The constitutional union., 1861-03-29
THE TARIFF.

Our readers have already been informed that the Congress of the Confederate States. at Montgomery, Ala, has adopted the tariff of the United States, with the following al- terations.
 No duty is to be collected on bacon, pork, hams, lard, beef, fish of all kinds, wheat and flour of wheat, and four of all other kinds of grains such as Indian corn, and meal, bar ley and barley flour, rye, and rye four, oats and oat meal, gunpowder, and all the ',,-''erl- als of which it is made; lead '- all It's forms, and arms of every deso.iptlOn, and munitions of war. nil;44ly accoutrements, percussion cans, and living animals of all kinds; all az ricultural products in their natural state
 Under the laws of the United States the following articles are free of duty: Philosoph- ical apparatus, etc, for colleges and schools; bone-black, articles used in dyeing and tan ming, steel, copper, tin, and pigs, bell-metal, bOtonical specimens, trees and shrubs, bulbs, etc, gold and silver, burr stones, maps and charts, boiling cloth, cofe, tea, cotton, felt and copper for sheathing vessels, flax seeds, qua no, ice, plaster-of-Paris, wool worth less than 20 cents per pound, and few other articles of little use in this State, excepting some drugs.
 The highest rate of duty is 30 per cent. on liquors, wines and other articles of supposed luxury or taste, The next rate is 24 per cent which takes in all beer, and other luxures of the second class, as also, ready-made clothing and sundry other articles intended to be in- cluded in "incidental protection;" such as manufactures of leather, marble, glass, artif- cial flowers and (we take them in alphabeti- cal oredr as they stand in the tariff "asses' skins, carpeting, furniture, carriages, castings earthen ware of all kinds, hats, bonnets and clocks, coal, combs, manufactures of cotton cutlery, de laines embroideries, iron, paper 1 and glass manufactures of wood, oil cloths potatoes, silks, soaps, sugar, tin manufactured, tobacco, manufactures of wool and great many other articles but little used ill this state.
 The next rate is nineteen per cent, and embraces buttons, badges, fannels, &c., ca bles cordage, cotton laces, &c., feathers, hair cloth, manufactures of silk and worsted not otherwise provided for, mating for floors, roof ing slates and few other unimportant arti- cles.
 Fifteen per cent. is the next rate and en- braces a long list of articles which we have not room to enumerate. It comprises fish, ham, hats of wool, corn and meal, lard, man. ufactures of fax and hemp, medicines not otherwise provided for, paints, bricks, pay ing stones, tiles, pitch, cement, skins tanned and dressed, starch, candles, window glass, etc.
 Twelve per cent. applies to only twelve ar +icloC of ,rb i.l, 4i,, +,l l1in are the most important.
 Then comes d long list at eight per cent of which building stones fruits, 9nms, lime, machines expressly designed for the manutac- ture of flax and linen goods, soap, grease, tin plates, watches and cabinet wood are the most important.
 Many articles of drugs and medicines, grind stones, lasting and other cloths for shoes, hides, spices, and number of other similar articles pay four per cent.