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ME. BOYCE S SPEECH UPON THE TARIFF. % Mr. Uoyub. Mr. Chairman, I desire to muko some remarks on tho subject of tho Tariff. It appears from the Report of tho Secretary of the Treasury, I hat the surplus balance on hand September HO, 1853, was $28,217,887 78. Mwcd by such a vast and increasing surplus, tho Secretary very properly recommends a modification of tho Turilf. Ilis proposed modification may bo summed up in three idea#. Duties of one hundred per cont. on brandies and cordials, a greater extension of the free list and an uniform duty of twentyfive per cent, on all remaining imports. Though I have the very highest respeet for the Secretary of the Treasury, 1 am compelled to differ from him on this subject. As regards tho one hundred per cent, duties, they are utterly indefencible as a financial measure; they are live times higher than the revenue standard, and must diminish the revenue and injuriously a fleet our cotmaerciu! relations with France. I can see no possible reason for such cxhorbitant duties, hut a desire to logislato indirectly on a'great social ?pn\? n<?n, witu wlitcli I conceive wo have nothing to iId. Passing by tliosoono hundred por conl. (Iiilies, wliioli nro in no hatmony with the Secretary's general tarill* policy I approach the two loaditffc principles urg<hJ by liiin?the frco list and a uniform duty of twenty-five per cent. It is important to observe what the free list docs not contain and what it does contain. It does not contain articles of foreign manufacture, which may come in competition with homo manufactures. It ?doos not contain the raw materials of do vuestic manufactures, and certain exports for which our manufactures are exchanged, as lea and cotVee for instance. It is also important to consider what articles will pay the duty of twenty-five per cent., confessedly a high duty, above the revenue standard?five per cent, higher than the maximum duties under the British revised tar it)* of livt'J. It will ho found that ainong these articles are all foreign pro ducts which may come in competition with domestic manufactures. From these filets, the object of the Secretary's tariff [becomes luminous. It is evidently design e l to give domestic manufactures the tit.most practicnl protection ; and it accomplishes this purpose most thoroughly ; for tlio effect of admitting the raw material duty free, and taxing the manufactured article twenty live per cent., is to extend protection, in some instances, to the extent of forty and fortv-live percent. This fiee list is a groat invention : for while it confers an exclusive privilege on the manufacturers, that of importing the commodities they need frco of duty, it creates an apparent necessity and alVords a pretext for high duties 011 their rival imports. What"a system! Those commodities which llirt m-iniifuflliirrtps nrtiiil nnv 11.1 it-nv ?- I ".' "??* Those which iho people treed pay a July amounting, practically, to about one-thirl of their value. As regards tho duly of twenty-live per cent.,it rests on tho radical error that all imports can pay the same rate of du y, whereas tho fact is exactly tire reverse, Some commodities cannot pay more than tivo per cent., and honeo every laritl' that we have ever had has proacciled on a gradation of duties. To apply a uniform rate of twon:y-flve per cent, is to prohibit many articles, and diminish the revenue. Tltcie is one article to which tho Secretary pro poses to oxtend even more than an o;d nary share of protection?that is iron?of all imaginable things that which the universal industry of the country, in every form and section, is most interested to obtain cheap. Vet, urdor the euphonious term, Hpacitie duties, this article is to receive tiro lion's share of protection. I entirely disseut front the Secratary's recomincnda nons. 1 oojeci 10 every one oi uiem, ins liia ouo hundred per cent, duties, his free list, his horizontal tariff of twenty per cent, his spacific duties on iron. This projected tariff is protection and monopoly in their worst, because their most covert forms. 1 will not dwell longer on this report, satisfied to call attention to its protective features. I pass on to the general considcra lion oi the subject. After a brief history of the revenue system, prior to the adoption of the revenue policy in 1810?of the protective j*>licy nnd its necessary tendency to its logical result of prohibition on the one hand and bounties on the other, lie staled that the objeit of taxation varies in different governments. That in some it is to depress t io masses and secure the loininion of the few?that this government is a more trustee of the people Taxation is n means to execute the trust, and in this view it slioulJ take as little as possible from the poop'o?it should hare equally upon all, and should interfere as little as |>o*siblo with private industry. That a protective tariff is inconsistent with these conditions, and for reasons as follows : This protective policy is manifestly uncquft! to elateos?but its jfjeoua! ty to e??cuona m still more obvious.? 1 Uo inanufacturiug interests are in a great degree routine i to tin* northern soot ion of the Union. tl licnefils a portion of tl?At **cti>11 nltli;expenwbf all other sections. To illustrate this, wo will suppose the southern planter wishos to exehungc his cotton for cotton cloth, or woolen or ire n. under the operation of a protective Uriif he must exchange bis cotton for less quailtity of those artivlos. If he buys the foreign commodity he must pay Government at least one fourth of its value for the privilege of bringing it within the country, to escape this taxation, he inust buy the homo-in-id* commodity at a price enhanced to the extonlof the duty oh the foreign article. Five sixths of our cotton crop is exported to Eur >pe to l?* exchanged for their products; but as we cannot import those products without paying a duty of twenty-livo or thirty per cent, our ability to rece*ve these pr (ducts is diminished ; and as their means of buying from us depends on our means of buying from them, mey cannot nnor?i 10 pay m inc wimc price for our cotton m they could if trade xrrs free between as. If this ?nine oj>?rates only to the extent of diminishing the price of cotton oo? cent per pound, then if cotton h selling ?t ten cents per pound, end the cost of the production be mx cent*, our pin mere incur *a eWoluto <oes . of twenty-dv? percent of their etenr W *?rw>*? 1*ewn-. r?V : * - "*f jflteLT IttkA violation of llie Constitution is so obvious, n lliat 1 will not stop to enlarge upon it. 1 'I'io protective policy, being thus in vi- ? , olation of the great principles of taxation tl and tho Constitution, should be ubniidou- in ed. So far as manufactures may be con- b rctpioncially piolected by a strictly rcvo- ti nuc tariff, I have no objection, for I tnke 01 as much interest in witnessing tho pros- t< perity of that interest as any other inter- tl est in the country. 1 only insist that the b taxing power of the (Jovcrninent shall not n bo used uinlucly to foster this interest at <1 tho expense of all other interests. tl Having scon what the true principles ( w of taxation repudiate, let us s? o to what | p they lead. They lead, I conceive to tho ] y lowest rates of revenue duties, universality I of imposition, and discrimination against n luxuries. Tho revenue standard, that b rate of duty upou every commodity which I will nflbrd the largest revenue at five per ti cent.; others at ten per cent.; others nt ai tifleet per cent.; and others at twenty per w cent. Tho reason of this is obvious. Tho T ability of a commodity to pay a tax on ti importation arises from the fact that tho 5 cost of production is loss abroad than it is 9 here. The degree in which the cost is less tl is various. Sonic commodities may be d produced abroad fifty per cent, cheaper p than hero; others only twenty-five; olh- it ers only ten, and some only five per cent, ti Tropical fruits amy ho produced several y hundred per cent, cheaper abroad than ft with us , certain cotton manufactures not e over ten per cent, cheaper. The revenue c standard on ditforeut commodities is, c .1 ? -- 1 ? !? f iiiuiciurv, iiuvjoshi uy viirious. 1 propose tl to ascertain, as near as may be, this revo- p nuo standard in reference to every com- (i modity ; and, having found it, to gradu- b ate tlio tariff accordingly to the lowest t , rates below this standard which will fur- b nish sufficient revenue. This rep uliates a horizontal tariff; which, indeed, all ex- n , perienee and all theory repudiates. 1 o would have the duties range from live to n twenty per cent. To average the details t< of such a tariff', would require a good deal tl of consideration, hut involves no itisur- (i mountable difficulties. tl Ify universality of imposition, I mean o that every commodity should pay some p duty. When every commodity paid some d duty, every commodity would pay the least amount of duty. It is like raising a d . given amount by subscription ; the greater e the number of subscribers, the less the a- n mount of individual subscriptions. The p principle on which the taxation on iiu- ?| posts rests, is, that it is assessment on eon- c spmptioii; to bo logical we must make ( this assessment universal; any departure d from the principle is gross inconsistency, o To admit such a portion of consumption, k or what is the same, articles duty free, n and tax others, is to permit a thing, a p portion ol the consumers to go free from u a just share vf taxation. What justice tl there is in this sort of favorism is bey?>n<l ? my conception. To tax consumption as ff you proftss to do, fairly, you must have T universality if imposition, and reject the p . una ot a lrco list. Ify this means you t! I will nationalize taxation, every consumer r w ill feel his due share of the burden, v The only nrtiulos I would admit free would o be such as, at the lowest rates, produced h a incro nominal revenue; as a matter of h convenience, such articles might he ad- .\ in it let I free. tt lfy taxing only a portion of the imports, tl as is proposed by the Secretary of the ? Treasury, and admitting a mass of arti- fi elea free of duty through the exercise of ii a little legislative legcrdemaiue, the hur- b den of tlio duties may be thrown on cer- |' tain classes and sections, to the exemption s J of other classes and sections. L do not imagine wo can attain positive equality n under any tariff'; for from the particular c forms of industry, which are also sectional ti in this country, it would ho impossible to si invent a tariff that would bear with entire ? j equality 011 nil classes and sections. Hut ? though we cannot attain positive equality t< it does not follow but that we should oh- o tain as much as is attainable. It may he " said this universality of duties is not us a I near an approximation to free-trade as the s< : free-list system. Hut I think the contra r< , ry will appear from the slightest reflection, g I Tho idea of a free list implies higher du- a ! ties ou the remaining imports ; and to the tl ! extent to which the taxed articles pay a " higher duty to make up tho deficiency d cau-ed by the freo list, to that extent it n \ the importation of those articles discour- ? aged. While you admit some articles a 1 freo, and are thereby compcllod to tax the 4 ' remaining imports higher, which are no ? cessarily more numerous and valuable, i> you more than counterbalance with one f? provi ion the free importation you encour- o: j age with another. The nearest practical ei approximation to free trade consists iu a aj I low duty diffused over all impo-ts,aud si not a high duty ou some articles and no G ' <1 i?tv ou (there. tl As regard# luxuries, the duty should fv be higher on them than on necessaries, o! Htvausc the rich, who consume them, are ' able, with less burden to themselves, to ? pay a higher rate of duty. An individual i? with an income of $.0,000 per annum, ci can better sjiare ten per cent, of it for Go- <*i vernment, than ono of $500 can spare t' five per cent. To insure, therefore, equali- tl tv as iimeh as inav be. luxuries should t> J J ? ? I pay a higher rate of duty. But thin prin- | p ciplo should not Ik) pushed too far; f)r j 1 experience has shown that high duties on | p i luxuries consumed entirely by tho rich, ir 1 operate rapidly to diminish their consuinp- | li tion. As an illustration on this point, in ! d Kuglund. from 182d, to 1824, the rale of . duly on French nines was thirteen sliil- ! ? lings nine pence jaw gallon, at which j ci the consumption was only one hundred I p 1 ami seventy-ono thousand eight hundred j i? and thirty eight gallons per annum ; in si ! 1823, the duty was reduce.I to seven shil- ' p lings three peuce, gnd during the suUo jueiit four years, the average annual con- ! * sumption rose to three hundred and sixty | thousand four hundred and fifty gallons. I \ And an exorbitant duly on luxuries, hy j tf discouraging their importation, may d?- I U minlsh the demand ti?r the product* of o( our industry, for which those luxuries are *< [ exchanged. To explain. Km nee is en.v ot j bled to buv our cotton and hdacco; to a d< j certain extent, with Iter brandies, wine* ! gi i and silks. If we tax I boo aria*)** too r* ! highly, it will react Upon ourselves, and m inn (kiiiiihj iw, MU oiiw>]u?viiT II the MM* of, thr* stabl?u tl tUkfh ti tariff * tba om I ha?? r%enm- j? I itiwdri, wo?M, I tMnlr, tnrry oot, ** j v ?WFf ** '* v.-y r *"*> ? $$*: If -" ^ , <a ear a* may be, the principles of taxation po have indicated as desirable. The email- eri <t amout of money wou'd he taken from be 10 people directly by Government: the wi idirect tax to the manufacturers would wi e as small as possible. The burdens of al ixation would fall as equally as possible fin n all classes and sections. As little in- an inference as possible would be bad with it ic industry ol the country. And it would m c strictly constitutional. 1 invite scroti- ps y to iny recommendations, and I confi- izs entlv challenge tlie ablest financiers in In lis House to suggest a tariff' system ch Inch will be more responsix e to the great m rinciples of taxation 1 have submitted to al on. tri The difficulty from a revenue tariff is th ot that xvo will liavo too little revenue, th ut too much. As an evidence ot this, nr would refer to tbs results of tho present in iriff. Messrs. Webster, Evans, Winthrop p< nd others, insisted that the tariff' of 1849 th ould not furnish sufficient revenue.? di hey estimated the receipts frem twenty- fu ,to to twenty-six millions, and yet in 18- fit 3 the receipts froin this t riff were $58,- of 31,806 52, nearly three times limes more m tan the smallest estimate. 1 have no m oubt that it' wo abandon the protective oliey, any reduction of the duties, which th may bo found practicable to make at w into, will bo followed in leas than ten el oars by another surplus in tho Treasury; T jr tho resources of tho country are in an at xtraordinary state of development. Our tli ommerce on one of our oceans, the l'a- ni itie, is yet in its infancy, excluded as it is es rom the Eastern Archipelago by tho cu- tli idity of the Dutch, and from Japan by a of ereo conservatism. When it bursts these hi >arriers, nnd glittcrB with tho treasures of in ho gorgeous East, tho most sanguine will w o astounded. ^ To prevent these futuro surplus aceu- ft nutations, 1 would authorize tho Secretary f tho Treasury to reduco tho duties a ^ egular per centago every six months, af- ? i?r a surplus began to accumulate, until lie receipts only equalled tho wants of lovornaient. It may bo objected that lis is a dangoious power to an Executive tlicer; but 1 do not apprehend tho pcole can ever ho seriously injured by a reuction of taxation. From such tariff as I have reconimcned the material advantages would be inalculablo. We would approximate as ear as possible to free trade?the great rivilcgo of selling where you can soli earost, and buying where you can cheapsi?tho richest boon which, under a good fovernment, can be extended to tho inustry, of any country. Agriculture and ouunerce would feel tho touch of a ning wand. Manufacturers would rest on a lore natural, ami, consequently, a more ermanciitlv prosperous basis. Of all in rests, however, the commercial would be _ ic most benefitted. Of all parts of the \\ onfcJcT.,,.,, no spot wou'.d bo so electri- ? ed as tlio imperial city of New-York.? lie golden streams w bich free trade would our into her hip vvoiilit lw> richer than he sands of the l'actolus. ller merchant cc iriuces would light up their marble halls in villi Aladdin's lamp. Horace Wulpole oi nco sain, with a foresight in advance of n, lis age, 'unakc London a tree port, and Lj y consequence the market of the world." iako New-York a free port, aud London ^ ml Amsterdam will bo at the mouth of lie Hudson. Indeed, tho advantages fldch would result from this advance to ree '.rude begger description. American ki ndustry would spring to her feet, and, A leaking chains which have hitherto im- lis iodod Iter progress, her giant tread would H, hake the continent. I have no doubt there aro some around ^ le who will dissent from this picture, ami on.sidcr any departure from the pr?4oc- ^ vo |K>licy as a great calamity.- To all itch, I recall to mind the notes of woe 1' illicit were sounded in 1640, on the pas- c,n age of llto taritV of that rear, modifying a some extent, the more protective tnritf p< fl842. Mr. Niles, of Connecticut, said in that if the bill passed, it would lie eqiiiv- O lent to a general confiscation;" in do- ct crihing the disastrous consequences to w tsiult front the rcjtoal of the act of 1842, row ing eloquent, ho said, ''the only par- ^ llel to it waa to he found in tho repeal of Ite edict of Nantx." Mr. Simmons said : ' This bill (taritVoi 1846) was to take the ^ aily bread from tbe orphan, and from tillio is wltitse euipleyniont would bo ju wept away." Mr. lluntington protested gaist the hill in the name of his people fr who were about to be thrown upon the orld w ithout bread or means of obiaintg it." Mr. Webster, in his peculiarly ol 'licitous manner, said, "all the industry In f tho land is against it; tho manufactnr- 1) rs are against it; tho importers are E gainst it; the importers are against; the jn tipowtiers are aganist it ; no man cries, lod save it; it is against tho stiniment of n( to land." ^licit were the melancholy irehoding* with which the modified tariff f 1840 was ushered into l?eing. w 1 appeal to lite signal progress of the Dtintry sine? then, though wo aro far ' ottt having free tn?-le yet. as the best * mttnenlary on those protective propltoies. I would, however, particularly refer > tho increase of imports and tonnage, lie best possible thermometers of tho pros- i ority of tito country. In 1844, the imoris wore $106,435,033 against $108,- . 18,311 in 1833, showing that under lite ' * rotectivo policy, while the |x>pulation had icreased one-half, imports remained stannary. In 1853, umler tho less prolec- jj, ve tariff of 1846, imports had run up to f 207,078,647. In 1833, tho tonnage as 1,606,151; in 1844 it had only in- * reased to 2,280,005; in 1853 it had ex- nt anded to 4,407,010. Thee aro stuborn facts; and if such 1* the ruin to renil from a departure from tlie protective olicv, commend me to such ruin. The f? >untry may well say to free trade, in the hi ord* of the maiden's love song, "Flnin is sweol, if thou undo me " Those protectionists who oppose a furter reduction of duties now, will, I tnM, c somewhat guarded in their prophecies ** F wn?. (J rent a* would be the mntcrinl Irsntnge resulting from An Adjustment f your tariff strictly to the rme#u? stsn*nl, the moral Adrjmtnges would bo T rosier. As Mr. Hurko philosophically m marks, Uto spirit of liberty in modern sc rriety in tho taxing powtf. And i ore are no pea pie mor* jJWt upon us subject than tbspooplslPEPFconfed- ri mm. - - . Bi It osmotA^BQL that the taxing on > a were of this Government have been ex- g unjustly to the Roction to which I long. We are not ignorant of our mugs, whatever may bo the patience n ill which wo endure them. You have p fortunate opportunity of remodeling your mncial policy on grea; principles of truth 8 id justice. Will you avail yourselves of f I trust you will. Before us is a future * ore glorious than was ever given to any a itriot in any age to look upon. To real- f J it, it is only necessary for those in whose I inds is tho direction of public affairs, to p evate themselves to the dignity of their 0 ission.and, rising above cJass and soction- t ideas, advance boldly in the path of nth, justice, and the Constitution. Place c foundations of your Government in oso great principles, nnd faction and an- ? chy and fanaticism will in vain seek to j1 ipede our triumphal progress to pros- ' wily, to greatness, and to glory. Under * o influence of these ideas, the star of onr p stiny, as it wheels ts majestic course, P II circle, tlaming through the mighty fc inament, sublimed with the grandeur g its hopes, would move the universal hu- c an henrt, for in its wonderotis ascension en would see the impulsion of a God. I have thus endeavored to put forward 1 icse great principles upon lh':s subject ' liiell have Lh'cii so loinr ?nd ho nrtinnilv ' terislied l?y the State of South Carolina. * lie master intellects with which she was * >le in the past so gloriously to illustrate t lese principles, have fallen into eternal 1 ght. The light of their genius still flash- \ i along the pages of your history, but icy aro no longer of the earth. To those 'us who have suceeo led thein upon this rena, remains only the huuiblo task of lanifesting our fidelity to the great truths liich they inculcated. ' 'HE LEDGER.! LANCASTEBVILLE, 8. C. KHiNEtWAY JIARui 1. Hot. Saturday uost is return day. . r ? -*"r?* h The Hon. \V. \\\ Boyce will please ncj?l our thanks for his kindness in furnishg us with public documents Were it in ir power, we would reciprocate the kind ss in n more tangible manner. Mr. Boyce '' is delivered his initiatory speech In Conress and the pnpers speak highly of it.? 'e give the most important portion of it i day. The Hon. Ik M. Kcitt 1ms also been very ^ nd to us in sending us various speeches c., This gentlenuim has already eat a tidied a reputation by his resent spec* h on o "Tonnage duties.4' The Hon. J. J. Rvaus lias been ;<irlicurty kind to us also, and wo tnko this ?p??rtunity to return him our most sincere lanks. The legislature acted with wis>m in placing this gentleman in the vault senatorial chair, and as anion, Judge vans has been long known to us, as one ?sse*aed of those attributes, which makes an the chosen w orkmanship of Divinity.? tin r Hun. centlctni'ti have Iweii it?u v..r? ? ? " ?w '*"/ uirteous in furnishing us from tunc to time itli papers SiAs yet, wo have not how- , or had occasion to tender our thanks to j io Hon. John McQueen the member from j ie first Congressional District. Mr. t IcQuecn we are glad to learn sustains s j gh character in Washington for sound , idgemcnt nod clear understanding. We a* sure Ijincsster District sustains no loss om entrusting her representation to him. We tender our thanks to some L 10 for a copy of Mr. Tucker's speech, derercd in the House of Reprcsentitives, eo. G, on the subject of " Common School ducat ion." We had the pleasure of hearg this speech, and it uiet with our hearty ( tproval. We ra iy giro s more extended j >tice of its merits next week. I |-#f~ The Story on the first page of this eeka paper, is very interesting. The 4*Rid Brothers" will l>? commenced next 1 eek. 1 ? ? t The Charleston Conner. ( The country Press are much indebted to ( ;c. Alexander Csrroll of the.Courier, for his . udncss in furnishing them with Into news, j Ve of the l^incaster I^eeger foci muek in- , btod, and lender our most sincere thsnks. ( To Postmasters. c Tost Master., are reqoired to notify s pub- 4 ?her when his publicationa are not taken ' om the Post Office, we earnestly request 4 em to lot us know when the ledger is * ?t taken out. * Modest?Very. F?r a subscriber who never having paid <1 r the paper, requeating us to discontinue 1 * paper, when he never owned it. 4 - ? ? ?1 - f Exchanges. The Raleiyh Post cornea to oe "enlarged kI improved." ft ia now one of the largit and also one of tho beat literary pnpera the United Htatea. The Troy (Ala.) Palladium cornea to aa mpletely changed.?Wa rreugnine in the roy Bulletin, no feature of tha Palladium, re tha well t ijtfrn editorials which rbarteriaed the latter. IE" We are pained to learn from the Mrieateu Standard of Friday hoi that Mr. rtitoo'e connection with that paper haa aeed on ei tonal of his dacHaief health. Ute Advertisement*?Executive Patronage. We publish in this paper,? very sensible rlicle on the nbore subject, which nppeard in the I-nurensville Ilurnld a few weeks ince: Of nII the debts which are nnnually preenU-d to the legislature, we believe there re none paid with such reluctance, as those or advertising. May we ask, why is this? s the amount for advertising so much ? A lublisher of n secular work, can obtain one >r two thousand Dollars from the Lcgislnure,merely as a token of encouragcmont, and et, if the bills of the news paper Press mount to four or five thousand, there is n [rent noise made, and economy is recom[tended. I-et us examine into this matter, fhe Executive may exercise all the discreion and economy possible, and yet, to comily with tho law of the State, an annual outay is necessary to be made for advertising. Jay that tho amount paid Inst yeur was J5000, we will wnrrnnt tho expenditure ould not be lessened more thnn one half? J2500. Now whnt signifies $2500, espein'.ly when xirtually devoted to the cause >f education. News pnpers hnve done as nuch for the cause of educntios.ns tho Free School Fund. And yet, every successive ession of the Legislature we see a spirit of >pposition exhibited towards the country 'ress, for having recoived ony portion of Sxecuiivc Patronage. We apenk on this matter as if no benefit iconics to the State proper, for this outlay. \ heniotis offence is committed in Oliarloson. the villain cacaoes nnd seeks refmre in Lancaster, the Pro lnm.it ion of the Governor h read in tho Ledger, and the assassin or icd iccr in apprehended. Does it signify l?e nuse the murder or rape was eommitted in Charleston, the Proelr.mntion of the Gove.ruir offering a reward for tho apprehension f the murderer or seducer should appear inly in tho Charleston papers? By no nears. Then what course should be permed?publish in oil the papers in the Stale. rhU would bo the most effectual means of >ri?igi?g him to justice. The proud aristocratic State of South Carolina, ambitious in her pride to scat l?egslators in marble halls, and yet too par?inonioua to expend two or three thousand lollars on the Press of the State, which we epcat, docs as much for tho cause of education as tlie Free School fond. It is just h-* other day, that a gentleman of this disriet gave us $5.00 for the paper the coming rear; we remonstrated, saying our price was inly two, but he insisted on our taking it, tor" said he am an advocate for educalou nir.?v;~ the masses, arid I am w In my $5.00 annually for a p. per published a the District." At another time *"o may say nore on this subject. We should like to iear froin the country Press. |y Godey's lady's Book for March is a *?autiful number. The continued improved J ippearnnce of the LaJy's Hook is a sure lign of its success. Tho Indies Hook is lie universal favorite of the ladies. Independent Ticket. foa Ixtxxmsxt,?K. D. KENNEDY. kYxsnsx*.?K. O. BILLINGS, JAMES ROBINSON, FELIX McLARXOM, J. D. IIA ILK. Tl?e City Register reports the number of leaths, for the week ending ISth inst., at urenty-ta-o, of w hich sis were w hites, and tixteen black and colored. Five colored pcr10ns died of old age, and five colored adults if small pox. This is a state of health of which few cities can boast?Charleston Standard. The Kvksixo Nkws.? Johx Cuhriroun. Esq., has become associated with Mr. Paxto.x in the proprietorship of this excellent ournal. The editoral department hereafter will be under his special charge, assisted by I. N, Cardozo COMMUNICATION. Messrs. J B. Mobi.f.t. dt other*. Corn'rs, Roads and Bridal, for laoeutrr District: During the l.ist session of the fa?giala;ure a duty devolved upon your represents.ivoH to nominate nnd appoint auitahle nnd it pontons to nerve na Commissioner* of Honda and Bridges for the ensuing term, I yearn. This atop was not done hastily and with>ut due reflet-1ion. My Colleague and my elf, at the meeting of the board previous to ?nr leaving for Columbia, consulted your vredecensors as to whom we should appoint, :hese nominations were duly considered and ippointed perhaps, with one eveeption Col. Hams, was named. We acting aa one of ho CoaTrt of Public Building*, we appoint>1 another in his place, and at the time we inlkd on the Board, one of the Commission rs refuse to nominate. We had, then, to nake the aeleetion sometime about the Pith ?f January. I received a note from your Chairman, that yoa bad met and organised, md after organising one of the members apminted thought At to excuse himaelf from aid service, by paying his fine to wit: Fifty loiters; consequently a vacancy occurred, t then becomes your duty to oleet some oc in his stood, which your Chairman inorma ate has fallen upon my shoulders. Gentlemen, I foal truly grateful to you or the high estimation which you seem lisp card to valae my services, but hog save to decline serving yoa at this lime, unler r via tine eircumataaeoe. Ho Ilea foe rhich (K? rititcai of IjummUt have boo. ml mo witii ? ml li Um U|Wit?ri boo iot jet upirM ; eotoeqneotly ! do not fool lyoolf at liberty to aeeept nop ofloe, either 'rofit or Treat, that wooM caooo im ton. cto ay ooot tay wet In the Lagiolaiere unK the tHno oiyirw fcr ebtrh I bare boon lotted. The coorao wbkb I bare taken on tkU occasion, I flatter myself, that the citisens of Ijsneaster district will not infer thst I am disposed to avoid any duty thnt may be re- h quired of her citizens. I refer you to the records, and you will see there that I have P already served 7 or 8 years as one of the Commissioners of Rends and Bridges of this a District. I* Respectfully your most ob't serv't, T. K. CURETON. a TELEGRAPHIC. ' Telegraphic Summary. FOREIGN NEWS. Arrival ef the U. 8 Mail Steamship. BALTIC. < New York, Feb. 20. * The U. S. Mail Steamship Baltic, Cnpt. c Comstock, has arrived at New York from Liverpool which port, she left on VVednes- e day the 8th inst. ' c _ 1 European Intelligence. r The Czar's last proposals have been rejecand negntntions broken otf. 1 The Russian Ambassadors have left Lon don and I'nris, and the English and French Ambassadors have been recalled from St. Petersburg. Count Orloff's mission has proved nn ut- ? ter failure. ( England and Franco aro openly preparing * f'T War. Several of the Cunard Steamships have t been taken by the British Government lo carry troops to Constantinople. ' Ships of the lino itnil steamers are, also, preparing to leavo the French ports with ' troops for the same destination. The allied fleets aro at Beieos Bay. and the Russian fleet is concentrated at Raffs, 011 the South Fast Coast of the Crimea. ' Outer l'nsha has crossed the Danube with 60,001) ?roops. Additional par Baltic. \ Baltimore, Feb. 20. r Omer Pasha crossed the Danube nt OI? tenitn nt the head of fifty thousand men, * and marnhed on Bucharest, ? here the Rus- t sinn force was small, thus cutting in two I the Russian army, and enabling himself to \ clTect a junction with the Turkish forces on t mat side of the rher. I Despatches from Vienna state that the re- i ply of tho Czar to the propositions of the Four Rowers was very unsatisfactory, and r not forwarded to Constantinople. a Immense military preparations were being made iu France and England. I Admiral Seymour will command the IMl- ? ish fleet in the Baltic. He has been recall- i ed from the West India Station. The ship Buonaventura, from Savannah j for liverpool, is ashore off llollvhead. I Some liverpool circulars quote Cotton ] in that market a sixteenth of a penny better. t Additional per B<ie. Bal. imoke, Feb. 21. ] Tho liverpool Cottos markt**<i,>scd qui etly without any advance. I In the British House of lairds on the 6th , Inst, a Marquis, (Clanricardo?) asked the , (Jsvrrmnent for iiiformntion regarding Ens- t tern nflairs,to whom lain! Clarendon replied , that he had just learned th.it proposals had i been received from the Emperor of Russia j at Vienna, the terms of w hich were entirely unacceptable, and not of a character to be scut to Constantinople. He also atutwd that Diplomatic rrlntiona between England and ' Russia had been broken off. ' Russian residents have been ordered to j leave Pari* within a month, or their properI ty would bo c? nfiscated. i In France the first expeditionary far Turkey is toady. It eonsista of forty thousand ' men. ( The French Atlantic Squadron has boen i i- a i. rr ? ?? .l. i?? J WIUVIVU ?W ft WUH'Hi IVI MIC Ift IS |?TV* ! <iutne<i of biking troupe on board. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin an* ounces that Pruui.i, and Austria will not j side with the Western poweis, but remain j j neutral. , i The Russians at Krnjova have retreated i ( to protect Buksrcst from the threatened attack of Omcr Pasha. Fresh Turkish re-ii forcemeats are to be , sent to Asia, under the protection ef the j allied floats, which is then to cruise in the < Black Sea. It appears that it wsa only s detachment of the French and English fleets which re tamed to Beicoe Bay, and this movement i was made for the purpose of escorting in 1 | safety the Turkish convoy to Batoum with 1 ! troops and provisions. This was sreom- , plished successfully without meeting s..y ] , Russian vessel on tbeir cruise, and at the 1 last dstss the Turkish convoy had returned 4 to Constantinople. While this was going , on, the Russian fleet was at Raffs, where it remained at the last advices, to maintain t communication between the Crimea and the I Rnsians in Asia. The British ship Fury had met with a' ' division of the Rusun fleet, and had inform- ! I ed the commander that it meet not approach j j nearer then thirty miles of the Turkish , j eoust. WsemngTon, Fob'y flfl. I Congie? wne not in eeeeloo Isdm w??- i t lag cdjoorMd arnr on yesterday in leetkaa- *% aony of thrir regard for the birth day of t Washington. Ud night there was a rencontre (wt?rM ' Senator CleaeM, of Alabama, and Mr. liar. ' ria, of Miastaslpt>i. Mr. Clrmona kwthnl 1 Mr. llarrU down. Ha partly wore separa. | tad, bat U is eipreted a daal will result. f> Tba Northern aiaik a on tin as Utermpted. " A dialri eaiag railroad amide** baa w*w> | l?d at Lancaster, Pa. Ber wlpamans eraea i ktlWdTand ornny wotmdwi. Pw | f " ^ * ' * V P Washikgton, Feb. 23. Mr. Feutnden, of New Hampshire, tooH in seal in the Senate to-day. Mr. Toombs addressed the Ssnnte on thd febraska Bill and in ita favor. It the House, tho Wisconsin, Railroad nd Homestead Bills were under discussion, lothing else of importance was done. The Harris and Clemens difficulty is ur?s djunted. A duel is expected between thd , mrties shortly. 4 Gen. Armstrong, editor of the Washing- < on Union, died this evening. I SECOND DESPATCH. NEBRASKA BILL AGAIN TAKEN Uft Report or House Committee. Congressional Washinotov, Feb. 24. The Senate Committee, appointed to e*njioe into the conduct of Mr. Ramsey-,' jovernor of Minesota, have exonerated hinf rom the charges preferred against him, and rdcred his accounts to be settled. The Nebraska bill was again taken up for onsideration. Mr. Douglas said that the aucus had agreed upon the terms of thS >ill. The debato will close on Wednesday text. Mr. Sumner spoke in snpport of the bill. Ifr. Butler also spoke on the same aide.? Vfier which The Senate adjourned over to Monday. The committee of the House of Representatives reported favorably upon ths dalm of Mr. Gallego to his seat, as dolepi to from New Mexico, which report was idoptcd. U?MAiN.I Viil.mS.ia U'lira rlnlit'iiNMl UAAn 4 ww ? ?..?B"- ? "I he life nnd character of Generid Artnitrong, late editor of the Washington Ulion. The House adjourned over to Monday lost. Third Despatch. LATEST FROM THE SEAT OF WAR. A Despatch received by the Turkish cmuuy indicates that preparations were mating fur an attack by the Turks on Muchirrst. Euiperor Napoleon, in a discussion at the Tnilleries, is said to hnve expressed the neessiiy for rigorous preparation* for war.? mnienso orders for arms nnd atnuiunilion verc beinj executed, nnd the inspection of roops was going on daily. The Island of ifyrtilenc would doubtless be tho chief iepot. Great ,?cll\ lly hlxo prevailed III ths French inval depsrtmcttt. 1/cvle* of seamen were irriving from all parts of the cottntrv. It is asserted th ?t ihs d?vr?M f ?r lli? ooTemcnt of the expeditionary fotrc, latcfl* led for the East, sre actually prepared, and inly aw..it the signature of the EmjHsror. Hie pr?-cise amount is not stated, but tho general opinion is, it will at least, for the present, be composed of four divisions of tO.000 men each. A telegraphic despatch from Trieste contain* the fallowing from Constantinople, an. Inr dsts of Jan. 2b. "The sllied fleets sre for ahe moment at Beicos, to take on boar.l provisions, 4tc.? i hay did not meet on their eruise with any IIusdon vessels. Tho Ru??i.,n llcot contin?es concentrated si KolTn. Fresh reinforce, nents are preparing to be forwnnlrd to Ada under the protection of the allied fleets, vhi'-h will immediately after return to tho Block Sea. Tho irregular fleets ore to bo scorporated with the army." Great Britain. PariiatnsiU was opened on tho 31st ulf. The crowd wss much greater than usual on ihe route to the House, and theQneen wss {re illy cheered, but I'rinco Albert was oe? asion diy hissed. The *1 urkish Minister snd llcra'Piil TltrlfS in ihc crowd were cordially cheered. The House unusually full of s|>lendid Mulnmra, hut no number* of the American l?lt>y;iliou w ere present, the master of the reremsnie* having sent notice that all ths diplomatic corps must appear in fell costume. The following U the Qeeen'e Spweh. " My lionos 1x0 Uisti.kxcr : I aus always happy to moot )ou in I'arlUmcnt, and on the present oceaaton it U with peculiar atisf.iction that 1 recur to your ssaiutaneo ind ?dv?ca. "The hopes which I expressed at the rloae of the last session that a speedv settlement would be eff.-eted of the differences ?xisting between Russia snd the Ottnnw.n Porto have not b.eu realised, and 1 regret to lay that a state of warfsrs lias ensued. 1 liave continued to set in cordial ro-operalion with the Emperor of the French, and my tndeavorw, in conjunction with my allies, to preserve and to rectors peace between the ontending parties, although hitherto nhMMceeafat, have been unremitting. I will not tail to preserve in these endeavors, but is the continuance of the war may deeply iflTeet the interests of this country, and of Europe. I think it requisite to nuns further iiigmentation of my ssvsl and military forces, with the view of supporting my reprt* tentative*, and of more? ITertuslly rontribe* iing_ to the restoration of peace. " 1 have desired that tbo papers exptnuft* lory of the negotiations which have taken place upon this subject shall becommnnisn. led to you w ithout drlar. - Gei'tlcms of the House of Commons t The estimates of the year will W bid be* Tore you, and I treat that you will And their consistency with the exigencies of the pubijg* lifvMm ml (Kin itsnotea* * - P* ) ? ? MK Yxim tl ?ith t dtw regard to MMMijr. . " Mjr Lords and Ctslkew. Is lis ww its! li-miiutoi lbs blessing of 11 almsdaal urvrst has not bom vssebasM lo M by S* diaper. a.u Ion of Proridmrr, Iks prira f prov ? ?<> lus born enhanced *nd Iks pd. .liott* of Iks poor iMntsai but (Mr fu from Ium b?o ? 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