The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-30

Ten thousand Ave hundred dollars arrived at Now Or
leans the Goth inst. from Havre.
The average duty paid foreign imporstions into Phi
ladelpha for the quarter ending April st was about 81
per cent.
Value OF lsroRrs INTO PIILApELrnA roa ruRrs osrH'
1ny. ..'...'.'... sooS' pay
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- Total. 81, 733i2i
Amount oil duties paid on the same. sesoaa
Averaging about 81 per cont on the total import This
Is about third Of the received at this port In
one month January.
The assignses Of the Grard Eank offer at auction
on the first day Of June, in Philadelphia, stocks and
loans being part Of the assets OF the bank, viz -
Is bonds of 1000 dollars each of tho New York. Proy
dence and Boston Railroad Company, due In August,
1863 and bearing interest OF six per cent per annum
pay able the LIST of August and February in every year.
interest warrants attached each bond 600 shares
Of the capital stock Of the New York. Providence and
Boston Railroad Company. par value of each share 100
dollars 5000 dollars Pennsylvania per cent oan 703
shares stock of the Morris Canal Banking Company
par value 100 dollars SOL shares stock Commercial and
Railroad Bank of Vcksburg par value, 100 dollars.
Payment for the above will be received either in cash
in the notes other evidences of Indebtedness Of the
bank. The only really good stock in the lot Is the New
York. Providence and Boston Rail Read Company Pend.
sylvania S. Morris Canal and Vicksburg will undoubed
ly bring good prices considerable speculation kas
lately been carried on in them.
oos 1905 and 5oO, altered from Is Of the North Bank
Boston-vgnete State house, country &c ON the
right end and ship on the LEFT, female Agurs &C. ZOOS
altered from u.s. the Massachusetts Bank Boston, Wig
nette two ships, steamboat sloop The word lone" at
the top and bottom Of the bill spelt "oen" in crcua
ton in this and the Southern cities.
The Philadelphia money market Ia reported be very
easy Capital is abundant and readily be obtained on
good security per cent Stock operations are carried
that city very extensively and the stocks Of several
deiunct institutions have lately advanced very much
The Lehgh Common Loan has, within few days, ad
vanced from is} to II dollars the hundred. Girard
Bank has advanced from So to $2, per share. United
States Bank from 81 IS to Sio-and Wilmington Road
from So to $25
The Commissioners of Carroll county, Maryland, re-
solved time since by vote Of FIVE to FOUR not to
appoint collector of the State The Governor hss
recently appointed the Sheriff of the county collector
convention has been proposed to consider and deter
mine what course the people OF Anne Arundel county
should pursue in relation to the subject of aegedto
have been rendered unequal and unjust in consequence
of the delinquency Of Of the counties Of the State
paying their portion of the State We fear that
the pursued the Commissioners Of Carroll coun
ty will be followed by many others The people not
disposed to submit to taxation unless it is levied on just
principles fair valuation of property is demanded in
the first place. and in the second the people must DO sa
fed that benefits advantages win follow their
submission to these laws The delinquent and repudis
ting counties should consider refusal to pay the tax
levied is not only unjust towards their
honest neghbors but the seed Of discord among
those who would otherwise remain honest and suffer
r6ces meet the legal demands Of the State The lie.
gsatures of States will before many years. discover
That is easier to levy tax than to collect it. The people
bear the burden, inflicted them by specializing political
fnanciers long possible, cheerfully but there
point beyond which they cannot go-it was the last
pound that broke the back" and the people have
been crushed in the same way The willingness with
which the people, for time, submitted to taxation
deceived those who realizing fortunes out Of the
money collected in the Of the people, and who ina
gned that would wipe out all evidence fther
extravagance They have gone toe far. and we now
see the result of their movements The and
tax BILL recently passed by the Legislature Of Pennsy
vana WILL doubtless be met by the people in the same
spirit the new tax law Of Maryland has We have not
the aintes hope that its provisions be carried out
The farmers viii nojudgng from present appearances
be in condition to meet the additional demands from
the gatherer All descriptions Of agricultural pro-
duce will, undoubtedly be very low the coming fall
The season. has been favorable that great crops
be harvested unless serious accident should
take place. The great supplies will reduce prices
low, that the farmers will prefer holding which will
keep them poor and out Of funds Taxes must be paid in
cash, and that il article that the farmers generally
have little Of This not the only thing that will pre-
vent taxes being padanother and the strongest 10 the
want of disposition The people Of the interior cannot
be impressed with the importance Of sustaining the faith
of the state-they know little nothing of the public
mind on the subject and cannot understand why they
should be so heavily taxed Their ignorance is bliss
md fho
perfectly understood hope to meet that ready
acquescence the demands Of the collectors that the po
sition of the governments demand. The people of this
great country very slow to correct abuses We may
talk the power of the ballot boxes but that power
very seldom exercised Corrupt legislatures year after
year. 60 increasing the burden Of the people in every
way by taxation direct and indirect, and by the
lation of an immense public debt without the least
restraint until the people at last compelled to break
their own laws and repudiae debts contracted by those
in whom they placed their interests, and elevated to
power Their necks in the yoke and they must get
out of it easy possible cannot be done by repu
be done by lynching the tax collectors
it only be done by putting their shoulders to the
Wheel and lifting the government out Of the depths Of
bankruptcy in which the swindling political leaders Of
both parties have engulphed it. This accomplished
let the future be by the experience past
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