Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-04-10
MORE OF THE "oRDER IN COUNCIL" !"

MORE OF THE "ORDER in CouNClL. :.
The reader will find, in our fourth page to-day,
the Instructions of the President Of The United States
to the Secretaries of the War and Navy Depart
ments, and the Orders issued coniormably thereto,
by the Secretary of the Navy, to The officers sub
iect to his command. Corresponding Orders have
also issued from the War Department, and are to
be published.
The Government paper has issued elaborate
ustifcations Of this measure, in advance, and also
in reply to the brief suggestions on the subject m
our last paper Time does not allow Of our taking
up the subject to-day, with the seriousness with
which we may have occasion to do hereafter. But
we have il in power, in the mean time to place
before our readers some of the views OF the Execu-
tive on this subject which not communicated
by its organ here, but are disclosed in one Of the
Administration papers-the New York Herald-by
its intelligent and well-informed Washington cor
respondent Intelligent we have had occasion to
observe that he is: veH-informed cannot be doubt
ed after the extract from one of his letters which
we are about to lay before readers. The letter
from which it is taken bears the date, as will be
seen Of March 81 and the official publication on
the subject, we know, was not made in this city
until the night of the first of April. So that the
Herads correspondent knew all about it before the
public were allowed to know any thing, and has in
fact given better account of it in dozen lines than
the government paper has furnished in as many
broad columns. The reader will thence learn that
this Executive rescript issued by virtue Of authority
claimed by the President as the " Conqueror' OF
Mav;oo 10 really nc we hay suurastad on Order
in Council to which council, in addition to the
ordinary members of the Cabinet, have been called
certain " persons from New York and Pennsyl-
vania, who have been constantly engaged since the
adjournment of Congress in this consultation. We
further learn from the source that this scheme
is intended substitute, for the revenue anticipated
from duties upon tea and coffee, which it was not
the pleasure Of the Legislative authority to provide
revenue to be collected om Of the limits Of the
United States by the mere will Of the President
The following is the extract to which we refer
from the letter of the Herald's correspondent:
WASHINGTON, MARcH 81, ls47.
The Secretary of the Treasury has been constantly
gsged since the adjournment of Congress- in preparing by
the aid Of competent from New York and
Of duise be collected 10 the Of Mexico De
uryed Of tax upon tea and coffee by nearly lie in the
House Of Representatives the Secretary has been
gagged in devsng to create during the
tantamount that which would have accrued from tax OF
tea and coffee The result is the collection of duties to b
levied Of military contribution, by the officers of thu
army and navy the ports OF Mexico and to be dburseC
by them under the direction Of the President This
is designed aid in defayng the expenses Of the Th
principal duties will be collected the castle Of San Juai
Uua which more healthy than the city OF Vera Cruz b.
making this point the principal collecting depot the pncpa
portion of the squadron will be enabled devote their
ton TO securing the other pos and the general annoyanc
Of the coast.
sIt is estimated that the to be collected in tn
ports of Mexico under this tariff will exceed in tina
which would have been derived from and coffee
AS pendant to this, and afording compen
dous view of the morale of the whole proceeding
we add the closing paragraph of the Herad's edito
rial endorsement Of the project:
Our object is to drain the Mexican Treasury, and
up the resources Of the Mexican Government and the com
bned genius Of the universal Yankee nation could not hav
devised more eectual method than that perfected by Mr.
Secretary Walker and about being carried into operation
AS soon as Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juan Uua
taken, the system will be adopted. We anxious
how il will work, and what will be the effect There is
mistake about the pan and the Secretary Of the Treasury DE
serves deal Of credit for the invention There is
Yankee in oil New England but that would consider him
self immortaized by being the originator Of such measure
II will not do say any thing against modern fnnncer
after this"
Certainly no.