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Progyess of hsf."-Since our last the House of Representatives have passed an act to cons,ln- mate the relief of the people by taxing them 20 per cent on all the tea, coffee, sugar, salt, and various other articles which they purchase for their families.

 It IS an act to make five pounds of tea cost as much as six now cost.

 It is an act to make five pounds of coffee cost as much as six now cost

 In effect, it takes for the use of the Government every sixth pound of tea and coffee the farmer and mechanic buys

 How would the farmer or mechanic like to meet at the store door as he out a tax-gatherer who should take from him one sixth of all he had bought for his family, telling him it was necessary to enable the whigs te accomplish the '.rotrenchuent and re- form" they promised before the election

 This bll does worse than that It makes the merchants pay the duty in the first instance. To him the duty is part of the cost and he must have profit upon that well as upon the amount originally paid. Suppose the merchant's profit to be 20 per cent then, every dollar the farmer pays under this bill to his Government, he pays also 20 cents to the merchants.

 While it makes the farmer, the mechanic, and all others pay 20per more than the fair cost on all they buy, it permits the rich manufacturers to bring in the articles they use in their manufactores free of duty And while it permits the railroad compa- nies to bring in their iron free of duy it makes the farmer pay heavy tax every plough share, hoe, scythe, axe, horse shoe, and nail that fastens it on

 We shall trace the effects of this bill in it's various notifications, until our honest readers shall see Whg thief in every cup of and coffee they drink, and lurking around every bit of iron they use about their houses, their shops and their farms.