The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-02-13 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AMERICAN NOTES. Naw YORK, Jan. 24th, 1874. Mr. Boutwell has introduced a bill into ths Senate for the purpose of correcting and removing some of the hardships involved in the appraisement and re-appraiaement of goods at the Custom House. It is intend,d to apply to those instances where there is a rise in the value of goods in foreign markets, between the time wen they are purcha ed and the time of their shipment, and to certain other cases where particular classes of goods are manufactured abroad, especially for trade in this country, and which are sold and invoiced at a lower price than the market rates for similar qualities and kinds of goods not made for a special purpose. This is about the last quarter from which importers would have looked for justice. A man whose underling was permitted in an official letter, without dismissal, to speak of the importers of the country as a "brood of impostors" is no friend at heart to justice and moderation. The wrong which the law inflicts must be outrageous to extort any concession from such an insensate charlatan as Boutwell. But the truth is that the seizure of the books and papers of Jordan Marsh and Co., Boston, a typical Republican house, has been a mistake on the part of the informers. So long as they applied the red-hot poker to foreigners and democrats all went well, but to touch the " anointed " of Boston was rash indeed. The New York Chamber of Commerce has taken up the whole question of seizures and re-appraisementa, and Mr. Jackson S. Schultz, a we ,lthy leather merchant in the "swamp." and a leading member of the Chamber, has got into a hot fight with the administration paper, the Times in which the plain truth is being told on both aides. Every assault on the present revenue laws damages the administration, and hastens the downfall of monopolistic tariffs, which are the curse of this country and those who deal with it. A meeting of consumers of iron and steel was held at the United States Hotel, Boston, on the 21st instant, to form an organisation to promote their interests. A constitution and by-laws were adopted. The constitution declares that the object of the association is to secure legislation in the interest of consumers of iron and steel, but strictly forbids the use of money for that purpose. The meeting unanimously adopted the following resolution :—Resolved, "That this association respectfully petition the Congress of the United States to reduce the duty on steel, and to make the impost wh illy specific, without regard to value." After further consultation on minor matters, the meeting adjourned, subject to the call of the Executive Committee. This is an anti-movement to the steel and iron manufacturers' combination, which is pressing Congress for a repeal of the law allowi.,,g ten per cent, discount from duties passed last session. Really it is an anti-monopoly movement, and in favour of a revenue tariff.  The Dundee Fine Art Exhibition has been closed. It will shortly be re-opened free to the public. The Prince of Wales has accepted the poet of Commodore to the Royal Thames Yacht Club, vice Lord Alfred Paget. _ .  The Anstralia-m Museum at Sydney, the oldest and richest in the Austraban colonies, was visited last year by nearly 250,000 persons, who were admitted free.  Mr. Kyle, the manager of the Irish Central Press, has been awarded £25 damages from the Freeman' s Journal for attributing to him the transmission of a false telegram.  During the past year the business in timber at Liverpool has been on a scale far beyond that of any previous year, and prices, on the whole, have ruled unusually high. It is intended to have an Art Exhibition in Aberystwyth during the summer months, for the benefit of the fund for the library and museum of the Welsh University College.  A breach of promise case has been heard in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was a dressmaker and the defendant a tailor. The verdict was for the plaintiff, with £1.50 damages. An unmarried man died recently near Boston, aged 80 years, a graduate of Harva, d, with the degree of "LB." He was a bachelor by diploma, a bachelor by celibacy, and Bachelor by name. Grim Death at one felt swoop swept off the whole batch.  The Union reasserts that the German Government has applied to the British Cabinet to curb the excess of the Catholic bishops and newspapers in England, but without success. It adds that a like application at Vienna has proved equally 111U3UCcessfaL  It is reported that a Kentucky legislator, who couldn't read, sent up to the Speaker's desk, the other day, his whisky bill, thinking it was a petition from his enlightened constituency. The Speaker, who, happily was a better scholar than his colleague, discovered the mistake in time to p: event its recepti n. The new steeplechase course at Birmingham is within three minutes' walk from the Sutton Coldfield Station. It forms an irregular circle, about a mile and a quarter round, and it comprises eight fair and natural fences. There is no water jump, and all the fields but two axe sound turf, the exception being a piece of plough on the far side and some fallow. There is a good straight run in. The Rev. Maurice Cunningham, a priest at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. wac brought up on Monday, bef ore Mr. Raffles, the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate, on a charge of being drunk and riotous, and assaulting a police officer who took him into custody. The offence took place in Richmond row, on Thursday night, when the defendant insulted two girls ii the street. and collected a crowd about him. The magistrates aonside, ed the charge proved, and fined him re. and costs for being drunk, and 40a. and costs for the assault.  SUICIDE OF A Gtrsr.—The inquest on the body of Lemont inia Smith, who d ed in a gipsy encampment, under circumstances already re ortet, was resumed on Monday, at the Summerhouse Inn, Wood Rave'. Wednesti4l. before