The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

THE NEW MEXICAN TARIFF

The committee of merchants, appointed by Santa Anna to
revise and alter the tariff laws of the country, have reported,
and all the alterations recommended by them have been ac-
ceded to. The new law does not go into effect until six
months have elapsed from the 20th of April last.
By the new tariff, brandy will pay 200 dollars arroba
(25 lbs.) instead of 400 dollars, as by the old.

. .
Gin, 200 dols. per arroba, instead of 400 dols.
Rum, which was before prohibited, will now pay 400 dols
per arroba. - _ _

Wines (white) will pay 150 dols. per arroba, and red 125
dols. It may be recollected, that by the old tariff, white
wines pay 250 dols. and red 225 dols., we speak of those im-
ported in casks. A proportionate reduction is to be made in
all classes imported in bottles.
Olive Oil will pay 4 dols. per quintal instead of 5 dols.
Sperm Candles, 15 dols. per 100 lbs. instead of 25 dols.
Codfish, 4 dols. per quintal instead of 5 dols.
Steel 2 dollars per 1001bs. instead of 4 dollars.
Raw Iron, 1 dollar per 1001bs. instead of 2 dollars.
Wrought Iron, 2 dollars, instead of 4 dollars.
Black Tea will pay 50 cents per lb. instead of 1 dollar.
Green, 75 cents, instead of 1 dollar.
Hams, which have always been prohibited, will now be ad-
mitted by paying 30 per cent. on amount of invoice, with
25 per cent. augmentation.
Cloth, of all classes, will pay SO cents. per vara, instead of
1 dollar.

Cotton prints, coloured, 9 cents per vara—they can now
come in as coarse as 26 threads to the square inch—before
prohibited under 30. This alteration will have the tendency
to bring many English goods into the Mexican market, which
were before as good as prohibited.
Cotton handkerchiefs, coloured, will now pay 6 cents, the
square vara, instead of 121. Cotton thread is prohibited, as
formerly.

REPORTED MURDER OF JOE SMITH, THE
MORMON PROPHET.
The Sl. Louis Republican of the 19th ult. has the follow-

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" The Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, was reported to
have been killed in a recent affray in the vicinity of Nauvoo.
We are without particulars."

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Twelve o'clock

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AWFUL DESTRUCTION

OF LIFE.
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN THE ISLAND OF
ST. DOMINGO.

(From Le Patriote of Port au Prince of 11th May.)

On Saturday, the 7th inst., at twenty minutes past seven,
in the evening, we experienced some severe shocks of an
earthquake, which put the whole town in commotion. At
mid-day a large meteor was perceived passing to the east.
The heat was excessive, and thick clouds hung over the
neighbouring monutains, going in a direction from southeast
to the northeast. The seamen who were in the roads report
that they felt the shock before they saw the houses shake,
which would indicate that the shock came from the east.
Many persons, however, think they observed that the os-
cillations came from the north and went south.
There were two very decided shocks, the first was not as
long as the second ; the latter was the most violent, and
lasted about three minutes. All abandoned their houses,
and the streets were filled with the affrighted population. But
a little more, and Port au Prince would have been the scene
of a disaster similar to that of 1770, a fatal year, which oc-
curred to the minds of every one.
There is scarcely a single brick or stone house which has
not suffered damage, they are all more or less damaged.
Some, it is said, are scarcely habitable. The façade of the
Senate House, on which is sculptured the arms of the Re-
public, surmounted by the tree of liberty, were detached
from the edifice and broken into pieces by the fall. The in-
terior of the building has also received some damage.
In the night between Saturday and Sunday, two shocks
were again felt, but not as violent as the first, one at 10
o'clock and the other at 12. At 11 o'clock in the morning
of Sunday came another shock, mass at church was inter-
rupted, and those officiating at it ran away, and many females
fainted.

Monday, at 11 o'clock in the morning, another shock,

The weather during these three days bad a lowering and
at times a threatening appearance. Monday evening, a little
rain, with excessive heat before and afterwards ; night cool.
Tuesday, a change of weather, return of the breeze and ap-
pearance of rain.
In the evening at eight o'clock, the weather was stormy
and every thing seemed to indicate an abundance of rain.
The hopes entertained yesterday have not been realised.
On Wednesday we were awoke at a few minutes before five
in the morning by another earthquake.
During these latter days it appears to us as if the earth on
which we were walking was constantly quaking.
SAINT MARC.—A letter from this town, which has been
communicated to us, informs us thatthere too the earthquake
of Saturday last was felt with the greatest violence ; many
houses have been so much shaken that they threaten every
instant to fall down. On some plantations in the neighbour-
hood of the town very great damage bas been done.
GONAIVIES, Bth May.—Yesterday afternoon an earthquake
was felt in this city, which was so violent that most of the
houses in it were thrown down. At the same time, in con-
sequence of the shock, a fire broke out in the apothecary's
shop of Mr. Invernezzes, and consumed in a few moments
an entire block. The flames destroyed every think that came
in their way ; there was not a drop of water in the town.

All the houses which have not been burnt down have been
injured by the earthquake, and this morning the shocks oc-
cur every quarter of an hour. The shops of Madame John
Joufferts and M. Dupuy have fallen a prey to the flames.
The shops of M. Richard Dauphin and M. Oster, built of
stone and brick, have fallen down. Houses and shops are
inaccessible, and we write these hurried lines in the street.—
The whoie population has passed the night in the middle of
the streets. Of the merchandise, which the merchants had
been obliged to pile up in the public square, a great part has
been stolen. It is impossible at present to estimate the ex-
tent of the loss. The church, the prison the national pa-
lace, the treasury, the arsenal, and the house which was get-
ting ready for the colonel commanding this district, are now
nothing more than a heap of ruins.
In short, no one has escaped the calamity. Now, while
we are writing, the fire is entirely extinguished, but the sky
looks threatening, and we are afraid of more shocks. if un-
fortunately our fears should be realized, there will be an end
of the few houses remaining standing, and Gonaives will be
no more.
The first and principal shock lasted about five minutes,
and was followed during the night by more than twenty
others, which though not so violent, were equally fearful.
It is now 8 o'clock in the morning. Not half an hour has
passed since we had another violent shock. The number of
persons killed and wounded is not yet known. All the pri-
soners who were not buried under the ruins have escaped.
God grant that the capital may. not have been afflicted with
a similar misfortune.
CAPE HASTEN, Wednesday, 6 o'Clock in the Evening.—
Most deplorable news is spreading throughout the city. It
has been brought by Mr. Obas, son of the general command-
ing the District of Plaisance. In consequence of the earth-
quakeas which was felt here on Saturday evening Cape town
clothes, o
A entirely disappeared, and with it two-thirds of the po-
pulation.
taken refu
The families which escaped this disaster have
ge at La Fosette, where they are without shelter,
will not be
Such
.sr perovisions.
It is said that the
in its full extent.
unfortu-
nately probably
aiews circulating in town, and which unfortu-
the physicians and
mule too true. It is to be hoped, however, it
to set off this evening President of Hayti has given orders to
tunate victims of ar
disaster.
officers of health attached to the hospital,
Capt. Morris (of the give their assistance to the unfor-
account), states in additiorZ
departure, a courier arrived Wtn. Nelson, which brings the
that a few hours previous to his
Haytien a fire succeeded thewith information that at Cape
maining houses, the powder earthquake, destroying the re-
:gazine, and the remnant of
the inhabitants. St. Nicholas Port Pais are said to be
in ruins, and in fact all the towns on
the
the north side of the
island. According to a letter in er Journal of Commerce,
Fearful, fearful indeed, are
or Cape Francois
but one inhabitant of the Cape, a
rielliPbuyy,thweassee, saved,whiaelhl
the rest being either crushed or drow
rose and submerged the city.
is the capital of the republic, Qaform'erolny
the particulars of
nawafsulTvhiesictaatpioen;
the C ape
northt i
tion variously estimated at from 10,000 to 20,000. popula-
tion some 900 stone and brick houses, with
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tiro
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It is situated on a Cape, at the edge of a plain between the
sea and the mountains. The plain is exceedingly fertile,
broad paved roads, lined with lemon and
and intersected by
lime trees.
It is in let. 19 46 N. and ion. 72 16 W.