New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-25


Fillmore and the Property Hunters-Sew-
ard-Enaland and the Slave Tradc-P otato
Rot-RaiIyvuy Socialism and w. II. Mcr-
Correspondence of The Tribune
ToRoNro Friday, Oct IS.
hear of Fever and Aguc in the Western
States and have had a slight attack here which
has Welded measureably to sulphate OF quinine
dissolved in cold water By the aid of a few drops
of diluted surhurc acid. A friend from Whit
church argues that the Acuc and the Potato Rot
are connected When the Ague came here this
year the Rot also appeared. An old gentleman
who lived near Lake Simcoe, surrounded by tour
fields Of potatoes took the Ague violently the mo-
ment the Rot displayed itself in his fields, and ne
has it vet bad enough OF course there was
decay of vegetable matter where the potatoes
were diseased, and he blamcs them; but how the
atmosphere is affected physicians ought to know
best
Genenerally speaking l find the country very
healthy but our farmers are suffering, and as l
think, very uniustly-tirst, by the tax OF 20 per
cent. or SO, which they pay on your side, Tor the
the United States benefit on the produce they
bring you for sale secondly, by another levied
here, say ID per cent ON your products and manu-
features, which they fetch back.
Formerly, we placed heavy discriminating
duties on your goods prohibiting teas if they came
through the States now we put Old England and
New England en- the same footing at our Custom
Houses while Britain allows your cotton, grain
and other raw products, to enter her ports duty
free, giving your Western farmers a better home
and foreign price for their grain. | think your
policy unfair, illiberal and unkind, and had my
way of matters, I'd try to change it. We live in
an age in which nations have felt the benefits OF
more free exchange OF surplus products than We're
formerly made and 1t is poor excuse 10 say
that this 80 per cent tax Tor your part OF III you
will uphold till Canada is Incorporated with the
Union If IMAM to man, the world over, shall
brothers be" as Burns expected they would tax
ing the B bic for his authority, such course rs
you are pursuing towards Canada is no sign Of 1t.
do not observe any remarkable increase OF
population in our city through the late law ofCon-
arcss Had Mr. Fillmore been the patriot you
hold him out to be, he would have vetoed this cor
rupt act of a corrupt Congress. But he didn't
If your horse, up at Fortynmthst. stray, you
must find him at your own cost Is 1t right that
YOU should be taxed to pay Tor hndlng the strays
Of Deople a thousand miles oii-men and women,
too stolen property, seeking their own Joint lib
ertyl Would Seward have sanctioned that bill
Yet because we Canadians don't want to have
our appointments to Office made or vetoed by the
slave power, and our country converted into
hunting ground where poor slaves would be the
game YOU will send your surplus produce free to
England while not article OF raw material Will
YOU allow us to send to the States to buy your
manufactured goods with until we have paid you
heavy tax.
| am not the apoogist of the arstocracy of Eng
land they are too much the co-partncrs OF your
less titled SPECTATORS. England could am well
H. do IN NH nd
Brazil, and then what would be the coast oil
Africa but those who as did the excite
ment in New-York and south OF 1t when Cuba eX-
peditions were the topic can scarcely doubt, but
that bad Cuba been acquired by the Union your
pronigate, slavery worshipping Congress would
have made Slave State OF 1t, Texas like The
language and Hc dcfiOn OF both Houses last SEES
sion tell that How steadily the vile sharpers
who had resolved raise Texas scrip i'll its value
hung upon Congress
Turning from politics to potatoes, TREND IN
Wyoming County n Y. writes me that although
ttr, rotate rot IT'S with here has been very gen
erai and III some cases very destructive he had
saved forty bushels of good sound large ones, and
lost bat few. The disease struck them while
growing and not till the blight did he venture TO
cut of the vines he cut them OH before tney ne
came soft, down into the ground Inc bright IfsC
affects the leaves then the vines and when they
are sottened far down as the potatoes, the po-
tatOes must be used at once. AS the noplty say,
i'll Punch, they have still the St0fch' VI course
it is best when the vines arc promptly cnt to let
the potatoes continue in the ground TILL the weaIh,
er grows cool, when any diseased ones can be be
separated, Many people who have ave; dT Eeqd nelF
heoDs or by the diseased affecting the sound ones;
We may still hope, however to raise potatoes ii
we plant early in good nch ground.
In one OF your recent editorials You truly state,
that Canals, Railroads, and other Public Works
constructed by the State are ess ; 7ocad d
hat cost more than So 900 for less than $500
ooo e s1s t to spectators When Mcssrs Bald
win and Lafontnine linked then fortunes W.T.! Win
those of Hamilton Merritt, they linked them with
the gamblers and fancy stocks men OF w alLa I'LL
our finances and fnanciers move accordingly