Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-06-16


The Nnw TARIFF BiLL.-Ths Nation
al Intelligencer publishes the following
analysis Of the tariff bill reported by Mr..
Fillmore, Chairman Of the Committee of
Ways and Means, and which is now un-
der consideration in the House Of Repre-
sentatives:
On manufactured wool exceeding
eight cts per pound in value, thirty per
centum, nd yalorem.
On the same article of the value of
eight cts or under per pound, duty of
five per centum ad valorem.
On all manufactures of wool, forty per
cent. ad valorcm, except carpeting
blnnkets, and some other articles, Oh
which special ad valorem duties are pro-
posed.
On cotton manufactured, three cents
por pound.
On all manufactures Of cotton no,
Otherwise specified, thirty per centun
al valorcn.
On all articles Of silk, according to
their character, thirty or lhirty-five per
cent.
On manufactured hemp, forty dol
lars per ton.
On iron, bars or bolts, not manulac-
turcd by rolling, eighteen dollars per ton
'on the same article, made in whole or in
part by rolling, thirty dollars per ton.
On lead, in pigs, bars, or sheets, three
cents per pound.
On cut g lass, from twenty to forty
five cents per pound ; on plain, moulded,
aud pressed glass, from ten to sixteen
cents per pound.
On all articles Of china or any other
earihen ware, thirty per cent ad v"lorem.
On tanned sole or band leather, six
cents per pound on call-skins tanned
and dressed, three dollars and fifty cents
per dozen--sec.
On Wv sugar, two and a half cents
per pound.
On teas, according to their quality,
twenty cents, fifteen cents, down to Bo-
hea, on which a duty Of three cents only
is proposed.
On salt, ten cents per bushel.
After going through long enumera-
ton of specific duties, n duty Of twenty
per ccntum ad valorem upon all remain
ing articles.
An additional duty Of ten per cent on
all articles imported in foreign vessels,
in cases where a specific discrimination
is not made in the bill.
All duties hereafter TO be paid in cash.
The bill also proposes to repeat the
proviso of the Land Distribution Act,
which suspends the operation of that acl
in the event OF any duty being laid by
Congress Of u higher rate than twenty
per centum ad valorem.
TuE LocoFocos AND THE FARMERS -
The following remarks are from the
Washington Correspondent Of the Phila-
dclphia u. S. Gazette -
The hue and cry raised by the Loco
focos, in the Rhode Island affair, against
land holders, who are styled "aristocra's'
and "lords of the spil," has alarmed the
farmers in some parts Of the country. In
attempting to gnin tho lowest stratum o
population, by changing all above that
ilowest deep" with being "aristocratlc,
and especiaiIy mo Farmers, u"u o""o'a
Of soil, the Loco-Focos have carried
out their principle to such an extent iha
men heretofore blinded to their tendency
now begin to see where they are l'kel,
to lead them. According to this moderI
this rery modern "democracy," mel
who have by their industry, by th'
sweat Of their brow, and their strict iru
Ralny, been enabled to purchase an
pay for fow acres, Ga large or a small
farm is the same thing are hereafter 4
be dubbed "lords of the SOIL" and de
nounced as ga privileged order"-an'
"aristocrats" The application Of thes'
terms to your plain, hardworking, repuo
lican, Pennsylvania farmers will soun'
somewhat strange to their ears: Few
them, imagine, ever dreamed that the,
belong to a "privileged order," or that
was political sin, in the eyes OF any por
ton of .4merican citizens, to be the own
era ofland. But we live in strange times