The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-20

On raw cotton, per 100 lbs. % cents.
On rice, 10
On paddy, 81
On tobacco, III
On stemmed, 81
cargo Of 2OO9 bales of cotton, consequently,
pays tax of about 8, 72O cargo of 500 hogs
heads tobacco 81 400; and a cargo Of 1000 terces
rice 500. The cost Of piotage for ship drawing
10 feet water, from Dragon to Elsineur, varies ac-
cording to the season Of the year. from 500 to $50
In addition to this, there are numerous other
penseS, including toll or tonnage, which she is
qured to defraY, well grievous Inconvenience
10 be submitted to. 1t is required, under an ord
nance issued by the king of Denmark in 1929,
that
al. All ships sailing through the sound, whether
they come from the north south, must salute
Cronborg Castle, by lowering their sails as soon as
the northernmOst church in Elslneur begins 10 be
concealed behind the castle. The lowering must
not commence before the church goes in behind the
castle, ard must continue till the church opens itself
without the castle again. or for the full space Of FIVE
minutes. Every person neglectng this duty must
| expect to be compelled, by cannon shot, to the
same, and to be fined for contumacy. N B. When
a ship lowers her sails on her first on her entrance
though not come out Of the marks, is considered
sufficient.
80. The sails TO be lowered are as follows: Ships
carrying topgaIlnnt sails standing or flying, must
lower the top gallant sails entirely DO the cap;
shps having only one tnp-gsllant eat, and at the
same time the fore-top-sail, they must be lowered
half-mast down; ships having top-gallant sails
must lower both the top-saIls on ha-mast all other
vessels, be they galots, smacks, ketches, brigan.
hines, or of what denomination soever, carrying only
| flying top-saiIs, must lower the top-saIs entirely
down; but those having no standing or flying top
sails which have all their reefs in their op-sas,
are exempt from lowering.
| 80. When ships cruise through the sound with
contrary wind, or when with scant small
breeze) the current is strong against them that 1t
| would set them astern, If they lowered their sails,
then It shall be made known to them, by hoist
| ing the colors at the castle, that salute is
CURED, and that they may make the best OF their
| way without striking their sails
-. When any vessel has been fred at then the
master or mate with two of the ships crew, must
go shore, and make declaration on OATH before
the court of inquest the Of their not lowering
within the time and in the manner prescribed If 1t
be deposed that lowering was performed in due time
| and manner then the master will be exempted from
paying for the shot fired him; the contrary. he
must then pay for each shot fired at him from the
castle, five rix dollars and twenty stivers current;
| and one ducat for each shet from the guard-shps
boat when in pursuit of the ship. If the master of
a vessel should sail away without acquitting him
self, when it is proved who the master ship was,
| the fine will be demanded of the person who clears
| him at the cusom-hoase."
This is, assuredly, the most curious edct that has
gone forth from any civilized nation within the last
quarter century; but, curious it ia, it has been
facility submitted to down to the present moment.
| In fact, its adoption was regarded by the Danish
| sovereign a measure Of great cemency to vessels
going to and returning from the Baltic, for the de-
mands we're even more rigorous previous to that
| period than since. No American tar ever passed
| the celebrated castle of Cronborg without feeling
OF humiliation. The lowering ola gallant upon
the high seas before the ensign of the "proud mis-
ress," when in the effulgence of her strength she
was entitled to that enviable distinction, was worm
wood to the gall of Yankee sailors but in time of
profound peace to be compelled to do so, contrary
to every recognised principle of public right, to
feeble power--to a 12th-rate European State-is
a degradation that they can scarcely brook Sup
pose that England and France were TO attempt the
exaction Of tolls upon products passing through
the British channel to the German ocean, is it for
| one moment to be believed that general indgna-
| ton would not be excited throughout the Union,
and an immediate determination man Tested to resist
| the encroachment upon natural privileges at
| every peril Yet such procedure would be equal
| ly as justfabIe that to which we quietly assent
in our intercourse with the extreme north Of Eu-
rope. ..
The origin Of the Danish sound tolls is yelled in
inscrutabe obscurity--history giving no account of
the date oft heir first existence. They precisely
in character, and are indeed relics Of the privileges
usurped in the dark ages by the sword, welded by
| Norman pirates although the ostensble cause
alleged for their continuance the protection of
the lucrative herring fishery at schooner. The
coasts of the three straits were owned by Denmark,
Except between the years 1882 and 1867 until
1861 when, by the treaty Of peace at Rothschd, the
east coast of the sound was transferred TO Sweden
including the fertilization Of Helsinborg, which still
belongs to her. The right Of Sovereignty upon which
Denmark presumed, in consequence of her owners
ship to the territory on either side this con-
! Meeting Ink--this undoubted "high seas" water
necessarily ceased after this occurrence, even If il
| had been in the slightest degree in conformity with
national law before. But nevertheless, she per-
sisted at Cronborg, the key to the sounl in ex.
| rorling large sums from every bUuun that passed
Previous to the treaty with Swsden--in the
l4th csntury-the collection Of the sound tolls