The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-05-06

BILL,-The New York Journal of Com.
merce complains of one construction which
the Treasury has given to Mr. Hunters
Tariff bill which went into operation April
lst, viz "The provision which obiges the
purchaser of foreign goods abroad, to enter
them at an advance on their cost, il they
increase in value up to the moment of ex.
lporation but allows no deduction from cost
if they decline in value" We quote:
"A simple illustration will show the
practical inequality of this system. John
Smith, who is an American merchant, buys
on lst OF July, 100 shawIs OF John Bull, TIE
| English manufacturer. at the rate of SEQ
each, They are not shipped, we viii say,
until the middle of August, when their value
has declined to SIS; but the importer, by
our law, must enter them at the original
cost, and pay duty on The 20! John Bull,
who sold them, spying an advance, imme.
diately shipped 100 of the same article, aud
enters them by the side of his customers
goods at their market value at the time Of
shipment, that is at Sl5."
The act OF 1912 compels ths--we sup.
pose the Treasury argues--whlch provides
that the invoice price shall he taken as the
actua cost and if so, the treasury could
give no other construction. 1t is argued on
the other hand, that Mr.. Hunters bill re.
peals all acts inconsistent with it, and there.
fore rhi, item of the act of AZ. The Jour.
nal says:
We have but one way to remedy the
injustice, and place all on an equal footing
which is to make the value OF the goods at
the date of the shipment, their true value,
without reference to their previous cost
NUMBER or FCGrrIvn SLAVES The
number of Fugitive Slaves now sup.
posed to be in the free States was put
down yesterday, by mistake and mat.
tcntion. at five hundred thousand, in
stead of fifteen thousand. Other esti
mates however, place the number at
thirty thousand. Say it is twenty
thousand, valued at five hundred dol
ars head-not "A very exstravagant
estimate, as most of them are proba>
bly, grown and we have ten millions
as the worth Of property which the
North refuses to deliver to the South,
its rightfuI owners.
OF slaves TO the value of ten mill
lions, which the fugitive slave law
was designed TO reclaim, not ten thou
sand dollars worth has really been Sc
cured by it, And yet this is the meas
ure, in consideration Of which, the
South relinquished all claim to the
new territories and consented that the
slave trade should be abolished in the
District Of Columbia.
[SaUanah Georgian.
QUARREL IN THE SELr.SrYLED UNION
PARTY.-The union is not quite all union
it would seem. The Natchez Courier pro.
posed Senator Foote for Governor, as oppo.
stion candidate to Governor Quiuman. The
Brandon Republican forthwith toadyS and
plays second fiddle to the Courier; but the
central Flag of the Union comes down in
wrath upon all the smell fry of the press,
and declares that such must not be the case.
Is freeman at the bottom OF this Or has
the ominons whisper Of the Natchez federal
bue-Iight lawyer, made in Claiborne coun.
ty the other day, reached Jackson? "HaSh
my dearfrtend," said he to one who asked
him who would be the most available sub.
mission democrat TO run on the whig sub
mission ticket next fall" Hush mn dea1
trlcnd, do nat speak aboOe youy breath,
zoe do not intend between you and me ID
run any Of these democrats a0e are nou
putting on tie back. Tie den,ocyatS ar
diUilied among hemSciCeSj and nol0, foj
thefrst time in a dog'sage, Wings can b
eiected"'
The cunning smile that followed these
wise suggestions was rich and PECULIAR
We must say, however, that while we cor
daily applaud the vtuperations which botI
; the Natchez Courier and the Jackson Fla.
of the Union shower down upon each other
r we incline to the Courier's candidate 70
6 Governor. We want to see the State
whose Legislature condemned Foote, repu
diate him for all and every thing slay hin
at all points; and do by him as Missolr
has done by Benton--beat him personally
+ and beat him in the persons Of his friends
; F--Natchez Free Trader.
CouNTERFErT GoLD Dus1.-A mum
ber of the Sacramento Times, receive,
by last arrival, says:
"We were shown few days since
beautiful sample Of spurious gold dus
which has been manufactured wit
: care and no doubt intended to be pal
: med upon the public as a genuine ar
2 tic!e. 1t is in small particles, in al
j imaginary forms, bat il presents rath
er too bright an appearance to deceiv
. those who have handled much gol
4 dust. And the particles are general
u oblong, too much so to deceive goo
i Judges. There is, however great dar
: ger from a mixture of this spurious al
ticle with genuine dust"
i. R.rt,s--[n the last ten years the uut1