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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-03-28

teman from ONO, the chairman OF Inc CON hltte6
Ways and Means, is strangely disinteresed when he
most exclusive emolument of New England ard Penn
sylyania.
In looking at these statistics thing strikes For
all these manufactures of wooens cotons there
were only four thousand nine hundred and f three
tablshmens employing altogether men, womer and chill
dren one hundred and ninety-one thousand light hum
dred and twenty three hands, and the numfr of own
ers though not given, must of be geatly less
than of hands. Sir we have heard great deal upon
this floor and elsewhere of the ogarchy tre hundred
and fifty thousand shareholders If that be autobiography
what are these four thousand nine hundred
establishments for whose benefit the Wide revenue
system of the Government s regulated Let those who
declam against of the South and who ncea upon
our property in slaves beware lest the demonof agrar
anism which they have evoked against the aavehoder
do not next attack the concentrated property in
manufactures If the preudices of the Northern people
are to aroused against what demagogues chose call
an oligarchy, invite them first to look at home and
attend that far smaller ogarchy of cotton and wooen
and iron manufacturers which has been long quartsred
upon the general industry of the country.
There is another view of this question to which would
call the special attention of my American friends The
gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. De WITT) interrupted
my colleague (Mr. SMITH to ask Indignantly how the
Northern manufacturer who paid fifty or sixty cents
wages could compete with the foreigner who paid only
ten or twelve cents will say nothing Of the onstreus
injustice of compelling the producer Of grain cotton
tobacco or provisions exchange his labor or its pro-
duets for the labor of New Highlander Pennsyva
MAN while he could otherwise obtain for the labor of
five Enpshmen. But ask you to mark the effect on
Immigration You refuse to let employ the pauper
labor of Europe as you call it, at its home and the
sequence is that it here to be employed and your
tariff legislation invites that exodus from the Old World
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

Between the East and the West-the Seaboard
and the great Central Valley of our Continent
there should be maintained the most perfect under.
standing, the most cordial sympathy. The letters
of many Western correspondents, the structures
of Western journals, indicate growing dissatisfac
tion with the East in the quarter whence they pro
coed. Let us try to comprehend each other:
The East is not and cannot be jealous Of the
growth and greatness of the West for it recognizes
therein the bases of its own growth and prosperity
new State in the West implies new ships on the
ocean, new factories in Lowell and Lawrence, new
blocks of stores in New.York. Our brethren and
children who leave their Atlantic homes to found
new ones on the prairies and by the waters of the
Mississippi are not lost to US, even in pecuniary
view: they are still our customers as well as
our knsmen and countrymen. TIE corn
of Illinois nOurishes and the timber of Michi
gau shelters us as thoroughly as if they had
been produced on the Genesee or the PenobscOt.
Ii is the urgent palpable, undeniable interest Of
the whole Seaboard that the fertile and fscile West
should be rapidly and generally psOpled by inteli
gent, energetic civilized, thrifty freemen. Hence
this Journal, with others, is constantly urging our
unemployed or meagerly accompanied workers to
strike out, neither for Texas nor Nicaragua, Mex
leo nor Australia but for the virgin soil and liberal
promise of our own Free West. And we say to-
day, as we have ever said, to the young man or
woman light of purse but willing of hand, to the
farmer or mechanic of increasing family, slender
means and dubious prospects, Your true home is
in the West Seek it, and rear your children
there to larger opportunities than await them on
the rugged hilsdes or in the crowded streets of the
East
But, while we feel and say this We feel also that
we ought to tell them the whole truth, so that We
shall not be accused by those who may be infu-
enced by our counsel of having misled and deceived
them. We feel bound, therefore, to say to those
who heed US, Go West but do not expect to find
on the praires or in the river bottoms of the Great
Valley Garden of Eden. On the contrary ex-
pect to encounter serious privatiohs and suderngs
through the years of your pioneer life. If you go
full-handed, you can of course soon surround your
self with comforts; but if you pass the west line Of
Ohio Gas majority of emigrants do and must)
with less than two hundred dollars per head for the
number Of your family-that is to say, with less
than thousand dollars for family of five persons
you must 60 prepared for some years of rugged
toll rough usage and coarse fare. If you would OBJ.
tain landa any thing like Government price you must
60 beyond mills, stores, post Offices, schOol-houses
and churches; if you would locate near a railroad
or nayigable river, you must pay for the adyap-
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

It appears to be the fashion in Virginia for Sst.
bath school teachers to go to Sabbath school viii
revolvers in their pockets, and in the intervals "
their teaching to use them as occasion may require
Thus on Sunday last young man named Austin,
student in an Episcopal Theological Seminary,
went to a Sabbath. school Of which hs ws
teacher, in Fairfax County, Va, not far from
Washington, thus regularly armed and equipped.
An attempt seems to have been made by two Of As
fellowteachers, or, perhaps, bis pupils, to prevent
him from entering the school house, and third
party having interfered Austin drew his revolver
and fired three shot at this third party one Of which
killed him instantly. Austin's friends insist that
his life had been threatened, that he was brutally
assaulted by the other parties, and that he fired IN
self defense However that may be, tic whole
affair il sad illustration Of the rapid CAPITALIZATION
Of the South. What strange idea must prevail
Of religion where such things happen at Sunday.
school! This is the Church South with a ven
ueance
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN cINCINNATI.

ClNCNhATl, rrludy, July 1901.
The most destructive and disastrous fire since the
organization Of the steam fire department occurred
last night 1t broke out in the engine room of Messrs.
johnson, Meader g. Co.'s extensive furniture maufac
tory on the corner Of Smith and Columbia streets. In
short time after it broke out the entire building
enveloped in flames, and the fire was communicated
to the adjoining eghtstery brick building and the tive
buildings were destroyed, together with large guam
ty of lumber and the entire stock The loss is e.
tnated at $lO0,OOO, and the insurance amounts to
$4,000.
Also, LAST night, the stove and hollow ware manu-
factory Of Messrs. William Rohr Co.. the largest 10
the West, was destroyed by fire. Loss $l5OOOo;
insurance $50 600. Several buildings AID large
amount Of lumber in the vicinity were much injured,
particularly Holstsin Hammers moldng factory,
j. X Coolidges furniture establishment, and the Me-
chanics Hotel
BY these disasters us men employed by johnson
Meader & Co., and l25 emp loyed by Rohr Co., are
thrown out Of employment.
Several persons were ipjuredby the falling walls.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04
opposed We had seen something of humbug

We supposed We had seen something of humbug
before yesterday, but the following paragraph
which purpOrts to have been telegraphed from
Washington to The Herald, has convinced us that
we had hitherto CROPPED unawares in profound is.
norance Of the science:
Henry C. Murphy new Minister to the
Netherlands, left here to-day for New-York having
been sent for by the President. AS Mr.. Belmont is
shortly expected to return home the Administration
desired Mr.. Murphy to leave Immediately for the
Hague. He informed the President that his private
business would not allow him to leave before the first
Of September. Mr.. Belmont riH therefore, hare to
remain month or tro longer"
Now Mr.. Belmont has proved a good enough
Minister at the Hsgue, and Mr.. Murphy, we are
confident, will prove at least good. We insinuate
no fault, no defect, in either of these gentlemen
when We say that had Mr.. Belmont remained in his
Wa-street Office, shaving notes and shipping gold
throughout the last four years, taking half the
salary Of his Office and excusng the Treasury from
paying the residue in consideration of its excusing
him wholly from performance of his official du.
ties, the country would have been gamer by the
arrangement to the full extent Of the money so
saved. And if Mr.. Belmont will come right away,
and Mr.. Murphy refrain fromrepaciDg him through
the next four years taking half the salary as afore
said, We will warrant Uncle Sam against any re.
sulting less or damage for three metallic cents.
whether Of the old or new currency. And we state
here truth which no toleraby intelligent person
can effect to doubt.
OF course, we don't object to either Mr.. Belmont
or Mr. Murphy playing Minister and being hand.
somely paid for it; but against any such stupen-
deus imposture as this preteuse that Mr.. Belmont
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

Of Mr.. Robert Sheriff Che declines the title Of
"Reverend'') we know nothing but this: that he
has been pastor of the Free West Church in
GreenOck, Scotland; that he has voluntarily re-
signed his pastoral Office and that he has written
and printed little pamphlet of four pages, in
which he defends to the best of his ability his abd
cation. Mr.. Sheriff is opposed to ecclesiastical
titles, to gowns, white neckcoths, bands and other
clerical haberdashery He regards organs with dis.
trust, and he does not by any means admire public
prayer which he characterizes as "tedOus, more
especially in Scotland" The impression" Of
this retired preacher lie that "not word of mans
"wisdom should minge in the service, not even in
prayer" In order to exhibit his perfected ritual,
he informs US that he had already engaged the New
Town Hall in GreenOck, but he had yielded to the
advice Of ga relation" who recommended post
ponement, and SO contented himself with emitting
this little diney tract, which, with its mod
est protest against so much which the
world regards as essential, is now before US. Mr..
Sherifl's amended ritual seems to consist princi
pally of readings from the Bible aud singing under
the direction Of minister or leader. His plan,
"hHe IL seeAs w relieve clergymeh from naru WORK
in the pulpit, imposes upon them greater activity
in the less OstentatiOus duty of parochial visits.
With the preaching of sermons, this rebeiOus
paster has small patience, although il is evident
that he is not incapable Of writing what would be
pronounced by the pews, an excellent discourse.
He is indignant because in religious exercises the
"sermon occupies the first and regal position"
He thinks that though the preacher may tickle the
brain, be has no effect upon the heart, and rreve-
rently declares that "the perusal of a volume of
sermons is about the most aborious reading with
(which he is acquainted" remark in which he
has been anticipated by some Of the most successful
pulpit orator..
So much for Mr. Robert Sheriff, who with
out doubt is ere this time dangling in
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

The N. Y. Times seems to have been seized with
rather an odd mania for playing second fiddle to
The Herald. The Times, we suppose, is practicing
upon the classical maxim tas est ab hoste doceri.
Some time ago The Herald came out as sort of
patronizDg supporter of Mr.. Buchanan. The
Times, however anxious to walk in these footsteps
at the first step could hardly come up to that. 1t
announced itself an independent journal; but in.
stead of coming out fatfooted for Buchanan,
stopped short with the glorifcation Of Walker and
the Presidents policy exhibited in his treatment
Of Kansas.
But The Times is fast getting more directly into
The Herald's wake. 1t is some time aimee that
journal proposed, by way of settling up the claims
founded on the Panama riot, to cut the matter
short by taking possession of the Isthmus. The
Times Of yesterday, without stating, however,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

t,gr. either Ia an enhanced price, 10 exposure 70
.svsee bor.;lity. or in remoteness from the con-
y,piences a ciyilizei life il you insist on ricn
soil. you increase the probabilities of exposure to
bilious disease: IT, you will have rich land and no
acue. you mus, be resigned to severe Winters and
,aek a. some choice fruits; if you delight IN
A prairie location, you will probably have to pay
smartly for fencing and timber; you shun the
bleak winds Of the praries, you will find the TIM
Der less healthful and more difficult to subdue to
cultivation. Thus every advantage has its relative
disadvantage: and though there may be spotswhich
combine healthfulness with rare fertility, prairie
for cultivation with abundant timber for every USE
yet such spots are snapped up by experienced
pioneers. and you must not expect to obtain one Of
these without paying for it handsomely. q.
So with regard to locations on the larger SCALE
Indiana and Michigan are the most convenient to
market of all the new States, but we consider their
soil on the average unequal to that further West,
so that what is gained in the price OF crop is LOST
in its quantity. Illinois is the most fertile body OF
land of equal size that We ever traversed, and
would produce, in our judgment, more grain per
acre than any other equal area of the globes sur
face; but We should prefer more good building and
fenciDg timber, more springs, more brooks, more
stone, and dryer soil. Iowa is more rolling,
therefore better timbered and watered; but her
grain and meat must ultimately be sold cheaper
than those of Illinois, Wisconsin is at once fertile
aud well timbered, but lies little nearer the North
Pole than we should prefer; Minnesota has still
better SOIL as good timber and healthier climate;
but we couldn't pretend to admire 4Oo below
zero with stiff north wester blowing, even if it
didn't Kill appe-trees and render peaches
impossible. Even Kansas with her more
southerly latitude, her central location, her
excellent building stone, frequent springs aud
ample streams, has sharper winds than we can
fancy and lies further from pine forests and from
the great Atlantic parts than we deem preferable.
IL there any good reason why We should realize
these various drawbacks and not state them Can
the West desire that some thousands more of our
Eastern farmers and mechanics should be lured
across the Maunee and Illinois only to come disap-
pointed and grumbling back again to difiase their
discomfort among their old neghbOrsl Is it not
permanently advantageous to all that both sides of
the shield should be presented, so that those who
return TO complain of the lack of nutmeg in their
Western teddy shall have none to blame but them.
selvesl
This article has grown so long that We must
reserve Western Railroads and cOrnerlOts fer sep
arate consideration.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas, after several Intellectual
trials has provided himself with home organ alter
his own heart-one whose capacities for rlbadry,
Misrepresentation and falsehOOd are exceeded only
BY his own. In a late number of that paper it
culs paragraph out of our review of its pa
trons Springfield speech and dstorts it as follows:
"Greeley lays ii down as settled fact that when
any Republican editor Wentworth knows them all,
or any other Republican in Illinois, chooses to marry
peeress the laws of this State will prove no barrier
many they will. All the laws and distractions, and
all the objections against anal gamation against white
women marrying black men, are OF Democratic orr
gip He repudiates the idea that any RePuof'c0n an
ms STATE Is hostile 10 such marriages; they are the
aptpodes of Douglas and his brother Democrats,
and il is only Douglas and his brother Democrats
who oppose inrmarTioges Getceen ne rhds ana OlacH
stitution, rays TIE NEw-YoRS TRIBUNE, eon restrain
the Republicans Of Illinois from marrying cnh ne
grOes' &C., &c.
No reader Of TIE TRIBUNE need be told how
utterly false aad villsnOus is the whole scope Of the
above extract. We have lived in four different
Free States, in none Of which, so far as we are
aware, is there any legal impediment to intermar-
risge between Whites and Blacks, and yet we have
never known an instance of such intern,rrage
And we feel confident that more practical amalga-
nation takes place every year in the single Demo-
cratic State wherein Douglas carries on his slave
plantation than in al the eleven States that voted
for Fremont.
That the laws forbiddng intermarriage between
Whites and Blacks are a part of the machinery Of
Sham Democracy designed to play upon the preu-
dices and secure the votes Of the lowest order of
Whites, we reiterate. They are utterly superiu.
Gus for Republicans, who, upholding Rights for ALL
insist on their own right to choose in marriage from
among those of their own color. If needed at ALL
they are needed by and for Democrats, and, if en-
acted at ALL should run in this fashion
Whereas, Modern Democracy is based upon and
upheld by constant iteration Of Niger Niger
And whereas, 1t 10 found impossible to prevent
white Democrats from marrying Negroes except by
tse most stringent legal prohibitions and penalties;
Therefore, Be il enacted, &c.
If the Democracy need and call for law of
this kind, We have no objection to it's passage; but
any law which assumes that Republicans need any
such restraint is gratuitous and supererosatOry
insult.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04
must e come away till Mr.. Murphy gets ready 70
rep,sce him. we Indignantly protest. l'

Tur CASE OF DRIED SCOTT has been condensed
into a large, compact pamphlet Of lo4 pages anu
il now for sale at this Office. This pampniet con'
tains:
r c. a, made no for and submitted to the L. D su
preme Court; -,,, ,..,.. r.,s, with
H. The Judgment as rendered BY Chief Justice i'neI WIN
III rh Substances and varying Points Of the wholly or par
" concrrps Opinions and Points OF Justices wayne Ne'
.on. (;rier Daniel, Campbell and Catroni
~ h Substance and Points Of Justice McLeans dissent
ing Opinion; .,..,.. c,,,,,
VI An Apsl,ss Of the Points Rued1and the oPions ae
lyered; 4. All, r,oc,.ion
WI The Report and Resolves with reference to this Dec0n
Of tho LEGISLATURE Of our State. "
No Judgment of graver Importance than TINS
was ever rendered by any Court, IN any country
and it is urgently proper that the People IN whose
behalf il was pronounced whose liberties 1t assals'
and whose standing in the civilized worso !" ~
seriously affects, should study and thoroughly mas
ter it. 1t has been complained by the upholdefs OF
this Judgment that the People have been impelled
70 condemn without reading it, and this was un'
,voidable 80 long as the Judgment save IN outnne'
was withheld from publication. But 1t is now ON
c;aIIv unfinished, and from the official report we
nr;nt NIL that il material in the words OF the Judges
Chief Justice fancy covering the ground on the
part of the majority, and Justice Curtis visor-
ousy presenting the views of majority oil the
American People, especially on the main ques-
ton of their right, through the action OF Con-
gress, to exclude Slavery from the Federal Ter
ritories. No American citizen can be properly
qualified to vote on the momentous questions which
lie directly before us unless he has read the opn'
ions of our highest tribunal on this controversy
not one side, merely, of the case, but both sides.
Let US see, then, which party will do most to place
this Judgment fully and fairly before the whole
People. And, although the weight Of authority and
of numbers is against our side, we are so confident
that the weight of argument and of fact is SO clearly
and heavily with us, that we entreat for this docu-
ment the widest and fullest consideration.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

Mr. II. Craig offers S25 reward for tho dis.
coyery of the forger who placarded his name On
Thursday at the City Hall at the bottom Of state
ment that the Court of Appeals had not declared
the Police Law constitutional. We presume the
reward will not be- claimed. 1t is said, however,
that certain intimate friends of the Mayors had
heavy bets pending, and found it necessary to
hedge. The forgery in question was apparently
intended to afford them time to do this; but its au'
thorship will probably remain as great mystery
Is that of certain letter signed "Thomas .. Lar
kin" or "Thomas Larkin," which was used few
years ago to extract money out of Mr.. Z. +. Mar
vine when one of his intimate friends desired to
swndle that gentleman.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04
Newllark DAILY Wribm,te
SATURDAY, JULY a, 1857.
The mails for Europe to-day by the steamer
Ericsson, will close at l0i .. IN.

We are such human barometer that we feel
entirely unequal to the tack of writing the weather
item. When the seasons SO shamefully reversed
that raw, cold, cut throat November weather is
substituted for the genial skies Of July, we feel
fully excused. Suffice it that everybody must be
pretty well wet down by this time, and any infor
nation upon the subject would certainly be super
fuous. AT one o o'clock this morning there was the
same old, chilly drizzle- drozze, drizzle drozzle,
that has prevailed during this extended most-term
and the prospect is that it won't improve soon
enough to let the people see the fire works to night
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

where it borrowed the ides, comes out distiacu,
for the same thing. There ia an unlucky spirit I
6IbusteriDg about The Times which Is constsasv
leading il to betray itself somewhat too openly. 4
certainly ought to be- as indeed it generally is, u
policy Of that journal to keep up prudent reserve
The affairs Of the Istbmus may be, for aught "
know, in as bad condition as The Times states
but can they compare with the state Of our Muuiei
pal Government here in New-YOrkl Perhaps Is
would be as well to give specimen Of our ablik
TO govern ourselves, before volunteering our ssc
vices in that line to the Republic of New Granads
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

Among the tricks of "scurvy politicians whicn
seem to us most worthy of apprehension is that OF
having two sets of opinions for different ATTITUDES
or rather perhaps, two sets of declarations, with
out any opinions at all. We recently exposed a
remarkable discrepancy between the speech which
Mr.. Caleb Cushing first resolved to make to his
old friends and neighbors of Newburyport, on his
return to them from serving Mr.. Pierce as Attor-
ney General, and that which be ultimately deemed
il prudent to content himself with. In like man
ner, The Illinois Journal has been pointing out
remarkable difference between Two versions of MIR.
Stephen A. Douglass Springfield Manifesto-one OF
them forwarded for publication in The Missouri
Republican; the other retained to be sent forth
through an organ published in his own quasi Free
State. The two versions are as follows
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04

The Municipal Police were disbanded yesterday
by the Mayor. We give elsewhere sketches of the
scenes at the Station-HOuses. Mayor Powell of
Brooklyn has gracefully given up everything to the
Commissioners, and will henceforth sit with them
Mayor Wood, on the contrary, holds on to the
Station Houses and is looking out fora chance to
hold on to his police. They, however are gene
rally of the opinion that be held on to them too
long for their interests.