Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-12-18

per that building commensurate with the future growth and
progress Of New Orleans should be erected and that should
be placed upon equal footing with other cities where Con-
gres have paid both for the ground and the budng and it
will be the anxious desire Of this Department with the sane
ton of Congress- make the building model Of usefulness
and economy The action of the Department as TO the erec-
ton of other custom houses authorized by Congress- will be
made the subject of special report at an early period of the
session.
This Department has proceeded aided by the Fifth Auditor
Of the Treasury and the Chief OF the Typographical Bureau,
carry into effect the act OF the ID OF March, lS4 requiring
the Secretary of the Treasury to cause certain lighthouses and
other public works to be erected, well TO execute the
other duty devoved upon the Department in regard the light
house establishment If would extend foreign and
coaswe rade and make our county the depot Of uniyer
sal commerce, coast well as lakes must be well light
ed and the coast survey us ascertain and give accurate
minute and faithful charts Of all the points accessible to
merce In my report Congress Of the 9th of August 1885,
our lighthouse system fully discussed, comparison in
stued between and the European SYSTEM and the refrac
ting encuar apparatus strongly recommended to the adop
ton Of Congress At the time the Department suggest
ed the organization of board attended with expense
sisng Of the Fifth Auditor the Superintendent of the Coast
Survey two officers of the navy officer of the engineers
also of the typographical corps who would combine the in
formation possessed by individual regards coast
and navigation the location and construction of the houses
the proper apparatus be employed in lighting, well
the administrative duties appeanDg the system. AS the
safety of life well property is involved in the improve
men of ghhou system, the organization of this board
is respectfully recommended to the consideration OF Congress
The survey the Of the United States under the super
inendence Professor A. d. Bache has made great and rapid
progress having been carried during the past year into egh
teen States the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, including
Maine the northeast and Texas the southwest The
publication Of the results has also kept pace with the extension
of the field work The plan developed by the superintendent
in successive annual reports for the execution OF this work.
and the estimates have received the approval OF this Depart
The asked for believed to he the smallest
with the due progress of this great work The intro
ducon steam vessss in the photography will tend greatly
to expedite that branch of the coast survey.
Annexed is table lmarked LIZ containing the value and
description Of foreign goods in warehouse at the close of the
last quarter in the several ports of the Union BY the
housing act this Department required to make such egula
tons from time to time may be necessary TO give full effect
to the law, and report each succeeding session OF Con-
gress such regulations Those heretofore made under the
large and continuous discretionary granted by this act
TO the Department. repoedto Congress the last session.
After examng the practical working Of the system under these
regulations il seemed to susceptible OF improvement and,
entirely here, proceeded collect information
in regard it in those countries where had been for many
years full and successful operation Accordingly Messrs
G.. c. Walden and d. r. Bahydt, of the New York custom
house, sent by to Europe last August under specific
and detailed Instructions Ga copy of which annexed to in
vestgae the operation of the system in Great Britain and else
where in Europe and report to the results The
housing system, exists Great Britain also in France
and Belgium, investigated by hem the fullest nforma
ton being kindly afforded them by the gentlemen connected
with those establishments abroad and especially Great Br
tain. All the details obtained by hem and communi
Gated in able and volumnous report me- with appen
dix covering several volumes of general well specific
and detailed information, together with all the forms for the
transaction OF business and the most full and minute nor
nation to the mode of conducting the The system
found TO be the perfect Great Britain where
had long been in successful operao and cherished by all
parties whether for against protection 1t is of the
principal means by which Great Britain has built up her
and navigation extended the market for her fabrics
and placed under her control for the exchanges
and trade of the world. She has thus made London the
great depot where only all her fabrics could be pu
chased but also assorted of the products and fabrics
of all other nations According to the report of these gen.
emen the value of the goods of all kinds in warehouse in
Great Britain is S3s7 000 The buildings docks, and
structures erected under free competition, almost exclusively
by private enterprise for the storage these goods
in London, estimated TO have cost S40 000 Great
the importance attached by this Department the intro
ducon here of the warehousing. system, and
the recommendation for in my first annual report, the
SUITS asceained in England surpass my highest expecta
tons There it regarded by their intelligent manufacturers
among the important Of bringing customers to
their doors to purchase assorted cagoes including their
manufactures.
1t thus Great Britain seeks for the products Of all her in
dustry the markets OF the world and this is what must
do if would compete with her successfully for those
kes for the products of all our industry including manufac
The report of Messs Walden and Barhydt has been
very recently made me- and is herewith communicated
Congress- retaining for reference the younnous appendices
the Department. subject however all times, to the call
of Congress AT the earliest practicable period, will make
such further regulations authorized by the powers dele
gated TO by the 5h section of the warehousng act and
will report the Congress The American manuac-
urer the farmer and planter in enlarged markets at home
and abroad and in the sale of their products and fabrics to
complete assoments, will derive the greatest advantage from
the system whilst the merchant and those concerned in
vigaon will find increased business and augmontng pro-
fits property in warehousing cities will be rendered more
valuable and every branch of industry stimulated and inn
proved commercial nation without warehousing accom-
modations is like merchant without storehOuse and no
nation enter upon the field of fair and open competition
with other countries without such o system.
The tan has been in operation than twelve
months and has greatly augmented the and pospe
ty Of the country The nett from duties see table
Nm during the twelve months ending ls December, lS47
under the new tariff is S3l 800 000 being S. 596 more
than received during the twelve months preceding under
the tariff of 1912. The nett Of the first quarter OF
the first fiscal year under the tafwas 257 Al
whilst IN the same quarter Of the preceding year. under The
tariff OF 1872 the nett revenue only So lb3S26 3D. II
the for the three remaining quarters should equal in
the average the rs then the from duties during
the first fiscal year Of the tariff would be S44 425 029 Ga
If however, the comparison is founded all the quarterly
for forty eight years. back given quarterly in
the Treasury records and the proportion for the several
quarters applied to the first quarter Of this year, would make
its nett revenue $40 0f5 (per table C Although the
nett from duties already received being ,506
during the five months of this fiscal year, would seem to
indicate its probable amount less than OO0
yet is estimated at S3 ,000 900 for the fiscal year ending
30th Je ls4s, and s32 600 900 for the succeeding year,
view Of the possible effects Of the revuson in Great Br
Although prosperity ascribed by to the IA
mine there though Providence had made the advance of
country depend upon the caamtes Of another yet is
certain that trade with Great Britain must be greater
series of years. when prosperity would enable her to buy
from and especially coon and at better prices, and sell