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Show Thk Nnw Tauift. The principal change? in th new tariff are: tea, fifteen eents per m.; coffee, three cents; substitutes for coffee, five cents; sugars, from one and three-nuarters to four cents, according to grades, being about twenty-five per cent, below present rates; corsets, two dollars per dozen, when valued at six dollars per dozen or less; hemp, twenty-five dollars per ton; jute, fifteen; pig iron, seven; cast scrap iron, six; weight scrap iron, nine; bessemcr steel, one and one-quarter cents per pound; crinoline cloth, thirty per cent of value; hair pias, fifty per cent.; silk buttons, or dress ornaments, fifty per cent; German silver and other mixed materials, five per cent.; live stock, twenty per cent.; oranges and lemons, twenty per cent; neats foot oil and all animal, whale, seal and fish oils, twenty per cent; raw opium, one dollar dol-lar per pound; smoking opium, one dollar per pound; morphine, one dollar dol-lar per ounce; ginger root, two cents per pound; raw furs and skins free; watches and materials, twenty-five per cent.; champagne, quarts six dollars, pints three dollars; cinnamon, twenty cents; crude cocoa, two cents; liquors, two dollars per gallon; wines in casks valued at not over forty cents per gallon, gal-lon, twenty-five cents per gallon; valued over forty cents and not over one dol lar, duty one dollar; nutmegs, twenty cents; pepper, five cents. The free list is enlarged, and goes through about as it originally came from Schenck's committee some weeks ago. Steam plow machinery comes in free for two years. Tonnage duties on vessels owned by our own citizens are abolished, as are also the duties on boats, barges and flats. |