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EXTENSIVE SEIZURES OF FOREIGN WooL-We
noticed day two since the seizure of quantity
OF WOOL art Lowell by officer of the customs at this
port We have since learned that lot then referred
to part OF some recent impoItaons from Buenos


yres, at this port and New York which paid duty of
per cent ad valorum costing cents per pound,
under at the place Of exp oraton but which has since
been discovered to have been greatly undervalued,
and consequently subject to the highest rate speci
fed in the tariffs cents per pound and 80 per cent
The whole quantity which alleged has been thus
ported under false invoices is between 800 and bales
valued at from $4,000 to 100000. |; has nearly all
been seized300 bales having been taken this city or
Lowell in the hands of manufacturers who had pur-
chased if from the importers, and the balance in New
York. The principal part Of the wool came to New
York, consigned to Messrs. w. w. La Forest & Co.. by
foreign house. The lot that arrived here came from
the same house to Mcssrs. Barnard, Adams & Co. The
fraud first suspected in the Boston house,
and believe the government officers, both here and
in New York, principally indebted to the vigilance
and activity of S. j. Bridge, Esq., OF the appraisers
Of this port for the evidence upon which they have
based their proceedings against large part of the wool
seized II is proper to add that we Informed by
of the parties whose names have been connected with
the transaction that the congnees confident that an


Investigation will terminate in the release Of the WOOL


and in the exoneraton of the foreign house ricatcd
from suspicion Of dishonesty Post, Jsiy 80.