Danvers Eagle & Whig Newspapers, 1844-1845, Part 71

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WHIGS OF DANVERS! The Vigilance Committee have deemed it expedient to publish a Whig paper from now until after the Presidential election .-- They rely upon you all for hearty co-oper- ation and support in the project. It is af- forded very low, and it is hoped that every Whig will do all he can to extend its cir- culation.

Subscribers after the present time, can now ready to make all kinds of, Garments be supplied with the first number.

Mrs. Abington, a celebrated Actress, said: "I never wish to be acquainted with a public character, who has not been abused in the newspapers. I then passion- ately desire his, acquaintance, for I am sure that there is something superior about him to excite the envy of the malevolent."

THE ALTERNATIVE.

The Liberty Standard modestly calls upon the Whigs of Maine to vote for Bir- will commence a School for the instruction ney as the only means of defeating the Polk of a class of Ladies and Gentlemen in the ticket in Maine. If the Standard was re- ally anxious to defeat Polk and prevent the Oct. 8th. at 7 o'clock, at the Vestry of the elements of Vocal Music, on Tuesday even'g, annexation of Texas, it would recommend Unitarian Church. Terms :- Ladies $1, Gentlemen, $1 50 Danvers, October 5. all Abolitionists to vote for Clay electors, as it is only by the election of Clay and Whig candidates for Congress and State S. A. POOLE, CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER, Has taken the Stand on Main Street, formerly occu- pied by the Jate Mr Thomas Robbins, and will give bis attention to orders in any branch of his business. TRUNKS, VELISES, &c., furnished as ahove. Danvers, October 5. 1844. Legislature that annexation and war.can be prevented. But suppose it were practi- cable or possible, as it is not, to induce the Whigs of Maine to throw their votes for the Birney ticket, and suppose by such a combination Birney electors should be chosen in Maine; and suppose further that EDWARD WILSON, DRAPER & TAILOR, No. 2, Allen's Building, Main street. Vestings and Trimmings of every description. Garments Cut and Made to order and warranted. Danvers, Sept 4, 1844. tf2 the Clay and Polk votes in other States should be so evenly balanced as to prevent a choice by the electors; what then? Why, every body knows the election of President would devolve upon the present House of Representatives at Washington, in which A SHEPARD & BURLEY, the Polk party have a large majority. Would respectfully inform their friends and the pub- So lic generally, that they are prepared to sell at PUBLIC AUCTION, that any way the matter may be turned, voting for Birney is just the same as voting for Polk in its final result, and he wbo puts in a ballot with the names of the Birney electors upon it, is just as morally accoun- Any of the above named business entrusted to them, will he done with fidelity and despatch. share of patronage is respectfully solicited. Salem, Sept. 18th, 1844. tľ4 table for voting for Polk, Texas, war, slave- ry, and robbery of the public Treasury, as if he voted directly for the Polk electors .- REAL ESTATE, VESSELS, MERCHANDISE, &c Sales of Clothing, Furniture. &c., every Saturday, at Grocery Store, No. 14 Front street, Salem. They will also effect Mortgages, furnish money on the same, buy and sell Real Estate at Private Sale, let or procure Tenements, furnish help & situations for those who may want. He knows what are the consequences, and knowing this, it is gross impiety to say that he leaves the consequences to God. He

DR. J. H. BATCHELDER, DEN TIST.

There is a probability that more than half God .-- Kennebec Journal. of the votes marked doubtful, will be given for the Whig ticket. If either of the States, New York, Pennsylvania, or Virginia shall choose Whig Electors, the election of HENRY CLAY may be considered certain. God grant that it may be so. P.

There will be a meeting of the Whigs of heard from.

They carried New Castle County by 92 majority. In the same County at the last election, the Loco Focos had a majority of men's and Children's Boots and Shoes, which he will sell at the lowest prices.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA. .This steamer arrived on Thursday, and brings intelligence of the liberation of O'Connell by a reversal of the judgment of his judg-

es. We see no other news of much con- sequence, except the following :-

North Carolina . Indiana, Georgia,

al infant, £1000. Dr. Ferguson receives £500, and Sir James Clark the same a- mount. Mrs. Lilly, the Queen's monthly nurse, receives " for the month " £300 .- This amount is generally swelled to up- and will be read with great interest by all wards of £600, the extras being derived the friends of this interesting species. from the handsome presents the nurse re- ceives from each guest invited to the chris- tening. The wet nurse is said to receive TOPSFIELD HOTEL. * £100 per month for her service, besides the gratifying prospect of some portion of 'her family being provided for, either in the army or navy, or in some of the public of- fices.

chised any further.

MR. CLAYTON'S DELAWARE SPEECH.

There was a great Mass Meeting held at

Delaware city, (Del.) last week, at which of our ordinary agricultural productions .- John M. Clayton made a very effective (Cheers. ) This then, is what we are to speech. We have room at present only for the following extracts :-

get from Free Trade, when we shall have been persuaded by British capitalists to destroy our own Home Market, by repeal- CONSEQUENCES OF FREE TRADE. ing our Tariff. On the other hand, it is If you are resolved that English labor- ers shall manufacture your goods, and to that end are determined to break down your own manufacturers, who alone could keep down the price of English goods by the r competiton, you must, of course, ex- estimated that our Home Market consum- ed annually $200,000,000 of the surplus products of the Farmer, or more than ten times the amount purchased of us by all for- eigners. (Great applause.) It has been shown that New England alone consumes, pect to pay the English laborer such a price in flour, 7,000,000 bushels of wheat annu- for his goods as will enable him to live, and

ally beyond her own production; which is live in England. Of course, you must pay 500,000 bushels more than the average an- him for his work, enough to enable him to nual export of the whole country. ""It is pay ALL HIS EXCISES AND STAMP DUTIES. stated on good authority," says Mr. Ells- You must pay him for the beer he drinks while he is working for you; you must pay him his window tax, which lets in the light of heaven to enable him to see how to do the work, and, in short, you must pay him the English excise, or direct tax, on every In article of food or clothing which is subject worth, Commissioner of Patents, in his last Annual Report, p. 41, "that the Manufac- turers of New England, in 1842, used more than 200,000 barrels of flour in making starch and sizing their goods; being a larg- er quantity than was exported to England in the same period." England never did, to such a duty, and also on every taxed ar- and never will, buy our Indian corn. ticle which he uses in the manufacture of the only condition in which it will bear ex- the goods you consume. In doing this, portation (kiln dried) it is deemed by En- glishmen unfit for bread, after it has un- dergone transportation; and English oats are preferred to it for horse food. ' The

you support the British Government, Queen, nobles, church. army, navy and all, as ful- ly as any Englishman who consumes no

more of their manufactured goods than you do; and you find employment for, and sup- port English subjects, to be taxed by the

English Government. A late able writer estimates "that we pay an average of about 50 per cent. of the cost of imported articles of manufacture into the exchequers of foreign and despotic governments, as a TAX used to oppress and injure ourselves." Every time Queen Victoria produces a young prince, a young duke, or a darling little princess, you will have the satisfaction to kuow that you are expected to send a little more grist to the English mill, another con- tribution to support the dear babies, which must each soon have salaries and pensions of some hundred thousand pounds, sterling a year. (Great cheering.) What a de- lightful thing it will be for our modern De- mocracy. to learn, after they shall have broken down the system which now enables their own countrymen to furnish them with their own clothing, that Prince Albert, like John Rogers, of red-hot memory, has at last nine small children and one at the breast, and that a cargo of British broad- cloths has arrived in the Delaware, the price of which has been increased in con- sequence of a new excise law passed to pension off the whole royal household !-- (Laughter and cheers.) 'What good Loco foco will not feel his Democracy stirring within him when he learns that a young princess has been married to another Hes- sian, whose royal necessities will require the imposition of another tax on soap, can- dles, and windows! (Cheers.) In such a

pal cities in the United States and British North America. Having always been very successful in FIT- TING his customers, he feels fully justified in promis- ing as good a COAT as can he had in Boston or else- where. Z. THOMPSON, South Danvers: Ang 28 if 1 . DRAPER & TAILOR. The Yankees are tolerably good at the brag game, but the Texians can beat them occasionally. A "Down Easter," it is said, recently told a citizen of the "Lone Star Republic, " that nothing could beat Intelligence Office. the corn in Connecticut. The Texian said he knew nothing of crops in that section, but in his country the corn stalks bore sev- en or eight large ears, and a gourd on top with several quarts of shelled beans in it! or who wish to hire, or who wish to find employment.

The Yankee took his hat and marvelled.

OLD TIMES. In 1627 there were but thirty-seven ploughs in all Massachusetts, and the use of these agricultural imple- ments was not familiar to all planters .- From the annals of Salem, it appears in that year it was agreed by the town to grant Richard Hutchinson 20 acres of land state of things, would not South Carolina in addition to his share, on condition " he set up ploughing."

be jubilant with joy? (Cheers.) To pre- pare us for this happy state, you may have observed that the London Times, a high Tory paper of England, gives an account of a meeting of British capitalists held a few weeks ago, at which a large sum of money was subscribed, among other pur- poses, to supply us with FREE TRADE PUB- LICATIONS, to be printed in New York !- This will, of course, instruct Brother Jona- than how wise we would be to have British goods duty free, and break up what the English Tories call our American system of monopolies and commercial restrictions. (Cheers.):

IMPORTANCE OF THE HOME MARKET. My fellow-citizens, the value of our own Home Market for agricultural produce may be judged of by you from one single fact which I am now about to state from the public documents, and which I beseech

" I can tell honestly what I think is the cause of the complicated m ladies of the you to investigate for yourselves. The an- human frame," says Abernethy. "It is nual value of all the agricultural produce their gormandising and stuffing, and stim- of the United States, not including cotton ulating those organs (the digestive) to ex- rice and tobacco, has been estimated by cess; thereby producing nervous disorder competent judges at $844,000,000, in round and irritation. The state of their minds is numbers. During the last twenty years, another grand cause. The fidgeting and the greatest amount of all these agricultu- discontenting yourself about that which ral productions purchased from us by all cannot be helped; passions of all kinds, the foreign countries in the world, was not, malignant passions and worldly cares pres- in any one year, equal to the value of $20,- sing upon the mind, disturb the cerebral 000,000. In other words, foreign coun- action, and do a great deal of harm."

THE

DANVERS EAGLE! A WEEKLY PUBLICATION,

DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, TEMPERANCE, EQUAL RIGHTS, HUMANITY, NEWS OF THE DAY,

THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, & THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE MECHANIC. Edited and Published by SAMUEL T. DAMON, at No. 1, Allen's Building, (third Story,) Danvers, ( South Parish.).

At Only $1 00 per Year

The Danrers Eagle is NEUTRAL in Politics and Religion. The best writers that the State affords, have engaged to contribute to its columns.

The success which this paper has found in this and the neighboring towns, has placed it on a permanent foundation.

BCP Advertisements inserted on reasonable terms.

Printing of all kinds, executed at this Of- fice, with neatness and despatch.

WANTED, SIX responsible men to act as Agents for the Eagle, to obrain subscribers All Letters, Communications, &c. for the paper, must be addressed to the Publish- er, post paid.

TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.

The subscriber has taken the building, corner of Main and Wallis sts., Formerly known as the Whig News Room,) where he intends carying on the above business in all'ils various branches. He would inform the cifi- ens of the place, and vicinity, that he has had great ex- perience in the CUTTING and FINISHING DE. PARTMENTS, having worked in many of the princi-

The subscriber respectfully informs the public that he has opened an INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, for the Town of Danvers, at the Printing Office of the " Danvers Eagle.". All those who have houses to let, in any branch of business done in this town, OR ANY THING OF THE KIND, will do well to call at said office. S. T. DAMON.

WANTED IMMEDIATELY-Permanent board near the Post Office, by a gentleman and lady, in a private family. Apply at this office.

FASHIONABLE TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT. M. TELYEA,

Would inform the inhabitants of South Danvers and its vicinity, that he has taken " shop on Main street, in Mr Townsend's Building, where he intends to carry on the TAILORING BUSINESS in all its branches .- Garments cut and made in a manner not to be sur passed ; and he hopes by strict attention to his busi ness, to be favored with a share of public patronage "The public are invited to call and try his skill in cut- ting and making garments of all descriptions, and they may depend on having their work done at the time promised, and he warrants all garments made by him to fit, or he will either pay them the money for their cloth or exchange it for them. Hle intends to do his work so that those who have been in the habit of having Give him a call, and see if he does not do the thing N B. Cutting done for others to make up. and done all O. K. ifI. South Danvers, Aug. 28

BYRON'S CITY LUNCH, No. 2, MARKET COURT, SALEM. The above Establishment is now in fine order for the reception of the public. MEATS, . POULTRY, GAME, FisH, etc., served up at all times, on the plan of Mod- ern Eating Houses.

Friends of Temperance, visiting this establish- mneut, will not be annoyed hyt he fumes of Alcohol. Salem, Aug 28 tf. 1

W. D. JOPLIN, AUCTIONEER, NEARLY OPPOSITE THE MONUMENT, DANVERS.

JAMES M. MARTIN, COLLAR, SADDLE, & HARNESS MAREE, IN REAR OF No 272 ESSEX STREET, SALEM. LADIES'

RIDING SADDLES, MADE TO ORDER

All orders for anything in the above line will be thank. fully received, and promptly attended to. Salem, August 28. 1844. tf 1.

WANTEDIMMEDIATELY SIX OR EIGHT FIRST RATE TENEMENTS, in the South Parish, Freuting from $50 to $125. Enquire of S.T.DAMON, at the INTELLIGENCE OFFICE No. 1, Allen's Building, (3d story.) ALSO, WANTED, Six smart Girls to do house, work, in Salem. Danvers, Sept. 18, 1844.

M. E. OSGOOD & Co., DEALERS IN HATS, CAPS, FURS, and UMBRELLAS,

58 WASHINGTON STREET, 58 Three Doors North of State Street, BOSTON. Boston, Sept 11, 1844. 4m3

J. SHED, NOTARY PUBLIC. Opposite the Monument.

#SAll kinds of writing, conveyancing, and probate business attended to promptly. " Danvers. Sept. 4.

Summer Arrangement of the DANVERS AND SALEM HOURLY COACHES.

The Danvers and Salem Hourly Coaches will, in connection with the Eastern Rant Hund, leave Danvers aud Salem at the following hours, viz !. Leave Danvers at 7 Leuve Salem at 9 1-4

7 3-4 10 1-2

9 1.2

= 10 1.4

= 1 1.2

5 1.4

612

For seats, apply at Me'Intire's Hotel, and Joseph G. Shed's store in Danvers, and at the Essex House & Salem Hotel in Salem.

Rail Road Passengers taken at the depot on the arri- val of the cars From Boston and the East. 83. Extra Coaches furnished at any bour on reasonable terms. sept 18 11 4 SYMONDS & TEEL.

SAMUEL T. DAMON, Book, Job, Card, & Fancy Printer, No. 1, Allen's Building, ( Third Story) DANVERS , -(SOUTH PARISH.)

CARD PRINTING,

Of every variety, done in a manner, which, for cheapness and elegance, will defy competition.

Blanks, Handbills, Labels, and Job Printing of every description, done at short. notice. Specimens of Printing may be seen at the office.

BOOKS BOUND AND RE-BOUND TO ORDER. Boj A share of Advertising is respect- fully solicited.

FURNITURE !! CHARLES H.MANNING

1 Grateful for the patronage so lib- erally bestowed by his friends and the public, would inform them that he continues at his shop, on MAIN STREET, bear the SIGN OF THE LAMB, where he will attend to the CABINET BUSINESS, in its various branches ; - and hopes that by strict attention to business, to merit the patronage he respect- fully solicits.

N. B. Furniture Repaired and Varnished, on the most reasonable terms. CURRIER'S TABLES made to order, cheap. Wanted immediately, a JOURNEYMAN in the a- bove business. Apply as above. South Danvers, Aug. 28. if:

ORLANDO E. POPE'S @ FASHIONABLE HAIR-CUTTING AND DRESSING-ROOM, Main street, (opposite Nichols' Lane, near the Square,) South Danvers. tf 1

Aug 28

W. D. JOPLIN, TAILOR, & WOOLLEN DRAPER, Danvers. - Nearly opposite the Monument. Broadcloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, and Trimmings, for sale. tf 1 Danvers, August 28

A person who neglects to read the Advertisements, is no lover of business or any thing else.

| tries would not purchase of us, even when we offered them free trade, as we substan- tially did in the year before the passage of the Whig Tariff of 1842, one fortieth part

whole amount of Indian corn exported to foreign countries in every shape, is ascer- tained to be not equal to one half the corn crop of little Delaware itself ! (Cheers.)

We learn from the Cecil (Md.) Whig, that when Mr. Collins was addressing the Whigs at Elkton, a drunken Locofoco ac- costed him thus: " Collins, you are a dem- agogue." The speaker pretended not to hear him. "Collins-I say Collins, you are a demagogue." This was too much; and Collins stopped and looked the person in the face a moment, and said, mildly, "If you had a straw wrapped around you, you would be a demijohn" The fellow stag-

gered off."

1643. The Court order, that at the e- lections of assistant, four Indian beans should be used instead of paper; the white to be affirmative, and the black negative. 1647. The Court order, that if any young man attempt to address a young wo- man without the consent of her parents, or in the case of their absence, of the County Court, he shall be fined £5 for the first of- their work done abroad, may have it done at home. right. fence, £10 for the second, and be impris- oned for the third.

1649. Matthew Stanley was tried for drawing in the affections of John Tarbox's NATHANIEL JACKSON, Stone Cutter, No. 11 St. Peter Street, Salem. daughter, without the consent of her pa- rants; convicted, and fined £3-fees, 2s 6d. Three married women were fined 5s Tabes, and Counter- Tops, Hearths, q.c. of every de- each for scolding.

Marble Monuments, Tomb Stones, Grave Stones, scription can be had from foreign or do mestic Mar- hle at the shortest notice and the lowest cash prices. Salem, August 28, 1844:

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DANVERS

WHIG.

ARGUSE, AWAKE, SHAKE OFF THE DEW DROPS THAT GLITTER ON YOUR GARMENTS, AND ONCE MORE MARCH TO BATTLE, AND TO VICTORY."-Henry Clay.

Vol. 1.

DANVERS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1844.

No. 2.

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING' IF UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE WHIG VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. Terms, 25 cts. Five copies for $1 00. Advertisements inserted reasonably. SAMUEL T. DAMON, PRINTER.

EXTRACTS FROM

DANIEL WEBSTER'S SPEECH, At Valley Forge, Pa.

We are on the eve of a general election, in which the people are to choose a Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States. It is the great action of man in carrying on his own plan of self-govern- ment! But the circumstances connected with this election render it peculiarly inte- resting, and of more importance than any Presidential Election has ever been: There are two candidates in the field-Mr Clay, of Kentucky, and Mr Polk, of Tennessee I shall speak of them both with the respect to which their character and position enti- tle them; and at the same time with that ter and much applause.).

Now, I do not suppose that our free government could long be supported by such a miserable, crooked policy as this.

should be dressed and undressed, and un-

!dressed and dressed again, and exhibited in his new garments as a protectionist .-

(Cheers.) To elect Mr Polk to the office (Shouts of laughter, in which the ladies' of Chief Magistrate of this country, and at joined. ) I do not believe that Mr Polk af- ter undergoing such a change-I do not think that he would still possess after don- ning his new and for him extraordinary garments-I think that he would not have that continuity of ideas which philosophers say. constitutes "personal identity," the same time to give him a Congress that shall defeat his policy. (Laughter and cheers.) To elect him to an office, where- in he is to be the guardian of the whole people-an office that has been filled by Washington-and an office that we had hoped always to see filled by men of Wash- ington's principles, if not of his virtues-to

(Shouts of laughter.)" And indeed as far as I know anything of Mr Polk, I don't be- select and elect a man to fill this office, and lieve that he'd consent to submit to any then put him under guardianship in order such degradation-I do not believe that he to defeat his measures. (Roars of laugh-

freedom and candor which ought to be ob- The case is a solemn one. It addresses served in discussing the merits of public itself to the conscience of every man, to see. men, especially those who are candidates for the highest offices in the gift of the peo- ple.

that he does not support, in any way, a man as candidate for the Presidency whose whole course of-policy and opinions he is Mr Clay has been before the country for utterly opposed to. And it comes to this: is there such a sense of the great duty which they owe to their fellow-men, to their posed to protection-I came into public

a long period-nearly 40 years-over thir- ty years he has taken a leading and highly important part in the public affairs of this children, and to generations yet unborn- such a sense of the necessity of preserving country- he is acknowledged to be a man of singular and almost universal talent-he has had great experience in the administra- our free, our noble institutions-such a tion of almost all our public affairs-he sense of the deep responsibility that rests upon them at this important crisis, -such a sense of patriotism and integrity, that men will prefer their country to their party in the coming contest, or not? (Loud cheers

unimpaired the benefits and efficiency of ty to it-my sentiments have undergone no

change up to this hour in regard to it-and I expect to remain an uncompromising en- emy to it, till the day I die." (Cheers and laughter.)

I cannot go into a discussion of the Tariff

of the country at least. And there would not be the slightest doubt in my mind of

before us. One is the protective system. This subject has been so ably and tho- roughly discussed before you by men much more able to do so than I am. that it is not ( wealth; by this, if properly protected and necessary I should dwell upon it here. It is a favorite measure with you-with us at ly developed, we have the means of build- or-of unquestioned talent and ability, and home and with all of our party. We ing up other vast sources of wealth, which disastrous course of policy which will be

has served for many years with wonderful judgment and ability, in both Houses of Congress --- of one of which he performed the arduous and difficult duties of its presi- ding officer, with unexampled skill and sat- isfaction-he has performed most important services to his country of a diplomatic char- acter, as the representative of this govern- ment in Europe, at one of the most trying periods of its history, and most ably con- ducted to a satisfactory conclusion a very delicate and troublesome negociation-he has exercised the duties of the Department of State with consummate and unexampled ability. He is a man of frankness and hon-

and cries of "there is, Mr Webster, there |here. It is well understood in this section

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Danvers Eagle & Whig Newspapers, 1844-1845, Part 71

Author: Samuel T. Damon (Danvers Eagle) / Danvers Whig publisher unknown. Publication date: Publisher: Number of Pages: 139

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