New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-29

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IA, for no other purpose than to vote fr Florence
The Cnsom- liouse patronage l. prostItutei tc the
same end. Florence is the solitary Northern man
| who voted in Congress for revying the An
can slave trade, yet he must be sustained.
! He had & memorable meeting in Southwark
lsst week, al which be- spoke bitterly snd
libeousy OF has opponents. losing ms trElper
under fse certainty of dcieat a.d drawing
aut ominous threats of crushing retaliation.
! if he yenturcd ~ repeat the same game. II was
Office holders meeting tsrOuehouf-the Custom
/ Holse and Navy Yard marching rp their paid
/ voters IN body. Every GoyetDw-nt employee
! was Oh hand, and the two .l0ops-ofwar would have
been iroted O'.i also If such feat bed been posi-
! bic. At this meeting Senator BieeT delivered him.
self OF a speech fiat and foolish ~ drive hun
! dreds aaay from the stand, damaging Florence by
lis stupidity snd folly. Nrhinser. bis regular Dem
ocratic opponent. ha. challenged Florence 70 meet
hm face 10 face AID answer long C't3logue OF
charges. Thus the contest increase. n bitterness
betW cen the twO HiAgs of tL- Democracy. Mean.
time. Ryan, an intelligent, active and very compe-
tent mau the nominee Of the combined Il publican
and American party, j. gathering strength r. every
turn. he can hardly fail Of being elected by
good majority. II tins feat can w accomplished
II viii BE- the most stneing rebuke set adrai nstered
TO Mr.. Buchanan, who has thus openly Hyished
the whole patronage OF his Office - lnsnr the
turn of Florence.
/ next Winter that fresh duty Of twenty per cent
will be imposed ON foreign iron. This concession
tO poyeriy-stricken Treasury ia in the months of
many rampant Free Trade Democrats. ] besr II
admitted il variety of quarters IS inevitable not
that the party desire Il. but As their only escape
from absolute bankruptcy. There are Democrats
high in position who have pledged themselves 70
each other to carry this measure forward. IL will
| be- urgently insisted on by strong interest in the
South. and will thus be made To succeed The
| Richmond Enquirer caves IN bodily, snd SAYS: " 81
far AS revenue tariff will afford the protection
| now so much desired by the iron interest, We
see no objection TO that Incidental aid being given
"by the Federal Legislature Even Coy. Walk
| er the apostle of Free Trade, admits that Nr.
Buchanan viii leave Office with a debt of : 100,
OOO COO. and that there is escape from the
present insolvency short ot high duty on iron.
Walker has been spending the Summer IN our
neiebborhood aud is full and free in his revelations
of the shortcomings and bad faith of Buchanan.
He opens himself on all these subjects with full
ness Of detail that is quite instructive IL makes
no difference whether it Is friend stranger that
approaches him. as he appears equally cominlnIca-
tive Ia all In the present embarrassment oi the
Treasury, he clings t0 the worst hereses OF his
Annual Reports. in which the glowing results To
be realized by Free-trade were elaborately set
! forth He backs down now from sheer necessity
But his backing down is ghtened by the exultation
! he feels at seeing the man who cheated him So
| badly thus driven to the wall. While speaking OF
IRON il may not be smiss To mention some results
recently Hscertaned by the chief engineer OF the
Reading Railroad. He has found that on the to
pound English rail the wear was from q 10 a. per
cent while that on the American was only IL t0 Ia
per cent The breakagc on the English bar was
| one in 30 to one in ~, while on the American il
was one in ~ to one in 3i3. This utter worth
lessness of English iron accounts for many OF the
! frightiu accidents which occur on American roads.
| :. t.ata nd haau tbp
on-works is relied upon, in conjunction with the
slreducing hot blast to produce rails good enough
! for American bonds at One-ourth discount. While
| thus continuing to build our roads Of rotten iron,
We can look for no diminution of mortality from
these accidents. The deaths on American railroads
| are now far more frequent than on any roads in
! the world.
| The Fiffy-frst Annusl Trade Ssleof Books has
met with far greater success than the prostrate cons
dition of general business had induced the cldit 10
| hope for Neither has the unacc0untsble attacks
| made on the institution here by one of your daily
papers produced any of the ruln0us effects intended
very large audience from all parts of the country
has been in attendance the bidding has been
spirited the sale large, and prices entirely salts
| factory to the seller have been obtained Indeed,
the sale is considered the largest and besteyer held
! in this city. The catalogue comprised over go
pages. The invoices from New-Yofk sold We'll.
Mr. w. Dodd's, for instance, brought high prices.
| Ohio sent invoices OF Shakespeare which sold at
! $40 IL $50 per copy. Mr.. John l.. Beardsley oi
Auburn sold large invoice of standard works.
| All be- had to offer went of SO quickly that h.. At
| least, will not complain. The catalogue OF \. ;.
| Barnes 4 Co, principally school books, encouI-
tered spirited bidding and sold well. Expensive
| holiday books were in good demand, while The cost.
| " Bibles from Harding of this city Were disposed
of in large numbers. The spirited purchasing at
this sale confirms the accounts given me by the
bookbindrrs here that marked revival in the pub