The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1854, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 6507. —. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. THE NEW TARIFF BILL IN FULL, important Modifications in the Scale of Duties, &e., &o., &e. A BILL REDUCING THE DUTY ON IMPORTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Ge mn assembled, That on and after the first day of , 1856, in lieu of the» duties heretofore im- posed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, there il be levied, collected, and paid, on the peeeilbal ahnd ra ectandiee herein. enumerated rr, te ym foreign countries, the following rates of duty—that is to re — On gooés, wares, and merchandise meationed in schetele A,a duty of one hundred per centam ad On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule B, a duty of twenty per centum ad a “nia wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule C, a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem. On geods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule D, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem. On moe wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule E, a duty of five per centum ad valorem. Sec.2. And be it further enacted, That on and after the first day of January, 1855, the goods, wares, aud merchandise mentioned in schedule F, shall be exempt from duty. Suc. 3. And be it further enacted, That on and | after the first day of January, 1855, there shall be | levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign countries, and not especially provided for in this act, a duty of fif- ‘teen per centum ad valorem. Sec. 4, And be it further enacted, That, on and after the first day of January, 1855, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all s, wares, and ‘merchandise mentioned in schedule F, imported from foreign countries, in ships or vessels not of the United States, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem; and an addition of ten per centum shall be made to ‘the rates of duty imposed by this act, in respect to all merchandise not mentioned in schedule F, which -shall be imported from foreign countries,on and after the first arch Ji anise aforesaid, in ships or ‘veasels not of the United States: Provided, That neither the duty of ten per centum ad valorem, nor ‘the addition often per centum to the rates of duty, «aforesaid, shail be imposed on any goods, wares, sand merchandise imported, on and r the first day of shaper) aforesaid, in any ships or vessels not of the United States, entitled by treaty, or by an: act or-acts of Congress, to be exempt from disorime nating duties, tonnage, and other charges. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all goods, ‘wares, and merchandise, which shall be imported ‘fronr foreign countries after the passage of this act, - and be in the public stores on the first day of Janu- ‘ary aforesaid, shall be subject,on entry thereof for consumption, to no other duty than if the same had been imported, res] ively, after that day. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That on the “entry of any goods, waresjand merchandise, import- ed on and after the first day of January, aforesaid, ‘the decision of the Collector of the Customs at the pane ‘importation and entry, as to their liabilit; daty or exemption therefrom, shall be final an conclusive against the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of any such goods, wares, and merchandise, unless the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, shall, within ten days after such entry, give notice ‘to the collector, in writing, of his dissatisfaction with such decision, setting forth therein distinctly and specifically his grounds of objection thereto; and 1, within-thirty days after the date of such fant SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1854. Figs. Fire-crackers. Flats, braids, plaits, gerd and willow squares, | used for making hate or bonnets. | _ Floss, silks, feather beds, feathers for beds, and ne oe so eks fe ibrel! ‘rames and sticks for umbrellas and parasols, ani | sunshades, finished or unfinished. > i Ginger—root, dried or green. Ginger—-ground. b taipec se—colored, stained or painted. Gene oe altho. 3lagses or les for spectacles. Glase—paistin on. ; Glass—porcelain. Gum benzoin or benjamin. Hair cloth—hair seating and all other manufac- tures of hair not otherwise provided for. | Hair pencils, Hat lies of cotton. : | Hats and bonnets—for men, women and children, ; composed of straw, satin straw, chip, grass, | leaf, willow or any other vegetable substance, or of hair, whalebone or other material not otherwise pro- vided for. Hemp—unmanufactured. Honey. hair, cleaned or prepared for use. le and tok powder. : ron in bars, blooms, bolts, » pigs, rods, slabs, or other forms not Pieeiat ges Ns ay Tron—castings of Jron—galvanized, or sheets, or plates. —old or scrap. Jron—veesels of. ea emereet ware of all kinds not otherwise provid- ‘or. Jet and imitation of a and imitation thereof. Jute, sisal grass, coir, and other vegetable sub- stances unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for. Lead pencils. Maccaroni, vermicelli, gelatine jellies, and all simi- lar preparations, ace. Manufactures of the bark of the cork tree. Manufactures of bone, shell, horn, pearl, ivory, or vegetable ivory. lanufactures—articles, vessels and ware of brass, copper, gold, iron, lead, pewter, platina, silver, steel, and tin, or other metal, or of which either of these metals or any other metal be a compo- nent material, not otherwise provided for. Manufactures of cedar wood, granadella, ebony, mahogany, rosewood, and satin wood. Manufactures and articles of cotton, flax, hemp, grass, goats’ or other hair, mohair, silk, wool or worsted, or of cither of those articles combined, or of which either of these articles shall be a compo- nent material, not otherwise enumerated and pro- vided for. Manufactures of cotton, linen, silk, wool, worsted, or any other material embroidered or tamboured, either by hand or in the loom, or by machinery or Oa other process. Manufactures— Articles, vessels and ware of glass, or of which glass shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for. Manufact and articles of leather, or of which yee shall.be a component part not otherwise pro- vided for. Manufactures and articles of marble, marble pay- ing tiles, and all other marble more advanced in manufacture than in slabs or blocks in the rough. Manufactures of paper, or of which paper isa component material not otherwise provided for. Manufactures— Articles and ware of papier machie. Manufactures of wood, or of which wood is a com- ponent part not otherwise provided for. Matting, Chinese, and other floor matting, and mats made of flags, jute or grass. Medicinal preparations not otherwise provided for. Metallic pens. Mineral waters. Molasees. Musical instruments of all kinds,and strings for musical instruments, of he gut or cat gut, and all strings of the same material. decision, appeal therefrom to the Secretary of the Treasury, whose decision on such appeal shall be final and conclusive; and the said goods, wares, and merchandise shall be liable to duty or exempted therefrom accordingly, any act of Congress to the contrary, notwithstanding, unless such suit shall be br he within thirty a after such decision, for any duties that may have been paid, or may there- after be paid, onsaid goods, or within thirty days after the Sree ate "es paid in cases where such goods 6) in bond. Bee, 7. And be it farther enacted, That on and after the first day of January aforesaid, all provi- gions of existing laws which impose other rates of duty on in,ports than are imposed by this act, or which exempt from duty imports not exempted from duty by this act, shall be inoperative and void. , onmrne ye ) One hundre centum ad valorum.. Bray and other Poirite distilled from grain, or other matet:uis. Cordials, absynthe, arrack, curacoa, kirschenwas- ser, liqueurs, maraschino, ratafla, and all other spirituous beverages of a similar character. Scnepute B. ( Twenty per centum ad valorum.) Alabaster and spar ornaments. Ale, bee: and porter, in casks or bottles. Almonds. 3 ‘Anchovies, preserved, in pickle, salt, or oil; sar- dines and all other fish preserved in oil. Argentine coer ey a German silver, manufac- tured or unmanufactured. ‘Articles embroidered with gold, silver, or other metal. : Balsams, cosmetics, essences, extracts, peste, ft, | and tinctures, and either for the toilet or Tor medicinal OBES. Baskets, ans other articles composed of grass, ozin, palm leaf, straw, whalebone, or willow, not otherwise provided for. Bay rom. Beads, of amber, composition, or ware, and all other beads. sausages. Bracelets, brads, chains, curls, or ringlets, com-. posed of hair, or of which hair is a component part Braces, suspenders,webbing, or other fabrics com- posed wholly or in part of india rubber, not other- wise provided for. ; Brooms and brushes of all kinds. Buttons and button moutds of all kinds, Cameos, real and imitation, and mosaics real and imitation, slo = in gold, silver or other metal. Camphor, refined. Cones and sticks for walking, finished or unfin- Capers, pickles and sauces of all kinds, not other- ided for. WCeegtatay ‘mutts and tip of far and all other Muskets, rifles and other fire arms, Nutmegs. Nuts not otherwise provided for. Ochres and ochrey earths, under the composition of painters’ colors, whether dry or ind in oil. ileloths of every description, of whatever mate- rial composed. ery te eopentii or expresyed, not other- wii rovided for. ‘Olike oil in casks, salad oil, and all other olive oil not otherwise provided for. Olives. Paper, eae ge demy, drawing, elephant, foolscap, imperial, letter, and all other paper not otherwiee provided for. Paper poaee and all other fancy boxes. Paper envelopes. Pararola and sun shades. a t epper. Binet hether silvered or dasesin ite whether silvered 01 . Plated and gilt ware of all kinds. Playing cards. Plums and prunes. Potatoes. Prepared vegetables, meats, poultry, and game, tented, or enclosed in cans, or otherwise. ae i ie Red cha’ ncils. Roofing slates, and slates other than roofing lates. i Saddlery of all eae not otherwise provided for. Salmon, preserved. Scegliols tops for tables, or other articles of furni- ture. Sealing wax. . Sagat snuff, paper segars, and all other manufac tieewing efi —ta th purified Sewin; — e germ or . Shoes composed wholly of India rubber. Side arms of every description. a Silk twist, and twist composed of silk and mo- air. Silver plated metal—in sheets or other form. Soap. Castile, perfumed, Windsor, and all other nds. Sugar of all kinds. Syrup of sugar. ‘Tobucco—ummanufactured. Umbrellas. Me inegar. Wafers. Water colors. Wines—Bi , champagne, claret, Mad not nine ihe loser eee ‘and Traitations of wines, ki poaivalorere ») (Fifteen per centum » sae Arrowroot. Baton. Barley. Beef. manufactures v4 fur, or of which fur shall be a com- nent material. PeCard cases, pocket books, shell cases, souvenirs, arses, reticules and all articles worn or carried on the person 43 ornaments, of whatever material com- Carrioges and parts of carriages. Cae and cinnamon. fayenne pepper. C yenne pep’ China, earthen and stoneware, and all other wares composed of earthy and mineral substances not otherwise provided for. & Clocks and parts of clocks. Clothing—Ready made and wearing apparel of -every description, of whatever material composed, and all ot!-er articles worn or carried on the person, made up or manufactured ay or in part either by the tailor, seamstress or man not other- ve expressly enumerated and provided for. loves. ee and harness furniture of all kinds. Coal. Coke and calm of coal. Coenen Syeetmeste or fruit preserved in Comfits—Sweetmeats or prese: Fi brandy, alcohol or other spirits, molasses or in thelr own juice, and confectioner: of all kinds. Composition tops for.tables or other articles of furniture. Compositions of glass or paste, when set. Coral, cut or manufactured, Cimants. Cutlery of all kinds. Dates. Dismonds—Gems, pearls, rabies and other pre- cions stones and imitations of precious stones, when set in gotd, silver or other metal, and all manufac- tures of agate, cornelian, or other od all anti Sing old and silver buttons. * “ Doils and toys of all kinds, Epanilettes, “gallons, laces, knots, stars, tassels, tresaos and wings of gold, silver, or other metal, Fans and fire-sereens of every description, of what- aver material compo: Feathers and flowers—ortificial or ornamental and warts thereof, of whatever material composed. recious stones, | icles of jewelry, real or imitation, inclu- | Beeswax. Keapisens ve “ed flowers, and bulbs not other- wise provided for. Blank books, bound or unbound. Boards, planks, staves, laths, scantling, spars, hewn and sawed timber, and timber to be used in building wharves. Bofax and tinctal. Burlaps—unbleached and uncolored. Bronze liquor. Burgundy pitch. Cables and cordage, tarred or untarred ‘ables and co’ : 5 Calomel and other mercurial preparations. Camphor crude. Caper gloves, leggms, mits, socks, steckings, wove shirts and drawers, made on , COm- posed wholly of cotton, worn by men, women and hildren. bi Cedar wood, ebony, granadilla, rosewood, and satin wood, unmanufactured. Chocolate. Chromate of lead. Chromate, bichromate hydriodate, and prussiate of sh. Ocal Suopeens po itrol ulphate of iron. 0) or vitrol, or st . Copper rods, belts, nails, and spikes. Copper bottoms, . Copper in sheets or platos, called brazier’s cop- per, and other sheets of copper not otherwise pro- vided il i Cot Bing. Diamonds—glaziers—set or not set. Felspar. | Big biue. : Fish—foreign, whether fresh, smoked, salied, dried | or pickled, not otherwise provided for. Fish glue or isinglass. Fish skins, Flaxeeed. Flex vpmanufactured. Flour of sulphur. | Frankfort black. French chalk. 4 Falminater—or fulminating powders. Pore—dressed on the skin. Glue. \ Green turtle. Gunpy cloth and gunay bags. Gunpowder. Hams. Hats of wool. Hat bodies, made of wool, or of which wool sail be a component material. Hemp seed or linseed, and rape-seed oil, aud all other oils used in painting. Indian corn and corn meal. Iris or orris root, Tron liquor, Ivory or bone black. Juniper berries. Lac spirits. Lac sulphur. Lampblack. Lai rd. Leather—tanned, bend or sole. Leather—upper of all kinds. Lead—in pigs, bars or sheets. Leaden pipes. Leaden shot. Pierce paste, juice or root. Litharge. Malt. Fe eco the rough, slab or block, manufac- Marine coral, mmannfactured. Metals—-Dutch and bronze, in leaf. , Metals—unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for. Mineral and bituminous substances, in a crude state, not otherwise provided for. ‘: ureice- of all kinds, for sewing, darning, or kpitting. Nitrate of lead. Cats and oatmeal. Oils—neatefoot and other animal oil, spermaceti, whale, and other fish oil, the produce of foreign fisheries, Osnaburge—unbleached and uncolored. Paints—dry or ground in oil, not otherwise pro- vided for. Paper hangings and paper for screens or fire- boards. Pearl or hulled barley. Periodicals and other works in course of printing ba Ed Ste in the United Slates, ch. Plaster of Parie—when ground. Pork. Potassium. Prussian blue. Rice or paddy. Rolled brimstone. Roman cement. Rye and rye flour. Saddlery, common tinned or japanned. Sago. Sal soda and all carbonates of soda, by whatever names designated, not otherwise provided for. Silk, advanced in manufacture, but not further than singles, tram and organzine im the gum, not otherwise provided for. Skins of all kinds, not otherwise provided for. Slate pencils, Spermaceti candles and tapers. Spunges. Spunk. Stearine candles and tapers. Steel in bars, cast shear or Germaa, and in plates, ee Lh teenie: eorotype plates. Still Dattonse. Sulphate of barytes—oru de or refined. Tallow candles. Tapioca. Tar. Pear Type metal. Typee—new or old. Mis Boe Velvet—in the piece, composed wholly of cotton. Vermilion. Wax candles and tapers. Whalebone—tho produce of foreign fisheries. Wheat and wheat flour. White and red lead. Whiting, or Paris white. White vitriol, or sulphate of zinc. Window glase—of every desocri; includin, TUrOee et other broad, avke, cylinder, abeet, or roast glass, ‘and: “oe al not otherwise provided for. "Wood-unmannficbured, not otherwise provided for, and firewood. Wool—unmannfactured. Woollen listings. Scneputs D. (Ten per centum ad valorem.) Acids—acetic, acetous, benzoic, boracic, chromic citric, muriatic, white and yellow, nitric, pyroligne- ous and tartaric, and all other acids of every descrip- tion, used for chemical or medicinal or for manofacturing, or in the fine arts, otherwise provided for. Aloes. Alum, Amber. ‘ Angora, Thibet, and other goat's hair or mohair, unmanufactured. “ Anniseed. Animal carbon. prorat crude and regulus of. Arsenic, Articles, not in a crude state, used in dyeing or hm not otherwise provided for. Aseafoctida. Barkquilla. Bismuth. Bitter apples. Blue or roman vitriol, or sulphate of copper. Boucho leaves. Be paste. Brimstone, crude in bulk. Bromine. Cadmium. Calamine. Cameos and mosaics, and imitations thereof not set. Cantharides. Carbonate of ammonia. Cassia buds. Castor oil Castorum. Chronometer, board ship or thereof. Pree a Boog] pate not set. jons , OF . Cork tree, bulk, Soacontietered, Cream of tartar. Cubebs. Pain, pate pearls, rubies, and other pre- cions stones’ and imitations thereof not set. i pulp. Engraviogs or plates, bound or unbound. Etl er. Extract of indi, Extracts and decoctions of legwood and other woods, not otherwise provided for. Extract of madder. we, batters’, dreased or undressed, not on the in. , Fre uncleaned, when on the skin. Gamboge. Gold and silver leaf. ita percha. Gut Hair, erved, moss, sea-weed, and all other vege- table substances used for beds or mattresses.» Hair of all kinds, uncleaned and unmanufactured. Hempseed, linseed, and rapeseed. India rubber, in bottles, slabs, or sheets, unman- ee bo the milk of india rubber. - Tridium. Todine. ie ese. Mai ny nDa. Medicinal drugs, roots and leaves, in a crude state, not otherwise provided for. Mineral kermes. Music and music paper with lines, bound or un- ii | jum. f Ohier or willow, prepared for basket maker's use. Patent mordant. Paving stones. Paving and roofing tiles and bricks. Phosphate of ammonia. Plum! . tt ver. ‘ags—woollen and worsted. Rhubarb. Saffron and saffron cake. Sal ammoniac, falte—Epsom, glauber, Rochelle, and all other aalis and preparations of salts, not otherwise pro- vided for. 1 Sare Seppia. Sheathing paper. Smalts. " Spirits of ammonia Spirits of turpentine Squilla, f load. ate of quinine THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTS, Terni tin p'ates. Tin foil. Tin—in plates or sheets. PR plates—galvamized, not otherwise provided r. ‘Waste or shoddy. Watches aid parts of watches. Watch materials of alt kinds. Zinc, spelter, and teutenegue, in ahcets. 3 Scuxpure E. (Five per Centum ad valorem.) Alcorpoque. Annatto, rancon, or Orleans. , or crude tartar. Bella, when old, or bell metal, ft only to be re- Bleaching powder, or chloride of lims. Rp er ci lustrated ne ra, } or unboun not otherwise provided for.” ee Brass, in or pigs or bars, % Lei when old, and fit only to be: re-manufac- a) L. Building stones. Chalk, not otherwise provided for. Clay unwrought. Cochineal. Cocca. Cocoa shells. Copper, in pigs or bars. Copper, when old, and fit only to ber re-manu. factured. : Cudbear. Flints. Fullers’ earth. Gold beaters’ siins, Sate 7: drindstenes, wr it or un it. Gum Arabic oud Gum rae jum Barbary. Gum Copal. Gum East India. Gum Jedda, Gum substitute, or burnt starch. - Gum Tragacanth. Horns, horn-tips, bones, bone-tips, and teeth, an- manufactured. Indigo. Ivory, unmanofactured. Ivory nuts, or vegetable ivory. Kelp. Kermes. Lac dye. Lemon and lime juice. ladder, ground. Madder root... gt) ps and charts, not Otherwise provided for. Natron. Nickel. Nut galls, Nux vomica. Oils, palm and cocoa nut. Orpement, palm leaf, unmanufactured. Pearl, mother of. Fore when old, and fit only to be remanafac- uw le Polishing stones. Pumice and pumice stone. Rattans and reeds, unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for. Rotten stone. 28, notiotherwise provided for. Raw hides and ekins of all kinds, whether-dried, salted, or piokled, not otherwise provided fos... Saftiower. Sal ammonia. Saltpetre or nitrate of soda, or potash, vefined, reGned, or cured. Seedlac. Shellac. Silk—raw, with or without the gum, imported in the condition in which it comes from the cocoon not being doubled, twisted or advanced. in manu- facture imany way. Soda ash. Sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol. Sumac. Tallow, marrow, and all other grease and soaps, stocks and soap stuffs, not otherwise provided Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal effects n merchandise, professiona! books, im le- ments, instruments, and tools of trade, soompas jon, or employment, of persons arriving in the United States: Provided, it th 8exemption shall not be construed to inciude mach ne.y or other articles im- ported oy use in any manufacturing establishment, r for sale. A Chapter on Ci OUR PUBLIC PARKE—THE WORM8—THE ALANTSUS— “THE DIET OF woRMS!”” What is the dict of worms? Walk into Washington square, end behold your answer. It is the foliage of the trees, designed for the purposes of shade, cool air, and shelter from the intense heat of the summer’s gun. The spectacle presented upon entering within the yates of the ‘old parade ground may be very interesting to the ento- moogist, but it is perfectly disgusting to ordirery, every day people, and absolutely frightful to the children. ‘Worms cover the trees, and, depending from them, sus- pended upon the filmy thread like that of a spider's web, innumerable monsters hang in festoons from tho top- most branches to the: ground. The ground is covered with thom; they swarm in: the grass; they are like the plague of Egypt, everywhere, upon everything withia reach of the intested trees, These horrid vermin esen to be limited to. single epecios, and it ig probably the Palmer worm, which for some years past fas been so de- “structive to the orchards and forests in the New England States, and the devastations of which during the present season threaten to We more extensive thai: ever heretofore. This wormy or caterpillar, varies~ from an inch to two inches in length; he of a rusty black color, rathor slender, hax six fect or claws close to his head, and at its other extremity i has a beautifully contrived apparatus for seizing and re taining a firm hold upon anything. Its process of loco. motion is peculiar, being expressly adapted to this peeu Uar organization. Lying flat upos the ground, for exam: ple, his tail ia drawn plump up. to his head, the body being thrown up into the form of: an arch; seizing hold frmly, then, with his hind fect, brs head is thrown for ward to the full length of the body, which again lies flat upon the ground ready to repeat the motion just de scribed, and thus this worm makes his way through the world. From this singular style of locomotion we pre- sume it derives its name—tho Palmer worm, from the palm of the hand—the movement being similar to the motion of the hand, in measuring the length of a table, by spanning it; or it may be oalled the Palmer worm from some Mr. Palmer in whose orchard its appearance may have first been noticed; or it may not bo the Palmer worm at all. Certainly ho is a vile monster, and his unexpected multiplication this season, while it may well excite our fears for the fnture, ought to challenge the attention of naturalists, with:regard to the means of his extermination, During the last summer, a little later in the season, we noticed in the Park and in Washington square many varieties of caterpillars, the lary of as many distinct Spectes of moths or millers, is the perfect insects are called. Perbaps-the grand camy of these combined forces has yet to appear. These Palmer worms may be but the first instalment; but they promise to leave very ‘lim pickings for their successors. We noticed, also, the last summer, the modus operandi of one conspicuous variety of these caterpillars—from the egg to the full blown moth. Upon the bark of the tree, a cluster of egge covering the space of a finger nail, firmly soldered together by a gelatinous substance, may be cen. From these egge'a cluster of smalt insects are hatched by the sun. They climb up the tree, fasten upon the leaves, and soon become ca‘erpillars of an inch anda half long. ‘They then swing from the tree bya web, or creep down. the trunk, until they find a suitable cavity in the bark, where they wrap themselves up in a cocoon similar toa silk worm, where they undergo the extrenae transition from the grab to the beautiful flying miller. We believe that all these distinctive ‘ver- min known as caterpillars are the offspring of bugs, or of moths, or millers, as contradistinguished from the but- obaceo worm ix a beautiful r varieties of these worms Bat this branch of the enb- Terra “espe or catechu. Tin—in pigs, bars, or blocks. shelle, unmanufactured, no ‘Woad or pastel. Weld. Zine, epelter, or teu‘enegue, unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for. Scunpue F. (Free) : All books, maps, charts, mathematical, nautical instruments, philosophical apparatus, and all other articles whatever, imported for the use of the Uni- ted States: Provided that when such articles are imported under contract for the United States, they shall not be exempt from duty unless it shall be so expressed in the contract, and so certified by the Secretary of the Treasury. All | fe ne apparatus, instruments, books, maps, and charts; statues, statuary, busts, and casts, of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Pa- Tis; Legge drawings, etchings; specimens of sculpture; cabinets of coins, medals, gems, and alt collections of antiquities—provided the same be specially imported im good faith for the use of aa society incorporated or established for philosophi or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arta; or for the use or by the order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning a alg inported f breed. nimi ported for breed. Bark—Peruvian. Berries, nuts and vegetables, used exclusively in Ject cannot be satisfactorily discussed in a limited news. paper article. It is a theme for a volume - ¢ trees most infested by these Palmer worms, as we and the hérédemeam.the linden, the elu, the willow. ed in Washington square ; the elms Jook a3 il seurched y fire; the willows, with a denser foliage, suséain their millions of worms without much apparent suffering; but the horse chestnuts look as if riddled by h Even the sycamore, with a Jeaf as tough and dry as brown paper, is not exempt from these monsters ; ani they fatten upon the silver leafed poplar, with its foliage thies!y un derlined. with an unpalatable down. The only tree which is absolutely and entirely free fwom this or any other caterpillar, worm, or bug of any kind, is the much abused” alanthus. Other trees may be seen, interlapping with the brauches of the alonthus, but while they are stripped to the naked bravehes, not a Jeaf of the alanthua is _ touched. They seem to have a deci¢ed repagnance, even to the trunk of this tree, an instinctive dread of it, otherwise they would be occasionally found upon it by mistake. It has been said that a decoction of the slanthus leaves is a rank ion. It may be so, but asit is not necessary for the purposes of sbade to be limited to such trees as are adapted for making tea, we cannot admit this alleges quality of poison as an objection to the alanthus. It also been xaid that the odor of the female alanthus,when in blossom, is not only unpleasant, but really unwhole- some. Perhaps this may be so, but we are not aware tbat any cases of mortality or even of serious india] have resulted from this cause, even in those localities where the alanthus most abounds. The fact is, we censider 1] all the objections raised against this tree are fallacious, or but trifling, (gis with the paramount advantage of a beautiful, thrift; flourishing shade tree, entirely free from their dis- gusting Vermin of every kind with which all other ‘trees are more or less infected. dyeing or in composing, dyes; but no article be cl ed as such that has undergone any manu- facture. Bolting cloths. ‘ Books, maps and charts imported by authority of the joint Library Committee of Cer Do for the use of the library of ress: Provided, That if, in any case, a contract have been made with any Bookseller, aporter or other person, for books, maps or charts, in which contract the bookseller, importer, or other person aforesaid, shall have paid the duty or included the duty in said contract, in such case the duty shall not be remitted. c ee wood, Braziletto, and all other dyewood in 1c Bullion—gold and silver. Burr stones—wrought or unwrought. Cabinets of coins, medals and other collections of antiquities. Coffee—from whatever country imported. Coins—gold silver and copper. | Copper ore. | mores when imported for the United States int. Cotton. | Felt—adhesive, for sheathing vessels. Fruits and vegetables, green or ripe, not other- wise provided for. Garden seeds, and all other seeds for agricultural, horticultural, medicinal and manufacturing pur- poses, not otherwise provided for. Goods, wares, and merchandise, the growth, pro- duce, or manufacture of the United States, expor- ted to a foreign country, and brought back to the United States, inthe same condition as when ex- orted, upon which no drawback or bounty ha been allowed: Provided, That all regulations t ascertain the identity thereo?, prescribed by existin laws, or which may be presc’ by the Secretar of pe Treasury, shall be complied with. juano. Household effecte—old and in use, of persons or families from foreign countries, if used abroad by them, and not intended for any other person or per- sons, or forsale. Jank—old. eches, jodels of inventions aud other improvements in the arts: Provided, That no article or articles shall be deemed a model or improvement which can be fitted for use. Oakum. Oil--spermaceti, whale, and other fish, of Ameri- can fisheries, and all other articles the produce of such fisheries. ‘ Orange and lemon peal. ‘ Paintings and statuary, the productions af Ameri- can artists residing abroad, and all other paintings and statuary: Provided, ‘The same be imported in good faith as objects of taste, and not of merchan- Ke. Personal and household effects (not merchandise) of citizens ofthe United States dying abroad. Plaster of Paris—unground. aa -unmanufactared. Salt. Sheathing copper; but no copper to be considered such, and Samitted free, excé tein sheets of forty- eight inches tong and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces the square foot Sheathing metal. “ Specimens of natural history, mineralogy, or bo- | tany. | Tea-sfrom whatever conatry im ed. } \ Trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, @ wice provided for: The great object of trees in cities are ornament and abade; but when they are eaten up with worms they are neither ornamental nor shady—they are simply dis- rusting. Woe take it, therefore, that that tree which Fasin fiself the elements of complete protection against yermin, and which isat the same time beautiful aud ornamental, is the tree for city uses. Such a tree is the alanthus, and we are willing, at least, to endure eight or ten days of its peculiar aroma, in view of ita clean and grateful shade through the whole of the summer. We sball stand by the slanthus, at all events, until our city authorities, or oo or naturalists shall have app! or discovered some efficient remedy for the nuisance of these worme upon other trees. : PRE EA REE I io The Fire Department. LETTER "ROM THE bed OF ENGINE COMPANY No. li. Naw York, June 15, 1864. To THE EDITOR OF THR NEW YORK HERALD. Sm—In your paper of this date appears a communica- tion from Stephen H. Branch, aceompanied by certain documents from Alfred Carson, Chief Engineer, on the subject of insubordination, &., claiming their publica- tion on the ground that said Carson had been misrepre- sented in relation to both. Weare not aware of the mis- representations alluded to, but certain we are, that he has made his self-justification a pretext for gross mis- statements against the company with which we have the honor to be connected. He asserts that for insubordination he directed Engine Company No. 17 to remain in its own district, but the Common Council (then in session) immediately resolved that Engine Company No. 17 be and they are hereby euthorized to do duty in the Sixth and Seventh districts. That the Common Council passed such resolutions true; that the said districts were any other than their usual districts is false 7 arbling the resolution pas- sed by the Common Council, ho would make it appear, and actually ssrerte, that they not only approved what he is pleased 4 eal tae ins aioe but actually expres ir of the aaiue, The reselution passed authorized Engine Company No. 17 to do duty in their usual di y namely, the Sixth and Seventh. id —-. never did duty in the Fifth district, but occasionally went to Firth district fires, at the expressed request of the chief. On one occasion, one of the assistant ick, former foreman of this company for which x ‘MeC., ae a law abiding citizen, handed Thm over to the tender mercies of the police; in which legal act Mr. Carson discovers gross insubordination, and straightwa, pours out upon the unfortunate company the vials ot his ath. The Common Couneil did not reverse any order given by the Chief Engineer, but, as will be seen by the resolu- tion, simply authorized said company to do duty in their usval districts. By omitting the word nsual and falsely arserting that said districts comprised the fifth and sixth, he manufactures a fresh philippic against the late Com- mon Council, and endeavors to excite the hostility of the present against Engine Conrpany No. 17, who have had the daring temerity to hav injons of their own on cor. tain subjects, and humbdl; nests that they may be left to his ideas of expediency, from which may the Lord de- liver us. i UNSON, Foreman Evgine Oo. 17. Cc. H. Revs y Police Th tebigen sestorday arrested an med Charles L. Moss, charged ‘with selling a spurio et for California ané obtaining therefor $126 from Kaward Thomas, of Ohio, who came to this city for the purpose of embarking for the golt Vignings, The ticket purchased by him purported to be d For a paseng North Star, out before @ vessel got to San’y tieket s divcovered ous, and the complainant ashore in a 1 boat. fle now seek © the Police The cage is ett y tice Osbora. Co saa one of Carson’s pets, grossly assaulted Wm. P. | ROR OP DEFRAUDING A CALA ORNIAN.~-Officor Martin | NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. GEN. QUITMAN AND THE FILIBUSTERS. Important Bills Passed by the House. THE SAIL SERVICE TO CALIFORNIA, EXPECTED REVELATIONS OF THE CONTRACT SYSTEM, SWINDLING AND FRAUD DETECTED. A Gene I Overhauling Prosaved, SURBENDER “OF PEGITIVES AT CINCINNATE The Bunker Hilt Celebration, dew tic. 6. From Washington. DBAOONIO EPISTLS FROM GEN. QUITMAN, Wasuincton, June 17, 1864. The Union of this morning publishes the following despatch, meeived by Hors W. P. Harris from General Quitman, in-velation to the statements connecting him with the flibusters:— New Ortzans, June 14, 1664. Tell the ediver of the Union that no man is authorised’ to speak for me but myself, Publish this. (Signed QUITMAN. THS PACIFIC NAVAL BT ATION. The Secretary of the Navy is engaged in making pre- parations to order the necessary officers to the new naval station on Mare Island, near Sam Francisco, [m- provements and Buildings are at once to be put up. THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SRSSION, Howse of Representatives, Wasutarow, June 17, 1864. BILLS PASSIED The House passed the bills authorizing the Secretary ofthe Treasury to issue registers to the vessels of the Accessory Transit Compsny; increasing the salaries of Executive and Judicial officers of Oregon, New Mexico, Washington, Utah, and Minnesota territories; appropei- ating $75,000 towards paying the expenses of the Ore gon, Cayuse, Indian and Mexican war; to establish the offtce of Surveyor Genoral in New Mexico, and granting lands to actual settlers. An amendment was made for the appointment of Surveyor General, and Register and Receiver for Nebraska ard Kansas, in order to ‘Open up lands in those territories for settlers. The following bills were likewise passed:—Amending former acts relative to the appointment of Surveyor Ge- peral, and the donation of lands in Oregon, Authoris- ing surveys of the tract of land belonging to the Daco- tah Indians in Minnesota. Appropriating $20,000 for a military road in Oregon. Authorizing a settlement of the expenses attending the Rogue river Indian war in Oregon. Appropriating $25,000 for a military roud in Utah. To refund to Utah the expenses incurged in suppressing In- djan hostilities, and Sens, the civil officers who. cervedin New Mexico while that territory was under mil- itary government. LIRUY. MAURY’S MEDAL. The House passed the Senate’s joint ching ba 9 the consent of Congress to the acceptance by Liew! Maury of the navy, of a gold medal from the King o€ Sweden. bi THE. CALIFORNIA MAILS. The House took up the bill providing for a weekly matt service between the Atlantic States and San Francisco. It authorizes the Postmaster General to contract with the lowest and best bidder, after the usual advertisement, for the transportation of the United States mails from New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, and: from New Or- leans, to San Francisco and back, by the most expeditions practicable route; the service to. be performed semi- monthly, and at such times, under the direction of the Postmaster General, as, in connection with the other mail service, will secure, az near a8 practicable, a weekl; mail each way, between the places designated: rovided: the entire cost of such rervice shall not exceed 000 perannum. No contract under this act to be made for. more than four years. Any contract so made be de- termined on thee months previous notice from the Post- master Genoral, without cost to the government. It is made his duty to determine any existing contract for the rervice herein required, and to make a new contract Withthi the "proven craatar arnedition ean bo. now in foree authorizing the Postmaster G to as- ress fines and penalties for non-performance of mail contracts, shall be made applicable to any contract made in pursuance of ihis act. A question having arisen «5 to whether this arrange- ment can beentered upon without impairing the present contracts— Mr. Mack, (dem.) of In., Chairman of the Select Com- mittee, heretofore apprinted to investigate into steam- ship frauds, said they would be able in a few days to present a report showing there were astounding frauda and ling, from the inception of the contracts for carrying the mails to and from Calif to the time. The company have not complied with the contract in a single iota... He asked that this subject be Rostponed until the House shall be in possession of all the facts; there will then be no difficulty in affording better mali facilities to California. Mr. Ons, (dem.) of Ohio, said the Committee on Post Offices two months ago reported a bill to abrogate the contracts for carrying the mails between New York and I, and to San Francisco He believed has the power to abrogate the contracts by ‘the vessels. It would be eheaper to buy them, sink them in the ocesn, than to continue the present ae soadiana: ‘We are now paying more than fou of a million dollars for a semi monthly service, when for a quarter of a million we can get » weekly ser- vice. In order to afford opportunity to look into this sul the further consideration of the bill was Tuesday week. Adjourned. Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill. THE NEW YORK CONTINENTALS IN BOSTON, BTC. Bostox, June 17, 1854. The anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill was ob- served to-day in Charlestown by the firing of cannon, ring- ing of bells, and a general turn out of the military. The stars and stripes were also displayed on prominent points in Boston, Chelsea, Cambridge, Roxbury, Lexington and Concord, in honor of the day. The New York Continentals, with Shelton’s band, ar- rived here this morning, and are the guests of the Bos- ton Veteran Association. The two companies paraded the principal streets, and dined in Faneuil Hall to day. From Cineinnatl. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE—RAILBOAD COMPETITION Cixcrxati, June 17, 1864. The nine fugitive slaves captured here three days ago were given upto their owners this evening and taken to Kentucky. There was no excitement. Great competition oxists between the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton, and the Little Miami Railroads The former reduced the fare to Buffalo to-day to $4, in- cluding state rooms and meals on the Lake steamers. The fare has hitherto been $8. Fire at East Arrington, Me. | Bancor, June 17, 1854. The tannery establishment of Daniel Covell at East Arrington, was} entirely consumed by fire last night. The loss is estimated at from $4,000 to $6,000. No insurance. Breaks in the Ilinols and Michigan Canal. Awpayy, June 17, 1854. ‘The break in the Illinois and Michigan Canal, previous ly reported, had been repaired, and boats were to pass on. ‘Wednesday last, when a telegraphic despatch received a Chicago reported another break in the immediate neigh borhood of the first, and much more disastrous. Movements of THE KNOXVILLE AT SAVANNAH, Savanwan, June 16, 1864. The steamship Knoxville arrived here this (Friday) afternoon, from New York, in 633% hours, being the shortest passage on record, THE SOUTHBRNER AT CHARLESTON Cuaruaston, June 17, 1854. The mail steamship Southerner, Capt. Ewan, from New York, arrived here at 8 o'clock this (Saturday) morning . | The Ship Camillus Ashore. Coanahetox, June 17, 1854, A ship, supposed to be the Camillus, fram New York, for Charleston, 's ashore six miles south of Ocracoke inlet Navigation of the Onto, Perrssune, June 17—Noon. The river now measures four feet three inches by th: | pier mark, and is falling. The weather is ‘tlear aa@ | warm . Southern Mail Fatiure. Bavriwone, Juae 17, 1854. south of Biebmoud, Ya \ We have no mail to-night