Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-03-29

And six stores.
Another establishment well known as the
Barracks" in Gorck street, included two
houses three stories high, on u lot of ground
one hundred feet front, 1t contained one
hundred and twenty families, consisting o.
about five hundred and seventy persons, 270
being German and go Irish. Another,
known as the Cottage Place" containing
whole colony Of German rag pickers and was
so filthy that the committee shrunk from eX-
aiming it. Another, known as "the Bagdad
Hotel, aliaS the Match Factory" contained
fifty families of all Kinds and nationalities.-
The rooms in these miserable dens rent for
from three dollars to eight and a hall dollars
per month. In the first one, the rents range
from four dollars TO six. In the Bagdad
! Hotel they range from six and quarter to
eight and half dollars per month. Another
building rents for $500 per month, or $4,000
per annum, and in a majority of instances
these houses are made TO produce from forty
to one hundred per cent on their fair asses
sed value. An additional disgusting feature
is that these human pens have in many in
stances story underground, in which all the
unwhoesome ilthiness Of the upper stories is
aggravated. by darkness, dampness, and the
drainage through them Of the entire buildings
The whole "celar population Of the city is
estimated by one Of the journals at from ff-
teen to twenty thousand souls.
The laboring poor have truly a hard time,
especially during the winter. Life is tothem
hut constant struggle fol. existence hence
the great and increasing number Of children
and others. begging in the Hotels and streets.
This evening, while writing | have been APP
preached by at least twenty little boys and
girls, for charity. Some of them apparently
not more than six years old, are out as late
as IL o'clock at night, several miles from
home.
General James, the United States Senator
from Rhode Island, has introduced into the
Sentte, new tariff bill which if passed wi
make an important change in our revenue
system.
Gen. James has himself been an extensive
manufacturer, and is one Of those sound and
practical men whose opinions will have great
weight in congress on this important subject
Mr.. james plan is briefly this. Al com
modities to be divided into four classes tn,
first consisting solely of spirituous liquors tC
pay so per cent (instead Of 100 as at present;
the second, large and comprehensive class
comprising almost everything in which Amer
ican industry comes into competition will
that Of foreign countries, to pay 80 per cent
(instead of GO, so, 40, 30 and % per cent ;
the third comprising raw materials, and tn
old free list, to be free the fourth. inclujin
all articles rot enumerated, TO pay 20 pc
cent al rdtorem.
One Of the most important notifications
on wool. which his bill proposes TO put on I'll
free list after June, 1857. The object is t
enable our manufacturers TO import the chca
coarse wool, to mix with our own, ana thu
enable them TO compete with foreign mani
factures This modification, it is said, is d,
sired by Pennsylvania and other wool grow
ing states.
The Report elicits many important fact
one Of which, shows that the quantities ,
foreign dry goods thrown upon the markt
since lst January last, amount to 10 les
than s27,65l,C35, viz:
1855. 1856
! Month OF January S6,50]fot Si2s36 n
II Month Of February G,iO5,ia0 747s0
Y Three weeks III March 3,a56 SOS 1885 9
y OF this aggregate Of rwenty-seven million
? in less than three mouths no less than s.
e millions were in woolen goods. The inad
It quacy Of the production of domestic wool
N our home demands may be readily shown |
E. the statistics exhibiting the import and co
Q, sumption of wool and woollen manufacture
q also the product Of wool in 1884.
Of Domestic wool produced, lbs = 100000
N Imported, lbs 2I.OOO,C
wooien Manufactures Imported l9.00O,C
Total 2OO.OOO,C
Io From reliable data, it is estimated that h
,g total consumption Of Wool in the Unit,
:. States is equal to aOOOoO.OOO pounds, and
m this only sixty millions are produced in Il
United States, leaving two hundred aud for
million pounds to be supplied by foreil
st countries, for which VIC pay annually, estiul
ting the value Of the raw material only, abo