Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-02

we quote a lew sentences OF the Post!
analysis Of the tariff bill, showing thai
it seems to have been constructed ex.
pressly TO make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer
The eommOnest kinds of cutlery are
to pay from one hundred to two hundred
per cent. duty that is to say, farmers
and mechanics, and working people
generally are to be made to pay, by this
atrociOus tariff, twice OF three times as
much as the articles can be imported
for for, of course, the home manufac-
tureF viii at nee put up his prices to the
highest limit at which he can Just under.
sell the importer who has these duties to
pay.
"Thus congress is asked to add instead
of lowering prices-as if the country did
moi already suffer seriously enough from
exorbitant prices.
but it is not in hardware alone that
this new tariff seeks cOvertly to iniure
the poorer people OF the land, while it
favors the rich. The cheaper sualihss of
cloth are to have a much higher pr6por-
ton of duty laid upon them than the
high priced cloths. Thus, wooden coat
ings, the gold cost Of which is 81 OS Der
yard, are to be raised twenty-four per
cent. higher but the fine and costly
qualities, the gold price of which is 81 40,
are raised only eleven per cent, and still
finer qualities, of the gold cost Of 81 go.
are raised only temper cent. The coarser
coating are to a from eighty to one
hundred and twenty per cent. in duties,
but the finer aud more costly ~resonIy
burdened with from sixty-five to seventy
per cent.
"The same is true Of carpets. Theduty
on the high priced carpets is not raise at
all that on low priced carpets is raised
ten cents per square yard, about five per
cent. In the same manner there is no
increase OF silk dress goods, which are
bought by the wealthy but on small
articles Of silk, such as ribbons, which
are used by the poor as well, there is an
increase of ten per cent. High priced
linens are ven put under a diminished
duty-they are to pay five per cent. less
than now. That is to say, it appears
that these p-roteeiiOnists seek to Cypress
the poor-the farmers, mechanics and
workingmen Of the land-in a special
manner"
The pork-packing season at India
nspolis, Ind, has closed, with the
slaughter Of $3.50 hogs this season,
against So, 900 last season. The packing
a SlnCAIudLl anu Sill EOHLllLcSt
the average receipts of hogs per day at
each point being about 1000 head. The
result Of the packing this season through
out the west shows a very decided iu-
crease in numbers over the past year, but
we notice a steady and even increasing
demand for the entire product, the com
parative low prices this year stimulating
both the consumption and demand m a
far greater ratio, thus far this season,
than the increase in the product.
The Holly Springs Tines saws Of the
cotton crop Of that county From, ali
the data that We have been able t. OBJ
tain, we feel satisfied that the cotton
crop of Marshall county, for 1866, will
not exceed 1000 bales. In 1860 the slave
population of this county was upwards
of IL 900, and the number of bales of cot
ton raised vas over $1,000, or more than
two INT a half bales TO each negro. By
the ensus of 1856 there were in Marshall
county over IS, 900 blacks, and the cotton
raised amounted TO 1000 bales, or about
half a bale TO the negro"
The following is the receipts of cotton
at Mobile, up to Saturday last, 18th inst:
Receipts Of the week, 1907 received
previously, las, 1856 exported during the
week, I02, OBS ; burned, 2437. Stock on
hand, 77,77l bales. The following is the
total number of bales of cotton received
by the rivers and railroads since the LIST
of September to date