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The Exports of Specie.

The enormous export ofspecie from this coun-
try to Europe has been observed by all readers
OF the newspapers, Hundreds Of thousands of
dollars have been shipped almost every week for
months. The Miners Journal referring to the
matter says:
''No country, however well supplied with the
necessary coin, can bear this unceasine drainage
without suffering to some extent in her business
transactions. The export of late has become
alarming, and in many mercantile cities much
uneasincss is openly manifested for The result
general crash IN monetary affairs is anticipated.
In Philadelphia, men talk about il every day,
and no attempt is made to disguise what every
one conceives TO be an inevitable result.
But why this export of specie! If it be an
swered, Free Trade, we are at once charged
with only using the subject politically, and per-
haps, some of our readers are inclined to drop
the subject at once, and leave us to our own
speculatlons-they understand the whole thing.
But the cause, nevertheless remains the same
il is Free Trade, notwithstanding all the gratui-
tous comprehension ofthe Opposition, and every
man may readily satisfy himself on this point by
the phlncst common-sense logic. Free Trade
admits the productions of foreign countries into
our markets. and our hard earned gains 90 to
swell their Golfers, while Protection prevents this
competition, encourages Home Industry, buys
of and supports our own manufacturers, and
necessarily keeps our specie at Home. The
principles of the two doctrines are plain and
easily comprehended, and the appropriateness Of
the Protection Policy is similarly applicable &c
the general interests of the country and more
particularly othe true interests ofPennsylvania.
Mr.. Greeley of The New York Tribune, in q
latter from Paris dated June 18th, makes the
following remark on this subject:
"Whilc Great Britain and the United States
have undertaken TO vie with each other in Free
Trade, France holds fast to the principle of Pro
lection, with scarcely division in her Councils
on the subject, and she is consequently amassins
in silence the wealth created by other Nations
The Californian digs gold, which mainly come.
to New York in payment for goods; but on tina
Gold England has a mortgage running fast tt
maturity, for the goods were in part bought o
her and we owe her for Millions worth beside
But France has similar mortgage on it for thu
Grain supplied to England 10 feed the labrica
tors ofthe goods. and it has hardly reached tn,
Bank of England before it is on its way to Paris
A great share of the golden harvesls of the trib
| utar!rS of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, nov
| find their resting place here
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Work I'm the Garden.
From the American Farmer for this month

From the American Farmer for this month we
take the following on this subject:
Melons, Cncnnbers, 6c.-keep all such things
clean of weeds; il the weather should prove dry,
have them carefully watcred.
Melons for Mangoes.- Between the 1st and
10Th of this month is the proper time for plant
ing melons for Inangoes. Manure the compar-
ment you may allot for them with we'll rotted
manure, spade it in spade deep, rake well, lay
! off the bed in squares 6 feet apart. At every
intersectng point place a spade full of rotten
manure inches high, taking care to mix the
manure with the soil form a hill over it, and
plant or seeds in each, one inch deep; have
mixture comprised Of equal parts of SCOT, ashes,
and plaster ready, dust the tops of each hill free
ly, with the mixture, and finish by giving each
,, hill a thorough watering. Continue to water
the hills every few days, about sun down, should
the weather prove dry, until the plants come up
, and rain occur.
Cucumbers for Pickles.-Prepare bed as
above directed for melons, and plant cucumber
seed for full crop of pickles. The management
of this bed should be The same as directed for the
melon bed.
Planting out Cabbage planfs.---You must avail
| yourself of the first rain that may occur this
| month TO set ont your cabbage plants intended
for your late crop. Your bed must he dressed
with heavy portion ofstrong nutritve manure,
which would be the better of having plaster and
ashes mixed with it. The cabbage requires TO
be well fed with rich food, and will not grow in
luxuriance without it receives full allowance.
| The plants, should drought occur, must be
freely watercd every second evening, Just before
shutdown, until they become thoroughly rooted,
and rain occurs. Attention must he paid to
watering them in dry weather every few days
during the whole season.
| Before drawing the plants from the seed bed
have mixture prepared in piggin comprised
mould, SCOT, -four of sulphur and scotch snuff,
bring it 10 the consistence of cream with water
As you draw the plants from the bed, place them
up to the leaves in this mixture; it will serve
double purpose: it will act as a manure to the
plants. and preserve them from the cut worm
and grub, for however fond they nav be of the
sweet inice of the stalks Of the cabbage plant.
they would not touch so bitter mess as il would
prove were they to seek it through the SCOT,
sulphur, and snuff.
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Dy"Now, amid the ful-leaf and gorgeousness
OF midsummer, we scarce think of looking back
to the days OF early spring, when the little flow
ers began tmidly to expand to the ftful spells
of sunshine, giving us a gracious notice of the
coming season of bloom. Here is little poem
from The N. Y. Tribune. written by young
lady of Connecticut, which will carry back the
readers of The Whig--ccrtainly all of them who
are in the habit OF roaming to Red Hill--to the
time when, while the north winds and the sun
CLEANS of March were battling for the mastery,
the little flower named, without being deferred
by the one, was opening swcetly out under the
warming influence of the other.
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Western Iron Manufacture.

In the valley of the Ohio as well as in
the Atlantic States, the iron manutactu-
ring interest is condition of ruinous de-
preston. Under the operation of the
existing tariff, which encourages the i'm
portation of European iron produced by
the cheap labor Of half starved work
men, our American furnaces and forges
are brought to stand still--their fires
eXtingushed- the arm of honest home
industry paral yzed-c capitalists ruined
and thousands of our people thrown
out of employment, A fresh, practical
illustration on this point is furnished in
the Pittshurg American of Saturday, as
tollows:-Frederich HeraH
We announced lately the failure of
numbe: OF furnaces in Clarion and Ve-
mango counties. We also published the
report the Board of Revenue Commis-
sloners in relation to Allegany county,
showing the depreciation ofpropor!y, and
particularly in that of Iron and Cotton,
which was officially reported at fifty per
cent of its value. We have now before
US and another instance of ruinous de-
probation of iron property on our wa
ters-that of the Monongahala Iron
W orks on Cheat River ashort distance
from where that fine stream empties in
to the Monongahela, between Browns
vile and Aorgantown. In 1912 this
property was purchased by an enterpri-
sing firm in Baltimore-the Ellicotts-
for $iSO,OO0. 1t consists of fifteen thou
sand acres of land, one-ffth of which is
fine farming land, large portion of
which is under good cultivation--one
large rolling mill and Nail Factory
three large blast furnaces, costing in all
$l2, 0oo-grist mill, saw mill, and about
seventy dwelling houses; many of them
large and valuable buildings. There Is
also on the place Ferry ofnote, which,
in times of prosperity and trade was of
itself worth three hundred dollars rental
and a land throughout Astounding in
iron ore and stone coal in exhaustless
quantities, and excepting the cleared
farms, covered with heavy timber.
This extensive property was brought
under the hammer at Morgantown, Va,
and with its improvements sold by the
Sheriff for $25,750.
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Postage,

writer in the Baltimore Sun recommends
that it be considered as a general rule that all
letters are to be prepaid. As this is the only
way in which the reduction of letter postage,
can be of any considerable advantage, every
man writing letters, without they are upon the
business of others,D should prepay them. 1t
appears small matter, the difference between
three and five cents, but in large correspon-
dence, or on heavy letters, the advantage in favor
oil prepayment is very material. That nearly
all letters will eventually he pre- paid we do not
doubt, but people should start right.
Marlboro Gazette.
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CHE Getil tll!)iq.

SARTAIN's MAGAzINE.-The August number
of s'Sartan' which reached us some days ago,
contains the second of series of ten Prize arli-
cles, for which 500 each was paid by the pub
lishers-"The Lame Girl" by J. M. Legare--a
story of great merit. 1t has beside, many other
fine prose articles. and several good poems. The
engnvings, of which there are several, are very
good; and taken altogether, it is an admirable
magazine. We select from it the following ar
ficle.
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THE FRENCH REPTBLIC.

Horace Greeley writing from Paris to
The .Ncw York Tribune, under date of
June 18Th speaks as follows concerning
the French Republic.
| MARVEL at the oolquitv of vision
whereby any one Is enabled, standing
in this metropolis, to anticip pate the sub
version of the Republic and the restora-
ton of Monarchy. Such prophets must
belong essentially to that school which
teaches the omnipotence of paper Con-
stitutons and dilatss with bristing hair
on the appalling possibility that Wash
ington, or Hamilton, or Franklin, might
not have been chosen to the Convention
that framed our Federal Constitution,
and that Constitution consequently have
remained unprotected or unadopted.
The true view | understand to be that
if the Constitution had thus failed to be
constructed in 'S7 or adopted in 'SS, the
necessity for it would still have existed,
growing daily more urgent and palpable,
Sc that Convention after Convention
would from time to time have been cal
led, and sooner or later a Constitution
would have been elaborated or adopted:
and the longer this contamination was
delayed the stronger and more control
ling the. Constitution ultimatel y formed
would have been. SO with the French
Republic. 1t is simply an expression of
the intellectual convictions and social
instincts of the French People. You
meet it on the Boulevards and in the
cafes where the wealthy and luxurious
most do congregate; your cabman and
boot-black, though perfectly civil and
attentive, let you understand, if you
have eyes, that they are Republicans;
while in the quarters tenanted or fire.
quented only by the Artisan and the
Laborer you meet none but devotees of
the Republic Democratic and Social
The contrast between the abjcct servil-
ity of the Poor in London and their man.
ner here cannot be realized without ac-
tual observation. A hundred Princes or
illustrious Dukes in Paris would not at
tract as much attention as any one of
them would in London. Democracy
triumphed in the drawing-rooms of Par
is before it had erected its first barricade
in the streets; and all subsequent efforts
in behalf of Monarchy here have produ-
ced and can produce only a fitful, spas.
modc, unnatural life. If three Revolu-
tons within lifetime, all in the same
direction, have not impressed this truth
conclusively, another and another lesson
will be added. The French have great
faults of character which imperil the
immediate fortunes of the Republic, but
cannot affect its ultimate ascendencv.
lmpulsive and egotistic, they may seem
willing to exchange Liberty for Tran.
guilty or Security, but this Will be
momentary caprice, soon past and for
gotten. The Nation can never more
be other than Republican, though the
possessors of power, controlling the
Press, the Bureaux, the Assembly and
the Army, may fancy that their person
al interests would be promoted by less
popular system, and so be seen for
season following strange gods. This
delusion and apostacy will speedily pass,
leaving only their shame behind.
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Our Failure at the Fair.

The British Press generally taunt the
American people with their failure at
the Worlds Fair. Among other things
the London Times speaks as follows:
''If the Americans do excite smile,
it is by their pretensions. Whenever
they come out of their province of rug
ged utility, and enter into competition
with European elegance, they certainly
do make themselves ridiculous. Their
furniture is grotesque; their carriages
and harness are gingerbread; their car
pets are tawdry; their patchwork quilts
surpass even the lnvariable ugliness of
this fabric; their cut glass is clumsy;
their pianos sound of nothing but iron
and wood; their bookbinding is that Of
a journeyman working on his own
account in an English market town;
their printed calicoes are such as
our housemaids would not think it
respectable to wear. Even their in
genuity, great as it is, becomes ridi Gu
lous when it attempts competition with
Europe
The London Standard in referring to
this warfare upon American ingenuity
and American products by the other
English Journals, proceeds to say:
at is scarcely necessary to remind
the public and the journals in question,
especially our friend the Chronicle, that
by their advice, and following out their
precepts and their principles, the free.
trade statesmen in America crushed the
manufactures and energies of their own
country, in order, that they might there
by, ninnies as they were, extend and
support ours, which long protection,
producing abundant capital, had render
ed more perfect than theirs, and the rich
es so acquired by our countrymen sought
for the ornamental more than the use
full, regardless of the cost.
While our Government, by the ad-
vice of the journals in question, reduced
the duties on all foreign raw produce
and materials necessary to support our
manufactures, the late United States ad-
ministration, by the same advice, and
under daily p@ons lavished on it for its
wisdom, taxed all the raw materials OF
every kind introduced into the United
States necessary for the carrying on any
manufactures in that country, thereby
annihiatng, as far as it was able, the in
dustry and manufactures ofthat country
in order to afford a paramount prepon-
derance to Manchester and Stafford
shire
Mr.. Greeley of the .Niew York Tribune
now in Europe, alludes to those news
paper attacks, which he says, "proves
nothing but the rashness and hostility"
ofthe writers, as follows:
"From such unworthy disparagement
| appeal with confidence to the awards
of the various Juries appointed by the
Royal Commissioners. They are COM
petent; they have made the requisite ex.
aminations; they Though near Y all Eu-
ropean and a majority Of them British)
are honorable men, and will render an
impartial Judgement. That judgement,
| firmly believe, will demonstrate that,
in proportion to the extent of its contri-
buttons, no other country has sent more
articles to the Exhibition by which the
whole world may be instructed and ben
Gifted, as our own America"
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Trailing A,butuS.

DARLlNcs of the forest
Fl 'ssolning alone
When Earth'S grefis sorest'
For her Jewels gone have blown.
Ere the last snow drifts melt, your tender buds
Tinged with color family,
Like the mornn" sky,
o. more pale and sanity,
Wrapped in leaves We lie,
Even as children sleep in faith S simplicity.
There the wild wood-robin
Hymns your solitude,
And The rain comes sobbing
Through the budding wood, [more rude.
While the low south wind solS, but dare not be
Were your pure lips fashioned.
Ont Of air and dew;
Starlight unimpassiOncd,'
Dawn's most tender hue for you
And scented by the woods that gathered sweets
Fairest and most lonely,
From the world apart
Made tor beauty only,
Yelled from INJURIES heart, of Art !
With such unconscious graceas makes the dream
Were not mortal sorrow
An immortal shade.
Then would tomorrow
Such flower be made, Thood played.
And live in the dear woods where my lost child
A "
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WHOLE No sig

its, and spirited purpose to uphold
and maintain them; and when they shall
crumbIe and fall, the political catastro-
Phe will resemble that which would
happen in the natural world, were the
sun to be struck out of heaven"
"lhose who assail the Union at the
present day, seem to be persons of one
idea onl y; and many of them of but half
an idea. They plant their batteries on
some useless abstraction, some false dog
ma, or some gratuitous assumption; or
perhaps, it may be more proper to say
that they look at it with microscopic
eyes, seeking for some spot or speck, or
blot, or blur; ond if they find anything
OF this kind, they are at once for over
turning the whole fabric. And when
nothing else will answer they invoke
religion, and speak of a his her law.
Gentlemen, this North Mountain is high,
the Blue Ridge higher still the Allegha.
ny higher than either, and yet this high
er law ranges farther than the eagles
fig ut above the highest peak of the AL
leghany. No common vision can dis
Germ it; no common and unsophisticated
conscience can feel 1.-THE hearing of
common men never learn its high be-
hests, and therefore one would think it
is not safe law to be acted upon in
matters of the highest practical mo-
mento
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For The Cecil Wing,
HOPE.
of a bank.

When storms arise and tumults jar,
And wreck this mortal form,
There is bright, a lonely star,
That shines above the storm.
IT'S hope that buoys our spirits up,
Along the chequer'd way,
And when we drain the bitter cup,
Itpoints a brighter day.
Though all the ills of life stand by,
1t prohers still to save;
And when the shades ofdeath are nigh,
1t looks beyond the srave.-RAMBLER.
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NICARAGUA AND THE UNITED STATEs.-Thk
New York Tribune learns that Mr.. Marcoletay
the Nicaraguan Minister, and AIf. Webster,
have concluded and signed treaty of peace and
friendship between Nicaragua and the United
States. 1t also states that the five Central Amer
lean States have entered into a convention, to
which both the United States and Great Britain
are also parties, by which San Juan de Nicara-
qua is declared free port, and its neutrality
guaranteed.
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An old Duchman took a job of haul
ing cotton across the country to GER
tain river, and one day he stopped the
team about noon for the purpose of ca
ting his dinner, and giving refreshment
and rest to his horses. Perceiving indi-
cations of spring little distance from
the road, he left his son in charge of the
horses and carried his tin pail over to the
water. 1t proved to be hot spring,
and the old Duchman cried out in terror
to his son, with loud voise:
'Haunse! trive on! trive on de team
for Cots sake! HaeU hish Won mile
vrom dish playshe!'
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ID A w N.
by MISS PHGBE CAREY.

TIE sunken moon was down an hour agone-
And now, the little silver cloud that leant
So lovingly above her as she went,
Is changing with the touches ofthc dawn:
For from the clasped arms of the sweet night
Lo! the young Dawn has gently stolen away,
And stars, that late burned with an intense ray
Fade to a wannish, melancholy light.
A moment, smiling on the hills she stands,
Parting the curtains of the East away;
Then, lightly with her white caressinq hands,
Touches the trembling eyelids ofthe Day;
And, leaning DER his couch of rosy beams,
Woos him with kisses softly from his dreams.
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TIA paragraph in orr paper last week,
mentioned the death of May Vincent Osgood
youngest daughter of the late Mrs. Frances Sar-
geant Osgood, at the age of | | yrs and months.
She was beautiful child, and of rare precocity
of intellect. At the age of 8 years she wrote
the following:
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| never have seen the day when, if [
were to fall out with men with whom
mad been friendly, | would expose to
public gaze their private and confden-
tial letters to me. No man will do it
butlone who is lost to all sense Of honor
and shame.-BrOmRlOM.
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We are not to suppose that the oak
wants stability, because its light and
changeable leaves dance to the music of
the breezes; nor are we to conclude that
man wants solidlty and strength OF
mind because he may exhibit an occa-
slonal playfulness and levity.
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With love, the heart becomes fair
and fertile garden, with sunshine and
hues, and exhaling sweet odors; but
without it, it is a bleak desert covered
with ashes.
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the following
SUMMER.


love to see the pretty flowers,
Among the sweetest summer bowers;
love to see the violets blue,
And the grass so fresh and new.
After the summer shower has gone,
soc the splendid rainbow's dawn;
The pretty sky it looks so bright,
1tisa lovely, glorious sight !
The following impromptu was written on
Christmas eve, and given 10 her teacher as a
bride to be fet off from writing her exercise in
composition
Winter.
The cold frosty mornings
0fwinter are here;
And the keen piercing wind,
Blowing in without fear.
The sleigh bells are ring ring
So merry and gay;
While the snow-balls are flying
From boys now at play.
The mothers and friends are fixing the tree,
While the children are anxious to peep
The older ones do not want them to see;
They wish it a secret to keep.
Many of Mrs. Osgood's sweetest poems, SAYS
The Nen York. Mirror, were inspired by, and adj
dressed to, this beautiful child, whose untimey
death will be mourned by many who have known
her only as the darling of a poets heart. 1t
pleasant TO hope that mother and child are once
more in each others arms in Paradise.
"And they shall walk in pure white light,
with kings and priests abroad;
And they shall summer high in bliss,
Upon the hills ofGod.''
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The best reason a merchant can give for not
advertising, it, that by refusing to let the public
know that he has goods to sell, he is not subject.
ed to the expense of employing clerks to assist in
selling them.-.4uburn advertiser.
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WING NoMIN ATIoNs.-The Ohio Wing State
Convention, which assembled at Columbus, on
Thursday the 30th ult., nominated the Hon.
Samuel F. Vnton as their candidate for Cover
nor Mr.. Eckly, of Carroll, for Lieut.. Governor;
Mr.. Earlville, of Erie, for Secretary of State;
Mr.. Stanberry for Attorney General; and MI.
John Wood for Auditor of State. Several other
nominations were made.
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HUNGARIAN EMIGRANTs.-One hundred and
fifty Hungarian refugees arrived at New York
on Saturday last, in the ship Monmouth, from
Havre. Among them are said to be a general
officer, and u number Of gypsy musicians.
The southern press., 1851-12-03

w" We give to-day the additional proceed
ings, thus far, in the trial Of the Chrisana riot
ers. We are informed by Il friend that large
proportion of the jurors empannellcd have been
drawn from the counties whore the Freesoil doe
trine and THApDEUs STEVENS bear sway. For
instance, from Adams and Lancaster seven per-
sons are drawn. The trial takes place in the
Eastern distric' of Pennsylvania in.which there
are twenty-four countless This will show the
chance of conviction and condign punishment
as also the way in which some matters may be
arranged as well as others. $685..