The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1867, Page 2

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1867 perndded to the bi patd That fudicious contraction, following a reduction of ur hbvfiva nuf'lhy all the g’l: compets In forelgn marketa for the saleof evena mod- erate percentage of bix products, the oxportation of agrl- rapidly since the presont taxatiof, wol ve detrimental to any producing in- .,fl,' P system of national taxation cmnnmwnndnu not belleve. o influence | cultural produce transmuted from ita crude condition by pted, than that of any other article on the whols isherfes (mackerel and cod), | rates of taxation, & E:.E Department ; a ment of & law look- | ing, leather, boots and shoes, and cod): | Fat mmaterials and fo Lo Sffoctuat pre smuggling. o . o] Doty '.’,'.’r'{.';t';:‘ya:tft'fl{sm g % futo the wr!er-unhe‘:fi"";“g:nf'},mdmm:ge{?t:ur. “Tn | of anch a policy, seusondly announiced, would go boforo | ie labor of Ameriean uperatives would be pruetically i | tecomme 5 that no. nn.':;‘flmflm jre n L thelr wisdom g industiy of the B, pears that there was o | actually offers & BOVRE, Slor wiahes g competitor, ™4 | & Drices woui fall in antleipation of & diminished sup- | lmited. The acouring of simila results constitufes & | of duty on tew and coffeo, . ¢ b of Daruds employed in thess industrice, | this mOteer WO e A e eptosente- | Diy of currency, and, srith sush u dacline, tho purchasing | leuding teature lu the ommertial poticy In Most of the | For Almilar rensons the Commiasioner wonld also recom. {nerense as to keep the volume | European States, and in their annuel nancinl exhibits | mend that no material change be made in the preseng amall it b tliat his statements are BOC 190 arnces visited manufac- k swor of money would % - mclumly awple to facilitate all | the extent of exports of manufactuged articles tsregurded | rates of duty onspices, ur nd necessity. At Lo sntne tme, the 8 carlier (1858); the nom Dbliged to report that the evi ( ToLim tne | 1865, than at n period ten yers CArier (PR TS 1 fions, but he hias in repe . of cireulating wedium s o e s o "’l'l’b' Ifn‘n‘ f']',’,'.] ::L:F,:‘: E:r‘»ln‘n d“v:"r" flert % & more extensive use | turing r»lul'}‘!nm;“fi‘! ,,‘,i’f.,fl,'.’l'l‘.‘.}‘ t‘hn:«-'lm:snr: 5?"'33 needful and w%mnuz ‘exchanges, and at (ho same timo | A8 one of the most unerring indieations of curyeut finan- | In respect 10 gugars some glight alteration in the Dy the e: 8 | oo U1 of Tabor-saving maclinety 18 :1togetlier probable; bt it | se 'u.u» ?’ ety o the prchase of the raw materfal | diminish the field of speculation. ctab prosperity. In the United States, on the contrary, the | Ing rates of duty may be necossary. During the last “ll“‘v“" 2 wonld also, we think, have rensonuble to expeot that | cost of produc o diulel .jp-mnwt- B{;ulu payments can be resumed in only one Way, viz.: | public in general rq.i.ml this matter with feelings akin to {mm-, such extensive improvements have been my e ¢ otfors rop uch @ ¢ i e Tecn eutirely compensated | up to the sale of FINST CAUSE D et er money of the Government to aii squal- | nairferenice, while legisiation, made most frequently iu | Ju muchinery ahd proceases for the manufacture of nay bo slated that GlfcEs Kt ik of ‘cartuln dcscr) of consuniption ity of labor tapectally of skilled labor, in the eorn Ty withigold | tnd us no oue doubtw, at the present, Wat | accordanco with the perslstent demands of special Liter- | from the carie, that an upproved article cau be prod W York City, free of di ' ‘wppenr thiat the goid-valne of the Indus- | A searctty0f(0 /P IR, iistries of the Nortboru & O atioual promise to pay, thero 1s bothy the | ests, tends not ouly fo the destruction of the foreign but | at & much less cost than formerl :; -"': ”"_" LR rha-hl oducts specified, , for the year 185, neuily l:-r‘!t’\'-;*ll‘*"““"", war, s variously A at uational wil and ability o to do, thé enbancement of the | also of the home market. Two illustrations on this point This improved product uflore{ EDZAT CAN NOW be an.. ...':m-.'\', - 0 e officers of the Revenue Der cent less than the guld-vilue of the year 1365~ '-": ;a:"-;‘;l‘:"",w‘m,mu,,. It 'tk ot to be understood that | eredit of 1! X . therefore, can but be regurded | ave most miguificant. Ten years ago the American manu- | tercd at a duty which is not equivalent to, and does nog. gflnrln e pcction mude | i gold during the State fieeal year, 1864-55, ln»m"’.',"L e Higucs represent au absclute loss to the industey o asan ad) ot to this en !, and us entirely subordinate to {\Illmllmrl“ led, to & cousiderable extent, fur hats to the | compensate for the aggregate (taritf and int pince th of 1o iuconside ulvalent (o deteruined by carctul computition) ot 8207 | BESETER TRk ough auch loss, from casuitios and dis- | the mor. hnportant we -k of bringlug the existing rela- | Moxlean, Cuban, i Soubh Arican irkets; to-dny he | revenue) paid by the refiners on alower grade of bart of Lhis ser sted for it a high degre i ewrveney 1 1864-05. e | e et to war, was undoubtedly very considerables tlons of ld Gad curre: Into wore armoutous propor- | supplics comparntively none. Why! Because the duty | and on their products, The law. as it stands, thereforg etk aa e ticiones Inwerios Referrivg, now, to the above enumerated industries f{‘?n,:mlm--.nl ny of manufacturers is, that the | tone. 1 luce the quas dty of any article in demand, and | on oreign {ur, the raw matertal of bis mannfacture, hus | offers, in fact, a bounty to the forelyn producer in compe threatencd throngh the ci I | pecitically, we lave the followhng resuits: but e untyeral toted the anwy from thelr establish | anner o Ot valug fol 1wa s reduce the quantity of pa- | provonted the American from competing with the foreign | ting with the American refiner, und theatens to de the rates o nsation to the officers « el e Cotton Manwfactures—other than Calico. 'n{unla e not, ns & general thi o returned to thelr old | permol. y 10 be re lun d, and the value of ":1. remain- | producer. ’m'l'r't‘vmyenm nm the manwfucturo of broad- | the prosperity of the great industry of ‘“Wfi'm Sattore in considerably. loss than that given to correspond- | Decrease in the nmuber of hands e d....51 pel ments v B0% X W0 nstances, whiore a somewliat care- | dor and e uhuug to fe. cem it will be ncreased in s cloth conatitut vm 1ifty to aixty per centof the whole | the United Siates. ing grades in the navy, and le i the usual pay for [ Decrease in the RIS D eathnation waa made by the proprictors of manfac- Thettical Jroportion. T \low,moreover, of the fact thatno | woolen busiscss of the Unfted States; now, it 18 uot proba | T rospect to e taritt on spirituons Lqnors, the ster nt - | _The proportion of yards of ¢ ul examination N ta in ditferent éectlons of the conntry, | natlon, lusniing paper money ias ever succeeded n main- | bly i excess of five percent, Why) Lecausp American | question to be detert ed Is, what rates will prove turipg esta | e clheation At pir, 0F haa redeemed it dolar for | legfalation lina not. pernitted tho jmporintion ot broad- | productive of revenae—it heing it ts aesumed s manufacture ation in the quantity of competent shipmasters, mates, gine 4 chant gervice. The duties at present roquired of th manufactured in 18645, 10 1060 et s Safersed to are often extremely arduous, iu- | 5, Was 57 yards, showing a diul i« stunce, out of 127 men entering the d also that the permanent use of paper | eluth wools, and the Auetican agriculturists bave pro- | principal of our revenue system, that the taxation o B s tiits Saal boak e Oy e MAghE ex. | Product of 47 per cent, e et et 1n que of the Middle | money by the Ot cantor be contemplated,whiut- | duced nothing fo take tiel place, R never will i the | cles ofthis ciaracter s to be Limited only by the couiden olTLag aF e e O e hareqof this yeeular | * Tso vorage valie of catton goods per yard (63 army from 4 0 Hhe proprietars to havo re. | over ncasires are uow taken Lookink i (6, SAURRIS: e o cobtant Lokus Jectud for | * On Bemadics aid spittuons 1 h % oubtedly greate ose attendant 0) appears to have been— 5 y g Y 'and in the second | of specie payments, should also look to the complo - § e 0 demand for n brandies and § ous liquors, other th Bervice are undoubtedly greater thau those attendhot | ittt SIVOHE D sumed thelr former occupatiorti, NoU Grawal of every form of vatioual paper cusreucy lssued | “Dbroadcioth” wools L oA tions T tho yoar. 1863, Appars INCKKASE OF TUE TARIFF CONSIDERED A8 A REMEDIAL | indicated that uw.-munf rates n{ duties were all 0 o ard. po Commissione 10 centa per yarc, Q e, out of 16 leaving u manufactory in n Ne 510 cents, currency per yard. | instance, © ” re believed to b direetly by the Treasury, England State, but two ndividuals liaved 5o v TH MEASURE. ohibitory; the frportations of brandy into the port {he fallowing results huve been reported to the dollar In gob wpon lengthened voyages v:rvlurr‘ et thit 1he Tafes of r..nqn-m;un;nur‘r(-“(‘-;; nnwr.“".“ g A pol u ived {0 hats L aran s tevenue ) ne be made equivalent to those of OLLICE! 4 - returped, Of t] cit, some have engaged in 3 DY, 0 jue of curel ; g U | remedy for the Ahiod e, fo which wotiave at. | Lot utnow consider how far the proposed increass of | Now-York for the first ten, mouths of 1t ear. .o b18 46100 cent, gold, per yard. | | vation o cation, b I Vasos o Edsnlpiees Fmedy for the third onuse to whlCh e Hewt of | tho tariff ao very gencrally demanded and given by the | only 4376 pockages (. &, 78 half: kAl of corresponding rank in the nav » ium.-\ OF THE TARIFF. _for the yea Looking at the tariff solely and exclusively from a rev- | Showiug an increase - ; . et A have sought new | tributed the 1 the South; o much largcr percentage Liave sought uew | tributed the preweut IRfEIEL IURCERR YIS control of the | House Bl No. 718, will prove effective in rellovivig hie | and bartols, and 1,578 cases, T Hie cprivapend hofags and new employmbnts at the v WG OF 10 | Jegtalutive department of tho olly within the control of 1 | Hdustry and stimulating the development of the country. | of 1866, however, the importations of brandies. fhly In considering the question of the extent to which an | same port are returned at 52,04 packages (1. e., 75 h enue polnt of viow, fow or o reasons eat be nddnced 1 | <G 1om of the re- | the Pacific const, while others, taking advan e o reasons e exist- | Other Selected Manufactures.—An examination of the " onst, o 0 ety e tte. theorerieal differeuce, of Jupport of a dem for y extenaivo Uange s furis relative to the other indusiries specified hows that, | capital made avaitable to ¢ N (155!&1. ity '}",'.','.‘r!l‘x'm[l‘! e cation o bé consldered s, in what | ncrehso of the tarif 1s Ukely to prove . Whis fact | Pipes. 16,608 Quarber-onsks and barrels and 151 & 3 B at” Ehould be clearly borne in mind, viz.. | thus Showiug o largo increase in quantity as well -] ng rates gnd provisions; fuasmuch a8 the revenuo de- e U fhere was a1 | bounties and previous savings, have bed th ived O winoe ité rovision in 1864, hus reached | na regards the nuimber of Bands pIors " Lelions, of, {u cancs of per- | manner and to what extént can reduction of existin u from :‘m nce er anticipated; and be- | inereuse in the industries n’l \.\x'u[\h-un. ";‘:lrlyl:::]}-”:u:}lg ::K(I):s:’ ;.'.‘331',:"1',7.7{‘1}."1'.’3:-; ‘::-;::nmd”m the wwmc! 5t | fages be now 1gad s‘"“l‘_l"b!' with the ‘,.q“m.m,“., of | that all taxes are in the natnre of an nln,mml.ml upon the | revenue, slit iron and nails, clothing, leathier anc S8R, 118 Treairy for Administrative expenditures, interest, | annual Fnulucfinn ‘ot the nation, whether such taxes are | The returns of jmportations of spirituons lquors, die ¥ f | Jevied fn the form of a duty upon foreign Hn&lmln for | tiled from grain, for the ficst ten months of 1566, alsg i the cost per yard, in gold of 78 per point much larger th ond which 1o waterisl L g o b : 4 boots and shoes, | their nativitios. any other condition save that of a large increase of deerease iu the manufacture s of calico, flm. h " b S disproportionate growth of and 8 d o und certain reduction in the pl‘llll’l[nll of e A o O tlom which I helther desiravio nor | as well s i the cotton goods hefot ety sDeiomiaued i rtinate growih o | Hie publie debt. e T ducts have besd. exchanged, o in the | show an.increase ot 30 per ceut over those of the Corre A% regirds the ngreate value of the pr mearly all Lok e bty Faral diatricts, shows that el ECEIFTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 18678, Tt A tuternal tax upon domestic producty in thelr | spinding period of 1465, As the present rate of i ame fndustries, there was an g0 & of an opinfon on this »ul?l-fl, erude or manufsctured fyrms. Now ali increase of the }-nu-tl on *gins” and other spirituous liquors du{uu‘ e O o eas tho safhd thing in more exact lan- | trom grain §i, Rowever, greatly disproportionate to Uels kely to fmmediately occu rr..m obtainable by exchanging To ald in the formatio n sents the following estimates o % and a decrease | epeculation, and the 1 ln';nnnrlumu;u’. 4 lr':"n‘ n the calico, Wi ns, paper, and fisheric T In ng the value of jmportatio e wnd slit iron and b ¢, leather, e | Aner than by producing, offer greater fnducements at | the Commissioner p! o mposie o U, % o otled i st o and wadls, clothing, eather, aud bouts. | rather (an B DA SIS KU Dol ordinary or | Kevenue likely to Neorne for the fiscal year 1914 ke, i ncred of taxation on Ipotte, expecially an | volced yolue, the Conmissioner i of opinion that i e l1st he recognized as one of the | the operation’of the existing laws; which estimates, it | inereaso as extensive aa that given fu the House Bill No, | duction of the duty on these Itquors trom $2 8 (gold) lon 1n tho direction of bigher prices. | §2 per gullon, would be attended With au incrvaee £ and shoes. , 18 clearly legislat! rmer industries, and olens, however, the increl Sheoryed, differ somowhat from thoso preseuted s 145 to 1960, IDClusiy b ) Valn 'With the exception of Wo o ed s one of 0.0 ! caures which have coutributed 10 & scarcity of ekilled | 1f this resull does not in general follow, then the end e of uports. e e articles apecificd, wns 111 o far Joss e by the United States | labor, Dy the Scerctary of the Treasury. sevenue, ey »:,'f::'.”,‘f.’fu‘,\"v'-‘fll:wlfu”.]-'.":‘.‘f; by the United States | 1t - ing up of many new employmenta to women, | From Internal Fevenue I ey fhone who 4sk for the increase in question | The total amonnt of revenue detised from the f 1sus {6 Bave ocurted Bobme v th thiese tnstitn- | coupled with un increased prosperity of the agricultural | Erom CUMOt oo will 1ot be attained tlons of hravdies and spirttnous Liquors, other than 60,059,642 uraing thot the eapital emplosed T (hest NG | Claskes, hiw also produced, I mians sections of the coun- | Miscellaneous—From Publio Tands, premium Lot o el onsider the immediate and ultimate | during the flscal year 154, according to the returan of 102,316,158 a8 compared with currency (that s, prior to Jan- | try, an unusual scarcity of female operatives. This i | on gold, &c. effect llunlvl)l'l‘l‘x:w].r})(:lul':'li:l:;l‘(:;;m 1 ;I:J’f m’u‘ix"t.t.& ?;;;-:.::::zhn. };"','"'fi was $4,104,219, l:n',,. oy 018 4 e it L 2o - ol gy oo facturing dis crease. in the case of & leadin ol al cte i - om the same rources in Great 0 1862)—t e ratio to the increase of capital from 15546 artienlarly the ase in the mam uring distri of by the tarife, bt ey A ; S i rone In e 2 :}%' at 91 "T'he agrienlturists of certain sections of the country | wis return owlug to the high cost of labor and com- On win he Commissioner recommends that the y are unable, as heretofore, to raise wool at valorem system be swept away at Vel fe debt, & | remunerative prices. They accordingly nsk for an addi- | adoption having proved detrimental to all legitis Wglind, and hias not been remedied by a Jarge ad Total but about one-fifth of the | New: 37, 1 0 to 1864-5 would appear to be Tho reaso: \:nr‘;x"u:‘; change in the existing tarift | ratio of invh-:\u‘-,l of the real and personal vance in wages. The average rate of wages paid to adult According to the estim yates must, therefore, be sought in the condition and ne- | property in the entire count \ Indicated by the peratives in New-England cotton mills s rted | Treasury, there n;lllu- n‘qul:l e posc coasities of the various Industrial interests of the country; | States census #s having obtained from 1850 to 1860, As the ¥, while in cases of the more skilled ope: 30, 1868, to meet the expent '(lgr:»n o h he papecially those which_are brought into competition wiill | above assumption, relative 1o the average date of invest- 1 from €20 10 850 nd even $40 per month, | and to provide for the iuterest on the public nerative prisse They joely Adk {oz an adoption haviog proved pimilar producing interests of othier counts , with which | ment, however, s more favorable thau the 18 W reported. revenue of $286,000,000, and for the payment of bounties | tional duty of four cents per pound specific, and ten per | husiuas s destructive of reve nue, and an endless source he U s s "engnged i trade aud commerce. | the relative rate of iucreaso was probably really less than fion mow pouring into the coun- | $64,000,000, ln-uvhl" 'a probable availabfe surplus of #105,- | cent ad vilorem on all importations of mnwashed wool; litization hetween the Government and the fmportes his being admitted, a determination of the exact uature | that indicated. e ite reliet to the acknowl- | 000,000, From this surplus we assu 50,000,000 a8 the | while the manufacturer necessarily follows with a de- | The ad valorem principle being abandoned, only twe 1t should niso be borne in mind, in this connection, that these ecessities obviously become: e e A Sl of It | amount to be appropriated for the reduction of the prin- | mand fora corrcspouding fcrense in the rates of duty | other methods of assessiug duties upon wines' are avall alm ..‘.‘?‘a‘:”.’ffl{fl.’r‘;‘.“’ necessitics obviously becowes the | 1t should pied b WOTE T, M hited State, in view ot the | is pnrely agrienltural, and t | eipulof the publio debt—n aum which we believe should | upon the fmportations of ull matufuctures of vol. Both | able. First, the English method of asswaing the duty A 5‘.2’ Papid developments of former years, cannot bo regarded | in the extreme West. Owl rea vision of the tariff, but one D o A D by to Do set aaido for this purpose | parties expect o ‘obtaiu, and doubtless will obtain, | acconding to the percertage of epirits contained in them| Mnnoonuze:vlmll:o:)l'lfitt‘h}:l;:llxn}‘(;:;:l‘m|.l.°n'|:;xwl Dearing | s other that retrogreasion. ever, and to t at the presont time; leaving 868,000,000 us the amouns | an mi to increass '0f price for their respective | and, secoudly, the establishment of one specifio duty e Such, however, is the inherent flexibility and vizalityof | been suppicnien Th 3 . : 8 i o 10 cduction o : smm ,” correaponding to the increase of duties | gallon upon all wines, Irrespective of value, = Pend! reotly u the revenue or industry of the country, upplicable for the reduction of taxation commoditics, Correspon: : g Pendiig d:w grn'::flltll:, lllm fact that the vxn(mx sehedule of | American industry, and the resources of the count bt | extent than almost any oth n the report of the Revenue Commission, presented | imposed; which increase o prices, as will be shown v?vlmmumy for a earefnl examination fnte the merity o of other countries affords but few ¢ resta of aericultore have suffered much less than ratos pxccedingly complieated and difficuit | the experie February, 1866, the opinion was expressed, that at that hereafter, will tax the domestic cons , suppos- | the first method, the Commirsioner would recommend the b'f“um o:::l“tm'\: o o {1 nunferous amendments | by whilch results In our own can be estimnted. e e fh tues and commerce, This statement | time not one half of the legitimate Internal revenue was | ing the consumption of wool aund woolens in the | adoption of the second; and that the rate be made spe- % f one particul finds a striking illustration in the fuct that during the Tie lnw that have been made by varions | sirikingly lllustrated in the collected under existing laws. The expe: ¢ another | future to bo equivalent to that of the last fiseal year, | cific at 60 cents per gallon on all wines containing loss ‘:‘l";‘;&:‘l:::::ll"‘ln’(‘hvnl-:lnlununhv!olmm! ~-y ant —-luu:l:lz—whn'h,‘l fore the expiration of the Reciprocity | perfod of the war, v stwithstanding the great draught | year has afforded no evidence which tends to induce the | to the extent of §35,000,000 per aunum over and above than % per cent of alcohol. On wine in bottles, this duty, the United States in the agrjcultural States fo the army, the hirveet, | Commissioner to belicve that the above statement was | what he now pays—a sim equal to more than one- fourth d 1If, therefore, more efficlent ARUTES hul‘ of the present annnal fnterest on the National d d for the year ending June | complain t rument, the int 3 Dy tae tmposition of 3 cents additional ou the bot would be increased to 65 cents per gallon. h:h the practical working of our customs r\.l omllvll.ll‘i\n, gcau in }lirlt'll. IN?,‘WIN hn]]ml'l' d 1 o b h o : 3 no tanff act of recent years. owlng to a lack of har- om Canada free of duty, By the repeal of this treaty t 1gh the more extensive use of machinery CXRERCTD 3 g ¢ 0: ok conflicting lnnguaige with previous enactments, | Canadlan lumber becauio sul mM n impost duty Hither than diminished. Thus the State of lowa, which, | the ‘prevention of such losses could be provic ed for, A tax on the conswmer, Jike that resulting from the in- | The tariff rates established on_cigars by ihe act of July ation in 1960, of 575,000, furnished to thearmy, | if the appropriation of money for the payment of bounties | ereased t of wool and woolens under consideration, | 25, 1566, are almost prohibitory, and on some varietics arg will soon distribute itself | entirely so, resulting in a considerable losa of custome conld be deferred, a wuck larger amount of surplus reve- | both absolute necessarics, hout the whole community, and will eventualls | reveniie to' the oment. I view, however, of the very full examination and discussion of tho tariff of labor and commodities; thus | cigirs, given by Congress and its Comimittees, at the I: e subject of the national revenucs, and an ex- | Ugx il which fn the outset it wiua in- | session, and in view of the fuct that the domestic tobaceo d inquiry into the industrial condition of the country, tended to remedy, and necessitating s forther increase in | interest is almost unanfmous in favor of the continuanes A the Commissioner unhesitatingly to the | the voluwe of currency in order to facilitate exchanges | of the present rates, the Commissioner has not felt wap ranted, without an opportunity for further examination, s Doon fully cartied out according to the inteut of the | 20 per cent; the effect of which, added to priccs alre ady | outof a which originated and passed it. unprecedentedly high, would, according to all accepted | from Ma INDUSTRIAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. wofitico-oconomie theories, have been largely to diminish A somewhat extensive examiuation and inquiry Into the | both foreigu importations and domestic consumption. On ustrial condition of the country, authorizes the Com- the statistics of the past s 3 show that product of wheat from 8, lesioner to report: tion of Canadian pine | 14,662,000 in 1563, gain, in 1 us greaty increased, | rajsed in the 8 nue, sud & much lurger reduction of taxation for the next lhmu"( mani fest itself nud reappear in the shape of an incres fiseal year could be wuticipated, REDUCTION OF THE FUBLIC DERT.—A careful study of for, and the import —industrial or speoulative—during | lumber into the United States, 21 the State, ont of Its p First: Great activ $he past year, in nearly every ever) section of the coun- | while the prices, notwithstanding an increased produc- | while In 1863, thatandin, ‘with » consequent extension of business. tion, have been fu malutained and advanced. lation, In 1560, 000, hand furnishied to the army more a rapld reduction of taxation rathier than | ata higher level of prices. If now the representatives of evidenoe iu part of this Is to be found in the follow- The lesson of t showing is, that the enterprise and | than 124,00 fizhting men, the aunual product of ‘wheat | & rapid reduction of the prineipal of the publle debt, is at the other producing tuterests come forward and demand, | tor ommend any change in the existing rates. ta: sagacity of the American people have manaked to find & | exceeded 20,000,000 bushels. present the true policy of the Government; and that the | as in equity they certainly have a right todo, that in con- MANUFACTURES OF COTTON, SECOND CAUSE. adoption of this cou; sideration of the incressed cost of thoir products—arising A careful examination has been made of the duties frow tho additional taxation of §5.000,000 levied for the | upon manufactures of cotton, and of ml:a\rl rrl.-;lni:; clieved that ne Al fnerease in the amount of coal mined and | profitable employment fora vi to market, exceediug the production of auy | withstanding its continued abnorual a Tho second cause to which the present inflation of | at which the natioual d ‘year;* & large increase in the production and ex- | pries ; but at the same time we aro also ¢ prices may be attributed, 18 the adoption, ou the part of | contrary, greatly acerle on of crude and refined petroleum (the quantity | make the statement, which to any cbserver needs no the Ooverernment. as & measure of value, 48 a medium | KECOMMENDATIONS FOR REDU ‘from the Atlantic ports for the first eleven montlis | proof, that, in consequence of the lilkh prices of lumber, | of exchange, und us a legul tender of an frredeemnble I of being 60,344,979 callons against 23,888,258 for the cor- | there hus been @ very at diminution in the constru paper cutrency. When we 6 10 the paper currency The Commissioner, therefos Fiod of 1565); # large inerease in the demand | tion of honses, factorics, and ships—tlus directly of the United States an un inflnence on prices, {t | surplus of revenue lfkely to accrue, even under the pres- o production and importation of Jumber; an | jug an iucrease of rents, manufactured products und | {snot becanse of its quality as movey, but because, bein ent administrative condition of the law aud the p in number of wanufacturing establishments, | frelghts ; aud indirectly swelling the voluwe of prices of | inconvertible, it lacks the one essen ch " peetive large payments on accounf of bounti Again, let v \rt from all other considerations, next | Stutes, amounted to between 13 and 14 per cent upon the al); cotton, both in the North and iu the South, | all labor and commodities. &old and siiver smend the following specifie reductions of ation: | Inquire, whether an increase of prices, or, to state the whole cost of manufacture, without waking any allows a tull smployment of all iron blust furnaces, if not an Anothier result atisig from the great enhancement of | Values; namoly ‘A reduction of the present general tax of five per | question v irly, whether “an opportuiity, artifict- | ance for loas of interest caused by the additional cost in their number; an ivcrease in the production of | prices, shove referred to, of all labor and wuterial is, that | as such, tha the products i e utacturing Industry | dlly created, to imtediately increase production,” will | erecting mills arising from the luiposition of fnter and silver in the Pucitio States and Teritorie the products of American industry are exposed to a 1o0st | laws; whi 10 three per cent, and a_corresponalng reduction luspe- [ give to the manufacturer tho advantage he expeets to xes upon the materfuls and muchinery required tiere ued domand and full employment of all kinds of | unfair competition in their own and foreign markets with | money has depended only “on the taxes levied on analogous branches of industry obtaln throngh an increase of the tariffl We think not, | for. uced from un- | ernment, and’ the activity of the printing y mount of such re an reckoned on the basis | and for the following reasons : Upon fine and tancy goods, and upon printed A& plready shown, there is an acknowledged senreity of | especiully, the proportion of tuxes to cost Is greater, 3 benetit of the wool-growers and wool manufacturers—ine | portion to the internal taxes, aund it 1s TION OF INTERNAL TAXA- eased duties be ulso levied for thefr benefit, it is evi- | material change should be made, at present, in the rates {ont that & compliance with this demand wotld leave | of duty imposed by the existiug tariff. It bLas , In view of the probable | prices relatively s before, with the exception that they | proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, that onld he brought to a still higher lovel and be rendered | the date of September, 1566, the internal taxes upon even more unstable and abuormal. great mass of plain cotton goods made in the Uni the Gov «. The 1abor; and a partial resuscitation of Southern iu- offerings of other countries, p and production, especially as regards sugar. r erials, with the further great advantage of | value of the one is intrinsic property, based ou e Jnst fis 30. A progress in the invention of maclinery for al and lower wages for lubor. In faot,in | the cost of its production; while the vilua At upon er, A reduc w akilled and, to a tartan extent, of unskilled labor in | is estimatéd at over 15 per cent. In view of these fi department of Amierican fndustry the pos- | the other s a m of purely arbitrary legislation. | nt of the re the country. An increased (]ym(luunun. therefore, neces- | after providivg for the imposition of specific dutles has already buen | sitates an increased demand for labor, which, in & ord- | ull woven eotton goods, a clause has boen added provi ded law of July u‘flmhln&l labor or an-:lrmug roducts and processes, 0 sntirely without precedent in any former experience. howe warket is M'xmu.l{ interfered with, As an dllostration of the extent to which the country s | the ame This statement, apart from direct testimony taken by Dility to compete with forelgn nations in for- | taxed by the facilities which the prescent redundant eur- | allowed for in the esthnates presented, and as, in the | an ith the unive tho Commissioner on this subject, finds full confirmation | ejgn markets is restricted to the sale of a very few aith | rency affords to speculation, we bave but to refes to the | opinion of the Commissioner, a portion of this tax i | be foll by an increase {llustration in the following returns from the United | clesin which the American producer is largely favored fact thut, while the wheat crop of the country for the | already evaded, through a feeling on the part of the | of pricea on which the iucreased production is ba tatan Patent Office, of the nuuber of patets lssued for | hy natural or accidental advantages, as lu- the Case of pe- | prosent weason I+ fully up to the average in amount, and | manufacturers that 1t o' excessive, unjust, and that its | net itself compel the workuen to this course. A 1| - A moderate reduction is recommended in the rate of youd the ave e ‘asion 1 Justifiable, the falllug off from the reduction in | ndvance fu the tariff as a mensure of relief to the - | specific duty lmposed upon the coarser and more st very necessity of the case, there- | goods, \-elnr such ns are used by the poorer classes; - @l law of sup) and demand, must | that these specific duties shall amount to at Ieast W0 it wages, even If the advance | eent upon brown, 834 per ceut upon bleached, and 3 per did | cent on priuted cottous. nventions from 1857 to 1666, inclusive: troleum, cotton, sewing-machines, ete. age 1 condition, and while the corn crop lenloll’lkr'l'l* Years. Number of Patent The following furnished by the Bureau of Statls- at the remarkuble fignre of ), 0600 Jv question will not, probably, result in s large a dimdnu- | facturer, must, from th +2,910 18 . tles, shows the decrease in the e ation of varlous ar- T 60 per cent i txcess of the Jberal crop of 1560 | tion of the recelpts ua o superficial examination would | fore, in a short thne tralize itselt and leave the pro- | it is not beileved that suy material increase to the revenus 0/1863. ticles, dnriug the fiscal year 1866, us compared with corre- atlon, In the mean t having iue 4, | sppear to indicate—more especially when the stimulus | ducing iuterests in a ool ditton 1o better than before. | ean be expected from such reduction, inasmuch as [ ive from an | That sneh was the result following the great advance of | home manufacture of such goods is not exposed to urlng industry s likely to 180 tuken futo consideration. oval of all direct internal taxes sdction of bar, plate, and sheet pet levied upou 19 per cent - | which manuf riff of 1864, is almost the universal testimony great ¢lgn competition in the home market. 1 by the Commissioner from all parts of the conntry The Commissioner has made & chunge in the classifioss 5d 1% indirectly substantiated by the fact that notwith- [ tion of cotton fabries, providing that all plain woven fvance then given was regarded as highly | simple or uniformly woven twilled goods shall be inclu represeutatives of the producing interests | fu (LNO classes, between which the distinction is v:ade ae although the taxes have, since 1884, been | before, by coun the This method 1s, on the and an additional supply of lnbor | whole, believed to be the most simple that can be deters uncertaiuty and most 1beral acconding to the hese facts, notwithstandin the City of New-York onthe very conside v in advanco of the sponding » riods of Any of the years from 1560 Lo 1568 nclustve. A compre! sponding years 1560, 1861, 1863, 1804 and 1565: Toar 1060 Ye 4,819/ 1565, ¥ ©.8,340(1866, to December 3d, increasing influx of foreign fmunl- | Ap tion—the number for the year 1666 having been proba- | 4 ul(vltn excess of any year subsequent to 1857, as ls exhibit- Articles. es, green and drie]. es, pot and pearl. , porter and cider in caska # uie, porter aud civer, in bot- as . pm ure of stee omputed on the basis mount of sich re naive sarvey of all the elrenmstances wonld n the following table : B e K iae | 1600, bavhotec >/ T . Kive the measure of the influence of the present unre- | ipts from this source for the lust fiscal year, would | considernbly decreased Brae | 100 a0 Leu 2 decmuble paper currency on prices substantially as fol- | be about §1,80,x through the disbanding of the army been rendered avail- | mined on, but as there has been some Yy - P lows: Thirdly: A reduction of the tax of two and a balf per | able, are now m nt than ever before for o further | many disputes arising from the difficulty of countin e i - First: A e of prices corresponding, in & degree, | cent on the gross receipts of sugar refiners o one and o | lucreass In the of duty. threads in fancy woven goods, a fourth class v i 1,604,173 to the aversge difference fn the value of goid and cur- | bhalf or gne per cent. - ! Tn».unz RATES OF h:'fl UNDER EXISTING TARIFF. added, In which all such goods are cowpi < IUATE rency Fourthly: An eutire removal of the {uternal resenue Commissioner would next nsk attention to the a UNBLEACHED FABRIC, THIRTY-SIX INCHES WIDE, CLASARS "A:aflmlng““'";;'r‘*nwfi‘lfl:rmfl‘f};:'l:lm!‘m"ll";“}f:l ".'; Necond: As the price of gold Msing the expreasion fn | duty on sulphuric acid, and on the mining and manu- o of duty imposed by the preseut tariff (in g 1 AND 3. e e o former st sttt the aense of ita belug a ure of the valuo of the cur- | facture of inery ot the invoteed value In gold, of the dutiable goods % | g | . 2% g oot o the aversge value 0 the T ol e 1n 0 furtlier addition to prices, in | FitAly: The cutire removal of the internal revenue tax Im'hl“ to the United States during the fiscal year end- 15 3 f i e e T va thih 86 & poaitive addl- lef aguiust fluctuations n valies, | upon the manufacture of salt g June 30, 1566, This will appear from an examination ] ? H F i T AT LA e i i | "Tile total amount of reduction of the revenue couse- | of tiie following table to have been 48.58 per cent : H Rl ¥ [ ilf of over $150,500,000 per aunuIn. the businessof the country | quent upon the adoption of the above recommendations The total importatious were. g . $437,638,968 "g » k] ! | e I Sneuml, 1o ssema 0, Tedoubie fia to thit of the extra-hazardous meterials, | taking the recelpta 0f the last fiscal year as the busis of Specle... §10,329, ¥3 4 |8 w 3122 L ] avdes ‘whtch s’ placed with whom a contingent, and uitimately certain disaater, caloulation, may be estimated wt about $35,000,00, leaving Free goods. .. B%,201,579 31312 v |5 3 | Aoe DRk ! . Wheat four s necensurily reckoned as an element of cost & surplus available for other parposes of about §20,000,000 Total free imports. S 60,130,135 IR R 5 ADVANCR I PRICES, Wood manufas Finally: general unsctilement values, conse DUTIES ON KAW MATERIALS %2l ‘i\‘-i ! a ! A somewhat extended investigation respecting the ad- quent upon the fluctuations above notieed, ia largely rtment of the Tariff, the Commissioner Total dutiable zoods......... L : E £ z E e of the loading articios of consumption | , Articles Tuken ndvantage of in the third Instanee, by dealers and | furth nends the distinet recognition and adoption, Amount of duties received. e 3 24| & [§9/8%|E%5 |: et Indicate an Increass of nearly 90 per cent in Wwannfacturers. to advance prices o w degreo that is ouly | 88 of present and future legialation, Prsetos ports 48.58 per ) & 6 e ! £ e, a5 compared with the mean of prices during limited by the endurance of the public rineiple of abadug the duty aw oot 4319 per cent in | G O percns G o Ver cut | For oat ThoToar years from 1460 to 1662. - The advance in bread: o view of the resulte of such an aualyal with how | lowest point consstent with the requirements of rove On wmany of the articies of ordinary consumption the g - 2 L T ahout 19 per ents coal. (RCErectie), much of ignificance apd meaning doca the opluion of wi and of placiig upon the froe list such raw materdals, the | rate of duty iniposed is cousiderably in excess of the ge |13 3,08 1368 el % Fi i Atherican stateamin of & former period become 1nvested] | product mainly of tropical countrica, ua are eascitial | oryl wycrage, us above giy wientnl B8 [ IRM » 100 per cent; B X “ Ot all the contrivar mays Mr Webster, *“for cheat- | elements fn great lnnJu.‘ branches 0f manufacturiug | ®1% wonld scemn obyious that an increase of dutles, carry- -3 [1315(1.7] 13.38 | 8 3. » o6, 100; 6alt, from 110 to 120; soap fromn 50 to 90; brown | Cobles cordage aud twines. ... ing the lahoring classes of mankind, none has been found | {nduatry, and do not come iu competition with any do- | yug up the rates average and special, to & greater de i 15 .11 [1amlaiial 13 | 8 fa X Bugars, from 70 to 8; cotfee, from 5 t0 &5 wud teas, from Cadles, otber than spena, paraf- more effectual than that which deludes them with ap ir- | mestic products. than those now existivy, and contributing there .,"m .08 |16.913.23| 13.18 | B {2, » 340 to 150 per cent. o . . d adasantiEe. oo vesene redeemable paper currency.” T TRI® PROTECTION OF THE AMBRICAN AGRICCLTURIST. | [iCrease of prices, mUst give to any tariff such Casenta lImenul 15.6 | 8 20 0 I e Sexile fabrice, the cuirvency prices of Domes- | & “ 95,541 THIKD CAUSE. It this prineiple:should seem to militate wgalnat the | of wenkness as 10 rendet It Ayt Bogy i B g 3.0 |la1s1).e8) 13.31 | 8 28] % - R e v o el eatice avpe || omyes-cccirictenet s z 047 The third of the causes, and pa the most fnfiuen- | agricnitural interest, which, in point of numbers cugaged, iutucturing and producing ,mm_”',‘;;'l,",‘{“"w""‘ry T 4.1 4| 13.17 | § p2] ¥ Rhe_gold prices of mich fabrics In July, 1860, of DI ol gt madepenns L e P ) which the pre i of prices wmuy aud capital luvested, is the great tnterest of the countr I which past_experience has taught it specially to | O the finer fabrl » inoluded n class 3, o small increass 24 208 | attributed, is the exteut of the burden of uatlonal | and as such has o right to demund precedence in proteo- | qread; for certuinly, uext to positive fostile Iegislution, | Of duty 18 recommended. Theso goods, capecially whea taxation. tive legislation, we reply that our wholo national experi- | yothing ! i | colored or priuted, are articies more of lnx:.x;yl s nee ad 1 cone to the manufacturing Literests try than instability | 11¢ legislation he tnvestigations of she Commissioner tand o Hm} an dne llww of the rutes of duty on nivilent to those given in the House Bill L a prouibition or reductio . ISLY BA W TOVANES SABApRRS. oush a prolilbition or reductlon | “ypon spool-cotion & moderate reduction 1s recoms mended, and upon unwound thread and {luru, # clause went; the advance in the gold prices for the same the premium on gold for ihe wonth of October, 1806, being ed s 50 per cent—having been 81 per cent vourse a very large portion of the advsnce no nust be attributed to the high price of raw cotton, Wh varted from 200 to 500 per cent above the price In 1560, A camsful examination of the books of one of the largest Cotton manufactures, jrinte c Hats, of woul, for, of & Hass, of paim lead, etraw, ke. Hemp..coocccocerccoe v, dependent upon atyle ) f which is but llli.l. 'tected by amoderate of a8 they are used mostly by the weal crease of duties upon these fabrics 18 no practical protection to Y- ot What e feceives from | *e. of American manufactures. | g the conelu ot wool now grown anuually | juportation single pound, under ordi- | Nov1is would i foreign | of {mportations, the ¢ futeraal taxa- | ence proves th 30, 1086, Was fean o, 310,906,064 €T 046,030 gold. tence ai Reducting the custonis rece ¢ ithe premium | Out of the 100,00 ol gold belng aeruned kL 40 eenth wo have as the total | in the United 8t mmount of reveuue drawn im the countr UIALATIC The whole amount of reven: tion during th 3 mannfact fi 108 during the | nary w;flm‘:fiuf;imr_hlng companies of New-Englaud, made | Leatber.. 129,700 rious forms of taxation, th f rket, while the stutisti up in detall and with great care and accuracy, shows that | Ce B arious forma of taxation, the s of | market, while the stutistica of pr CArs Prior | ro 0 a poilit beyo! v o o 0 B e et e bkt stode 1 Ut milks 1o | Soton: S e o oD e Ot |t e begond s asation, that h PSHIO Wbk 128 | Smeaaiiat Meit BNETs seaised yould bo cithes safe OF | tio existicg tariff, which would be prohiditive were the year 1866, over the averuge u!‘(he years from 1867 to | Tobacco, masufac 1,76 69 L quivalent to $10 04 curreucy, or §11 46 tn | wool growers of the U nlml'nm:u and --|1 hx:n alike | eputinued reduction of ,,,,m'm“u“,h}" d m-:‘:nuwmot‘l:le.}au?ulmd. lndl‘;n‘ lace thereof 13,29 635 » Per cap peetved the maximum price for thelr products hay view of conc. he C ated scale uties ts recommended. In view of these soveral conclusions, the Commissioner, A moderate specific duty 18 recommended in addition 1861, was 1334 per cent, Wheat flour. ... > . On manufactures of woolens, sulted for o Wood manufactures, not pec fol mestlo use, the advaice s d at 63 . v alue of the real and personal property of | colneldont with those in which the mai fucturers of by s T ) and persanal property of | colelcent Wit e L N fered. with i the selockion | LD e L e prodaing Iotarevts of | 10,68 a(l valoreny rete upon sabiop hostery: T JRS od elioe 1860, {he dato of | couitzies have Deel Lane L e Nax-growing disiricts | iy Decded aud sought 1o b7 e Py Gongiess thivug | Mosure bias been lataly estadtished tn the Linfied Bta UL e Jonact | o ewYork wns Torineriy of alow sl b &jow Drices | Simauatird’ i taxation o the raw luaterials ldioated, | 850 R0W Sploys s large Bumber of oporsttvos ‘wiss thr When flax wannfactorios came to be established in theso o O oS8 results of doiboatio ndustry, | SSpital. It 5as been staried, mcsoves, Shen 1mach! Wt Duthing the | wame diatricts, the price, with guick demat iy | Sudon the machinery Bnd Rrohad largo. [ncreass of thg | mostly importad at very high cost, and requires such Yt propeiy in | 00 per cent, aithunueh the tarif during the’satue period | Tty of duty o' tmportations.” Snel ogislation, coupled teution as the Luterest of the revenue will aliqw. percent; or, o other | on fuported flax was not materially aitered. — Agal with an enrly adoption and adherence to some fixed WOOL AXD WOOLEN ot Britaln had e ,rower nud crusher of linseed grow and crush their looking, through contruetion, to the resumption A careful examination of the whole subject, the ained in the United | ucts solely to supply the demands of the Amercan o paynients, would, in the opibion of the mbite: | tunity for which, owing to 8 limitation of time au and tapestry carpets has bocu 1rom 9 to 100 per cent. 2, e in thut country | painter, aid the manufacturers of ull and enawelod cloths, Yerensinig the cost of production aud increas. | Pressure of ot Dusiness, was not to The advance in the price of ready-made clothing has between the old and new measurements, indicates 5 de been $1,424,184,440, 51,000, of engwoled leather, oil stlk chasing DowWer of Wigos, g0 very f: ”‘ a | oriw Committecs at its 1ast session, leads the Comitis Doen ha follows : crease in five yoars of over % per cent, 'Tn 1633 the & Furthermore, it slould be' remembered tf wnd if, by tho increase in th Ing the purchasing Bower of W €5 arrost the devel- | UiomeE to the couclusion that the schadule af Fates D R N ting, in 1000 and 1061, $100, was $115 fn | D30 F tho Usilied States waa about 15 per cent in excess | Great Britain arg levied In such & manner aa In the least | thols cotaumpiics 1o restricte diminlaling the evils wligl Ao B aeve of the | Question, jroposed as the basis of the future Safitt o T e S 106 P170 1o 1005 4nd 8126 tn loge.~. | of that of Great Britain, while st the present time it i | posaible degree fo enliance prices—ull of the ordinary | £o8 naihlation comes home us surely o the grower | oyt d ¥, wnd commerce of the | o) und woolens, in of & character not waranted by tbe Showing an advance in 1806, Over the prices of 160-61, of | €stimated at 3 per cent ors and products of fndustey beiig exemptfrom taxa- | and crusher s to the mabufu UBEEY. o time, In viow of the very declded’expres. | Citcumatances of the case, aud prejudicial alike t¢ the 60 per eent currency. wination of the official returns of the coastwise | tion; while i the ll nited hmllr“lh;!n xlz u;pnu’u n'l any ,1- urthermore, the rene wing sion of opinfon iu respect to the tariff, by the "nu‘:e"“' true interests of the wool-grower, the revenue, and &o& or process or result of fndustry, s the ex- | of duty on the pork, beef, lumber, wool and " - bic! P great mass of consumers and tax-payers thro thout Reprosentatives at it lust session, which the Commis- ( &5 S50 0 Conrirmation -‘t?:w By .ru be Askuubng th the United States to have inere sufficient 1o co 1% grOWLng out ¥ ey a5 626 720,628 wry do- | " Toreixn commerce of the United States e bofng, The_ inerease in the price of hiankets Kept pace with | it were, swept frow the ocean, and it is reported to the ehat ot other heavy woslon goods, but huanow (Decew. | Commissioner, by experienced ship-owners of Xew.York oo fallen 1o lese thiunsd pek cenit 1h excess of the | Wt 1o Voyaye with un American vessel can be planned rices of 1860-G1, or to wbout the prices existing in those at the present time, frond the United States to any foreign ears, compiited.in gold. port, with a reasonible expactation of profit. Ordinary ingrain carpets have inereassd about 76 per | , A Teference to the official returns shows the amount of cent; thrée-plys of Lowell and other best quali- | AToerican registered tunnake engaged in foreign trade, in ties, 63 per cent; while the ady low-priced Brussels | 1965-66, to huve been 1,422,524 funs, w8 compared with 237 tuns in 1850-60; which, allowing for the difference year, t Britaln was nine-tenths it the ratio of taxation in G as that nOw il o of e little_over 100 per cent—the lower grades | | ERER pent, also shows & decrease in this | coption rather than the rule. Thus, in ritatn, out | the British Provinces, consequent upon the to o & . o Dl of abont 13 per cent. 1 stiould, owever, be stated, | Of & KTOKs revente in 1965 of 884,131,000, 2.6 per cont’ waa | of the Reciprocity Treat "Rave ingtted and ot be alouet fecls that ho hat no right to dlaregard:; and InveWs | ieved, wil be found in the following sRmmay @ and oonclusions: -lvm‘-dv-a’ce?, -:z‘u- 1860, at lnvm higher ratio. that & part, of this reduction i bably due to th Aerived from th s duth th 4 e L e ey & Dart of this reduction 1s probably due fo the sub | derived from the excise dutics on the manufacture and | the American sgricultuist. Canadian lumber we nist B8 00DM e et et nt Lhin’ time 1% | stitution of steamors for sailing vessels e ibuoua A fommeated lauom-and. tobacto s | hkye, Aud have fakon 1t a8 beforo, paylng oursalves tho | B uoon i “"‘;"lmi fiuances consequant ubon BndIng, | “ piyyi; According to the report of the Executive Coms ade,‘owing to- tho varying. nature of the condiiions o Qut ot1el Amerlcan vesacls engaged (n the Brasitian or | % e In the U during the corr maoce) | ARIyat"50 Dot 'cent, £nd. some barcentuge additionsl, | S UpoR tie adoptipn of Hieastict i 0P the country 1s | Mittesof the WookGrowery Associatice, submitted o e g Tl e O e bt e for oy | South American trade in 1561-63, but 30 are reported ns re- | Cal yeat (with e e conmummtiny o rsirite | The exclasion of Canadian “ combliik wools® uas rendercd | s sione oibe Aisturhances for which the mAmUIAC the Revenue Cominission, the present aunual production maining; while the number of foreiam vensels engaged and tobacco), r"'.‘I,’.l»“‘r}t};‘;"?fi'.";;l'.‘.".' or'$ Gie | unproductive Copital and machinery invested i the | ers aud e Oducers ought not 0 bo held Tesponsible, an | 9f Wool in the United Staies la about 100,000,000 of 1 e BUmO @ ‘only | worsted manufacture to the extent of some §8,000,000, do- Soans - < assuming the average price to the grower of washed wnerease of the tariff, on some articles, a8 u mensure of unwashed wool at Mt‘en!l{;e pouid, we have as the e wis o of the Commissi ny tead ufimmmu:-,"m'u':.;‘:‘nfw&m? e e e the s trade as, during e sume tme, lictessed | P X e o hosoncluslon: that, as u Kencral thing, the Price | nearly threcfold. The immedinte causo of this chiange | 8.9 per ceut. priving the American wosl-grower on the ono hand of : O motitios " thved,n an equal ratio with tho Brice | wys dngoubledy the ravages and frequent presence upun | A8 8 further ffluateation of the extonttowhich industry, | market fur 8 cortath Fropertion of bis Produet of ot | He AT ey I e omsulimiogen: dhoUL, how. | Ure annual value of the clip, 960,000,000 In currency, & gt bo quotcd which scem to udicate tho controry. Tl Dt of the deein of the Alubama and other Confeder- | 6Xempt in Great Britain, ia taxed in the United States, 1f | ing wool” to bo mixed ‘with the Canuda worsted wouls, | gver, bo extee e i cxgund, | About 35,300,000, preaout gold aluution (Dec: 1, 1860). R o peoverty das (o thik T e e e, i | e eorian sTali-grower th the ofher Man of & | L o e e D sty B tua || o Now, (e otive 1n' imposing the proposswaistm 4 " 3 . 4] ® | duty of ten cents per pound specific and ten per cent following are some of the most interesti ing and would ere this have been repuired had the ordi ed during the fiscal year 1864-5, on the value of the rket for the agricultural produce required to feed the | gupplying of such deficlencles in the existing tariff os are ent worsted factories. ¥ Ll A8 ATe | vy lorem, 1s manifestly o raise the value o rhnmal e to reliable data guthered under this head, from persoual ex- | U amination f‘ uiry at some of the l'fl"l‘lllllv:!‘t'l ot ;L ary conditions of trade existed and the cost of construct- | products of the woolen industey in Massachusetts alon due eapeclall; f inustrics spocified, i Aifferent sections of the conntry: | b€ vesscls continued unenhunced. Instead, however, of ($45,430,671), wiss equivalent to e n? 20 p B Y to a wint of proper adjustment between | oo wools to the same extent; and o country: | Vulidiug ships, as forncrly, for all nations, this particular | ¥hole capital @14,i35,80), inveated i this busl ho rutes of fnposts and those wf the thternal revenie; | iy, the object of the wool-grower will eertainly not . e cont. antic coast of the United Stat 10 ¢ Raine ate durin e Aame year, §52, 3, . B R T " Agricultural implements. ferred trom the Atlautic coust of tho Thited States ta the | LU0 10050 V0K LY on Tio whole capital omployed, vie, iy o i (o cost of Uhe labor entering nto thelr ro- | by VL 1 S LG S oo e e and Western States, average o0« Rm not been probably us many ships constructed during | $10,067,474, ures, prod operatiy pocta the House Bill N be Manufacturers’ Association in fober, 1663, was 41 Bookbiading. ... ... mww tho it scanon utn i vt Dt Froviaces of Now: | It i, therctore, bo hvious, that @ revenue system | Contfuental produce, o less beef ahd pork ar e e 1 v ot Conces s | consuming 3.362,645 1 of scoured wool ‘AN subatitutes “Mon 8 5. I b otia. 3 ove necessarily iivolves w most extensive | duced, or will be produced, in the British Prosinces by | pu) <l Sy q veck ; ut these returus, it Women's an U35 o 4| The clas of anipasehichcokt, at tho present time,in th | dublcation of taxes, which b turs o talle il waitaing | reasut of thle R elnsiie Troon amorioen IAEKete Hue | B e o PRt ot Dehen, B B oot e ekmes fouttus 1o Loar 408 of Ne , about $100 per tun (ourrency), to buid | B udue ut of prices s | ero burrel this oxcluded will teind 10 sUpPIAE AN equal | Be s e, O it ot foroigh toey: | Of the seta theu in actua operation. Bupposs, bower cou | %o bulance to consume woof squal to the shrinking m:l and consumption, and cor and equip ready for sea, do uot Fii . Car building—Skilled mechanics 60 . much over #40 (gold) uently of wealtly, & | quaitity of the Aumerican product I w forelgn matket, | merce yet remnins, und prejudicial to the general tnter- | o0 ‘Girgy s’ the mpaufactured Wd thero is Do to 75 per cent. ... P per tun, 0 bulld and equip in the Eritish Proviue restriction of exportitio d of fo) B J B 0 fichal iverits X e B TOVIDCOS, o Xp on'and of forelgn commerce, and a | aud st the same o deprive the American shipow K Laverors unid unnlmd} e it i Tixthe soportedto i Commisiuier, it during | Iage fnctcose i e machinery and expense of collction, | a0y B atis that may be lkely o aceruo t0 hinn from the | Syis,of, the countey. At in confirmation ot these con | dount but they wilido more than that-—we Lave, thea, Chins docortipg @ T CF31 S mari o Novenber here wasbut o e vesel | 11 view ot these acts, rtheriore, e Conmisiicr | possemion of the currying trude. Aud, final, ity | to'him At lLis of Miamn (A wadstRnaie 1. the el et o the country (1, prospero timealy G e m S o gugns of oepatruction t the shipyards of tha City of | doels that he: 1o Apology (o the protes muado sttho | bang t can be imparted to any agricultural interest by | torests of the country Wkely to be affected by thi ¥ Q.M.W\'Uu‘ 1 per week, or 1(7,000,000 B per anuum. lothing. ! 3 3 > o e Imposition of a duty of 20 cents per bushel on Tudi Y lkely to_Do affected by this bill, e A agey. - R e e M Pt 00 STt Hogton Congress, wid which he again renews, | the iy udiun | that the rates of duty fmposed by 1t wre high Agnin, the welght of the woolen goods i e o is o year, has © the entertaliment of propositions to pay at the | corn (us provided for in Hous bill No. 718), wh i Y imposed by 1§ are higher than are \ : e St bk Ao T e o el i mt s | BR{S T o e BISR b | s i S g e e i st 40 Plading booke Ameriess pusishss have boea 75,000,000 to 430,000,000 epectally | 000 bushels, wiid {mported less thin 400 busiicla—mainly | port, wnd i nec > ey been arfollows: ¢ o e M3, 1 i works 1 000,000 hsve alrendy been | from Western France and the Sandwich Islands- port, and in necordance with the Inatructions of the Sec 1, poun Furniture—Cabins Y prited and bound there bud retiraed, paying an mpost | appropriated and expended by uational. Ktate i Toal | Corammsatonar is entiroly unable to pereetve it. el [RGot the SRrmtary ihaidee il dhe. Coniiieg ts 2 : . lfl.::"'& Wlfl?fl Locks. ke and e the e ork Home 1 the Chliod ey | o e e P Y B i prwer caven o furibes finetrativs of the peincipis whish we hnvd | HOIRLils Saemeianblyt st sopsiiele s Show: f M0 LRI et aud worsed " pounds’ 7 Anerican mechanice; Ahd 8o well secogniang: Tanss’ | Tn respect o, the first aass which has contributed to | 1810 down, ehat the trus and only protockion R | L O e ce SEREN A fean agriculturist is to be found (n the existence and ex- | plic Inws under which rates of duty on fmports ar 85,000,000 pounds the fuflation of prices, v 1 lis become this practice, that the American publishe circular now classes its woekly list of Ameriean publire. | clear that legialation can “‘"l‘““"y of Jabur, 1t Is 10t | fonaton of American manufactures, we preseut tho follow- | now levied nad collected. Foun, Tate tone Dol A el a e | F o o e ias aud ThrinL, | g Matementa: 1KAS, COFF aricEs, Wi These results, theretore, indicate the p vergy o J mulate and fucllitate 3 v COFFEE, SUGARS, APICES, WINES, LIQUOKS, M ARS ) e, indion present & & | Etuch Tana thoso” pullised Here, Ut mantitactured | dumigration, The evil erowlng out o (s chise et 1 | g, g Wittt 8500 of the Unitad States for 108 apedtatng) o el Dot o) AXD Z0RA000 e ‘.’.'.‘.’:'.“?3‘&‘:"..::.‘..{";‘““"“’%.3‘ e '°°3':'..."...."‘ hy “ Previous to 1860, about one-balf of the product of the 0 01 80 Qe iy b e SvLo o e sursady 1) the | & bualols s budhely” OF this | aitoration of importance tho uresont. Hiegd 80P | 16 i et ‘?&“‘(' D L “ coppaF mulnes of Take Aporior was expored 1o’ Frniry | Tacroasing supoly ot uakiiied Lobd orotiraty It cs. | Abantity ticre were exported to" Groat Britairl ahd ou | vide for largo, cartain and Frmaneut g¥enue.” To | eoet of wool e in thie A Aud Germany ; 1o LiroMATHE o eotiii- | gored” for Britigh coneumption 1,183,680 cwt. (3,209,552 | ecomplish this, 1t {s nmm&" to selec 1 articles | through the inereased duties on his raw materials, it :) extensive and regular lmpo n amption, ECessir) nivalent inorease of duties the proprietors of these mines repro- | try, as well as by t] pre- | 1) o Tpiote VERY kient lucrouse 1 the IVeRtion | yushola), ha compared with 19,905,451 owt. (37,166,842 bush- 4, which, | on thé l'll rtation of forelgn woolens—otherwise ) o rm cy through which we wust scek for s block cutters. an advance of from 70 to 100 per eent on | CAN, 1 the maln, be 10 other than contraction N. J., averago. - sont {Lat their whole fuvestiueuts are threatened with do use of aohinery, coiton and woolen, average. w0 strietion, through failure to secure even howe m; -4 of lab ln;.m. chinery. oo o el4) buported into Great Britain from all other cs vles; | of stundard prices, d inery, general, average " w0 ket. . L _M__% R L | e u‘; ND KEMDY, e while of 5,952,788 cwt. of wheat flour huportear htb iro :hmu:?nd i xuuu l:nld , ways | fuere of wool, growlng out of the duty, inbete’ (o0l ... : o8 Another effect of the abnoial advate Tn the prlces of | $1g purt of the caude-viz., the adoption ol | Brigatn, only 502,870 gwt. were recelved from Lo’ United | Folied oh kh sourced OURE Of ry e, act a8 @ bounty ia fa for of the forelgn manutasturer, s er-hangings—Maciine tenders aud b b e e e o Tomainycao grioss & | g Pastef Ehe ttate of an'rrédecmaable pager curmeacy— | o fo WA 44 % A e o e And the expert. | prove speedily disstrous Both to the American wook of the ex- dm-wmmm spécie pagmenta; while ih Lal wn ol&.{ "1 Now l-,nfil nd and Now-York | Tho arficles which » ey oan agen b | alone, In ‘i‘--fi e !r nty-six nilofs of bushels of | euse of dther cotn B e s | B s the arice Peopoots Spon macs tha o ) ol of | tive Committes of the woolen manufacturers clal whoat in ou classes mates that the rovenue {a | endeavor to prove it to be essential to the presery: ok ‘Grg.-lonof ufaeturing industry. Mills bulit st the ir own production, to make ur m%u“eo ditlons, . Fund printers. F Laborers. ldings and machinery, over the it of sl tion applied e i nting—COfposition . “ lar eatablishmenf nchinery, over tho coat of siml- {applied to the greatest possibie extent thylr consunption While of the value of the wholo . e and Barses o at & great u W , viously work | earliest dble moient, compatible with the condition cuftiiral products of the country, for the same year, , the C fontinue to neorue, provided | theie industry, for “ £ P | Rl e e e | il Sl S Sty iR | v e S |t P B oS | S S i A i ST ¢ J { L s . ] 3 — it fm| cus R | G s B O Rl | o e i o Pt s oy 1 ad epe e prop 24 sl s Surt s | Bt Lt St i Gl Vs - f.“.'?:".:?i‘:.inmm-a?-%‘“ '”9" J) WAy Seemn t5 ey P b }"'{“f'm‘.m“-!:?,f":i Gent for the Home market and consumption. b1 S | o e dd"""""""‘“” e (hnwunrn..u. oy ture, capitalists navural) N‘.& 2.“;3.'3‘&" t: xlg::(n‘vl; - date b ) m’:fl i .o‘ 'd“ ‘ “n‘ m;x::“f: n.f" m““'m,":d' {r tea and coffoo, the duties are nasessed on wool, the %w’fiufi:’-fl'& flln.l o ot the great nérease wnd disturbance of prices | ments, Fhion, i the coubus of o foo ere oAy, vy 8 full | selrty e antriog Smlesof e orieuer) has slmalutd nto grot watt "”.‘# PED L s produghy; &;fl or six priucipal ports of the country, | ceuts per pound on bis manufactured whieh tazy T R & s ftion a0 somsamption, sl o) chargeable With & depreetatiou of 50 per cent | tiroies l-ersovog machinry: 1a st srog saveng o r-rM Surplusagiaes. 1o e B vie Theh | Stoe B Totr e AR D Tt 4 o, mauufactarer, st rwer ] 0 , ) X ml of natioual development—a |M|3¢ That v.umm under such elxeumstances should few 1y ""..7'.'.. -ni-:::::.:'.. 'hcnl b .un Inveutod Qutlet “'wl;' of ‘ravenue on theso articles is evuded by mn"mw for each cent of dnt'r-n:oud-v:l,‘” - 718 sovn ih & weilrecogaiaed law of it | Feved any foeree of vutionnl e g B "'J'.':;"?- mawer have bectme nsiions b pecessty—snd gxpofteis ratly T ey o PR et raing, b | oo e oo exiating [rate of duty upon unwashed A Srmer ooy oy ng, 0l 01 eonsumption, ‘W00l at six vents per pound, present annual tax for ) wmost striking confirmation in the | abatemént of fu M"mm.'““"h very considerable | and loading hay : gl o tueey ot taking ore to Eflu lovied upon them are very uniformly distributed, | th teoti; u‘ o erofore t of the g seritl production 1n | ETem, should continue to racleve & maeycrtienof Cou- | sack, the polste he Dot Daltery the cuins annual 400 09 iid fall w ‘oouaWIRGF 1n #imall AMIOWNT At s | 3ha Jrotestion f NG I e se () WW Ly compariug tio. | CABLOSbe regarded ua other it oo of Tk Jaont Tubes: | e, hasng i, Years be as larwe u“:«‘"flmfl'f&"- M {ime; T o sualiorod. poceatnrlen, oF | awem A4 BULtcots s the bty e Lax Wil oS 1988, ety e Taee euding May ol | SIS with, our Tioancia) wad pteai | Ao b, teakh amntactures piaced in ‘s condisins 18 hioh 1h & henso 80 absolute aa broadatutfs and clothing, the | further loreased 36,150,000; 0r, 1n_ OtBe# D b St iy s | ez Mkesing e stleostife Bt | o T e o e T 2 | el et S s il w3 ¥ fasrenss fn the o ; s most argenta ACHAID | boter, s the e cltnge e ot e s gy ¥ (e Breseity Whotrs framonthe | That tho present fax ou tea and coffes s not regarded | those oy Abhae oy i T el G 8 8 s opveting et T oat o Allaasaber 1, o been horetatore, it it that at wechusic ormed, br, tooly ssuled, | Jous Jone, Joy 150 520 e | by e cousmunlty e’ ren o, we Dellve, ey | autum tor e o o ntarcat, o @ ol aAskal e 1™ 1ioDs of Wanutuoture, o Lateruat | vy " M "7 X 00 bisas tasee 40 | and seblisated) 5 (riuing god ot | prove by the dlreumatance thist "the consumption of | value of whose product, #8 We have already shown, oao- ' *0 | fonr poe saob et to pivieviy Lwo grticlos, sod wlso of aycats, has tucreased mora | not b sonsidered L vX0gss 0f $35,000,000, gold valuations