Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-12-11

fiscal year amounted to s5ssl2,979 81
which with the balance in. ahe Treasur
on the 1st July, 1850, gaye,as the availa
BILE means for the year, theasum of s5s,
917,524 sc. s.sss
The total expenditures for TIC same perio
were S4S,005,S1S 6S. st
Total imports for tho year endihg 30th juno
1851 S2l5, ,125,99
Of which there were in specic..s S4,967,9O
The exports for the same perad
were. SSS2l ,5lT ,l3
OF which there were of domes-
tic products. .sl7s,546,555s
ported. ........ 9,7ss,sp5
Specie. ............. 29,23l,sa0
Since the lst of December last, the
payments in cash on accountsof the pub
lie debt, exclusive of5,iRterest, have
amounted to s7,5o1,456a56; which
however, includes the sum cfS3, ,242, ,40C
paid under the 18th articlesef the treaty
with Mexico, and the further sum Of
S2,59l,213 45, being tlfes amount Of
awards to American citizens under the
late treaty with Mexico, 5far which the
issue of stock was authorized; but which
was paid in cash from the Treasury.
The public debt on the42Oth ultimo,
exclusive of the stock authorized to be
issued to Texas by the act of$9th Sep
tember, 1850, was s62 ,56G:395 26.
The receipts for the ne9t fiscal year
are estimated at S51, 100000, which,
with the probable unappropriated balance
in the treasury, on the 36th June next,
will give, as the probable available means
for that year, the sum of 6325S,634 %.
The receipts for postage during the
year excluding the foreigI Hostage col
lected for, and payable to the British post
Office amounted to S6,345,747 81, be-
ing an increase of s9976IO 79, or IS
G5, 6 100 per cent. over the liitEs receipts for
act act of March last did not take effect un-
til the commencement of the present fs-
cal year. The accounts for the first
quarter, under the operation Of the re-
duced rates, will not be settled before
January next; and no reliable estimate OF
the receipts for the present year can yet
be made. 1t is believed, however, that
they will fall far short of those of the last
year. The surplus of the revenues now
on hand is, however, so large, that no
further appropriation from the treasury,
in aid of the revenues of the Department,
is required for the current fiscal year but
an additional appropriation for the year
ending June 80, 1853, will probably be
found necessary, when the receipts OF the
first two quarters of the fiscal year are
fully asccrtaincd.
In his last annual report the Postmaster
General recommended reduction Of
postage to rates which he deemed as low
as could be prudently adopted, unless
Congress was prepared to appropriate
from the treasury, for the support Of the
Department, a sum more than equivalent
to the mail services performed by it for
the Government The recommendations
of the Postmaster General, in respect to
letter postage, except on letters from and
to California and Oregon, were. substan-
TALLY adopted by the last Congress. He
now recommends adherence to the pre-
sent letter rates, and advises against a
further reduction until justified by the
revenue of the Department.
He also recommends that the rates OF
postage on printed matter be so revised
as to render them more simple, and more
uniform in their operation upon all classes
of printed matter. | submit the recon-
mendations of the report to your favora,
BILE consideration. n
1t is deeply to be regretted that in sew
eral instances officers of the Govern
ment, in attempting to execute the law
for the return of fugitives from labor.
have been openly resisted, and their ci'
forts frustrated and defeated by lawless
and violent mobs: that in one case such
resistance resulted in the death of an esti'
mable citizen, and in others serious injury
ensued to those officers and to individuals
who were using their cndeavors to sus'
tain the laws. Prosecutions have been
instituted against the alledgcd offenders
so far as they could be identified, ane
are still pending. have regarded it a;
my duty, in these cases, to give all alt
legally in my power to the enforcement
of the laws, and shall continue to DO SC
wherever and whenever their execution
may be resisted.
The act of Congress for the return o
fugitives from labor is one required ane
demanded by the express words OF th'
Constitution.
THE article of the Constitution i
here quoted, and the President says;
This constitutional provision is equal!
obligatory upon the Legislative, the Tx -,
ecutive, and Judicial Departments: OF TN
Government, and upon every citizen 0
the United States
Congress, however, must, from neces
sity, first act upon the subject by pre-
sont;no tho nroceedinos necessary to rs