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been a general reduction of the prices of sta pie agricultural productions, under the pre- senttarifT, although the farmers were promised over and over again that their produce should certainly be increased in price.o

 We next refer the reader 10 a table Ore pared by merchants of the highest standing m New ! ork) of the prices Of manufactured goods under the present tariff, as compared with prices before its passage. According 10 this table, the prices of brown sheetings, man uiactured at the Massachusetts mills last spring, had risen within the year from 9 to 37 per cent; bleached sheeting from l2 10 30 per cent; ticllngs from l9 to 26 per cent, drillings from l7to 2 per cent; prints from 20 to 33 per cent, printing cloths from 10 to 57 per cent; satlinets 9 per cent; Aannels 25 per cent; &c., Sc. And such is the ef- feet upon almost every article on which the present tariff operates, and which the farmer is compelled to buy.

 MANUFACTURERS.

 5 Keep it before the people, that while the farmer is languishing under the present par tial and unjust system, the manufacturers are dividing 20 per cent. year, and proceeding to overgrown and princely fortunes. The Boston Post of June 10 says: the jackson Manufacturing Company has just declared d dividend of eight per cent; the Nashua eight per cent, and the Cabot ten per cent; all for SIX months. The stock of the Merrimack Company Is selling Ut 5J DOT UVnI advance. its capital is S2,000,000, and in thirteen months it divided S400,00O, or 20 per c<1t., reserting for depreciatiop of maehinerv and mills SiB,o00. lts reserve, or profits on