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PROTECTION AND COMNEPrr


The receipts ofthe L. S Rerenrs r.l.


Custom House IN this City from lha l.s
the 24th inst I'll business days} WeySa
0l6,586 83-an amount, we believe. ul--
without precedent As we have aIrs.
that equal activity prevails ct Other r-s


we may safely estimate the Revenue ,..


United States for the month of Ftbrurr


OVER FIVE BILLIONS OF Dol
LARS. being clear income OF q. l.e
THREE MILLIONS beyond gbc l-ra
expenses of the GovernmcnL


OF course, we are well aware aba. har
cei pts Of February are unusually heavy
anticipation Of the Spring Trade tor al Obs
rate the whole Public Debt would be pail
off tins year and large surplus lef Hls
Treasury. But we are confident lha ). ..
Tariff is only sustained, and a few laas
it stopped (made only by recent wisconsin.
ton at ihe Treasury depallmtn) the-e
may be paid to the last cent within tr
years at farthest, and the first Of Januaws
46, find us again not owing a dollar I.l
the principal pretext for resisting Ibe la-
Distribution Will be o5viated. and Cor-
may proceed to make that permanent Dis
TRIBUTIoN of this noble fund which ja
PERSON indicated IN lS06, which hCa
commended as the most just safe am g
al in 1880, but which was only plac-
form to obviate all constitutional s-
and practical objections by Henry Cu
in lS32.-This distribution viii secure
the embarrassed States an effective arl GO
during aid in meeting their responsbrs
and fostering their now suspended, useless
and dilapidated Public Works; whiierEa
aid the unembarrassed States in making c..
nails and Railroads. and constitutes PerFss
al and increasing fund for improving ar-
extending their system of Popular Ela1-
tion.


But we are speaking of Commerce. TIE
Custom House books show that there ara
we'd at this City in the two weeks en-ls
with Friday 60 ships, fl barks, 81 -1-'
and 152 schooners-.olal 349 vessels
ainetg-three of them from Foreign 1o.-
and good part ofthe remainder heaTT-.l-a
vessels from New Orleans, Mobile and c.
er Southern ports In fact. there wasa3'-
a time when our Commerce was more P-s
porous than now; for though The Pro-s -
Domestic Goods are much smaller illa o.
Foreign, and those on the latter have
greatly shaved down by the increased -
ties and The formidable Domestic comp
fostered into vigor by the New IaH-' y
the market for goods generally IS 90 --
and steady, and the pap so good 'al' =.
merchants. importers included, nave - -
better business under the Protection O. :.
last year than usually under Free "a
The only class who have reason %
contented are the agents OF Foreign N-.
facturers whose productions come 10 COY,
ti:ion with those Of our own Country ~. -
the Tariff cannot be altered 10 SUI ' M
without great injury to the country, AN
doubt yet whether bill thai would su.. ~.
can be got through the House, even W. -
sixty Loco Foco majority; tafOof-
present Senate we are sure cahnO' y