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. Does it reduce the rate of wages, (I hop
r not, or how!? Then ho,c does a tariff
without an Increase of prices, make manu-
features profitable p
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IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-The Court of Ap
peais, in the State of Kentucky, have re
Gently decided the point that divorces grant
ed by the Legislature cannot effect th,
dover right of the wife so divorced, in rea
or personal property; that at the death OIL
the husband she is as fully entitled 10 a dis.
%tributive portion of his property, as if nc
divorce had been granted. This decision
is very important in Kentucky, as the Leg
~islature did a wholesale divorce business
during its last session. No question as to
the legality of future marriages was raised.
This point, however, appears to u, to COW
Ier the whole ground. A wife, married
while the divorced wife is living, cannot,
under this decision, claim a distributive Dor.
ton of the husbands effects, for this would
be manifest injustice to other heirs; and it
would certainly be a strange legal mar
riage that would not secure her this natural
right. With the right of property decided,
we can see no ground for splitting upon
graver and more important points.
Mr.. WARREN.-The appointment Of this
man to the second assistant postmaster gen.
eralship, under the Taylor administr alton,
has justly aroused the indignation of the lib
eral press wherever the man is Known
Yet the Wing LADDERS of the powers that be,
cry out persecution, because the knavery
of the appointee, and the d~isgraceful char
acter of the appointment, have been ex-
posed
The National IntelIigencer Of o late date,
contains a long defence of this Mr.. Wsr-
rem, in which it censures the Washington
Union for admitting into its columns the
remarks'of contemporaries in reference to|
the untftness Of that person. In reply, the
Union has tile following:
The National Intelligencer is authorized
to contradict un~equivocally the dishonora-
BILE allegations that have been brought for
ward against Mr.. Warren. 1t adds thatl
''tlle virulence of these charges, and theirl
repetition, make a vindictiveness foreign,
believe, to the editor of that print, and
betray an origin stimulated by personal ran
We disclaim all personal r%ancor;' for vel
AVE not the slightest acquaintance with
w. We have never seen him-norIi
ave we contracted any personal relations
With him Of any description. Our impress.
ions of the Second Assistant Postmaster
General, have been derived from papers in
owa, land from the Worcester Palladium,
IS well as from what we have heard from
NO gentlemen of high character. With
hese impressions, we could not see a per- {
like him raised to an Office of such re- /
possibility and influence, without warninglt
he country, and especially the postmasters,
{ the dangers to which they are exposed. &
have the testimony of another press in
he east to confirm our own opinions, as it a
IPPears in the following extract from the n
concord, New Hampshire, Patriot, of n
Thursday last: |,
Mr.. Warren, Of Iowa, appointed Second $
Postmaster General, is equally as n
bnoxious .oall honorable men; and if heIb
ad been known to the Senate, they would f
have rejected his nomination. b
bankrupt in Massachusetts,, he disappear $
d between two days, and wandered off toI
he far west to escape his creditors. He d
seated in Iowa, and became the editor Of I,
lie Burlington "Hawkeye"-a paper dis a
ngulshed for its violence and vulgar bill =
ngsgate. He distinguished himself o
than in these particulars, until Il
st fall, when a fair field for the exercise Of o
is talents presented itself. "A large bandIo
+ Mormons, on their way to the iGreat Salt 81
axe, had stopped in the extreme borders B
T Iowa to recruit. They were nearly all
emoerats, but would vote as commanded
= their leader. It occurred to the federal .
aders Of lows that with the aid Of these !;
otes, they might carry their State for Tay- O
and they resolved to make the effort Il
'srren was electedss the agent to make d