Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-12-19

fines CT Mexico. Against this decree
our Minister has not failed to remon
strafe.
T The trade heretofore carried on by GU
citizens with Santa Fe, in which mucl
capital was already. invested, and which
was becoming Of daily increasing impor
lance, has suddenly been arrested by {
decree Of virtual prohibition on the par
of the Mexican Government. Whatev
er may be the right of Mexico to prohib
il any particular course of trade, to the
citizens or subjects Of foreign powers
this late procedure, TO say the least OF 1t,
wears harsh and unfriendly aspect.
1 The instalments on the claims recently
settled by the Convention with Mexico
have been punctuallv paid as they have
fallen due, and our Minister is engaged in
urging the establishment OF new com
mission, in pursuance of the. Convention
for the settlement Of unadlusted claims.
With the other American States our re
lations Of amity and good will have re.
NAMED uninterrupted. Our Minister neal
The Republic of New Grenada, has sue
ceeded in effecting an adjustment Of the
claim upon that Government for the
schooner "By Chance" which had been
perding for many years. The claim far
the brig :'.Morris," which had its
origin during the existence Of the Repub-
lie Of Columbia, and indemniicatiou for
which, since the dissolution Of that Re-
public. has devolved on its members, will
be urged with renewed zeal.
have much pleasure in saying that the
Government Of Brazil has adjusted the
claim upon that Government in the case
Of the schooner "John S. Bryan" and
that sanguine hopes are entertained that
The same spirit Of justice will influence It's
councils in arriving at an early decision
upon the remaining claims; thereby re-
moving all cause of dissension between
two Powers, whose interests are, to some
extent, interviewer with each other.
Our Minister at Chill has succeeded in
inducing a recognition by that Govern
ment, Of the adjustment effected by his
predecessor fthe first claims in the case
of the "Macedonian." The first install
ment has been received by the claimants
in the United States.
Notice of the exchange Of notifications
of the treaty with Peru, which will take
place at Lima, has not yet reached this
country, but is shortly expected to be re-
ceived, when the claims upon that Repub-
lic will doubtless be liquidated and paid
In consequence ola misunderstanding
between this'Governnaent andthat Of Bue-
nos Ayres, occurring several years ago,
this Government has remained unrepre-
sen,ed at that court, while minister from
it has been constantly resident here. The
causes of irritation have in great meas
ure passed away, and it is in contempla-
ton, in view Of the important interests
which have grown up in that country, at
some early period during the present sess-
ion ofCongress, with the concurrence of
the Senate, to restore diplomatic relations
between the two countries.
Under the provisions of an act of Con-
gress ofthe last session, a Minister was
depatched from the United States to Chi
ma, in August Of the present year, who,
fIom the latest accounts we have from
him. was at Sues, in Egypt,on the 25lh
of September last, on his route TO Chi
ma.
in regard to the Indian tribes residing
within our jurisdrtional limits.'the great
est vigilance of the Government has been
exerted to preserve them at peace among
themselves, and to inspire them with feel
ings Of confidence in the justice of this
Government, and to cultivate friendship
with the border inhabitants. This has
hsppilv succeeded 10 great extent; but
it is q subject of regret that they suffer
themselves in some instances to be impos-
! ed upon by artful and designing men and
this Notwithstanding all the efforts of the
Government to prevent 1t.
The receipts into the treasury for the calendar year
I8i3 exclusive of loans, were little more than eigh
teen millions Of dollars; and the expenditures cxclu
size Of payments on the public debt, will have beer
about twcntyathrcc millions of dollars, BY the Ac
of 1912 a new arrangement Of the fiscal year wa
made so that it should commence on the first day
July in each year. The accounts and estimates fo
the current fiscal year, will show THAI tic loans am
Treasury notes made and issued before the chose y
the last Congress, to meet the anticipated deficiency
have not been entirely adequate. Although on thu
LIST of October last there balance in the Treas
ury III consequence of the provision thus made of 49,
Ola 032,77 yet the appropriations already made b.
CNcl,ess will absorb that balance, and leave pro-
bable deficiency of two millions of dollars the clos
of the present fiscal year. There outstanding
Treasury notes to the amount of four millions 81
hundred thousand dollars, and should they be return
cd upon the Treasury during the fiscal year they vii
require provision for their redemption. | do no
however regard this probable, since they have oh
vious entered into the currency OF the country, I'M
will continue to form portion oft, the SYSTEM no,
adopted be continued The loan of 1871, amour,
ing to IS 672 IS, falls due the LIST of January
: 1915 and must be provided for or postponed by
new loan. And unless the resources of revenue shon
be materially Increased by you there will be Pre-
babe deficiency for the service of the fiscal year END
ing June 30th, 1916, of upwards of about four mil
ions OF dollars.
paper circulation, which gave ictitions value
, every thing and stimulated adventure and speculs
ton 10 an c,travagant extent, has been happily sue
cccded by the substitution Of the precious metals
paper promptly redeemablei in spccie,and thus falls
, values have disappeared, and sounder condition
things has been introduced This transition. althoug
intimately connected with the prosperity of the cour
tly has nevertheless been attended with much cmba
rassnent to the Government In its financial concerns
So long as the foreign importers could receive pay
mcut for their cargocs in currency OF greatly les
value than that in Europe, but fully available here
the purchase of our agricultural productions, the
profits being immea surably augmented BY the oper5