The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-20

The Liverpool correspondent of the Iron
Age, under date of Feb. Is, writes:
We in England are looking anxiously for
the result OF the tariff bill, now under con.
sideration IN the American Congress.
The cotton spinners of Lancashire, the iron
men of Staffordshire and Wales, the cutters
of Sheffield, with hosts of Others, are now
anxious TO know whether the goods consumed
IN America will continue to be supplied from
British factories, or are TO be the prodact of
American industry
The policy that you have so long and con-
sistently advocated of importing not goods
but men, IS very unpopular here, and If you
shall be successful in building up American
manufactures to an extent sufficient to supply
American demand, so that British goods
may be excluded from the American market
not merely by the continuance of protective
duties, but by the excellence and cheapness
Of production which the possession of the
market will be sure to create, the naturalabd
necessary consequence will be the transfer of
large amount of the skilled labor of this
country TO the United States. So that be-
lieve very early result of the tariff bill will
bs material increase in the emigration of
the better class of English workmen The
condition OF things in England is favorable
to this There is now very general move.
ment on the part of employers for reduction
of wages, and while this is to some extent
submitted TO by the men, it is only that no
alternative is left between the acceptance of
reduced wages and absolute idleness, which
to an English mechanic means little better
than starvation.
But the working men of England look upon
the progress of this tariff question also with
deep interest. They have learned that he
position OF their class in the United States |
10 very much superior to what it is in Europe, |
and they know that every furnace erected in |
Pennsylvania, and every mill put into oper- |
alton in Massachusetts,, is another market TO |
which they can bring the only comm odity thew |
have to dispose Other labor and their skill. |
have little doubt that when this question ia |
definitely settled, American manufac tur>
ers can invest their capital with The assu>
rance that they will not be exposed to the !
competition ofill paid European labor. they |
will be able to attract as large Oh amount of
the skilled workmen of this country as may
be required by the necessities of the country. |
The following extract from the Skef6sid |
Duly Telegraph shows that our English |
friends are as anxious to give the South the |
benefit of free trade as they were during the |
war, bat that they propose to ell Southern
orders for goods by very much the same
means:
Take down a large map Of the States and
look at the coast. What suggestive coast
it is A beautiful open fretwork of land and
water-a labyrinth of those very lagoons and
shallow salt water creeks in which the SNUG. |
gler delights. Talk of tricking the customs
Not to speak Of. it profanely, that coast was
invented for the purpose. The coasts of
Georgia and the two Carolinas almost rival
that Of Virginia in the facilities they afford
for civ he tbarp r NJ
sschusetts, taste of genuine free trade. |
From Albemarle Sound to the Savannah
river, an6from the Savannah to Musouito In. |
let, the coast line is admirably adapted for
the truly liberal trade which we nov recon-. |
mend to the merchants of England. Behind
long islands, which all but unite in one cons
tinuous chain. there are other and smaller
islands, and behind these again there are in. |
let's within inlets CULTS within CULTS, and BAYS
within bays, until the whole arrangements
look, as we said, like labyrinthine fretwork, |
IN which steamers of the swift and shallow
kind might mock at Government cruisers. II |
is difficult to look at that particular coast. |
line and not think that it was designed In the |
interest of that most useful and essimable |
person, the British smugeler.
ALBERT PIKE, the Yankee rebel editor of
the Memphis appeal, mentions what ia the |
matter with the President, a. follows:
"Andrew jackson was dictator and domi. |
neered over Congress. because the populsce
was at his back. Andrew johnson has sub. !
sided into feeble insigni6cance, because the |
popnlace is at the back Of Congress. In |
little while no one will be 80 poor as to do |
him reverence. The two houses of Congress
are as completely absolute, to-day, as the /
French national convention was, or the Par. /
lament that beheaded Charles, 10 make room
for Cromwell as protector and the President |
eats the leek. though exc he swesrs.'"
A correspondent, writing Of Salt Lake CITY
says This singular town covers an area Of
absut nine square miIes-that is, three miles
each way. II is one of the most beautifully
lard oct cities in the world. The streets are
very vide, with water running through nearly
every one OF them. Every black is surround.
ed With beautiful shade trees, and almoss ever
house has II neat orchard Of apple, peach. I,
apricot and cherry trees. In fact, TIE vhols
nine spare miles is almost one continuous
orchard
:, n. y. bARSwElL, associate editor of DE-
1ors heeser, writes TO the New Orleans .
xI14ke. danvlnR that hss ck.>f q. =. .