Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-06

Wrought Mails ifwanted by an American former or
mechanic for purposes for which ns are not adapt
ed sell at 10 to is cents per pound thy be had
for expectation, at 5 TO IL cents per pound.
W'hte Red Lead. il wanted BY AN American farmer
mechanic paint his house. his roof his barn. or fem
ces, Is sold at 81 per hundred pounds higher than the
same article be had for 10 20 abroad
This list might be greatly extended, but viii he suf
Gent to show that Political Economy is not so difficult
thing to be understood as some people imagine Now if
appear shown in the preceding statement and IRE
challenge its refttdtion, must be evident that the pre-
sent Talaw, instead OF enabling the American people
enter into competition with foreigners i'm the foreign mar
ket produces precisely the opposite effect by rendering il
more expensive for them to iveon which account the
prices of the articles they produce be augmented
Banner Of the Constitution
viii the manufacturers of this country asks the Even
ing Post be satisfied When the late tariff act was
passed, heavy duty laid wool at their re-
quest There was not memorial among the many thou
sands that forth TO Congress that did not pray for
this duty Now seems they anxious to have il taken
OIL and the farmer left TO shit for himself What won
der u convenient machine is this American systcm The
following article is taken from late number of the Lowell
Mercury Boston Ddi. .4dr.
The Tariff on Coarse Wool.-wc made few brief
remarks last week respecting the Tariff wool
&c which threw the Journal into fit of Mysteries from
which he has not recovered We have taken some pains
to ascertain its bearing upon the carpet factory in this town.
and have found that il is than anticipated
ms wool Is imported from Smyrna and Buenos Ayrcs hut
principally from the former place. The Bucnos Ayrcs
wool the poorer article the waste being from so to 10
per cent while the waste the Smyrna is about s pcr
cent The waste consists principally in burrs, and the
arm must therefore he paid the waste the same rate
as on the WOOL The Tariff and waste the Buenos Ayrcs
as VIII be by the following remarks the
smyrna, cannot be less than 100 per cent on cost
ihe average first cost of the Smyrna wool may BIO sta
tea at ten cents pound There specific duty on il
oil iour cents per pound, and ad vaorem duty of fifty
per cent The duty therefore hundred and ten per
cent on the first cost The factory this town
about twenty thousand pounds per for carpets and
negro CLOTH The Tariff 10000 lbs. ia So POO being
S26 400 per year. The present tariff ON coarse wool is
therefore, annually twentysx thousand four hundred dol
lars injury TO the OF this single establishment Not
pound of this kind of wool is grown in the United States
The Tariff il not needed q source Of revenue Its eff
feet is to benefit the foreign manufacturer to the same
amount that II Injuries the American incrcases the price
Of negro cloth so IS per and is therefore AZ inu
Gus to the Southern planter as is TO the Northern
iacturer We called tins Tariff "Ihe oJominabie Tariff
We called it by its right name.
CAROLINA BLANKErs.-There has been left with us
Tor public inspection, pair Of Blankets from the Manu-
factory of COL JOHN f. CoLHoUN of Penilcton District
The wapis Of Cotton, and the filling of WOOL and they
superior TO London Duils Experience proved them
to be very durable. They measure or quarters and
arc sold as last as they can be manufactured per
pair Col Cs establishment is found to be highly bene-
icia to the farmers of the District WHO find there ready
market for all their WOOL and portion of their cotton crops
Flanncls, 10 considerable extent are likewise manuc
tued at this establishment Very handsome specimens of
Competing have been made there The ol-caring part
oil the establishment is actively engaged in preparing the
wool OF the neighborng counties for domestic use which
Is brought IN some instances distance of forty miles for
the purposc.-C Charleston Courier
IMPROVED PLANING-MAcHINE.-A Machine the
invention OF Mr. Woodworth for planning tonguing and
growing boards has for time past been i'm successful
operation IN this pacs We yesterday saw at this esta-
Dishment, an improvement this machine made by Mr.
oani Boes, and Tor which, understand he intends to
take out patent. With this machine man can per
form the lahour of thirty, working in the ordinary way
and about 30 per cent than with Woodyorh's ma
chine. The construction is extremely simple-and the
machine will be easily kept in order
These improved machines made the machine shop
oil Messrs. Graham s Helmcs, Messrs. Knox s M'Kee
Agents. Wheeling Times.
In Chester county, the farm of Thomas H. b. ia
coDs Esq oil about 100 acres, he has stone barn. feet
long, with stabng under the whole divided in the most
convenient manner for salfcedng milk oxen hor
SEES, colts sheep, &c. 1t has two threshing floors one
smooth as any ballroom iii Richmond, and here Young
and old at Harvest Home trip it light fantastic toes
TO 1.-THE sweet sound Of tamborine and viol. On the
Plantation adjoining, belonging 10 Mr. b. Remington
there are two new elegant stone barns the length of the
two exceeding 100 feet
lille boast of farming, we must repeat again
ana again. the secret oil our prosperity Ii is regular
a'ion oil crops making little fmany articles, rather than
attempting TO make much out of one; remembering the
Scotch proverb, that many mcklc makes muck1e''-
ny farms here of hundred have had from 3 TO
5000 bushels of lime each, within the last ten years.
We wish the Pricecurrent makers in all our cities
would state the price of lime per bushel-or if by the
cask, mention the number of bushels the casks hold
hen the Valley Rail Road shall be completed Chester
county will pour million of bushels city for
portaon II there Is demand abroad and when anthra-
cite coal comes down to its minimum Village Record
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