The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-07-08

sumple from Mr. Stronss flock, to some Hon. Sen
atos, with particular request that he shall exhb.
it it to his colleagues, and thus we shall soon know
who there are there worthy of the votes of farmers
or true to the great and leading interests of the
whole people.
WILL CONGRESS OVERLOOK TIE
WOOL-GROWER!
We think not, if those interested make proper
efforts to have this subject properly understood at
Washington, before it is too late-lhcrc has been
a complete popular dcusion on this subject II
has been commended, and generally believed, that
the immense quantity of fine foreign wool, impor-
ted duty free, was so imported, by delrauding the
government. and not fairly by the provisions Of the
present tariff. .N6w The fact is, that if any tariff
admits wool's, costing abroad less than cents per
h., duty free, all kinds Of wool from supcrline
South American NerinO selected lecccs and clean,
down to the Crmca, and coarscst Calcutta, may
be bona Gdc imported duty free. Hence, the dis
lincon between woods costing more or less, than
as resolved by convention of wool-growcrs in
Vermont, and a specific duty substituted, The
object Of any duty on wool is protection, and this,
as wei as revenue, is entirely defeated by this de-
sirc and saaseiess distinction, for by the report
Of The Secretary Of the Treasury our annual I'M
por,a,iSn equals about ten million pounds, and Of
all this, under tie present ta,, Only '9l'iS'poys
any duty. There were Exported IN 'Sl'' INTO
Boston, 1859, 100 lbs. in all, and Tie amonns 'H-
ported into other c les depends upon thu amount
Of their trade with South America for instance ANA
not upon the fact in what city there is the great
est dcmand-for when wool is Il profitable return
cargo a snip bound into Philadelphia would carry
it in there The importation into the United
States the last year cannot be less than l7,OOO,-
900 lbs.
Last week we considered briefly the importance
Of wool as one of our agricultural staples, and Of
lerred reasons sufficient to awaken, at least, an APP
prchensior that wool-growing mus, soon be a5an-
doncd in the United States, unless Congress do
Immediately, by revision of the tariff, relieve our
market from being glu,tcd with duty free foreign
,rool. We then described six kinds Of South A.
mcIican wool which took the place of all kinds
domestic wool in our own market, at prices with
which our farmers cannot compete, and alluded to
the great improvement which had been made in
the South American Gocks by crossing them with
The finer wooded varieties, (somc thousands of
which have been sent out from the United States
expressly for this purpose.)
The long coarse wool which we described las,
week, as competing with our Blackwell and Dish
ley wool was imported from Bucnos Ayres, and
very similar TO the Rio Grande and Moncyicdo
wool. These woods were sold in New York du-
ring the last month"; as lollows-
Buenos Ayrcs picked and washed, for l2 81
cents per lb.-unwashed for 3 IL cenls-Rio
Grande, picked and washed, for | 81 cents and
Monlcviedo, washed and clean for 10 IL cents.
Merino and NIesligo selected nceces, clean, sold
for l-2 cents per ID.
The Mcstigo was the finest kind we spoke of last
week, and is from 0ocks improved by cross with
the Merino or Saxony sheep. Superfnc 1Ierino
South american wooi, all selected .Geeces almost
entirely free from dirt, sold for thirteen cents per
ID. al The same sale, which took place on the 18th
of last month. This wool was fairly imported du-
ty free. Now we ask any candid man if our far
mers must not Immediately abandon sheep.hus-
bandry, when all kinds Of wool, from the super
fine selected NIerino, including all the intermediate
grades down TO the cOarsest BuenOs Ayrcs wool,
can be imported and sold in the creates, market in
the United States for prices ranging from IL els.
TO thirteen cents per b. lf is true, us we have
been informed, by an extensive importer OF these
very woo's (yho has several correspondents in
South America engaged in wool-growng, and
whose statement is based on their opinicn,) that
100 sheep in South America can be raised as cheap
as ten in New England, then they may as well cell
their superiine Nerno there for Z cents per ID. as
we ours for 20 cents.
Were South American Wool all with which our
wool-growers have to contend, they might well be
alarmed, but what must eventually be their cond-
ton, If not only al! kinds of South American woods
are TO be admitted duty free. or with 20 per cent
nd valorem duty, but all the woods from places Dor
dering on The Bay Of Bengal, the Archipelago, the
Black Sea, on both sides Of the Mediterranean and
other places too numerous 10 mention, hundreds
and hundreds of tons Of which wool are now 10 be
ecen in our principal cities, in stores literally cram