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| the South has, az far a. possibls, limited the
manufacture of it to the looms Of England,
whose population has in that period increased
almost sixty per cent, while the proportion
employing itself in this branch Of manu-
facture has steadily increased; and yet, with
all this vast increase of raw material and of
population, the actual value produced in the
three last years average but half million of
pounds more than in the first one, showing a
vast diminution in the money value of the
labor applied to the production and manufacture
of this important commodity.
The necessary consequence of this is dimi-
mutton in the power of consuming among those
whom it is the pleasure of the planter to EN-
ploy in its manufacture and distribution, and
to tins dminution in the power of consumption
is to be attributed the wonderful fall Of prices
that we have seen to attend any increase Of the
crop. In 1920, the people of Great Britain
We're enabled to apply to the purchase Of cot
ton goods the enormous sum of thirtyt ipc mil
lions of pounds sterling; whereas, in l847, %,
and %, with about three fifths more of popuIl-
ton, the average amount to be applied to the
SoihC SPcCiCo VI Soouo WdS lcSS tudii ttCcuty-
eight millions, being almost precisely half as
much per head as in the first period.
We should be glad if our free-trade friends
would undertake the examination of these facts,
and explain, if they can, how further contin-
uance of dependence upon customer whose
power of purchase is steadily diminishing,
while our power of supply must necessarily
steadily increase, can, by any possibility, be at
tended with any thing but ruin to the planter.
We should be glad, too, that our planters
would examine them with view to determine
for themselves how different would now be the
demand for their great staple, and how different
the price, if they had thirty years since deter
mined to bring the machinery of manufacture 10
their own cotton fields, among a people whose
power of consumption would have been steadi-
ly increasing, instead Of resting their whole de-
pendence upon nation that is becoming daily
less and less able to consume, and less and less
able to pay for what she DOGS consume.
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Massachusetts Election.

The Boston Courier of the 22d has the fol
lowing notice of the election returns:
"In the I'd Congressional district we have re-
turns from 10 out of "a towns. The whole vote
against Mr.. Upham in the district at the last cleo.
ton 7,7l0 against 60l3 for him, or ,657 plu-
rality. In 10 towns the vote is now, Upham, Wing,
1878; Rantoul, Democrat, 2,470; Sewal, Adolf
ton, and scattering, l,467. MIR. Uphsm's gain in
these towns is 075 but this is not enough to elect
him.
"In the Sd district, MIR. Duncan, the Whigca
didate, is rechosen by triumphant majority. AT
the last election there plurality Of 2SS against
him. In 10 towns he has gain of ,l72, and his ma
iority in the district will run over thousand.
'In the 4th district, long contested for the
last and the next Congress, Mr.. Thompson, the
Wing candidate, leads, but not sufficiently TO elect
him over Mr.. rockingham, Mr.. Palfrey, and the
scattering votes-although he has handsome com
parative gain in almost every town heard from.
'In the 5th district, Mr.. Allen, the present Free
soil representative has gained few hundred votes
mainly by the falling off of the Democratic vote for
Mr. Knowlton, but he had / ,l5O votes against him
at the last trial, and this majority has not been
overcome
'For the 9th district do not depart from our
opinion Of yesterday, that Mr.. Davis, the Wing
candidate, 10 elected.
''In the It'll district, Mr.. Goodrich does not seem
to awake the Wing vote, and he is the only Wing
candidate who has not gained at the late trial. lie
lacked some 100 votes at the November election
and he has greater plurality against him
''In the 10th district, at the last election the plu
rality against MIR. Sendder was 365.
"In these towns Mr.. Scudder makes gain of ,26i
upon the November election. We may add thai
have it from the best authority that nine tenths
Of the Wings of Barnstable county thorough
going Union men, and that they supported Mr.
Scudder upon the principle that he was with then
upon all national questions.
''Neither of the vacancies in the present Con
gress have been filed. and for the I'd, 4th. 5th ane
It'll districts, trials must be had for the mex
Congress
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The STEAMER ATLANTIc.-The public anxiety
for the safety OF this noble ship necessarily increases
with the increasing time of her being due. IL
is, however to be Observed that this xiety is less
with engineers and nautical men than with those
vino unacquainted with both the machinery of
a steam engine and the rigging of a ship. There
are many rational ways Of accounting for still
longer absence of the Atlantic, not inconsistent
with her saety Suppose, for instance, that, after
being out five or six days, her machinery became
repair short Of the facilities be had either in Eu
rope or in this country. Her course must then be,
either to return, to proceed under SAIL and, with
the scanty amount of canvas that she spread
over her immense hull che would not be likely to
reach port, either way, short of twenty days
perhaps much longer time. These considerations
are suggested, not because the writer desire to cf
feet insurance, but because he would not have the
friends OF the passengers in the ship mslcd into
dependency. -Boston Courier, 2st
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The Indians OF America.

There have been in the world no people
| whose history is more interesting than will he
| that of the aborigines of our country; so much,
we mean, as can ever be known of that history.
lit is wonderful that so few monuments are ex-
tant to tell of their origin, and the centuries Of
their existence prior to the abode of the white
| man upon this continent; but not less wonder
full is the story of their decline before the foot
steps of their pale-faced brethren. And they
are still passing away, never yielding but to
coercion, and never dropping in spirit before
whatappears to them our omnipotence.
The whole vast area of our States and Ter
ritories was once inhabited by them. How
many now remain? The story will to many
prove incredible; and yet it is true. A little
more than four hundred thousand is the sum Of
all their tribes. A single city in our Union is
greater than them all And even this poor
remnant will soon perish, and but few faint
memorials will tell that they have been.
A volume lying before us has awakened
these thoughts. 1t is a large and elegant book,
and as we look upon it with admiration Of its
beauty, our feelings Of gratitude are also exs
cited that the Government of the United States
has had the liberality to cause its publication.
1t contains well-gathered leaves of the history
of the Indian tribes. 1t embraces, also, de-
scripton of their present condition, with inn
portant statistics, and remarks upon their future
prospects.
The publication Of this book was authorized
by an act of Congress passed on the Sd Of
March, lS47. BY this act HENRY r. SCHOOL
CRAFT was employed to collect and prepare the
information it embodies. 1t is illustrated and
embellished by upwards of seventy exquisite
chrome photographic prints, many of them by
DUvAL, and of superb excellence. They are
pictures of Indians, their wigwams, their i'm
plements, and every thing that can prove Of in
terest to the student who may desire to know
them as they are and as they have been.
These pictures have been engraved from the
original sketches Of Captain E. S. EASTMAN, of
the United States army.
The volume is in quarto, printed in large and
beautiful Typography, and on excellent paper.
1t is from the press of Lippincott, CRANKY s.
Co., Of Philadelphia, and is eminently credit
able TO their taste and skill. We are informed
that but one thousand two hundred copies have
been issued, and that their cost, exclusive of
| the compilation and sketches, is $4,000. The
volume is public document of the Govern
ment, and its distribution, we presume, will be
made in accordance with the rule for dissent
mating such documents generally. The whole
work designed for publication in this manner
by the Government will constitute series Of
parts like the present, and will embrace as full
and complete information as can be procured in
relation to the important subject Of investiga-
ton
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The Cation Interest.

We are indebted TO the kindness of friend
for copy of Macqueen's Statistics Of the fig
ricuhue, Manufactures, and Commerce o
Great Britain, in which we find some interest
ing facts, to which we shall occasionally ash
the attention of our readers. Among them are
statistics relative to the cotton trade that
should, as we conceive, have some interest fol
our planting friends, who. Judging from the no
tees of the stoppages of mills throughout the
country, are likely soon to have little else thar
the British market for the whole of their vas
produce.
The following table shows, first, the value
Of British cotton manufactures OF every de
scripton; second, the domestic consumption
and third. the value exported:
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ISee first page.]


In the Senate the French Spoliation bill was
ordered to the engrossed for a third reading
yeas 80, nays 20.
In the House of Representatives Mr.. JOHN
SON, of Tennessee, from the Committee on Ag-
rculture, reported bill proposing to give
farms to the landless on certain conditions
which was debated until the expiration of the
morning hour. The House then proceeded tc
the consideration Of the bill to supply defcien-
cies in the appropriations for the present fiscal
year, and adjourned without coming to n con-
clusIon on the subject
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Supreme Court OF tho United states.
THURSDAY, January %, 1861


Chauncy Donaldson, esq, of Pennsylvania, and
Frederick Cunningham, esq, of the city of New
York, Qate of Westchester county,) were admit
ted attorneys and councillors of this Court.
No. Sc. r. &. Stockton Us. J. C. Ford. Appeal
from the circuit court of the United States for Lou
isiana.
Mr.. Justice Nelson delivered the opinion of this
Court, affirming the decree of the said circuit court
in this cause, with costs.
No. 81. ]. H. Mccoy rs. z. Rhodes. Appeal from
the circuit court of the United States for Louisiana.
Mr.. Justice Catron delivered the opinion of this
Court, reversing the decree Of the. said circuit
court, and remandng this for further pro-
ceedings, in conformity to the opinion of this
Court.
No. 55. p. McGil us. J. C. Armour. In error to
the circuit court of the United States for louisiana
Mr.. Justice Mclean delivered the opinion of this
Court, affirming the judgment of the said circuit
court in this cause. with costs.
No. g. E. b. st. John, plaintiff in error, u.s. Il.
A. Paine, ct. al. The argument of this cause was
continued by Mr.. Wood for the plaintiff in error.
and by Mr.. Gillett for the defendants in error.
Adjourned until to-morr ow, IL o'clock, a. IN.
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appointed BY the Governor of Virginia, consist
ing Of Messrs. BuRwlLL, AYLETr, BEIRsE,
CARRIEGroE, and BARBouR, have arrived in
this city, and that the medal will be presented
on Saturday next, at eleven o'clock, a. M No
tice of the place of presentation will hereafter
be given.
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WINprALL TO AN AUTHOR. The Paris CORE
spondent of the New York Commercial Adrcrtiscr
states as an on dit that NJ Leon Gozlan, a popular
writer Of novels noveiettes, and plays, in Franco,
was pleasantly surprised, the other day, by note
from Mr.. Rivcs. informing him that sum of scvc-
raj thousand francs had been bequeathed to him by
John McDonogh, of New Orleans, and that the
money in MIR. RS hands. II seems that the
eccentric testator had been pleased with one of Mr..
Gozlan's novels, and took this agreeable way of
testifying his admiration.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Mr.. STANTON, of Tennessee, asked the unani.
nous consent of the House that the call of commit
tees be proceeded with for the purpose of receiving
such reports as will not give rise TO debate
The SPEAKER said that this could be done only
by the unanimous consent Of the House.
Objection made
MIR. STANTON then asked the unanimous con-
sent of the House to make report for the purpose
Of reference.
But objection was made.
The SPEAKER then proceeded to call the COM
mittees in their order.
Mr.. HARRIS, Of Illinois, from the Commits &c
on Private Land Claims, reported bill to enable
revolutionary soldier to locate two pieces 81 boun-
~ land scrip, there being defect in the assig
nent Of 1t; and the bill was passed
HqMEsTEADs TO THE poon AND LAspLEss
MIR. JOHNSON, of Tennessee, from tie Com.
mlttee on agriculture, reported bill TO encou-
rage agriculture, commerce. manufacturer and
all other branches OF industry, by granting to every
head OF family homestead OF one hundred and
sixty acres, provided he she occupy and Guilt
waite the land for an uninterrupted period of FIVE
years.
The bill was read a second time, when
Mr.. JOHNSON moved that it be referred TO the
Committee OF the Whole on the state of the Union
This bill, be said, ought to have passed instead
of the Bounty Land law, giving forty eight mil.
lions of acres of the public lands TO the sol
diers of the last with Great Britain and those
engaged in Indian wars not heretofore provided
for, He set out with the general proposition, tina
every man who wants land ought TO have it for tn.
purposes Of cultivation His bill would have giver
II TO every description Of soldier who in a con
dltion to cultivate and occupy IL; and by giving
him the land the land warrants would have beer
kept out OF the hands of the Shylocks and jobbers.
This bill he repeated would have given land e
every SOLDIER who ought to have it, He did no
wish 10 be understood saying that those who ar,
old, or insrm, or disabled, should have nothing
he would say to them, come to the treasury snc
we will give you SO much scrip. 1t was a crying
evil that public lands are indiscriminately thrown
into the market, because II Injured to the benefit
speculators. There were other gentlemen able No
willing 20 discuss this subject, in favora bl,
light, but be would simply remark, that at the as
session OF Congress millions Of acres voted fo
canals, railroads, luDatic asylums, and every othe
purPosei and now the poor man, the landless man
asks US TO give him one hundred and sixty acres
that be may live on the coil and occupy it, and be
come more efficient citizen He glad thai
Illinois had spoken on this subject, and would speak
through her representatives. IL the first Legis-
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AFRICAN SouADnoN Dispatches received at The
Navy Department from Commodore Gregory, of
the African squadron, make known that Lieutenant
Henry p. Robinson, of the United States brig Por-
poise, died near Port Praya, the 4th of Novenl-
Der, of fever. The Porpoise arrived at Port Praya
the same day. and he was buried on shore. The
crewsof all the vessels were enjoying good health.
The Portsmouth was at Fuhchal, where the Perry
was expected, from cruise, early in January. A
letter in the Norfolk Herald says the Dale is cruis
ing in the blight Of Benin, and that Assistant Sur
geon William d. Harrison had sailed in the bark
Virginia Ann for Charleston, in consequence Of i'll
health
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LINE or STEAMERS TO New YoaK.-The Nor
folk Argus states that project is on foot in that
city to establish line of steam packets between
Norfolk and New York. One person alone has
subscribed twenty-five thousand dollars of the
amount required, and the balance that paper is
sure will readily be taken by the business men of
Norfolk
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W AsHINGT0N:
FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY a. 1851

0u-Mr. c. w. JAMES, No. Harrison street
Cincinnati, Ohio, is our General T}aueiing Ageni
for the Western States, assisted by j. r. Smith, J.
4. Dent, Jason Taylor, J. W. armstrong. Perrin,
Locke, w. Ramsey, DR.. Joshua Vadstoorth. Aier
ander X. La,cs, and n. J. Smiley.
Or Mr.. ISRAEL E. JAMES, No. 1872 South
Tenth street, Philadelphia is General Travelling
agent for the Southern and Southtoestrn States as
sisted by WiHiam II. Weld, John Collins, James
Desring, Il. Kirk Wellington, e. A. Euans, James
Clark, r. Locke, and Joseph Button.
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FROM moxico.

We have received number Of Ell Universal, pub
lished in the city of Mexico Its leading article is
IN review Of an editorial which appeared in the
New Orleans Picayune, the 9th of December,
and which the Universal calls the programme Cor
address) Of General Arista, published in the United
States" Ell Unir1saI does not appear to like that
portion Of the Picayines remarks which intimates
that General Arista will never excite the Mexican
people to look upon the rest Of the human as
their natural enemies, and that his policy in this
respect will differ from that hitherto observed, espe
ciaiy ,oith respect to the United States. We far
from supposing that General Arista ever authorized
the publication in question in the Picaytne but IL
that articles speaks his sentiments, it is proof OF
his good sense, and not only that, but is TO some
extent worthy Of imitation in this country.
We learn from the Uniu1sal that the Legislature
of the State of chihuahua has passed law allowing
its members hundred dollars a month for the lime
in which they are not in session. This is some
thing after the Chinese method of patients paying
physicians for the time during which they not
sick.
We find the following additional items of Mexi-
can news irs late number of the New Orleans Pic
ayune:
sThe extra session of the Mexican Congress
closed on November 10Th. The President made q
speech on the occasion, in which he did not say
any thing in particular, and an address was re-
turned by the houses having pretty much the same
meaning.
''The States of Tabasco and Chiapas which
have been quarreling about their boundaries, have
reconciled their differences.
'The rebellion of Mcendez, in Oajaca, has not
been suppressed The insurgent chief lies hidden
somewhere, waiting for favorable opportunity to
show himself
"The committee of liquidation, appointed for the
arrangement of the interior debt, is composed Of
the following persons: Manuel Canseco, Guiiermo
Prilto, and Jose Maria Urquidi.
an Pedro velez has been appointed Treasurer
General
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PnILADELPHiA LIvERPooL STEAMsHIrs.--A num-
Der of merchants Of Philadelphia have agreed, pro-
vided $4,000 of the stock of the proposed line Of
steamships from that port to Liverpool shall be
taken during the present week, to subscribe, or
procure subscribers for the entire balance them
selves. There is doubt, therefore, OF the speedy
establishment of the line.
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Governor MEANS, the present chief ma istrate Of
South Carolina, has been nominated in the Fairfield
district as delegate TO her State convention. This
is but following precedent in the revolutionary
times of notification, when Governors Hamilton
and Haynes were selected to preside over the null
liiying convention. Richmond Enquirer.
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FLORIDA JUpIcIAny.-Hon. w. Anderson has
been elected chief justice of the supreme of
Florida, and A. G. Scmmes, esq, associate JUS
cc; Hon. Joseph Lancaster for the southern circuit
J. Wayles Baker for the middle circuits Judge
Thomas Douglass reelected to the eastern circuit
and Judge G.. s. Hawkins elected to the middle
circuit
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oTFloIAL.
DrpAarxusr OF STATE,

w AsHINuTUNI JHn 20, IooI.
Information has been received at this Department
from Amos B. CoRwIsE, esq United States Consul
at Panama, of the death, within his consular dis
trict, of Dr. Williams, a citizen Of the United
States.
Mr.. CoRwIsE states that the partner in trade and
friends of DR.. Williams proceeded to California
with his effects, few hours after his death and
burial. and that he unable to ascertain his
christian name and place of residence.
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The New Orleans papers state that theMtrial of
General Henderson was again postponed, on the
10Th instant, in consequence of the continued in
disposition of one Of the jurorA
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RUrUs GREESE. charged with forgery and. EN-
bezzement, was yesterday brought before Judge
McKinstry, and regularly committed for trial al
the February term of the city court. His counse
waived an examination, and consented to the com
itment.--Mobde Aduertiser, 10TH.
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Hon. HENRy Dodge RE ELEcrED.--The Union
publishes the following Geographic despatch, an
Runcing the re- election of the Hon. HENRY
DODGE to the United States Senate for six years
from the 4th of March next:
MADISON, Jan. 81 1851.
Governor Dodge elected on first ballot: Dodge,
SO; Doty,7."
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In our article on the dead letter-oflice, on
the 22d instant, 100000 should have been
set down as the probable number of such letters
in each year.
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The never failing and indefatigable SHILLIseTos
has again supplied with New York papers in
advance Of the mail.
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Value Homo
produced. consumption.

In the thirty years that have elapsed since
the commencement Of this table, our produc-
ton Of cotton has quintupled, and the policy Of
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The following letter been received by tn,
committee, from the Hon.. WILLIAM DuER, sine.
the Union meeting, and which we take pleasure il
laying before our readers. N
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The TKHUANTEPEc ExPEDITIoN.-The New Or
leans Picayune publishes the following letter from
membero of the Tehuantepec Surveying Expedi-
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THE CHATswoRTH Inn, DERBysuIRE, ENGLAND.
william JeDson, proprietor % the above hotel begs
specully 70 call the attention 81 the citizens ofhc United
states visiting the great Exhibition and the romantic and
beautiful scenery q Dereyshrc, with Chstsworth, the
rrncey residence Of His Grace the Duke Devonshir
the central situston OF hs establishment which situated
IN the park aud nearer 70 the mansion than any other
also essy distances from the various railway stations The
nc,sl three miles FROM Rovssy station, en- the Midland
Railway and onnhuses from the hotel meet train.
To sheffield IL fourteen miies Chesseracd Casteton
SIXTEEN Macck ten, Buxton fourteen, Haddcn Hall ave
Hardwich sixteen, NcwsteAd Abbey twenty-five. W. j..
Therefore hopes BY strict personal attention 70 his visitors
combined with the quiet ana comfort Of home aud moderate
charges 70 merit continuance o. those avors will be
his earnest endesvor 10 deserve.
HJNT AND RoskEIL. tsuCcEssoRs TO sroRR n
u u Mortimer,l GoIdswiths, Sivcrsmihs, &C.. TO the
queen also Chronometer and Waehoakcrs 81 No 10 New
Bond street, London mandatory - Harrison street,
GrAy hog intimate 10 their patrons that they
moving from their branch business in Princess
street. Manchester Ia ST. AIMS square IN the town.
and Immediately opposite % the principal entrance 81 the
Exchange.