New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-13

terror towns. in the isst five years has been but
one fifth as great as it was in the preceding ten
He does. il il true, give us few words in regard
70 the stae naion Of many kinds of manufacture
but be does not tell US that Of our mills many are
closed while not only does nobody build new ones,
but even the old ones are not replaced when they
chance 10 be destroyed by FIRE. He can scarcely.
m we think, fail to that the causes OF past de-
cline in the rate of increase are now operating VITA
increased effect, and that the picture destined to
he presented by the next census is likely to be
even less agreeable than that with which we were
furnished by the last.
He tells us. however that the same causes are
at work in Pennsylvania. Even were that the
case it would afford US no satisfaction 70 know
it-but that it is net the case and not hAei!
to be is proved by the fact that he congrs'u-
lates his fellow citizens on having made commu-
nicaton with the coal mines of Pennsylvania,
thus furnishing an increased market for her prs-
ducts while the market for our own is in course OF
dimiruticn Every new railroad made toward the
West tends to facilitate the supply of our Own
people with the products of the West, and 10 IN
crease the tendency toward the abandonment OF
our SOIL and the occupation of that Of Western
States. Every rev road made into or through
lysnia tends to increase the market for her
products, snd to facilitate the occupation OF her
lsnd-and that such has been the case is proved by
the fact that her population gains in more rapid
ratio than that of the Union giving her an increas
Jog representation in Congress, while our own is
declining one.
Bu;. az he SAYS, New York has greater mineral
reso Irces and such we admit to be the case but
of what avail are they Do we prOftby them Why
il il that we make so little iron while we have such
vast abundance of ore whose qualities are not
exceeded BY any other that is known Why isit
that we send abroad to purchase knives and forks
and the thousand stber manufactures OF iron, when
central New York possesses advantages for the
creation of Birmingbams and Shetields to an extent
uneoualed in the world Why is it that with
water power unparalleled in the world. and with
wool at hand, we are forced to send abroad for
cloth with which to make our shirts aud coats :
Because the policy of the Union is directed to but
single object, that of securing new territory in
which our Virginian friends may sell their corn
after il shall have been manufactured into negro
slaves.
We are here told that the abandonment Of our
land aud the decrease of our rural population are
due to the high prices Of food in the last three
years; and yet the price of flour in this market
was lower for several years prior to the present
war than it had been for twenty years before. Two
Years since it averaged but 81 Sc, and it was not
until last year that it rose materially The decline
of our rural population went on in 1851 to 1888,
precisely as it has done in 1854 aud 90, and yet
our correspondent would have his readers believe
that whenever the condition of affairs that existed
in 1853 shall again come round, our population will
again begin to grow and our country will become
more thickly peopled He should study his facts
more carefully before be attempts to make de-
auctions from them.
The decline of the State is natural conse-
quence of the system that closes mills and furnaces
1t went on in the time when food was cheap, and
it is continued now that food is dear. 1t went on
before the sham Reciprocity Treaty gave large
bounty on the settlement Of Canada, and it will
proceed on larger scale now that the bounty has
been granted 1t is consequence of the policy that
pdraiJZes inuusuy anu couPo'o 'uo O'"Vo W ~
abroad for knives when she might supply the
world with every description Of instrument for she
making of which iron is required, from the finest
penknifs to the moving machine aud the steam
engine. If that policy is continued, the prophecies
of our Pennsylvania contemporary, however ua-
pleas ant to us when contemplated as likely to be
realized-or however dsagreeabIe their realization
may prove to our successors-wi become matters
of history.
Is THERE REPUBLICAN PARTY,