Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-09-08

WHI THE TREASURY is PTY.-Some
fine morning during the coming Winter, says
tie New York Tribune, Cong,ess may expect
a call for money under the name OF defician
cy ill. These bills have been annually grow
ing larger 50 that knowing the chronic pro-
pensity Of this Administration to waste mon
ey, it may be announced beforehand that the
next will ovcrtop any Of its predecessors. Yet
in the face Of this increasing deficiency, az
lmpudent pretense OF economy is set up ly
tie official organs of the party. \ few loaf
ing clerks are discharged from Cuatom-llousc
where for years they have been mere partisan
Supernumcrarics, and credit is taken Cor re-
trenchmeut. Almost in the same breath the
scandal is enacted in Utah of selling 700 val
uaLIe mules ut auction in neishhorhood
where there are no buyers but such asst had
been prearranged should be there and then
giving them away at less tnan half price
When Buchanan came into power there were
sec, 600 900 in the Treasury, in Ten months
it had all disappeared, and $50, 1000, 900 had
to he borrowed. Eight months afterwards
months later another $40 900 900 were had IN
the same way, or 100000 Geo in all. But @"
the heels Of this came the further demand for
$50 900 900 with which to steal Cuba, making
itquite apparent that lad the Treasury IN
luckily contained the Aforesaid money, means
would have been FOUND 70 use it in the accom-
llshment Of tl,at nctarious PROJECT. Tie
chances are that Congress will he asked at All
early day for such Il sum as will swell tic
public debt to n round one hundred mill on
Of dollars Whether House Of Representa-
tvcs will lc found plant enough to grant
that demand remain, to ho seen. Yet with
all this sum OF money the Government main
tains but shutting and beggarly existence.
1t keeps its head above water only by the url-
expected receipt of duties on imports which
are destroying the industry the people, and
which have S, mt gold ont Of tie country this
year in a continuous stream at the rate OF
$83 00O, 900 per anuun, ot,,.S50 GOO, 900 more
than tie previous year, and $40, 600, 900 more
than the disastrous year 1857. Now if the
export OF that year prccipitalci such a crisis,
what consequences are to follow the drain Of
this? The management ofthc Post Office is n
scandal to free peoplc-it would he disgrace
ful even in despotSm. In many places the
people who pay large and ample sums for pos
tagc are cut oil from mail facilities, and are
compelled TO either carry their mails them
selves or do without them. That Department
shullles along mere financial cripple, by is
suing scrip for its debts, and this scripts ped
died among the mouey-ehanse rsand contemp-
tuously shaved at 90 per cent, grave doubts
being entertained of its legality. Shifts ana
expclients Of various kinds, unworthy of the
power and resources Of the nation, are resort
ed to to keep it in motion, some of them al
legged to be so grossly illegal as to call for in
vestigstion by Congress. Let the imports
only fall back to where they stood a year ago
and the Treasury is at once bankrupt.
But there are many other ways by which
the public money goes than selling mules at
half price in Utah. That stroke of Gnancier-
ing resulted in single loss There arc out
lets through which gold runs from the Treas
ury all the year round. The whole revenue
collecting system is stupendous sham.
When Mr.. Cobb was called on by the Senate
to make a clean breast of it, and say how
many loafers lie kept in his Custom House,
how much money these fellows collected, and
how much they got for doing it, he was COM
PEELED to acknowledge that at Wilmington,
Delaware, the sum collected in 1867 was ST.
o04.57, to do which he employed eight men,
whose salaries amounted to Sl5,s4s.Ss-a
dead loss of nearly $4,000. At Annapolis
four mon, ardent az Southern sun could