, 1859-04-15


the ordinary expenses Of the Government.
By the end of the fiscal year nearly eigh-
teen millions will be due, with II considera-
BILE amount paid for duties at the various
ports and no means TO meet them. Thus
the American people will be dshonored be-
fore the world. 1t is impossible TO avoid
this catastrophe unless provision be made
l against it within the few remaining lfonrs
! of the present Congress II this was the
first instead of the last session Of Congress
it might be called together again; but if il
reaSsemble again tomorrow, thirteen States
would be unrepresentcd, and it will be i'm
} possible to assemble al before the Treasury
must stop payment. The urgency Of the
case not only requires, but demands a sep
arate bill to save tile credit Of the country
HOMICIDE IN WAsHINGroN-W Washington,
Feb. 27.-The community was thrown into
an intense excitement to-day, by the killing
: of Phillip Barton Key, United States Dis
trict Attorney for the District of Columbia,
; at the hands of the Hon. Dan E. Sickles,
Member of Congress from the Third Dis
trict of New York.
According to the report, Mr. Sickles be-
coming convinced of the truth Of certain
scaudaleus rumors involving his wife, re-
solved to redress his wrongs, and about 2
o'clock this afternoon, proceeded from his
residence, near the Presidents house, to the
southeast corner of Lafayette Square, in
the same neighbOrhood where Key was en-
gagged in conversation with Mr. Butter
worth, of New York. He charged Key
with having dishonored him, and destroyed
his domestic peace, and Immediately shot
him with a revolver, ono Of the balls enter
ing the left side of the body, and passing
, through to the corresponding point on the
opposite side, lodging under the skin An
other shot took effect in the right thigh,
near the main artery. Key, in falling i'm
plored Sickes not to kill him, The third
shot was in the right side, gancing from the
body, and bruising it. OF whivh wounds
death ensued in few moments. The body
was taken into, the National Club House
The Coroner Immediately summoned jury,
and the inquest was continued for several
hours. A verdict was rendered merely
stating that death was caused from the ef-
feet Of pistol shot, as above stated, fired
by the Hon. d. E. Sicklcs, .. n.
Robert S. OuId has been confirmed by
the Senate as United States District At
, torney for the District Of Columbia, 10
place Of Philip Barton Key, deceased. q,
From a letter Of the Washington cores
pondent Of the San Francisco Herald,
dated March 4th,, we extract as follows:
4 The REvENuELThe revenue had been
so much diminished by the commercial de-
| preston, that questions also arose upon the
mode OF meeting tL3 expenditures, and pro-
} viding for, or guarding against, on increase
! Of the national debt. The question Of the
I Presidential succession became prominent
at an earlier stnge Of this administration
than usual, und Congress has held it in
view from the start h ti
The extravaganza and profusion natural
ly following from plethoric Treasury, and
for which all parties are alike responsible,
have been made fruitful subject Of COM
plaint New that the Treasury isin straits,
and, while CongreSslhas refused to increase
the mems of the Treasury by revision
and augmentation Of the Tariff, they have
considerably reduced the estimates made
} by the proper departments for various
: branches Of the public service, and much to
, its detriInent
: There has ever been q question whether
the House Of Representatives, would grant
any relief to the Treasury, by authorizing
the revival and continuance Of the Treasury
| Note Act of 1857, giving power 70 issue
and reissue the Treasury notes as they fall
due Without this provision, the Govern
lnent would, in o few months, 60 10 protest,
for the weekly revenue is for short Of the
current weekly expenditures.
: The Presidents recommendations have
: been disregarded in regard to The tariff; 10
the Pacific Railroad; the organization Of
the Territory Of Arizona; the thirty mil
lions loan to enable him to negotiate for
|. the purchase Of Cuba; the grant to him Of
power to use the Army and Navy for the
assertion of our rights in Mexico and Cen
trail America, and every prominent measure
that he has advised, .,-
The NEXT CoNeREss- Tho Adminisira-
. ton are, no doubt, glad to see the end Of
{ the thirty-Gfth Congress; aud, though they
. may not hope much better things from the
9 next, yet, they will have the satisfaction o.
r knowing, that the next opposition House is
not Democratic; moreover, It IL should be,
r as is potable, an opposition House, the
y responsibility Of public measures will fall
: upon them and not upon the Administers
D tion.
Tm CUBA BnL-There was a majority
in the Senate in favor Of the bill appropria.
ting thirty millions to facilitate the acqui-
i sition of Cuba by negotiation, or at least
+ in favor of the principle of that bill, for a
motion to lay it on the table failed by a
majority of twelve votes But it became
+ so evident that the discussion would occupy
the remainder Of the session, TO the exclu'
I sion of the appropriation bills, that Mr..
Slidell dropped it, with a notice that be