Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-12-11

out .ltruction or abridgement, of all the {
Constitutional rights, privileges and immu- l
nitsof citizens of the United States, as I
coeuplated by the organic law of the
Te'sory.
Assing to the financial affairs Of the gov
ern snt, Congress is referred for fuller in
foration to the report of the Secretary of !
the Treasury, and some items of general in {
tert are given. The receipts from the
cusms for the fiscal year were over sixty
fouIlillions of dollars, and from all sources
amdnted to seventy-three million, nine hun
dre9nd eighteen thousand one hundred
and6rty- three dollars. The expenditures,
incl4ipg payment of Mexican indemnity
and Ssdern psiulA Of the public debt, have a.
mourAd to seventy-two million, nine hum
dred Aa forty-eight thousand, seven hum
dred"AH ninety-two dollars. Of the pub
t lie debtthe sum of forty-fve million five
hundk and twenty-five thousand three hun
dred nineteen dollars, including premi-
um, been discharged, reducing the debt
to tHley million seven hundred and thirty
seyeathousand one hundred and twenty
nine pllars; all which might be paid within
a yea without embarrassing the public SER
vice, ,lus being not yet due, and only re-
deenlble at the opinion of the holder, can
not PRESSED to payment by the govern
menr
Tt average annual expenditure for the
last feI years. deducting amounts paid to
the daican government and for the re-
demticn of the public debt. has been about
fortnight millions of dollars, and the Pre-
sidenA links this average need not be ex-
ceedet,n future years unless extraordinary
occal is should occur. In view of this fact,
and oit supposed increase of revenue from
the sat of public lands, he urges such are
ductiS of the revenue from customs as will
bringfae aggregate revenue down to fifty
million of dollars. The amount of reduc-
ton ar the manner of effecting it he refers
to as testions of great and general interest,
and rt ews his recommendation Of the re-
vision,f the revenue laws, prepared by the
Secretly of the Treasury, to the attention
of Co15ress.
Thscondition of the Army is next con-
sidere. and legislation recommended to cure
defectfn its organization.
Tk Condition of the Navy is stated to be
or>o sreased vigor. The execution of
tte Ie.xnt laws relative to it have been at
and ths sageestcns iaSt 81 aHs 81 tie
Navy in regard to further improvements, and
for an additional increase of our naval force,
are concurred in and to the fa-
vorable considerable nof Congress.
After brief reference to the Post-Ofhce
and the Department of the In
terror, the President passes to the consider
alton of our foreign affairs, and the country
is congratulated upon the enjoyment of ami
cable relations with all foreign powers.
Our difficulty with Great Britain, grow
ing out Of her claim to dominion or control
over certain Central American territory, is
in the way of satisfactory adjustment. An
additional treaty, removing all occasion for
controversy has been concluded by our Min
lister at London and will be Immediately sub
mtted to the Senate.
The effort to relieve our trade to the Bal
tic from the sound dues has not been attend
ed with success The dues are now paid
under protest, but it is believed that when
Denmark has come to an arrangement on the
subject with the maritime powers of Europe,
our negotiations may thus be resumed and
terminated satisfactorily.
With Spain no new difficulties have aris-
en-, but efforts to relieve our commerce with
Cuba of some of it's burdens, and to provide
for the more speedy settlement of local dis
putes growing out of that commerce, have
been unsuccessful.
The position of the government upon
maritime law, as expressed by Mr.. Marcy's
reply to the declaration of the conference Of
Paris is recapitulated. and the hope express
ed that its just and humane views will final
ly prevail.
The settlement of our relations with the
other States of America has been greatly
embarrassed by their distracted condition.
Mexico has not only Withheld reparation for
past injuries but added others. Her pres
ent condition, however, demands forbearance
upon the part of the United States.
The President does not regard our gov
ernment as holding any diplomatic relations
with Nicaragua. Diplomatic representa-
tives we're sent from two contending parties,
(the Walker and Rivas Governments but
with the imperfect information possessed it
was not possible to determine which repre-
sented the government de facto, and he has
refused to receive either. This, of course,
is a definite solution of the question wheth-
er Mr.. Wheeler has been recalled or not.
With the republic of New Granada we
have serious questions pending. The first
of these grows out of tonnage duty impos-
ed upon foreign vessels coming to her ports,
the second out of tax levied upon mail
matter transported across the Isthmus, and
the third, and gravest, originated from the
outrages committed at Panama in April
last.
Neither of the two imports named have
been enforced by New Granada. but it claims