Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-14
FRIDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1856.
The News.


particulars Of the Post Office receipts of the yea
1883 1854 and 1855, as follows The total amount
of the receipts Of the General Post Office from al
sources from Ju'y /, 1853, to June 80 1854. wa
S6,023, 26I OF. The total amount Of receipts from
July !, 1854, to June 80, 1853 So, 1875, GA 76
The receipts Of the years 1915 over the prece
VI ding one amount TO about $3.50, 600; but the in
creased expenses Of transportation, etc, will fa
more than overbalance this sum, for the excess 0
expenditure is some 50, 500, COO. Ths proves tha
the Department does not pay its expenses. w,
have already shown at length and in detail that the
Southern States cannot yield their proportion fol
the Post Office; but spart from this the Thanking
privilege constitutes the great cause for the increas
ed deficit in question. We are quite of opinion
that the Post Office, under proper regulations, car
be made to pay its expenses in the same way tina
the private express companies pay theirs. But
amid the sum total of national expenses, we sup
pose that 81 800 900 deficit for the Post Office will
escape particular animadverson, owing to the fact
that the public all interested in letter, newspa
i per, and pamphlet carrying, and disposed to deal
Ienently with that department.
correspondent Of the Washington InteIligencer
gives the following as the cost of gas to private
consumers in fOrtytwo Of the largest cities of the
United States:
Boston, So per 900 cubic feet; Hartford, 30;
New Haven, 90; Providence, 3 80; New York,
co. Brooklyn, 8 80; Albany, 90; Troy, 90;
Rochester, SO; Buffalo, so; Aubr rn (rosin, J
Z co. Schenectady, 90; Syracuse, 4 90; Newark,
3 80; Patterson 4 90; Philadelphia "Cty Works /"
2 25; Northern Liberties so; Spring Garden,
SO; Moyamensing 3 so; Reading so; Lancas-
ter, 00 Baltimore, 3 90; Charleston, 90; Sa.
vannah, 4 on; New Orleans, 90; Galveston, 90;
Mobile, 90: Nashville 90; Memphis 90.
Louisville, 3 so; Cincinnati, 3 80; Indianapolis,
3 rs; Chicago, 3 30; Milwaukee, 8 so; ST. Louis,
80; Lexington, Ky, 4 90; Cleveland, 90;
Springfield, 90; Dayton, 90; Columbus 8 80;
Wheeling, 3 80; San Francisco, 10 OO-being an
average of 81, or IL cents per 900 more than
the cost OF gas to private consumers in Washington
City, which is so, and Al cents more than is paid
by the government, the city hotels, &c.
The company in Washington have thirty miles of
street mains in the ground, and an annual average
consumption of 95i 200 cubic feet of gas per mile;
in Baltimore the average is 64S, GOO cubic feet for
each mile OF pipes in Philadelphia it is 2,0SS, 600
cubic feet in New York. l,765 600; in Boston,
2,700,o0U; in Albany ,, 100000; in Brooklyn,
lS30,O0O; in st. Louis, LIS, 900; in Charleston
1916, 600, &c.
The Irish National Convention which assembled
in New York on Tuesday, was expected to adjourn
on Thursday proceedings on Wednesday took
place with closed doors, therefore their purport is
not exactly known. The New York Times, howev-
err has sketch OF what it says is portion of the
proceedings. We copy the following:
"The various committees appointed the previous
day submitted their respective reports, which
ALL after some debate, adopted. The committee on
the platform, and the one appointed 20 draft an ad.
dress made reports, which gave rise to long and
animated debates. Both reports were finally adopt
ed with some amendments.
"a large amount Of general and necessary work
was transacted but the principal and most import
ant question before the body, that in reference
10 the appointment Of Supreme Directory. The
consideration Of this matter occupied much time,
but was not we believe, concluded Upon the ne
cessity of such measure the delegates seem to be
all agreed. The contest if any should arise, will
be about the men.
"The Convention finally determined not to admit
as delegates the representatives of the Emmett
Monument Association. Not that they doubted
their LOYALTY in the least but because they believe
they have no power to admit others than those duly
appointed by tue State organization of the Emigrant
Society.
"Thc platform and address which have been
adopted differ but little from those promulgated at
lost'u SOME HlA HiuhIn5 ne FORMER explains
the plan OF operations, and Ignores all action on
the part Of the society not in strict conformity with
,he laws Of the United States. The address calls
upon all lrishmen 10 rally once more for the
dempton OF their fatberaud, now that the time for
triumph has acknowledgements them to drop all
disputes forget all differences, and unite, Catholics
and Pro'esaUts, for the attainment Of the end desi
rable an Irish Republic.
"The address is elOquently written and is said TO
be from the pen of John Savage, the poet"
A New York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger, writing Of the doings Of the Convention,
saws:
"A plan / am told, has been submitted 'to
reach the heart Of the British Lion through lis
Canadian lungs. Five thousand able-bodied Hiber
mans represented 10 be all ready Tor enrolment
TO march TO co operate with some Russian demon
stration said TO be organizing on the northwest
coast Money sufficient TO defray expenses, it is
further said, has already been raised and the only
thing remaining 10 be done is TO find in
whom all can have confidence as a leader. Secre
cy being the one great thing needed now, pains
taken TO keep out the newspapers anything like
real record of what is in the wind. But the facts
here related may be relied upon. 1t is probable,
however, that the whole scheme will 'burst up
owing to the personal ealouzes and personal hatred
which govern the convention.
Another rumor may well be mentioned; il is
An agent of Russia is said 10 be the financial agent
aud the chief engineer OF the whole concern. Who
be is, where is, can't say, but it is thought TO
be something Of an object 20 get up invasion Of
Canada, IN order 10 distract the allies at home and
possibly compel England to transport portion OF
her army in the Crimea 10 the North American
colonies.
"rhe British Consul Mr. Barclay, is taking a
lively interest in this movement"
There is seaport town in the world so intimate
ly connected by commerce, with the United States,
and whose prosperity is so dependent upon this
country, that Of Liverpool. The annual amount
of American products exported to Liverpool alone,
may be roughly estimated at two millions of bales Of
cotton, aud fifty thousand hopshcads Of sugar the
greater portion of which is from Loui,ana together
with tobacco, corn, -four and provisions the amount
OF which we have no means Of determining al
though we NAV obtain some idea of the immense,
trade carried on between the two countries from the
fact that twelve hundred vessels, whose aggregate
burthen may be set down at five millions Of tons,
annually enter the port of Liverpool from various
parts of the United States.
The population of Liverpool is about three hun.
bred thousand. Its magnificent docks, the finest
perhaps, in the world, stretch or three miles along
the shore OF the Mersey aud have extent of quay
some ten or twelve miles ia length Liverpool owes
it, pre-emnence, as a seaport partly It's favorable
geographical position, but more especially TO its
being situated IN Lancashire, by lar the most i'm.
portant manufacturing county in Eagiand the staple
manufacture being cotton goods; but il also carries
~. al eyt.rs;Va trade la sill .snollan and lipen