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L. &E o Oct 31.1838 tf 29 .iyprenti ces Wksnte4. () or Two A pprentices to the Printing -Business. will be taken at this office. Youths frorn 14 to 16 yearsof age, with a tol erable English eduention, who can read and write well,.il meet with encouragemenL POLITICAL. EXTRACTS FROM THE Remarks of Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsyl vania, on the motion of Mr. Benton for leave to introduce a hill to repeal the duty on salt and the fishing bounties. IN SENATE, Jan. 29, 1839. In the session of 1841-2, at the latest it will become the duty of Congress, seri ously to consider the subject of duties on imports generally, and adjust it in that spirit of compromise which gave birth to the Constitution itself. I hope and be lieve that Southern gentlemen will at that period, whilst they have a right to insist that the revenue shall be reduced to the standard of an economical administration of the Government, act in a liberal spirit towards the manufactures of the country. A duty granted merely and solely for pro tection, we cannot ask under the compro mise: but we shall expect that whilst im posing duties for revenue, such incidental discrimination may be made in favour of our most importaut and necessary ,nauu fictures, as will assist American industry in struggling against foreign competition. Thtis principle of incidental protection within these limits, is as old as the Gov ernment; and I have never understood that it was objected to by gentlemen of the South. If I should live until that day and be then a member of the Senate, I shall then enter upon the task of adjusting the tariff with every disposition, not exclu sively to regard the interest of any partic ular portion of ttie Union, but to act with liberality, and do justice to all the great interests involvel. I know that at that time, many conziderations may be urged in favour of a repeal of all the duties on foreign salt. Such a measure would ope rate beneficially upon the great agricultu. ral interest which I have ever regarded with peculiar favour. But, at the pres ent moment, this duty rests upon the compromise, act, and representing as I do, a considerable salt manufacturing interest, i am not disposed now to disturb it. At the time of the general revision of the tarilf, the duty on this article can be con sidered in connexion with all the rett; and then a wiser and better disposition may be made of it, than if we were now ence to its bearings upon the whole subject. Mr. B. said that the question of courte sy being as it was out of view, he did not under_tand how Senators, who had of Ifered able arguments against this bill, could notwithstanding, conclude by declaring that they would vote for its introduction. Mr. Benton having made some remarks which will lie given hereafter Mr. B. said, in reply to Mr. Beaton) as to the compronise act I shall say but lit tie. It- reputed authors are here present and are very able to lefend themselves. As to myself, I was in a far distant land at the time of its passaze, and shall never forget my own feelings when I first re ceived information of this event. The enemies of liberty in every coun try of the old world were rejoicing in the prospect that this glorious Union-the last hope of Republican institutions-was about to expire. The advocates of des potism were every where gloating over the prospect. It was impossible for any per son placed in mty situation not to see, and to feel. and to know, that this was the cherished hope of the enemies -of libet al institutions throughout Europe. It was a subject of conversation in every society which I frequented in the great Northern Capital, where I thea resided. Although I did not myself personally indulge in gloomy forebodings, yet I hailed the news of the passage of the compromise act as the harbinger of peace and trantquility at home, with more jos than I have even felt upon the anntouncemetnt of any po litical event. It was then sufficient for me to know that the question whiph hail threatened the peace of my native land was settled; and that, too, by the passage of a bill which had received the approba tion of General Jackson. H'is sancetion ol it, was, to me at. least, tho strongesa evi. dence that it was not --a mere humbug.' I felt the fullest confidence that his signa ture could never baye been affixed to any bill which would sacrilce, or seriously in juro, any of the urest interests of the coun try. . Whether, under all the circutmstances, I should have voted for this bill or not bad I then been a Senator, or whether it settled our dillicultiies wisely or unwisely is not now the question. Ba this as it may, it has stood the test of time durins a period of six years, and it has not yea been changed by Congress in a single par ticular. The people of the St ate which 1 in part representc, have, at least acquiesc ed in its provisions; and they are looking~ forward to the year 1b41 or '42 for a gen eral settlement of the whole question. Nowv, sir, what is moy positiotn? I ami called upon to except from this comapro aise a tingle aurticle' of donmestic mauntufac ture, in which several counties of Pen sylvania are deeply interested, Would I not be faithless to my trust, if I should agree that this article, protected as it now is by the existing tariff, should he made the solitary exception ; and that, too at a moment when the manufacturers of it are reposing with perfect security on the faith of a law adhered to, as it has been by Congress, ever since, its passage? It is not sulliient for me to kno w that wve pos sess the unqutestionable power to violate it. The true question is, would it be wise: on politic, or just, at the present advanced stage of its progra... to disromard its pro And, after all, what mighty matter is to be effected by this bill? Under this very compromise, the duty on salt has already been reduced to about six cents per bushel After the last day of the present year, it will sink still lower; and after. the last day of June, 1842, it will b reduced to about two cents per bushel. Within two or at least three years arter the close of the pres- I ent session, there must bp a general revis sion of the tariff, and I would ask, what in terest, in the mean time, can suffir, by paying the stmall duty of six, and after wards of four or two cents per hushel ont the importation of foreign salt? Is this a cause sufficient tojustify the mighty ef- I forts whica have been made to repeal the .1 duty ? When I observe these efforts of , the Senator's great mind to accomplish I an object so trifling ad inconsiderable, i they forcibly remind me of the simile of the English poet. They resembile "Oceatn into tempest tost, To waft a feather, or to drown at fly." Let us wait for two or three years. and then settle this little matter in conjune tion with the great question which mnust then arise. It is not an object which could excuse. much less justify a depar ture from the compromise. IN SENAT E, Jan. 30. 1839. Remarksof Mr. Calhoun or South Caro lina, on Mr. Benton's motion for leave I to introduce a bill for the repeal of the I salt duty and the fishing bouniies. Mr. Calhoun said he felt perfectly in diff'erent as to the fate of this motion. It 4 was impossi'le for the proposed measure t to pass at this time; and the only question i was, whether it should be voted down at this incipient stage or at some suljsequent one, after it had assumed the form ofa bill. I The only difference was this; if it was re jected now, tik further consumption of t the tine of tne Senate would be saved; but C on the contrary, if leave was granted, I two or three days more would be spent in discussion, when it would be rejected by a I large majority. There were at all limes many who, front courtesy or other tmotives would vote for leave to introduce, bit who were at the same time opposed to I the measure. He had at one time intend ed to vote for leave himself, but as the Sen ator from Maine. [Mr. Williams,] who I -"I 216Pfa~ 4aa j*-dansemaltho naa had indhated his ittention to vote "gainst the motion, he would follow him as his t leader on this occasion. He had asserted that the measure could not succeed. on the ground that the objec tions to acting on the subject. at this time 4 were overwhelming. If there was no I other, it was all sufficient that the duty on salt, under the compromise act, was going 1 off a-, fast as the wants of the Treasury and the interests eaf cotnnerce would per- i mit. It is already reduced to about six ot seven cents the bushel. and would ie re duced the next three years to about two a cents. In the mean time the Treasury i will need all its means to tmset its engage ments, atd the interests of commrnoce would be injuriously affected to make the 1 reduction tnore rapid than it will be. All ' changes in the rates of duties ought to re a male gradually, even when it teuted to i lighten the burden. Mr. C. said that he was far from think- I ing that the time already spent in the dis- i cussion of this muotion was los:. It had i made developments important to be known I by those whom he represented, some of 4 which were highly.favourable to their fu- I ture prosperity and quiet. and others of i an opposite character. Of the former, he i heard with pleasure the very sensible and I manly remarksof the Senator frotm Maine i nearest to him, [Mr. Williams] He iook the true ground. He asked no protection for the great interest of navigation, in which his constituents are so vitally inter ested;and,he woutld add the whole Union. All be wanted was fair play. Take off your protection on irotn. on hemp. on salti beef and lxtark, and oather oppressive duties, l which bear down oujr navigation and you i may take off your bounaties, was his tman ly language to-the mover of this resolution and he clearly showed chat the great in terest which he defettded would be the gaia'r by the change. Mr. C. said I will uphold him in a provision so perfectly reasonable and just. and for one, will not assent that the bounties shall he repealed, whatever nmy optinion maay be in thealt. stract as to their propriety, till the burthen; is removed. The same princip~le by which he was impjelled to resist oppression, im pelled him, with equal force, to uphold what is just and reasonable; and heae we have a striking illustration of the great im propriety of acting on the tariff'hy separate and detached items, as is proposed on this occasion. It is almost the inevitable con sequence of such a course, that, while otnea interest is benefitted, another is oppressed. On this account, he was adverse to todch ing the subject till the whole system of du ties was barought regularly under review, as it must be at the .next, or the succeedttng session, undet- the compromise act. In the mteana time, he considered the great navi gating iaterest oaf the country, which was soa essential to the prosperity and defence of all others, among the most depressed at presetnt. He was startled in looking over an able document frona the chairtman of the Cotmmiittee of Ways and Means, of the other House, just laid on our table, at the rapid encroachment of foreign naviga tion on our own. In 1826 the dlometic stood to the foreign tonnage -as 942,206 to 105,6.54: andl itn I837 (theo short space of 10 or 11 years) they stood as 1,299720 to 765,703. At this rate, tho foreisn will soon exceed our own tonnage in outr own ura This relaiv-falling af claimed I mmediate and serious investigation and be application of some ellicient remedy. Without pretending to any particular <nowledge of the subject, he did not doubt hat one of the most powerful causes in )ruducing this unfavorable result, was the xpanded-no,that was not strong enough. -the bloated state of our currency, which, >y raising prices far beyond what they ugbt to be, was weighing so heavily on :he prostrate energy of the country, and -specially on all those branches of indus ry which, like navigation, had to compete throad with nations that had a less expan led and a sounder currency. This he be ieved to be the main cause, and next to it, te placed the oppressive protective duties, ow fortunately going off under the com >romise act, which so greatly enhanced he price of shipbuilding, the rigging, and upplying vessels, as well as the wages of eamen. Against this oppressive load ur foreign navigation had no compensa ion. It had to mneet the comapetition of other nations on the broad ocean, weighed lown with the enormous duties on iron, emp,cordage, and almost every otber trticle that entered into the construction, he rigging and supply of vessels, without particle of prorection to lighten the mrthen, just as oir great. staple interests, ie conon, rice, and tobacco, had to meet he competition of all the world in the oreign markets with the burden, without rotection, or the probability of protection. Wnd for what was this oppressive load aid on these, the great sources of national pulence and prosperity? To prot'ect cer min brances of industry, which were dig ified ivith the name of home industry, ;ainst foreign competition-not on that road ocean, int abroad in Ibreign mar ets. but at home, and-at their own doors. Ve who had to go abroad atnd contend with 11 the world, were weighed down with ac ppressive hond;that other branche-, should ave a monopoly at home! And yet there re those, if we may judge from what we ave heard in this liscossion, who not only enounce the act by which this load is go g I, but are ready to renew the protec ive system with all it% injustice and op res-ion. But against the voice of.uch.he (Mr. C.) vas happy to hear that of the Senator from ennsylvania farthest from him, [Mr. Buch he oogpromise. That Senator had done 0o m'ord than justice to that act. It ter ninated honoraoly and fairly, without the acrifice of any interert, one of the most langerous controversies that ever disturb d the Union, or endangered its existence -not the danger of a dissolution of the Jnion, as we learnarom the Senator, was miticipated abroad. The danger lay in a lilferent direction. Dis'olution is not the mnly mode by which our Uinion may he de troyed. It is a Federil Union. a Union f sovereign States, and can he as electu illy and much more easily destroyed by oitsolidation, than by disolutiou. He who knows the history of ouir race, and he working of the human breast. bent un - lerstands the great and almost insuperable lifficulties in the way ofdissolution. Thero a scarcely an instance oit record of any wople, speaking the same language, and taving the same Government and laws, hat have ever dissolved their political con ecion through internal causes or struggle. Ie excluded of course, colonies throwing i the control of the parent country, or a oartition of kingloms by monarchs. The onstant strggle is to enlarge and not to livide; and there neither is. nor ever has een the leastdanger that our Union would :erminate in digsolution. Bit the danger n the opposite side is imminent, as was oreseen from the first by our wisest states nen and most ar.ent patriots: and never vas thtdanger more menacing than when he gallant and patriotic State he repre seaed gave the blowv that led tom the comn >romise. That~ blow was not to dlestroy tut to save the Union. not for disuniion tut against contsolideaon: and most ell'ect i! did it prove. It tirought thte protective ystem to the groundi, never to rise again; at system which has brought such innu-. nerable disasters ont the country, and which iad vellnigh terminated our Union in onsoidatio, and, with it, the establish neitt of despotie power. At its very basis ly the asum ption of a power, which, if r had been established would have made this a Governtent of unlimited power, and f corse. a consolidated Government It issumed that duties and taxes might he aid not ontly for revenue. for which pur one only the power was granted, but that hey miit,bt be perverted to the purpose of moraging one pursuit and discouraging oother; that is, that the revenue power night he converted into a penal and rewar ig power-the power of rewarding one 'lass of industry and-putnishing another. Who does not see that the assumption of ich a power, on the part of this Govern net, would Live it unlimited control over ill the pttrsuits and business of life, and he entire industry and prosperity of the sountry? Acting on this false and dangerous as mmrption, the protective system had been troduced, and ptushed to the most ex ravagant extent under the act of 1828 Jnder its baleful influence, the great sta ple interests of the South, and that of the invigation of the East were paralyzed, while certain others were made to flourish. ro effect this, nniilions ona millions were aken from the people and poured into the ,ublic Treasury; where it constitutedl a rast ud for extravagance anti unconstito :ional expenditures, corrupting the com nunity, andI extending the power and pa rnnm= of te finverwont bewond the limits consistent with our free institutions. The vast patronage, concentrated in the hands of the Executive, had rendered that department all powerful, and was thereby leading the way to the consolidation, not only ofthe whole power of the legislature in this Government, but the whole power of the Government in the department- It was against sneb a system, producing such consequences, that the blow was struck. bravely and magaaninou'ly struck, that led to the compromise act that this -mo tion is intended todisturb. It was success ful. It was directed at the root of the evil. It ha, stopped the excessive flow into the Treasury, and followed up by the deposite act of 1836, it has etmptied it of its cor rupting mass. He saw clearly that re form, with an overflowing Treasury, was impossible, especially when that overflow consisted of bank notes. It was impossi ble to arrest waste, or limit patronage. till the means which sustai-ed theta, were ex hausted. That great object is now effected ; and retrenchment, economy and reform must follow, or woe to those in power; and when they gain the ascendancy. then will the blow which was dealt against consoli dation, and for the Union and our fr-e in stitutions, have effected the great and pa triotic purpose intended by those who di rected it, and of whom I shall ever be proud of having been one. The protective system, which has'been the cause of all the mischief, has fallen prostrate before it in the dust. He who undertakes to revive its putrirl eatcs, will perish in the attempt. He (Mr. C.) was happy to hear the Senator frotn Pennsyivani [Mr. Duchan an] avow his intention to carry out the compromise act to its full extent, and that he was prepared. on a re-adjustment of ittc duties under its provisions. to restrict them to revenue simply. as is provided by the act limiting the protection to manufac turers, to such incidental protection, as was consistent with revenue, but in no case ex ceeding twenty percent, to which the high est duties would be reduced in 1842. This was going back to the original principle which governed in the first imposition of duties on imports and he was happy to hear the avowal coming from the quarter it did. and in which hejrtsted the Senator titered t ie voice of the powerful State he represented. There were but two prinei ntalmon which their re-adjustment could take piace, unless the Gov-mname an le..-- .... ... ,, Itac to the protective poileyidrrA fn nOt appr - hend. The one was that sutggested by the Senator; and the other, that of bringing the 'whole average to one uniform low av erage, ad valorem, without any discrimina tion for, or aspinst any duty. It would be too soon to discuss the relative merits of the two at this time, and in faet,he had not made up his mird. A review must soon take place ; it cannot he postponed beyond one or two years, when it will be the pro -er time to examine their respective merits. in the meno time, he was prepared tosay that he would be ready to go into it, with n liberal spirit and a disposition to do equial and exact justice to all, and to adont that which. after a full examination, snail ap pear to be the best calculated to promote the interest and harmony of the whole. Miscellaneous. WAsHINGToN, Jan 27. Ma. BENNET's LETTERs-Leuter No. 20. To-day I went regularly to church. In fact, since I have been in Washington, I have been more a church-going personage than it i< possible to be in ever-bustling New .York. St. George's Church. the fashionable place of worship here, is situa ted in President's square, opposite the White House. Here the venerable chief himself, his secretaries and all the court end generally meet to worship. The President frequently walks to church ut to-day having his daughter-in-law with him, he rode. This is an E piscopal church, and they observe the ritual of that sect. Eleven i'clock is the hour for beginning the service-bitt it is not custotnnrv to en ter till half past the honr. and ev -n a little beyond that. Tho clergymnen, in most of the churches, commence business at this hour; but, generally, they have few hear ers till half throtugh. During the service,! observed his excel lency well. When the clergyman prayed that Heaven umight enlighten the Congress of these United.States,the President cotigh ed considerg~y-probably differing in o pinion with the preacher, and more likely wishing that as little light as possible mnight hbe directed towards that troublesome body. Mr. Van Bur-en does riot kneel during the prayer, as the pious young Queen of E ng land does-neither does he stand up as the lovely young Methodists (of New York do, wenever- the Throne of Grace is address ed. He sits down-crosses his legs over each .t her, and looks up to the gallery as unfeelingly as a clam on the shores of Coney Island. In St. George's Chapel.- in Windsor Castle,I saw Victoria kneel down averently as a Bishop whenever the prayer was recited in grammar and in godlines.', Mr. Van Buren might take pat tern of Victoria. and improve himself in both respects. Notwithstanding all the parties and con stant gaiety, T atn gettina rather fatigued with Washington-I want to he moving again-and I should niot be surprised if I were to return in a week. After all,there is no place worth living in, throughout the whole extent of this country, but New York. There we have constant variety every day has its events and every wveek its fresh catastrophe. 8inutI l shndelw ua itw7me m Col; Webb of the Courier, has again- bro-, ken out in a new place. and is ready tts kick up a row in the W hig party at the ap-. proaching election of Mayor. It is really astonishing that I cannot be absent from New York ajhori month, but the Colonelr tries to get his legs out of the traces. Dar' ring his visit to England, he kept out of all. scrapes as long as he was guided by tly movements, and quietl5 followed in mf footsteps. The moment that I went to' France, and left him to find his way hom0 alone, at that fatal moment, he was within! au ace of getting board and lodgiugs in the inside of an Eiglish jail at Bristol. Now 4 as soon as I am in Washiugtoa, believing that every thing is going on well at New, York, I am pained to find that he is agai; at his old tricks, and is ready to Sght all the world, and Duff Green to boot, on the. subject of Mayor Clark., This, among. other matters, may force mne home soone, than I expee. No one can man ag Webb but myself. I know his pace, bi temper, his trot, his points-and his whol. nature. I know the exact hour to let fijn; have the whip or spur-to stroke him gent.. ly about the whiskers-or to overhaul him soundly over the broad snouldere, The truth is, that Heaven has appointed me to be Van Amburgh to the wild animals. who conduct the Whig press of New York -and Master Webb, one of the most mris. chievous and untractable of these creature, -requires the presen'-e of the Great Ani. mal Maynetiser bfo the next electij approaches too .oo, I believe 1 most home. From the Correspodence of the N. Y. KINGsTON, JAMAICA, Jan. 21, 1i8. The l6and of Jamaica, I am sorry-te say. is in a very poor state, but a few pro-. perties at work, and as the crop time is uow at hand. the proprietors are at aios.. to know how to take it ot. The price d& manded by the negroes is more than what, the sugar and ruin will sell for, so it is im. possible to get them to come to any final arrangement. The Governor issued a proclamation a few days ago, but that cat do no aood; he,, himself, ean do no good stith them. A planter told me this mora ing that, last year at this time, he mgd Stibhds. of sugar. and new his mi is not. at work on account of the negroes not be. ing willing to work tnder $1 per day. eannot imagine; for full particulars pay a great attention to the papers you will re crive. I amtold that it is not Jamaica alone that suffers, but the other Wind.. ward Islands. The House of Assembly will meet on the 5th proximo. and I must say that, unless the Governor gives way to the members, nothing will be done. You will find in the papers particulars of a meeting of the Commissioners of Corresa pondeuce, and also public meetings being - called for the purprese of making a report of the distressed state of this once flour.' ishing Island. Alas! Jamaica is not .wia; she once was, nor ever will be. The timo. is past and it is too late to do any ao& As long as the stipendiarv m* - give bad advice to the negi'oesi theywill not cme to terms. What with fTim anl the Governor, enough mischief iq efi.cted. I am sorry I am obliged to give yo a suelt an account of my native place, From the Janaica S&anderiL. STATE OF THE COUNTRTY. . .0 port this week breathes a more deZ.i and determined air. Need we sa much more gloomy and unfavourable on that account? Auother week hase lapsed. and still no greater dispsi.o return to work; and still less likelyhook tco the estat's being at. all able to take their crops. eicept at such.a rafas wold be entirely ruinous to the plantera-i sh to say, at a much greater eipenseithyyth sugar itself will bring. We know.for we have the positive facl . that on some estates in this parish (St. Jamnes')five shillings a day have been .of fered to the boiler mon, and half a-do g~ to the laborers, during crop, and that es offers ruinously extravagant _. ht were, have been refusedl. 'now that* on others, whetn aiy- Yis beeni made to come to tej i for taking off the crop, the reply of th1 eld laborers has been:. "Yea, we'are willi to work,-boa you must give us five shilli . day' And wye know that, rather ~.that, many crops must -be allowed the ground N'av, we know .that o ave: at this moment, cane'.in their m a rotting, for want of the necessar to carry on the mannfacture. . Because the laborers-only detma'n as e rate of 5ri an hour, for sixteen housp t wenty four;t thus .making each laborer's' wages exactly a dollar a-day, or LI113a. and 4d. per week, allowing they 'conde. scend to work even the five days. ~ FaANeE---$rtignadlon of the Frend Miniutry.-The whole of the French Mirt isters on the 22d1 Jamtary, placed their re. gignation in the hands of the King, in co sequence of finding -their majority i6 this Chamber of Deputies inisufflcientei On the following day his Majesty: confided'to Marshal Soult the construction of a inew Ministry. Nohu The Paris onefrpiublishe-n1s ordinance, dated 221 instaunt,-ppnotag Retar Admiral Charles lRaidin..toithe rank of Vice Admiral, as:ayeompense Torihs gallant-and skilful conduct at'the capture of the fortress of San Joan D'Ullon.: Avoid-armment wvith the ladies; in spin. ning a yarn am ong silks and attinsi a t0