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 It is 10 be hoped that Congress, in search ing for methods to replenish our empty trea- sury, will not overlook the most obvious ones. For the means of carrying on the go- vernment, we rely on taxes which we irn- pose on foreign goods, and we have only to relax the restrictions which prevent impor- tations, in order to fill our treasury. The method is as plain and certain as it is sim pie; It IS as sure as the kitchen recipe for making nasty pudding

 Mr. Spencer, in his late treasury report, says that She has not been able to discover any of the existing duties which can be aug mented with any reasonable prospect of aug mentlng the revenue. This is no doubt true. The duties are as high in all cases as they can be without putting an end to all import ations through the custom house. If we make them higher, we shall only make the revenue less. We wish Mir. Spencer had ap- piled the wise and just rule to which he re iers in this passage, namely, that "exorbi- tant duties lessen the revenue,o to the tariff as 1t now exists. < He is not prepared" he says, " to specify any important rates of duty which will bear reduction, unless the def- ciency be supplied by duties on other arti- cles." He refers, however to the duties on glass, iron, coal and sugar, as too high in the opinion of some for revenue purposes. It would have cost but little investigation to find that window glass is entirely prohibited by the present exorbtdnt duties. Glass of this description IS taxed more than hundred per cent, and this gives a monopoly to the Amer ican manufacturer. When we consider what a vast quantity of window glass is demanded annually in the United States-when we re- fleet how many buildings are reared and glazed in our growing cities, in our flourish ing villages, in our rural districts, with their condensing population-we may form some idea of the trade which is cut of, and the revenue which is thrown away by this un- wise restriction.

 In regard to certain articles manufactured of iron, we have obtained from an importer the following statement of the duties imposed by our new tariff:

 AMERICAN DUTY ON CERTAIN PRINCIPAL HARD

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