The Kalida Venture, 1845-12-09

The vicinity of tho northern provinces of the kingdom of Naples to the papal territo territories, - ries, territories, and tho ease with which malefactors of both countries respectively onin an asvlum. by passing the frontiers, opened a door to the commission of the must flagitious acts. Conversing one day, at Portici, on this sub- jeci, wim iuiy Hamilton, sua related to tne the following story: "About the year 1743, a person of the i.amo ofOgilvie, ait Irishman by birth, who practised surro.v with meat reputation at Rome, and who resided not fur from tho "Piazza di Spagna," in that city: being in bed, was called up to attend some strangers who demanded his professional as assistance. - sistance. assistance. They s:opped before h's house in a coach, and on his going to the door, ho found two men masked, by whom he was desired to accompany them immediately, as tho case which brought them admitted of no delay, ana not to omit taking with him Ins lancets. He complied, and got into tho coach; but, no sootier had they quitted the street in which he resided, than they informed him that ho must siiqmit to have his eyes banda bandaged, - ged, bandaged, tho person to whom they were abuut to conduct hun being a lady of rank, whoso name and place of abodo it was indispensa indispensable - ble indispensable to conceal. To this requisition he like likewise - wise likewise submitted; and after driving through a number of streets, apparently with a view to prevent his forming ony accurate idea of tho part of tho city to which he was conducted, the carriage at length slopped. Tho two gen gentlemen, - tlemen, gentlemen, his companions, then uliglitcd, and each taking him by the arm, conducted him into a house. Ascending a narrow staircase, they cutcied on apartment whero he was re released - leased released from the bandage icd over his eyes. One of them next acquainted him, that it be being - ing being necessary to put out of life a lady who had dishonored her family, they had chosen him to perform the office, knowing his pro professional - fessional professional skill ; that he would find her in the adjoining chamber, prepared to submit to her tate; and that he must open her veins with as much expedition as possible a service, for the execution of which ho should receive a liberal recompense. "Ogilvie at first peremptorily refused to commit an act so highly repugnant to his feel feelings. - ings. feelings. But the two strangers assured him, with solemn denunciations of vengeance, that his refusal could only prove fatal to himself, without affording the slightest assistance to the object of his compassion: that her doom was irrevocable, and that unless he chose to participate in a similar fate, ho must submit to execute tho office imposed on him. Thus situated, and finding all entreaty or remon remonstrance - strance remonstrance in vain, he entered the room, where he (ound a lady, of a most interesting figure and appearance, apparently in the bloom of youth, She was habited in a loose undress; and immediately afterwards, a female atten attendant - dant attendant placed before her a large tub filled with warm water, in which she immorsed her feet. Far from imposing and impediment to the act which she knew he was sent to perform, the lady assured him of her pefect resigna resignation, - tion, resignation, entreating him to put the sentence pas sed upon her into execution with as little de lay as possible. She added, that sho was well aware no padon could be hoped for from those who had devoted her to death, which alone could expiate her trespass; felicitating herself that his humanity would abbreviate her sufferings, and terminate their duration. "After a short conflict with his own mind, perceiving no means of extrication or of es cape, either for the lady or for himself; be ing moreover urged to expedite his work by the two persons without, who impatient at his reluctance, threatened to exercise vio violence - lence violence on him if he procraslinated,Ogilvie took out his lancet, opened her veins, and bled her to death in a short time. The gentleman having carefully examined the body, in order to ascertain that she was uo more, after ex expressing - pressing expressing their satisfaction, offered him a purse of zechins, as a remuneration; but he declined all recompense, only requested to be onveyed away from a scene on which he could not reflect without horror. With this entreaty they complied, and having again ap applied - plied applied a bandage to his eyes, they led him down the same staircase to the carriage. But, it being narrow, in descending the steps, he contrived to leave on one, or both of the walls, unperceived by his conductors, the marks of his fingers which were stained with blood. After observing precautions similar to those used in bringing him thither from his own house, he was conducted homo ; and at parting, the two masques charged him, if he valued his life, never to divulge, and, if possible, never to think of the past transaction. They added, if he should em embrace - brace embrace atiy measures, with a view to render it pulbic, or to set on an inquiry iuto it, he would be immolated to their revenge. Having finally dismissed him at his own door, they drove off, leaving him to his reflections. "On the subsequent morning, after great irresolution, he determined, at whatever risk to his personal safety, not to participate, by concealing so enormous a crime. It formed, i nevertheless, a delicate and difficult under taking to substantiate the charge, as he re mained altogether ignorant of tho place to which ho had been carried, or of tho name or quality of .he lady whom he had deprived of life. Without suffering himself, however, to be deterred by these considerations, he waited on the secretary of the apostolic cham ber, and acquainted him with evety particu particular; - lar; particular; adding, that if the govrnment would ex extend - tend extend to him protection, he did not despair of finding the bouse, and of bringing to light

with the chongo perceptible in tho grca staples of Flour and Wheat, which predom inate so much over nil the others in Western production and in domestic and foreign con sumption, as well as in value. We have suited the prico of Flour as it was quoted in August last although subsequently to that period it hut! fallen at this plucu below $3,00 per barrel, and but for me demrnd for hng laud which commenced two mouths ago, and has recently become very great, it would in the opinion of extensive millers here have fallen to 82,50. Even now when foreign demand has raised tho piico to nearly four dollars in this market, flour is much chsap: than in July 1842 before tho passage of the 1 urift when it was G,00 in INcw York, nl though all accounts then indicated an abun dant crop of Wheat at homo and abroad. llio periods wo havo selected of 1840 '41 and of 1844 '45, for data, to indicate I lie vuluo of agricultural products, before and since tho enactment if the existing tariff, are dividod bv the point of extreme financial do prcssiou in tho year 1842. As this was near the period of the paasngo of the Tariff and as it has been followed by better tunes, the nn provement has been ascribed to tho law, as was the previous embarrassment to tho want f it. This is the customary argument of all quackery. For as periods of great distress disorder tho judgment and multiply the chances of improvement from change, they aro usually tho seasons for quacks and char latans to flourish with their systems. Upon Uhp pretension of the 1 anil pol.cy however, wo uro fortunate in facts that are conclusive. For several months prior to the passage of the luiiftot 1812 tho prices of the great sinples of wheat mid cotton were higher in this couniry than they have been since, and were also in demand at prices correspond correspondingly - ingly correspondingly high abroad, although crops wero abund ant every where, so that even soeatly as July 1842, exchange between the United States mid Great Britain was in our favor, and specie flowing it. An event at such a lime almost without a parallel, for it is the season when cur impotts arc heavy and our exports light being loo cuily for tho new cotton crop to L'o forwrrd. Such was tho condition of our foreign trade in the last days of the Compro' niise Act the ucaiest appioxftnatiou to free trade we have known for thirty vcars. I lie great staples of the West and South were working out the redemption of tho people from the embarrassments and debt, created by the bank expansions of '35-'30 that were predicated on the enormous amount of public deposits I hat had beeii needlessly and unjustly accumulated in tho coffers of government from the action of that protective Tari" which was overthrown in loJJ. liut vhilst tho West and South were thus beginning co auspiciously the restoration or prosperity the Tariff of 1342 passed. The profits of munuiuctunng rosu enormously, otton mills made dividends from 10 to 40 per cent; Iron, fJugax, Woolens advanced in price from 20 to 100 por cent, all manner of cor corporation - poration corporation stocks felt the impulse and city pro perty and city rents rose with the rest. .'iut tho freat Veciem and southern staples, Wheat and Cotton, have 2onc down more than twenty per cent, have been even lower than that, and would be lower now, but for the peculiar effect of the China trade on the onc,ind a partial failure cf English crops on tho oilier. Let us see if we can estimate the effoct of the Tariff on tho West. The principal protected urlicles are Cot ton and Woolen goods, Iron and Sugar. The value of these articles manufactured in 1840 according to the census would be about one hundred millions of dollars. In 1842 it would be neuily the same. In that year the duties on them were raised from twenty per cent to un average of at least eighty. Alihough this great advance of duty wa3 the dictate of the manufacturing interest, and must have been deemed requisite to exclude the foreign article, (tor tlio odium ot such enormous raits would not ho needlessly incurred,) we will assume that after all the effects of sub sequent- domestic competition, tho Tariff tf 1842 now enables the domestic manufacturer to obtain twenty-five per cent more for his commodities, than bv the Compromise Act Tho existing difference between domestic prices and foreign will completely sustain this us an average estimate. Tho increased cost then to the consumer of these articles is twenty-five millions. Tho West consumes one-fourth of them and pays therefore six and a quarter millions extra for thorn. She gives, however, in exchange her produce, which is reduced in vuluo by the operation of the system twenty-five per cmt, also. Hence the cost of the West for the protec protection - tion protection of those four articles only of domestic manufacture is twelve millions and a half; so fur as our domestic trade is concerned. In the foreign trade the loss of tho West is about tho same. She ships thirty millions of her products abroad, at prices reduced as we have seen by tho system ouu fourth. Hero is a loss of ten millions for a fourth having been taken off to reduce the sum to thirty millions, it would without that sum be Ibrty millions. But the West receives in exchange for her own consumption of foreign merchandise thirty millions. According to the proportion of dutiable articles imported and the duty piid this year, the amount of duty paid by the West is about six millions, or three millions more than by the Compro Compromise - mise Compromise Act, making tho total burthnra to the West on our foreign trade beyond the de demand - mand demand of a revenue Tariff, thirteen 'millions

Fourteenth, (Lnmbcrtini,) who then occu pied the papal chair, had uo sooner received i bo information, than he immediately com- 'rienccd the most active measures fordiscov- ering tho offenders. A guard of the Sbirri, or officers of justice, was Appointed by his order to accompany Ogilvie, who, judging from various circumstances that he had been conveyed out of the city of Rome, began by visiting tho villas scattered without the walls of that metropolis. His search proved ulii- matcly successful. In the villa rapa Julio, constructed by Pope Julius the Third (del Moate), he there found tho bloody marks: left on the wall by his fingers, at the same time that he recognized the apartment in which he had put to death tho lady. Hie palace b .'longed to the duke do Bracciano, the chief of wlixb illustrious family and Ins broiher had committed tho murder on the person of their own sister! They no sooner found that it was discovered, than they fled to the city of loudon, where they easily clu ded the pursuit of justice. After remaining there for somo time, they obtained a pardon, by the exertions of their powerful friends, on payment of a considerable fino to the apos apostolic - tolic apostolic chamber, and under the further condi condition - tion condition of affixing over the chimncy-pieco of the room where the crime had been berpetralcd a plate of copper commemorating the trans action, snd their penitence, l Ins plate, lo getlier with tho inscription, still continued to exist there till within these few years. LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ON THE EFFECT OF THE TARIFF OF 1842, On the Agriculture and other In Interests - terests Interests of the West. Dy a Committee of the Denorrntlr. Convention of Hamil ton County, Ohio. To ROBERT I. WALKER. Secretary Treasury, United States America: (CONCLUUED.) Capital is slid to bo the accumulated pro ceeds of labor. A more philosophical defim- tiou would be the passive elements of hu human - man human enjoyment the faculties of man biy'ng tho active.; Hence eipal may rcsijll (torn other agencies than human, and lie equally susceptible of conversion to tho uses of man. Tho West indeed has slumbered for many ages, a silent wilderness as to tho axe, the hammer and the loom of civilized man but nature has been at work, day and night with all the agents of her laboratory with heat, and moisture, air and electricity, with all the occult and mvstcrous processes of vegetation and decay, to accumulate as the result of lu r labors on the surface of the soil a wcallh greater than that of " Ormus and of Ind." greater than all which has glittered from Golconda and Polosi, greater than was plund plundered - ered plundered by Rome from her subject provinces, greater than Albion has wrung from her toi toiling - ling toiling millions, and won by her empire over the world-surrounding sea. Indeed nature seems to have withheld this region from tho dominion of man, for the purpose of making improvements on the original creation, to become finally the sanctuary of tho most in dependent and intrepid of the offspring of those, who renouncing the servitude and superstition of the old world laid tho founda tion of liberty and religion on the Atlantic shore of North America and having com completed - pleted completed her work 'twas from here that in the language of an American poet, " Great nature trod Her last majestic footsteps up to "God." Yet this vast accumulation of natural capital, which requires but the minimum of artificial capital and human agency to render it pro productive - ductive productive of the great essential elements of comfort and wealth, has been by the excess ive and systematic hostility of Government, divested of a great proportion of its attrac attractions - tions attractions for capital and enterprise. There is not now, there has not been since the present tariff law was enacted, a single instance within our knowledge, of an iniestmcut of capital, as such, in agricultural pursuits for profit. And it is now in this country an es established - tablished established opinion, founded on the well known results of such employment, that whoever undertakes to realize profit from a considera considerable - ble considerable investment of capital in fanning, would be visionary and unsuccessful. In support of this opinion we need not resort to elaborate, or complicated reasoning. It is enough to adduce a few decisive facts. Tho Tariff law now in force took effect in the fall of 1842. The prices of Agricultural produee, before and since thut event will illustrate its effect on Agncultural property and labor. We take from a New York price current the following quotatious of a few leading articles of Western produce in that market: 'T July 1H44. 4,00 s.r.o 8,62 H d,S7 85 s -r AUTlCLtS. Jnne Dec. July Aiijr. 1840. 1H41. 1H44. 1845. Ashes. Pots, ner cwt.. 4,50 ,00 4,00 3,75 Beef, Mess per bbl. 14,00 7.50 S.f.O 9,00 Pork. do. do. 14,75 S.25 Bfi'l JS.B0 I.nrd. ner lb.. 10 6. Flour, Western Csnal, per bbl. 4,50 6.S5 4,31 M Wveat. per bushel, tu i,-u Tobacco, Kentucky, ner bbl 7 7 Pv ) ,';.. jvV.38.87 30.43i 2S.941 30,0 If we aycrsee the aggregates of price for the two years before the tariff3887--3053 C930 and for tho two years after the tariff 22i)4-!-30S05374, and subtract one fiom the oilier there is a difference or 1558, or a fall of more than Henly-two per cent in the value of agriculturaKproducts. This result although obtained by averaging the price without reference to the quantity of the arti-

NEW GOODS. THE subscriber! have just opened an assort assortment - ment assortment of NEW AND CHEAP GOODS, - which they are determined to sell as cheop as they can be bought any whero in northern Ohio. Our , More may be found at the new stand between . McClure's and Holibaugh's taverns. Among our ' stock may be found, Broad Cloths, Cassimcres, Sattinetts, Kentucky Jeans, Ashland Tweeds, Moleskin, English Merinoes, Cashmcro de Cosa, Mousline de laine, Calicoes of every description, from 6i cents upwards; Bleacliedjslicetings and Shirtings; Brown Muelins, from Ci cents upwards, ' nlso a handsomo variety of Plnid and Cloth shawls; . Comforters, Florenco Braid and English straw - Donnots; Men's and Boys' Caps; Boots and Shoes, Groceries, &c. All of which wo aro anxious to sell for ready pny. Any quantity of Wheat. Oats, : Clover, Flax and Timothy seeds; Beeswax, Butter, Ginseng, &c, taken in exchange for goods; and the higheit market pricci paid for them. Just give us a call, and if we do not sell you goods it will not : be the price of the goods, that keep you from buy. in?. F. G. W. Si V. F. CRONISE. Kalida, Nov. 24, 1C45. J. J. ACKERMAN, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. KALIDA, PUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO. Office on Main street, opposite T. R. McClure's Hotel. Kalida, June 20, l4o. WESTERN HOTEL, Gilboa.) CHRISTIAN IIESZ tmmtt TTAS purchased the well known l XJL tavern stand in Gilboa, Put- w nam n.iintv Ohin Intnlv nfrfMltllrfl by John E.Crcighton,and hns fitted the same up for the accommodation o the public. Ho hopes, by a strict ttention to the wants and convenience of those who may favor him with their patronage, to merit 'continuance of the same. Gilboa, Feb., '44. BEN. METCALF, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. HAVING opened an office in Kalida will give his attention to the ordinary business of his profession, and particularly to settlemcn of claims, paymct of taxes, &c, for non-residents Jan. 10th, 1815. 230z KALIDA HOTEL Kalida, Ohio. MTIE undersigned, having take the above establishment, is now pre prepared - pared prepared to furnish the traveling communi community - ty community with accommodations not exceeded by any other hotel in this portion of Ohio. T. R. McCLURE. Kalida February 20, 1845. I57tf FASHIONABLE JOSE PH TINGLE, RESPECTFULLY Informs the citizens of Knllda and tlia surrounding country that lie carries on tho busi business - ness business of TAILORING in nil Its brandies. He regularly .eceitres plates of the LATEST FJISHlOJfS from I'l II adclphin, and is prepared to fulfil nil orders in his line of business in a tasteful and workmnnlike mnnner. CUTTI NO done to order on the shortest notice. Prices to silt the times Shop next house above T. Coulter's tore. Kalida, July 8, 1643. 228. DOCTOR P. L. COLE, Physician 6 Surgeon, Kalida, Putnam co., Ohio. Office in the building formerly occupied by Mr. Thatcher, as the American Hotel. April 18, 1845. KALIDA EXCHANGE. THE subscriber has purchased the old stand, in tho brick building Hi if directly opposite the Court House, in fli Kalida, Putnam county, Ohio, favora favora-'"""bly - '"""bly favora-'"""bly known as " Risley's Exchange." He respectfully solicits the patronage of the pub public - lic public and in return, he will spare no pains to se secure - cure secure the comfort and convenience of his guests, who will find at the Exchange every accommo accommodation - dation accommodation usually ound at hotels in this section of he state. S. E. HOLIBAUGH. Kalida, Aug. 26. 1845. 235eb JAMES G. HALY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Napoleon, Henry County, 0. L May 23, 1845. 222 GEORGE SKINNER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, Kulida, Putnam county, Ohio. Orders promptly exe executed - cuted executed Saddles, &c, constantly on hand. DOCTOR SOLOMON M. SHAFFER, . Physician Sf Surgeon, LATE ofPennsylvania,but more recently from Rochester, Ohio, haslocated himself at Rock Rock-port, - port, Rock-port, Putnam county, Ohio, and tenders to the publio his professional sorvices. Feb., '44.

of dollars, showing a total exaction of twenty-five millions on our share of four aiticlea of domestic manufacture and the aggregate of our foreign commerce. V This conclusion must bo inevitable if it be certain that tho protected articles have ad' vanced and Western produce declined since ihe enactment of the Tariff law and that these changes of price have resulted from that law. Now it is notorious that Iron and Sugar have risen as is stated. There is some dispute as to the relative state of prices in Cottons and Woolens the advocates of Tariff insisting that prices are as low as ever and that therefore such duties do not en' linuco prices at all. But there is one fact that settles the question. The prices of Cot Cotton - ton Cotton goods in England, are much lower than in this country so much so that some impor importations - tations importations are even yet made and of course goods too, that many I o sold in our markets so as to pay cost and the enormous duties exacted besides. If then tho prices of Cot' ton goods have not literally advanced, tbey have not been reduced hero ns in Europe and that is, for the purposes of our argument, the same. The continual improvements in machinery, Cotion and Woolen, which cause nn incessant decline in tho price of those fabrics have, as to that effect, been counter' vailed by oar Tariffsystem, and the consumers iu consequence of that system are compelled to pay mora than without it. It will not do to tell us that if v.e had relied on England for more of cur supplies than we have, priced there would bo higher that they have fallen in consequence of the loss of our custom.1 Such reasoning is fatal to the favorite doc doctrine - trine doctrine of the Tarilfman: that manufacturers in thii country can reduce their prices, if their market hers can bo extended by the cxc'.urion of tho forsija commodity -being able to produce a largo quantity, at a less rate then a sma'l ono. For if this proposi proposition - tion proposition were true, why could not England if allowed to supply tho .voild sell cheaper still fiom the still greater extent of her custo customers? - mers? customers? The sime causes that have depressed r giicultur.il prodtico and enhanced manu manufactured - factured manufactured goods, havo had a corresponding clTcct on Real "'state. Tho assessments of property for tar.tiot have not in tuis or the ncijliboring States baon made with much precision indeed values have been so un unsettled - settled unsettled in this region, that it has been itn possible. In Ohio notwithstanding the great expenditures in public works lately made, the value of all the properly in the Slate.,, varies but vsry little from 1841. Such Ts the caso with Indiana. In Kentucky the total assortment last year was some twelve millions below previous years. But in tho manufacturing region the condition of things is reversed. We have not before us a state statement - ment statement of the movement of property in Mas

sachusetts at large but on referring to tho returns of taxable property in Boston, the greet emporium of the manufacturing interest we find that it iia advanced in value from ;'J3,:73,C00 in 1841, to $136,388,900 in 1S45, an mcrerse in four years of nearly 40 percent. Jo prove that this is the effect of protection, we need but refer to the neigh- bonr.2 city ot JNew lork, which although of couise much connected with the manufactur ing interest, is nevertheless the great Com Commercial - mercial Commercial emporium of the Union, and more identified with all its great interests than Boston. Tho taxable property of New York instead of advancing from 1841 to 1844 (wo have no returns of 1845,) has declined from $252,235,315 to $234,060,046. As if to leave no doubt on this subject, that facts could remove, it appears that the foreign trade of Boston has in this period experienced little or no change and that change slight as it if, confirms our conclusion. The ex exports - ports exports of Boston to foreign countries instead of increasing, have actually declined from 1841 to 1844 from $9,372,812 to $8,244, $8,244,-729 - 729 $8,244,-729 whilst her imports have advanced from $18,908243 to $22,141,768, showing in increased - creased increased means of purchasing luxuries derived not from exports, but from the enhanced prices which the law confers upon her. It was however to a flourishing manufacturing region like this that the West was taught to look for that great additional demand for produce that was to compensate her for Tariff burthens. Well, Boston although she has advanced in wealth nearly 40 per cent, for the last four years, which is about twice as much as for the proceeding eight, buys in 1854 but 089,201 barrels of Flour instead of 573,233 in 1841, and from the reduction in prices pays less now for what she consumes than before! and of what she does buy, only about 100,000 barrels go from New Orleans, whence the great bulk of flour in this Valley is sent to our customers by ssa. Such is tho evidence of the wholesale plunder of the west: a proceeding ot such enormity under. or lather by, a government like ours, that nothing can exceed the impudence with which it is perpetrated except the attempts of the plunderers to convince us that it is for our good! The tariff of 1842 was obtained on false pretences: on the pretence that the great body ot American manufactures were ; undersold in their own market by foreigners. and that this country had already been brought to great distress by this triumph of tho foreign over Ihe American operative, and the conse consequent - quent consequent substitution of foreign fabrics for our own. I no reverse of these misrepresenta misrepresentations - tions misrepresentations was the fact. To display the condi tion ot trade in which there was competition between foreign and domestic articles, as well as to illustrate the effect of the change

' S. E. HOLIBAUGH, Boot and Shoe Maker. HAS just received a first rate stock of Leath Leather - er Leather from Cincinnati. Ready made work constantly on hand. Kalida, July 15, 1845. 229eb ' LAND AGENCY. THE subscriber has established a Land Agen Agency - cy Agency at Kalida, Ohio, for the purchase and sale ey Real Estate, payment of Taxas, &c, in the Counties of Putnam, Paulding and V in Wert. Being connectod with the American Associated Agency, which extends throughout tho United States and tho principal States of Europe; he expects to be of essential benefit to all who may ' ngage his services. GEO. SKINNER. Kahda, Ohio, Feb. 24,1844. lTaIsTds for sale IN PUTNAM COUNTY. WEST half of North East quarter of Section 28,Towu South, Range Six East, 80 acres. West half of South west qunrter of Section 29, Town 1 South Ranee Eight Enst, 80 acres. North west quarter, and west half of South East quarter, and North Enst quarter of South Enst qunrter, and wesl half of South west qunrter of Section 7, Town 1 Iorin, Range Six East, 303 acres. North East quarter of Section 7, Town 1 North, Bangs Six Etui, 160 acres. . . These lands will he sold low for cash ; or r oae quarter cash and the balance In one, two, and three years, with in interest, - terest, interest, and those havlns no money, can pny by clearing Und In this township. A. P. EDGERTON, Hicssrille, Defiance . 0. " Jobs 1, 184. 1 iMsbw