The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-17
PROGRESS OF THE COUNTRY-GOv-
ERNMENT RECEIPTS AND EXPEN-
DITURES.


ERNMENT RECEIPTS AND EXPEN-
DITURES.
We hear great deal of bonsting, says the
National latelligencer, about the progress OF
the country, and, certainly, lis growth in all
branches Of industry and in all departments
of development and wealth is truly marvel.
lous. We perceive by the official tables just
published that the revenues of Government
during the last fiscal year, liz spite of all the
efforts of the Government to keep them down,
amounted, in round numbers, to seventy four
millions of dollars; and its expenditures (what
nation was there ever under the sun whose
expenditures did not keep pace with the in.
crease Of its incomeD amounted to .ftly seren
millions of dollars, Here is progress to
"giye us pause" The administration of John
Quincy Adams, whose expenditures reached
the sum Of t,oelre or thirteen millions of dol.
lars year, was denounced and run down fol
its extravaganza by the Democracy of the
year 1928, and now the Democracy Of 1855
expends four times as much without the
Especial wonder" of any body! The growth
of the country requires doubtless much
larger sum for the support of Government
than in Mr.. Adams time; but think of an in
crease of four.fod in thirty yearsl At this
rate, what will it be thirty years hence!
In connection with the above, we subjoin
statement showing the national receipts
and expenditures for tho past fiscal year.
The receipts and expenditures of the
United States Government for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1856, are said to have been
as follows: vsfu.s..
Receipts ia S73,9ls,l4l 46
Expenditures 72,94S,792 81
The expenditures on account of public
debt wcre
Payment of Texan creditors $6,s2O,OI6 n
Mexican Indemnity 100000 0O
Domestic Debt 5,956373 81
Total -sw $l5,776,39o 3s
The revenues were derived from the fol-
Customs $64,O22s63 &c
Lands 8,9l7,6d4 SO
Miscellaneous 977,633 0f
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Courier, in furnishing the fore
going facts, says:
"From the statement of current receipt:
during the quarter now near at its close, i
will be perceived that the revenue of thi.
present year is like to exceed that of the las
by n large amount. If We have a busy anC
prosperous condition of commercial affair!
during the balance of the period, the receipts
for 1857 will probably exceed Ss7S,000,000
No modification of the tariff that may b,
agreed on at the next session of Congress
will take effect before the commencement o
the ensuing year.
"'rhe public debt is now reduced to abou
$30,O00,00O, on which the interest is $l,SOO,
600; the reduction in this item alone consti
tuting an important saving in the annual nc
counts. The Mexican war debt at its hghes
point involved an annual charge Of $4,000,
900 for interest"
VINO is GEN. REsULT.-At Martinsburg
Va, is fatlandady at one of the hotels, who
is often called Mrs. Partington. One day
said one politician to another, near the heac
of the table where Mrs. Partington was pre-
siding with dignity, "What do you think o
the general RESULT" "Gen. Result!" said tn,
landlady earnestly; "nearly all the Generals
have dined here, but don't remember any
that name."
CAUSE AND EFFEcT.-Tho New Orleans
Bee says that n gentleman of Mississippi
Col. Thos. II. Oswell-a Democrat who ha,
always voted for his party, went to hear Nj
Benjamin last week, at Odd Fellows Hall
and came away with the determination t,
vote for blr. Fillmore. Mr.. BIS oratory Ger
tainly appears very effective.
PREsENT.-We may enjoy the presen
while we are insensble of infrmty and decay
the present like note in music, is nothing
but as il appeartains TO what is past and wha
is to come. There are no fields Of amarantl
on this side of the grave; there are no voice.
that are not soon mute, however tuneiul
there is no name, whatever emphasis of pash
ionate love repeated, of which the echo is no
faint at last.
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HORRIBLE DEATH.-A letter in Free
Douglass paper, dated September nth, from
a Northern city, records the horrible death o
n fugitive slave. 1t says:
"We had fearful slave case here few
days since. A slave man was closely packet
in n box at -; the box marked good
and consigned to a friend Mt this place, pc
express. When the box was opened, tn
poor wretch was found dead, his countenhnc
horribly contorted, and his body drawn int,
n knot. 1t appeared on examination that tb
box had no air holes"
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"a Cold WATER WoMAs.--A lady, livinl
Mt the Milton House, in Cohassett, Conn
recently swan mile 10 n rock in that vcin
ity, took brief rest, and then swan bacl
TO the shore. She was not much fatieued
the narrator of this history tells us, and b,
says she can perform the feat again ant
again, without any difficulty or Distress
Bali more Gazette.
Itis certainly remarkable feat to b
performed by lady, and if she is single
some good clever fellow who desires his af
fairs to 90 on swimngIy should 60 and narr,
her at once.
EXTREMES MEET.-Rev. Henry War,