New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.

NASHlN6iOS, aug. ~, 1901.
The free list in the new tariff works we'll. Not
witbstandipg the great importatons and the admis-
sion to entry during the month of July Of vast
amounts Of merchandise accumulated in the public
stores during the previous quarter, the receipts of
revenue are not in excess of the average, and the
surplus is gradually diminishing. There is no
cessity of devisng new methods Of depicting the
Treasury The tariff will produce not over $780,
coo 900 during the current year, and all other
ceipts will not exceed 81 ,O0O, 900 The expendi-
lures under all heads, are very heavy but psrtcu-
larry for the support Of the Army and the Naval
establishments. Both military arms are declared
pets of the Administration. They will absorb enor-
nous sums. The public debt is now reduced to thirty
millions, and it will be difficult to get in tn
five or six millions during the year, but what is saved
under that head will be expended in Indian wars,
public buildings, &c. Very few people have an
idea of the extent to which the passion for magni-
cent public structures is carried here. The Treas
uIy extension, which was begun with moderate
appropriation of $4,000 has already swallowed
500 900, and will require at least 81 800 900 in
addition to complete it. The principal dimensions
OF this building are 400 feet of length on the east
and west fronts, with porticOes and steps at the
north and south ends extending ia feet further,
making a total length of $50 feet. The breadth of
the e6iice will be about 800 feet and its hight
four stories. When the north. west wing shall
be completed it is contemplated to assign 1t for the
temporary occupancy of the State Departmen
l remember speech on "retrenchment and re-
form" some ten years or twelve years ago by Ed
ward Stanly, in which he predicted that half
million Of dollars would yet be required to finish
the Treasury We can now see our way clear to
FIVE times that sum.
And So too, of the Capitol additions, and Gus
tom Houses Post Offices and Court-lIouses in the
provinces. The new wings of the Capitol will cost
SIT, OOO 600; the New.Oreans Custom-liouse,
So 600 900: the Charleston Custom House from
81 10000 to 81, 600, 900, when the sun total
collected since the beginning Of the Government is
less probably, than this expenditure for It ssnsle
object At Phiadephii, the Government bought
at fair and moderate price the United States Bank
the mere skeleton carcass and Whltened bones
of the monster--f0r Custom House. and then for
$500, GEO purchased another Bank building for
Post Office. 1t is now proposed to stop work on
the later building, which is under alteration Tor
Post. Office and take the present Custom House Tor
POst-Ofice-a scheme involving the appropriation
of say 81 COO 600 for the erection oi new Custom
House. New York, which supplies no revenue, ana,
like "A Door relation, lives upon the bounty OF tue
Federal Government, asks for a convenient and
suitable Post Office but is denied unless 1t can
be procured for the sum total Of SiOO,O00 about
cne.ffth of the cost Of the Charleston Custom
House.
The best part of the public lands has been given
away to railroads, and there remains 70 the Govern
meut at least for years to come, little beyond
the expense OF managing them.
have cited these deslltOry facts chiefly to show
that the county is in danger from surplus. III
ia question whether moderate surplus does not,
at most times, perform useful ONCE as balance
Wheel thus preventing or correcting gyratlons aud
too rapid movements in commercial and hnarcia al
fairs. In this view, the apprehensons expressed
some DAYS since by The iateNigCRcCr are superiu-
ouss pIcyisionary. That journal gives currency to
| the estimate that the revenues of the year Will
amount TO $50 000, 600, and the regular and 0rd
nary expenditures 10 only $50, 000,0O0 from which
il follows that the present surplus of twenty millions
would be swellcd &C the end of the year to S30
600. In this contingency The Lnleutgenee' hints NJ
distribution among the States. his Is very GOOD
doctrine provided the surplus is so large and So OBJ
| stpate that il viii not yield TO the powerful rene
| dies involved in system Of general extravaganza
| such AS that now prevailing. 1t would seem sufii-
ciept for the present to trust the new tariff for re
| ducpg the revenue to reasonable point
The probable appointment OF Beverly tucker
| 10 be Consul at Liverpool stated in the
| correspondence Of THE TRIBUNE month ago.
| This gentleman doubts whether he can live on
| 81 800 per annum and threatens the Administration
| with the rejection If the place. This calamity
would be serious one mr Mr. Buchanan, because,
although he might possibly persuade some other
Democrat to take the place. that wouli not dispose
| Of Beverly. The President finds kis Beverly, MS
| Lydia LaDgush remarked of her own in the play,
most persevering and faithful sutton He promised
this ardent young Nirginian, who is an r. f., de-
scended from PocahOntas on side Gas they all are
and fine old English gentleman on the other the
Marshal.hip of this District, but Mr. Buchanan has
found it nconyeniept 10 redeem that pledge He
saws he regards the Marshal as seneschil of hi:
| household and must appoint whom he pleases with
out regard to claims influence. Under these cir
csmstspces il is settled that Tucker shall be taboOed
and banshed on 81, 500 per annum. .......-
| Corre,pndence Of The " Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Aug. -, lc37.
Stepbens's letter mildly censurlng bucnansn iol
| not Diminishing Walker, is substantially the parry
platform in Georgia for the coming Congressiona
election. There is no reasonable doubt that INT
Administration will be Endorsed on the OASIS 0
Stephens letter by the election OF every one Oh Tue
regular Democratic candidates. stephens ass'iinP
ton is that, whether the conduct oi Walker Is per
fecty satisfactory or not the Administration Is Inc
only hope Of the South for making Kansas a Save
State, and must be supported. Inc vie" per
frcy correct, and il III lead 20 the same results II
Congress as in Georgia that is, I'm unbroken supper
Of the Administration from the South.
The demonstration against Walker and al
alleged Kansas policy by the secession fanatics ant
other traitors, represented by Me Charleston her
| curv and The Richmond South. has been perfect.
successful. 1t has caused Walker TO explain ava.
all his promises of fairness and justice toward tn
| Pree Stste citizens and h. adopt nearly the sa,n