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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. BY J. W. A n. S. JONES. DAILY , TRI- WEEKLY AND WEEKLY. OrriCE IN RAILROAD BANK BUILDING. T#RMS —Daily Paper, per annum, in advance Tri-Weekly Paper, ” ” ” ” fj Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) ’ ” *• CCS“ For terms cf Advertising, see first page. From Washington. Correspondence of the Baltimore American. Washington, August 13. The Sub Treasury scheme of 1846, like that of 1839, bids fair already to realize the prediction of Mr. Benton that it was a “ humbug” and as such had “ bamboozled” him. He wished a bill, be said, so framed that the officers of the Government could find no holes to creep out of; but I hear that there are not only holes in the present law, but those large enough, if necessary, to draw in or out all the paper money in Christendom. In a woid, the scheme is pronounced to be impracticable by some of the highest functionaries in the employ of Government — men who say that either the Banks of the States must be made use of for the transac tions of the Government or that the Government must institute Banks of its own, with Banking Of ficers and Banking powers. By the Sub-Treasury law it is made a penal offence, and the punishment is ten years in the State Prisons, to make use of a Bank at all. This part of the law goes into operation at once, and it is only those parts of it which relate to the public deposites already in Bank, and the currency in which the public dues must be paid, that are postponed. The Government funds already in Bank may be kept there until the end of the year, but it is a felony to make any further use of these banks than to draw your money from them as you may need it. In the mean time there are a half dozen Sub-Treasuries to be established. They are not yet established, nor can the banks be made use of without a violation of law. Some of the dis bursing officeis under these circumstances have applied in person and others by letter to know how they shall do and when they shall act. The Trea sury officers have not yet unravelled the knotty entanglements of the law. The magic machinery of a Sub-Treasury is yet too complicated for these gentlemen to jump into the knowledge of such a financial labyrinth at once. The Secretary of the Treasury may have the classic appearance of Midas, but I believe he has not yet learned the art of turning into gold all that his hand may touch. By and by he will learn how this Sub-Treasury scheme, which was invented but to try men’s wits and to blind their under standing—to lead them into temptation, and to de liver them over to evil—may be obeyed or avoided. Obeyed in lettter or in spirit, it cannot be, and I hear already of the most crafty schemes to avoid it. The law does not constitute Disbursing Offi cers safe keepers of the public money. They have no bolts or bars, or vaults at home, nor any “ sli ding drawers or hydrostatic balances” in their office. They are called upon daily for small suras of mo ney, and cannot keep it safely by them. The Banks for these men and for the Government have done all the Government business without cost, even to the entire regulation of all the exchanges, and at times when the premiums, owing to an un expected and large demand of money upon the South-West, have been burdensome. But now forsooth the Commissioner, the Paymaster, the Postmaster,the responsible officers are to keep their pockets lined with gold and silver. Like Judas they are to have their money bags about them, and like Judas, too, many of them will make off with their ill-gotten treasure. Some of the officers cf the Government who de sire to be honest, and to keep other men so, have hit upon a plan “ to whip the devil round the stump.” They will deposit their funds with John Roe, and John Roe will be the Cashier of a Bank—Richard Doe, as the Government officer, will draw upon John, who will make payment as if he was the bank and as Richard’s agent. This sort of non observance of the law is declared to be necessary to give the scheme any practical effect whatever, and thus men are to live in dread of “ ten years imprisonment,” or of being robbed of the Govern ment money, in order to afford the Administration tinkers with the currency an opportunity to try one of their most dangerous, and to the business of the country, ruinous experiments. It will be amusing hereafter to note the hundred and one plans on foot for avoiding this Sub-Treasury law. The Secretary of the Treasury is charged with issuing large amounts of Treasury notes contrary to law. These drafts, it is said, are issued in small as well as large amounts, and to contribute to make a Government currency. The issue is in palpable violation of tbe Sub-Treasury Law. Mi. Webster, upon the last day of the session, called udob tbe Secretary of the Treasury to know if any Treasury notes had been issued under tbe late law authorising their issue, and if not, why not ? Ido not hear of any answer to that Resolu tion. None came to the Senate on Saturday and none on Monday—and yet I hear that the notes were prepared long since and some of them bear ing an interest of $3-65 per cent, per annum, the interest being one cent per day on $lOO, Washington, August 13, 1846. Tbe Secretary of the Treasury advertises that the Government Scrip for payment of the Mexican Indemnity will be ready for issue on tbe tenth of September. It is at this time in course of prepara tion, In the mean time those holding the Indem nity Stock are to present it to the Treasury De partment, at the office of the Register of the Trea sury (Mr. Gillet) where provision will be made for payment. The Treasury Department, lam told, presents just now pretty much the condition of the two Houses of Congress upon the day of adjournment. Alf is confusion there, and the Sub-Treasury law is found particularly troublesome to be administer ed. The law makers provided that it should go into operation at once with one or two exceptions in regard to the payment of Government dues. This is both morally and physically impossible, and yet the penalty is the State Prison for ten years at least. The Secretary of the Treasury must venture either upon postponing the material provisions of the law until December, or until the machinery of the scheme can be put to work. In the mean time there is great consternation among those who are required to do what is im possible. The Banks are of necessity made use of until the Treasury Department is metamorphos ed into a Bank and the Sub-Treasuries are estab lished. Tbe Treasury Department is also preparing instructions in regard to the Warehousing Bill, This law goes into operation at once, but it will be some days before the circulars of the Department are forwarded to the Custom House officers. The goods imported into the country may be Ware housed at once, and they may be re-exported, to be brought back after the first of December, when the new tariff law goes into operation. Circulars will also be made out for the Government officers both upon this bill, and upon that—the worst of all the measures that ever became a law—the bill to establish the tariff of 1846 upon the ruins of the tariff of 1842. Indue time this Circular Administration will issue a new Revenue circular There will not, from present indications, be much of order or comeliness in tbe Department before Congress meets again. You see it demonstrated now by the secret mes sages of the President just published, that before consulting the Senate, even secretly, the Presi dent despatched a message to Commodore Conner for the Mexican Government, and a more impor tant one to the Committee on Foreign Relations ! How like all of tbe proceedings in Congress upon the subject having reference to a conquest of Cali fornia, or an acquisition of that valuable province of Mexico, by hook or by crook,and to be incor porated into the American Union ! “California we must and will have,' - ’ is the abid ing resolution of tbe Administration, and yet the President and Secretary of State repudiate all idea of conquest. These movements and many others indicate that the war has become unpopular now with the Administration, and it is certain that there has been both great suffering and great dis appointment among many of the volun teers.. Some of the Departments have improved the absence of Congress to continue the proscriptive system, which hes so much distinguished the pre sent Administration, particularly in the removal of clerks from office. Five or six have been sworn into office since the meeting of Congress, and there aie a legion of promises tojbe fulfilled, or rather to be broken, for there are now but a very few Whigs in office among the seven or eight hundred office holders, and these are retained from bo love of the men, but from an absolute necessity of keeping them in office in order to transact the public business properly. Mr. Sawyer, of Ohio, said on the 10th of June, that of the seven hun dred and thirty Clerks in office, two hundred and thirty-five were Whigs, “a viperous brood,” as Mr. Sawyer said he told the President they were, and as he whispered further in the President’s ear, “every one of whom should be turned out of of fice !” Now there is not this number of Whig Clerks in office in Washington, or anything like the num ber. Mr. Sawyer was called upon for his evidence to make good what he said, and his answer was, that he had looked to the names of all the clerks and after making diligent inquiry 7 of his friends, he had come to the above conclusion. This list,if it had been true when the names were printed, was any thing but true in June, and is still less so now. Removals have been going on through the session regularly and without mer cy. Some who have been put into the Depart ments have been notoriously incompetent, and it was to remedy this abuse, and in order to avoid the annoyance of perpetual applications, that the Heads of the Departments and Bureaus called upon the Chairman of the Ways and Means to insert a clause in one of the Civil bills that Clerks should be put upon probation to test their qualifica tions. Members of Congress as ignorant as Mr. Sawyer, come here accompanied by persons more ignorant than themselves, and such men are thrust upon the Departments for places where duties are per formed which they arc wholly incompetent to ful fil. This Administration has not yet seen eighteen months’ service, but in that time has been more proscriptive than any preceding one, turning hon est and competent men out of office and putting incompetent persons in their places. Among those who have got offices is Mr. Hart, late of the Constitution, the Calhoun paper that died in your city just after the meeting of Con gress. Mr. Underwood, a very worthy public officer,! am told, is to go out to make room for a relative of the Attorney General. Mr. Mason surely can do better than this. Congress, at the last moment of the session gave him a job beyond his salary ef two thousaud dollars, and one thous and for his Clerks, for examining claims under the Peruvian treaty. lam sorry to add, for the credit of Congress, that it requires the claimants to pay the above sums from the first amount that shall be paid. This at least is a new principle in legislation. i£l)romcU and Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG 19. 1846. Whig Nomination for Congress. FOB REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE EIGHTH DISTRICT! ROBERT TOOMBS. The Mail tailed last evening from beyond Charleston, The Tariff Bill. As many of our readers may be pleased to sec the provisions of the late Tariff bill, we have transferred it, entire, to our columns to-day, from the official report. We have so often ex. pressed our opinion of this bill, it is unneces sary on this occasion to repeat them. It is now the law of the land, and it becomes the duly of every good citizen to render implicit obedience to its provisions. Let it be fairly and fully tested by its operations, upon the commerce and all the other great interests oi the country, and be judged accordingly. If it justifies the predictions of its friends, it will disappoint our expectations, and if on the other hand it fails to accomplish the object designed by its enact ment, it will then become the duty of the good and the patriotic of the land, to unite in its re peal and to establish upon its ruins, such a bill as will secure American interests against a dan gerous foreign competition, and give assurance of protection to American labor, industry and capital. When it is to be hoped, that the sys tem will be permitted to rest quietly on our statute books, dispensing its benefits to all classes, and receiving only such modification and change as time and experience shall dic tate to be prudent. In conclusion, and in support of the position, we and other opponents of the present Tariff have maintained, that it would foster foreign industry and capital, to the prejudice of Amer icans, we beg leave to submit the following re marks of the Montreal Courier, who in com mon with other English prints, and citizens, are rejoicing at the repeal of the tariff of 1842. It is brief but to the point—read it : “As Englishmen, we of course are pleased that the tariff is abolished; as, taken in con junction with our abolition of the corn laws, it will open an immense market for us, but if we were Americans we should certainly be tariff men.” Veto of the French Spoliation Bill. If our readers have paid particular attention to the Message of Mr. Polk, in which he con veyed his disapprobation of the above bill to the Senate, they will have been struck with it as a strange, contradictory, and disreputable production. It is not necessary lor us to go into a detailed statement to show, that the claims are just for which this bill provided. Suffice it to say, that Congress thought they were. No one pretends to deny, that the rights and property of Ameri can citizens were disregarded and outraged by the French prior to the year 1800. By a treaty with France, the United Slates assumed to pay any just claims which citi zens of the United States had against France, for property thus seized upon and confiscated. As we before said, Congress, after full delibera tion has decided in favor of their validity, and Mr. Polk interposes the veto power to prevent their satisfaction. Upon what grounds does he assume this serious and high-handed respon sibility'? Take his message, analyse it, and what are its positions 1 He objects to the bill, because it proposes to pay a debt of nearly fifty years standing—be cause ot “the remoteness of the period to which the claims belong”—“ the complicated nature of the transactions”—the “ protracted negotiations” on the subject! Do these facts prove that the claims are unjust? Again, he says, that they have been before Congress, from time to lime, since 1802, and it is scarcely probable they would have been so long unpaid if they were just; especially, as at several periods of that lime ourtreasury was in possession of a large surplus of money ! What excellent logic! How completely it demolishes the pretensions of the claimants ! There would, however, have been some little more force in this view ot the case, if Committees of Con gress appointed for the purpose had not “ from time to time,’ 5 and always, reported in their fa vor, alter thorough investigation. Again, he says, that we are now in a war and cannot spare so large a sura, (five millions of dollars.) Is that any reason lor denying the justice oi the demand? Qr, is that a reason for 5 refusing to acknowledge the debt? Hereafter, according to Mr. Polk, if a man has a personal use for his money for speculations, gambling, or what not, it will be a good reason tor refu sing to pay a debt of honor with it! Besides, if Mr. Polk intends to say that the claim should not be paid because not valid, he cannot take the position that this is not the time to pay it. Let him lake one ground or the other; either that the claim is unjust, or, being just, cannot now be paid. There would be some reason in this latter position. He objects, further, that the bill proposes to pay the sufferers in land scrip, instead of money, and says, that payment would thus be made “ not in the currency known to the Constitution.” This is a squint at the uncon stitutionally of the bill. How does this square with his declaration that he withholds his sig nature “upon the ground of expediency alone?” Mr. Polk says, in one part of his message: “The limited time allowed me, before your ad journment, makes it impossible to reiterate the facts and arguments, by which, in preceding Congresses, these claims have been successfully resisted.” Now, compare this with the follow ing, from the same document; “ The short time intervening between the passage of the bill by Congress, and the close of their session, as well as the press of other official duties, have not per mitted me to extend my examination of the sub ject into its minute details.” He decides the question, then, without a full and fair investiga tion ! He rejects, without proper examination, a bill which was matured after full research by a Committee of the Senate—which was passed by both houses of Congress, after a fair discus sion—not for its unconstitutionally, but for its inexpediency. What does Mr. Polk mean by expediency? Is it not clear from his declaration, that the claims have heretofore been successfully resisted , that he thinks they are not just? Of course, then, in his opinion, it would be unconstitutional to pay them; for, it would be giving away the public funds. It would be unconstitutional to give away the public money to any citizen or citizens not entitled to it. When we talk of opposing any measure under our government upon grounds of expediency alone, its constitu tionality is taken for granted , but its propriety is denied. It is evident that Mr. Polk had no clear ideas of what he was about, in the message in question. He exercises the one-man power and inter poses his opinion (in a case of expediency,) against the solemn judgment of Congress—Ame ricans are to be deprived of their dues by a re pudiating veto, and yet that dangerous power is thought by Democrats to be the shie’d of liberty and justice. No wonder that one of the suffer ers by French confiscation proposes to the rest to apply to France to make restitution !» De nied it by their own Government, after being pledged by a treaty to make it, the last hope is to call for justice at the throne of a monarch ! Congressional Nomination. The Democratic Convention held in Warrenton, have nominated Robert W. Flournoy Esq , of Washington county, as their Candidate in the Bth Congressional district. No one who knows the candidates and is familiar with the district, will doubt as to the result be tween him and Toombs. For the Chronicle Sentinel. Manufacture of Cotton.—No. 11. Messrs, Editors;— ln my last I think it was clearly demonstrated that manufacturing could be successfully engaged in at the South. Suffi cient was advanced in that article to convince anv man that it was not only profitable , but that iU's now, and for some years must continue to be the most profitable investment in which capital can be employed. Wishing to present stubborn facts in that article, in the most practical man ner, in order that the object had in view might the more effectually be secured, I studiously avoided all remarks not immediately bearing upon it. That object was, to endeavor to enlist in the enterprise, citizens of energy and capital, by showing, in the briefest mariner, how much their pecuniary interest would be advanced by the investment. It remains to be seen what amount, or whether any faith be placed in the facts presented. Capitalists cannot, certainly, have any doubts respecting the adaptation of the State to this business. If they have, the fact that all of the factories now in operation are profitably em ployed—that numerous others are being erected —and that all to which any misfortune has happened have been rebuilt, or are being rebuilt —ought to dispel those doubts. At a great expense, and for the express purpose of sustaining the city, the construction of a canal has been undertaken. It is almost completed, and as yet, not the first step has been taken toward the accomplishment of the che rished object —at least, the public are unadvised of any. Our citizens had strong faith in the projector it would never have been undertaken; all seem to acknowledge that the desired end may be attained. Yet all seem to shrink from the venture. But as there is a market large enough lor all, my object is, not only to awaken the citizens of Augusta, but those of other sections of the State, to the importance of this subject. Many a stream, whose waters now silently meander through the gloomy shades of the forest, or dash impetuously over some impediment, might be turned to advantage by applying its vast power to the service of man. Our own Stale abounds in such. Almost every stream on the line from Augusta to Columbus, possesses power and other advantages requisite to manufacturing. This is particularly true respecting the moun tain side of the line; and to some extent on the southern or seaboard side. On the Broad River some five or six miles from its junction with our own Savannah, there is a fall of 86 feet in only a mile and a quarter, with an unfailing supply of water. Within a few miles of the shoal, and convenient to it. there is a quarry of soap stone suitable for building, in almost any quan tity. This fact may be of advantage to any who have it in contemplation to invest in this city. The high shoals of the Apalachee on the road from Watkinsville to Monroe, is one o* the finest in the State of its size, having a fall of sixty feet in some 200 yards. There is an tin foiling power sufficient to drive tens of thou sands of spindles, A few miles below this I am told there is another shoal of nearly equal advantages, 1 have been informed that ihe Chattahoochee is one continued shoal for twen ty-two miles above Columbus; and of what ad vantage is it to anybody? If it only existed in Massachusetts or either ol the other New Eng land Stales, a greater than Lowell would arise to dispense its manifold blessings on the surround ing country. The above are amongst the most prominent, and on the public thoroughfares. Numbers are omitted tor fear of extending this article too much. A mile inquiry would make known a quantity that would fairly stagger be lief. And yet we are slumbering over them. We are toiling and swearing to make a seamy subsistence off ol cotton —keeping up a ruinous competition in the growth of it with the prolific Southwest —and pouring our wealth into the open lap of the enterprising North, when it is our duty to boldly enter the field and compete with her. Possessing water power ol an un limited extent and amount, and having the ad vantage in the cost of the raw material, what is to prevent Georgia from taking at once that ele vated stand among her sister Stales designed for her by Nature ? As a general characteristic, the mountainous region is more eminently agricultural than the middle counties, growing in the greatest abun dance every description of grain, cattle, pork, and possessing every advantage for wool grow ing. The seaboard can successfully compete with the Southwest in the production of cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice. Middle Georgia is better adapted than either to manufacturing, while the soil is getting too much worn to yield bountifully of the products of the seaboard and the mountains. It is in the power of the capitalists of middle Georgia to realise alarge percent, on theircap ital, and in the meantime to renovate their worn out fields. The Mississippi planter has such superior advantages in soil and facilities lor getting to market, that he can better afford to make cotton at 3 cents per pound than the plant er of middle Georgia can at 6 cents. He can make twice as much to the hand ; its superior staple commands much more in market, and he obtains his necessary supplies for less. Before manylyears, the force of circumstances will compel you to the course which earnest, sincere persuasion, or unanswerable facts, can not now induce you to pursue. Cotton is pro duced already beyond the demand; the produc tion must Inevitably continue to increase; and prices must go down. The planter of upper Georgia can barely live now, how will it be when the staple commands lar less? Ponder on these things, and.ask yourself if it is not so. Change, then, before it is 100 late, your pursuit; change it before strangers come in and buy your birthrights for a mess of pottage ; change it and go hand in hand with the glorious destiny of your State, and in the fruits of your enterprise, leave to your children a name and a home of which they will be proud. P. Pennsylvania and her Iron Interest.— The following interesting statistics of the An thracite Iron trade of Pennsylvania we find in the Philadelphia North American: “Little more than five years have elapsed since the first successsful experiments were made in this State to manufacture Pig Iron with anthracite coal; and considerable ad vances were made in it untill the fostering influence of the Tariff of’42 was brought to bear upon it. The results have been astonishing. A new and most important trade has been, as it were, created —We learn from an intelligent source that we have now in blast thirty f urnaces, and eight more in progress ol erection, capable of manufacturing 116,000 tons of iron within one year from tbisdate. The iron commanded recently in (his market from 825 to 830 per ton ; which will give as the annual aggregate product of this new branch of business, $3,248 000.— Such are the fruitsof the Tariff! “Within the same period fifteen rolling mills have been erected in our State for the manufac ture of anthracite iron, whose united power can produce annually 46,000 tons of railroad, boiler, plate and flat and roundbar iron ; which, at ihe low rate of $7O per ion amounts to the hand some sum ol 83,2C0,0G0. Here then we have the vast sum of six millions and a haifof dol lars as the annual product of this single branch of the trade. How many thousands of laborers are thus sustained—how many thousands of far mers thus find a profitable -market—how large an amount of trade is thus encouraged—how many mechanics are in consequece employed, we are not prepared to say. But this much we can say, that all these advantages will, under the British bill, like the baseless fabric of a vi sion, fade away. Mariner’s Time Compass. —The Cincinnati Enquirer states that Ralph Reeder, Esq., of that city, has taken out a patent for a newly invented instrument of the above name ; Its useful qualities are thus enumerated: It corrects the variation of the compass, which of itself alone entitles it to the admiration ofscientific men, but more especially to the confidence of ihe mariner. It will, by means of a guoman and universal diel, give the true meridian time in a moment, and when properly adjusted to the suu’s declination, give the latitude at the same moment that the longitude is given j thus saving the mariner the long, tedious,and oftentimes incorrect calculations which are now considered necessary to ascer tain the ship’s course and position. Professor Locke, in a letter on the subject, says this instru ment will not only give the correct latitude ani longitude at any time and place, and correct the variation of the compass, but will solve all the problems in plane and spherical trigonometry; thus we have combined in the same invention an instru men equa'ly useful on sea and or land. MARRIED m —■ ■ ■ —■■ ■ ■ ■ - In Middletown, Connecticut, on Tuesday mor ning, 11th instant, by the Rev. John R. Crane, D. D., J. Meigs Hand, of this city, to Caroline W., daughter of David Allen, Esq., of the former place. D ! E D. In this city on Sunday last, 9th of August, of consumption, Mrs. Susan Pknniman Dickin son, wife of Perez Dickinson, of this city, and daughter of Col. Henry Penniman, of New Braintree, Massachusetts—aged twenty-three years and about four months. —Knoxville Regis ter. Office Central and Western Wharf Co*) Augusta, August 18, 1846. \ fjTDividend No. 9.—The Directors have this day declared a Dividend of four per cent. , payable to the Stockholders or their order on de mand, at my office, from three to six o’clock, P. m. g. McLaughlin, au!B-3 Secretary and Treasurer. PLANTERS wishing to purchase NEGRO CLOTHS cheap, will do well to examine a new and splendid article of GEORGIA PLAINS, Just received by jy3l-dkw6w CRESS & HICKMAN. THE TARIFF BILL.. OFFICIAL, An Act Reducing the Duty on Imports and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled , That from and after the first day of December next, in lieu of the duties heretolore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt Irom duly, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares and merchandise herein after enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following rates of duty—that is to say : On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule A, aduty of one hundred per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule B, a duty of forty per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares and merchandise mentioned in schedule C, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule D, a duly of twenty-five per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule E, a duty ol twenty per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule F, a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule G. a duly often per centum ad va lorem. On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule H, a duty of five per centum ad va lorem. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That f rom and after the first day of December next, the goods, wares and merchandise mentioned in schedule I shall be exempt from duty. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That from and after the first day of December next, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on all goods, waies, and merchandise imported from foreign countries, and not specially provided for in this act, a duty of twenty per centum ad valo rem. Sec. 4. And be it further enacled, That in all cases in which the invoice or entry shall not contain the weight or quantity or measure ot goods, wares or merchandise now weighed or measured or guaged, the sameshall be weighed gauged or measured at the expense of the owner, agent or consignee. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That from and alter the first day of December next, in lieu ofthebounty heretofore authorized by law lobe paid on the exportation of pickled fish ot the fisheries ot the United Stales, there shall be allowed, on the exportation thereof, if cured with foreign salt, a drawback equal in amount to the dulv paid on the salt, and no more, to be ascertained under such legulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec, 6. And be it further enacled , That all goods, wares and merchandise imported after the passage of this act, and which may be in the public stores on the second day of Decem ber next, shall be subject to no other duty upon the entry thereof than if the same were imported respectively after that day. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted , That the twelfth section of the act entitled, “An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes,” approved Au gust thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-two, shall be, and the same are hereby so modified, that all goods imported from this side of the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn may re main in the public stores for the space of one year, instead of the term of sixty days pie scribed in the said section; and that all goods imported from beyond the Cape ol Good Hope or Cape Horn may remain in the public stores one year, instead of the term of ninety days prescribed in the said section. Sec. 8. And be it further enacled , That it shall be lawful for the owner, consignee or agent of imports which have been actually purchased, on entry ofthe same, to make such addition in the entry to the cost or value given in the in voice, as in his opinion may raise the same to the true market value of such imports In the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made, or in which the goods imported shall have been originally manufactured or produced, asthecasemay be; to add thereto all costs and charges which, under existing laws, would form the true value at the port where the same may be enter ed, upon which the duly should be assessed.— And it shall be the duty of the collector within whose district the same may be imported or en tered to cause the dutiable value of such im ports to be appraised, estimated and ascertained in accordance with the provisions of existing laws; and if the appraised value thereof shall exceed bv ten per centum or more the value so declared in the entry, then, in addition to the duties imposed by law on the same, there shall be levied, collected and paid, a duly of twenty per centum ad valorem on such appraised value: Provided , nevertheless , That under no circum stances shall the duty be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice value, any law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted , That the deputies of any collector, naval officer or sur veyor, and the clerks employed by any collector, naval officer, surveyor, or appraiser, who are not by existing laws required to be sworn, shall, before entering upon their respective duties, or, it already employed, before continuing in the discharge thereof, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation faithfully and diligently to per form such duties, and to use their best endeavors to prevent and detect frauds upon the reveuue of the United States; which oath or affirmation shall be administered by the collector ot the port or district where the said deputies or clerks may be employed, and shall be of a form to be sub scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted , That no officer or other person connected with the navy of the United States, shall under any pretence, import in any shipor vesselof the United States any goods, wares or merchandise liable to the payment of any duty. Sec. 11. And be it f urther enacted, That all acts and parts of acts repugnant to the provi sions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. (Schedule A.) —One hundred per centum ad valorem. Brandy and other spirits distilled from grain or other materials; cordials, absynthe, arrack’, curacoa, kirschenwasser, liqueurs, maraschino, ratifia, and all other spirituous beverages of a similar character. Schedule B. —( Forty per centum ad valorem.) Alabaster and spar ornaments; almonds; anchovies, sardines, and all other fish preserved in oil; camphor refined, cassia; cloves; com position tops for tables, or other articles ol fur niture; comfits, sweetmeats, or fruit preserved in sugar, brandy, or molasses;currants; dates; figs; ginger root, dried or green; glass, cut; mace; manufactures of cedar wood, granadilla, ebony, mahogany, rose wood and satin wood; nut megs; pimento; prepared vegetables, meats, poultry, and game, sealed or enclosed in cans, or otherwise; prunes; raisins; scagliola tops tor tables, or other articles of furniture; cigars, snuff, paper cigars, and all other manufactures ot tobacco; wines, Burgundy, Champagne, daret, Madeira, Port, sherry, and all other wines and imitations of wines. Schedule C. —{Thirty per centum ad valorem.} Ale, beer, and porter, in casks or bottles; ar gentine, alabata, or German silver, or other metal; articles worn by men, women,or chil dren, of whatever material composed, made up. or made wholly or in part, by hand; asses’ skins; balsams, cosmetics, essences, extracts, pastes, perfumes, and tinctures, used either for the toilet or for medicinal purposes; baskets, and all other articles composed of grass, ozier, palmleaf, straw, whalebone, or willow, not otherwise provided for; bay rum; beads, of amber, composition, or wax, and all other beads; benzoates; Bologua sausages; brace lets, braids, chains, curls, or ringlets, composed of h’ir, or of which hair is a component part; braces, suspenders, webbing, or other fabrics, composed wholly or in part of India rubber, no! otherwise provided lor; brooms and brushes of all kinds; cameos, real and imitation, and mo saics, real and imitation, when set in gold, sll ver, or other metal; canes and sticks for walk ing, finished or unfinished; capers, pickles, and sauces of all kinds, not otherwise provided lor; caps, ha»s, muffs, and tippets of fur, and all other manufactures of fur, or of which fur shall be a component material; caps, gloves, leggins, mils, socks, stockings, wove shirts and drawers, and all similar articles made on frames, worn by men, women, or children, and not otherwise provided lor; card cases, pocket books, shell-boxes, souvenirs, and all other similar articles, of whatever material com posed; carpets, carpeting, hearth rugs, bed sides, and olhet portions ot carpeting, being either Aubusson, Brussels, ingrain, Saxony, Turkey, Venetian, Wilton, or any other simi lar fabrics; carriages and parts of carriages; cayenne pepper; cheese; cinnamon; clocks and parts of clocks; clothing, ready made, and wearing apparel of every description, ot what ever material composed, made up ormanufac tured wholly or in part by the tailor, sempstress, or manufacturer; coach and harness turniture of all kinds; coal; coke and culm ol coal; combs of all kinds, compositions of glass or paste, when set; confectionary of all kinds, not otherwise provided for; coral, cut or manu factured; corks; cotton cords, gimps, and gal loons ; coun-plaster, crayons of all kinds; cut lery of all kinds ; diamonds, gems, pearls, ru bies, and other precious stones, and imitations of precious stones, when set in gold, silver, or oilier metal; dolls and toys of all kinds; earth en, china, and stone ware, and all other wares composed ol earthy or mineral substances, not otherwise provided for; epaulettes, galloons, laces, knots, stars, tassels, tresses, and wings of gold, silver or other metal; fans and fire-screens of every description, of whatever material com posed ; leathers and flowers, artificial or orna mental, and parts thereol, ol whatever materia* composed; fire crackers; flats, braids, plaits, parterre, and willow squares, used for making hats or bonnets; frames and sticks /or umbrel las, parasols, and sunshades, finished or unfin ished; furniture, cabinet and household; gin ger, ground; glasses, colored,stained, or paint ed ; glass crystals for watches; glasses or peb bles for spectacles; glass tumblers, plain, moul ded, or pressed, not cut or printed; paintings on glass; porcelain glass; grapes; gum ben zoin or Benjamin; hair pencils; hat bodies of cotton ; hats and bonnets, for men, women, and cnildren, composed of straw, satin straw, chip, grass, palm-leat, willowy or any other vegetable substance, or of hair, whalebone, or other mate rial, not otherwise provided for; hemp, unmanu factured; honey; human hair, cleansed or pre pared for use; ink and ink powder; iron, iu bars, blooms, bolts, loops, pigs, rods, slabs, oi other form, not otherwise provided tor; cast ings of iron, old or scrap iron, vessels of cast iron ; japanned ware of all kinds, not otherwise provided fur ; jewelry, real or imitation; jet and manufactures of jet, and imitations there of; lead pencils; macoaroni, vermicelli, gela tine, jellies, and allsimilarpreparations; manu factures of the bark of the cork iree, except corks; manufactures of bone, shell, horn, pearl, ivory, or vegetable ivory; manufactures, arti cles,'vessels, and wares, not otherwise provided for. of brass, copper, gold, iron, lead, pewter, platina, silver, tin, or other metal, or ol which either of those metals or any other metal shall be the component material of chief value; man ufactures of cotton, linen, silk, wool, or wors ted, embroidered or tamboured in the loom or otherwise, by machinery, or with the needle, or other process; manufactures, articles, vessels and wares of glass, or of which glass shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for; manufactures and articles of leather, or of which leather shall be a component part, not otherwise provided for; manufactures and ar ticles of marble, marble paving lies, and all oth er marble more advanced in manulacture than in slabs or blocks in the rough; manufactures of paper, or ot which paper is a component ma terial, not otherwise provided lor; manufactures, articles, and wares ot papier mache; manufac tures of wood, or of which wood is a compo nent part, not otherwise provided for; manu factures of wool, or of which wool shall be the component material of chief value, not olher w ise provided lor; medicinal preparations, not otherwise provided for; metallic pens; miner al waters; molasses; muskets, rifles, and oth er fire-arms; nuts, not otherwise provided for; ochres and ochrey earths, used in the composi tion of painter’s colors, whether dry or ground in oil ; oilcloth of every description, of what ever material composed ; oils, volatile, essenti al, or expressed, and not otherwise provided lor; olive oil in casks, other than salad oi!; ol ive salad oil, and all other olive oil, not other wise provided lor; olives; paper, antiquarian, demy, drawing, elephant, foolscap, imperial, letter, and all other paper, not otherwise provi ded lor; paper boxes and all other fancy box es; paper envelopes ; parasols and sunshades; parchment; pepper; plated and gilt ware of all kinds; playing cants; plums; potatoes; red chalk pencils; saddlery of ail kinds, not other wise provided for; salmon, preserved; sealing wax; sewing silks, in the gum or purified; shoescomposed wholly of India rubber; side arms of every description ; silk twist and twist composed of silk and mohair; silver-plated me tal, in sheets or other form; soap, Castile, per fumed, Windsor, and all other kinds; sugar ol all kinds; syrup of sugar; tobacco, unmanu factured; twines and black-thread, of whatever material composed ; umbrellas ; vellum ; vine gar • wafers, water colors; wood, unmanfac- Ture’d, not otherwise provided for, and fire wood; wool unmanufactured. Schedule D .—{Twenty-five per centum ad va lorem.) Borax or linctal; Burgundy pitch ; buttons and button moulds, of all kinds; baizes, bookings, flannels, and floor-cloths, ot whatever material composed, not otherwise provided for; cables and cordage, tarred or untarrd; calomel, and all other mercurial preparations; camphor, crude; cotton laces, cotton insertings, cotton trimming laces cotton laces and braids; floss silks, fea ther ’beds, I at hers for beds, and downs of all kinds; grass cloth; hair cloth, hair seating, and all other manufactures of hair not other wise provided for; jute, sisal grass, coir, and other vegetable substances unmanulactured, not otherwise provided for; manufactures composed wholly of cotton, not otherwise provided for; manufactures of goat’s hair or mohair, or ol which goat’s hair or mohair shall be a compo nent material, not otherwise provided lor; man ufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, not otherwise provided /or; manufactures of worsted, or of which worsted shall be a componert material, not otherwise provided for; matting, China, and other floor matting and mats made ot flags, jute, or grass; roofing slates, and slates other than roofing slates; woollen and worsted yarn. Schedule E.—( Twenty percent ad valorem.. Acids, acetic, acetous,benzoic, mic, citric, muriatic, white and Sr acid*' pyroligneous, and tartaric, and all of eveiV description, used lor chemical or me dicina/purposes, or for manufacturing, or in The fine arts, not otherwise provided lor; a toes, alum; amber; ambergris; angora, thibel; and other goat’s hair or mohair unmanulactured anniseed; animal carbon; amimony. crude and regulus of arrow-root; articles, no in ge state, used in dyeing banaDa B. provided for; assatetida, b ’vegetables, barley; beef; provided lor;' flowers and no b|anktts „f a ll kinds; bismuth ; bitter apP u^boU nd; blue or roman bank books bou” d or c " boards, planks virno!, or? ul P ha spsrs hewn and aawed staves, lath, he ’ US! ed , n budding timber, and timber to^be^used^i wharves; boucho ’ ca( jmiam; cala quor; bronze powder; butter, caaauu ,
