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Show SUIli 1'tST Till, SHOALS nils country has a happy faculty of evading threattnid crises that Is cpillu ijrutlf) Iiik to the patriotic soul, liefoin l'resldeut Uluvelaud was Inaugurated In-augurated the fact was dlsolostd that there was ractloilly no gold In the treasury with which tu keep the machlnti In motion. This was tturlllngnud tho alarmlsta worked It luduitrlousl), leruaia in tome uses realizing tome little profit nut of It Ihemselvis. Hut the Ihreilened trouble was not only averted, tilt In such manner that It was hardly com-I com-I reheuded nt nil that a depleled cash box oontrouteJ the new ajmlnletra-t ajmlnletra-t on. It now npiiara that the II teal dc-pirtmeiit dc-pirtmeiit of tuti guvorumsnl Is In Million heitthy coudltlJii nnd gaining itrouud right uluug Wo are advlied that the, revenuo for March amounted tu 111 116 8 0, In comptrlson with t.0,63i,IJU for March, 180., an liiirrsko ol f 4,278, j)l. Ills ul.i shown, how iver, that much of this croirth ol revenue la offset by an Incrraio or x tudlt ires, which amount to fill,. (liS,iK, against 57,734,217, a twelve, month back, un enlargement ol f.lSIO.MI Hut there Is a surplus ol $.1,432,8.7 for tho nnnth, Inn niatl-son niatl-son with h turjlua of $2,0S:,1S9 In March, 1B92, au Inprovemeiit uf $4:0,0as. I'or tho iiluemouthsofllu turrent (local yenrthe reveiiuo ItjiOJ,. 843,01)5, against $.C0,UO,7.J for the corrospjudlug uioulha last )ear, au Increase of S.7.4H IJ This, a;ln, It overbalanced hylliegrowlh of exponl-Ituris, exponl-Ituris, whlot havnnlvtncml to $211,-Si $211,-Si 1,018, against 1231 W3 S7I last year, an Increate of M,23a,ill, of which $24 411.14) It fjunl In the tentlout Item. Xotwlthstaridlng this enormius addition lo Ihn ixpen llturet, there Is for Ihn nine months nuir, Icnof $-,--91,807, lu comparison with n surplus of $11, 114,833 furthesime period la it ytar a gjod showing on tho whole. Tha ei retailor! lululgcd lu last winter that au extra session of Con-grist Con-grist would have to bi cillcd to deal with the elliiatliu hat already been 'dlsilpateJ; nid It li uo cer alu that If iiio should lo convened It would be for a purpose nearly If not exscllyat variance Willi that spoken o ', thai Is, Il wool I be for tbo pjrpose ut revulug Ihelarlll and thereby lurlilliug rather than I Lcreaslng revenue. |