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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-02-02

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Jan. 10, lSJ0,-ts (
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RoyAL MAILSTEAM-PAc the I'd instant,
stated in of our last Havana papers, the Royal
Mail Steam. Packet Company commenced the new
routine Of service. We have since received from
the company printed schedule, giving all the
routes Of these steamers st. Thomas is the centre
Of the new operations, whence will radiato
in all directions. The first IL:
dflanhc and Chogres route.-From Southampton
to ST. Thomas, Santa Martha, Carthagcna, Chagres,
and Groytown, and back, twice month. The trips
from Southampton and back are to be performed in
20 days and % hours.
Jamaica and Merican yotte.-From st. Thomas
10 Porto Rico, Jamaica, Vera Cruz, and Tampico,
and back, once month
Jafnaica and Hauana Rouis.--From st. Thomas
TO Porto Rico, Jakmel, Jamaica, Havana and Hon
durss, aud back, once month.
Barbados and DsDerdrd Route From st. Thorn
rs to St. kits. Nevis, Muntserrat. Antigua, eau
daloupe, Dominique, Martinique, ST Lucia, Barba-
does, and Denerara, and back twice n month.
Trinidad Routc-From Barbados to st. Vim
cent, Carriacou, Grenada, Trinidad, and Iobago,
and back, twice a month.
One of the vessels Of the company will also make
trip once a month from st. Thomas TO Nassau
aud back.
These vessels, it will be seen, not again to call
at Mobile Point, nor at any other American port ON
the Gulf.
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California will yield, ~ rich ~ they seem ut pres.
ent Ths citlsens Of Knnswhs, who to 4 certain
extent are rcaping the benefit Of one clsss Of min
erals, should not be content with that. Why should
the minerals Of the adjoining State be placed 50
prominently before the world, while those Of Vir-
GINA are not represented
The bituminous coal and camel coal of Kanawha,
Guyandotte and Big Sandy, will rank with any in
Britain or America. Surely, then, the Govern
meut will not refuse 10 send Professor w. X John
son TO report the coal of this section as he has
done OF Pennsylvania Such report would either
! confirm what has already been said disproye il,
and it would set the position of Virginia right to
the view Of those who are seeking for fields of in
vestment In this district. write from personal in
vestigation. | do not dread the result of what l
have written, II practical men would come and in
vestigate what wish the world to know. Virginia
is much nearer the market than Pennsylvania. and
possessing such masses OF camel and bltuminous
coal, &c. &c, and lands at per mere molety
of the cost of similar lands in Penns ylvania, offers
TO those seeking real bona tide investments GER
tain and cafe field 10 enter on.
III these remarks are not too lengthy, you may,
perhaps, find place for them, as am well aware
that your wish Is too this country prosper and
assume its proper position. Such Is my own wish,
although am but, as may say stranger In 1t,
yet have adopted il as my future home, and
hope to see many OF my countrymen here feeding
the blazing furnace pouring out the liquid metal,
fashioning at the busy mills the rails that will
convey or bring together, or our surplus pro-
ducts to market ! only want beginning; may
that soon be contaminated, sc.
am, sir, respectfully yours,
JAMES TODD, Mining Engineer.
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A New Cement.

The Montgomery advertiser contains the follow
ing notice of and valuable cement discovered
and prepared by Mr.. Remington, of bridge notori-
ETY.. If the ddrertise is not deceived to ts pro-
perties, it will prove a most valuable discovery:
REMINGTON CEMEsT.-We witnessed, a few days
since, some very extraordinary results from a few
of the most simple aud cheap ingredients-thc
most important being common sand We
them mixed before our eyes IN two or three min
uies and spread rather poured upon the roof of
a house, where, in few hours, il became hard 50
perfectly so, in couple of days, that it could DO
with great difficulty broken even with the severest
blow Of an axe. We suppose II would not be doing
Justice to the inventor dscoverer to mention the
ingredients, but may say that they very
cheap, vastly abundant in almost every locality
throughout the United States and the process or
rationale so perfectly simple, that a child could
make the mixture, II requiring not the least skill.
IL perfectly impervious to water, slightly elastic,
and non conductor of eectricity-tbree qualities
or properties which render 1t peculiarly fitted to
ventor discovercr, viz, the covering Of houses,
fences, sc.
Mr. Remington thinks it's durability equal TO that
Of granite IL is certainly quite as difficult to sep
arate after being exposed two three days 70 the
air, "a ourselves have seen tried, by the blows
of an axe The covering FIR houses will be Ices
pensve than that Of wood, and it's use for fences
will, perhaps, be but slightly more 80.
One OF two houses have already been covered
with il in our city, and others have been contract
cd for As To cohesive and adhesive qualities, and
its imperviousncss 10 water, and it, cheapness,
there can be no doubt; and If its durability is IA
great lie claimed for II by the inventor, then il Is
Of the most important and useful discoveries of
the age.
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rich earth, the accumulated vegetable dsposits Of
agss, to the sun, would prove prolinc source OF
fsvsrs and kindred diseases. The evil consequence
could only b averted BY employing here, as else
and hardened to exposure. In fact, the principal
reliance throughout must be upon this kind OF la
borers. who, for two rails twenty-five Genital per
day, (the standard price,) would flock, in all de-
sirsble numbers, from all the States Of central
America. For medic (six and -a-quarter cents)
per day, each man provides his own support with
out further cost to his employer. The laboring
population is eminently docile and can soon be
brought to perform any kind of simple labor, as cx
eavatng, clearing, quarrying, burning lime, ETC.,
in satisfactory manner.
"The valley of the San Juan once passed, the cli-
mate is unsurpassed for salubrity by any equal ex
tent OF territory under the tropics, or perhaps IN
the world. The year ID divided, rather anomalous
ly TO the stranger, into two seasons, the wet and
the dry, the first Of which is called winter and the
latter summer The wet commences in
May and lasts until November, during which time,
but usually near the commencement or close, raj ms
Of some days' duration are Of occasional occur
renee, and showers are common, but do not often
happen except late in the afternoon, commencing
about 4 oclock,) or in the night. They are seldom
of long duration, and often days and weeks elapse
without cloud obscuring the sky. During this
season, the verdure and the crops, which durin z
the dry season becomes serc and wlthered, appear
in full luAuriance. The temperature is very cqua-
Bile, differing little in different localities but pre-
serving great uniformity all the country,
cept in the mountainous regions. The range OF
the thermometer is from Is TO So; in some instan-
sinking to II during the night and rising to
80 in the afternoon. During the month of June at
Grenada, the average height of the thermometer
800 Of Fab; in Leon, during the months OF
July, August, and September SO. Out of the sun
this weather would prove agreeable to most per-
sons. There is almost constantly a cool and plea
SAINT breeze, blowing for the most part from the
N. E. The nights are delicious, and sleep is sell
dom if ever interrupted by the heat. For weeks
together the thermometer has marked 79 at ten
O'Clock in the evening, and Is at sunrise. During
the dry season, in December and January, the
temperature is less, and the nights positively cool
though not uncomfortable. The sky is cloudlcss
and tr.fling showers fall at rare intervals"
Mr.. Bailey estimated the elevation of Lake Nj
caragua above the Pacific ocean at lbs feet; above
the Allan tic at l40.
tGage's West Indies, p. 1922
Probably not more than one third of the amount
of rain falls during these six months in Nicaragua
that falls in the latitude of New York during the
same period
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attention of our readers:
= Here importation ceased

We see here the foreign producer steadily
reducing the price, and thus taking upon him
self the payment of the duty, until at length it
leaves him so little that he is compelled to
abandon the contest and from that moment the
price diminlshes still more rapidly than before
In the six years following 1886, the reduction
was but about twenty per cent; whereas, in the
four years following 1912, it was above thirty
per cent. Let us repeal the duty, and close
our pin factories, and we shall speedily see the
price back to the point from whence it started
in 1886, and then we shall have it conclusively
determined who ii is that now pays the duty
1t is the payment of these and other duties
that's now running England. Germany and the
United States were Der largest customers, but
both have resorted to protection; and the con-
sequence is, that the British monopoly is rap
idly passing away. The supply of cotton and
woollen cloth, of iron and manufactures of iron
and of various other commodities, in the gene
raj market of the world, has rapidly increased,
the consequence of which has been general
fall in the prices of every thing in which COM
petition has been thus established. The in
crease ofduties on importation into both Germany
and this country having been attended with di-
minution Of the market prices in both, it has
followed that the British manufacturer has been
compelled TO pay the higher duty out Of di-
minished price, the result Of which has been
that British prices have been forced down
81 low that the wages of labor have been
considerably diminished, while much of her
capital employed in the manufactures has
yielded no profit whatever Nevertheless,
Britain is determined, at whatever sacrifice, to
be ''the workshop Of the world )" and the ruin
Gus game in which she has 50 long been en-
gagged appears likely to be fairly played out
From year TO year her power of purchase di-
minishes, and, since she determined upon sacr-
| fcing her agriculture, in the hope of inducing
other nations TO release her from the payment
of the duties by which their governments are
maintained, her decline has been more rapid
than at any former period. She has yearly
more people to feed and clothe, and yearly a
less amount TO do it with; and yet it is for the
purpose Of obtaining the privilege Of feeding
and clothing these people, large portion of
whom never see animal food, and never pur-
chase a new article Of clothing-that our farm
ers and planters have been called upon to forego
the advantage Of making market on the land
for the products OF the land by bringing 10 their
sides prosperous consumers. able TO purchase
abundant supplies Of both food and clothing!
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Closet Wrought Vices.

Bajou's Paris kid gloves, which from 1889
to 1871 were at - francs per dozen, have ad-
ranoed in the period that has since elapsed to
rs. II, and u francs, at which latter price they
sold last year. In the same period there has
been no change in silk goods, except as they
have varied from the abundance or the scarcity
the low or tho high price--of the raw material.
An extensive importer Of French china informs
IA, that in the last ten years the reduction Of
price has not equalled one per cent. per annun'.
Let this be compared with tho reduction that
mas taken place in all the articles which, by
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Cotton and Wool
IInscy-. white.

II is clearly obvious that with the increased
production the domestic price had greatly fallen,
and that the foreign producer was paying a
larger s,rH in Tie shape Of duty, out Of a dunin-
ished gross receipt He, certainly, was here
the payer Of the duty. II not, who was2 Ger
tainly not the consumer, for he was, under a
system OF efficient protection, obtaining his
cloth cheaper than he had ever done. Protec-
ton had certainly thrown the payment Of the
duty on the foreign producer.
Let us abolish protection. and see what will
be the result. II will close every woollen mill
in the Union. and then We shall need to 90
abroad for eighty millions Of pounds Of woollen
cloths. What, then. will be the pricel VIII
it not advance rapidly, as the supply is d.
minshedl PROFESSIONALLY it will, and the TO
suit will be-, that while the treasury will re-
ceive nothing, the consumer will pay as high a
price as formerly.
It is common idea that prices abroad have
natural tendency to fall, and that they would
fall whether we manufactured or not. How
far this is correct, may be seen by an examina-
ton u the following prices Of articles which we
do not manufacture. and for which we are
wholly dependent upon Europe:
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ANERIchN SCIENTIFIC Conference.-The great
annual convention of tho various professors and
scientific men throughout the different States viii
take place on Monday next, the 18th, at New Ha-
ven Among the many distinguished gentlemen
who will be present the occasion, the following
may be named az composing the standing com
tote Professor Horsford, Of the Lawrence scion-
tifc School, Cambridge; and Professors Bacbe,
Herrick, and Ewyn Professor Alexander ID.
Bachc, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, viii
preside at the convention which will hold Its
sions in the rooms and chapel of Yale College In
addition 10 the various committees already up
pointed, another has been nominated for the pur-
nose OF receiving The members and invited guests
Netp York Ersning Post.
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reason Of the grant Of adequate protection, are
extensively made in this country, and then let

reason Of the grant Of adequate protection, are
extensively made in this country, and then let
it be determined who it is that pays the duty.
The only circumstance that can cause reduc-
ton of price is competition, producing an in
creased supply in the general market Of the
world; and where that competition does not ex-
list, there Is little or no tendency to reduction.
Whence is that competition TO come? From
the countries that have free trade with Eng
land-trom Ireland Canada, India, OF Portugal2
Certainly not. Not only can they not produce,
but they are unable even to consume Whence,
then? The answer is to be found in the fact
that the only competition with England is to be
found in Belgium, which maintains protection
in the Zolt Verein, which maintains protec-
tion-ahd in this country, which did for time
grant efficient protection, but now grants that
which is inefficient, and calls it revenue duties
Prior to the establishment Of the ZoH- Verein
the consumption of cotton by Germany was
trivial. 1t is now immense, and rapidly in
creasing, and she exports her products to every
part Of the world, because protection has made
them cheap. Sheffield now complains that, in
stead of exporting cutlery TO Germany, she now
is understood by Germany in every market of
the world. Leeds complains that she is under
sold by both Belgium and Germany, and Man
chester complains that protected America I'M
dersells her even in India. If protection raised
prices on the consumer, such things as these
could not happen.
We have before us a statement of the move
ment in regard to the prices of pins, that illus
trates SO fully the payment of the duty by the
British producer, that we desire TO call to it the
attention of our readers.
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PENNSYLVANIA CASDrDATKs roR CoNonxss.-
The following nominations have been made thu.
far by the Wings Of Pennsylvania:
Diitrioh.-l4th, Thomas NJ. Bbishaus, nomi.
mated by Lebanon; 10Th, Daniel NJ. smyser, Ad-
ans; 10th, Robert NJ. Bard, franklin; l7th James
Armstrong, Union; 18Th. Andrew j. Oglc; 2lst,
Thomas NJ. Howe; 23d, Robert p. haclsy Clarion;
18th, Samuel A. Gilmore, Butler. Hon. Harrnar
Denny is also nominated by the 2s district 20 hll
the vacancy in the prcsent Congress occasioned by
the resignation Of the Hon. Moses Hampton.
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The interesting experiment Of establishing =
communication by electric telegraph between Eng
land and the continent IL TO be tried in the course
OF the next fortnight. The wires will be laid be
tween Dover and the most projecting part Of the
opposite coast, near Calais, and the distance thus
rsversed will be twenty miles and three quarters.
The erPense OF the experiment viii be about
E25,oOO; the company by whom il is To be carried
out has been constituted in Paris, although it con-
sists chiefly Of English shareholders The number
OF shares IL 5,OOO-upon which 4 per share has
been paid 4"
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SfreULAn ExPLosroS.--A singular explosion oc-
CURED on the arrival Of the clock line from New
York for Philadelphia, the Market street depot,
this morning. keg Of yenst put into the
baggage crate, when 1t exploded with tremendous
force, tearing of the top of the crate throw ing the
keg At least fifty feet into the air II landed the
feet Of a bystander, having knocked one man down
aud completely covered bim with froth, and scat
tered the contcnts on tho passengers, giving them
a ludicrous appearance. No hives lost.
Ntrark Daily.
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Who pays the Duty-the Producer or the
Consumer

In lsil-'2 We consumed about fly millions
II pounds Of wool. Ii is somewhat doubtful if il
was even 50 much. -Four years after, our con
sumption exceeded eighty millions. The effect
of this increase in the supply Of woollen cloths
in the general market Of the world was uni
yersal reduction Of price, as may here be seen:
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Ausrix CoLlroE We perceive that our towns
man, Dr. G. Naphegyi, has just received tho ten
der Of professorshp of Anatomy, Chemistry, and
Languages" in the college at Austin, Texas. "
comes from through the Rev. DR.. Daniel Baker,
of said college, gentleman who formed hs nc
quaintance some two weeks ago, in this town. Bot
we pleased 70 learn that we will not lose him
from among us M yet, nasinueh he iustly deems
the salary inadequate to the services required.
tGeOrssforn ddvocais.
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BAD BUsfSEss--A letter from Rio Janeiro, pub
lishcd by the Secretary Of the New York Board OF
Underwriters, says;-Ten out Of twelve ships in
port, destined for California, have been condemned
and cold for the benefit Of tho undcrwriters-somc
superior vesses-nothing the matter but bad pros
pects. IL oas suggested To our supcrcsrgo that he
had better do 80 also. lie adds that few dollars
American vessels being condemned without appa-
rent cause, and think that such claims should be
csrolullY looked into.
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The Cabinet Complete

The nominations Of Mr.. MchESN,S as Sec
rotary of the Interior, aud Of MIR. CONRAD as
Secretary OF War, were sent TO the Senate on
"Wednesday, and confirmed. Both gentlemen,
we understand, took the oaths Of office on yes
terday
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LII Z r EP u BLIC.
w ASH N GTON:
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST II, 1850.
Congress-.

The Senate was not in session yesterday.
The House Of Representatives., in Commit
tee Of the Whole on the state Of the Union,
was engaged in the consideration of the Civil
and Diplomatic Appropriation bill
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The only daughter and eldest child OF MIR. Ban
croft, late United States Minister Al the court Of ST.
James, died at Springfield, Massachusetts, on the
9th instant. She was lovely, interesting young
lady ofscventeen years, and bad been visiting in
the family Of her uncle MIR Bliss in that town for
some weeks She was in robust health until within
= few days Of her death.
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THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
FADAY, August IS, 1850.

The Senate did not sit TO day, having yesterday
adjourned until Monday,
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EXPOSE

QY reading the following affidavit. tho rrh,;
stuff thew c OF ra.neT where the recipe for making tba
came iromand will be able to judge which ia The L
aaG ana Of the honesty of the who are emno
ea IN senng u as the original DR.. Townsends Sarsana
" o. oWnsend was the original proprietor and invni
Of Dr. Townsends Sarsapara and his medicine has ssno
iSef as ga nssl and M manu-
gfacturng at present 5000 bottles per day We use man
Sarsapara and Yellow Dock in our esaII;b, VIC more
than all tho other Sarsapara manufacturer ~ th gay
Principal Office. I26 Fulton Street. ~ 'N0 world
READ THE AFFIDAVIT.
City and County of New York, IS.
William Armstrong of said city being duly sworn doth IL
and say that he is practical Druggist and CSm ds
1913, by the of Jacob Townsend who at th
time was book and pamphlet pedar called upon deponsn
deponen boarded and requested deponent to write him
cipe by which to make Syrup of Sarsaparlla Denont
further says that he became acquainted with sad
at the office of Theodore Foster Esq., book publisher I
whom said Townsend dealt That said Townsend had bsd
I with opponent respecting the manufao
DR.. Jacob Townsend.
That said Townsend stated he was an old man and moor
and not fit for hard labor and wished to make some
in order to live his old days. and that Sarsapa
ra, under the of Townsend sold WE'LL and much
money was made by it, he could why he might
not make something out of too s being Townsend
he could get capable person prepare recipe and
"facture for him. Deponen of the conversations
asked said Townsend he related to DR. p Townsend
to which he replied that he knew Dr. S. ould be down
aim after he should commence but that he did not
him. he had formed copartnershp with who could
furnish the requisite amount of captaand we'll prepa
red to defend himself against any attack that might be made
on him.
Dponen further says that pursuant the request of said
Jacob Townsend he wrote recipe for the manufacture of
Syrup of Sarsaparia and gave to him. Said Townsend
observed that he wanted to make specimen to exhibit
partners for their approval as he wished to crafty them
everything they furnished all the capital Said Townsend
also told deponent that the bottles they to
be of the size and shape Dr. s. s and deponent
the request of said Jacob Townsend, the office Dr.
S. P and procured of his labels
And deponen further that he has informed md
verify believes the Syrup Of Sarsapara sold Old Dr. ia
cob made after the recipe furnished by dspO-
nent to Jacob Townsend aforesaid
And further deponent said not.
WILLIAM ARMSTR ONG
Sworn to before me, this oath day of May IS49
c. S. WOODHULL, Mayor of the city ofN.Y
For sale in Wilmington, N. c., by VIM. H. LIPPTTT
June l, l849. 3S-tf Druggist and Chemist