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Show By Telegraph. J TI1K PHOt'OSKD NEW TARIFF. Washington, 15. The following are among the rates fixed byfne new tariff bill of the wa-s and means committee: Teas, all kinds, teu cents per pound; coffee, two cents; salt, in bulk and rock, eight cents per hundred; salt in bags or other packages, twelve cents per hundred; pig iron, six dollars per ton; steel rails, one cent per pound; rails, part steel, three-fourths of a cent per pound; all woois, valued at the port where exported at thirty-two cents per pound, eight cents, and nine cents ad valorem where valued to exceed thirty-two cent.-; where exported ten cents per pound and eight cents ad caluran : manufactured cotton, unbleached, un-bleached, not exceeding five ounces in weight to the square yard, two cents per .-qua re yard; bleached, two-and-a-half cents; colored or printed, two and one half cents and ten per cent, ad vjloiim; spool thread, five cents per dozen, and twenty-four per cent, ad va foi in: burlaps and all manufactures of Ujs, hemp or ju'.e, thirty percent. ad valtwi ; books and ail other printed print-ed mailer, bound or loose, except newspaper's, magazines and periodicals, periodi-cals, twelve and one half ccuts per pound; newspapers, etc , six cents per p:-utid. The following are the prinei-. pal articles added to the free list: Chalk, diamonds, undricd fruits, gold beads, skins, upholsterers' curled hair,! hides and skins, lard, lime, oil cake, paper, stock, and every description of paraliue and spermaceti, tailow, tar, pitch, manufactured teeth, beeswax, and whalebone. The total amount of' duties removed by the revised free list! is about a half miiiion. 1 |