Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1869, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. | - - A : PUBLISHED BAILY, Sanday excepted, ; At The Star Building, i SW. Corner Penusvivaria Av. and lth St, + BY Tae EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. R a to their mb- wate atte, Time taiieen Gee are “e mint. Indeed, will Feary Ne papere are seus from the roads, and the conn« Scvore tin Phe aca ea any) W2%. SINE, 5,222. WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1869. TWO CENTS. (bans business of coinin, morniug—One Dellar and-ahalf a year, ean ey Soe > Will satiafy the neers: ng imter- ests in Colorado, and for the present, only & Hauited business wil te done at Pordan’ “ a proposals In addition to the parent m'ut at Philad Iph », six branch mints have boon established ag yori one tines in different parts of the coantrs , ona at San Francisco, one at New Orleans,one Chaxtotte, Nerth’ Crrotina, one at Dahione, + loi. AR Aamay it is beliew a constraction | ®, INH, preparatic we -saarily reeeive your attention. The rev- on a mere Executive order, the matter | they now receive. With the improvements in | to the recommnen:tation of the of War ws. A large additional «um was also paid | he amis EV EN ING ST AR. Gnues of the eountry are greater than tho ra. | hee been teferred to the cour to decide: machinery already effected and still inereasiyg, | that the act of 3d March, 182), prohibiting pro- | through the internal revenue offer. ‘The bea. | img ans bree 4 uirements, and may. wita safety, be reduced. ‘The condiet of the war between the alltes and | causing niachinery to take the place of pkij:ed | motions and appointments in the staff corps of | son.on which the laws granting such allowances | pow so large a nati vest that ft = —— — Bue as the funding of the debt in a four or a | the Kepublic of P; has the inter- | labor, to a large extent, out imports of many q the army, be repealed. are based is thatoficers of the Government are | more atte ution has hithert = four and & half per cent. loan would reduce an- | course with that country so difficult that it has | articles, must fall | le can | ington charged specially with the mansgemet than wevld be now expedient. 1 saggest post- Towards the clese of the last administration, a | is to be hope:, will become more and more dit- | one. The number of statf officers Teyuired 1$ | be no doubt that such isthe effect of the policy; | of this ‘gre toe mement of this quenien until the next mect- | convention was signed at London fer the settie- fused, making the interest in them equal in ali snore dependent upon the latter than the former | but the experience | have had in the Treasury | that provi Epettaneren é ment of all owtstanding claims between Great | seccion-. condition. Department has convinced me that the is at. Itmay be advisablejto modify tacvtion and | Britain and the ‘Cartes States, which failed to They give employment und support to hun- The report of the Secretary of the Navy, ac- | tending the system are greater than the benerits —— | tariff in instances where unjust or burdensome | receive the advice and consent of the Senate to | dreds of thocxands of paople at home, and re- | companying this, shows the condition of the | derived from it diseriminations are made by the present law; itsratitication. The time and the cireumstances | tain with ux the means which otherwise would | Navy when this administration came into off - xl the changes made since. appointiaent of ted with this bran te nder the direction of Cha ¥ of the Treasury of the country is din SoMa try off largely within a very few The extent of country to be medand | stimulated to greater activity m the dis |ecived. At present. there is barca nual ccrrent expenses largeiy; thus, after tand- ] been deemed advisable to withdraw eur repre- | years. Fortanately, too, manufacturers are not | the number of military is to be occupied is | coy of frauds, and in bringing the | orofticer inthe Treasury De partment at Wa-t- ! ing. justifying a greater redvotion of taxation J sentative from there. continel to a few as formerly, and, it | the same with a reduced army as with a large | offenders to punishme: There It offer occurs that re nua > MOUS efforts lia . ’ but 2 general revision of the laws regulating this | attending the negotiation of that treaty were | Ye shipped abroad. The extension of the rai- nat by the fact t England and Fran -e President's Message. subject 1 recommen the postpomeiuent of for | unfavorable to its acceptance ‘by the people of | roads le Exaue and che. Fase: Is bet z into ebeen made to place as m 2 Of the respective cases; and mt expenses gar much Ira them with us. i the present. I also suggest the renewal af the | the United States,and its provisions were wholly | competi with our agricultural prodacts like i where real claims exists, it is often the object of i doubt have Mey to preve a tax on incomes, but at a reduced rate, say of | inadequate for the settlement of the grave | productserothercountries. Selfinterest,if not-elt i informers and officers wlio share Pr of the precios in the Formet nr Senate and Honse of Represintati~s: three per cent., and this tax to expire in three | wrongs ¢ ad been sustained by this Govern- . » therefore, dictates caution against | for steam whilst cruising, Um: y jesto misrepresent the case to the Depari- | if the amine ¢ te be nedacod rst thee as Chief | Years. ment as well as by its citizens, ing any industrial interestet thecountry. | ducing the expenses of the Navy and ailing | ment, so asto secure the greatest adeantage to |” With the funding of the national debt as here | ‘The injuries resulting to the United States by hes us also the necessity of looking io | greatly to its efficien tlenmelves. But a more x il ts found ra with grat’= | supyested, I feel safe in saying that taxes, and of the course adopted by Great Britain | other im: ets for the sale of our surpies, Our Leoking to our futare, T recor ver ef all good forthe many ben- e civil war, in the ased rates | ucighbers south of us,and China and Japan, | though not extravagant poltey toward joy: we are from sixty to eighty millions per annum at onc in the diminution of exports and | shvild receive our special attention, It will be | branch of the public service. 4 are without emtangiing | andinay be still further redacea from rts, and otlter obst ms to domestic in- | the endeavor of the administration to cultivate The repect-of the Posts + and 5 « | year as the resources of the country dustry and production: in its effect upon the | such relations with ail these nations as to ent nishes « clear and compr forbods trouble; with® territory | oped. foreign, commerc in the de- | ns to th mitidence, and wake it their iyser- | operations of tue postal sery ssed im fewfity, of an ares eqatal to the | “The report ot the Secretary of the Treasary | creas: al comditien of the Pest abowiadt snyport ef five “hundred mil- | shows the receipts of the Gevernment for the | were! the re venue from imports, may bereducedsately | during our | ster General fai- ofour com- | est, as wedl as ours, to establish betier commer- of the war | cia) relations. Phe ordinary pestal re ge the charsever emi <vetem on or Before the Ts. lay i marine: 2 at the shat diverse action iu " —r g ver fiseal vear ending dune 30, 1M, to be 310,96) And the in Throngh the agency of a more the seth of Ju 1s, au offers In view of Hens of people, and aheusding im every | itars, aud the cxpenditases, inclading intcr- | poliey t {heretofore pursued. towards ines 05 tor the aner of their duticn, md of ths variety oi usrtul 4 i im quantity sufti- | ¢.t, bounties, & 321,490,5% dollars, ‘The China, largely dive to the ty and efforts of without ~timelsting them by anv coutingent ad: 0 TAME a cient 1 SH he work! for generations; | for the ensuing year are move favora- > between commercial | one of our own distinguishe ens, te wor' 2h The excess of exp er. T have elsewh samented an | bat may be 3 With exuberant crops; with a variety of | the government, and will no doubt show i is about to commence largely increased re for the prey se of the it expedicut for Con tin ailested do the peedaction of every | hiarger decrease of the public debt. reated them simply | tions with that populous.aud hitherto ex y claims, from whieh they ditter | nation. A: have execeded the amount necessary to ly inthe gravity of their character { jtiators in thi | place te the credit of the sinking fund, as pro- | than tude of their amonnt, great | most earnest | sisied by law. To lock wp the surplus in the | e ‘ot aword was | king ita s | Treasury and withhold it from cirenJation | found in the treaty, and not an inference cou! legistat Would lead to such a contraction of the cur- } be drawn trem it, to remove tte sense of the Tency ax to cripyte trade and seriously affect the endliness of Uh Great Britain, in Jrosperity of the country. Under these eireum- stances the Secretary of the Treasury and @ United States have be “vied Le ud be t sulted to the ‘The receipts in the Treasury beyond expendi A tr of species of earth’: hati, tastes Bsing” thine millions of jangeag: quire au edu mene the itures nsiterable progres the foundations ot the | City of New York, mud oi th dependent treasury bathing more wi new policy, so they ef 1868 w n showing their goo’ hin mae In this connection 1 adv Will forever prechide the every neTeasent revenue par ‘tee for » have held off to accept emplotment as agents or attorneys for parties having claims azcnst the Departinent: and there is reason: to believe that in some instances the inforu obtained while in the yp service has of the claimants. Without detailing Jections to this practice, I respect Bos- reasury niou that the walls and + compl the§ Treasury so pre vessels from engaging in Un coolies to any country toterat niso recommend that the mi ntion thus imiscon- | raised to one of the first class. wate in its pro} On my assuming the respon: A the hearty | Chief Magistrate of the Unite ssing of For tune thatanay be cove with om of the pulpit, the press and the schoul; with a revenue flowing ito the national treasury beyond the requirements of the government. Happily, har- mony is be ly restored within our ow borders. ares hitherto unknown i of this ¢ Belie S Seope, ane Id net have Y the interest-bears es, it was ‘ that a law be pased barring perso | Decomber th . : try, and of submitting to Congress the question settioment of peading questions which | with the conviction that three things were ed to the re- | ticing before the Treasnry Department asagents | ment will be prepared te <obimit @ rom our country are up in ail sections, | of the disposition to be wode of the bonds so IS consist with the relations which I | essential to its peace, prosperity, and fnllest . or attorneys in behalf’ of claims that the condition national independence | | wreha: The bonds now held by the Trea- 2 ly established between the | development. First among these is strict integ- srity to ela pensati ending whezt such persons were 0: report will ne other power. SUTY amount te about 75,000,000, including those fates and GreatBritain, I regarded the | rity in tultilling ail ar obligations. Second, to | tv the main trunk railroad limes. for theiv servi- department. t the « These bleating? and countless others are en | belonging t0 the ug fund. 1 recom C the Senate in rejecting the treaty to | secure protection to the person and property of [ces in carving the 1 having post route | In March last there were employed in the | -wstalmed sur ag ee ee "S | that the whole be d credit ¢ winely take stof peace | the citizen of the United Stat in each and J snaps executed; fur re the direction of a | every portion of our common country, wherever | the «fic between the two | he may choose to move, without reference to } increase of { original nationality, religion, color, ur polit Department at Washin of the special agency serv: clerks, messengers, and laborers, e mail service on the Pacific, and | cost of 8245821.51. At present t for establishing mail service, under the tag of | of such employes is 2,441, and their monthly the Union, on the ie; and must especlally | amounts to SZ38.280.54, showii decrease do ! call your 1 to his recommendation | expenses at the rate of $571,608.01 per aunum, It,‘ for the total al 3 ranking privilege: | was found necessary, however, during the pe- This i frum which no one receives a | riod mentioned. to increase the advantage; i the re- | ternal Revenue office and in the office of the Dper cent., | First Comptrolier. This inereas: - ew be per | gate, is at the rate of S040 sjattement does not relate to the force employed Tn | bat r sivking fund. ashort time we must, cach of us, return to the | "Your attention is respectfully invited to the Bauts of the peovle who have conferred upon | recommendations of the Sceretary of the Treas- us our honors. and account to them for our stew- | ury for the creation of the effice of Commis- cusitive people, conscious of their power | demanding et him’ only obedience to the law ardship. L earnestly desire that neither you ner | sioner of Custom revenues; tor the increase of y uniter a great wrong wholly un- | and proper respect for the rights of othe: 1 may be comiemned by a free and enlighte: salaries to certain classes of officials; the sub- | atoned, than under the restraint of asettlemnent | Third. Union er alk the States with equal roustituency, nor by our own consciences. stitution of increased national bank circulation | which satisties neither th ras of justice nor | rights) fadestructibie by any constitutional Emer, from a rebellion ot gigantic magni- | to replace the outstanding three per cent. cer- } their grave sense of the grievance ‘they have | means. ne — fo Minin wat CAE Deere aoe tificates; and most especially to his recommen- | sustained. The rejection of the treaty was fol- ‘To secure the first of these Congress has taken Ceven States of the Unlou were, four years agu, | ation tor the repeal of the laws allowing shares {ele “without legal State governments: Aka? | Of fines, penalties, forfeitures, &e., to officers of ud inereasing | Treasury aSUTes are ry for its restorat J cannot om't to call the attention « gree aties paid tootce + t who exe: tly ite expe Some of the salaries were tixe ernment was organized were added, and but few of them have lice creased recently. It is unquestionably te persons having equal ability and « ing on both si two essential steps. First, indeciaring, by jomt je to an immedi: resolution, that the public debt shall be paid, the Goverment or to in i 7 5 4 ree i imilar “responsibility receive awuch 4 ted; lations. T accordingi principal and interest, in coin. And second, Iv ‘the method by which postage should be" paid fin the Bureau of Fngravi Printing. ji 2 _— ~ Houal debt had been contracted; American cor- | ‘The oitice of Commissioner of Internal Reve Of the. United States | brovidheg the meats for raging. Providing'the | upcm public matter is hee torth fully lue the foie oper hae eee ne and Pri ee ig pe me merce was almost driven irom the seas; | nue isone of the most arduous and responsible Freat Britain, and found that my views in | means, however, conld nut secure the object de- | rey ort of the Postmaster General. in the service of the Depart Pigg olf — Sa a ee Conia | under the Government. It falls but little, if | this regard were shared by HorMajesty’s Minis | sired, without a’ proper administration or the he veport of the Secretary of the Interior the aggregate, for their services, th ge ll RE Ree ee eet abot | any, short of a Cabinet position in itsimportance | ters. laws fer the collection of the reventes and an | shows that the quantity of public lands disposed | of Sh 1.10 per day. Each of these sents a eS ee re the capitaliat and pinced where he k “| aud responsibilities. I would ask for it, there- | 1 hope that the time may soon arrive when the } economical disbursement of them. ‘To this subs of during the year ending the 30th of June, 1°59, J is reports to the Department and acted mivier | Fame gat {mele wocation ‘of budacm, yet. ae ain weak oe nie ~ as aceumemen fore, seh legislation a in your ja ent, will two governmonts can spproach the reese of | ject the administration has most earnestly ad- | was £08,352 ‘acres, exceeding that of the pre- [its direct orders. Tho saumer et present em- | an act of justice to them, and in { y ss , office Dot d - is destion wi preci ri y i o cf y - ployed is fifty vir 2 : leyal to the Union, of protecting and fostering | Kensurate with ite Importance, ava wits the | OF Whee ie hoe oa eee an appreciation | “reser itself, with results, T hope, satisfactory | ceeding year by 1,010,408 acres. Of this ployed is fifty-four, and their «daily pay to the rights. dignity and honor | to the counti as been no hesitation in with the de n not only to | changing officials in order to secure an efficient e causes of complaint in th States is the freest of all | to lay the foundation of a broad nations, so too. its people sympathize with all J public law, whiek will prevent 1 people ‘struggling for liberty and self-govern- | ences, ment. Eut wile so sympathizing it is due to | and fr the Government I earnestly recommend © Speaking ge be extend service, such a: aval officers, and expecially ro appraisers and exaaniners in the aypraise partment. Should the recommendation tree labe ml providing means for paying the Ps f enc! interest ou the publie debt, has reeeived ample | Character and, era ag es rte tal Heckomen ck attention from Congress. Although your ettorts s the Unite have not inet with the snccess in all particulars ihat might have been desired. yet. on the whole, they have been more suecessful than could have reasonably been anti 2.580.547 acres were sold for cash. and 2 amounts to SWAG. The pay of the agents | ered under the homestead laws. The [has been increased generally, in the hope e past, but xecution of the laws, sometimes too, where,in a | remainder was yrauted to aid inthe construc- | that more efficient serviers might be eb- | inciple of re party view, undesirable political results | tion of works of internal imprevemen: tained. The seacoast and tr ; re differ ikely to follow: nor any hesitation in sus- | to the States, as swamp laud and lecated with | country have been divided inte t tend to firm and continued peace geficient officials inst remonstrances J warrants and serip, ic ndship. wholly political. ‘The cash receipts from all sour B appointed ai ee the " e a ; neces of sew | OUFLOnOr that we should abstain from enforcing | This ix now the only grave question which the | “It may be well to mention here theembarrass- detailed to act under the several slistri [5S eee entas cnet eae e Seven State wees oF Se | our views upon unwilling nations, and from | United Statex hax with anv ; ment possible to arise trom leaving on the statinte as wcdien Of tae deperioee ar | Sad Seneenes he yee anaes Bo edortes, & oe h © uy their | taking an interested part, withont invitation, in Th Hse books the se called “Tenure-of-efice acts,7 2 sent to the age arge of th | teers, aud surveyors at places het 1 the quarrels between different nations, or be- the rhestly pecomm their total repeal. It nel the report of kis asistangs. The agent is required to make a of his own doings and of the dinates. The results thus far to justify the organization i Arrangements have ween governments and their subjects. Our | Britis: Provinces course should always be in contormity with favorably considered b irict Justice and Taw, international aux local. | The advantages, of sn F tall Suc! n the policy of the administration | wholly in favor of the British produc The Governor was duly instaiied, ard | in dealing with these questious. posibly,a few engaged in the tr performed For more than a year 2 valuable province of | the two sections, no citizen of ti It is a no right t ‘1 not have been the intention of the tramers he constitution, when providing that ap- ferom, I { paid t » members ie Legistaiare, and all other oftcers pensio: iments made by the President should re- sation or dishare ng agent ve the coment of the Senate, tliat the latter on thi should have the power to retain in office persous placed there by federal appointments against pect ers and exan aries. In the larger cities th for the support of a rane m by the re j i i ks s facture of paper for th other O° | comatances the ts an a sate - crection | Spain, and a near neighbor of ours, in whom all | would be henesitted by reeiprocity, Our inter- | fie will of the Presents The law ie hones ligations or the Unt he yriet= | eee aes dg ano mg wets or Sulwepac nt ed our people cannot but feel a deep interest, has | nal taxation w: prove @ protection to the | tent with a faithful and eff ation t th . Which imerease the securtty of | compelled to Gd | boca struggling for independence and freedom. | British prod almost equal to the protection | of the government. What faith ean ft against unlawtal is ; H ape ag dee g . oo The people and Govermment of the United hour manufacturers now receive from the | ti 1 officals for tions to | the genuine plates. Une | State membersor the {s same warm feelings and | tariff. Some arrangements however, for the has suspended for reason? + ince the Capproved Jum | —— roclrpr oe ge eben dl pathics for the Peorte of Cuba in their uh on of comme cial intercourse between ints be Hikely to serve am admin: sing tegres, | to provide ways and mews for the <u H oul moe © ~y aa pending @ruggle.that they manifested throu Lnited 8 aud the Dominion of Canada ich they know jut trust them ¥:tece ty pf Goverment, and for other parponon, ue fourteenth ulment to the Constitution.an | Vunthesrevien situagles between spain may be thenteable. ho: neocon growth and sineh Wes provision P flare paper hae boos designate ee ane cee | which they themselves kad contributed | former Colonies, in Pohaif of the fatter, ‘The eommissi for adjusting the claims of 1 Puyet’s Sound Agricultural ted States has termmated ratify. Under these eireumstances I would | fh. cont sutani te you whether it would not be wise, | tions which amount 0a war im the sense of I Without delay, to enact a law authorizing the | ternational law, or which woul show the exk rot Georgia to convene the members | ence of ade facto political organization of the lly elected to the Legisiature, requiring | insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of taber to take the oath preseribed by the | jnigerent none to be adiuitte + time, and a firm bet humaue 2 i- tion of existing: laws, ( led trom to the they mayer ineffective, or ate probably all st has the Hudson Bay a Company upon the slabors. ‘Thea t no time assumed the eo: within its original ~cope. | ment paper, and by that act it is made histhns ¢ O10 @ more liberal al . felony J isfur- J for any person to have or retain in his possession wance J any similar paper adapted to the inline | of any ebligation or security of th States, execpt under uh (ot the mest etic jury Department ex | Jawtul swiaries, tirengh an apr | tion placed in the ham: the Secrets that purpose. The distribution of thi : ion is an tnpleasant duty for the Se aMHOt Te each Feconsiruction acts, am t t who were ineligible under the third clause of ‘intained,however,that this propriation by Con= t, T this paper by | th when to accord the um is asked. 2 . of public oj adipic’ and | icntousies the fourteenth amendment. f either to a people straz- ioners tur determining the Northe | “From the fondation pn Seo Eeperianens t The treedmen, unler the protection which | ging to free themsclves from a governmentthey | western ltd Is undary between the United ] the nt th ag of Chev orig: devoted to this purpose, have been placed ade | alebthat the he: chet cleche they have received, are mak ‘api progress lieve to be oppressive, or to independent u: States and the. Gritish "possessions, um halitauts of Uris continent. the Indian the supervision of the officers of the Govern- | {NTH in charge of divisions. are thadejuately in learning. anc a Jack | tious at war with each other. In conformity with the recommendatios been a subject of em 1 fer the seeyi ustry on the they re os thes pert arte sit ean | ‘tery anager by NOW provided el iinet ernment relies for the proper transa. business of the country, and whose re wot limited to the or should ie made compensat ment, and such precautions have been taken for the 4 The United States have no disposition to in- | Congress, a proposition w ns | terfeze with the existing relations of Spain British Government to abo! Prov ised for paying the interest on the pul her colonial possessions on this continent. edt under the treaty of A debt, with all other expenses of government, are | hetieve that in due time Spain and other Eu cession of the slave trad amample. The loss of our commerce is | pean powers will find their interest in termi- negotiation. alt of the late rebellion which has | nating those relations and establishing their ving come to my know! at a corpo- present dependencies as independent powers— ny » organized under British laws this subject | catl your earnest attenti members of the family of nations. proposed to aut upon the shores of the United est plans by which this su * | ‘These depenlencies are no longer regariied as } States, aul to operate there a submu: Hout will, if necessary make it {he | subjeet to transfer from one European power to | uuler a concession from Hix Majesty, th # special message during the session | another. When the present relation of colonies | peror of the French, 6 of Congres. ~~ ceases they are to become independent powers, | twenty years of teiegs At the March term, Congress, by joint reso- | exercising the right of choice, and of seif-cu between the shores of lution, authorized the’ Exeeutive to order elee- | {rol in the det tion of their future condi- | States, with the very objectionable f tions in the States of Virginia, Misisippl, an and relations with other powers. subjecting all messages conveyed ther: atin living in pea Texas, to ou mit to them the constitutions which ‘The United States, in order to puta stop to iny and control of the Fri Gove ity J the early setiteny each had previously, in convention, framed; and | }joodshed in Cuba. and in the interest of » Fren ud British legations at | their white submit the constitations, either entire, or neighboring people, proposed their guod ottices | Washington tu be made acquainted With the } sections, v separate parts, to be voted upon, at the diseve~ | 19 pring their existing contest to a termination. | probable policy of Congress on this subject, as | also ki tion of the Exeeutive. Under thix authority | The offer not being accepted by Spain, on a | toreshadowed by the bill which passed the Sen- elections were called. In Virginia.the election | jasis which we believed could be received by | ate i Marci last. This drew from the re took place on the sixth of July, 156; the Gover- | Cuba, was withdrawn. It is hoped that the of the company an agreement to nor and Ljeutenant Governor elected have | good ofticcrs of tie Cuited States may yet prove f their operations, the been installed; the Legislature met and dul | Sivantagcous tur the settlement of this anhappy such other all required by this resolution, amd | cuit by all the reconstruction acts of Congress, and | “Meanwhile, a number of illegal abstained from all doubtful authority. Trecom- | against Cuba have been broken 1} mend that her Senators and Representatives be | the endeavor of the administration to execute the promptly admitted to their seat, and that the | neutrality laws in good faith, no matter how State be fully restored to its place in the family | jieasant the tak, made by the suiferings whi of States. Elections were called in Misissippi | we have endured from lact of like good { and Texas to commence on the 30th of Novem- | towards us by other nations. Der, 149, and to last two days in Mississippi and | “On the 2th of March last, the United States four days in Texas. The elections have taken | schooner “Lizzie Major” was arrested on the Jace, but the result is not known. it is to be | high seas by a Spanish frigate and two pasen- pped that the acts or the legislatures of these | cers taken from it, and carried as prisoners to States when they mect will be such as to receive | Cuba. Representations of these facts were and hax been att mu ap JF do ne hold either | the whites, whe m for their Iuber. The me: istody of portionsof the machinery as to ren- ries tof with th hostilities. ye and tite ques peuditures, J would respectfatiy I your atte vt he do} find i. y towards these the regarded in any other light dt wards) with fair re= sults, tar as tried, vl Ww : ately with x c Pri jis ix well Known as supervising with the other dat rthe printing bureau oF the issioner or Edue: department, as the case may require. ress to make the census, | ments have also been made with each of the two luring the year iv0, more | companies mentioned fer preparing one set of and perfect than heretotore, 1 would | plates lor every issue of cnrre suggest early action upon plan that may gation. |The engraving and prin ing suc- | be agreed upou. As Congress, at the i e with the Indians in | last session, appointed a committee to take places an imprint upon every ebtigation of t of Pennsylvania, while | consideration sich measures as might be deew Government. of the transmission of Ighhors uf wthey sets, in other | proper in reference to the census, und to report | paper trom the agent at the imills audits receipt embroiled. They are | x plan, I desist from saving more. by each of the several efticts, of the deliveries to all strife, vio~ rend to vour favorable eon therefrom to the sealing ” burea the erally noted for their | the claims of ‘Treasury Department. and alo of eries OF . ral appropriations. In a country so diversitied ‘Treasurer of the United States, is given each e me to give the | in climate and soil as ours, and with a pop diay by telegram or by letter, and on the follow- Wancgement of a tow reservations of Indiansto | tien so jurzely dependent upon agriculture, the | day the accountants in the ‘Treasury, Iepart- enact’ | them, and to throw the burden, of selection ot | beuctits that can be conferred by properly tos- | meut prepare a statement show jug the agents upon the Socicty itself. Tho result has } tering this bureau are incalculable. 1 desire re- | tion of every sheet oF paper » proven moxt sutisfactory. Jt will be found more | spectfully tocall the attention of Congress to the | the mouth ot November the p fully set forth in the report of the Commissioner | inadequate salaries ofa mumberof the most im- | and ineach of the several pri of Indian Affitirs. For superintendents and In- ] portant officers of the Government. meuts was carefully counted, amd the result + upon | dian agents not on the reservations, ofticcrs of this message I will not enumerate them, | compared with the accounts ia the Treasury ie xen | the Army were selected. | The reasous for this | but will specity only the Justices of the Supreme | Department. In. an. ageregate of shank the anthority of the | are numerous. Where Indian agents are sent, | Court. No chan been made in their salaries | 7,000,000 of sheets received by the agent at the State in t there, or near there, troops must be sent also, for fifteen years. Within that time the Inborsor | amills. discrepancies were d to “the eate The agent and the commander of troops are the Court have largely increased, und the ex- | of siaty sheets of fractional currency. jue independent of each other, and are subject to | penses of living have at least doubled. During | and for the money value of which theo orders from different departments of the Gov- | the samme time Congress hax twice four neces- [| nies doing the work are respousible. erument. |The army oficer holds a position for | saryto increase largely the compensation of its | lieved that these arrangements fa: ife, the agent one at the will of the President. | owi members; and the duty which it owes to [ secarity than has hereiotore existed your approval aud thus close the work ef recon- | wade te the Spanish Government a3 sv0n as eting of Congress. ‘The former ix personally biterested in living in her department ot the Government, d fraudulent issue of currency or other obliga~ struction. oficial information of them reach Washingtou. tosay that there bas heen no modili- | harmony with the Indian, and in establishing a es, and will undonbtetily reecive, itsdue con- | tions of the Government by the use of the ori Among the evils growing ont of the rebellion, | The two passengers were set at liberty, aul the | cation made in the company’s concession, nor, | permanent peace, to the end that some portion | sideration. nal dies or plates, and the system or trequ and net yet referred to, is U of an irredeem: Spanish Government assured the United States | 0 far rn, have they attempted ty se~ of his life may be spent within the limits et ¢ to in thix | examinations of the several ‘establishments en ble currency. [lt ix an evil which I hope that the Captain of the frigate in making the | care one. concession exctudes the iized society. The latter hts no such personal y be intro- J trusted with the work will disclose at once any receive sour Inest Carnest attention. It & ® | capture had acted without law; that he had been | tal and the citizens of the L States trom | interest. Another reason is an ce ” + twee changes in the organi ry Departinent which 1 consider portant. The first change to which I ref the creation of a chict comptrotier of the Ty shall be auth system of accounting by the several ptrotlers, ave to whow all apres Oyo questions arising in the nt m of wilt PsN teriutly the Departuacut in (iis parsieular. The secomd change to which I call attention even more important. Ac ight divisions in the Seon Whose duties are connected eve mesystem. There exeept the Nocretary of the Trea- sury, who is by law authorized to pass finally, or in tiny way authoritatively. upon guestions a ing in the administration of thedcustoms-reve~ nue laws. At the present time the reverna from customs is as large as the revense from the excise system. The wunber of men cmployed aud the fick) operations are nearly as great. IT is & for the ry of the Treasary to us questions Chat arise in the a: tem that attention # hic ce. The duties of «up ty permit uf any cable be incorporated. ¥ i States. or of uy such cable. ‘ ected the withadr United States an mons nt with yr h ¢ NW economic one; ‘1, bnt T abstain, believing that vonr patri- | discrepancies in the acc It is not probate | ing the collection of the costomsrevonne are duty, mil one of the highest duties of goveru- | reprimanded for the irregularity of his condaer, 7 cumpetition upon the shores yf France. I re~ | and stili another, the hold which the ri- | otinmn and statesmansitip will anggest the topics | that the changes made will diiuiightherego we J. delicate, al in at, as to jastify te secure te the eftizen a mesdiam of -ex- } end that the Spanish ‘ities in Cuba would | comand le; ion ww protect the rights of ¢) ment has upon a life oMicer to secure 2 taithtwl | aud the legislation most conducive to the inter- indeed, the cost is greater tha ine the exclusive ention of the most change of fixed, wnverying value. | This implies net that could violate the | izensof the United States, as well af fit atgnity | discharge of duties in carrying out a given poll isi ests of the whole people. On my part, L pron arigid adherence tothe laws, and their str ment. U.S. GRANT. ASHINGTON, December 6, 1569, to the Governunen i pe een nog iu the expense of raving awed pciat~ REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF JY i,¢ marine hospital service of THE TREASURY. upon the whele in an unsatio eo Treascry Di a return to -pecie can be ed. and reached at tl consistent with competent person Whose services cam be ob- ¢ of the present year istration of the internal the coll stitute for it | rights, or treat Vel be commenced now oe this fea arlest practicable moment, ‘The qne=tion of the seizure of the brig Mary | neget m an abandonment of the prineip! (to the interest | Lowcil at one of the Babama !lands, by Spanish | monopolies in ocean telegraphic cables. Co; of the debtor imanediate resumyp- | authorities, is new the subject of correspoutence | of this correspondence are herewith furnisted. tion, if practicable, would not be desirable. | between this Gevernment aud those of Spain | The unsettled political condition of other it would compel the debtor classto pay, bevond | x ritain. countries, less fortunate than our own, their con the preminra in gold at the date ‘aptain General of Cuba about May last | times induces their citizens to come to the b disrespect the sovereign iguty of the nation, against sucit The building of railroads, aud the ae I shall abso endeavor ty secur by given to all the agricultural and mineral re- | ¢ gious of the country ly bringing eiviliz~ ed sett ments inte contact with all the tribes of Indians, No matter what ought to be thérela- nx hetween such settiem a es, the fact is they do and one or the other has to he country ix tory comlitio wit in the e1 «tthe appoiutment of a competent PARTMENT, Dee. 6, 1869. Several hospitals have been erected ai points OX CENT i of their pur st would bring bankraptes | issued a proclamation authorizing search to be | ted States for the sole purpose or | A system which looks to the extinction of a tac the honor t autimit herowith ‘he an-ll phone at pameut they ace set heeded, walle tee mare esi cinerea temp had aud ruin to thes . Fluctuations, howe made of vessels on the high seas. Immediate | wralized. Having secured this, th urn to | is too horrible for a nation to adopt without en- ofthe doings and condition of the | great commercial cites of New York, Philadel doxsnontousjatibe venue would proba- in the paper vaine of the measure of ali remonstrance Was made agains: this, whereupon | thelr native country, and reside there without | tailing upou itself the wrath of all Chr iom, mE phia, and Baltimore lave no hospital accounuo~ | 1)" ito thefamount of many A sal wold; is detrime to the interest of 1 the Captain General issued a new proclamation | disclosing their change of allegiance. and engendering in the citizen a disregard tor | Treasury Departnent. In report Luatur- | dations tor sick and disabled seamen. Daring sd adiinas assmnsin ‘makes the man of business am involuntary | limiting the right of search to vessels of the | cept officin! positions of trust or ° lvanan life, and the rights of others, dangerous to societ it, tirst of mutters Nor is it probable that the at expenses would be materially greater. rr istration, | the past season a careful ination of these at gambler, for im ali sales where future pay:nent | United States so far as authorized undé? the [ can only be held by eitizens of th and then ss f measures of pul woliey. inst.tutions has been made by Dr. Stewart, an “ Ms & to be made, hoth parties speculate as to what | treaty of 1795. This proclamation was, how- | lands; they journey under passports describing J see no substitute for such & system except im ‘The officers in charge of the varions bureaus | agent of the Treasury, and by Dr. Billings, of Aneinding ingerest earned and not paid, and will be the value of the currency to be paid | ever, immediately withdrawn. thera as such citizens, and it is only when civil | placing all the Indians on large reservations as | gnu divisions of the Treasury Departinent have | the United States aimy. The result’ of | deducting ca-hon hand, thedebt of the United and received. L earnestly recommen! to 1 have always felt that the most intimate re- | discord, after perhaps years of quict, thre ly a8 it can be done, and giving them abso- | 1: «l their ies, and ft com- | their examination is that several hospitals on the first of Mare! jast, wat you then sueh legislation as will insure a gaad- | jations should be cultivated betweon the Kepub- | their persons or_ their rap perty, or When their | lute protection there. As soon as they are fit- ai their several reports to the ideration | have nwt been properly managed, that others | ¥2,525,463,200.01, and, suhject to the sume cou- wal return to spe Payment, and put Ne of the Cuited States and all independent | native State drafts them into it< military service, | ted ‘ber it, they should be induced to take their | of Congress. should be chased sual that hospitals should be | ditions, it was #2,455,559,.55.23 on the first of che mediate stop te fluctuation in the value o nations on thiscoutinent. It eng be well w a | that the fuct of their nge of allegiance is } lands in severalty, and to set up territorial goy- The Treasurer of the United States has pre- | erected at New York, Baltimore, and Philadel- | present_ mouth, showing a decrease of reney. The methods to secure the for considering whether new treaties between us { made known. They reside ‘permanently away | ermments for their own protection. For fall | pared an claborate report setting forth the con- | thine Measunes have idready been taken for the 0G 824.58. » of the pubis aad these results are as uumetuts as are the s; and them may not be profitably entered into to | from the United States, they contribute nothing | details on this subject I cull your special atten- | dition, and {urnishing a resume of the Treasur- sale of the hospitals at several places where ‘This apparent decvese the public debt ie tors on political economy. Te seeure the “r | seeure more intimate relations, friendly, egm- | to its revenues, they avoid the duties of its citi- | tion to the reports of the Secretary of the Intes ] er’s of from 1861 to the present t the actual decrease. Considerable Lsce but ome way, and that is tw authorize the | mercial, aud otherwise. zenship, and they only make themselves known | rior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. c not needed. The hospital at New Or- | Tess th: it ‘The long aud faithtul servier ae present em bape presented gas unenitable, trom bad jo- | sums have been paid on account of oe ‘Treasury to redeem its own paper, ata fixed ‘The subject of au interoceanie canal to con- | by a v tion. The report of the gee ae Boal War shows the | Treasurer entitle him to the titude of the | cation and other circumstances. “The War De- | Other old claims not previously ascertal and price, whenever presented; and to wituboll | nect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through 1 have directed the diplomatic aud consular | expenditures of the War Department for the | country. partment is in possession of suitable liospitais | therefore pot included in any debt statement. rom cireniation atl currency +0 redecunesl, wutil | the Isthmus of Darien is one in which commerce | officers of the United States to scrutiuize care- | year ending the 30th of June, 180, to be aw,- | “The report of the Commissioner of Internat | BARIMEYE Te In Pectesion of suitable liosps am | | The account of March fire, from the neccsit 6 ld again for go’ is greatly interested. Instructions have been | fully all such claims of protection. ‘The citi i ‘The vast resources of the Nation, both devel- | given to our M. 644,042, of whieh $23,862,310 was disbursed in the | Revenue is respectfully commended to the atten- iufor med, are no needed for the op | Of the case, included only the interest ister to the mentee ie of the United States, whether native or adopt payment ot debts contracted during the war, | tion of Congress. Since the appointiaeut of the P aptoy 1 respectfully recommend that they and wot then poyable; but, os & matter of fact, Oped and undeveloped, ought to make onr cre- ‘niged States of Columbia to wor to ob- fee oy rng his duty to his country, is and isnot chargeable to current army expenses. | present Commissioner, the administration of the | be transierred to the Treasury Departament. there were gutstanding ‘ang cecrtue interest it the best om earth. With a less burden of | tain authority for a survey by this Government, | tled ae protection. While Ihave a | His estimate OF $34,531,001, TOF the expenses of | office has been constant! q Mr he revenue marine reve is an ceopartans coupons, and of thesc several millions hava Aation than the citizen has endured for six | in order to determine the practicability of such | voice in the direction of affairs, I shall not con- | the army for the next fiscal is as low as it is | crease of reeeipts tor the first dive months of the | and expensive branch of the custoins-reyenne | Sice becn paid out of the ordinary revo- bree past, the ewtire public debt could be paid | an undertaking, and the charter for the right of | sent to imperil this sacred right by conferring it believed cas be relied on. The extimates of bu- | present fiscal year in the sum of $14.431,353.06 | sory Finite sg thirty-six veasels belonging | Bue. Previous to March eyo © ten years, but it ix not desirable that the way to build, by private enterprise, sach a werk | upon or frandulent claimants. reau officers have been carefully serutinized and | over the amount collected in the first dve mouths: the Department, of which twelve are saij- | count had ever been ~~ a ple sbould be taxed to pay it im that time. Year | if the survey proves it to be practicabie. ‘On the accession of the present administra- | reduced wherever it has been practica- | of the last fiscal year is satixfactory testimony vessels, and tw: -four are steamers, | ‘cans. Such measures as op — by vear tie ability tw pay increases in a rapid In order to comply with the agreement of the | tion, it was found that the Minister for North | ble. If, however, the condition of the country } the ability and integrity of the persons employed vary in size from forty te four haudred | le have sinee been taken th warden of interest ought | United States as to a mixed commission at Lima | Germany had made propositions for the negotia- | should be such. the beginning of the next | in that mech of the public serviee. and eighty tons. Condivion of these accounts, clas rapidly os ean be | for the adjustiment of claims, it became neces | tion of a convention for the protection of emi- | fiscal year, a3 to a , mit of & greater concentra- ‘The amount paid by war:ants for collecting One hundred and seventy-three officers and ‘The bonds issued by the United States in aid i c , . . . to being ia theat the vielwtion ef contract. seud a commissioner and secretary to rant passengers, to which no ponse had been | t-on ot troops, the appropriation asked for will | the revenue from eustoms during the fiscal year | gight huadred and twenty-four men ‘re- | Of railways, c debt = represented in. great part | Lina in August last. So apnrepriaiion havin given. It wan concluded that to he encetual, all | ht've expended. cnding dune 30, 1868, was 6,374,385 43; and tor | quiredto man these vessels, and their ramaing | We. nature of a Yoan, are not included im the ‘vom five to twenty and frem | been made . ce for purpose, it fiemaritime rowersengaged in te trade should The appropriations estimated for river and | the year ending June 30, 1869, 85.576, (38 13, | expends amount to about ‘a year. Five | Teregoing statement. . on tw run, bearing laterest at the | now asked that one be made, covering the past | join in such a meas ‘nvitations have been f harbor imprevements and for fortifications, are | showing # decrease of $1,001,647 30. This de- | of these vesseis—side-whee ‘steamers uf 480 tons ‘During the fiscal vear — endit jane 30, 1809 ‘ “ft “sper cent. and five per cent. respec- | and future ex} of the commission. eatended to the Cabinets of London, Paris, | submitted separately. Whatever amonnt Con- | crease m the cost of collecting the revenue has | purden are jake scamers, and out of | there was an execss an over expendi- Uvely. [tis optional with the Government to The ‘good othces of the United States to bri Florence, Berlin, Brussels, The Hague, Copen- J gress may deem proper to ag aoe for these | not been [attended by any lo-s of eticiency in | commission. They are rapidly diminishing | og oy > debt of pay these bowls at any period alter the expira- | about a peace between ‘Spain and the wo, hagen, and Stockholm to empower their | purposes will be expended. The recommenda- | the service. On the other ud, it is believed [in value, while the care of them involves | $2,453,149 ad excess, 7 as Hon of the least time mentioned upon their face | American repul with which she ix at representatives at Washington to simuitane- | tion of the general of the army, that a) “a tefl that the means for the detection of smuggling [an aumual expense ef about 970,009, | Pearly-a» can now be ascertained, arose 7 ‘Poston il, ‘The time has aire pired ‘been 3 Pera, and | 01 cuter into negotiation, and to conclude | tions be made for the forts at » Port! are better than ever betore, and that the [ ‘The vessels now in the service have jt March Syst, and the remainder fart of them. may to ies on Chute Congrens bbs ay invited to be hetd with the United States’ conventions, identical in | New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and San: | custom-house service is also constantly inprov- | het purchased and built ai various times, and, S Tapcly approaching when all may be | Wesbington daring the present winter. form, making uniform regulations ax to the | Franciseo, if for no other is concurred in. ing. Tt oughtto be understoodthat the chief means | ys far as I ean ascertain, without spectal ret- eninge ti Nthat ai! which are nuw due may A grant has been given to Europeans of an ex- | construction of parts of vessels to be devoted to T also ask your special attention to the recom- | of collecting the revenue gand euforeing the rev- erence to the nature of the duty to be | Chase of 9 i by bonds bearing « rate of interest f elusive right of transit over the territory of Ni- | the use of emigrant ,as to quality | mendation of the General commanding the | enue laws, must be found in the administration formed, and certainly ‘ithout any matured since July dst has been wsed ig four ant Bale per cents, caragua, to which Costa Kica has given its as. | and quantity of food, as to medical treat- ] Military Division of the Pacilic for the sale of | of the appraiser's department. The frauds and three-f of the per a . From one-half to ner. ‘These me due, went, witch. ic is alleged comdlicts with vested | ment of the sick; and as to theraicsfo tbo ob J the Seal Islands of St, Paul and St. George, | lowes arising fromm actual -mugzling are nnn patra} a} poy wg tang fate, om the both day ot same way. ‘Te ae i ith: » United States. The | served dusit ve in order to secure | Alaska Ty y, and it cither portant when compared with losses sustain- $300,000 for the- 2 part of ‘the excess seestaty tO aston ee Se ‘Bhote has ee a ee ventilation, , t© prevent in- | complied with or that tion be had tor the | cd {urough incompetent or dishonest exauniners pve motmnye sy be, vestels and pro- realized in ‘coin, sales of gold ther of three or consideration. trusion, and te protect the females, and pro- | protection of the seal from which a | audappraisers. Assuming that honest men may porals were issued and bids received mader the hoe time a. reof Earope. or by am Asi ‘The Minister of Pern having mae represen- Yiding for the establishment of tribunals in the | revenue should be derived. be obtained for these important positions at the eon ih mw pompenerme of an gory oem purchase of bonds. s <3, 4. Se Option | tations that eth &@ state of war between soveral for enforcing such regulations ae ut the Seperate Nas content Wot epueaiene or extutner mey acts seeieed pyar ny a have yqt been pane. pd Pacey 7 [= neat Onsiteration at fer Pence ew ¥ tnty ceabona, «Son attention i y sespoctt aia, called to son | or the commanders « Berg ms fe = ph aieerenn ad osses far exceeding his an- Sa. ry itis! foineur — gin gt gold th this th ite f ased by Spain in such Taw regwiating on Russian hemp, the districts in! Ie J ‘expenditures until the Department isin posses aes oF bonds ney, an betore | eorcncr ie mawal Faroe ee Guth ee cari aoet Piste question whither to.fx the ch on | ‘Tesas, aud’ the report of the General, of the | Under existing laws, certain revenne officers | ,ion of more accurate aud complete inZormation. rgh the tate against Pere, orders were given teprevent | Russian hemp higher than they are upon | Army in full. The recommendations therein | end other persons as informers are | | shall therefore take the opinion of a board of ork al appearing my ett aie ure. further Pavir i | Manilla is net a violation our treaty with | contained have been well considered, and are | entitled to shares in fines, penalties, and forfeit- competent officers upon the flowing points :— ment, except the comparatively = taken i an repeesentative of tho Petceion | Mamie: placing bor products ‘pen the’ same | ceeinel ae your action. I, however call | tures. During the fiscal year 168-19 the Treas- | Sirol. ‘The size and character of vessels resolved t governniont fo prevent the depart.re of these | footing with those of the most favored nations. [ special attention to the recommendation of the uty Department distributed the sum of €236,- | hy ule nature of the service that they are to as emium on gulu sold since March the essels, and I not feeting authorived co detain | Oprmanafacturers are Inereasing with won- | Chief ot Ordnance for the sale of arsenat aud | 73 tosuch officers and to iuformersin the vat- | yeriorm, Secondly, Whether Uicy should te has been 328-10. per cent., and the aver= the property @f @ naton wid which we are at J derful rapidity under the encouragement which J lands, uo longer of use to the Gioverpment; also } ious cases arriging umdkr the custome revenue J constructed of irom oF Wood, OFOF@ combination | se? premium paid sor bas been 35.98 3