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THE TARIFF.
In the House of Representatives,on
the 1 Gth ult. the Tariff’ Rill was resu
med—Mr. McDuffie made a speech,
which occupied more than two hours,
:u decided opposition to the Rill. The
question was taken *ma motion of Mr.
Randolph, for the indefinite postpone
ment of the bill, which was lost, 103 to
95. Mr. We lister then made a motion
♦o lav the bill upon the table, which
was decided, yeas I>B, navs 1 10. The
main question being put, Shall the Hill
now pass'/ it was decided as (allows :
Teas —Messrs. Adams, Alexander,
of Tenn. Allison, Barber, of Connecti
cut, Beecher, Bradley, Brown, Bucha
nan, Buck, Buckner, Cady, Campbell
of Ohio, Cassedy, Clark, Collins, Con
diet, Cook, Crafts, Craig, Durfee,
Dwight, Baton, Eddy, Edwards of Pa.
Kills, Farrelly, Findlay,Forward,Gar
rison, Ga/.lav” Harris, Hayden, Hemp
hill, Henry, Herkimer, Holcombe,
Houston, Jenkins, Johnson, of Va. J.
T. Johnson, F. Johnson, Kidder, Kre
mer, Lawrence, Letcher, Little, Mc-
Arthur, McKean, McKim, McLane.of
Del. McLean,of Ohio, Mallary. Mark
lev, Martimlale, Marvin, Matlack,
Matson, Metcalfe, Miller, Mitchell, of
Penn. Mitchell, ot Md. Moore, of Ky.
Morgan, Patterson, of Per.n. Patter
son, of Ohio, Plumer, of Penn. Prince,
Richards, Rich, Rogers, Rose, Ross,
Scott, Sharpe, Sloane, Sterling, Stew
art, Stoddard, Storrs, Strong, Swan,
Taylor, Ten Eyck, Test, Thompson,
of Ken. Tod, Tomlinson, Tracv,Trim
ble, Tyson, Udree, Vance, of Ohio,
Van Renselaer, Van Vvek, Vinton,
’Wayne, Whitman, Whittlesey .White,
Wickliffe, James VVil son, Henry Wil-1
son, Wilson, of Ohio, M ood, AVmds,
Wright.—lo 7.
Niitis- —Messrs. .Abbot, Alexan
der, Va. Alien, Mass. Allen, Tenn.
Archer, Bay, Bassett, Blair, Breck,
Brent, Burleigh, Burton, Cnmber
leng, Campbell, S. C. Carter, Carv,
Cobb, Cocke, Conner, Crownin
shieltl, Culpeper, Cusbman, Cuth
bert, l)av, Dvvinell,Edwards, N. C.
Flovd, Foot, Con. Foote, N. Y.
Forsyth, Frost, Fuller, Garnett,
Gatlin, Gist, Govan, Guriev, Hall,
Hamilton, Harvey, Havward,
llerric, Hobart,Hogeboom, Hooks,
Isnrks, Kent, Lathrop Lee, Left
wicb, Lincoln, Litchfield, Liver
more, Livingston, Locke, Long,
Longfellow, McCoy, McDuffie,
McKee, Mangum, Mercer, Moore,
of Ala. Neale, Nelson Newton,
*)’ Brien, Owen, Piumer, N. H.
Poinsett, Randolph, Rankin, Reed,
Reynolds, Rives, Saunders, Sand
ford, Sibley, Arthur Smith, Alex.
Smvth, Wm. Smith,Sp,light,Spence
Standefer, A.Stevenson, J.Stephen
sen, Taliaferro,Tamall,Thompson,
Geo. Tucker Va. Tucker, S. C.
Vance “N. C. Warfield, Whipple,
4Villiams, N. Y. Williams, Va.
Williams N. C. Wilson S. C.
102.
When the vote was taker, four
members only were absent. A letter
to the Editor of the Savannah Repub
lican, savs “ It is now before the Sen
ate, but it is impossible at this time to
form opinion as to its fate in that
boil v.
“ Congress will probably adjourn
on or about the 20th May.*’
TUP. TARIFF RH.T.
A Bill, to amend the several act'* for
imposing duties on Imports —April
14, 1824.
J}tt it enacted, Av.—That from ami
after the 50th June, 1824,‘in lieu of
the duties now imposed by law on the
importation of tin* articles hereinafter
mentioned, there shali be levied, col
lected, and paid, the following duties,
that is to say :
First. On all manufactures of wool
or of which wool shall be a component
part, atluty of 30 per cent.ad valorem,
until the 13th June, 1825; and, after
■that time, a duty of thirty-three and
one-third per cent, ad valorem, until
rhe 30tli June, 1820 ; and, Hf ter that
lime, a duty of 371 per cent ad valo
rem.
Second. On all manufactures, not
herein specified, ol cotton, silk, llax,
or hemp, or of which either ot these
materials shall be a component part,a
duty of 25 per cent ad valorem : Pro
vided, That all cotton doth a whatso
ever, or cloths ot wliictv cotton shall
be a component material, except nan
keens, imported directly from China,
the original cost of which, at the place
whence imported, with the addition ot
twenty per cent, if imported from the
( ape 4*f Good Hope, or any place be
yond it ; and of ten per cent, if im
portcvl from any other place, sluili be
less than 35 cents per square yard,
shall, w ith such addition, be taken and
deemed to have cost 35 cts. per square
yard, and shall be charged w ith duty
•accordingly. And that all unbleached
k and uncolored cotton twist, yarn or
| thread, the original cost of widt h shall
be less than sixty cts. per pound shall,
be deemed and taken to have cost six
ty cents per pound, and shall he char
ged with duty accordingly. And all
bleached or colored cotton yarn, twist
or thread, the original cost of which
shall be less than seventy five cents
per pound, shall be deemed and taken
to have cost 75 cents per pound, and
shall be charged with duty according
ly.
Third. On wool unmanufactured,
a duty of twenty per centum ad valo
rem, until the first day of June, 1825 ;
afterwards a duty of 25 per centum ad
valorem,anti! the Ist day of June 1826;
afterwards a duly of 30 per centum,
until the Ist day of June 1827 ; af
terwards, a duty 01’35 per centum ad
valorem, until the first (lav of June,
1828; afterwards a duty of 40 per
centum ad valorem until the Ist day
of June 1829; afterwards a duty of
45 per centum until the Ist day of
June, 1830; and, after that time, a
duty of fifty per centum ad valorem ;
Provided, That all wool, the actual
value of which at the place whence
imparted shall not exceed ten cents
per pound, shall be charged with a du
ty of 15 per centum ad valorem and no
more.
Fourth. On all Leghorn hats or
bonnets and all hats or bonnets of
straw, chip or grass, and on all Hats,
braids or plats for making of hats or
bonnets, a duty of 50 percentum ad
valoaein ; Provided. That all Leg
horn hats and bonnets, and all hats or
bonnets of straw, chip or grass, which,
at the place whence imported, with
the addition of ten percentum, shall
have cost less than 1 dollar each, shall
with such addition, be taken and
deemed to have cost one dollar each,
and shall be charged with duty accor
dingly.
Fifth. On japanned wares of all
kinds, on plated ware of all kinds
(Hid On all manufactures not otherwise
specified, made of brass, iron, or steel,
pewter, lead or tin of which either of
these metals is a component material
a duty of twenty five per centum ad
valorem
Bolting cloths, 15 per centum ad
valorem
Hair cloth and hair seating, 50 per
cent ad valorem
Marble, and all manufactures of
marble, thirty per centum ad valo
rem
All paper hangings, 40 percentum
ad valorem
Coach laces of cotton or other ma
terial, thirty-five per centum ad valo
rem : on all other laces, 12. J per cen
tum ad valorem
Lead, in pigs, bars or sheets, 2 cents
per lb.
Leaden shot, three anil a half cents
|fhr lb.
Red or white lead, dry or ground in
oil, 4 cents per lb.
Brussels, Venitian, Turkey and
Wilton carpets, and carpeting, 50 cts.
per square yard
All ingrain carpets or carpeting, 25,
cents per square yard.
All other kinds of carpets and car
peting, of wool, flax, hemp or cotton,
or parts of either, 20 cents per square
yard
Oil cloth carpeting, and oil clocks of
every description, a duty of 20 per
centum ad valorem
All other carpels and carpeting,
ma sand floor cloths, made of tow,
flags, or any other material, a duty of
30 per centum ad valorem
Hemp 2 cents per lb.
Flax 3 cents per lb.
Tarred cables and cordage 4 cents
per lb.
Untarred cordage, yarns,twine,pack
thread, and sienes, five cents per io.
Gotten bagging, 4| cents per square
yard, until the 30th June, 1825, and
afterwards, a duty of 5| cents per
square yard.
Iron, in bars or bolts, not manufac
tured, in whole or in parts, by rolling,
90 cents per hundred and twelve lbs.
weight
Round iron or brazier’s rods, of
three sixteenths to eight sixteenths of
an inch diameter, inclusive, and iron
in nail or spike rods,and iron in sheets,
and hoop iron, and iron, slit or rolled
for band iron, scroll iron and casement
rods, 3 cents per lb.
Iron spikes 4 cents per Ib.
Iron nails, cut or wrought, 5 cents
per lb.
Tacks.brads and sprigs, not exceed
ing sixteen ounces to the thousand,five
cent* per thousand, exceeding six
teen ounces to the thousand, 5 cents
per lb.
Iron or steel wire, not exceeding
number eighteen, five cents per pound;
over number eighteen, nine cents per
pound.
Square w ire, used in the manufac
ture of stretches for umbrellas, 12 per
centum ad valorem.
Anvils and anchors, two cents per
pound.
Iron cables or chains,or parts thereof,
three cents per pound ; and no draw
back shall be allowed on the exporta
tion of iron cables, or parts thereof.
stamped or painted silk or nankeen
Mill cranks and mill irons, or
wrought iron, 4 cents per lb.
M 11 saws SJI each
Blacksmiths’ hammers and sledges,
2.J cents per lb.
Muskets, one dollar and 50 cents
per stand.
Rilles, two dollars and fifty cents
each
On all other fire arms, and on side
arms, thirty per centum, ad valorem.
Cutting knives, twenty-five cents
each
Scythes, 25 cents each
Sickles and reaping hooks, 12 cents
each
Spades and shovels of iron or steel
twenty cents each.
Screws of iron for wood, ‘called
wood screws not exceeding one inch
in length, eight cents per groce ; over
one inch, and not exceeding two inch
es in length, fourteen cents per groce;
over two inches in length twenty
cents per groce.
Vessels of cast iron, not otherwise
specified, one and a half cents per.
pound.
All other castings ofiron, not spe
cified one cent per pound.
Frying pans, four merits per pound.
All vessels of copper, ten cents per
pound.
Quills prepared or manufactured
one dollar per thousand.
Slates and tiles for building, half a
cent each.
Black lead pencils, one dollar and
fifty cents per groce.
Tallow, four cents per pound.
Tallow candles, five cents per
pound.
Spermaceti candles, eight cents per
pound.
Soap, four cents per pound.
Lard, three cents per pound.
Wheat, twenty five cents per bush
el.
Wheat flour; fifty cents per hun
dred wneight.
Potatoes, ten cents per bushel,
Coal, six cents per heaped bushel.
Corks, twelve cents per pound.
Linseed, rape seed, and hemp seed
oil, twenty five cents per galion.
Castor oil, forty cents per gallon.
Ale, beer and porter imported in
bottles, 20 cents per gallon ; imported
otherwise than in bottles, 15 cents per
gallon.
Beef and pork, 2 cents per pound
Hams and other bacon, 3 cents per
pound
Butter 5 cents per pound
Vinegar 8 cents per gallon
Alum, two dollars and 50 cents per
hundred weight.
Refined saltpetre, 3 cents per lb.
Blue, or Roman Vitriol, 4 cents per
pound
Oil of Vitriol, 3 cents per lb.
Glauber salts two cents per lb.
Kpsom do. 4 “ “ “
Camphor, crude, 8 cents per lb.
Camphor, refined, 12 cents per lb.
Copperas, two dollars per hundred
Weight
Pepper ten cents per lb.
Cayenne pepper, 15 cents per lb.
Pimento 8 cents per lb.
Chinese cassia, ten cents per lb.
Cocoa, 3 cents per lb.
Chocolate 4 cents
Currants and tigs, 3 cents
Plumbs, prunes, Muscatel raisins,
and raisins in jars and boxes, 4 cents
per lb.
All other raisins 3 cents
Filberts, 3 cents
Pine apples, 2 cents each
Oranges 50 ceHts per hundred
Lemons 25 cents
Limes, ten cents
Window glass, not above 8 by 10
inches in size, three dollars per hun
dred square feet; not above 10 by 12
inches in size, three dollars and fifty
cents per hundred square feet; and il
above ten inches by twelve in size,four
dollars per hundred square feet :
Provided, That all window glass, im
ported in plates, not cut, shall be
chargeable,with the same duties here
by imposed.
On black glass bottles, not exceed
ing the capacity of one quart, two dol
lars per groce ; bottles exceeding one
quart, and not more than two quarts,
two dollars and fifty cents per groce:
over two quarts, and not exceeding
one gallon, three dollars per groce
Denrijons, 25 eents each.
Glass beads, 50 cents per ft).
Apothecaries’ phials, of the capacity
of four ounces and less, one dollar per
groce, on the same, above four oun
ces and not exceeding eight ounces,
one dollar and twenty-five cents per
groce.
All wares of cut glass not specified,
3 cents per pound, and in addition
thereto, an ad valorem duty of thirty
per cent.
All other articles of glass, two cents
per pound, and in addition thereto,
an ad valorem duty of twenty per
cent.
All books which the importer shall
make it satisfactorily appear to the
Collector of the port at which the
same shall be entered were printed
previous to the year 1775, and also,
: on all books printed in other langua
ges than English, tour cents per vol-
All books when bound, thirty seven
cents per pound, when in sheets or
boards 33 cents per pound.
Folio and quarto post paper of all
kind, 20 cents per pound.
Foolscap and all drawing and
writing paper, seventeen cents per
pound.
Printing copper plate and stainers
paper, 10 cents per pound.
cheating paper, binders’ and box
boards, and writing paper of all
kinds 3 cents per pound.
All other paper fifteen cents per
pound.
A duty of twelve and a half per
centum ad valorem on all articles not
herein specified, and now paying a
duty of twelve and a half per centum
ad valorem
All foreign distilled spirits fifteen
percentum upon the duties now im
posed by law, and in addition there
to.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.
That an addition ot ten per centum
shall be made to the several rates of
du ties hereby imposed upon the sev
eral articles aforesaid, which after
the said-respective times lor the
commencement of the duties hereby
imposed shall be imported in ships or
vessels not of the United States:
Provided, That this addition shall
not be applied to articles imported in
ships or vessels note! the U. S. en
titled by treaty, or by any act ot Con
gress to be admitted on payment of
the same duties that are paid on like
articles imported in ships or vessels of
the United States.
Sec. 5, And be it further enacted,
That there shall be allowed a draw
back of the duties by this act imposed
upon the exportation ot any articles
that shall have paid the same within
the time and in the manner, and sub
ject to the provisions and restrictions
prescribed in the fourth section ot the
act, entitled an act to regulate the
duties on imports and tonnage, passed
the twenty seventh day of April
1816.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
That the drawbace allowed by law on
plain silk and nankeen cloths, impor
ted in American vessels trom beyond
the Gape of Good Hope, shall be al
lowed, although the said cloths, be
fore the exportation thereof, shall have
been colored printed, stained, dyed,
stamped, or painted in the U. S. But
whenever any such cloths so imported
shall be intended to be so colored,
printed, stained, dyed, stamped or
painted and afterwards to be expor
ted from the U. States with privilege
of drawback, each package thereof
shall, before the same shall be deliv
ered from the public stores, be open
ed and examined by an inspector of
the custoihs, and the contents thereof
measured or weighed and the quality
thereol ascertained, and a sample ot
each piece thereof reserved at the
customhouse; and a particular ac
count or registry of such examination
describing the number of pieces in
each package, their weight or measure
and the samples thereof reserved,
shall be entered in the books of the
custom house ; and after such exam
ination, said goods shall be repacked
in the original package,and the said
original package shall be marked with
a custom house mark. And whene
ver any such goods, being thus color
ed, printed, stained, dyed, stamped,
or painted, shall be entered at the
custom house for exportation and
drawback, the same shall be so enter
ed in the original package, marked as
aforesaid, and not otherwise, unless
the person so entering the same, shall
give satisfactory evidence to the col
lector or naval officer, or one of them,
that such original package has been
lost or destroyed by accident; and no
such application for drawback shall
be made, except on the contents of
entire packages ; ami upon applica
tion for such entry and drawback, the
contents of the packages so offered,
shall be examined by an inspector of
the customs, and measured or weigh
ed, and compared with the original
entry, registry, and samples ; and if,
upon such comparison and full exam
ination, the collector shall be satisfied
that the contents of each package arc
the same identical goods imported and
registered as aforesaid, and not chan
ged or altered except by being colored
printed stained, dyed, stamped, or
painted as aforesaid, then the person
so entering such goods shall be admit
ted to the oath prescribed by law, to be
used in cases of application for ex
portation of goods for the benefit of
drawback, and shall thereupon be en
titled to drawback, as in other cases
Provided, That the exporter shall, in
every other particular, comply with
the regulations and formalities,"hereto
fore established, for entries of goods
for exportation with the benefit of
drawback. And if any person shall
present for exportation and drawback,
any colored, printed, stained, dyed,
cloths, knowing the same not to be en
titled to drawback, accordiqo- to
provisions of this act, or shall* wilf,q
misrepresent or conceal the coiS
or quality o£any package a sat( “
the said goods, so presented or en t
edior drawback shall be forfeit
and may be seized bv the collect ’
and proceeded with and the fori,,.?’
! distributed, as in other cases. Ure
Sec. 5. And be it further e
acted. That there shallb ca ll ow ‘l
a drawback of 75 percentum of?
duties by this act imposed on ?
low, which may be manufactu,?
into soap, upon the exports?
thereof within 12 months after ?
said importation, and in the nv?
ner prescribed by the act, entitled
an act to allow a drawback of <?
ties on spirits distilled and sir?
refined within the U. S. and b!
other purposes,” so far as the same
may be applicable, and under such
rules and regulations as may |, e
prescribed by the Secretary of
Treasury.
Sec. 6. And be it further e B .
acted, That the existing laws ha>l
extend to, and be in force for, the
collection of the duties imposed!*
this act, for the prosecution j R ';
punishment of all officers and the
recovery, collection, distribution
and remission, ol all fines, peti
ties, and forfeitures, as fully and
effectually as if every regulation
penalty, forfeiture, provision,
clause, matter, and thing, to that
effect, in the existing laws contain,
ed, had been inserted in, and rt,
enacted by, this act.
Sec. 7, And be it further cnao
ted, That the provisions of the
second section of the act of Ctn.
gress, entitled “An act to regu
late the duties on imports and ton
age,” approved April twenty se.
venth, 1816, shall extend to and
enure to the benefit of schools and
colleges within the United States,
or the territories thereof, in the
same manner, and under like limi
itation and restrictions, as is pro d
ded in said act, with respect to sem
inaries of learning.
I*A FAYETTE.
The Boston Patriot contains Hi:
following extract of a letter from this
distinguished Patriot, to Governor
Eustis, of Massachusetts.—
“ But here stands the power of th
United States, happily free from Eu
ropean connections, and covering un
der its gigantic shield the Independ
ence and Republican Liberties of ete
rv Columbian nation.—The message
of the President has produced on Hie
European part of the world a most ho
norable, dignified and useful impres
sion. 1 enjoyed it,not only as an Ame
rican Patriot, but also for the sake of
the general cause of mankind,in which
for political civilization, honesty ar.d
steadiness the United States hold a
rank so superior to every other human
aggregation.”
‘*l am, with all my heart,
your old sincere fiiend,
LA FAYETTE.”
The venerable Dr. Thacher, of Ply
mouth, we learn, says the Boston Cen
tinel, has recently received a letter
from Gen. La Fayette, by which, we
understand, that a Sense of duty will
keep him a considerable time in Eu
rope, and delay his contemplated and
much desired visit to the U. States.—
We imagine our couhtry’sfriend thinks
it his duty to remain in France to give
his opposition to the changes which art
said to be contemplated there,by the
curtailment or abolition of the French
Charter, and the restoration of the Mo
narchy as it existed prior to the revo
lution.
If ashingtnn, Jipril 8.
The following letter was yester
day received at the General
Office, from the Postmaster
Nashville :
Nashville, March 22.
Sir —The Georgia Mail, clue to
day, I am sorry to inform yotb b
lost. The rider arrived in r| lie
time, and states that in crossmg
Connesauga river in the ( heroket
.Nation, the ferry boat was heat
down by the current, and the h° rsC
and mail knocked overboard 1
the tree limbs, the mail sunk he lore
it could be recovered. lh c rlVCl j
he says, was remarkably high, a [U
he thinks the mail may be i° un
when the water falls.
He imputes this accident entir*
ly to the ignorance of the Indi 3n
who keep the ferry, who had n
oars to their boat, and
to bring it over with poles, a s 1
low water ; the consequence v-j
that when they got into the cb r '*
their poles would not reach bo
and the boat was precipitated do
the stream. „ _ n nr.v
ROPERTP