The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-19


places with enthusiasm.
The CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS. -The Ad-
ministration organs publish the following sy.
nopsis fthe appropriations for the service of the
current year:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial,
and Miscellaneous SI2,796,646.42
Diplomatic and consular 9l2,l2O.OO
Indian department, revolution
airy, invalid, and other PEN
sions : 3,4O7, 1866
Army, Notifications, Military
Academy, and military roads 25,883,5lO As
Naval service ID. l4,508, 35425
Post Office Department l9,O47,456 90
Ocean steam mail service l,460, 1850 90
Collection of the revenue $500, 10000
Treaty with the King of Den
mark - 4O8, 93I Al
Total specific appropriations 8l,824, 1926 40
To this hunA ANN. IL in claim al hs, Abe Onnn.
sition journals that that there should be added
the interest on the public debt to the amount of
three and half millions, ard the balances of
the last years appropriations, which stand
over, all together amounting to more than One
Hundred Millions of Dollar-I But if unex-
pended balances to the amount of ten millions
remain this year, it would be more Just to set
down the expenses of the year. at Ninety Mil
lions.
VALUE OF THE TELEGRAPH.-An exchange
remarks, with force, that
" 1t is scarcely possible to over estimate the
Importance and value of Mr.. Fields achieve
e. L n
Of June, 1912, our Government declared war
against Great Britain, under the inspiration of
our younger, more ardent, less experienced
Republican politicians of that day, overruling
the judgment of their older compatriots, who
had endured and still remembered the trials
and sufferings of our Revolutionary struggle
We had many causes of complaint against
Great Britain but one of the most prominent
and palpable was based on her Orders in Coun.
Gil, by which our trade with the Continent had
been most outrageously harassed and crippled
Those Orders in Council had been repealed be-
fore zoe declared sodr, though the fact was un-
known and unsupported here. Had it been
known-iu other words, had the Atlantic Tele.
graph then existed-it is quite probable that
war would not have been declared, that further
negotiations would havesAsve been had, and
an amicable redress of grievances attained,
lives, and hundreds of millions of dollars
What has beea, may again be-"
The battle of New Orleans was fought after
peace had been declared by the authorized
commissioners and we may feel assured that
the successful working of the Atlantic cable
will subserve the interests of Christianity and
civilization.
The wheat in Kansas was net so universally
destroyed by rust ss has bean represented. A
letter from Ossawatomie ssys that the wheat
there was secured in good condition, and corn,
if the season continues favorable, will weld be.
yond precedent. There was fatal quarrel at
Ossawstomie, growing out of a dispute about
some wheat, in which q Mr., Way was killed by
William Miller, who inflicted FIVE stabs, any
one of which would have caused death,
A party of seventeen men had returned from
the Kansas gold diggings on Green river.
bringing considerable quantity of the dust
with them. They were satisfied with the pros
pect, and came only for a supply of provisions
for their company of hundred or more. They
were dsmming the river, and making canal to
turn it out OF its bed, and expected great re-
suits from the operation. One hundred of the
207 miles of the Hannibal and ST. Joseph rail
road through Northern Missouri are now com
pleted and when the whole road is finished,
Kansas will be within three days ride of Bos
ton. The completion of this road will tend to
increase emigration to Kansas as we'll as
Western Missouri.
In the fourth Congressional district of New
Jersey, the recent Democratic Convention ap.
pointed four gentlemen to call the next Con.
vention. They have met, but cannot agree upon
the terms, as two are Anti Lecompton and two
are for supporting the Administration. 1t is
thought that this will defeat the Democratic
nominee in that district, ss the opposition are
willing tc unite upon any Anti. Lecomptonite in
favor of at once bringing Kansas into the
Union.
Senator Trumbull and John Wentworth ad-
dressed an enthusiastic audience on the polit-
ical topics of the day, from the balcony Of the
fremont House at Chicago, on Saturday even.
ing. The number in attendance Is estimated
at 5000. E.l
Mrs. n. Marion Stephens, the we'll known an.
thoress, is dangerously ill Of consumption, at
East Hampton, Maine.