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constit al importance--we neom the registration. Sir R. Feel was the first to proclaim that the bat. tle of the constitution should he fought in the res gration courts, and his party found the benefit of following his advice. As the League depended for success solely on constitutional means, it was ne cestry, as the combat deepened, to investigate the

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interesting events on the Texan anufacturers fhir now holding nid, we have hula doubt; be the main lovice of the sewspapera is got up with orical magnificence such as never attended any pable exhibition of the kind in this country. The agents and treasurers of the great factories, owned by combinations of powerful capitalists, the ter, most islocisny of the country, have lavished upon it

80 expense which well

hich well sustains the reputation of the princely revenues shared, once in six months, among their principals. Men and women throng to it in crowds, as they thrung in Paris to the specios of the three days, and pay their money for the privilege of squeezing through the thron ged passages between the counters on which the fabrics are exposed.

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perfect unanimi-

Never was there. bere was so little, not of difference of opt

would be at an end the to choose a new hous, and the result would ex with little reason to boast, and a with much reason to complain.*.

The object of this fair is to pecanade the men- bers of Congress not to vote for a reduction of the present tariff. It would not surprise us, however, If the members were to draw from it a different lesson from what is expected of them. They will perceive that only a class enjoying great prosperity, and gathering great weath from the investment of their capital, could get up so gorgeous a show. It will be apparent to them that those who follow the unprotected callings, the great class of cong- mers, who till the ground, and occupy themselves with a thousand miscellaneous branches of industry, of which the tariff takes no note, could never afford to do what is done by these manufacturing cor- porations; and they will hardly be brought to vote fo the preservation of any prohibitory duties by seeing the riches wrang from the people by ad unjust law pompously paraded before their evos.

Ballardville Company has little or no competen in worsteds, but it is well aware that the rang their salo must depend upon their cheapots, n compared with other worsteds merele wide range of fabrics. Hethibite afect coatings" at 80 cents and cotton clothe cents, which would have been deemed ... a few years since, however they may be

"The silke I have examined with deepest in I think the richest and most tasteful specime those of Missetapp, Economy, Po fan lusts acciation, by the way, known as Kapp's, c ably older than the Express or Conner une and not unlikely to outlive them trub) shawl, searfs, handkerchiefs, vestngs &a.

Those of J. W. Oil [late of surpassable.

now of Wheeling, Va.] ars more abundat .. lity, and generally more substantial labi... indicate that Mr G must be doing a largebn Mr Van Eps, late of our city, now of this d has along with silk fabrics, cocoons, widths 2- ing, dec. I learned that he has twenty a res planted with the mulberry, and is extending works as fast as possible.

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The finest muslins (shirtings] are prodaty those of the James steam-mill. Newburyport, Ma but these were made for exhibition solely, and t no price affixed, so that their value and cost cal be compared. Next these in quality, I think, wote those of the Dwight mills, Cabotrille, Mass inches wide, 14 cis per yard. The Cubor oitis. exhibit excellent long cloths, B cis per yard Chicopee Co, do., exhibits a good article of the ed shirtings, 82 inches wide, 64 cis per yard. The Great Falls Co, N. IL, exhibit heavy yard w blanched shirtings, 7 cts. and cis pex yard; and beside them is a specimen of British prize shirtings, made in 1818, and then sold by the bale at 85 er its per yard.

It is a good article, but would har de Some hear indigo bine

command 8 cts now. cottons, 9 cents per pard, from the Perkids mig Cabotville, Mass., seemed well worth the mones. The Bristol and Taunton printworks. Mass, late good displays of their fabrics The Merrina, Lowell, have, of course, a good lot; and lonel several patterns, very fair, from Morristown, Pa. (0. Jamison) at 515) cta per yard.

Belville, N. J. Duncans and Cunningham | exhibits an array of shawls, cussing from 1 to 19 is up to 15 dols each, which would open the eyes of some of our Broadway shoppers, who de mat suspect, when they buy such as duable the man facturers prices, that they could be produced in this entry New Jersey is well representedher - Bellevile, Lori, El zabahrown (which has by far the best show of fluor, sade, and oil cloths of s Canden, and several other places, send gound some ples of their products. I am surprised than No. work and Paterson have comparatively here. The silk factory at Paterson ought to have sent at all events.

There are yet other inferences, equally unfs- yourable to the continuanes of prohibitory duties, to be drawn from this exhibition. Many of the manufacturers who have consented to send to the fair the articles they produce, acknowledge that they have no necessity of protective duties to enable them to prosper in their vocation. A correspondent of the Washington Union, speaking of the flannels, from the Virginia Woollen Compouy, at Richmond, as cheaper than any other exhibited at the fair, remarks that the agent, Mr Jones, considers the daty in the tariff lately prepared by the Committed of Ways and Means as amply sufficient for the success of his company. He notices fabrica from severni amali factories in Virginia and Maryland brown cottons from the Laurel Factory, in Mary land; and cotton shirtings made by Gambrill, Car roll, and Co, of the same state, cheaper and more perfect in texture than those worm in the loome of the large incorporations at the east. The truth is that the present tariff is there wanted for the overgrown establishments of the stern states, with their apparatus of well salaried amnagers, agents and treasurers, who hold no easy supervision Or flannels, those of the Ballardvale Co., Alves, over their affairs, than for the well factories agent 50 cis (wide), Faulkner and bow, Billenes, vely watched by the ownOTS. Caleb Jones, of Mais at 19 29 eis: A and A. Lawinare E Richmond, may but Abbng Lawrence, of Boston, would miss a few. 22 to 11 ets, impressed me favoura ly

do very little without high doties, well, 30 cts; and the Virginia Co, Bichinbart, Wa

Agures in the footing of his yearly gains.

vale alpeccas, 40 cfs, Cumberland plaids yed wide, 10 cis, and a strong heavy côánh bị bay estil cable twist (Lowell Co ). 15 and 13 e I not down he deserving commendation.

ness of object has been one of the chief the sucess which a crowned the the league. There were many occasions no the course of the struggle aber a large addition. strench seemed likely in he gained by allaying our cause with other demands more or lead popular, but the seductions of temporary advantage were resisted, for the League relied for success more on sirengib of argument than on strength of numbers. Truth must, in the long run, prevail, and its pro grass would bave been retarded if it had been pre sented to the public mind in such form as to distract attention. To have superadded another tople to our legitimate demand, would have alien- ated many whose pid was desirable, not merely to increase our strength, but to smooth down the pre judices of adversaries. We sought to win our way, not by conquest but by conviction; our vic. tory has, therefore, been noiseless, and for that very reason is likely to be perpetual in its results. The sllent ebb and flow of ocean produces eternal might have rendered a little warmth excusable, if changes on the continents of the earth, but the not justifiable. It neither our wish nor our pur effects produced by the storm and the tempest are nose to enter into any details of the management, either effaced by time or again altered by the nex but we may state, that it is an unprecedented event convulsion of the elements, Truth, like its Divine in literary history, for a journal, devoted exclusi- Author, is to be found neither is the whilwind noc rely lo a single topic, to maintain a permanent in-

the earthquake, but in the still small voice. That forest for its renders through anything like the on some occasions more violent Janguage was used period over which our publication has extended them: the occasion required, or than strict decaram A progressive increase of demand is, at least, Burne

might sanation, may safely be confessed; the im- evidence of sustained influence, and though the pameasity of the means was inseparable from ile per was published at a price which rendered it une

excess An agitation spread over the whole extent profitable as a pecouiary speculation, we have rea- of Britain must have occasionally fretted and for son to know that this was more than componanted med, like the tide when it passes over a shual or is by the subscribers it procured to the general fund. impeded by a rock, but these aberations "were There was one department of the business of the fost in the general advantage; the dashing of the League, unconnected with its erectional mission,

sprey was but an incident in the award flow of which has excited much attention on account of its

the mighty waters. There was an element of sa- faty present in the very worst of these pills- perfect publicity of the League's proceedings; and publicity is the best meses to keep men innocent and to keep them rational. In one of the Lea- gue's proceedings was there any sulgar denonclu fions against the government, or any mysterious admiration of revolution; we had no crime to con which the constitution bed placed at their ceal, and no folly of which we should be ashamed. disposal By the ancient for the realm the

The objects of the League were national, not possession of a 408. freeheld ponfers a vote in selfish, they sought to protect the rights of the . County and hence free traders were urged to pro dustrious from the wrongs of the idle; to sedure to cure much freeholds the League providing proper every man who sought to harn his subsistence "a Agency to facilitate their acquisition. It has been fair day's wages for a fair day's work," and they absurdly supposed that some of these freeholds sought this as earnestly for the labourers of Dor were purchased from the League fund; but insetshire as for the operatives of Lancashire They every instance they were bought and paid for by showed that protection deprived labour of it far Individual free trader, the League only procuring remuneration, and they listened to the cry of dis. for the purchaser legal aid and guidance in effect. fress which the agricultural labourers uttered in ing the transfer. Had the existence of monopoly their homely but forcible language.

W'e be pru- been protracted to a new parliament, we have little tocted, but we be starving." If the country is now doule that the League system of registration would convinced that the condition of the agriculis have been found as effective in other counties as population imperatively demands investigation and it proved to be in the West Riding of Yorkshire, redress, it is owing to the League; if the Arcadian The announcement of the ministerial measures, pictures of rural felicity which floated before the just brought to a successful issue under the guid poetic vision of lords and equires have been dispel ance of Sir R. Pel, tested the strength and cun- led to reveal the naked realities of misery and de sistency of the League, It was supposed that it gradation they concenied, it is paring to the property This fastering of our infast manufactures, and *1 is precisely so with manufacturing pursuite

of the farmer, and the moral reis brought by game pampering the capitalists who chose to mike cotton

Ol really fiue broadcloths, I believe those of If the ravages committed by game on the property prohibitionists call it in their cant, this favoring and Mussachusetts (manufactured by W. and D. D. laws on the character of the labourer, have been so

Farnum Waterford. A. Lawrence, Lowell and the exposed as to render the continuance of such a

or woollen cloths, is the very worst policy for a Hamilton Company, Southbridge) are extermiet system impossible, it is arving to the Leagus fores allowing the young fellow to set ouijn tion which desires the perfection of its manufac

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best though I remarked some excellent pieces and the limitation which the same insecurity affixes from that attention and industry to which it is best Connes, or somewhere else in Watervlet. the wrong whien insecarily iglicts on the tenout, life with an estate. It spoils him by exempting him and Rool, Albary

stamper Jefferson Co., Dexter, N. Y., and Chapla which I suppose means at the to the amount of employment, for the labourer, be that all men should be held. The true policy is to ansamb

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League. In fact the league has done more for

into the open field of comm the agricultural than for the manufacturing inter they will plow themselves to be crushed; we hare est: Bad ere long firmers will hallow ite memory perfect confidence that with the ingenuity, activity, more affectionately and more devotedly than traders and fertility in expedients that belong to our cu Our aracciation, like every other institution, most trymen, five years of that policy, the policy of free perish when its destiny is fulfilled, but if leaves to trade, would make us better manufacturers in every the world the rich bequest of right example reaprct than we have ever been, and better than we Henceforth let no labooters in the cause of enligh Cenedlantropy despair of Snate success. The Stripling with his afore quale la the overthrew

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should of necessity declare either for one party or the other, but it held to its indeppant course, and to the house its demand for total, imme- unqualified repeal When that motion teil, it refused to play the factious game monopolists, but steadily supported the mi ho paid 174. 6d. in the pound, and gere for the remaining bh crown. Let remembered that the free trade agitation was the only movement exclusively originating with, and conducted by the m inases recorded in British history

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Or Washington correspondent meations that Col Prett, of Prattsville, who has sent some fine specimens of leather to the fair, says that with a tention and industry his manufacture would suc. the cotton and woollen manufactures, Atientian ceed without protection. It is precisely so with industry are required, and who is there that has a right to ask to be disposed from the necessity of attention and industry 1 Protection and prohibitory dages are but premiums un American idleness in stead of enconragemang lo American industry,

"If you would spoil a young man let him begin useful and thriving man of him, if you would casure the world with a fortune. If you would make a

highest exercise of his talents, let him begin the aborious habits and the diligent calivation and world with nothing. Let him scramble for him salf, and make his own way to fortune.

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"I see the Virginians and Marilandets are prod of their share in the first national fur, and wih reason. Some of the most substantial and serv crills, sheetings, &c.-ure from Richard an ceable fabrics are cxhibited-enaburgs 10, Peiersburg, Va., and from the Laurel, Patupsen, Wethered's and other milk in Maryland, I th no goods of equal weight and strength with some of these which sell for & cents per yard were over poured out the products of her workshops in great made cheaper any where Baltimore, too, kas

abundance,

Her hath of them of decided excellence. very air show besides hits. &c. &c, make a

furniture.

of Philadelphia. Now York nught in bave beaten them both, but has not seen fit in make the effort,

are several specimens of es good cosstmeres as any man need, wish to wear marked I dol and I d

now notorious and palpable, it is owing to the thru our manufacorld We have no fear that 12 cis per yard. I have noted those marked 'Phers

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and Co., V and others marked "Haris, as amyg the best A very rich assortment of Rob Rex plaids, is marked A. and A. Lawrence, Bostou," 90 cts per yard. Of salinets there is a large col- lection, including very good ones from the Monson and Hampden companies, Mass., al 62 cis, ant good enough from Ingalls and Tyler, North Adams, do, at 52 cls, have marked on my pencil noter the plaids of the Caledonia Co. of Win. Smith, John E. Willers, &c, Phila, as very heavy and good for the 25 and 80 cls per yard, at which iter are bourked Sonie beautiful power from quills. snow white, gured, one marked wholesale price in 1833-4 dols; in 1846, 2) dois" Some I. S. pilt duck 21 cts. Wrapping paper from Corn-

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aments by Reinhardi and Co., Baltimore, dresses by John, Ashion, Jr. Phil. the rules I have noted as worthy

Soudery is still mengre, though tylbotson and Horner, of out the best case, The Cisier erman, ageni, N. Y.) has speci

&e which will wie with any ens, I hear, lus ande from the reo of twelve but I have not found Company Richmond, adjudged hardly inferior By Bay the works are do much beiter. They olodge tools, inado

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