The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1849, Page 1

- ae THE NEW YORK HERALD. NO. 5682. Tees MORNING EDITION AVAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, fy La Loneeten, pod in sodeed He Troe Lag ae, hid iy t endanger hed ultimate fulfilment of the contract with =. fay Bend cemmancesiel i oommalty, in te 20 eves ghee fox the navel eerie gad merine corpe of A+ aned those who may, with advantaye to the pubic sdi'viee, being couldared unarourary” dar ware tat fo hia Set nth am mele emer tee | Slaps niu face's ce | fetus edna gu. ios Yond thesoptayes | DeyeSP oA proba no exeeed every Bem he, on the 13th of September, to proceed with the frigate ‘While the propristoce ‘| ag 58 0x- | Stions made for thas year. dollars terrament proprietors hai oct f 1 hand at d annually, THE REPORT to wintar in the eae rranean, and to report to Com. : the passed inidatipeaen, npacosennse | forsee aceon sesbaeday abies SaAtaE be weaiaee: | Teluo seapesthlty reocantaend to Sivorable comedians oF THE Secprep mr me ‘is ee hae eemet sane So | pevesioelen the prescribe their repairs and im commission, navy yards aad othor | tion the plan of providing an asylum for the comfort quired a Taroesta of the navy, with their im~ ead: renee CE yeolaven, soldiers, on whom time and the J _ | evils of an us service have produced a rea ty athe Aerio tnt scat | ¥«] OF meeidental effects, and I tak ubmitted herewith. An inereaved | ConCurrence in the views of the = portant tthe pay of twelve otfeers of | Of the Ariay on this subject. Should the sa to its charge | regret thatit nas aot mo the termi of the | of that officer be Spproved, itis then his board to furnish aceurate informa~ | war with ifexico, «nd ‘o-appointed by the Prasi- | that some plan of benevolence and gratitude be com- ns for the location of w naval | deat, under the authority of an act ix their beha f, pasted st | wenced, under the sanetion of Consens, cbice ok ‘gondition of our padlio siups | the last ovrsion of Congress. and to provide the ‘estimated me a Terese, whio® shale Fapidly | amount of $30,000 to pay ‘the Whites montha’ extra pay to the require all disbursing officers of the army to receive ean its | non-commirsioned cffcors, privates, and musicians of tho | ahd account for such sums ax may by voluntarily oon SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. Posie ou that services will be despatched in the squadron in the China Seas, under the com! Navy Deranraenr. December 1, 1849, | of Commodore Geisinger, consists of the flag ship slo} ‘®in—I have the honor to present to you the annual | °f-war Plymouth, Commander Gedney, and the rseport of the condition operations of this depart- | Dolphin, Lieutenant commanding Ogden The sloop <anent of the public service of war Preble was temporarily ttashed to this squad- The home squadron, under the command of Commo. | ron; she has returned to the Pacific, and orders have tte a dore Parker, consists of the flag ship frigate Raritan, | beew sent to Commodore Jones for her retura to the | holt theeciee toe at ae anton eeumdeet: Leannot w ani , and the unsettled prevented the prosecution rt has oon the various ay be confided to others so~ 1, therefore, w tly invite the the'law under which the contract service in which the vessels are to be et condition of the contract iteslf, that, should 3, then it Te- inet and unequivocal subject, Leannot with- Ci ), the sloop of war Albany, Commander Ran- | United States. It is gratifying to state that the small | further in the Proposed union of public and private mo nd the long ed with thi inthe th Mexico T. tributed for this object It is not dowbted that Re ee hee eae | sase employed in the East Indies bas been eminently | this system of beean steams, aa! osloulated to. prom some ndaqiate aul of this corpe, wader the toparate commands cf | future day a fund will be thus realized, which, sudine Lowndes, the steamer Vixen, Lieutenant Commanding | useful to commercial interests of our country, ii ne od Bosern Fy peed Bay. eee Hn: | Pete ema fax Seis peels. 90, he coae, of California al Wateon ‘and Major Harris, were d ously employed. will cupply this essential want, and wi the seamar Wales ites Liwabenalts Com- | extending information, friendly bey a poet ted States mail, and affording faoilitics for the transport and the prieos ‘Of labor will juatify the undertaking, the sete: or General Scott. accomplish & purpose which will be universelly ap- anne " schoo ‘sean : ight in the manner proposed by such tifit should be ‘as w! ad of For- | ™ ‘ of th aundance for ~ yants of steam navigation between California and pe ee Ae aj Mout of # navy yard, and the construction of @ dock or | tacled was clearly within the provisions of the joint re proved. ‘aliway for tie reiitting and repair of our veayels, wre | tion of Con passed-on the 10th of s*, 1813, Another | ‘The effective power of the army is deems? to be in- ¥ reco) ed. portion of the corpa, attashed to and employed in those ves- | separably copnected with tha wilitary Academy. at accounts authorized to be sottled under the act of Sd | ecleof the United Statos d Ml to the voastof Mexico to | West Point. As one of the means of national defene: 1849, and under the joint resolution of the same date, | aid in subduing the f ¢ enemy, and in | it jy mot only one of the best but one of the of " relict of Durters in the navy, have ail beon presented auering the country, presented their claims, and averted | ieee the pols b Ate 0 oheapenty Wee d the necessary action of this department, except | their right to the bounty land and extra pay provided by that the role be inverted which ts that the inost of the Gbligations of pursers who have not yet returned te the United | resolution, ‘The payment of these demaads having been ro- | Mlctent corps are commanded by the most skilful offle orfolk. strictly be regarded and ita fused, aud doubt ist aste the t constractio: oer Having its organization on ular basis, ao ‘The vessels of the home squadron have been actively | curred to the fair and legal commercial pursuits of our | Rolovaly to Nw Yot, a8 » naval establishment, { | | In execution sf the $4 section of the act of Sd of Angust, | law. i thought tropes tov reter. the iostlon ne che diffusing ite’ Benetio equally, £0 cir’ peetions nf the employed amor soe et India Islands, in the G: citizens abroad. Wherever our national vessels have precate ber AXP rther extension of the system, as fraught | 148, tor the construction of tloating dry docks, basins, and | General. In apswer to my inquiry, he ha Union, this Institution may be rafely commended to Ath vi rT 5 = i » at ard: 7 hi he jon of the corp jexico, and tie cous deen shown, they have been received with markod re. | Vit ineale Piet tty Wataner ge daselving fm Peneadela contracts Wee satabed isad by eae dopernaney | co eed ren treet hee ee cease the care and patronage of the Government, not less and afl juarter. Ina recent despatch, received from Commo- drawn and in ordinary at the Washingtoau wy yard. The sloop of war Saratoga, Commander Nich: son, hasaiso been withdrawn, and placed in ordinary nd to the atN 1am happy to report that no interruption has oce | tracts, they a © 1 f public money.” AML must appreciate a ‘The squadron in the Pacific ocean, under the com- | spect, and our oilicers have been treated with kindness | ‘y v with Messrs, tand Secor and Mossrs. Dakinand Moody, | Merico. is to be const hin the trag ine er the brilliant achivvements of its graduates, them mand of Commodore Jones, consists of the flag ship | 85d courtesy. They have, on all occasions, purmod « H The contractors have commenced their operations, and havo | resolution ef the 10 ot aeaaat Toate tahoe their happy example to others who are to follow them, Ohio, Commander Stribling, the frigate Savannah, | course of steady neutrality, in accordance with the of the great tage $0 fer advanced with the works as to furnish evideuceof their | the ariny in the war with Mexico,” and eptitled to the bounty” The outrages committed by the Indians in New Captain Voorhees, the sloop of-war St. Mary's, C licy of our government, and In compliance with the fas from. Tne contracts airendy ma ability to complete their contracts within the specified pe~ | land and other remuneration therein provided. Menieohate’e oe a noch Ghanban ling mander Johnston, the sloop-of-war Warren, Com- | #tructions of this department, propriated, are fully adequate to te the ex- | riods. The time for the completion sf tho wi Kittery | No adequate provision has heretofore been made for the | Me toe peeled lr veinpg mbgee-ysapde ng tek %p woe | rol i. te gg Uintee tha thied eetion or ch periment. I believe, however, it isa suljoct that should in | Will expire before the terntination of the next fiscal yoar. Im | discharge of these claims, and an catimate has thoreforebecn | the Massacre of reveral of the inhabitante, and depreda mander Long, the sleop-ot-war Preble, Commander Pe. a a4 third section le act of the 3d of March, | tho future be loft to the competition of ‘private e: terprise. | order that the department may be cuabled to meet rie engage | prepared, i tions upon the property of the settlers to a eonsid -rable Glynn, the sien. ‘ar Falmouth, Commander Petti- 19, the Secretary of War transferred te the Navy De- | | foci nsvured that in the strung! American eaterprise ments under this contract, that Ih the honor to be, von respeesfully. your obedient | extent The troopsin that territory have beemeonstant- -of-war Vandalia, Commander Gardner, | partment the following steamers, viz: the Massachu- | Amorican industry will eventually bo sucomastul. guiire amount catimated ‘pcemplete the, deek, $3900, | ere M. BALLARD PRESTON. | |v ocoupied during the past year, in giving pro ection to of-wer Vincennes, Commander Hudson, the | setts, Fdith, Tels ph, Alabama, Fashion, Monmouth, tere ze a) establishment, that which we are most im need | should be a ® PResipRYT | onia, 3 of slependent naval steam foi uch extent and | dock at Philadelphia orminates during th fiscal | “ (RE AS ae the settlements, aud in pus'ing their scouts against the pf a ne arate roar gh ete Haniel tio emineaetsies mpbing: Atthe time ofthe | or such magnitude, as the wisdom aud Livorstity of Congress ed an appropriation oft sui of BITL Ad ie asked for, | : apps hostile and marauding bands ‘These duties here beem 'y, and the steamer Maseachusetts, ‘The raree Iu. | elfie Ocean, on apeelal service conneoted with the War ocala sel eda 4 adendeal abana bowed Lae iat cahtasa” tah neti teatie eens | THE RUPORT reper yt et pia Soper 9) yon Png hay ig dependence, the broad pennant of Commodore | Department, The others were at New Orl All | ““ithove governments from whose in ite construction, ‘My the termsot tue tons aghal on and suitering on the part of troops operating in & Shubtiok, returned from the Pesific ocean on ahe auch | these steamers were purchased during the with was adopted, bave immense indepe rk ia to be completed by the let ot May, 1S5L, | oe ae broken and dieutt country, during the heats of sammer mi | ood amidst the almost impavsible saows of winter, Inthe | SE CRETARY OF WAR, | teveristtaicsshion tock place the tndia tary education aad discipl and men, and wpon which $f July last, after distingutshed aud important sorvioe | Meaico, for the transportation of troops and supplies se in the war with Mexico. Tho taken out of | forthe army. With @ exception o the Massachu- vere oe A ee | rally encountered in superior cumbers, and always jon. The eloop of-war Dale, Commander Rudd, | setts and Edith, they were wholly unfit for general na- | YiXdin sienm power lor cut nary, weg iain for one authorizing the appol | routed with considerable loss in hilled and wounded, also returned from the Pacific; she reached New York | val purpotes. Their retention was expensive, and they | tion, I caunot but consider it as premature and unwis: that all movey remaining Wan D Vr The attacks cf these marauding beads becoming more on the 28d of August, and was placed In ordinary. Or. | were rapidly deteriorating in value, Orders were given | (and thousand amde® Hae premature and un proceeds ef prises hereafter accruing shail te der | ie wr DeooomiverGs, sen, | Requaal ur the apeiun apnea aaa Mlanemeee ae ders have been given’ for the return of the Ohio, the | for theirsale. ‘The Alabama, New Orleans, and Major | wante of the government for a naval establishment. Lreasury, to be distributed under the diraction ef the 8 pee ae Maer 4a nea leeh the Blsrlon vecocs | the mausdas ch ene ative, Gee coken nes ee Preble, end the store-ship Southampton, in conse- | Tompkins have been sold, and the proceeds paid into |. Congress has herotofors, Se erce cece asecimereee Var meeennemmar oman’) Juni | heey de hoase $0 pessent the Sllowing report | ee ee caen ccakise deans ther ena ena uence of the expiration of the periods of enlisument of | the ‘Treasury. The Fashion bas been returned to the |!" ¥ we the neenssity o setang 0 9 Agents were called upon to deposite | je operations of this Department during the past fr ci P give { money in establishing navy yal of docks and machinery of ait’ kin dation and equipment of vessels for ite is afforded ever: a their hands. | year:— by the limited regular force under his command, called sl with by officers |” ‘Tho returns and statements of the Adjutant General | ipto tervice an auxiliary volunteer fores. Four com- ted prize agence ettheaa | Rerewith, exhibit the strength and distribution of the | Paules of this description of troops were engaged for ir crews. On the 12th of January, 1849, Commodore | War Department, for the transmission of troops and Jones was ordered to exchange the Ohio for the Savan- | supplies to Florida. The Telegraph and Monmouth ‘nah as his'fiag-sbip; the Obio was ordered to proceed, | remain to be sold. ‘The Edith was wrecked and totally | thur facility required for th i 1h d distributed 6 } a * ~ ton vee i pee military force. Agreeably to these returns, the pr six months, and distributed #0 as to protect the lives te ele ca yoy Geile pe coer fo Caine, 30 oot on the 24th of August last, on the coast of Cali- tg bende he ng y cad pall oeuies of tumeaariers area St prise ateacgs ced | #trength of the army is leas than the orgeatzatlo aud property of the inhabitants most exposed to East India. squadron, and Commodore Geisinger |. Under a provision of the act making appropriations ior he naa had sotually vided by law. ‘The deticlency arises from aitaek. deg i ther er of th by Nae ordered to return to the United States in the | for the naval serviee, approved March 8d, 1810, vie, sarelen tudes esete ace seuabaienl iksatene Ca etstaad | cea fents la the ete Obio, by the way of Ben, terms of service | “ that a competent offloer of the navy, not below the | frem eny other quarter. While the policy may have been | the of a large number of her having expired, it was | grade of lieutenant, be charged with the duty of pre- | wise to collect and prepare t rials in time of perce, | which have been deposited deemed jent to revoke that order, and in- zesing 5 autical Almanse for publication,” Lieute- | 6 88to be at our command in periods of dittculty aud omer- | by the For <Gtructions were accordingly sent to Commodore | nant Davis has been selected to superintend the work. | FeR°Y, the great ob Jones, on the 23d of Juny. to direot the immediate | The preliminary arrangements have commenced, and | \Urecubit® e | ebarges, bs, and desertions which have taken plase, o 4 the difliculty of imimediately supplying the waat by t The amunts x . a Seto in ae ot tats | mew enlistments. The devertious have been most nu- th Auditor of oF oth merous in Californ: h Auditor of tho Treasury, under the direction | oerume in Callior ‘088 Authorizing the ap- | den acquisition ‘eptember, @ movement was made pe Indiang, in their stronghold at ti je, which resulied inw treaty with that nation, where the temptations to embark | on terme similar to those granted Lo other tribes upon reunite and the facilities for the sud. | Ur frontiers, and the surrender of several captives. Wealth are rogreatly multiplied. Out | Attempts were made, under the orders ixsued from i Most of the inaterials required T compensation of prise | ofa force of twelve hundred regular troops in that terri- | this Department, im May li ; I have no doubt, from ° partment. im May last, to open communications Gaedecamaeleriecs aon Ipapsomnver! | cthoer, the work'will whedon a's as vapidite prone] Coat Waaceesten a atottuenavyapprved | tory since the Ist of January. the dosertions within the | with the indians remaiaing in Florida, with a tiew to Cn he passage home, Captain Voorhees hes proceed’ | toable, where s0 great eocurecy sud vreviae Giree, cbdieess tesa vs eles Se ee caine “ae first eight months have equalled two-fifths of thatnum- | ascertain their fueling’ ta respect to emigration, ine i : Apuil 16,°1616, diseote thas tthe der. {he policy adopted by the commanding officer of | Whilst the officer charged with the Instructions was H be paid to the | granting short furioughs to the troops in small num. avoring to obtain interviews with the several d agent OF agents, upon the order of the proper | bers, for the purpose of enabling them towork for their | chiefs in the vicinity of Charlotte Harbor, acts of or Ca yess, & HY gee gy A individual benefit at the placers, had tho effect to | viclence and murder were committed by a small band - | check desertions to a degree. but the emergencies of the | of the tribe he setth canta oka’ shoal aah e * ‘genet e tribe upon the settlements on Indian river Been se trnsted te thn, chaateceeneize moneys | service and the limited humber of troops for duty pre. | and. rare Creek, which had the effect to frustrate, of the Waited States ‘a vented the measure from being carried out to theex- | for a time, any effort at negotiation On receiving tent desired, and the evil of desertions consequeatly | intelligence of these outrages, from some of ths eontinues to ex inhabitants who had fled from the seenes of violence, seed Res The reorutting of the army is regulated by the ca- | arrangements were immediately made by the on wy vt Sotned | Mialties in the service, so that tho enlistments ean at | maxdin; ¢ Bt. Augastine, Tampa Bay and Key West, ot regulated. ty law) upon ¢ no time exceed the total fixed by law. ‘The delays in | to afford tha protection within their means which une oir which commission wasdedwerane | receiving these returns of cnsuaities will slways keep ees demanded. | Prompt measures were a ent ot the sharos. With regard te the prize | the actual force considerably below the legal standard. | t's Pxtartment to send reinticccamon ie to the troupe in Flo~ Teoont war with Mexico, it ap- | According to the practice which has long pre ya thie Dopareunged G14 net than anaeenn. tek tee laimed the great majority of entietments is made ta the ed to C in the sloop-of-war St Mary’s, for the pur- | quired. The report, as to the manner ia which h ; they are oo ef relieviog Commodore Gelsinger, who will re. | tenant Davis propores {9 execute the laportaut day | Secotstank fupravenenta in the cont Esa bg United States in th: el; but, inthe | entrusted to him, and the progress made, will be found | tem of acoumulation. Tha interest of the goverament world event of his having left the station, under a permission | herewith transmitted, te for the most 1d by the Department on the 16th February, the | The practical experiments authorized by thi jt. Mary’s will be retained aud coastitutw a part of the | act, for testing the capacit usefulness of the eleo- squadron under Commodore Voorhees. The Falmoath | tromagnetic power as a mechanical sailed from the United States on the 10th of May, the | poses of vavigstion and locomotio: proper an ‘Wandalia on the Sth of September, and the Vinocnnes | ance with the act, been entrusted to’ Protessor Charles tages now at our command, and apply thi on the 13th of November, with orders tojoin the com- | G. Page. sue Saran we ia pregres zee they now in store to euch an extension of our naval force as is d5- mand of Commodore Jones in the Paci. The store. | aro completed, the result will be reported to Congress. | wired. 4 penne tn pomp abip Supply, Lisutemant Commanding Kwnavdy, ie un- | | The act of August 34, 1848, directed the Secrotary of | , ,Th¢ twms aprropriased by Congress, and inalnded ym the | commission or por centag dor orders, and will shortly sai! with supplies and stores | the Navy to cause the observations to be made recom- | Lia, hail Wetncen Now York aad Liverpesl, botwooa Neg | thein before p: for the squadron in the Pacttic. Commodore Jones re- yy th Philosophical Society ‘ané ‘Chagres, and bo- | ae Png em the crews of the vessels uader his command ‘Phe necessary instru- i ve orth: d beon dictated b ro 7 n greatly reduced by deaertions, aud by mente bare been procured aud are on their way to San- ern Atlantic cities aud the adjacent faterior towns, P iacooveraa (ives The numben'op ta expiration of terms of servise of the me: aut tiago, in Chili, under the charge of two passe midship- poe the recruits are seut Lo the genyral depot for ja within the month of September, was up- also, that there exists an unwillinguess to re-enlist for | men. Licutenant Gilliss, the officer selected to super- instruction, and finally distribsted to the Soucbera hundred, 8 {roe deemed the navy. ‘The temptations held out by the prospect | intend tho observations, left the United States in of obtaining gold. aad the great demand for seamen, | Avgust last, to proceed, by the way of Chagres and Pa- render it impossible to enlist men on the coast of Vall. | Ba te the point selected. Noreport has yet been re- en, tis ; vealaing fall | and Western posts, according to the wants of th sufficient to give confiden nd to promote lion or the necieads T* | the emigration of the Indian vate ie vice. It pecerearily follows that considerable time in- Upon renewing the eflorts to negotiate with the Indians, to og oe Pape tion wy sod ioe a4 og tervenes between the enlistment of the recruit and his | the principal chiefs, with their sub-chiefsand wasriors. were hereafter occur, in ascertaining aad pros presenoe with bis company. Independently of this | wet inconneil. They at once agreed to deliver up the of amen, and of the government. 'T' ons of time and service, and the fatal influence which a | fenders, (tive in uumber,) whom they represented as havia ducing the recent war, were few in change of climate not unusually produces on the health eeaerey tee lerable value, consisting chiely of of the reeruit, his transportation and subsistence con- stitute aheavy expenditore. To remedy these divadvan- jed the sum of. ..... The amount drawn fom the treasury, vir., $451,500, was ke the advances to the contractors authorized by the 3, 1848. Ni SA vanes, howev fornia for the navy pay of from $10 to $12 per month, | ceived from him, He is instructed to advise the de- while the merchant service is paying from $85 to $150 tment from time to time of the progress made inthe an the sau ports, The evils resulcing to the naval | duty aesigned him. these causes are severely felt. G Under the act of Congress of the 34 of March, 1847, been made to remedy them, and every contacts fe made with £. K. Collin and Beso. any chief Three » wae killed by thority and disciplice could eaforce has | ciates, for the transportation ef the mail between New io f the tages, and to encourage enlistment, 1a the vicluity of | oe oe Ys navy, aad of U J y 7 “4 Boao! of .( be hy + -command of Commodere Morgan, consists of the tixg- | touching at Charleston, (if practicable) Savannah aud ft fecling itself, at liberty, bounty be allowed to each it enlist pg in con fe uout days ship rasee Independence, Commander Blake ; the fri- | Havana, sud from Havana toChagres, sud with Araold | Sra uireuinc natn bce ae he ee aot ee, 7 ve tog alge nadia oliey whieh has been pursued {Trobamy ° be continued for the remeval of these Indians to their brevhrem Will be seen ia the correspondence his report. 4 0 Conati- | Harris, for the transportation of the mail from Panama | of ov» year's servies. For the Liverpool line advances have " oria., mail boon made amounting to $142,000, in ejual sums, on the av | Hotawa te Chageee erveee tae tethe. ne all £00m | Ocsomers Aentic apd Pactse, whien aivanees are sovured Vy liens on th conti ite Cumberland, Captain Latimor ; the frig Fat , Captain Conover; the steamer Mississippl, i tain Long; the sloop-ot-war Jamestown, Commander | Havana to Chagres, across the Isthm: Mercer, and the storeship irie, Livutenant Command- The three sea steamers under th ptain Paul- | Panama and 0; si} line clore of the year 1848, It is believe: employed in the serviee required by th arg ing the line, No provision is made, either by the law vious period in our history, with t | pers | Or under ptract, for the command of the steam- naps, of the years 1604 aud 1905, during the Iripoli- | ers ¢n this line by officers of the YY, Bor for parsed ‘tan war. midebipmen to as watoh officers, There have ‘The steamers Princeton, Commander Engl eneral depot to the place ‘To guardagaiust desertions aad ite good conduct, it ia proposed that the bounty othoers. sbouid be divided into instalments, so that their seve. shed vo our Interest in the ral amounts would be increasing aunually xesording to :hlientions the govera- jength of service, and the largest emount be paid to the soldier ow his discharge. This bounty would also be « strong inducement to old soldiers to Te-eolist in their respective companies, an object always deemed of importanee Co the rervice It has been fo mer, the troops rive strengsh by there to such an atom plated military tisha: of those rs difficulty of sovertng so extended a froatier with the very waived Stapowablo rogulae urea, distributed ‘a - fmall commands at points remets trom exch other, mado te impracticable to carry into effect peconars for th Comuandiag General in Texas to avait himeelf of the » citizen, wi wful and honorable enter; less, i# to fall short of the objects and for w created. As within the hmits of our jurisdictio c 1 no plan been no reports made to this Department of the ser- | the construction of the iron war ste ppears to was furnished ; was net com- provinicms of the « the lth ¢ yrevioaaly ) oall spon the tenant C) team |. The contract was renewed on tho ldch of Novem be obligation is fmperative to extend the protect va 0 De ” poy ty Rekseerneen. te ‘comrens moe of the “ighe oontreaters for the Liverpool liue engaged at | ee ee eae Leaps ocr = laws, and the means necessary yo EG iments, by tran: ere ey others of the same | milveas Orders Cae ‘ aharg? ot hone Eeports of the necessity for extensive repairs The | the Department to build five steamships, of not less pirticn of wh the laws of | Fi Prerent orgauination being too limited. and | iieted sedis sshlok than steam ented tite take Prineeton has, since her return, uodergone a strict and | than two thousand tons measurem: or the ti | was procured, but no plan was submitted yy jed abroad the difficulty of Keeping the ceveral companies up to | vo ceased to exist; and it 1s resommended thy careful survey by @ board of competent aw tation of the mail between New \ ork aad Liverpool; and the Secr ory of tl Id all pay ofsoscoast their legal complement too great, to hazard a further | appr » ose bo Day thou for ers ; their report condemned her . She was, therefore, broken up, aud sach p of her as were unservicabie fo parpo: November, 1847,) and three others ‘were ordered to besold =Thesehooner Taney also re: as each may be required to take its place ia the line; turned from the Mediterranean. This vessel be- | thet the fifth should be commenced and built as eter rested wat mn miles, embrac- reduction, with @ du» regard to the discipline and wf ing tolteshorestne fieieney of the several corps. The protwetioa ot our to itthe commerce frontier lives, previous to the late war with Mexico, was them deemed a task eyual worthy of re- | first of the steamabips to be ready to perform the service in eighteen months from the date of aployed. No recent distarhances ported, and from th ¢ been | sy, by? 7 — throwgh their newly eloored head ebief, wiv the capacity of the | or the most friendly diaposit Teoently made sewm to impose | and a determination by them to eT to the Treasury Department, and, on her | early a may be practicable thereafter. By the 7th queutittes of - relation ating Ul ilitery im order predations wpon our e.tizem val. was turned over to that Department; | rection of the act approved March 3d, 1549. the Se ae Lys pf gh mH a rebgth may be adequate to the wants which | trowpe in thet country will there being, however, no vessel of the navy at cretary of the N oriaed so to modity the walt; cept the vast extension of our territorial limite require, | likely ise The oper rr ta command calculated for the service contempiated contract, as to the com: 7 piers | Seven eee ena une, 1860, whiek has accordingly nding the construction of P pinion that the Atlantic will be the first cso@inens, that it i# possible she may sail some time ia cement of the mail One territory (New Mexico) & ed by | Vf Btw ster 8. Che perils which are thas | revepted retard the growth of fromtier settlements, | which, im their infancy, are attended with severe pris | Yations, demanding the exercise of the highest courage | 1? \ d energy of the pioneer, Exposure to the rapine of | Tf rage should not be a euperadded evil, Th ty | ofthe Corcamen is to afford protection. To to do this effectually, it is submitted that the numeri the 2d section of the act making appropriations for Baval service approved Niarch Sd, indy, vis: for tess Ang new routes and pertecting the discoveries made by | fe now the the werld is contending. our oo ried to the surplus fa the chief of the Bureau of Construc! ts section of the aet of Congress, of Ancust 5, 1544, mand for troops in otiag much in respe on the row 3, heyont Lieutenant Maury, in the course of his investigations of the winds and currents of the oceaa, the Tamcy was ‘The 13th again received and assigned to that service. Lieate- following month of January; the Pacific will be | authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to saute persons in tha ant Walsh, en office: quatited for the duty, was | ready by the first of Mareb; that two others will pro- 1 service, or marine corps, w! 11 become insane while detailed instructions were | bab.» wv be completed earlier than the first of August, | in the service, to be plased ia such prepared for him, and he proceeded in their execution | 150, and that a contract has been entered tnto by Mr, on the 26th of Octoher, Colline fer the frame of the fifth vessel. No informa. The death of Commodore Bolton, which occurred at | ticn has yet been received of the probable od of her *y. re coeded via Port Kearny to Port Li Genoa on the 224 of February, repdered it neoessary to | final completion, The Department i» informed that he infantry be mou Oly ey a By order @ senior captain to ti ommand of the Mediter- | t po ing eg 4 to = yee Lt nerensang, te voorived, the regimens pe assed pasons Fore Mail, ‘veerels, e for w y are ; ¥ ully prevented, as sof the Columbia river, an: designed, by tipulaced ~ combining the greatest economy and security, With- | its ultimate Wks ccetansee Sor tan tee oeteonn ont Chagres line Seente, Wltaeek aakeas beastie nate, outs larger regular foree, the executive will find the and this number, itis occarions frejuent and necessary to make re: The reports of the attending surges ope of amen bound himself to establish a Ii epresent most of the sitions | “J of steamshi; | o traneportadd a of the on the militia of the States, who mre called iat wurvise | with it. York to New Orleans sogotation 0 . Yeh of M Set, comboreel, Se for short periods, with injurious interruptions im thele | the port of s corte , nd (the razee independence and the (rigate Cumberiaad ) br bn ws . ~ ordinary vocations, as weil as great expense tothem {« waty Re yo for, were hed; the former sailed on the 26th of July, a0, and the government. Experience that, for OS order, Eadthe latter onthe 10h of Augass. The storesnip | te Chegi d back, twice a month; that two of the the preservation of peace and publ jmiuity, Cite copelisepsnter Reset ther Erie, Lieutenant Commanding Meviair returned fru fteamebips should be completed aad ready for service strong milttary foree /opartinont, that © the Mediterranean en the Lith of July, aud oa the 6: on the firet day of October, 1544, of the Indi hilet ad ee id be of the tor near Fort Le: of not less than fifteen bi the Secretary of the oy & steamer of not less than ms burden for the service betwe Neu of one of the fiv mber she was agin derpatohed wad bur volved the government in Sand Gwinn was loft the senior ofllorr reports show that the vessels of his com: tively employed under viroumstane.s requiring the ex- erciee K prudepce and discretion bo pr tembarrass ip ali te for performing the services, ments with beiligerent powers iam bappytoray that ing sil the conditions required by the | nd no forci nite of deep interest to the prosperity of the nary, ° ort! to ite present orgaminati T higher vowel acted and costly Great embarrasment has heretofore arisen from the suppored actual rank which brevet commisatons oon. re fer. Their recent multiplication will increase the diffi order. culties end tnoonvenieuces to which the mnliltary rervice it ecoanary: hasbeen expseed. Apart from the contlicting claims means lor the defenes « territories, the erection, Of offers holding brevet commissions. it may be afiem- | ¢f Mir ifcations for the protection of auch of our hazbors om ed that instances frequently occur whe: ~ | Saree meg be Tagiented by the Baned « t areater t ton was publisn: is Chagres, 0 not jess than fifteen hundred tons bard contractor agreed to construct a steamship completo our commerce has been faily proteote: | tractor ferther bound himeelt to complete and have ia | re mount to rank. and wh intercourse has not been intertup'ed readiness for service the twe remaining steamships, by | ea woe abit . yt ery — 4 y lies in meting 2 remely, which, while it - legal conte m plat 0 of ated yer . seaahod the Depastanent ot tne oeespoctaabes TH Teun’ | ships dhsuld vo hope ep by nmiotione repaice ce asay. | ihe S08 of Peptember loon, 100. tens et hemp. of whieh on ‘is county fiom uibeceaaty 7 burdens and at tho coef yt tg To tay fey | thon, (of oi the papsage of fac tevstation, bn’ tpineen, wos suvertniaed rae portions of theis lives ts the missions are only honorary distinetions; and. examined several routes suggested and porti 4 “ons 1 coon h are ret closely, thi tbe basis on whi h restall brevets The te ie increace their energy ai presumption is reasonable and just, that every oflicer {hme ths instructions duty assigned bi bee dispensable stimulus to honeral ry sforme bie re quired duty, aud he whodoes mote is en- — spectfully submitied. ie condition of his command reiieets credit upon the wotien Uitled to honoreble reward’ 10 te then renpecttully cab, je caimates submitted for i mitted whether the object. im authorizing this cines of commissions, is not accomplished by retaining them as honorary distinctions, and restricting the officers hold- team. ‘The squadron on the coast of Brazil, under the com- by an oiflcer of the Na mand ca Commodore Storer, consists of the fag-ship tri- the grade of lieutenant, ptain Boarman, and the sioop-of- | to be selected by the contractor, f ‘ | heir lineal rank and pay, according to the der Cocke he brig Verry, conrent of the of the N) the machinery and fixtures required for 114 thor | tg thean to t pay m1 = at. Tiitos re. from thts | a Souiines Gots Soh at seen age I | ow yesch ie hops py Ee TS a et | oO eng commirsions by whieh t! SI for further service. The p Supply, commanded | to the government of the bet Eperience, tenant Sinclair, retarned from Brazil om the sth on board of en of aprrep: materially vatying the estim: Bipten The storeship Lexingvoa, Lieut Com. 3 pay ouly whea gmount, would impoce the necessity of increasing the corps + sridiag niltebell, wil all few days, with supplies without charge to the government, foar passed 3 militia ate united with the regular topographical Engineers, which is not recommended, or when the o are detailed for d ers having brevet commissions yorval of time betweon th for the equadron, It was the purpose of the Department by special asrigament with dit Navy to increase the force on this station, ith this view | officers. ip December last. before any of the versels u slamation of peace A why rt the article, pro sloop: ot- der command of this contract were completed, the contractors. desirous rf active service, on euch terms 4 cult Of expensive commande in remote departments or om wove the Fowsll, seitea from © United States in | to meet the wishes of the Department, proposed mee quantity senvail required for the nee y mags onght Liberal and just. divisions. According to Inw, brevet rank takes effect (ar, v ‘ t to Commodore Storer. as a | On the route, temporarily, the ocean steamer Faleon, | for the term of five) ears. Onder the authority vested in the | im it frepet to adopt ouch a system, it jm detachmente composed of different corps, but from | (een eet June, Tilly ‘sommend; but it became necessary tore: | and che was accepted until the steamships to be ova. | Department iy the beaotouion, hind there boom no ohinction 13 Sere eee eer eT ee can meee he SPR: tbelibere ton which has bitherto ben Fired. agent = war Deoat on the coast of Africa, | structed under the contract should be ready to take | {le ler Ad ih will greaaip seauce che on te the articie oe Cit cutonereiant cer of July, orders were issued to transfer | their places on the line et gon a extends: ifie division required the collections t 4 Afcloan statt y M army, with- of | per to dows. In view of the frots that iom of the locality where its met Fer peotfutly invite attention ¥ | has been compl ted, that the demande of our citizen r the rope yyy from the Bra! till the military officers were superseded by the proper Jered cer hy ra ofthe Treseory. and the amoants thus realised should ® report of the th te man dee Up Lody is concen be subject t tuily tive to the health every facitity for the transmission of the mails and Fie gral 0 Oe aaaenes othe 4 c a = ruhiee wy use the terms of service of ® large | Sone Ay’ closed many defects 4 btn 9 a {incnreanenes ealting te, th service is Fovemimes edt sheds set how mon bad expired. The vertels under the command of | ts toe, | evtained under the improvemante which might be readily effected weehout mat pas position of officers holding stadt ¢ i mordors Store: Doce eanteiy Saneeepee ee SOe Ce gg TY faitations should be | tially inereasing the eapendicure for the instivucron. In tro Missions whieh confer rank, Those officers ara not + supp * of tak corvien, or | mouth cf Ooteber a board of officers wag directed to revise and considered by established weage as eligible t» the com 0 trade, in protecting our com- of the the regulations, With # view to reorgamizs the sohool, t serviee to vessels Wes bent of tro nl ehwil, y whilst at th 7 ae he two branches of pe ony 2 peciaily nesigned, ” vame time they claim exemption from the ovders of thei juniors in the line who succeed to such o r the absence of any ciaarly defined authority by Congress for This state of thin caleulated to lojare | thie objest, has itiposed dellente and dimcale duties on the 5 on | SEY, One of ite seere ts, to ald. oiril, fenstie ~ #, when Fe se trang ntl ay. iaes the command; to obviate which,it | Bu Beliee so fav as ii bad ite law be enacted requiring officers of territory. The peculiar condition of tbe territories of California wn; New Mexivo, in respect to their interaal governments, an. uw vies, not ‘been accepted. Agent, reported o ot then coppers, and pe pet appreciation of the — i eneral steff rerving with troops to execute, accord. 5 ers, On Line ber: ragoment doriened d; resolati: intended | maxim thet we should “in t prepate for war.” ing to theit respective duties, all orders ¥ oe oee on the gh of to seoen tocepochinent teveeests ane, motte: ncier the anthoriiy given by theth ssction of the wat of from the senior oflicer of the line, which may rel. returned from ‘: ted roms tae Unieod 6 stant demand forall that may be required for the mary, | ets, on A have bees made from oertsin heads the discipline, police, and good order of his command, vember. ‘ibe brig Perry satied fre " ty for fair experi te the pr aud fer which he alone ip responsible bled In 01 oo on the Zith of November. The storeship Kell: le eavential to the protection and pros rT ‘adopti for ret ia. | nently enleviated to pro ollisions failed from the th of Septembe Se ion at ak hee higt all. those ditheultien, the hy th “{ormon the. oth of provided hy law ahoutd bu ent om re : irom the " timed habit of til geveanmens tm Wied she arsceees ote be leted aecording to the contact, I did w om pr eves te itt equedrons om the coast of Aftice Hel in Tolsiment thereot, and deotined to uedar thy efisers to | me Tey pe BS tf Por potre will «ranean. The bri the service as suggested. om vat. rassment or delay im the movement je officers: mit herewith the reports from the | ‘wore ordered to report to Perry, to be assigned to duty im reveral bureans of Thment, tomethar with the aati- Li por 7 y v pat formed by Commodore Cooper that ili heaita of th ufactureef cordage by the end of the mont watea fort ‘al aervice and for other objects placed unc or in od his longer remaining on (he const of Africa, 1a com ty ‘The plan propesed will greatly promote the olyects inveaded | the control of the Department, for the fiseal year ending on ‘ae. peotfall: a > #quadron, and asked to be relieved. Or- join the ship by Congress, as ¥ mvenionse of those | the Mth of Jane Init; the gross amoant of whiok ts a €0 retain them ‘these branches of the mill ae ae seontaingig ern themselves in the preparation of he: rr The extenst $Y, ope) which should be dedvcte@ the sums for | would but impede that sctivity aod efficiency which perfor atomed fi ; ee = of ended feoatiers ne- ye spectfal , Jere 4 was esnigned to Captain Uregorp. hpmen vo duty f cords wee Bat re $575.000 00 the SS of our recently ext: = 1 Pome bd ability, Lt 7 eT EoD, Secretary of Wan Lommodure Cooper | which Propesed, by the propeistors, LIBS S| Sitbout cu crippled and worn outia | TOtwE Pansies. I ose officers, (he ; a8, 842 1 the eqnedron), im lo De Comaand ose | the tend has a0 H Wer third trip. and hae not yee been | livery. sit vat and “ungraterul oe - ul completed, sn ave no itive sseuranc: y? if it wren) 12%) of the ar mediately transferred to Captain Gregory, & fervathed. on her eveurn w unird time ts New York. The | q,unset, thedirection of the Bureus of Or my, wad Political Intelligence. ed to proceed forthwith to t transpiring at the seat of government early in the inowth Of September, rendered it proper tu change for a time the destination of the Porwsmouth, and orders were given on the 17th of September fur ptain Gregory to proceed to (he viediterranean, with epatcbes for Commodore Morgaa; and, atver per. ind may be rendy in January * of justice towards ‘The Legislature of sau bas Le) an act imps. ty ee ~ | ing upon the Governor of that State the duty of esiling al service the eum g conventicn. in the event of the passage law by peel, anes The total amount 41 the retired list such as in his judgment may be die | Co om ‘reasur: | grees, abolishing slavery in the District of Vol ‘of instroetion | Feat ending the Rh of June, (49, as shown by. ement | quelitied from age, wounds, or other dismbility, w! ying the Wilmot Proviso to the Territory of staprrenerations fee the saval serviee grap with “t o er ae the Nav. Amownting to tho oum of cher vessels for this lise y 8 contract of assignment, made on tho 34 day of Septem- Is7, A. G. Sloe assigned by * the ited States to George Law, Marshall liveine, spon, C be asure of redross, Comptroller of the Treasury, ie hich deduet 269,023 99, William Tell big candidate for the tation asigacd font Tg Ce gs Baring Senate of Maryl from Anne Segedet county, te we of wl A temowcn sailed corps, oud th jing all laced under the control of no officer shall be from New York on the 20th of Bepromber. ; pancet ropates sale litigation ge well calculated’ to verbar- Suvariatend: s fue oharte aad thet y Dopaptmest fo that yout we ‘ ee of che ain uate fx = A ase of hon. Baserd Hemmasot, Hen The reports reovived trom Captain Paulding of (bo | Pear EC ithone the Anal sympletion of tive ovher yossuls, ic | HME iMatructions, evines the inctoaning confdends every- tbe Whoapended balance in the Thegsury of the approprl- mumber of ¢flicess to be comprebended in the Ist o