The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-25
New YoRE, July ~, 1886.

State during the second week OF July amounted 10
sic, 553 compared with the same period last year.
The aggregate increase of tolls on all the canals
since the opening ofnavgatlon amounts 10 sllOSs6,
COMPARED with receipts for the time last year.
So much for the early policy Of De Witt Clinton.
The time may come when the tolls from the State
improvements may be sufficient TO meet all the de-
mands upon the State government, and exempt the
people from taxation.
A boat arrived at Albany evening before last
with forty barrels of new -four on board, bound TO
thus city. This is the first which has reached tide
water per canal the present season.
Col. J. Van Benthuson, postmaster at Pough-
keepsie, died the other day, much respected and
amented by all who know him.
You will see by the arrival of the schooner Har-
moRious from Havana that she brings later adyices
from Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. She also
brings an overland mail from the Pacific for the
government. The Congress of Mexico had elected
Paroles President and General Bravo Vice Pres.
dent. The former to leave for Monterey
as soon as the latter arrived at the capital. The
vanguard of the army for the same destination had
marched on the 18th. IL was reported that Com
modore Conner to attack San Juan de Ulua on
the 10Th instant The United States brig Truxton
sailed from Havana on the 9th instant on a cruise
around the island for the purpose, no doubt, Of
looking after Mexican priyateers should any be
ahoat
There is one species of manufacture the wings
can most successfully get up and carry on without
invoking the aid of Congress, and that is ga panic
Don Quixot was not more successful in finding
giants in windmils than they are in finding ruin IN
all democratic MEASURES
Everybody recollects their doleful outcry on the
election of President Polk in 1874. They then
made and promulgated the most dreadful panic ever
heard of Factories half finished were stopped
hands turned off; starvation and ruination stared
all in the face! Yet in spite of all this Don Quix-
otto, farscal, ridiculous croaking, they have gone
on declaring fat dividends varying from II to 80 per
cent per annum, while the poor deluded farmers,
who were frightened into commseration for the suf-
ferng manufacturers, have found all they could do
was to make ends meet - 49, -
After a western farmer tolls whole year in the
sun and rain in tling the ground, he finds, after
selling his wheat and corn at ruinously low prices,
and buying oil goods and necessaries at ruinously
high prices that he has nothing ef. He ~ sold,
interest and all, to favored class Three millions
of farmers are taxed to support seven hundred thou
sand manufacturers, besides the heavy restrictions
and taxation imposed upon those engaged in COM
mercia pursuits. II farmers could convene as CON-
veniently as manufacturers-if they could contribute
as much money as the densely-populated manufac-
turing towns, they too could beslege the halls OF
Congress- and repeat their story at the Capitol of
the republic But they have no such facilities.
They cannot spare the money, or leave their farms
at busy season of the year, to raise clamor at the
doors and in the Hobbies of the Capitol 30 far they
have been lambs in the hands Of the butchers,
(DrOteCtlOnlstS,) TOT tDci ouos'uhSS-
They are unwittingy led to slaughter, and in
many cases made to believe that shaving them
for the benefit of another flock is highly con-
ducive to their prosperity! cheap home
market, and high goods are the very things to
make them grow rich! That the higher things they
consume are taxed, the cheaper they grow! And
that the less produce sent out of the country, the
higher it will advance in price. Those who labor
for the interest Of the farmers must expect no other
reward than goodwill from them, and an approving
conscience, for having defended the rights of labor
against the combined wes Of capital. He must
make up his mind to receive kicks from monopo-
lists and in some stones instead of bread, from
some whose interests he would fight for; neverthe-
less, let us be found on the side of justice, "though
the heavens fall"
Our rainy weather still continues. 1t rains al
most every night, with an occasional shower during
the day.. The packet-ship Hottinguer sailed for
Liverpool, filed with freight and passengers.
Sales were light at the stock board to-day, with
out any change of consequence In prices,
All is anxiety among commercial men about the
tariff a large majority Of whom wish it to pass.
1000 bales cotton sold at firm rates.
1000 barrels Oswego -four and 1000 barrels
ground at Brooklyn, sold at "a l2l; 10000 bushels
western red wheat sold at 50 80 cents 200 BUSH
els superior white do was held at 95 cents, while
80 cents was offered; 1900 bushels mixed western
corn sold at 3d. coffee, Rio, is very dull 200 hdds.
New Orleans sugar sold at 6, g.; Porto Rico is
worth 6, cents for good, % 900 lbs. whalebone,
~ W., sold at 80 cents; whiskey sales at 20 cents;
mess pork firm at SO 625, and prime at 80; lard as
last quoted Freights heavy; nothing doing in sterl-
ing bills. Yours, &C., q.
New York, July g. 1886
The cry of the protectonsts in favor Of the contin-
uance of unequal taxation, under the tariff bill of
1872 reminds me Of the conduct of an early school
mate. When boy, was boarded out at a country
school, and had another boy for fellow-odger.
n hp nd n lisa.
greeabie practice Of rolling himself up in the bed
clothes like sk-worm in cocoon, stripping me
of blankets and all. When shivering with cold,
and demonstrating with him for his unequal appro-
priaton of the cover, he would cry out, "For
God sake be quiet or shall get no sleep or rest to-
night. Things are we'll enough as they are; cannot
you let them aonel"
Thus it goes with the protectionlsts' lhey would
not rest satisfied under the equally distributed taxa
ton OF the compromise act. They succeeded, by
the aid Of protection in S4s, in stripping other In
eress for their own benefit, and when walled round
with unusual comfort like my bed-felIow, they cry
ont az he did, "Do be quiet, we shall get no rest
Cannot you let well-enough alone! Things were
never better arranged than at present. Peace, be
still"
The heat in Canada has been as intense as it has
been further south This is additional proof OF the pc
cuIiarity ofthe climate of the United States, which
differs only in duration, and not so much IN lnten'
sity let the latitude be what II may
Bv late advices from the northwest, Tanner had
not been taken, although search continued TO be
made for him about the Sault.
Capt. Talcou was not yet considered out OF dan
ger, as the ball had not been extracted; which II
was feared had glanced and passed downwards into
his lungs.
The State convention is earnestly engaged in de-
batting various propositions.
Hard 10 please the Albany Journal, and other
,phq papers and peopIs.-The administration can DO
nothing to please them. 1t is said king can do
no wrong The wings have discovered that
no democratic administration can do any good.
In conducting the Mexican war, the government
forever does too much, or too little. Gen. Taylor