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 FAcT VERsUs PRoPHEcY.-The .Nsr Hauen Register thus shows up the extrasa- gant foolenes of the Federal Press in It's calculations of the effects of the tariff of l846:

 A SAMPLE OF Bus RUtS.-We call our readers attention to the following striking of prophecies, which were soberly put forth by the Palladium, immediately on the pas- sage of the present tariff. They furnish the most striking illustration of the woii-cry of aruin'' which the Federalists are forever starting for political purposes, that we have vet met with. Doubtless there were many at the time who were made by these Federal croakers to entertain the same gloomy fore bookings, and were as honest in their belief as were the followers of Father Miller, ln the burning of the world But now, when they find themselves so ridiculously duped, eau they cling to their idols , There IS something really Imaginable in the serious, exact, and Plckwickian manner, Tn which these prophecies are uttered. If Yankee had set himself to work to "guessn trroag, he could not have come nearer to the mark than this Federal seer -

 From hs PaiiadiHm, of Sspt |. lsI6.

 lst Within sir months from July l, lS46, labor will be reduced from l5to 20 per cent. this will be great depression of labor.

 2d By the first of JMdrch, lsl7, one ha If of the small factories, especially of iron and wooden. will stop operating!

 3d. The products Of agriculture ciH De materially reduced for rant ef HOME MARKET ! and on account of the reduction of competition in the price of labor

 fHa! ha, hal Isn't that rich, now! ha. ha,

 4ih The banks will, in seR-defence, be compelled to curtail their circulation mate rially!

 9th. Within one year government credit will no, be above par, and more likely much below

 And these predictions were considered of such weight, that the Journal of Commerce was requested to save them for future refer encel

 Can human gullability go furtherI