Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-02-02
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

| Trade iR N. Y Ciqfea, NclleR q CO.-Dis'
union speeches in Congress and hs Visit Of
SouthsrA Legislators 10 Ohio--Gos. COr'gia's
great Speeeh-7'OlliAg Railroads, 8e.-Fdeis
and Fgtues Of Tares ia Eco York-Tar
payers ia ~ Y. Ciy-Lecture Of F. p Blair,
Jr-Speeeh Of M Clay-Leeiurs Of II. /.
Hosmer, Esq Stoy-Ths Harpsrs-Nelo
Books-Money and Stleks Cor. Chase.
NEw YoRK Jan 2s, 1850.
The "hue and CT" raised by come of the Ma
tioaa! newspapers about the withdrawal Of
Southern lrado is all sham The merchants of
the South will come to this great mart of trade
and commerce to buy their goods, wares and
mer,hlndise;" aud they will buy here Of "vile
anti-slavery man." if he sells on better terms, or
at lower prices, than National man, who is
opposed to all 'agitation," and believes that
human slavery is the only truly wise system Of
organized labor.
The press of the South, to gain favor of the
ultra shareholders who are in a minority Of
more than one in thirty of the population of the
South, may counsel their traders not to buy of
Messrs, ClaAen, Mellen & Co, of this city; but
such counsel will have about as much effect up
on the large and increasing trade Of that excel
lent house, as it would to counsel the merchants
of the South not TO buy any articles in the free
States at all.
Last year the sales of Messrs. CIaaen, Mellen
& Co, were TEN AND A QUARTER MIL.
LIONS OF DOLLARS an increase of more
than two millions of dollars over the year 1858
bslieve il Mr.. Mellen Nas an abolitionist in
stead of beiug good Republican, as Jefferson
and Madison were, that Southern men wOald
buy dry goods and yankee Notions" of that
House because of his genial nature and pleasing
manner, and because of the attention, ciTility
and politeness with which all who enter that
establishment are treated by proprietOrs and
clerks and they number multitude sufficient
to populate Southern township, with active,
intelligent, persevering men. The opinions
men may hold, will not annul trade, or laws
of trade The North will take the cotton, rice
and sugar of the South, and our Southern
brethren will take our "hOme products" in ex-
change.
Yesterday the Democratic SOlons in Congress
from the South were dissOlving the Union, and
in Columbus, Ohio, the members of the Legis.
latures of Tennessee and Kentucky, with some
of their Executive officers, were having "goOd
time" with the Buckeyes, and singing peans
to that Union which will be as perpetual as any
thing on earth can be.
The No, full of n la
speech of your Buckeye statesman Mr.. Corwin.
The letter Of the special correspondent of the
Tribune is very fine, and does justice to the
wonderful power of this gifted man. He has
no equal as an orator. He is the best d. GmGtie
speaker living, or perhaps that ever lived. He
lOoks-he acts-he speaks all over. Would
that could have heard him in the House of
Representatives where twenty years ago ne won
so much of fame and wide renown. "May
Heaven give him length of days, and may he
fill them with deeds Of usefulness"
Some of the law makers of this State at Al
bany, seem disposed to drive the business of the
great and growing West from their Canals and
Railroads by increasing the rates Of toll on the
Canals, and by tolling the Railroads. They had
better complete the Canal enlargement as soon
as possible, and then reduce tolls TO the lowest
possible degree, and put the Canals under the
must GCOuOulCdl blSlbuu OA ulhudgbHGut.
Gov. Morgan, in his recent Message, says
that for the completion of the Canals. 81 .65s,.
500 will be required" The people of some of
the counties away from the Canals, or the back
counties. object to the "CanaI tax" as they say
they derive no benefit from the Canals. The
Canals have made this city; by increasing its
population-its trade, manufactures and com>
merce The back counties should not complain
of the Canal tax because this city is benefited
by the Canals. They get back more than an
equivalent, in School moneys. This city paid
in 1858, $685. 4l6 of State School tax, and re-
eeiUed of that tax for the use of its Schools,
only SI53, ,5s2, thus paying to the School fund
of other counties, in that year, S244 s34 Cat.
taraugus county paid s., ,622, and received SI4,-
73O. Delaware county paid ,504, and re-
ceived SIG 4s7 st. Lawrence county paid
Sl2, ,79s, and received S27, ,7s9. Essex county |
paid S3,4lI, and received sI0.2 .202, &c The |
city of New York paid more than one third of
the School tax of the State and received about |
one seventh. Well may the Stale of New York |
afford to pay the trifing tax of one mill on the |
dollar valuation for the completion of the Ca |
mails, when the people of this city are paying |
hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to |
educate the children of the State, outside of the
limits of the "IsIand of Manhattan"
Within circle of three miles from madison /
Square" in this city, there are at least ,0000
of inhabitants. NoW whatever lessons the cost
of transportation, reduces the price of living to /
these people, and puts money In the pockets of
the producers who live remote from New York. |
Let the people of the State be Just to the city, |
as it has grievous burdens of its own to bear.
The city makes the country rich. Every street |
opened in a city, every block Of houses put up,
every store erected, adds to the total of the
wealth, and benefits directly the farmer on the
rugged mountains-on the sunny hill-sides-
and in the smiling valleys.
In this city Of some go, 600 voters, l am told
there are only 5000 persons who pay taxes on
personal property. If so, this is wrong. Men
who are rich in stocks, bonds, mortgages, notes,
and money, should not escape taxation. A new
tax law is very much needed in this State. The
burdens of taxation, as the law now is are very
unequal and unjust. The men of limited means
have to foot the bills, while thousands who
have fortunes escape the Assessors, merely for
the want of thorough system
The Lecture of the Hon F. P. Blair, Jr of
St. Louis, on Wednesday evening, was largely
attended, and was terrible set back to the Ma
tional Union Saving dough faces,--a race, that
Mr. Webster said, in his celebrated Marshfeld /
speech in ls4s, che feared would be as perpet
ual as the generations of men," Portions of
M. Blair's lecture were very fine, and it was
received with the most earnest applause. Such /
speeches do good They prove that, in the slave
States, there is now, as in the early days Of the
Republic, true manhood and fine specimens of
the highest style of men
How noble-hOw grand-how eloqueut-how
glittering with truth, and how full Of the loft
lest sentiments of patriotism, was the great
speech of OASSlUS NJ. CLAY, on the 10th
inst, on the steps of the Capitol in Frankfort,
Ky! How deplorabls any system Of force labor
must be, that would influence such people as
the Kentuckisns, to close the doors of their
State House against such son, and such man
and citizen as O. n CLAY. If the people of KY.
would, or if they could read that speech, slavery
would silently fall before it, and pass with the