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We take pleasure in referring readers to another
admirable letter from our commercial correspondent
which will be found in columns to-day 1t contains
most interesting matter for the consideration OF the agr
culturiss, workingmen, and payers Of this country
The success which has attended the experiment Of
England, in the reduction Of her import duties, pre-.
csely corresponds with the experience OF this country
under the existing tariff And while liberal CONNER.
cal systems have no, impaired the Of either
country they have contributed to the means OF living
possessed BY the people Of both The experience Of both
countries shows that the comforts and happiness Of the
people not TO be promoted by increase Of taxes or
the benefit Of the monopoisthe land arstocracy Of one
country, and the manufacturing capitalists Of the other
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FLORIDA INDIANS EMIGRATrSo.-The United States
steamer Fashion arrived at New Orleans the Sd inst
from Tampa Bay whence she sailed on the 25ih ut
having board seventy hree OF the Indians emigatns
west accompanied by nine OF the Indian delegation from
Arkansas, and Interpreters the whole party under
the command OF Major Holmes, with a detachment oil
nine men and sergeant under command OF Lieutenant
Wright OF the army. They landed nj the United
States barracks New Orleans, where they will re-
main for some time.
The Fashion received the Indians board at the rveI
Manitea from the United States Colonel Clay
which boat took them on board at Fort Hamer on the
head waters OF the river.
General Twiggs was at Fort Brooke a few days pre-
yious TO the sailing OF the Fashion. He had been thrown
from his horse. and had his right arm broken, and was
otherwise bruised but when the Fashion left he was
doing well III ffsrMf NNf l.thENnM M MrU ~
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Pennsylvania.

From the Pennsylvania, March 70.
Union MEETING IN THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DIS.
TRICT Pursuant to postponement, the Union meeting
called BY the citizens OF the first district held last
evening at the commissioners hall, Southwark, and was
Organized by calling Francis Diamond, Of Merchandising
to the chair. who was assisted by Lemuel Paynter
Gen Peter Sken Smith, from the committee, reported
the following resolutions:
Rssolpsd, That have assembled to promote the
srs, or aboons,s but as men prefeung country par
~, and estimating, above all price, the integrity OF me
but in the sovereign capacity Of American freemen, we
are here as unionists, for the sake Of the Union.
feet Union and secure the blessing OF liberty
and their poerty our evolutionary iahers In the spr
of mutual adopted the constitution and united
the States Of one national allegiance
Pennsylvania and the Union.
That regarding ss one
the rights of the South the Morrill, as Pennsyiva
ri,oy now ree are in favor ofleavng the people ofthe
territories to form republican State governments while the
simple and mineral wealth OF the territories remain
vested equally the people Of the whole Union, North and
South.
political covenant, the life blood of American liberty, OF
republican govementnay, the last best hope Of human
Liberty thoashou, the world And the people o. ae hey
with the and soul of one man, the Union, one and
nsepsrabe now and forever l. must ana n sna, &c pre-
Resolved That sczens Of this glorious confedeIacy
regard with the deepest solcude the present crisis Al
Washington and invoke the Supreme Ruler OF nations to
nfuse into the public councils the same spirit OF wisdom
raierna attachment and mutual concession, that influenced
the deliberations OF the trainers oi the constitution LET
there be no strife between Us, for we be bfeihren
Resolved That the statesmen in Congress, oil either
party, who in this hour Of fiery trial. offer up sectional d.
visions and party de willing sacrihce on the
altar Of the Union, TO the Unon are etninenuy
entitled the admiration and gratitude OF the sovereign
people.
Resolved, That citizens OF common country, having
hope and destiny, we look TO the Senate Of the
United States 70 propose the basis Of an amicabe adjust
Of the vexed question: that shall scatter TO the winds
the chmeas and oebodings oil dissolution now agitating
the Union, come from whatsoever quarter they may.
Resolved, That In the opinion OF this mass meeting, the
admission Of California the sisterhood oil States Is
right Is republican and Is sanctioned by the constitution
aud by precedent
The meeting was addressed by the President General
John Sidney Jones, General Peter Sken Smith, Col John
H Scott, George w. knight, esq. and Charles Slime,
esq.
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Hissorieat Sndie BY GKoRek wAsHiseros GRKrs, late
United States consul at Rome. limo PIP. 467. George
p. Putnam, New York
This volume is made up Of a series Of papers upon
Italy, al Of which, except one. were published from
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81 The author Petrarch. Machavell Reformation u
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Increase bOOO.OOO 379234 100000 $500 900


An increased export ia articles of value OF over
$50 has taken place in the past and most ar-
Giles of British industry show similar results Under the
freetrade policy the English people have had more 70 eat
and demand for their goods than before the
effect Of this policy upon the finances however,
which affords the conclusive evidence Of the faacies
Of that "oldwohd policy, Of which Mr. Meredith Is one
OF the half dozen remaining champions For several
prior 154O there had been incurable deficit in the
British revenues averaging about 900 per annum
The then minister Mr.. Barring, proposed TO add five
per to all customs duties and he estimated that
This would bring up the deficit The result was the
reverse the revenue still LEES Il then that
Sir Robert Peel announced the fact that indirect
had reached their maximum and that henceorth they
be reduced From that time the present. the rule has
been reduction Of and year after year considerable
have been remted, always with the effect of In
creasing only the derived from them, but also
the producvenes Of the direct For the year l89
further reduction in duties took place upon OIL corn Nc
The duties for 8S E7s7 1885, and upon other
articles considerable that In view Of the reduction the
chancellor estimated that the customs which had been
E22 900 in l8i6 would fall f2O 900 The result
s, that Notwithstanding the reductions the
high This remarkable fact results for twenty
one years. ending with 184S, the duties amounted
Ell a67San average of 500 per annum; In lSi9
under the shilling duty, and free Indian corn, they
fS20OO within 100000 Of the average Of the whole
year Of 1928 The quantity Of grain imported, exclusive of
Indian is in round numbers 10 500 600 quarters while
proecons aege, but without TRUTH that has displaced
much British wheat, being 10 shllings cheaper Admit
ting so, then the have saved 0O0
say S23 00 In the purchase of bread while the govern
s quite large. Arstocrac landholders
have taken less from the working many. The independent
producers in the United States sold in
sequence. better prices There be concu-
sve triumph Of freerade principles, conounding of
those reeleyisms which seek starve the poor abroad
and rob the producers home, under preence Of protect
Ing labor.
While the commercial policy Of England is well
vindicated in the results. shown by her official tables,
the French indicate the influence of the Ievo
lutionay year upon the products Of French industry
The following table indicates the quantities and values
Of certain leading articles exported from France the
United States in ls4S divided into general and special
commerce The former signifies all exports Of domestic
foreign production the latter only Of French produce
| lion: Fi5 fE
Exports Of France to the United States in 1913
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is,5s7I7o

Reducing the Kilograms to poundssay kiogram
40 poundst appears that France exported 7t3b pounds
goods and imported 30 T2 f5l pounds less
cotton showing reduction in stocks OF goods
and operations of industry On the other hand the adion
ing exported 435 9t pounds goods and also
imported S.2lS39t pounds more co,ton-hus supplying
their industry The goods which France then sold
cannot now supplied anything like the money she got
for them The raw material is much higher, aud, under
the restored confidence Of the aided by cheap
which less prices than the average 1.-THE last 10
years. the nand for de- has much improved The
labor. The United States profile largely by being able
obtain such quantities OF Industrial products rates
small that Is say, the value Of French goods
averaged per h., Ia 1896 81 o.. and in Isis 70 cents
Late again threaten the peace OF Europe and att
Indication or their truth the sed enand from the
continent for American stocks, Notwithstanding that
"reeleyism here seeks In disunon boodshcd aud anar
chy. the opportunity Of oyeurning society and perma
nently enslaving the workers.
The markets generally have been quito under the ufu-
ofthe foreign news. which reports pause in all those
articles in which speculation had most rife Itsthe case
that the late oys have business and caused some
reation from those large speculative purchases January
which filled obbers with stocks that yet actively in
demand The determination TO work short time among
spinners Produced well by the inadqua OF goods
proportional 10 the material by doubts in relation
10 the crops falling under 1890 900 bales had caused fall
In cotton and this has operated market here
On Monday before the delivery of the letters
bales were sold at fali Of the steamers new,
and the market closes at about that point 10 day
The Letters BY the steamer understood generally be
more favorable than the published but they
received until after the close OF business yesterday The
river open to Albany, and that causes
some atness in the produce market In the absence OF
eastern market for -four sales straight STATE 81 81
So, mixed Ohio and Indiana, 50 ~ IS Is; Michigan
and good Ohio, So % So 37k southern is 10 demand al
SIS 50 ~, straight grades Rye -four, So rs 81 81
Corn meal heavy 81 75 Wheat, prime Cenesee, 81 %
81 3d. Rye 80 cents Barley In demand at 90 10 cents
Corn white southern, 54k ssl cents yellow, So
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Pork 10 firm al $40 "A $40 so. 50 81 So prime
Beef also ~ demand for ship stores 90 10 80 So city
prime. Lard firm at 81 cents.
The New York canal board have made considerable de-
duc.ons upon the tolls the canals in accordance with
memorial addressed to them by L. Barton esq., of Buf.
ao and others The reduction provisions for instance
amounts TO as per bb four 81 Mills instead Of
4 mills; wheat the The reduction on freight OF
heavy goods up is about 20 per These reductions
now make the Erie canal, by oil odds. the most eligible
mode Of conveyance west and doubt It's business win
vastly increase
The continued arrival of California gold, reaching near
S3,000000 altogether thus lar In March, is beginning
produce further influence upon the abundance OF
money Had there been adequate of coinage here
and al California the impulse would have been very much
greater than Is Considerable
at the private coinage Of Moaa Co, in California Il is
matter that may tend TO the greatest abuses.
The stock market has continued firm, with good de-
mand at rising prices The Quotations to-day fol
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The welknown marble busts Of the Napoleon family
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uston in the estimation Of all decent governments For
sgn ministers will not dare to hold intercourse with
administration which makes such use Of their eommun-
catons which attempts to subsee iss own selfish party
purposes BY raising hue and cry against the minister
who happens to be the unfortunate medium OF such COM
muncstons. Highmnded statesmen should be above
such psltry straiagems e
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Great Discoveries Vet TO be made.


In the January number Of the Edinburgh Review, in
article upon the British Mines the writer thus lifts the veil
Of the future and dscoses the magnificent discoveries
yet in store for mankind the accomplishment Of which
will tax the energies Of genius, as well as crown it with
imperishable honors:
We have q confident hope, howeveror rather firm be-
lefthat long before coaeds thus really exhaust
of hear caoric. which will make all future
generations independent of these clumsy and dingy
s9nree: MOTIVE pTwe we nna % PROBABLY Dc sup
ibs slemen,s electricity and gavanism, by the en-
ploymsnt Of far elastic than stea and
pabe Of being called into action and again condensed by
blight mechanical impulses by changes oil temperature
intellectually less than are now necessary for the manage
Of that paratively ntracable substance. But
even II we should st require steam ara per
suaded that will be devised for its generation,
rather for the production evolution OF heat that and
MI other purposes far less indirect and pecaTious
than the combustion Of coal This probably be effect
I'd without any process OF combustion al ALL either by the
great of gavanism electricity already referred 20;
By Fiction hammering, rolling of solid and prac-
cay indesrucbe bodies; by the iocibe oil
eommon air Of other elastic Huids; by the chemical
st be esorted might be constantly maintained
without the Tremendous Of the working and
poualion OF fuel by merely contrivng method OF burning
the inexhausbe omnipresent and eternay reproduced
slsment of hydrogen exists In the great ocean, and in
all lakes fountans and tanks and tubs OF rain
wasr with the equally omnip ineIhaustbe and
constantly reproduced orygss Of the atmos-
phere
These, we aware, may now strike many (perhaps
mos people mere Utopian Lapuian fances and
doub,sdy they but and general suggest
ions Bat when consider how much wilder and
audacious (as less warranted by any analogous expe-
ricuce) similar anticpatons Of electric teegaphs photo
graphic painting, or railway locomotives. must have APP
Pearcd but hfy years really cannot put
them Into such category; but the ntrary confess
certain feeling. bo,n OF pride and OF confidence, thu.
recording what but consider truly
though may be but dim aud indstlnct vision
Of good aud glory 70 come