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TOBACCO TRADE.

We notice In recent issue Of the haei,gcncr
munication from Hon Thomas f. Bowie dated House OF
Representatives June l2th 1853 the subject Of
tobacco trade with Great Britain General Bowie sug-
gests that tobAcoo growers and tobacco merchants
exporto the British North American colonies containing
population of than three millions of people,
manufactured leaf tobacco, FREE Of duty 2; and asks
what is to prevent the capitalists Of these colonies In
vesting their capital in unmannaud tobacco, the growth
of the United States, and then converting the same by
the application of their labor into the anufactur-
ed FORM and exporting the to Great Britain, the
mother country the terms that all other colo.
NAL productions of labor exported from those
colonies 2!
The above query, we apprchend, Is founded on the
mistaken idea that dcrentia duty exists In Great Brit
ain In favor Of manufactured tobacco the product of
colonial labor and that consequence tobacco of the
United States imported into these provinces in raw
state and natuaized by of provincial capital and
labor, would be entitled, when imported into Great
Britain, to the benefit of such dferential duty.
Such is not the all tobacco imported into British
ports being subject to like duty, matter whence it
came, where it grown, or In what country manu-
featured Down to the year 1858 there such diff
ercntal duty in favor Of cooa sugar but the protec
ton guarded by such rigorous regulations that It
impossible, without the grossest perjury, to cvade
the vigilance Of the customs officers in favor of foreign
sugar But that differential duty is now abol-
shed and like tobacco, sugar is rated in the British
tariff without regard to it's origin the country Of It's
manufacture.
We copy from BeedeIs British Tariff for 1857 the
following official list of all the articles which such
dierental duty that alluded to by General Bowie ex-
lists in Great Britain
Apples, Iiquorice powder
Rocks, Seed, Caraway,
Butter, Silk manufactures, (unenu-
Cheese, meratcd,)
Eggs, Rum and rum shrub,
Embroidery and needle hllow,
work. Wine,
Liquoricc paste, Wood goods
The above list embraces every article Of colonial pro-
dnco manufacture favored in any in the tariff
legislation Of Great Britain.
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The fdgate savannah At Now York will be nc
ready for by the middle Of July, and The Officers
been ordered 10 report for duty ON the List proxno
following officers have becn ordered 10 her cay
Joseph X. Jarvis hcutenants, John l.. worlcn,
Kcnnard, John II. Carter, John Irwin, II. T. Pilot
Coon. James McClclland: purscr. 3. v. Hunter :
tenant marines, A. J. Hayes MASTER A. f. Cross
(now board the Colorada J bcatswain, Chsrle
frngdcn gunner, Charles Moran carpenter, v''
Wimcr Hailmskcr Lewis Rogers.
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Bulwer Is separated from his wife, Dickens from his
wife, and Charles Readc (of Peg Wo1ngton and White
Aes nosoricty) living with another man Wife From
the days Of the post Job whose wife Wa the original
Mrs Candle down TO Socrates and Xantippc and no on
down to Byron and finally 70 Dickcns matrimonial nm
happiness has ever attached 70 literary EeAnrg
rrrr.
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WKILsvILLs, New York, , june 25-At the Masonic
celebration here yesterday. hundred persons
entering the dining hall half Of the floor gave way
precipitating them in mass below. The floor above
also fell down upon them. Forty to fifty persons were
wounded, including number of ladies. Fortunately
none were killed.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
sArURQAY. JUNE 20. isss.


As The business he ostahahEnen proposed
cpange tsrus III b. oedacaSd strictly cash basis all
.cepres subscpas fhr III UsScn dscon
snucd No paysHsans hoaA Agents ass ibis ds
etS W. LpecsmS autasorisA 10 make collections
IN De,s~are, Maryland, and vHgAnAA IL
WAsHrs0rus, March -, lete.-6
foregoing intended include ANY Agents. or ooee
employ heretofore employed IN IN cay cu
coutary 81" t'A2 ~ Ap 29-d
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Marine Intelligence.

HAMPTON RoADs, June 25-The Swedish ship Margaret,
from Matamoas with cargo of sugar, bound to Ham
burg Inns put in here in consequence of sickness among
the
The Hamburg borque Anthony, eighty -four days from
Callao, with cargo of guano, has also arrived.
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skies Of deepest azure,
Dance OF mountain streams
Glittering 10 the brightness
W the noontidc beams,
Scent Of apple blossoms
Filling all the air,
Gov slips In the meadow,
violets everywhere.
Floods Of golden sunshine,
Trailing robes Of green,
Gayer than the garments
On tho prouiest queen:
Seas n crimson clover,
Chclrs Of singing birds,
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Movements In the British Navy.

HALIFAX, june 25.--The Indus with Admiral Stewart,
arrived here yesterday from the West India station The
Devastation left Bermuda the 18th for the West
dies and the Atlantic sailed the day for the protec-
ton Of the Newfoundland fisheries
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BRIBERY IN cosanns- PROJECTION xogAnY
AND poIEtICAIxY
His not impsssibas, ~ SAink. 70 hing bsaurs the
country Of the political events which occurred
twentyh years ago, and later even up to the en-
actment of the protective frauds of l84l
During the first term of Gen jackson the great party
in opposition TO his administration resolved to 20 to
the people uppn the question of the recharter of the
Bank Of the United States. In 1923 they had sue
cecded in the enactment Of grand scheme of pro-
lection, which Mr.. Clay subsequently said mo
man can stand up and justify The Judgment of the
country upon the tariff of 1923 was that it was
monstroas fraud, intended by capitalists to tax the
great productive industry Of the Union for the
benefit of few manufacturers The capitalists
had spent great deal of money here to secure
their law the law itself was relied upon to reim-
way but they were too rapacious and cxacting,
even driving of Mr.. Clay himself, without whom
there could be party to oppose Gen. Jackson and
the democracy.
little later, on having been successful, by sys
| tenn of bribery and corruption, in procuring from
Congress- the tariff fraud of 1925 they resolved to
stake their entire political capital upon the question
of the rocharter Of the bank.
We desire to bring before the reader the position
one side were the democracy, avowing purpose to
stand rather ~ sentinel protectors of the federal
compact to oppose speculative schemes, class legs-
lation, unconstitutional laws and devices. On the
other side were arrayed great and confessedly
powerful organization, supported by three strong
pillars Of tho State First. The bank or money iu-
tcrest, including the mercantile community then de-
pendent upon banks. Secondly. The manufacturing
capital and industry, with its active political infu-
ences, which were held by protective laws. Thirdly
The speculative schemers of the interior who came in
under the vast projects of Internal improvements,
which then constituted saving ordinance in the
new church
These three magnificent and all-controlling inter-
ests. THAT is the word,) thus united appealed to
Congress-
LIST. For the Bank
I'd. For Protective Tariff.
Sd. For works of Internal Improvement.
They embraced nine-tenths Of all the capital Of the
country. They constituted the active talking and
writing force in every political circle They AFRO
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FIRST BLOOD SHED FOR LIBERTY IN THE
REVOLUTIONARY W.dR.

Communicated 70 tho Charleston AcrcuryJ
The first blood shed in defence of liberty and in op-
posing English oppression in the Soh The State
Of North Carolina tho cold North State and twin sis
of South CaIolinais entitled to the honor 1t was
during the gubernatoral administration OF the notorious
Governor Tyon the English governor at the time who
built Of the most splendid palaces in either North
South America at Newbcrn N c. with the proceeds of
ar imposed upon the people for the purpose and re-
sst which taxation portion of them rebellc Just as did
the OF Massachusetts, afterwards 1t took place in
the year IT'LL and Is narrated by Mr.. Wheeler in his
History Of North Carolina On the 10th of May in that
year. battle fought between the American and Brit
sh forces the banks Of tho Anmance river in what
Is known the county of thai name, called the Ba
lie Of Alandne The American forces were called the
'egulxtor from their efforts In emdcavoring to bring
about equitable regulation Of taxes and other opprcs
sivc matters The American forces amounted to two
thousand, aud were beaded by three men named Hus-
bands Hunter and Butler while the British forces In
Guiding militia called out by Tfyon amounted to up
wards Of eleven hundred but had the advantage greatly
In and discipline. As might have been expected
thu Americans defeated after an action Of two
hours, with lon of twenty dead and several wounded
while that Of the royal forces in killed. wounded and
missing WA sixty -one Mr.. Wheeler says
Thus ended the battle OF Alamance Thus and here
the flint blood sd In these United States in resist
ance 70 sxactions Of English rulers and expressions by the
EDglish government. The great Wolf Of South Caro-
lna showed his blood thirsty temper by acts Of revenge
cruelty, and bsrbarity lie hung Captain Tew tho next
day, without trial, a tree
was in this case, Byron truly Gays in one OF his
poems
For Freedoms battle oscx svGrx
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Hon. HENRY SEcREsr.-The telegraph announced
yesterday morning that Hon. Henry Sccrest, :. an
anti-Lecompton democrat" had boon nominated by
the democracy Of tho 7th congressional district Of
Indiana to represent II in the next Congress. We
are informed that Mr. secrest was an opponent Of
tho bill to admit Kansas into the Union a. originally
passed by tho Senate, but that he has given to the
English substitute cordial and hearty support He
was sustained in convention by tho friends Of the I'd
minstsaton in order to defeat tho denomination Of
Hon. John G. Davis, an anti-Lscomptonite. Mr. Sc
crest is represented to be man Of fine talents, and
his nomination is an assurance that the democracy
Of Indiana do not intend past issue, now fully dis
posed Of to impair the harmony and integrity Of the
party, or to endanger the success Of it, candidates
for important positions.
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! For freedoms battle oxcx mGrx,
Dequcathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though sometimes lost. Is ever won. =

Thus that ii was at the battle of Alam.nce
and not at Bunker HILL that the first American blood
was shed in Che cause Of liberty Honor to whom honor
~ due
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Indiana Politics.

CixcsSAnI. June 24-Jamcs Wilson, republican, was
nominated for reelection representative In Congress
from the 9th district OF Indiana.
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iSpErrNpErr CAxDrDAfEa-The New York Tribune
is evidently disposed to encourage the idea Of indie
pendent candidates for Congress- especially in di.
tricts giving democratic msjorides The case Of Mr.
Haskin il tho ono immediately under its eye and
to sustain that gentleman in his independent a.
rouncement for reelection it mentions, by way o,
precedent that Hon. A. W. venable, Of N. C., ia =.
independent candidate for the next House. This il
entirely mistake, a the congressional election in
North Carolina 10 not held tho present year and cen
ddatcs are not in tho field, except 70 fiji vacancy
in the 9th district. Mr. ycnablc has tried the indie
pendent movement in his district once, and, we pre-
sumo, to his entire satisfaction
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= The 0o4eo I1an. ~
ALBANY, june a. bids su< sAs tAsse s&ass loans
opened .. hsifpsst II O'Clock to-day. The awards
made followS:
The million ave hundred thousand dollar loan 10
the sinking fund-who1e auaountwas Awarded to Rufus
II. King and assocn&es j. B. Pianb Charles H. Russell
r Halsey, John Sill. and J. T suffer. At l0l Ga.
lhb = about three ovsr TIE svesAge bids TIE
highest bid that Of the Tdcsznans Bank New York
SIS, 600 at l03 Is, and s2o, 900 It l02 IS.
The temporary loan of 5000 900 for canal purposes
wss awarded follows: %
j. n. Hnckney h Co., $50, 900 at lOl u.s. and $50
600 at 100 IS.
whisshou.s, Son Morrison 900 at 100 IS and
The comptrolsr's loan Of 500, 900 WAS awarded as
follows
Tradesman's Bank, New York, SI5, 900 at l0l aS
Williamsburg City Bank $40, 600 at los O5 James G.
King Sons SOS 900 II l02 49, and $40 600 at 100 S.
a ->
Celebration or st. Johns Day.
Bosros, June 24--Thc anniversary Of St. johns day
has been celebrated In this city to-day by Demolays
EncAmpment of Knights Tcmplar with unusual sla.
Tho Richmond Knights Ismplax, of Richmond, Va,
who are guests Of the above Encampment also partc
pated In the festivities The Richmond company num-
Der SO men, and their fine appearance and beautiful
gala were the subject Of general remark.
Both companies marched through the principal streets
and paid visit to Bunker Hill after which public
vices held in the Mnsic Hall, and grand dinner
the American House' wound up the pleasures Of the
day Tomorrow the two companies will leave The city
for sail down the harbor.
Politics In New jersey.
SALEM, June 24.-The Peoples Convention, held here
to-day nominated John T. Nixon for Congress- for the
LIST district In the American Convention there was
much excitement Delegates from Camden county and
others withdrew and nominated John H. Jones for
Congress- those remaining nominated John I. Nixon.
Large Robbery In Allentown.
ALLENTOWN, June IA large amount In gold silver
and notes stolen this morning from Mr. David Ever
hart in Lower Milford township
Reform Convention In Vermont.
Z RUTLAND VT, June IA great reform convention
commences here tomorrow. large tent has been filed
already with native vermonten and persons from dis
tnce who have just arrived to attend the convention
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reform Convention in vermont.

RUTLAND, VT, June IA great reform convention
commences here tomorrow. large tent has been filed
already with native Vermonten and persons from dis
lance who have Just arrived to attend the convention
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Politics in New Jersey.


ALLENTOWN, June IA large amount In gold silver
and notes stolen this morning from Mr. David Ever
hart in Lower Milford township.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04
ReaWtIfMIIY Said

We make the following beautiful ex-
tract on Homestead exemption law,
from letter written by distinguished
Judge of Tennessee
"Secure to each family whose labor
may acquire it, little spot of free earth
that it may call its own-that will be an
asylum in times of adversity from which
the mother and children, old age and in
fancy can still draw sustenance and obtain
protection, though misfortune may rob
them of all else, they can feel they are
still free, still entitled to walk the green
earth, and breath the free air of Heaven
IN defiance of the potency and power of
accumulated wealth, and the domincer-
ing of the pretending and ambious.-
The sacredness of that consecrated spot
will make them warriors in time of eter-
nal strife. These shocks of corn, said
Aenophon, inspire those who raise them
to defend them. The largest of them
in the field is prize exhibited in the
middle of the stage, to crown the con-
queror. Secure a home to every fam
l ~, whose labor may obtain one, against
the weakness, vices or misfortunes of
the father, and you will riFet the affec-
ton of the child in years of manhood by
a stronger bond than any consideration
that could exist. He will remember
where he had gamboled in his early
youth, the stream upon whose flowery
banks he felt mothers love, and the |
green spot within that little homestead |
where sleeps the loved and the lost.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04
PERFECTLY Cool.

A waggish friend of ours tells the
following, we do not remember to have
seen in print
a certain man, whom we will call NJ
was noted for possessing great
courage and presence of mind, and the
crossest wife in the neighborhood.'
More than one attempt had been made
to frighten NJ, without succeed
ing; but one dark, stormy evening, one
of his brother chips resolving to see if
there was any scare in him, fixed up in
the most ghostly style possible, and
stationed himself in lonly piece of
woods thro' which M--had to pass
on his way home.
The pretended ghost had scarcely set
tied himself in his position, when NJ
-hove in sight and came whistlinc
along unconcerned as usual Student.
ly the ghostly figure confronted him.
and in supulchral voice, commanded
him to stop. M-did so, and af-
ter regarding his companion for a mo-
ment, said, with the utmost GOODNESS :.
4 can't stop, friend; if you are man.
L must request you to get out of the
way and let me pass; if you are the dev
il, come along and take supper with me
I In7nrrird .your sister
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04
Pity.

Pity has been generally considered as
the passion of gentle, benevolent, and
virtuous minds although it is acknowl-
edged to produce only such participa-
ton of the calamity of others, as upon
the whole is pleasing to ourselves.
AS tender participation of foreign
distress, it has been urged to prove, that
man is endowed with social affections,
which, however forcible, are wholly dis
Interested; and as pleasing sensation,
it has been deemed an example of un-
mixed selfshness and malignity 1t
has been resolved into that power of
imagination, by which we apply the
misfortunes Of others to ourselves We
have been said to pity no longer than
we fancy ourselves to suffer, and to be
pleased only rejecting that our suffer
ings are not real; thus indulging a
dream of distress, from which we can
awake whenever We please, to exult in
our security, and enjoy the comparison
Of the fiction with truth.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04
PER CONTRA.
REASONS FOR GOING TO THE PART
BALL, THEATER OR CIRCUS.

BALL, THEATER OR CIRCUS.
Il don't mind the weather, rain won't
hurt me; neither sugar nor salt; been
doting on it week; sun amt very hot ::
cold air is wholesome; the house is al
ways comfortable; never feel cold in
such place; rather wear my old gown
or coat than not go twill cure nv
headache; always does, worked hard all
day but don't feel the least tired, borrow
a pair of gloves; no matter for carriage
walked two miles many time long
walks do me good; put off the dinner;
eat cold cut fasting is good for my
health; Tommy's little flushed, but
that's nothing, no danger; want bit of
fresh air, can write that letter some other
day as well as not; amt afraid of getting
sleepy; never get sleepy or tired in such
a place; can look at that account and
inspectmy ledger some other time what
do l care for the price of tickets, or anv
other expense? 60 it while you're
young. Reckon can squeeze in some
how, if the place is narrow, or even so
much crowded; all the world will be
there, and want to exhibit myselfI
among them. 1 tell you where there's
a will there's a way, and I'm bound to
go, anyhow, if it rains pitchforks ifI
thunders roar and lightning blaze. So
don't say any more, for wont hear the
least objection, no, nor the greatest eth
er; that's fact, fixed fact-as unalter-
able as the laws of the Medes or Pcrsians.
L might as well be out of the world as
out of the fashion
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04
Shirt Missrllnnu.
J z N N Y I r v I N'G:
OR,
THE LITTLE MlLLlNER
BY KIT CARLYLE.

George Lenox was a clerk in the
Reese, in one of our eastern Cities
George was an ambitious young man,
had many bright hopes of the future,
and was generally in good spirits, though
sometimes the great highway of life
seemed darkeucd, and the star of hope
shone fecbly on his path. But George
was honest, and Messrs. Moore 4 Reese
had long since come to the conclusion
that he was just the clerk for them.
Some distance from Messrs. Moore g.
Reese e's-away down street, quarter of
mile, perhaps, and nearly opposite
Georges boarding place, was niillin-
er's shop-a real fancy shop with hand
some 81 ga, large windows, with SPLENDID
curtains on the inside, displaying rich
and beautiful array of those dear treas
ures that so delight the fair, viz: dear
little beauties of bonnets, all styles, and
trimmed in over imaginable way, with
bright ribbons aud delicate flowers,
formed with exquisite taste by the fairy
hands of blooming maidens. ....
= Were not these attractions Yes
George never passed the door of Ma
dame Josephine Levelle, from Paris,
without casting glance into the window
or thro' those beautiful plate glass
doors.
George did SO often, for he often passed
on his way to and from his boarding
= bouse; but it was not for the sake of
catching a sight of the bonnets or rib
bons of Madame Josephine, for he could
see them equally as fne at other millin-
cry shops in the neighborhood, but it
was to steal glance and get good
look as often as possible at Madame's
little Jenny Irving, or Queen of Beau
ty," as she was called.
Yes, Jenny Irving, the orphan, or
"poor r-orphan," as some termed her, was
Madame Levelle's fovorite apprentice,
and possessed the first love of George
Lenox. She had caught a prize with
out angling for it.
In our hero's estimation she was the
most bewitching of maidens. Her tiny,
but faultless form, golden hair, bright
blue eyes, dimpled checks and dainty
mouth, offered attractions which he
could not resist; and then her voice, so
sweet and musical, was melody itself,
and her fairy feet that seemed scarcely
40 touch the ground on which she trod,
actually charmed him and completed
the conquest which Cupid-little knare
had so artfully planned and so sue
cessfully carried forward. After having
secretly admired Jenny for months,
George one day became acquainted with
her-no matter how-though, of course,
in the same way that all young people
get acquainted who are struck with each
others appearance first, an introduc
ton at some party or social gathering,
with an 'I'm happy to make your ao-
quaintance," on the lady's part, and sal
low me to see you home," on the gen
tleman's: then a moonlight walk, with
great many silly, foolish remarks
made on both sides, concludes the first
days ceremonies. Ofcoursc, this mode
of proceedings soon makes fast friends.
George continued to attend his bust
ness closely, but his evenings we're gen
orally his own, and then, when Jenny
was not busy, ofcourse they had delight
full times.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04

G2-A country youth came to town
to see his intended wife, and for long
time could think of nothing TO say At
last a great snow falling he took occas-
ION to tell her that his fathers sheep
would be all undone. "1Vell," said she
taking him by the hand, "I'll keep one
Of them