The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-16

Piled to all kinds of provisions Wheat and Indian corn
as well as beef and pork already fill the depots such
New York to the Lakes and from Cleveland to Detroit;
and the farmers turning anxious eye to the Eng
lish market in the hope that demand will draw off
their surplus produce before its accumulation brings
prices to ruinousy low point We very heartily join
in the hope Weare likely to have good harvest our
selves but with lower prices there few articles of
iood OF which our population mgAt advanto geously
increase its consumption
The fate of the tariff not yet decided could il
be anticipated with any great certainty, but
ductioa of the protective duties have been
pected By all parties is said too that the August in
teret of the Pennsylvania debt is be paid as the
State revenue of the current year will greatly exceed
that OF lS45.
The war in Mexico goes on slowly filing some CO.
lumns OF every newspaper in the Union with the march
ing and counter marching of troops anecdotes of Anne
rican vaor and Mexican cowardice, and of
taxes. Here are hundreds playing at soldiers" the
martial strains of Chapmans brass band vibrating through
the groves and Weakening the slumbering echoes of the
hills" Gas when the Raymond Fencibles turned out at
Clinton, Mssissppi) strains of fervid eloquence"
from patriotic citizens coming APPLY in to give breathing
time TO the band-and there, in busy crowded towns,
where brass bands and shining uniforms paid for
where war or the very of it, stops the sale and
ira is of merchandise, and throws gloom count
ing house stores and wharf hundreds of thousands
grumbling the dullness trade and weighing their
share OF the national glory against their share Of the
taxes
The government requires an addition of nearly
20 100000 OF dollar to the war expenditure of the
rent year. besides having already absorbed balance in
the Treasury of 1872 900 dollars The troops in the Id
do not yet upon the highest estimate exceed eleven
thousand Nearly as many more said to be in motion
for the Mexican frontier and including the volunteers
enrolled and taken into in the Northern States and
the additions made TO the force OF the navy told
that the forces under the command of the government
Washington will in the course OF few weeks, fall little
short of 100 600 men We shall best understand how
these facts regarded by the thinking portion of the
American people, IL we recur to what they
toned to. The total annual expenditure of the Federal
government has OF late years varied in round numbers,
between twenty and twenty five millions of dollars
The average cost its military and naval establishments
may be stated at about fifteen millions and the largest
aggregate amount expended in these departments in any
u53l4) has not exceeded twenty eight millions
dollars But the estimates made in January last have
already been increased by addition of
expenditure alone for the fiscal 1916 by 90i
dollars So the cost OF the in Mexico threatens
be considerably greater than the cost OF the with
England thirty years ago
In vain de We look for any object likely be attained
by the prosecution Of this which might counter.
balance its cost The idea Of forcing Mexico to pay
the expenses is simply absurd II the American govern
has any justification for the present hoses il
must we suppose be founded upon the pay ment by
Mexico OF other and much smaller demands and it
well known that her inability to pay at least the chief
cause OF her default With the exception of goods,
chiefly belonging to foreigners in her ports, and larger
towns near the coast there very little in Mexico that
worth carrying off, unless it be the property of the
church Taxation of the least scrupulous kind has been
pushed to its iurthest limits already and without plum
army strong enough to march to Mexico could get hold
OF enough to pay half its expenses. The bulk OF the
population is very poor, peaceaby inclined, much OPP
pressed and extremely indolen 1t would be easier to
exerminate them than to raise from them sui sid that
would not more than absorb itself in the coec
ton is pretty clear, therefore, that the Americans
will be reimbursed If they resort to these hostili.
ties to force paym ent Of debt, they do a cost
enormously exceeding the value Of what they affect
to fight for The only plausible explanation Of the al
fair Is found in the ambition of Anne
tend the terri ores of the Uaon The annexation of
California with the possession OF the bay of San Fran.
cisco, and the command of the whole coast line of Next
as continuation southwark of that of Oregon APP
parently the object in view indeed, we find much
admitted in more than of the most widely circulated
OF the American papers That this, any similar object
already contemplated, we very much doubt That it is
not worth attaining by unprovoked and unjusiable
invasion is not only our opinion but that of many
OF the most sensible men in the United States.
From the London sun, July Ill
By the arrival Of the Great Western, have received
the gratifying and important intelligence that the Oregon
treaty on the 18th of June received the sanction OF the
Senate by majority of forty.one to fourteen All fur
Their conectures the upshot of this eccentric SQUAD
BILE between Great Britain and the United States
consequently prevented from this moment. With the
tocsin Of Mexican warfare still ringing in their ears the
Legislative council of the Presidency to whom the set
Element OF this delicate question had been transferred
has breaihed towards the mother country nothing but
sentiments the most pacific and has altogether conducted
itself in manner the most concilatory. Nor, be IL
membered are these concessions 10 The demands Of GO
rernment the trufs IF diplomatic ehicaneryt not
the quences of any adro or specious proposition
The scshistries wh1ch are usually summoned to he assis.
rance 81 me Penpoenha,y haze ia this instance been
elected aud strange candor which many respects
Is Utfho preceden has been adopted bu the represe
fatiues OF both empires. Much certain individuals
across the Atlantic had become infected with
tves upon their British progenitors, extortionate
their demands in reference to the colo
nzaon Of the Oregon and the navigation of the Colum
ba-every sentiment Is merged into meekness and all
obstacles have given way to acquescence upon the first
sounding of the artillery in Mexico 1t is impossible in
deed to remark the concident Information contained in
our last packet from America, namely, that the total
amount of funds estimated by the Secretary Of War
necessary for the prosecution OF the contest with Mexico
from May 1916, to June 1871, is some where about
Sls9 472-and (here is the coincidence) that smuta-
neously with the receipt OF this intelligence,
formed Of the arrival IN England of the Oregon treaty
as ratified by the senate OF the United that docu
ment wing been convey ed hher under the of
GenArmstrong American Consul at Liverpool Any
ment upon this casualty of would be wholly
supernuous; but 1t may not be consdei ed entirely
superhuous to utter incidental vetion uyon the
behavior oil the English government when the American
outbreak with Mexico first announced. Instead Of
seizing that remarkable opportunity the precpita
on OF extortonae demands upon the territories OF the
ofegon-instead OF awaiting herself OF the mt
When the rvai claimant those colonies was lust pre-
citated into all the embaI OF a war with adj
Jacen states and OF insisting upon instant compliance
WIN an mmoderste requisiton,a the uDcture when the
Presidency was but i'll prepared to engage in
double struggle-the most reasonable propositions
are on the contrary, submitted to the consde alton of
the national magistrate, Mr. Polk. This moderation on
the part OF Great Britan-and especially when there
were absolute lures TO aggrandisementw not be for-
gotten very speedily by the nations of tile globe In
that ungasping offer Of bringing matters 10 an amcabe
settlement and IN the dignity and resolution with which