Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-10
POTOMAC.
Correspondence OF the Courier.

Since the defeat of rhe Pacific Rail Road Billin
the Senate, most of the time has been devoted to
business concerning the District of Columbia, and
the passage Of private claims.
We may hereafter expect more attention to be
given to the unfinished business of the Senate
The calender is very large, and many Bills calling
for the earliest and most careful consideration.-
Mr. awin feels much aggricved since theconclu
sion was had to the debate on his favorte project
in the Senate The Bill passed is perfectly use
less AS rail road scheme, for the action it author
ICES. has been time snd agniu performed by the.
government, mud the advertisement will not bring
out one contractor. Thus has the magnificent
plhn, whereby hundreds of millions were to be
disbursed dwfndled to the paltry item of three
thous" nd dollars
The ucfeat also, last week, of the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation Bill, resulted from
the Gfissensions which exist in regard to the sum
therein provided for the support and education Of
the Africans returned from Liberia. Much. debate,
ensucd and those most urgent for retrenchment
made m attempt to restrict the number of foreign
missions to nine, which was lost.
The Black Republicans seem disposed to pre-
vent the passage of any appropriation Bill until
some effort rs madeto revise the tariff. They de-
sire to force upon this Congress the consideration
of the very subject they are 10th to accept Ii this
impertant measure is left for the next Congress,
or any extra session that may be called. the do
mocracy will find that the opposition will assume
the responsibility and prune away much, and at
tach more provisions prcjudcial to the interests
Of the South. Still the tariff must not be essenti
ally changed and in caucus on Saturday, the de-
mocratic members of the Senate nearly unanimous
ly declared their opinion Of the inexpedlency of
change at this time. -
WASHINGTON, Feb. lst, 1859.
The President has again expressed an intention
of sending special message to Congress, repre- :.
senting the necessity of increase Of the rates of
the Tariff for the supply of the Treasury and the
support of the public credit. This message he
will probably communicate to both Houses in tire
course Of week. He will insist upon the expedi-
ency of immediate action on the subject, as OIL al
tentative to an extra session.
The Secretary of the Treasury will answer the,
call ofthe House in relation to the finances during
the present week. He may propose some mode of
relief for the Treasury but will avoid recommen-
ding high rate of duties.
There are many reasons why the Tariff of 1857
ought not to be now changed In the first place
there is not sufficient time for due consideration
of.all the interests concerned in it, and for the
effects of any change in tho revenue and COM
merce; and, in the next plnce, time has not been
afforded for development Of the capability of
this Tariff to produce revenue. 1t would be bet
ter to defer action till the next regular session,
and supply any deficit of revenue by loan This
is likely to he the determination of Congress.
It is asserted in the Senate, by Mr.. Bigler and
others, that the public debt will amount to hun
;lred millions by the 90th June, 1860. 1t will be
well if it amounts to no more. Who knows whnt
sum the Paraguay expedition is to cost? If Presi-
dent Lopez does not choose to submit to our de-
mands, hostities will be inevitable, and the cost
of carrying on war, at that distance, is incalcu-
liable. Navy officers of experience say that We
shall do we'll to get out of this difficulty at the
expense of fifty million. All accounts from Para
quay 20 to show that Lopez is preparing for war,
in case of the failure of his diplomacy. He will
present facts which will somewhat perplex our
Commissioner, Judge Bowlin, whose instructions
are based on the suppositon that the assertions on
our side arc all true. We have never taken the
trouble to hear the other side
The state of things in Mexico and in Central
America, is such that it may be necessary to in
crease our naval force, submit to spoliations OF
our commerce, and insults to our nag and gov
ernmeut The Cuban thirty million Bill Is also
n prelude to other complications, requiring loans
or heavy taxation.
Itis suggested that in these straits, the Federal
for the return Of sums that were deposited with
them. under the distribution act.
The French Spoiation Bill, which has passed
the Senate, was taken up in the House to day
The Speaker very properly ruled that it must be
committed, because it mentions an appropriation
of money. Some of the friends of the Bill had in
tended to put it at once on its passage, fearing
that it could not be reached r Committee of the
Whole but the division of the House was sustain
cd and the Bill was committed. 1t will pass II it
can be got up. After Mr.. Lelcher had made an
earnest speech against it, motion to table it was
rejected by majority Of twenty-one.
The President, though in favor of the measure
heretofore will not approve of the Bill unless the
sum called for by it can be paid without incOnve.
nience to the Treasury. At least, so he has said
in conversation with friends of the Bill.
LOVE AND FoRTUNE.-If love is represented as
blind, perhaps Hymen may properly be called the
coucher that often manages to open its eyes. Why
may not WooD EDDY & Go. be considered in the
same relation to fortune that Hymen is said to hold
to Love? Because they open the eyes of the blind
goddess They stand in that respect between
Fortune and Fate. BY forwarding to theiraddress,
Augusta, Ga, or Wilmington, Delaware. ten,
five, or two and half dollars, you pay the Gu
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