New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-03

al least fOr many Jedie, o0 u 0oulCo vi
Revenue, by the passage of Military Boun-
ty Land bills. Then why could mt YOU
Mr. President, have given US one little
paragraph in favor of Free Lands for the
Landless and no more Public Lands for the
Spectator
G. The Federal Revenue should be
raised mainly by Duties on Imports. Those
duties should be so levied as to benefit in
cidcntally Home Industry by shielding
it from destructive Foreign competition.-
They should be not exorbitant but moder-
ate should be SPECIFIC so far as possible !;
and whenever AID Valorem rates are toll
Grated, they should be computed on the
Home instead of the Foreign valuation.
AID Valorem Duties, based on the Foreign
valuation, tempt to fraud and give the dis
honest importer an advantage over the up
right. IAN right as book
Z. California ought to have a Branch
Mint. and meantime Gold stamped by the
IS. Assayer there should be received In
payments to the Government.
8. An efficient A gricgtural Bureau should
at once be created
9. The Railroad to the Pacific ought to
be constructed, Congress should help.
10. The Mexican Land Titles in Cali
fornia should be promptly adjudicated and
our Land-Laws extended to California,
Utah and New Mexico. The Gold Lands
should be sold in small quantities.
II. We have bought fresh lot of In
dams of Mexico which prove rather hard
bargain. A regiment or more of Mounted
Men are needed in New Mexico and South
of ii to help keep them within bounds. a
Military Asylum is also necessary.
70. The Navy will cost One Millionless
next year than this lowing to the speedy
completion of the Dry Docks, &C. unless
a Dry Dock is built in California. [Glad
to hear il.
13. A revision of the Naval Code is rem
dered necessary by the recent Abolition of
Flogging. : es; but don't let the Naval
Officers have it all their own way.
IA. The Post Office Department has
cleared $4,000 the past year, and the
p. M. General and President unite in re-
commencing a reduction of the Rates Of
Postage to three cents for prepaid and .fue
cents for unpaid letters, no matter what
distance conveyed, with some reduction on
Printed Matter also. Now can't we have
Cheap Postage bill passed to commence
the New Year upon? Friends of Light
in Congress do try!
Is. The Message is straight out on River
and Harbor Improvements, Light Houses,
&c. &c. Good again
16. Ditto for prompt and disInterested
Tribunal to adjudicate all claims on the
Government, Still right !!
II. And for liberal appropriations from
the Federal Treasury to improve and beau
tify Washington City, supply it with water
&c. &c, No, Mr.. President, we can't go
that Let those whose Real Estate is in
creased hundred fold in value by the To-
cation of the National Metropolis on Goose
Creek pay for these things, The Federal
Treasury has been bled too freely for them
already.
18. Lastly Except the benediction) the
President goes the whole hog for the
peace Measures" of the late Session,
Fugitive Slave Law included. He says
we have by these acts been "rescued ;"
from "wide and boundless agitation"
We don't see it. South Carolina don'tlook
like it, Mississippi don't act like it, Massa-
chusetts and Michigan don't vote like it.
1t is quite true that if every one would feel
satisfied " it'll the peace Measures" and
stop criticising them, there w0uld be gene
raj quiet; but so there would have been on
the same condition had no such measures
passed, nor any measures at all.
However, the Message is in the main
so good that we forbear criticism on what
seems to us not so good. The moderation
of tone and cleaness of statement which
characterize it, merit, and will receive very
general appreciation.
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u MISSISSIPPI is riding the high horse,
as will be seen by our Telegraphic dispatch
this morning. If any Northern State were
to make half as fierce an opposition to the
Peace Measures, we should have perfect
Egyptian frog pond of Cotton Meetings and
Committees of Safety, but our Southern
brethren 60 it to their hearts content, yet