The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-14

AUSTRIAN ATRocIrY.-We take the following
from the London Examiner:
" 10 the editor ofh London Examiner: Ruggicro,
Italian ecclesiastc relates to the Bishop Of Pesh
n tale of devastation by the Tartars in Hungary
which Cihbon calls the best picture of barbarian
INVASION" II the historian were now living he
would see an Imitation of this picture far surpassng
the original in force of coloring. TRANQUILITY as he
discourses ON human crimes and sufferings, he
would surely now exhibit to the indignation of man
kind the crueties which again are penetrated in
that country They are enough to excite il even in
France herself fallen she Is from step 10 stem in
servitude general at the head of a German
army denounces death, both ON soldiers and civil
lians without trial and without DELAY. This inso-
lent and ferocious bastard, whom even the yiest
family would disown, threatens thus the bravest
men of the most illustrious. Lord Nugcnt when
he called upon Parliament TO interfere would
not trust his tongue (he said) with this mans
name When it was whispered I'm the House there
was universal shudder. Such an effect had NOT
been produced before, even by the murder of men
made prisoners while fighting for their esta blisbed
and acknowledged laws. Often had soldiers and
citizens been slaughtered for defending their native
land, but never before were ladies scourred for
lamenting 1t. Let us hope the hour is near when
female hands will infct this milder chastisement
on the unmanly culprit, before he is committed for
the remainder of his days TO the grating that en-.
closes less ferocious animals
Aug.4 WALTER SAVAGE LASpos
The Iron Trade through the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal.
The following table exhibits the quantity of iron
of the different kinds, which passed, eastward
through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal from
Hayrc de Grace during two similar periods of the
past and present year-that is from the opening of
navigation TO the first of September:
Wrought and Blooms, PigInetal.
RR iron--lbs. lbs. lbs
From opening Of
navigation 10
Sept. LIST, 1S4S, l,l42,712 ,7dI sos 81 379 700
From opening of
navigation to
Sept LIST, ls4s, 2,722,3l6 2255,s92 81 7e4 ,34s
Falling off, s,42O,397 ase0s 4a2
Increase, 5Iaas7
Now, If any of our readers, arithmet;c.lIv Ia.
clined, will take the trouble 10 analyze tbess
figures, they will find the following results nrcg
nsnt with meaning and with testimony exhibiting
the destructive influence Of the tariff OF Is46 6rs5
that the diminuton on pig iron coming through
the canal tins year, as compared with the last Is
no less than forty-six per cent. upon the whole
quantity; while the diminution wrought and
railroad iron reaches the enormous pitch of seventy
five and half per cent. There is a respectable in.
crease OF twenty nine per cent. blooms but
when we consider the comparative insiqnifcapce
of all the items in this branch of the account we
shall feel that this small gain forms but a sorry Off
act TO the loss.
Reducing the diminished product 20 tons (ofo0
cwt. each) for the greater convenience of the read
er, we nnd that the absolute decrease in wrought
and railroad iron is 3,759 tons, and that in pig iron
~, 539 tons; while the gain in blooms is only 300
tons; or, taking all the kinds together the nett dc
crease Is l4,O6g tons. Now. 10 ascertain the nocu
MARY value Of these losses, we should refer e. ,hc
prices Of iron before the death tariff began 10
weigh them down. Taking the we'll known nrice of
S67 80, at which the Hudson Railroad companv
had contracted with Mr.. Cooper of Trenton, for
railroad iron, the value of the above 7bq TONS az
wrought and railroad iron S253,732 So The
prices Of pig iron in 1876 were from S32 10 g37
Takinga mean price Of S35 the value of the above.
mentioned 1883 tons Of pig metal was 1865 1865
The value Of the two kinds together amounted 10
the gross sum Of S622 597 60 Deducting from this
the blooms, rated at the price rs the wrought
and railroad iron, viz: Sl5,457 80, we have the
nett loss, the sum Of 500, l40 all which, be IL OBJ
served, is only the loss that part of the iron
trade which comes through the chesapeake and
Delaware canal And be II further Observed thai
all this loss falls upon Pennsylvania; every pound
we believe, of the metal which reaches us from
Havre de Grace coming from Pennsylvania fur.
naces and forges.
Such Is another evidence of the pernicious inan .
cnce Of the tariff of 1876 in the Pennsvvania iron
interest How many hardy Pennsvlyania y,orL.
men, deprived Of their employment many
once happy families broken up and driven. per
haps, to seek food from ill-rewarded agricultural
toll in the west represented in that diminished
product Of 1000 tons of from And vet il is 10 these
workmen, and their associates of the coal pts-to
say nothing oil the farmers, their purveyors for
whom they made market-that the free trade pol
ticians come TO ask for notes.-the men who forced
upon them, by the grossest frauds and decen,ions
the very tariff of 1876 by which they are now robbed
and ruined philadelphia North 4meican.