The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-28

words were most pentl1ully used by Messrs. Van Bu ren and Rowan-applied by the former to the privilege of the Vice President to call to order in debate by the latter to the construction by the United States Courts, ofrues for theIr regulation. stranger to the latitude oftak, who was not aware how words can be Lsed without meaning, and how fond some peo pie of frghtful fancies, listening these debates mus; have believed that institutions were now tot tering that liberty stood on her last legs in this try; and that despo1sm and consolidation atthe door, Yet all this means nothing it cGn mean nothing: and verify believe these gentlemen go only upon the maxim. that,
 "He who seasons the highest is surest to please''
 From the .Aau,nal of Commerce.
 We have glanced over part of the min utes of evidence taken before the committee of congress on manufactures; and emitting the questions and other formalites, have conden- sed some of the most important portions re- specting Wool and Wooens.
 Hon. NathomieI Garrow.-The growing of wool is considerable business in my part of the country; it is sold partly at Oriskanv Factory, some is sent to Rhode Island, there IS no good market for it-many farmers have on hand the f1eeces of the last year-shou|d think the number of Sheep rather on the de- cline.
 Simeon W. Derter.-The quantity of wool consumed in the Oriskany Factory for three years past, has been 6O,6OO lbs. all bought of farmers except 5000 lbs. Saxony, which which cost $l a pound it was from 3-4 to full blood merino, and cost, on ayerage,in 18- 25, 65 cents; '26, 50 cents; and '27, probably 55 cents; the lowest price being 19 cents the quality best the last years [statements about asserting not made with confdencel- l- IS aware that large quantities of wool are i'm ported, and thinks those manufactures near the seaports have an advantage on that ac- count-fnds surplus of wool in the interior it is for the interest of manufactures to en- courage its growth.
 Aaron TufiS of Dudley, Mcss.-Manufac- lures 10000 pounds of wool annually, about on third of hch the last year was of impor- ted sorts; average price paid for domestic wool (which was S-4 to full blood in l826-'7, S7 cents, and of foreign 58 1-2 cents, never assorts domestic wool into more than nine qualities; estimates the finest, or pickIock at 12O cents per pound, and the lowest at ten cents pound; the growing of wool is considerable business in his neighbcrhood, but not sufficient to supply one tenth of the de- mand, which IS chiefly supplied from the western part of Massachusetts, Vermont. N. Hampshire, New-Y ork ,and some fl om Penn- sylyania and Ohio; owns 500 fine wooded sheep, whose heeces do not average quite ?, l-2 lbs. each, well washed on the back; the wool has deprecated its consequence of the low price of wooliep goods knows that large quantities of wool are imported, but does not think that this tends in the least to depreciate the price of domestic wool, because the man. utacturer pays as much as he can possibly af- ford, and therefore could not pay more if none were imported; the price of imported wool IS from 6 cts. to 16O cts. principally from 10 to l6 cents; thinks the number of sheep diminishing; thinks that one fourth of the wool manufactured in Massachusetts is imported, and not more than one twelfth of it grown Tn that state ; thinks that at S5 cts. lb. the cost of wool is equal to one half the value of the fabric; understands that the price of that costing over 10 cts. is from 68 to 70 per cent. higher than in England; does not think that wool costing abroad cents and under will interfere with domestic. Mir. T. presen- ted samples of Smyrna washed, worth in Bos- ton l2 cents, do unwashed 1-2 cents, Bar barry cents. Russia 131 cents and Adri- anople IA cents; negro cloths are made of Smyrna, Adriancple and Buenos Ayres the repeal of the duty on wool exported from England, could not affect the price here. as no wool of English growth has been brought here.
 James Shepherd, ef Northampton. Mass.- From January lst lo26 to July lst 1927 man. ufactured lOs, 169 lbs. of wool. viz. of Ameri- can 13,59O lbs. at 65 cts., and >52, 200 lbs. at 5S cts. at S,2OO lbs. at 45 cents, the highest price paid in '27 was 55 cents and the lowest 50 cents; of Saxony 8,1O4 lbs. at IA c. and 1l,SS7 lbs. at 94 cents; of Spanish 12,250 lbs at S5 cents; always buys the finest wool that the market affords; makes IS sorts of Amer ican wool which he always buys in the fleece; has recently been in the practice of selling A merican wool after asserting by which he has made profit of per cent. at for picklock s1 prime 90 cents-No. 1, 80 cents-2,7O cts. -3.55 cts-4,4O cts.-5,35 cts.-6.25 cts.- and listing 20 cts.; the growing of wool an extensive business in his neighbourhood. but not sufficiently so t"suppIy the demand; owns from lg to l4OO sheep, which yield about an average of 8 lbs. each, which he sold in 1895. at 75 cents-'26 at s2 1-2 cents--and '27 at 55 cents; his flock is as good as any in the country the depreciation in the price is oc- Casioned by diminution in the price of cloths l; knows that large quantities of wool are imported; considers the duty laid upon wool in 1895 as " striking at the foundation Ofthe manufacturing system; thinks that if that duty had not been more than one fourth