The daily union., 1852-09-18
A Bad Prospect for the q RuinY Part,

The general prosperity OF manufactures OF all kinds is
cause OF serious trouble and sad ioreboding to the
leaders OF the Scott party II is extinguisher upon
their usual prophecies Of coming woe dspenses with
their cries OF ruin and despair, whenever votes
are wanted and elections to be decided The machinery
OF protection. with all Its ugglery, is discarded before
such picture as is presented In Pennsylvania the
whig leaders. who have kept the tariff question as
sort Of periodical cholera to fsbien the people into the
whig ranks, escape from threatened annhila,ion,
find themselves sngularly embarrassed by the good
times which prevail in all parts OF the State one Of the
whig papers in Pitsburg. the Gazette which has been
most noisy against the tariff Of 1885, and most prolific of
awful predictions. prints letter from Washington
correspondent, which contains among other items the fol
lowing intelligent statements
81 pleased learn that the iron business In Penn
sylvania and New England shows some signs OF revival
The price OF iron has gone fully 30 per In
and OF course the increase Of price, operating pro,ec
ton Of the manufacture in this country IL equal TO 40 per
cent IL u not easy 70 account for the Astonishing decline
In the price OF roa in England during tho last four years
The remote oanse was undoubtedly The revolutions of lSis
which put stop TO innumerabe railroad entsrpdse. on
the continent and at home, for which iron would have
been required Bat Il would certainly appear that the
cause, u snnisent then, would have ceased operate
with the return OF the despoc calm falsely supposed be
vorabe to law order, and industry. But until very ro.
Gently all the great rolling mills OF England and Wales
running at los, The Messrs Cashsy had lost 100 0so
and this Notwithstanding the expedient OF using up the
Stag and cnder that bad accumulated for the last
dred about the furnaces for the making Of railroad
ron Thi. material, unfit for any other use was found
be convertible into rails which passed well enough
American market, and answered the double purpose OF
keeping the Eagish works running and running ours The
iniofohy OF this iron marked that rails OF thirty
thirty five pounds to the yard which faoursd
eighteen and tweay years ago. and been constant
use in far better order now and Of Car greater WORTH
than the seventy five, eighty and ninety pound bars
ufactued and laid eight years ago Yet this latter kind
Of iron that has flooded market twenty-five or thirty
dollars per ton"
The Pittsburg Post, very able democratic Journal
laughs at the idea OF the protection wings making any
thing more out Of their old election tricks and exposes
them follows
Here 10 Psburg II has been the annual custom OF the
whg leaders 10 get up marvellous yarns about the
changes in Clarion, Vsnango, snd Armstrong
pecisiy smcnga the iron men, who have bee ruined by
the iocooco-freerade- British tariff ofIss Judge Myers
hi, son, and one hundred other democrats Hgure every
year converts TO whiggery; but happens that the
counties alluded 70 roll increased democratic major
ty every succeeding election We respectfully submit
that the wings have used poor Judge Myers footbs
about long enough"