The Clerk read as follows: Tnnxros. NewJmtssv. February 21.1806. MY Dean Sin: I received yesterday a note from F. Kinsman. 1551 with your requestfor somestatis tics relating to the manufacture of crockery. You desire further thnt they shall bein the form in which wewish them to appear before Congress. This it is perhaps rather dillieult to comply with. inasmuchas we have not diaestedany particular “form” of presentation for our statements. Indeed it might be troublesome to put into n.few brief sentencesall we think necessarytosayin our ownbehalf. I will. however. statoourense in as conciseand workable shape as may be. at the same time thanking you for your kind expressionof a wish to aid us in this matter. Lt will be needfnl. in the course of this, to repeat portions of my letter of January 17 and 1st the ollowinir statement of relative values of potters materials in England and America. gold taken at. a par valuation: Kaolin or China clay. ton of 2,00oponndsworth in Trenton $23:in Statforshire 810. Ground flint. same weight worth in Trenton $19; in Stiitlordshire59. Ground feldspar. Smno wcight.1vorthin Trenton $20; in Staiioidshire 812. Cool. tonM23240woundsmorth in Trenton $5: in Stafifrdshire S2. Ln or is paid at rates at least 100%. higher than those of the English manufacturers. There are, in addition to above. other mine r articles. chemicals. 610. which will range at about sameratio of ililleronee. motion we haveupon the subject; theEnglish values being suppliedby reliable persons lately connected With the Ipotting" interest in Staiiordshiro. while the American rates are those actually paid by us when gold wasat par. The most 111180 and items by far of this statement are "coal" an "labor." In eedall other items of thocost of production of our waresare of comparatively mine r importance. it is closelvestimatcilthat 75%. of the producing cost is ab sorbedby thesetwo heavy items of expense. Our processesof manufacture are accomplished almostentirely by manual labor; and heat must be used without stint. Perhaps no machine Will ever be made to manipulate clay like the human hand, although it is probable that invention may smooth this rugged way somewhat. But the inventive genius native to our soil has not found time during the tur moil of war for this new chargesolately transplanted from a land whore labor saving and fuel saving machinery would not seem worthy of consideration, becauseof the plentiful supply of workmenmnd the coal at their doors. Laborand coal. then. are themain points i n wh ich we must compete with England. That labor is more easily and cheaplyobtained there than heredoes not require proof. We have said in the statementabove that we pay not less than 110%. Advance on a old basis upon English ratesof labor. This we be icve to be a low estimate. Much of our ware h“ made “by piece." and we know of many articles for which we laid in old times 3 times as much as the Englis 1 mann aeturcr. Taking the coal used by the latter of all kinds and 2 dollars perton will be found n.high estimate while we now pay (in currency) 8 and one liq 1f dollars and have paid within 2 years over 13 dollars. Observe the quantity of coal usedby any pottory and you will best ruck by this statement of diffarenoo in favor of the Englishman. This statementwas made up from the beat infor and now the argument for a protectivesystemmay be fairly and riahtly strouuthened by the followinl brie! narration of theriso and progress ot this mann faeturing lllltfftlsllll ourciiydurinr, the last few years. Before the rebellion a fewsmall pottericswerehere. Itrnggling hard to maintain a somewhat irecarious existence. Ihe skilled laborerswhowere ere. Englishmen asked and oblpined their own prices. The dad {atthat time was35 llCicent. (at!salon m. ith the warcame the advance on gold. llowever much we may deplore the inllaiion produced by a depreciated eurrency certain it is that the high price of old was, in the absenceof more tarili. a benefit on protection to us. At once others saw this evident (intend soon new firms began to appear: intelli cut practical workmen. uniting with capilalis s to uild new petteries. and to take ( ldvflnlthe of the tempo irary "protection" of the times. ore hands were brought over from England. boyswere a prenticsd.0 learn the various tra es and from a mic eusof 4 ITmapeltooyriiensgweabnoouwt have altogether 12 larger ones. e net housand hands and represent anilg nearly one million dollars of invested ca ital is sup: may appear small when compared with the capital in in any other kinds of manufacturc.but any potter knows that $1.000.00 worth of crockery or rather the crockery odncod byworkiu $1,000.00) {ooultd make a imal mountain if it 001.3(1be piled e er. otting is a vgy bulky business requiring a great deal ot room a much labor for a comparatively small moneyvalue. The Stallordshrrepotteriese over 5 large tilillltl 91 count. It is usually a iron specu htiveirudo. prices keep at; aenerally steady in common times. [be men engagedin it. both manufacturers and dealers.are honest iron speculative mon. 11“ do not often fail and cheat their creditors. It seeinselen rt.hen. from the fact that this basine m has so greatly increased during the war, that what it wants (and we think what it ought to have. for the benefit at the governmental revenuefls “ protection." That this need not mean“ prohibition" s plain from the fact that foreign goods were largely importedand cold when we had the protection of from 200 to 280%. premium on gold. Pee do will have their p ates and cupsand mueers and they ouaht to be abletoenjo their daily bread wrthuut the aid ofJohn Brill. The government cannot loseby addingthisprivilege to the birthright of an American citizen; in this case “without distinction ofcolor" we suppose it will have to be. We have had but 5%. additional duty put opon foreign goodsduring the war and if Congress desires to ester and assistthe introduction of new branches of art into the country. they should not be unwilling to protect us when circumstanceswill no lop er do so. “Gold is pinch lower now." it may be can and yetyou flourish.” True. but we are only sustained tor a short time by the pressing needs O those now in process of “reconstruetion." assistedby the anger of eptuneand xEolus. who have wrecked or damage a great deal of crockery lately. It is almost certain that in the coming summerBritannia will have it all her own way and that weshall be “fallen among the ots." To know what kind of were is madehere.be perticularto noticethat ourgoedse omeunder the 2nd clause of paragraph 4. Section 9. of the tariff act of July 1. 1861.beginning. "on all other earthen. stone or crockery ware. 40%." Were this made 60%. itwould not in the leastdiminish the revenue by keepin out any foreign earthen ware. merely becauseof the increased duty. but we should feel that the manufacture of crockery wason a pretty sure footing in this country; and there is overy reason to believe that it would continue to increase ra idly. payim.rlarge excise taxes into the national treasury. If any change were madein this section of the tariff.it would be necessary.also. to change the duties upon china. white and decorated these. howeVer.would seem nearer to the class of luxuries than the other and there would not be the nme hesitancyfelt to put duty upon them. Allkiiidl ofwere. china aswell as common.shouldbe madein the U.S. and will be.ifCongress will help us. Trenton is not the only point. although it is the Rncipal one. at which crockery is manufactured. O best American ware is made here. but all parts of the counare more or lessinterestedwith us in the success of this business.for every State has some pottery interest. I remain, sir. very respectfully yours, STEPHENS, Secretary Manufacturing Potters. Hon. Winniliii A. Nswsnn. Washington.D. 6.