New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-06-24

Wool growers are iocllng IN with loads and par
GELS every day, and fading ready sale, FOR cash,
a, GOOD prices. Some Of ocr Merchants are pur-
ciiasing on tteir own account, and others as
.geits for Eastern houses and manufacturers
Some $4,000 10 $780, 00-pcrllaPs d larger
sum-wi be paid out here for wool the present
season The prices of coarse grades are uIlhi'y
per cent above the prices of last year Coarse
Wool is especially in demand. The reason 81
this is to be derived from the operation OF tie
present Tariff. Under The former Tariff, Wool
costing less than 5 cents per pound, was duty
free; and it imposed no sufficient guards against
the fraudulent introduction Of fair grades, mixed
with impurities TO reduce It's cost 10 the free rate.
But under the present Tariff all Wool costing
over cents per pound pays duty of cents a
pound specific, and 80 per cent. adyalorem; and
all Wool costing cents or under, pays duty OF
five per cent. and guarded provision Is made 10
prevent the fraudulent introduction of far grades
mixed with impurities at this rate, By estimating
such Wool at what it would cost freed from III.
puritcs, and imposing upon II the higher rate Of
duty. The effect has been 10 restrict the lmpor-
tation, so that il has .falteR u m0rc hhan taco-
Mird& and the deficiency has 10 he supplied ny
the coarse grades Of American Wool. Hence the
brisk demand, and higher prices.
The finer grades of wool, though not advanced
in price from last year much as the coarscr,
are vet advanced from 25 to 80 per cent. with
brisk demand, and ready cash sale.
Now suppose you strike off this protecting
duty on wool, and the equivalent one on WOODEN
goods, and admit the importation OF both duty
free, as the British free trade Pokeifes DESIRE
what effects would result? Would the Ameri-
can manufactures continue in activity Would
the brisk demand and cash payments for Amcr-
can Wool continue? Would the valuable home
market for other productions OF the armcr-hs
wheat, pork, butter, &c.-whlch tho prosperous
condition of manufacturing operations secures,
remain 10 him
When American manufacturing was prostra-
ted by British Free TRADE, could clothes nc pGr-
chased any cheaper? And when the manuiar-
turrrs were driven from The workshops 10 tie
tiod and employed in raising wheat and potatoes
for their own sustcnancc, where would lie the
market for the farmers surplus Not In Eng
land, certainly, whence the British cloths would
come free of duty Eng LAND protects herself by
heavy duties upon such articles, and the specie,
rot the farmers produce, must 80 out OF the
country to pay for British cloths No; the far
mer's ready and profitable market would be de-
stroycd. Why, the manufactures IN NcwEng-
land now use more New York and Western flour
than all our expectations of the article
What flly, then, to sacrifice the present pros
porous condition OF the country, brought about
lay The protective Tariff OF 1872, Mr. James
Il. Polk. the Free Trade candidate for President,
would do by striking down the principle of Pro
lection; and all his supporters will strive 10 20
by contributing to his election
How much better 10 sustain this valuable Pro-
L. 10 A
as II only can be sustained in the person OF Is
rrcat Champion, HEnRY CLAY. Ithaca enron.
Wool estcrday morning VIC noticed above
thirty bales OF very fine wool that arrived IN The
steamboat Jasper ftom the Counties of Fulton
and Greene, III Illinois. 1t was owned by Mr..
Mo nc, who has been extensively engaged in the
business OF raising and manufacturing wool. He
has one thousand sheep at his fold in Illinois, and
says that the praries of the West are much bet
ter Tor raising sheep and wool than the agrcu,u-
raj lands of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Their wool
is cleaner, their teeces arc less torn, and do not
contain so much oil, and on that account, the
wool is much better for manufacturing purposes.
His wool is principally from Merino or SaXUn
sheep, and would command 375 cents per pound
in this market lie states that many farmers
tiC CAA'AiN'NS'f !hi' w. ''''f "''N'
business IN that part of Illinois that farms are
opening for that purpose, and that many sheep
have been recently brough, on from Ono, some
droves numbering as high as one thousands and
,ha; it is likely 10 become very extensive and
lucrative business on the prairies. All that can
be said in favor Of Illinois, as wcol.g growing
country, is equally applicable TO Missouri. We
hope soon TO sec the day when many millions will
he added 20 the number OF sheep IN Missouri, and
when we will have many factories foEtbe purpose
OF making cloth in our own State. So long as
We depended on Great Britain for our WOODEN
cloths and clothing, we had hll'c use for wool ;
but since our Wing Tariff has afforded fair pro
lection 10 American wool and 20 our wooden man
uiactuyos q new impulse has been given TO the
business, and wide and profitable field is thus
opened for the labor and onerpfizc of our farmers
and manufacturers. Wccan conceive of nothing
more absurd than fer the people OF the United
States 10 send millions OF dollars 10 England Cor
cloth made oil British wool aud BY BRUSH labor,
ers, when it can be raised and manufactured 50
advantageously in our own country. 1t must be
a British party that would advocate such policy.
st. Loais New Era.