Mr. NEWELL. On the subject of window and hollow glass. it most important branch of industry, I have also before me the following interesting letter from a well known and hen ored constituent. Indeed, all the information I have from all parties engaged in manufacturing industry is to the effect that furtherprotection is absolutely necessary, for the reasons I have given in the former portion of my remarks: Bansro. April 23.1866. Dmit Sin: Unacquainted with any other member of the NewJersey delegationin Congress. I venture to addressyou upon a subject of great interest to all engaged in the manufacture of wrndow glass. A committeewas appointed at a meetingof glassmakersto represent their grievancesand thestate of their by usi gess to the commission raised to revise the U.S. excise and revenuelaws and I have no doubt of the faithful performanceof their duty; but as yet I have seen no indication of relief from Congressin our branch of business. We report monthly under oath the grossamount of our sales and after making Inch deductions as are allowed by law. pay 6%. on these sales. llll, during the war. Was done with great cheerfulness fin as mnch as every reputable citizen desired t oaid 3110 Government to the full extent of his ability, an the constant inflation of the currency enabled him to secure remunerativeprices for articles made. But upon the fall of Richmond a change occurred and many manufactured articles were greatly reduced in price and window glassfell below the cost of production nndhcav losseswere sustained. As window glass is a per is able article when keptin packagesin warmweather. it wasnecessary to make sacriccs during the last summer to ayord greater sacrifices anticipated by the importation of foreign glass.indueedby therapid fall of gold and generaldepressionin the industrial community. On n.ll these losses the Government has inexoriib y levred the tax of 6%. It would seemthat taxes should beuniform and equal and imposedupon goods in possessionor upon profits and not upon absolute losses. Now, there are 2 large papermills in this vicinity. eachof which produces monthly ine rethun twice the money value that I do with less capital and trouble and by law are taxable only 3%. on their sales. This remission of one h the tax paid by other manufacturerswas brought about by newspaper editors and demugogues with the view to reducing the price of printing paperand by the argumentclamorously urged that the difiusion of education and knowled O could only boaecoinplishedby means of (paper. at as the aetories above mentioned. an most others in this country make nothing better than common wra ng paperfor grocersan hardware dealers.itis did cult to see howthe can be deemedto assistin disseminating learning. would remark that the present system of levying and collecting exciseduties is exensive. cum rous, and in quisitorial and that the ow seemsto be calculated to oppress the honestand to revoke the dishonest to the commissionef crime. hough I have written this hurried notewithout consulting anyoneengaged in the business. I think from former interviews with Hon. A. K. Hay and other class makers. that they will concur in the statementsand opinions herein x ressed. With the hope that you will alsoconcurand beable to afford relief to our depressedtrade in the rear rangement of the taritl and exciselaws and with an epIology for amrespeine t 3im}rrertunity. u yours. T. H. RICHARDS. Hon. Wrausn A. News“. I am happly to know that the Committee.Ways and cans have greatly relieved this important branch of industry by exempting Window glass from excise duty. Another branch of manufacture lately established in my State is thnt of watches. A large manufactory of that description has latel y been organized near hewark. An extensive flax factory has also been established in Paterson, the seat of the largest paper, cotton, silk, thread and locomotive factories in this country and lately the most beautiful fabricof silk velvet and tapestry has been produced in Newark which will compare favorably With the best articles of European manufacture. A branch, also, of Clarks spool cotton manufacturin establishmentatGlas ow, which supplies threa for the civilized WOll, is shortly to be located at the same place, bringing 600 Scotch female operatives. In conclusion. Mr. Speaker, in view of the great needs of the manufacturing iuterests of in district and State and of the country gener 0.1 y; in view of the fact that wc must rely almost altogether upon these interests for the means to meet the interest oh our now colossal Elblle debt, I feel it my duty to demand of this House that protection which is absolutely necessary, not only for the Welfare of those interests, but for the preservation of the government. From all these great industrial interests of the country we have cries of distress coming up daily to our doors. Will we heed them? Or, on the other hand, will we allow the principles and policy which came ucar destroying this nation to be again the principles and policy of the Governmentl If the latter then woe to the stability of our institutions and the perpetuity of the freedom they were created to preserve. An increase in our revenue tariff on impor tations is the only way which I see open to us in order to remedy the evils of over importation. It will increase the prosperity of home manufactures; it will chcc foreign importations, and gradually prepare the way for a safe return to specie The policy of Ibuuryompeenatus. manufacturers and capitalists, which is based on the principleof cheapening labor, in order to compete with foreign countries, is fraught with revolution and rain to American interests, and even to the stability of our institutions. The very natureof our Government and the social habits and customs of our people demand that the laborer should have such a fair and reasonable share of the profits of industry as will enable him to enjoy not only the comforts, buteven the luxuries of life. ere education is universal. Here one man is as good as ever other man. Here the doctrine of human rights, socially, politically, morally, and reli giousl y, has received its widest application. By no possible means can you unite in America a social aristocracy with our political democracy. I warn gentlemen of the folly of such an attempt. What do these ten hour and 8 hour movements indicate but a steady determination on the part of the American mechanic to assert the principle that he is not a mere beast of burden; that there are other faculties within him than those that are merely instinctive, as it were, for the preservation and sustentation of life; that the ideal as well as the actual, the artistic as well as the mechanical. the beautiful as well as the useful in him needs to be unfolded and devel oped? The same God who fashioned the dark brown earth created the flower that springs therefrom, “ A thing of beauty and a joy forever." The scripture says that “man shall not live by bread alone.” Neither can we brutalize the image and likeness of his Maker by ill paid drudgery and unrequited toil without violating the eternal principles of truth and justice and suffering fesrfully therefor. By the into war we vindicated the right of man to his own labor and the enjoyment of the fruits thereof. Having rese ued the negro from the bondage of chattelism, let us not permit the white man and the negro together to be crushed under the iron heel of a European civilization, which claimsthat the only way to build up national industry and prosperity is by reducing the laborer to the lowest minimum of compensation that will on port existence.