New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-23

81 Sos 2ss s9oia ri .71
Charleston 2o6sOoOl 1908 1cel %9 6ssl 2Aslel %
TIE buildings ut New Orleans and Charleston
arc proHigste affairs Owing TO the nature of the
soil Oh which it stands the former is gradually set
ting into the earth. 1t has already sunk two feet
An appropriation for the carreBt year Of half
million for this huge and ungsiDly structure, was
defeated at the recent session of Congress BY mesns
of the welltimed exposures Of Senator TRANQUIL.
We might extend indefinitely the comparisons
suggested by these tables in connection with cosnae
data obtained from like sources. We will give only
few. Msue has Custom. Houses costing in the
aggregate $7l6 100, aud has 765, ITO tans of regis
tered and licensed shipping. Virginia's Custom
Houses (pot all completed YETI will cost 1898, 222,
and her shipping measures 70, l45 tuns. hassschu-
setts with 81 ,257, 097 in finished Custom-H Houses,
aud sl7, 0O5 tuns Of shipping, may be placed "shoul-
der 70 shoulder "(see Webster on HayDe), with
South Carons, with SO, 053 900 in Custom Houses,
land the work still progressively and 81 $50 tuns of
shipping. Eew-York has Custom-Houses costing
81, 452, 405, and her shipping counts 1,569,52o
tuns LOuisians's mammoth Custom. House has
already cost 81, 925, 25s and is going on, and We
may say going dopn, at the rate of half a million
annually, while her shipping dwndles away to
176, 49l tuns
From these facts, il appears that for each tun OF
registered and licensed shipping "a fair test Of bus-
ness at Custom House,, in the three leading COM
percal States of the North, the Government ex-
pend. ust about one dollar ia Custom House build
ins.; but in the three principal commercial States
Of the South, it expsnds more than nineteen dol
lars in like buildings for each tun of their shipping
This disparity between buildings and tunnage at
the South muet be accounted for on the ground
that Custom Houses don't cost the Shareholders
snytbing but ships do.
Ia delvlng little deeper into the mass OF facts
with Custom House costir $2i, 32i, owns lo3 932
tuns of shipping, and built Al large vessels In 1851
measuring 22,748 tuns; while Pensacela, vita
Custom- HOuse costing S4s, o04, owns only 5,433
tuns and built in tina. year three whole schooners
Of AZ aggregate burden Of 2i2 tuns. Little Ken-
ptbupk. with q Custom House costing exactly
81 500, built ships in 1857 measuring 1896 tuns;
and Charleston, with its two million Custom House
(ard scarcely half done at that, and eager to dis
solve tie Union and meet tho whole marine OF the
North in open ses-fght on the shortest notice,
built during the fscal year ending on tAe 3Oth OF
June, 1857, two sehoOners, two sloops, aud two
sail boats whose total measurement swells to the
gigantic figure of 266 tuns-Or, to give the pre-
else sggre gate, as obtained from official sources,
266 tuns and 70-95ths of ton.
Bristol X. l., has modest Custom House which
Las az
! tered and licensed as Norfolk, and she built in
| 1857 more than seven tines as many tuns OF YES
sells. Yet Ncrfolk's Custom House cost POI ,S27,
The Custom House at New-L0ndon cost $50 231;
that at Louisville $256,77s. The experts and im-
! ports at New London are eleven times more than
at Louisville and the registered and licensed tun-
nsse nearly double. The Ike odous dscrimins-
ton in favor Of the South exists in regard to the
! Custom. Houses at Providence and Newport aud
| at New Haven aud MiddletOwn. The electors OF
| Rhode Island and Connecticut will note this dis
GRIMM alton at the polls next month.
The snug little village of Bsrnstsble, Mass,
owns good deal more shipping than Charleston,
! s. C. New Bedford, with an uDambtious Custom
| House that cost 1913, lsS owns l52. 799 tuns OF
! Mobile combined own l53 47S tuns, and there has
been already expended on their Custom Houses
nearly three millions of dollars. The tunnsge Of
vessels registered and licensed in Maine, IN 1857, is
but trife less than that Of all the Slayeboldiug
States OF the Union put together. The tunnsse Of
vessels built in that Jear in the tSo ports of Bath
and marlborough, in Maine, is much greater than
that of those built in that year in a those States
| And 10 wren We GENE to the item Of Custom
! Houses erected 10 accommodate this Shipping tae
/ South CREE, "Ghe~ Give" with ten thou
sand horse-eech power. The dazzling jewel In her
disdem Of consistency 10 this: She processes to de-
test the whole Custom. House system, and TO be in
| favor Of free trade. The srrsnt old AyPocriSe.
| The shame s.s old pauper. Poor and proud TO sne
last With one hand on her heart, protesting con-
! ssrutional .cruples about Federal protection"
while the ether is thrust 70 the elbows into the
Federal Treasury. clutching all the money Hithln
| its reach.
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