New-York daily tribune., 1842-12-09
Tbe warehousing system.

The President very urgently recommends IN his
Message Warehousing System as corrective
for the inconvenience of the eXacton of cash du-
ties, made by the existing Tariff We have re-
ceived from our Philadelphia correspondent the
following list of questions, seat in circular by the
Collector of Philadelphia to the principal mer-
chants of that CITY, and we presume sent generally
10 the principal merchants of all the principal
cities in the Union:
Question |. If the warehouse system, with view 10 the
better accommodation o! the import business OF the United
States should be adopted, is likely that safe and
dou warehouses be procured without the expenditure
OF money by the Government in their erection
@ Will the amount of storage received support the ex
pense of the SYSTEM assuming that ths privilege Oh e
housing sn0nd be universal!
Is il kev that deficiency in the storage received in
the smaller ports would be made up by The excess in The
larger ports!
What would be the eec, of this system upon the trade
OF the larger and smaller port Would it change the rela-
tive advantages enjoyed by them under the
s. What would be the proper limit to the period of the
depoSit!-or should it be indefinite?
6. What will be The effect upon The revenue at this port
in The year next following its adop,ion
4 What will be the effect of the present Tariff upon the
mportaons up The sob june 1888 and what lis effect
up to the 50th june 1874?
8. What effect will the exhausted State OF the Country
have upon impor,atons?
g. How will the suspension of labor affect them land 10
what extent?
TO- What effect will the surplus importaons the
Country, if any, have upon them?
H. Have great sacrifices been made, aud do they not
coatnue to be made, in the sale ofmerchandze?
r. What the of the dec tension of the imports
IS How far is the declenson owing to the surplus in the
market, and how far to the present Tariff?
"A How far is il owing to other causess
AMUSING BLUNDERs.-Ignorant people some
times make most ridiculous bunders in striving to
appear learned. A correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Enquirer, at the conclusion of long and
wellwritten article, winds up by hoping that their
ships may soon take cargoes for the port of Lon
don, /" where now Philadelpha ship is indeed
rarG aSis IN gurgite uasto!"
We find another, rather more to our purpose, in
the St. Louis Gazette of the oath ut. The Editor
quotes the passage from our sketch of DR.. SMITH
Geological Lecture in which he said that $3.50
years ago, in tie time of Pindar, Mount Etna had
attained an elevation of 10000 feet" appending
thereto this most sagacious note:
:, The extracts printed above from the New.folk
Tribune The reporter of the Lecture fer that paper con-
lounds Pny with Pindar perhaps supposng they were
one and the same"
Perhaps this loDg-eared Editor will thank as for
the information that Pl;ny lived only about l7be
years ago, instead of $3.50; and that the ceie-
brsted eruption of Vesupius, al which the elder
Pliny, then Commander of the Roman Fleet at
Misenum, was killed, took place in August, A d.
70. In the year AIS B. c. occurred an eruption
of Etma-of which Pindar gives most beautiful
description in his first Pyshian Ode-calling the
mosn.ain the snowy Etna, the pillar Of Heaven,
the nurse of everlasting frost, in whose deep
stream of eddying smoke BY day--a bright and
ruddy fame by night; and burning rocks rolled
down with loud uproar into the sea-" Probably
all that the St. Louis man ever saw of either de-
scription is the extrac, from the younger Pliny's
Letter in the old English Reader. In his haste to
convict US of ignorance, he only exposes his own.
BASxRyPTs IN ILLlSoIs.-A complete list OF
the bankrupts in this State is given in the Law
Reporter fer December. The list is stated to be
Authentic, having been prepared in the U. States
Clerks Office in Illinois. The whole number is
| l,o77.
| 70 The Mobile Register contradicts the repor,
that Senator BAeBY intends to resign his office as
.. S. Senator. His wishes it says are un.
known to his friends
10 Mr. c. Pitnan, a stevedore at New Orleans
was killed on the 9th ult. by the fail OF the yard
of vessel.
p The motion for new trial of MoEwen and
shee, st Philadelphia, has been over.ruled by the
cssrs.