Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1847-04-01
RUIN! RUM! RUINlll

pendentm politics, has The following dose
for the party that cried "ruin" before
the passage and adoption Of the present
tariff,which we think must 90 down rather
hard with some, as, matters have turned
out. But it is dish of their own cook
ing and is it is not 10 their taste. they have
nobody to blame but themselves. 1t is
not the first time they have seen their
prophesies fail, altho' the predictions have
been made by linen standing in high plac-
es." Let those who have once been de-
ceived by them take heed for the future.
The following is the item referred TO:
previous TO the passage of the present
revenue laws, destruction of the home
market, and ruin to the farmer as the con-
sequence, were loudly predicted. Directly
the reverse has been the result. Agricu-
,ure is more prosperous, and prices of The
farmers produce are higher than for many
years before. But this the partisan pre-
dicters Of ruin persist is in no wise at
trIbutable to the removal Of distractions
from trade. Well, we will not argue the
question:; but they also predicted a reduc-
ton ofthe wages of labor, the stoppage of
forges, factories, Sc, and the turning off
of operatives for want Of employment
How do they reconcile these predictions
with the following:
The wages of the carpet wcavers at the man.
ulactores in Thompsonyille and TarilIye, Conn,
have been lately advanced. Springfield Pa
per.
So the new law worked exactly as you
said it would not. You said it would
bring down American laborers 10 tho con.
ditlon OF European pauper laborers. You
dismissed some Of your men, if we remem.
Der right, and put down the wages of 9TH
ers, and sold your carpets at auction, de-
termined to be ruined, but you could not
stay ruined Wages would not stay down
What will these partisan predicters of
ruin dol If they hang themselves, the
rope is sure 10 break or the moose to slip;
if they set their factories on fire, the fire
goes out. They cannot ruin theselves, do
what they will. the grass will grow, The
sun will shine, the people will have goods
at profitable prices. They are compelled
TO be prosperous, and there is no help for
it. 1t must be submitted to.
The Lar Of Manure.-A case was re-
Gently decided by the Supreme Court OF
Vermont, sitting at Woodstock, involving
tho right to manures made Oh farm pre-.
yious to It's sale. The court held that all
manures belonged to the freehold, and
passed with the farm at its sale, and that
the previous occupant of the farm, who
made his manures from his own materials
had no right to remove them. This is d.
recty opposed, we believe, TO II decision
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
which held manure TO be personal proper
ty. As both decisions were made under
the common law-there being no statute
in either state applying TO the case-we
are bound to believe that "the perfection
of human reason" varies very much in
different localilies.-BOston Daily Mail.
We publish to-day minute of Wcther-
bee vs.. Edison, (lhe case above referred
toy from which it appears that the Mail
states too broadly the decision of the court.
The court gave Importance to the fact,
that the plaintiff had no notice Of the ten
ants intention to remove the manure hold.
ing that manure, made from the products O
the farm in the usual course of husbandry,
was, according TO tho rules of good hus-
bandry, necessary 10 the farmland that,
in the absence Of any understanding or
contract between the parties, tenant
could not be permitted to carry off from
the farm, manure made as aforesaid,
NJ Under the new law not more than
one sheet of paper can be enclosed in the
same envelop, with a glepOstage, unless
for the same individual.
Transient papers are charged three cts.
postage. and in all cases are to be prepaid.
To avoid this, individuals who wish to
send papers to a friend may leave their
orders at the office and the publisher OF
The paper may send for them the same as
heretofore.
'Drowning men catch at slraws, The
editor OF the Keene, N. H., Sentinel, af-
ter running up the vote for member of
Congress in that district, consoles himself
by finding that Wilson is beat only $50
majority. "This is much better than we
expected" he says. We think his an
ticlpations must have been small ii he is
satisfied with such realities-nothing like
resignation.
Capt. Pilmans company Of U. S. troops
have left Fort Adams for New York,
where they will embark for Mexico.
From .New .Me1ico.-I'he st. Louis Republi-
can of the / 18th instant announces the arrival OF
Mr. Hoffman from Independence or Bent's Fort.
lie expresses no doubt Of the correctness Of the
news from Taos, of the Instruction and murder
of Gov. Bent, and OF other Americans then there.
The information came to him from different sour