not the least doubt. wing
merchant said to me, to-day, "their party leaders
might cry repeal till their hroats cracked, the peo-
pie would not respond" He further said, with
what truth know not, that "Mr Websers plan
f of 25 per cent. reduction would have satisfied the
manufacturers, and II could haze been carried, but II
was thought certain wing politicians could make
nothing out of that, hence 1t was not urged, prefer
ring the bill 1t is, (Which, according to their own
showing, Is to rum every manufacturer than 10
adopt any amendments, which, while 1t would moi
materially injure the manufacturer, would not create
the least capital for the wings. (sad hey no longer
believe in their professions, and am determined not
to adopt their senseess cries of repeal and ruin"
This gentleman is one Of our most worthy whig
merchants he has shown himself sensible man, in
this respect and has, as know, vast many ml.
tators here. There have more contracts been made
for building ships within week than during the
three months past. Several cotton factories, in
the eastern States, have just been started, without
either adopting the cry of ruin repeal The wings
must try again.
~ Central Presbyterian Church, sth
stree--Divne service may be expected at THIS
church on next Sabbath at II, a. m, by the Rev