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were fourteen from the State of New \ ork.— It is within ray knowledge that a Free Trade member from that State, who is deeply interested in the resn!r,made a personal investigation into the prospect of the vote this morning, and informed me that not rnoro than six of the delegation could be relied upon.— lie also said he considered the question ns settled—‘there icould be no reduction or alteration of the Tariff'” Mr McKay has nearly udandoucd all hope, and ihose who at heartbelieve in the doctrine of of protection, but by party discipline have been driven fo the opposition. we arc now rapidly returning. Put it down as a fixed fact that wo shall gain erery doubtful vote !! ! Again I say, unless a most improbable reaction takes place, the Tariff of 1842, te great stay of American labor ao*l industry, will be saved.I GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES.It appears from the American Journal of I Science for May 18-4G, that a very exrraor-I dinary discovery has been made in Nesv-Hampshire, of fojsils,in tbo White Mountains. In a deep rut of the bed of the Saco Liver have been found some strata containing shells, by which those rocks have been ascertained to be of the same geological ago with some of the rocks in New Vvk, which abound with petrified shells c. Hitherto if has been supposed that the rocks of New-II ampshire had been deposited at a period far more remote than those of New York; but it appears now that many of them are of the same age. and that they hue been heated to such a degree as to have, for the most part, lost all traces of the fossils which they once contained, and to have become highly crystalline io their texture. This interesting discovery of fossils was mide by Professors Henry l3. William LL Rogers, who sup? pose that tho heating of the rocks was attendant ©u a waving of the earth’s crust, which was thus folded into mountain chains, and that the \\ hi te Mountains are higher than the Green M nun tains, because nt two periods the former were plicated (folded or plaited) in differeut directions, just as twosuccessive gales at sea, blowing in different* • . • • • • • »
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Middlebury Northern Galaxy and Middlebury Peoples Press
Middlebury, Vermont, US
Tue, Jun 02, 1846
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