Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-06-12
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THE GREAT NATIONAL FAIR.
TRorlcIloH raLcTIcALLY ILLUSTRATED.


Washington, NcGH,scu,. May 20.
naarHug l.4l- rJ,y a. eleven die H.olIing
. l-a..s -.,rs cgeca.y TO lle LA IsiI Of
lHcuzus .u aLtu .lc Natirrai Iair wts
10 have opened to-day, tu.N ID. Ill, owing
20 l4r gItdL L5t Cuut aIu VaI.tly 81 aIlIClts
forwarded ior eAhli.iou, lie is.e Lour az
Na "a many sulsd, 5Id he ls, OF o. en-
IrI z, arranging, ,;Td 5JtrifIg tn. Un-
O.. t0-uo. TOW at lwt.Fp O'c.C'k. Gaming
sluIg.auoe with s,H.e e. H.'LIly, tIt6Ied
The new building VhltL tss team erected
90 sacau sound just lClsu ol toltnoE's
Na..Gla iu.tI oA}f'ss.y iOr lh. tgT. L.
D. In tie 10 ~ ct CLOS, o. Iuuer ot I,
grUta ~ .4 e. huudttd lttt one vBy aId
.w0 huadgc. he Other lul ore s,op h.lh,
amply gh.d ty windows IN Ite col, Vuh
la, l-ul- tor evenings, and lho tosi Of VEN
.u.atou. llr.r aie 10 sIahs 70 ts ssCen-
d,d, every JhlIg Icing on The ground floor.
Hardly bali Of JLe 10. l-s aie yet filled,
and thJ lose Of bsWn.eIs anu halChels
opening cd>ss j. Incessaul, Jut u.sts spec
.aIo.e are ye'y IIgid.y excluded; lie p9ssa-
gts aie spacious, roCm abundant, and all
hands hard oi Wok. 50 it is hoped that all
Will tg IH orderly lo-nouOw Loou. Many
yrlCifs aTg detained al Baltimore ty the IN
ability Of theguuosd TO tTug then over 90
.as, a. lerrived; 20 that some ~, need 10
he placed alter the Iar opens. hope they
wi -u. Je many; Tor spacious as The halls
arr. they wj. Je crowded.
la.vt teen locking over the fabrics al
rse., IN position, umld tie rattle and din
OF pieraIa ion, uutl my head aches, YET
have glanced at hut a portion Of What is a.
ready waiting gUspeCtlon. II is q vast and
gtatify yngeNhit.tion. Cfcollon goods, and
lsGtt# 81 woven textures generally, there
Gas been 10 pleUuLs ,XA.Uuon equal in
extent aud variety or this continent, il any
WheIe. spegk not low oi the tnentss
O. excellence o. the gcoCs; Of that, anoih-
er time. This Is maHliest'y not al eXhili-
I.ou o show. goods. OF articles got up for
the occasion OI oil novelties, varieties and
uxur.e>. There are quantities Of the ccu.-
uuhr-l staples ior every day wear. On
mos. OF Iur articles tie width and price
pertard IS marked, and it is intended TO ia
nai; OH u....y the card Tells YOU The fine
nes-, weight. &C., as well rs where made
and ly whom sold. The people and their
Representatives are invited to see Just how
shockngIy they are 5igHdcred by the MsI-
utdc.urprs and how uch trU!h there is in
the assertion that an il crease OF duties me-
cessarliy leads to an increase OF Prices
There are at least five hundred varieties
OF American Caicoes or prints, rangjI z from
six to twenty cents per yard: some at sew
encents, which no lady need Je ashamed
to wear. Il he duty on Foreign cal.coes Is
nine cents per square yard. or about sereu
cents the running yard.) There ure wide
shlltngs Ut from six 10 eight cents; good
shpeLIngs at from six and halt 10 tLirteeR
and half cents-lhe latter uusuIpassbtie.
For summer wear, there are Jeans at from
nine 10 fifteen cents; sturdy double twllted
checks costing twenty cents which Europe
cannot malCha, thirty five; GuIlIngs OF ev-
cry STYLE al ilCm eight 70 Twelve cents not
to lie Iiva,ed in the China ur any open mar
ket by any British fabrics. For winter use
there are kerseys and plains from fourteen
cents per yard up 10 thirty; fame i iIcm
twenty to thiI!.one, (vGy good;l ca1!-
Iners soueW hat higher, but sill within the
isy reach ol any man WHO can earn fry
cen tsa day. Mind you, all these are The
very description ol PCods on which ts
meseul tariff ltvics the highest rates ofdu-
lies-so that it is said TO tax the JoOr mans
clothing tiity. one hurdrEd, or even onn
hundred and fifty per cent, according 10
he fancy OF the dtClaiu4er, 90 wish all
the roor men of Tie lard could tut .ook
hrough this exhibition, learn the prices of
ryery article they VT ar, and compare them
with the prices OF five years ago.
ba
cloths, &C., paid twenty per cent. duty in
I842; which by the present tariff was raisSs
ed 10 a specific thrty-fve cents per square
,ard-averagng flry per cent, Here .aT-
shown specimens OF good oil cloth selling
at fly cents per yard whlh sold at sky
five in l842, others at one dollar WHICH
were then one dollar and twenty cents.
and soon. Very fine wide oil cloth table
covers are selling atthirty-one cefhs-they
were nothing like so low prior to l842.-
Good all wool Lowell carpets. are offaedi u
sixty-hve cents, as well as many ath'ghrr
rrites The prices shown are Hanief'y
so low that the Union has attacked mem as
aocor,;yo ip.tancing a superb ankee car
w, =, ,vo dollars and seventy cents per
ip'aro which would cost more than that any
yy here in the wo,d. Ii any Tree, ,Eader be-
icve such assertions, he has only yogive a
iberal order for any Thing he thinks under
,rced, and so learn his mistake or make
lis fortune.
."Wplh" says. :he Union, ,if our people
re making these goods so low, they're Ialn-
' need no projections" But, sir hey ,Ire
making them so low because Of pIoLection;
hey could lot dnit il the dulLSs were re-