Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-05

I q are the importers, &C., OF foreign and other
Cd The io6beF o. nercGans who usually supplies he
Sd. The country merchant OF elass6, as average,
which covers the best class In number. &c OF cOun-
try dealers, well as the most numerous interest
Involved, OIL
Whole amount of tax whtn bought and sold in vlr-
Batf the country merchant goes out Of the State to
buy his stock, say of class ., above, the goods
which he sells viii be taxed as he pays......:.... Of
Balance in favor of buying ont Of the sta.e. 81 10
Which, it appears to me, is made to act as a
sort of premium in favor OF merchants who now
go the Northern markets for their supplies; and
we may expect them to go there so long as we
continue to prevent them from trading with our
own merchants by tax of ! per cent. on their
purchases if they offer to do so.
This is the effect on the mercantile part Of the
great interests of the State. But [ will now
endeayor to show how it affects the agriculture,
and what believe would prevent its destruc>
tive effects on all and vastly increase the com
stlonteealGl, of all our citizens.
Wegwill take Alexandria as the port of Vir-E
! GINA, for instance. The counties (of which it
&9nd sgPfS55 BY " ShcR connect
with It by statistical evidence, show about D.
100000 bushels of hreadstutfs, which at IOc
per b4shel, (thc average difference between New
York and Alexandria priceS,) ~ill'be $3.50 900.
and, according To what 1 believe to be statisti.
chi tables, corrected regularly and kept for ten
andria and. New York; consequently, a loss to
Alexandria of that amount; for New York does
not manufacture it, aud it might equally as well
be shipped outward from Alexandra. But this
Is not all, because in addition to this $3.50 900,
there will, undoubtedly, be added an equal
amount for transactng the necessary business
on the manufactures on foreign imports from
whence they may be imported, for the balances
have to be made By exchanges caused by the
purchases of our T crchants who have subsidized
TO this system by offering premium of 10
per cent, and which will make in all n loss TO
the producing classes of the Commonwealth,
who are resident in the range of the counties
contiguous to Alexandria alone, as before nam.
ed, of$5OO,OOO. The effect, by statistical evi.
dence, on Norfolk, the same rate as before
named, on Alexandria, on Richmond the same
except only so FAR the effect of the trade in coffee
being exempt to some degree by the direct im-
portatiOn as understand.
l am afraid am making my letter too long;
but will endeavor to show what think will
remedy the evils in very great degree, if not
wholly
1st. Let the tax on merchants be fixed at an
uniform !Ilt rate, say $40, $l5 $2U; and 2d.-
With the addition of this part, that the goods
shall pay tax but once in this State, and I3hink
then the premium will turn in favor of our own
merchants. Direct trade will tuke the place Of
the levy that is made on very large amount of
our produce, on nearly all our manufactures and
on nearly all we buy, and which is likely to
continue so long as the present system of
license tax is allowed to iniurc the
P. s.-Tbc writer requests the views esS Of any
OF your numerous country friends on this sub
iJect, as the fact he conceive too plain and the
consequences too evil to pass unhSeded that
our foreign commerce is gradually dwindling to
nothing; II It is not in great part from the
license law, then, what is the cause?
TnE N. Y. Independent is reliably Informed
that arlarge business firm in New York have
now connected with their establishments in full.
blast, well furnished eating, drinking, and
smoking saloon, where the customers of the
house are regularly introduced ut certain hours,
and if occasion requires, several times between
The institution" aforesaid, it is remarked. is
highly appreciated by the trade" aud works
admiralty" 1t sometimes happens that the
customers Of this popular house" in conse,
quence of other engagements, are unable to call
upon'them daily. a note is made of such alb.
sence, and, If it be too long protracled, a young
man is despatched In the evening to the hotel
with u bottle of wine, to Jog the memory'' of
tho delinquent. Whether or not some stay
away on purpose to be thus logged" the hide
rendsntis not at present advised.
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Tue Richmond Ehquirer's Utah correspon>
dent presents melancholy picture of that. Ill.
governed Territory. The execution of the laws
is entirely defeated by the boldest acts of out
rage and criminal violence, which the Judicia,
authorities cannot and the Executive powers
will not, repress. The United States Circuit
Court, at its August term, had endeavored to
bring the leaders of these outlaws to justice;
but strong in the connivance Of the Federal
Government, the misereants had not only deri,
ded the;prOcess of the tribunal, but had select.
cd persons in attendance upon it for vengeance.
and had murdered them within gun shot Of the
Court House. Among other evidences Of this
disorganizstion, which have been thrust upon
the reluctant attenticnso of President buchanan.
IS letter from ex Marshal Dotson, setting forth
the lamentable state Of affairs in the Territory
aud the need of radical change Of policy.
TnE Brooklyn Star, of yesterday, in review
ing the Fall-and Winter styles, exclaims at the
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