The New York herald., 1870-03-21
CUSTOM HOUSE AFFAIRS.
The New Carriage System Details Of It's Worlos
ing-0rder from the Collector Why the
General Order Business was Re-
moved from Jersey City and
Hoboken to This Side.

The new Custom House carriage system, which
Inaugurated by Collector Grinnell the LIST OF
February and has been IN force since the 18TH or
that month, Is now In full organization. Up to
Friday s04 special licenses to individual owners OF
carts ana trucks had been issued and about seventy
TO what are called .'dlstrict men" the latter being
in $4,000 bonds each, besides furnishing bond Of
$4,000 for every cart they employ Moreover, =
number OF licenses have been issued to Importer,
who employ their own carts, in various num-
bers, from twenty 10 fifty, but the importers
had also give the required bond for each cart to
secure to the government the import duty
which might become due. For the first seventeen
days OF February about $4,000 packages were car
ried by the cartmen then licensed, up ycster
DAY the number OF packages thus carted exceeded
half q million. Becoming more ana more acquainted
with the working OF the system the merchants even
those who ut first most vigorously opposed It ana
saw every kind Of trick, chicanery and extortion in
it,are now said 10 have. become entirely satisfied
with this innovation.
SOME COMPLAINTS.
But nioe complaints In all have been received At
theonce of the General Agent OF Carriage since the
introduction OF the new system OF these six wero
reIerable to causes occurring IN Novem ser Deccm.
Der and January last, aud had nothing TO do with
the new order OF things. The three Others for
delay the delivery OF packages An investigation
showed that the importers were TO blame they send
ing the permit nom the Custom House directly to
the public store without having It checked and
stamped BY the Generai Agent OF Carriage, and for
TINS reason tue goods were detained. BY the new
system or entries and checks goods missing can DO
found and del iyered In less than SIX hours, while
formerly 1t took from three to SIX weeks. and some
times even as many months. Hence IT is said thas
some merchants have been dis charging their own
cartmen and are engaging such as are provided
with a spccla. license iroM the Custom House.
orHER BENEFICIAL RESULTS.
This new system, 1t 1s SAID, also works beneficial
results in anogaer direction. 1t serves to control
the Custom House inspector experimenting the
celying Il. The Inspector must note over his own
signature, on the receipt, the number OF the care
receiving package and the precise time Of Its rec
celpt, and the store2eener must again. over Ills sx-
nature certify 10 the precise hour OF ts delivery,
mus being compelled themselves to furnish hourly
evidence or the attentiveness to duty.
ORDER FROM THE COLLECTOR.
The Collector mas Issued the following perelnptory
order TO inspectors. warehouse storekeeper5 and
transfer carmen, which explains itser:--
All goods ordered to public store all general order and
separate s wlsn disssassd an single must
oc given " the Queer for sash going & %
going in bond 10 bondei be- stamped By
ss he naSer NSs' sseh eaI
or s,orskeeper Immediately upon delivery receipt Of the
per printed @ n wScn he ~ sS.sa
Immediately returned 70 the Deputy Collector IA charge OF
any violation with the d inc asiinqusai
party
MERCHANTS COMPLAINTS OF SOME WAREHOUSES;
IL Is sald 10 be tae practice OF some OF the public
bonded warehouses 10 close at Six O'Clock, even
while vessel is dischargIng cargo which Is being
sent It, Tue vessel does not cease dscharginR,
ana hence portion OF the cargo remains on the
wharf all night exposed to the dangers OF the ee-
ments and the thievish instincts OF rogues. Some
who have suffered from this practice are preparing
TO lay their complaints before the Collector as soon
or the bonded warehouses liable to these complaints
and tpey wil probably ne advised to be more liberal
TO tAe pubic.
WHY The GENERAL ORDER BUSINESS WAS REMOVED
FROM THE JERSEY SIDE TO THIS CITY.
There are tnree lines OF European steamers who
land their vessels the Jersey sde the Cnnard az
Jersey CITY, and the Hamburg aud Bremen compa.
MES ~ Hoboken. They have each contiguous TO their
landings United States bonded warehouses. Goods
IN bond, on account OF the greater length OF time
they remain IN store, nave, OF course the prefer.
enee over goods which which are subject TO ..geperai neral
been obtained. The warehouses on the Jersey SIDE
are generally crowded with bonded gods, and sci.
dom more tnan a third OF the general order goode
could be III Them, and these were left on the
wharfs Instances are said to have often happened
OF goods they not all Drought out In Succession
from the holds tney are to go unaer general order nos
cinnatl or St Louis or these eight were promis-
cuOisly distributed on the wharf among the other
general order goods. Next day all Of these pack
ages ON the wharf were carted of to some Of tho
general order stores In this city, and IL occurred
that part Of the eight cases were taken to one, part
to another and part to the third general store ana
may take the importer months before he traces
the whereabouts OF all his ten cases OF goods. To
obvate this the future general order store was
established at NO 3ls West street. 10 this CITY, espe-
ciay for goods discharged on the Jersey side whers
all merchandise subject TO the general order" re-
gulations must pe taken on being discharged from
In response to this action OF Collector Grinnel q
bill was introduced in Congress to make Jersey City
port OF entry and cut 1t or from this collection
district. Whether the journey OF Mr. Grinnell 10
Washington, whittier he went on Tuesday evening,
has anything to do with this measure could not be
ascertalned.