Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-06-22
PRICES RAISED by A TARIFFS.


"The People Of the South are to he made
'bewers of wood and drawers of water 10 the
of the North" saw the opponents
of Discriminating Tariff" ''l'hcy are to pay
two prices for what they CONSUME, in order tina,
the rich capitalists of New England may make
good percentage on their money" These dole
lu expressions have been repeated so often, tina,
many persons take them to be uue wthou, troub-
ling themselves To enquire into the facts Some
years since appointment member of Congress was
on visit to this place, ADD was discoursing with
great JUNCTION on the UNEQUAL operation of the Ia
rif OF 1924 against the South. Among other in
stances, he adduced certain fabric of cotton,
The price OF which to the Southern consumer he
said, had been raised cents yard bv the Tariff,
shrewd gentleman from, the land of steady hab-
It's, who was sitting in the store in which The NJ
y. was discOursug, waited until he had aroused
himself to the highest pitch OF indignation against
the grasping policy of the North, and then very
coolty showed him bale OF the very goods, the
price OF which, he said, has been SO much enhan.
ced by the Tariff, and which were selling in this
market at precisely the price per yard which the
NJ y. had charged as an increase caused by the
Tarih-to wit, 6 cents yard. Now, here was
one fact that put TO flight column Of distractions
the M. C.'s. political economy made the ward of
cloth cost cents more than il did before, and the
Connecticut mans practical experience showed
that the cloth at that moment was selling i'm the
market at 8 cents per yard.
The experience of every day goes 10 slow that
the operation Of the Tariff i'm the South is grossly
misunderstood or misrepresented. From varie-
~ of facts which have recently been made public,
we take the following PEI. lat.
On the LIST day of February, new pattern OF
Mouslines de LANES arrived at New York, ana
was Offered by the importer at Ia cents per ward
by the case. The agent of Il Rhode Island cali
CO printing establishment forwarded piece of the
new style OF goods to Providence the day after
their arrival, and in l6 days he had the same
style OF goods and OF equal fabric insNew y DIRK.
selling at ten cents per yard. The manuactu-
rer had but l2 days TO engrave the new pattern
on copper cylinder from which the engraving
was raised on "A steel cylinder, then hardened and
ready Tor impression; the compound of ingredi-
ents for color discovered by chemical experiments
the cloth printed, dried and cased for market.
The last English papers make mention of the
seizure in London OF 4eO bales of American do
inestic goods, recently shipped from Boston, on
the ground that the mark upon them-"Stark
Mills, Manchester n. H."-was iraudulently in
tended to designate them as manufactured i'm
Manchester, England. The Boston Atlas, allu-
ding to this laughable mistake of the British
Custom House Officers, says
"Poor Johnny Bull 1T is a bitter pill for YOU
20 swallow, this attempt of your offspring to rival
you IN your own home The American Tariff
Policy, adopted in spite of your utmost efforts
and those OF your agents in this country. has ena-
bled us to match our manufactures with yours
even In your own markets. That intmation in
theletter OF Messrs Earrings, tina, the seized goods
ARE as dlssmar as they we'll can be in matter,
style and execution" to the English brands, is
peculiarly significant. The goods are unques-
uonably OF much better fabric than the same class
OF goods turned out from English looms-and an
impartial examination would doubtless convince
the examiners that the marks which the Ameri-
can manufacturers have at,ache}e,o the goods
Fortunately III CT;
est idea oil Initiating any Of the English manuiac-
tures."
Another Boston paper has this paragraph on
the subject:
"SrARK MnLs."--lt is sufficiently amusing
that John Bull should have selected the above
stamp as forgery of the name of British firm.
1he present generation must have forgotten the
nattie OF Remington, where, after whipping
them soundly, General Stark captured detach-
Inent OF Burgoyncs army. 1t was on that oc-
casion he said TO his raw mililia-"We must
thrash these regulars Molly Stark sleeps :hs
night widow" The fact is, the name of Stark
Mills was given in honor Of the old hero, the es-
Establishment being situated part of farm
which actually belonged to him.
Owing to the wicked and injudcious tariff.
Salt is now delivered from Onondaga Salt Works,
and sold In New FORK for 90 cents bushel; I'M
der the free trade system, and before the poor
were taxed for the benefit Of manufacturing capt.
'"iiStS, ioieiShelS coulu get on cents Tor 1t.
Wood Screws, such Cabinet makers and
Carpenters use, OF American Manufacture, are
now selling 25 per cent. cheaper than the foreign
article, and are acknowledgcdly of better quail
~.
American cutlery. manufactured BY ]. Russell
d Co., at Greenfield, Mass. with handles of Two.
ry, bone, and beautifully polished wood, and
equal in merit to the rival English goods, says
the New York Tribune, are now afforded at
price beIo,o that at which cutlery was ever sold
IN the country before the imposition of the present
tariff.
Tea and GDce.-A loud wailing was heard
from the !.ocofoco press throughout the land
when the Wings, in the adjustment Of the tariff
proposed TO lay duty on lea and coffee though
man with only half an eye can see that if the
protective policy be wrong, these are the very
arucies, entering as largely and so equally into
the consumption of all parts of the country, and
coming into competition with no domestic produc
tlon,---upon which duty should be laid, and
though under the 'horizontai scale of duties" in
sisted upon by the Richmond Locofoco Convention
last winter. and cnfTpe ,rnet ,ooo,..-:i..