The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1854, Page 2

4 of some foreign aad bee been charac- by bim, that authority be (s coll tho preesed ti, Bea eh taore of Nershnces than of Justion. ee 8 nee aa ee toc the calle t -——- yaet te —y = ee houses at New Ha: present ted instances in the history om, Connsetiont; Butingten, Vesseats mending in the very ee 4 Lap ig oti , “77 ¥ Now York; ene 4 ve Communitics, (ar less offending and more h | ¥ 4 i ‘Wisconsin, ‘Wheeling, than Greytown, have been chastised with much ‘The resommendation of the Secretary of the Navy- in accordance ‘the report of Captain’ Bowmen, pa where mot cities only have teen nia be: to more ample provisions for the dis-, i < ee No. 39, ying this, he having been seat to ruins, but human life has been recklonaly sacrificed, aad improvement in the of sem hus presented " ‘the de- examine the ‘offered im the several cities, an@ Bhe blood of tbe innocent made profusely to mingle with | men, the re-orgsnization and increase The confer with the commissioners and others upen the thas of the guilty. ; of Caggpary 9p doom inently wo of your favorable are. | Subject; and ne are being taken to obtain the Passing from foreign to domestic affairs, your-atten- | consideration. The principles which have controlled to al. titles, with a riew oie oe in heving. te muild- tion is naturally direeved to the financial condition of | our policy in relation to the permanent mil force, for tha ings constructed. The No. 40 ex! the sites the country, always a subject of general interest. For | by sea and land, are sound, consistent with the ef oa and prices agreed to be paid in the several = complete nad oxact information regarding the finances, | gar aston, and should by no means be per cent report was made on the site at Buffalo, New York; cand the various branehes of the pul narvice connected | But, imiting the force to the objects particularly set tates (No. tt, Obie; and Burlington, Towa, for the reasens therewith, | refer you to the report of the Secretary of | orth in the preceding part of this we should bog ° stated im the same report. There has not ‘ane Cor Bhe Treasury; from which it will appear, that’ the | not overlook the present magnitude and prospective ex- ‘committed ‘the of man, im- office "| information from New Orleans since were amount of revenue during the last year, from | tension of our commercial marine, nor fail to give due| posing w all, and eapecially such. as the igaa a4 issued to obtain offers for a site for the marine hospited all sources, was seventy-three million five hundred | weight to the fact that, besides the two thousand miles | Buplie sit may have invested, for the time being, as | there. and forty-pine thousand seven hundred and five | of Atlantic «aboard, we have mow a Pacific coast, | with political fungtions, the most sacred obligotions. pemetied, "bes. 0 department having learned of an embesslement dollars; an@ that the public expenditures for the samo | stretching from Mexico to the British possessions in the | We have to maintain inviolate the great doctrine of the egy of bullion by one of the in the mint at Philadel- , exclusive of 44 on, ascount of the public | aorth, toouning with wealth and gnterpriso, and demand | inherent right of, ular self guveroment; to reconcile duly 1, 1865., pig by ia, determined to have the mint and course bee amounted to fifty-one million eighteen thousand | ing constant presence ships of war. The | the largest perthe itisem, with com- the tod A 302,202,010 20 010 20 ne bar the ag a of the aces tenet, wat detailed report made & two hundced amd forty-nine dollars. During the same | augmentation of the navy has not kept pace with the e security of the public order; to render cheor- | »,, Powynn pron pram of + 08,203, mg ge oy tes ere he jofooaniens, {zeaau, | view tothe of its operations. ‘eons: ied, tha payment made in redemption of the pablie | duties properly ‘and profitably assigned to it in time of | ful obedience to the laws of ‘the land, to unite yas ommpph nod . 1856: iq p ogee nk pr yey Ora & Bisherd Seaith an 3. 0.’ Rls moe 2 Sek nig mites th tt hoe | Peat mercy ae ny, eal ere | gate, a amet, "AL: | naan er apropos, toes ag | Calais aanined By tn tame. of the ee pony, sh? wits ogy ots wenty-four undred sm - * : seed pry bende ciety la: Tp Means | Rete i'r de ctany mtaye't | i tama, 8, Snare oma eens. erent | leat an od nnn on | in ae ing, HS a pra | few rpg re leno ie Fy pes Brain a 4) pat ve Colifornia. His letter of appointment, No, 30, : balance remaining in tho treasury at the | the proposed a tice vessels, | iversal religious ; to preserve the rights of all | , ‘ be expended this 7,934,411 70 | cisco, California. » | government of the Mint and branches. Thor ano.eet- sommemenray Sheree, Scents ane | ae cccumnenee, Gurine tie Last foe mevtbe, of marine | psicamslaws cock ie Tepec thot of fa ater to Aved tals rer. 41,723,616 47 | port upon the thle Peete cctction ee tae aio freebie pray ey a ote nine bu x | » forward every soci 4 1 @ight hundred and ninety-two dollars, andat the close | disasters of the most iragie mature, involving’ great loss | or human perfectibility, by the freo action of mind upon peers = See oe eae Senay oon by ‘The condition of the mint at Philadelphia, a1 te anfety ‘the same year, @ corresponding balance amounting } of humaa life, has produced intense emotiom of sym- mind, bet "by the ol ive fatervention of mis- . 869, 1 prey ai of perry ‘the as a depository and security from lly grog ol ey aie See oF ie eon aelnoe, Snes | waite toutes wvhetir’ ell these pan OR a app ped an hragge may be bbe 1856. ae of €93; 002,913 921 on the Ist of July, the books and public money, and the duties of the re- 7 gph igre ae 42) grt then Ly ‘this nine bum : . tations of our organic wi preserve . 3 Shore cxpenilitures, also remained in the treasury. | are wholly alteibutable to the necessary and inovitable | from ail touch of usurpation, as the very palindias of | . Upon this estimate of the receipts and expenditures of | spective oflcers. Ho will be required toexamine the | and ‘states the necsati ot anfiTing, the Game Altheugh, ia the opinion of the Secrotary of tho Trea- | dangers of the sea. ‘The merchams, mariners, | our political salvation, the reserved powers of the | the dscal year 1956 there will bea balance in the trea- senshern ofteps: on has been | Seater security as a it eens and sury, the receipts of the current fiscal year are not likely | and ship builders of the United States are, it Is trac, um: | geyeral States and of ‘the people; to cherish, with | sury, on the Ist of July, 1556, of $21,303,212 92, without | Sssistant fee ‘a office Penew trong tthe da | Of its Deing made Lat ape and mates to equal in amount thore of the last, yet they will un- srepennad ie reaching enterprise, skill, Jaselngpace | loyal fealty and devoted affection, this Union, as oxpe anythi A the ‘redemption of the public examined bad ane Browne, jaye niyo pene are submitted for the alterations, and also fon: doubtedly exceed the amount of expenditure 4 at | and courage, by any othersin the world. But, withthe | tie only sure foundation on wi the hopes | debt; $1 (000,000 sfiall be applied to the redempt of pert - eee eames Py —_ one the vaults of the Treasury bi at Wi fore sontinye "to divect ‘ist the surplus ‘reve. | segregate, aad tho lasger ais mad laeproted que | OfQT bert, rent; (0, adelainar oveRRmeRL | eo oe eye done, aera Tima | “Tho table, il, which accompanies ths’ feport exhibits | beopriaton for tie aepaits of ihe, branch iat as New » 2 4 ’ * ai | lant int ity and economy; cultivate ce | an estimat e 0 treasury of $9, nius'be applied, se far as it can be judlsoualy and | ment of the ahips now constructed,» dofciency | teil friendaip ‘with foreign nations and Yo demand | It appears that receipts from customs, for the second, | 2, imports and exports of coin from the 30th day. of not tomake if thoronghly fre-prest, ecdnomically done, te the reduction of the publicdebt, | in the supply of reliable seamen to be | and exact equal justice from all, but to do wrong | third and fourth quarters of the fiscal year 1864, were not ie ‘which ne ya repert, exhibits the and secure as a mint and depository, are the amount of which, at the commencement of the last very seriously felt. The inconvenience may, perhaps, | {9 none; to eschew intermeddling with the na- | diminished from the pressure in the money market and sae a Tae Uetiod lotae saint trots tke year Tad te Searle Bet Revere: The attention a fiscal year, was eixty-seven million three hundred and be met, in part, by due regulation for the introduction, | tional policy and the domestic repose of other govern- | other causes, as expected in my fermer report. They were . = oot: day of tember, 1854; and the table, 33, ap penn por) of the mint at iphia, forty Chousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars— | Into our merchant ships, of indented apprentices; | ments and to repel it from our own; never to shrink | kept up from im , TO! out of large ex- y ‘this report’ exhibits and the brani at New Orleans, and of the vaults of which there bad been paid on the 20th day of Novem- | which, while it would useful and eligible occupa- | from war when the rights and the bonoe of the country | ports of provisions, caused by tho scarcity in Kagland ccompanien this report, coinage | in the treasury, and such a; ristions recommendea ‘ber, 1854, the aum of twenty-two million three hundred tion to numorous young men, would havea call us to arms, ¥ a te i ‘and France, and the ex} ‘Cemands of Eu: ‘n | of the United States mint and branches, from our own | gq will make and perfectly safe. The gail sisty-tve thousand one hnised and seremiy two | raise the characte of eameu a8 lags. “And it de- | Fence, ack eal Ne ee erat eet any act | (war, en by aoe” ontpieeeas 4 init country of focign Bipes, from the year 1804 10 the Oth day of Seplember, | Raopricty of an auntal tppropration, for kgplng ine doliars—leaving a cc of outstanding public ol serving of serious reflection, whether it may no’ > ibera tions ; manufacturers, who, owing to the want of s remunerat- Seip trig tant tallion tine hundred sai tereaty-Gve | sirable terevise ihe existing laws for the mantnleance | cicVeie snd Ubetalise the Intarooutse of nations; aud by | lsmamtastererm Tasca’ cretion seughs the beeet of | _ Under the ach of 1868 there shat bewn, $16,158,170 of | nd depositories, ix submitted four Shundred and fifty-six dollars, redeema- | of discipline at sea, upon which the security of life and eontine the condition of the republic, to assure to itthe | ours. ‘The Bo two hundred and thirty-three thousand one hundred different ,periods within fourteen years. | property on the ocean must to so great an extent de- ‘ i nd the ‘uthority ‘They were also kept up by a greater uniformity and | Bint at New and circulated at Philadelphia, | grty-four places, including marine hospitals, where re also remnants of | other gorecament |’ pend. Although much aftention has already beon given aaa e anget all the Power of Christendom," | better valuation of i goods; and a diminution in | New re Boston ell Ghicago, Baltimore, Wash | relief is to sick and disabled seamen, under the Stock, most of which are already due, and om | by Congress to the proper construction and | Under the solemnity of these convictions, the blessing | *muggling, caused by increased vigilance on the part of fo tek my 5 — Char! os rn Pao direction of this de) with the average cost Which the interest has ceased, but’ which | arrangement of stoam vessels and all F ships, | of Almighty God is earnestly invoked to ‘attend upon | the revenue officers. The foreign and internal immigra. | Orleans, Si. hauls, » —— ville, Cincinna citinans at-vari. | Ono See ras the several pisces. ms pecans Bave (not yet bnen presented for payment, amounting | still it is believed that the achievements of sclenec and | your deliberations, and upon all the counsels and acts of | fiom to'the new States snd ‘Territories, combined with | Slo, anos furoiahed tisens aversae 5 a een at most She plese, | mechanical skill in this direction have not been exhauat- | ihe government, to the end that, with common seal and | Fpeculative investments in the public lands, r greatly in- a onan th what i seventy-nine dollars. This statemont exhibits the | ed. No good reason exists for the marked distinction, ‘bmniasi reased the receipts from that source; so that, instead | Tency for circulation, and afforded great con- | Every effort has been made to bring the cost within fair tbat the annual income of the government greatly | which appears upon our statutes betwoon the laws | common efforte, we may. in, humble, substation to the | “areduced revenue, as anticipated, ‘the Feoelpts have | Yenlonce do the: public; but the circulation of large | and reasonable limits, but the t discrepancies are exceeds the amount of its pablie debt, which latter re- | for protecting life and ty at sea, and those for | good of these United States. FRANKLIN PIERCE, | been greater than in any previous year. — small notes has contracted the benefits | found in those places where there are but few pationts mains unpaid only because the time of payment has not | protecting them on most of the States severe | ~ Wasmxaron, December 4, 1864. Italso appears from the statement of the receiptstof | of the allver change in many places, or driven it away, | to accommodate, and whore it lias been found in yet matured, and it cannot be discharged at onee, except penalties are provided to punish conductors of trains, ‘ ‘3 uarter of the fiscal year 1854, that the re. | oF tied it w pockets of the people. ‘The full bone- | to reduce the items constituting the largest average ia the first 2f the option of public creditors, who prefer to retain neers and others employed in the transporta- | ON motion, the Message was referred to the Committee | coins’ hoth from customs and laads, bave been greater | At of the silver coinage for change can nevor be realized | tho ex; f the securities of the United Stater; and the othor feot ey ns by railway, ne ‘by steamboats on rivers, | of the Whole on the State of the Union, and 20,000 extra forthe quarter than a fair_ pro; Of the estimated | Whilat Geer! bank fnotes henner = bank | ‘The report of the su ins) of steamboats, not Jee striking, that the annual revenue from all Why should not the same principle be applied to acts of | copies ordered to be printed. receipts for the year. This grown out of the oa made current by patronage of the com- | under the act of 30th ust, No. 44 0 neurces exceeds, by many millions of dollars, _ the inaubordination, cowardice, or other mnduct on the | , On motion, the Speaker wax authorised to appoint a | S8me causes ‘that’ kept up the receipts from customs These tables give data fi hich an esti changed by she Dy a letter from Mr. . Me meet 5 amount needed for # prudent and of masters and mariners, produ j od lands for the last three quarters of the fiscal yoar by this Dopartment with the dat, tention of the governieont. Featn to on the high oes, cee A Bd Standing Committee, and the House adjourned, aod aed as to lands, to ss extent, by the ‘cteet | pai cane yeep apes armen fare open silver id The Terertevent also po Profeaser’ ‘The estimates presented to Congress from the different diction of any of the States, and where such delinquen- a of the act gra Sie price, which operatd in favor a country. fey hea) with the | Booth, melter and refiner at the mint in Phila- executive departments, at the last session, amounted to ciescan be reached only by the powor of Congress f of the receipts for the half of the quarter. | Fits — meee accompany report, exhi. | delphia, to experiment upon fusible em a is thirty-eight million four hundred and six ‘thousand Ave ‘The whole nubject is earnestly commended to your oon- REPORT The receipts from customs for the remaining three | bite estimates made by Secretaries of the treasury | connection with Evans’ safety valves, ‘oth- bi ‘and cighty-one dollars; and the appropriations _ sideration. quarters of the year cannot be im proportion to those others, of the amount of gold and silver coin in the | erwise, with a view of testing the same, and ie to the sumof fifty-eight million one hundred and | The report of the Postmaster Genoral, to which you * or mE of the first , owing to the reciprocity treaty, in. | country at different periods, and gives the amount on | oxier ‘to have reliable alloys, should it he detec- nixteen thousand nine hundred end fifty-cight dollars. | are referred for many interesting details in relation ‘to < troducin trade with the British colonies, and Lapramiglicay st 800,000, which is | mined to continue their use, His report, No. 46, alee Of this excess of appropriations over estimates, howev- | this important and rapidly extending branch of the pub- | . 2, the short crops in almovt all portions of the country, [steeper npn they giao ae hags ted scoompanies this, and gives valuable information ef, more than twenty million was applicable to extraor- | lio service, shows that the expenditure of the year ead- | SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY | wiich must materially affect the exportation of pro: | WA# sbout $60,000,000 in the banks, and $26,000,000 in | the su ‘The atteation of Congress is called to tke insay objects, having no reference to the usual ing June 30, 1854, including one hundred and thirty- visions, and the return importations, and diminish the | the United Staves Treasury; the rest being in circulation | gy, in the report of the supervisors, the letter annual expenditures. Ameng theso objecta was three thousand four bundred and eighty-three dol- ON THE ability to purchase and psy for forel The ef- | #mong the people, or hoarded up. - Gouge, and the of Professor ‘The de- embraced ten millions to meet the third article lars of balance due to foreign offices, amounted to fect of @ scarcity of provisions, with comsequent high | _ It appears from the report on the banks from this de- | partment has been fi with the table, 46, whick of the treaty between the Uniied States and cight million seven hundred and ten’ thousand nine | TATE OK THR FINANCES OF THE UNION, | prices, has always been to dimthish the consumption of | partment, submitted to Congress on ine Oth of May, | accompanies this report, showing the loss of sixty-three Mexico; #0 that, in fact, for objects of ordinary hundred and veven dollars, The gross receipts during | + | Diner articles of customary use, and may be expected | 1804, that in 2850-51, thero were 879 banks in steam vessels from the int of January, 1864, to Juno of fuapenditure, the ‘appropriations were limttted to eansi- the same period amounted to stx million nine hundred | — to operate on the importations for remaining | United States, with a capital of 227,607,503; and in | the same year, with the causes This table exhib- derably less than forty millions of dollars- T therefore and fifty-five thousand five hundred and. eighty- | ‘Tanasvay Derarninevr, Dec. 4, 1654, | three quarters of the yéef, aa it certainly will on the | 1858-64, there were 1,208 banks, with a capital of | its ten by collision, seventeen by fire, five from toe, renew. my recommendation for a reduction of the duties | six dollars: exhibiting an expenditure over income | ses_tn obedience to the “act supplementary tothe | consumption. $801, 756,071— bot an {naname of $75,948,598. In | twenty-three from snags, and states nineteen of theas on imporis. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury of one million seven hundred and fifty-five thousand | gct entitled ‘an act. to establish the lressury Depart. | The reports of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fitth | 1850-61 the clroulation of the 879 bank# was $155,105,- | were fost from inattention and nogligence, ome presenta s series of tables, showing the operation of the | three bundréd and twenty-one dollars, and a diminu- | tent,’ approved May 10, 1800, the following report is | and Sixth Auditors, and of the First and Hecond | 251:, deposits, $128,967,712; due, to other banks, | from accident, one from being anseetigy eat Fovenue system for neveral successive years, and as the tion of deficiency, as compared with {he last eno pase Late d oh Ri iboe Pomptollecs, ana the’ Comedaonae’ cf Goatees; 12 O28; and fopeiher, $830,590,601 ; and it | two from unavoldable causes, “This exhibit, = principle of reduetion of duties with a view te three bundrod and sixty-one thousand soven hundred | ‘The balance in the Treasury on tite stot yihich acgomipany this report, numbered, from 14 ta F 4 Arte tion of | the 1,206 banks was $2047 | much remains to be done, under the steamboat act, te revenue aad not protection may be regarded as the set- | and fifty-six dollars, The increase of the revenue of 1858, was. $21,042,802 56 | 22, inclusive, ¢: Statement of the opera secure capable and efficient officers on steam vessels for ‘ ° Jul : 80,08, tled policy of the country, I trust that little difficulty | the department, for the year ending June 30, 1854, over | " 4 condition of their res; ices. other banks $i 162, and together | the preservation of life. ‘Thesc, and the recent losses will be encountered in setding the details of a measure | the precling year, was nine hundred and seventy thou: aie Peet Py fOr. ARE | ae ee eed arain eedinoeas teteae be 999,113, making an increase Ef Tg eto zee, with | upon the ocean, properiy raise the question whether the te that elfect. sand three hundred and ninety-nine dollars. No propor- 19,718,822 00 | promptly and, it is correctly done; and, . val B50 6,071 ore, and in | law should provide greater security in the construction In connexion with this subject, I recommend a chagye tionate increase, however, can be anticipated for the 1/480,562 05 Besides, ‘considerable been ‘made in clos. | 2! pepesthpad th 258, being an increase of $10,739,208. | of gtoam passenger vessels, or leave thom, as now, tq in the laws, whieh recent experience has shown tobe @s- current year, in Consequence of the act of Congress of "1471004 87 | ing the large unsettled belances that stood open on | These tables exhibit a bank circulation of $204,680,309, | the ship owners, weatial to the protection of the gerernment. There i | June 23, 1854, praviding for increased | compen: the booke of the treasury, as stated in my former re- uae bah gt EP x in | “In my former report the attention of Congress was no express provision of law requiring the records and | gation to all postmasters. From these statements it | v $21,856,378 92 | port. That rej stated the outatnning islence ox = country. eo | nent fy of Phrase called to the inconvenience from two of local papers of « public character, of the several offoers ofthe is apparent that the Post Office Department, instead | And the estimated receipta for the other three quar- | the Ist of April, 1863, at...............182,021,70% 09 aie treeviag t paying for the fiscal more | inspectors—one under the act of 1838, and the other ua- government, to be left in their offices for the useof their | of defray its expenses, according to the design | tere were:— ‘ana (ied this bad bee a ie than 875,000,000 in the current coin, has kept up thede- | der the act of 1852, nak Sie peeelete, of having but one successors, nor any provision declaring it felony ontheir at the time of its creation, {s now, and under exist- | From customs tne dato of that report PO oy 500,154 60 | Mand forit, and sted the fates bank circulation | set under the same supectn . The part to make false entries in the books, or return false ing laws must continue to be, to nosmallextent, ® | }rom lands. ; secre) Pace from obtaining the mastery, and driving the constitu. | which the supervising inspectors are authorized to make, department, aad its accounts. In the absence of such ex] provision by cha: upon the general treasury. Tho cost of mail 7 law, the outgoing officers, in many instances, have claim: tcanrporation, during the year coding June 30, 1864, | Miscellaneous. Levin ex ~~~ >. te > | tional currency frcm the Inour table of ex. pproval e | Pop att $02,021,649 59 | ports a fiad oe tacreasdie tie Report ok ents over the | pnoesd sisa have the 0 “esther ed and oxercised the right to take into their own possen- the cost of the preceding year pa four hundred | Making the [actual recetpts for the first bad been vee ced by vettlements, collec- og Fr Reso not exoseding the produce out pic cele in enforei sion, important books and papers, on the ground that | and ninety-five thousand and seventy-four dollars. carter: and ths eatichated seceiatll may bese sccount on the Pacific ‘was also stated, and is again recom Seyend ihe see's ine gerenens Conheee et ttt | peti Soca tte aa Soni es iartes. quai ces tee quar... wre hagas #2 | In hgtica tne Pest and and fhe beak cttulation, a ntge part of which wan ix | Founly for cllaes: ste aetct 1965 aha ost gharacter, brought in veveralinstanocs to the notioe of tions of the Postmaster General to your early attention, | 444 bolance in the treasury... haisay aoe Fiat? Comp. small notes circulated at e discount in placos remote | ‘applies to the destruction of life on the vessel the oflaee seuBs is sane” aon SurS ela Aass gtca natel ad icteate cect ey yfolforervnt thayenr... SaomuaTL a | | Eeerof hese 052201 Geechee. aan o | Meet a tantinenroscceenee 8 actual expendi ey 2 aad Milvankie? the’ transury had by fale entron Beek handel aad” nieey. Goes nea et ion one year 1850 wore $16,061,088 70, and, the estimated ex- | In'the fice of the First penditures apon tie consttaionyl eureucy of gold and | of Monscua: ie United States have enjoyed o long pected Serreadns etdhin tha feee seere Buck trchiae este | pra ont ite itn caedae” ee Serenteon acres | penditures for the remaining three quarter ‘Auditor, per report of Pirervit la in the power of the Beaten, by. prauibi ey oer eect temo ens 2 e Me er a 4 te ik y brougl i is hese <i number of acres sold is 7,251,258 16, making for the actual exdenditures of the Osiiimissiontr ‘of the ba iseaiug and circulating otek cee ity, under — bank other credit ae ee ee ead ve Woolies hy oh ord ater : 7 age ve thousand soven hundred and the’frst quarter, and the estimated expenditures for the | Customs veces 2,623,872 72 de as by smaking the tational e y | backed ae immense srk yom of from the — oso ioe cet oar Ni 7 Ay ic ~b \e- ~ nt Ay e peas Seavieed therefor nine mil- other three quarters, $72,392,666 86; which would have | tn tho office of the & a, canna Dasis of their Fevegree ol bey po ae tiga a pecn o meee ~~ ~ to large speculative Df the abstraction of Pooks and. papers’ by the reting | and. Uhirty threo. dolites, “The, aggregate. amount ot | eft an estimated balance in the treawury om the Ist of | “third, and Fourth: Audi Give the victory in all times to the constitutional cur- | gtocke and other sutorerison, cat to cubencel mites OGfcers, and the facility with which sinilar frauds fands sold, located und ate amount of | Juty, 1864, of $11,260,608 62. tors, rt of the reney, keep) a sufiicieney. in the country | for rent, labors, ‘and. wriesnemet —— an » faci y . af bo is | lands sol 1 aay under eat scrip ani land | “ yhe actual receipts into the treasury forthe fiscal year ‘Com ler..... 4,924,205 01 for alt thee pa =f a cltculating me. | Iter meteor nat and all the necessaries of cua‘ new eral anctona the pivet stove re Rody" loating unter agit (or toads fi'gp: | Sine 000 of June 156, were ae flows tie of tn uli ainm, and jrenet te evs that teats | crime tha easy with & fonpect os continued ferred to, quite obvious. For’ other riaterlal modifica. | wards” of twosty-thres ‘nilliona of acres. he | aieeniaccneier 8 79 pA Rae ren attend an inferior cusrency. The diso.der now felt | check; whilst the and extended indebtedness of tions of the revenue laws which seem to be desirable, 1 jacrease of lands sold, over the previous year, is abgut | Gales yee In'the ope of the solicitor Rebaeckavcan acts tof tab etree! brag bey as tobe ‘under receding prices, without refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. | six millions of acres; and the sales during the two first miscellansous, ‘of laaltsecne: ; 351,285 50 a po is Se rattan ‘he fast ae iad agar Ti porte mtr apeiana be bapa na ais will ase ‘That report, and the tablee which accompany it, furnish quarters of thecurrent year present the extraordinary | ample proofs of the solid foundation on which the finan- | result of five and a half millions sold, exceeding 74,458,400 97 | have reached forty or a and in In the estimated receipts from customs for the three Biren boo Bo prod secrtity of the eonntry rests, and of the salutary in- — neazly four millions of acres, the sales of the correspond. | &4 quarter—from customs part out of the effects y the large imports, | remaining quarters of the current fiscal year, the ef- Subuite of "Ws tatependin? Sreasury iayeieca upom com: | ing Gonrvers Of the last yesx, thus incceading to'sn © - pH Leaving yet unclosed..... «$27,603,148 42 | EXG'in part out of the want of confidence between lender | rermnz reciprocity treaty and reduced ‘ amerce and all monetary operations. tent unparalleled during any like pertod in our past his- eatrampeny, The M/S of the First and Second beg d and | and borrower. It cannot be attributed to the shipment | tions have been considered; whilst, also, the same The experience of the last year furnishes additional tory the amount of revenue provided from this source | of the Commissioner of Customs, upon the subject of | of gold and silver, which is nothing but a consequence | causes will operate in th of the public lands; growing out of these causes. . but the effect of the act graduating the oth i has beem The independent troasury has been administered in | considered sufficient to keep up the receipts from the those balances, numbered 23, 24, and 26, and Sf " t 1 Treasury. reasons, I regret so say, of @ painful character, for the for'the federal Treasury. Jeetany tile Dopit: pive reason to hope’ ies | recommendation heretofore made, to provide forincreas- ‘Tho commendable policy of the government, in relation | 1 quarter—from customs, : from lands the military force employed in the terrilory inha- _ to setting apart pnblic domain for those who have served : : year they will be still further reduced, and strict accordance with the provisions of the law, in all | latter source to what they were for the fiscal year 1864, nifty the Indians, ‘The octtlers on the froatier have | their comity iar thas of war, is illustrated by the fact, | miacellancor system of accounting enforced. respects, as stated in my former report. There has been | ‘The estimate of receipta for the fiseal ‘year 1666 has wut much from the incursions of predatory bands, that since 1790 no less than thirty millions of acres have | $10,395,725 12 The force in the office of the Sixth Anditor and | found no difficulty in its operation, nor in complying | been made from an expectation -that the same causes and large parties of emigrants to our Pacific pesses- been applied to this object. | ae tail i $14 o20'sa2 17 | Ett Comptroller is uate to the increased | with any of the isions of the law. Tho opening which will operate to reduce the importations and cea- sions have been massacred with impunity. The recur- The aiggestions which I submitted in my annual mea | 4th quar py Seek ty Oya asl bo | Uasiness in the former, and the increased business | the treasurcr’s office at Washington, and the offices of | sumption of foreign goods for the remaining three quar- rence of such scenes can only be prevented by teaching | sage of last year, in reference to grants of land in aid of | ianeianet "i49'666 10 | 224 srrearages in the latter; and it was not possible the several assistant treasurers and public depositaries, | ters of the fiscal year 1866, will be tontinued through these wild tribes the power of, and their responsibility to, | the construction of railways, were less fall and explicit | mall eens, to give the required adal force by transfers | as places of deposit for the disbursing agents of the | part of the succeeding year, and sensibly affect the im- the United States. the garrisons of our frontier than the magnitude of the subject and bys at de- | ‘Fie, o84, 720 66 86 from other offices, ering, ls ——— curtailment | government, has been attended with success, | portation and consumption of posts, it is only possible to detach troops in small! bodies velopments would seem to render proper and desirable, Maki $73'549°705 20 of five clerks in the Auditor’s office, one in | and resulted im great advantage to the executive The socmnenying sane 8 the particulars of and though these have on all occasions displayed a gal- | Of the soundness of the principle then asserted with re- Balante in’ is ‘teeasury Ist Of July, 1859., 21'902'842 66 the Second Auditor’s office, and one in the Second | departments and the disbursing agents. The table, | the public debt on the lst of July, 1853, and the accom- lantry and a stern devotion to duty, which on a la ‘d to the limitation of the power of Onagron, Tenter- wee in the treasury Ist of July, + 21,063, Comptroller's, from the failure to estimate for them, | 85, which accompanies this report, shows the Renying baer exhibits the particulars of the public Geld would have commanded universal admiration, they tain no doubt; but in its application it is not — Total for th ice of the fiscal wo and from Congress onl, nting eleven of the twenty- bole ‘of the deposit system, the number of lebt on the 1 of July, Spovaies' hare usually suffered severely in these conflicts with » that the value of lands in a particular localtty may otal sure For the iss. e Ascal y 95 402,507 76 | 2°, clerks recomme: by the d mt, ‘The at- bursing agents who saved, with the places | exhibiting the interest the debt perior numbers, and have sometimes eon entirely sac- onbanced;, that, in fact, 9 larger amount of money | ending June 20, 1854... 6+.+05+044.4. 05.402, pention of cosareme, ia calles eS. the = sereth cat feneaile, sh, Ctieoas is, a the fiscal year 1854, . 10 Teceive ® given time, ter a ni as in these - | minum on rificed. Allthe disposable force of the army is already may probably be received, ina gi ime, for alternate eet Bessie nl a oper Mo cmane | Soedes saeo0too: iat employed on this service, and is known to be wholly in- | sections, than could have been realized for allthe soc. The receipts for the customs were. respect all disbursing agenta who | exhibit the interest a iene oe: ther adequate to the protection which ‘should ‘be ‘afforded. | tions, without the impulse and fa@uence of the Proposed | te lands... It 1s recommended that Congress allow five additional | could, have not availed themselves of the privilege, and {rane redeemed the Ist aly, 1854, to the ‘The public mind of the country has been recently shocked improvements. A prudent proprietor looks beyond limit- miscellaneous... , clerks ayd two additional messengers to the Sixth Audi- | many bg ed agents could not do so because there | November, 1854. by savage atrocities committed upon defencolers ed sections of his domain, beyond present results, to the | Balance in Treasury.......+4. tor, and two additional clerks to the First Comptroller. | were aries conveniont to their location. | From those tables ft appears that the sum of $20,096,- emigrants, and border settlements, ro hardly less ultimate effect which 9 particular tine of policy da likely | $05.402,607 76 ‘The attention of Congress is also called to the ro of | The returns of these deposits furnish the means of | 42273 of the public debt was redeemed between the rat by ‘unnecessary destruction of valuable lives, whet to produce upon all his possessions and interests. Wie neta ait t " 492, ‘ the Sixth Auditor, as to the necessity of addit room | ascertaining-the operations of disbursing agents, and | of July, 1853, and the Ist ef July, 1854, and that the i uate detachments of troops have undertaken to government, which is trustee, in this matter, for the (+ aan jual expenditures for each quarter for the accommodation ef the clerks of his office, and the | whether the funds are kept,in readiness to* ‘meet the | interest’ and oe on amount redeemed furnish the needed aid, Without increase of the military people of the States, in bound to take the same wi ENG SORE WOR $15,081,388 70 safety of the accumulating papers and records, with a | a) ations; whilst, upon the removal, rosignation | was $3,345,646 23; and }, interest and pre- force, these scenes will be repeated, it is to be feared, on _and comprehensive view. Prior to and during the last 301" 4 recommendation that Congress make provision for the | or death of a disbursing agent, the amount on deposit | mium on that of the debt redeemed between a larger scale, and with more disastrous consequences. session of Congrees, upwards of thirty millions of acres | jo'449'947 #2 same. ae ¥ be peo at once into the United States Treasury and to | the Ist of July, 1854, and the 20th of November, 1864, , I am sure, will perceive that the plaincst land were withdrawn from public sate with a view to 35'852'402 90 It would facilitate the business, and render less com- | the credit of the depositor, without the Lg gprs was $2,604,208 51. ul and responsibilities of government are involved in applications for grants of this charaeter pending before ee 75,964,620 26 plicated the accounts of the department, should all the | caused yy laee to awalta settlement by _ the agent The table 6, which accompanies this re exhibits this question, and I doubt not that promptaction may Congress. A careful review of the whole subject led me ————875 364, accounts of the Intcrior Department be given to the | or an administration, and can at once be applied | thetonnage in our foreign and trade be confidently anticipated when delay must be attended to direct that all such orders be aby ted anil the lands lane bali to the Tre! Tull —————--== | Second Auditor, and all the accounts of the War Depart- | to the Purposes of the appropriation through another | from thh year 1789 to the 20th of June, 1864. It will by such fearful hazards. restored to market ; and instructions were imme- eae be CO Te'ERO TORRUEY OF UURy 20,187,967 be | ment be given to the Third Auditor, as recommended in | agent. The money thus on it 1s as safe and | be seen the increase for the last year has been 395,802 ‘The bill of the last session, providing for an {nerease.of diately given to that effect. | The applications at the 740 Taual and ordinary expenditures Llane inpth soe say former report. | secure as that in the treasury, and is without risk to the | 20-95 tons. re a8 follow:— ‘he attention of Congress is called to the fact that | depositor; and it is right the government and not the dis- The table 7, which accompanies this report, exhibits ‘I file or the army, has had bene- last aession contemplated the esnstruction of more | Be Rey ot ee rat eniy in feciitating en e 7 Wil lists... seeee $4,649,384 98 | the Commissioner of tho General Land Office and ficial results, not only in facilitating enlistments, butim than five thousand milea of road, and grants to “4 i i 0 | bursing agent, should be at the e: 6 and risk of kee] our exports and imports for the same and the obvious apeoveunsy in the class of men who enter the the amonnt of nearly twenty millions of ‘acres of | ite a ' wane = his clerks still ocoupy a portion of the Treasury build- | ing the public money until actually disbursed Itis table 8, which also accompanies this report, exhibits the. service, I regrot that coresponding consideration was the public domain. Liven admitting the right on the Miscellaneous... + 38,631; ing, and that the First and Fifth Auditors and their | be regretted that all disbu: ‘agents conveniently | sums received into the treasury from customs, publie not bestowed on the officers, who, in view of their cha- | part o® Congress to be unquestionable, is is quite clear W wior department, clerks, and part of the clerks of the Third Auditor, | situated have not availed themselves of the right to de- | lands, miscellaneous souroes, including loans and - racter aud services, and the expenses to which they are | that the proposed grants would be productive of good, | Yar hetero have to be accommodated in rented buildings, a; | porit, because it furnishes cause of mistrust as toastrict FA notes, and the tariff and particular price of the pub- meceasarily subject, receive at present what is, in my and notevilr The different projects are confined for the lary ceparemen: from the treasury building; alse, that the clerical force | compliance with the law, both in respect to the deposit lands under which the same was received; also, the j t, inadequate compensation. resent to eleven Btates of this Union and one Territory. | Redemption of pu in the building cannot be accommodated in suitable con- | and use of the public money, and does not give tho | annual expenditures durig the same JTfe vaiuatile ‘services eonstancly rendered by the The reasons assigned for the grauta show that {18 DIO | qu4a) exyenait “Ta aeaaan as | Bertin, Under the expectation that the land ofice | United States the benefit of ‘promptly obtaining the | "From the tab of exports and Teeneetorts apsears the army, and its inestimable importance as the nucleus posed to put the works! speedily in process of ‘otal expenditures 354, will be removed in the course of next spring, an esti- | amount not disbursed, upon the removal, resignation, or | imporis are $6,321,317 in excese of the ex; ne around which the volunteer forces of the nation cam construction. | When, we reflect | that since the | Halanee in the treasury on July 1, 1864, $20,137,007 as been submitted for the expense of affording | death of the incumbent. account being taken of the precious. metals eis ment mat ther in the hi of dangor, sufficiently at- commencement of the construction of railways | $0, as appears, in detail, per a! 5 additional light and ventilation to the treasury building, ‘The work on the coast survey continues. to make good | hy emigrants, The profits on our exports, and the ER the sistom ot eatntaiaiog ‘a military pesce cetab- | ja the United Btates, stinulated as they have been y W” The estimated receipts for the fiscal year ending June | eo that the rooms will be more convenient and comfor: | progress, and the means appear to have Geet carefully feeig earned by our ships in foreign trade ought lishment; but the Shecry of our system and the wise the large $e heme Het carliet works — 50, 1865, were as follow :-= Sapeee and oi spe appropriation for that purpose = Cengene Sant ft - Ng shall have the ye pe Ces the excess. ame exports ane over ire that any laugmentation the great thoroughfares, an ween the most import- O oma. recommended. ‘inued suppor Jopgress for a fow years more, e and bi ex) G whilst, practice under it require that any proposed augra gre Ls | From customa The aystem of monthly accounts from the Collectors of | fullest andvmost reliable knowledge will be obtained of specie and a ged products of Poort our mines, In time of peacs be only commensurate with our ex- ant points of commerce ‘and population, encouraged by | From lands.. fended Limits and fronticr relations. While scrupa- | State legistation, and pressed forward by ‘the amazing | Miscollaneow lously adbering to this pri Ifind, in existing cir- | energy of private enterprise, only seventeen thousan cumstances, a necessity for increase of our military miles have been completed in all the States ina quarter | $5. force, and it is believed that four new regiments, two of | of acentury;—when we sce the crippled condition of | Ad estimated balance in the treamury Customs, and the settlement thereof, within the suc- | our extensive ceast, and of all our harbors, to the great y rank with any other product, ane must ‘onter ia ceeding month, at the Treasury, bas been fully carried | advantage of our navigation and commerce. The work | to our foreign trade as articles of com! and can $55,000,000 00 | Out,with a few exceptions upon tho Pacific and the | is recommended to the oobeiderntion of Co 3, with | have no prejudicial effect upon the + interests of sii accounts are being rendered and settled with great | the belief that no more convenient time will be found | the country. . These tables combined exhibit the r two of mounted men, will be sufficient te mony works commenced and prosecuted upon what were July 1, 1864..........006 ester. despatch. The benefit growing out of this system | for its continuance and completidn, nora more able corps wth of our commercial marine, of our exports and set tie urocont cxigencs, Ir it "were necesaary care. | deemed to be sound principles and safe calculations; | patinated: resources tor the’ fiscal ‘year 11,266,004 62 | 16 the public, und the officers of the revenue, is more | of officers to which It can be confided, Eiperta, and the secsipts, and expenditares of een Ig to weigh the cost in a case of such urgency, it | when we contemplate the enormous absorption of capi- | ending June 80, 1855.......,...,.+.++++ 66,266,404 6g | Manifest the longer it is enforced. The Depart- | The report of tho Lighthouse Board, No. 37, also ac. | govern por ni the receipts into the f past ‘be shown that the additional expeuse would be | tel withdrawn from the ordinary channels of business, | ‘The estimated expendituzes for the same year were as | Ment has caused the Collector's offices in all the ports | companies this report, and {s referred to for the detailed | treasury are sufficient to meet all reasonable expendl- pa ratively light. tho extravagant rates of interest at this moment paid to | foltyw:— to be examined within the year, with but few exceptions, | operations for the past year. The business has been | tures, disch: the public debt, and allow a reduction ) With the incresse of the namerical force of the srmy | continuo operations, the bankruptcyes not merely in mo- | Balance of former appropria- by agents of the department, in order to ascertain how | promptly and faithfully attended to in allits branches, | of the rate of taxation, with tthe ‘certainty that 1 hould, I (hink, be combined certain measures of reform , ney, but in character, and the inevitable effect u fin: | tions to be expended during their books and accounts were kept and, by personal in- | and the system made as efficient as the time and means | our in commerce give an increase of ‘ rangement administration. The | ances generally—can it be doubted that the tendency is the year. veces $6,365,126 44 apection, how the official corps discharged their duties. | would allow; and it is recommended to the continued | revenue equal to the reasonable demands of the future. { ‘al legislation | to rum to excess in this matter? Is it wise to aug- | permanent sive These exeminations have enabled this department to | favor of Congress, in order that incrensed facilities may | Therefore, I feel {t necessary, to { ften directed to spec t4; and the | mest this excess by encouraging pease. of sudden | riations to be expeaded correct errors and omissions, and to see that the official | be given to navigation in all its branches and conneo- | tion of Congress to the propriet laws regulating rank and command, having been adopted | wealth expected to flow from ificent schemes | Fork g the year..., . 8,285,716 14 corps devote themselves in person, to the duties confided | tions. 4 from customs, so that no more shal ( many years ago from the British code, are not always dependent on the action of gress ¢ = Doew | g; Lope to them, and have resulted in securing greater vigilance, Under the appropriation of $20,000 for continuing the ito the than is required for an economical ad- ‘inthe a int applicable to our service. It is not surprising, there- the spirit, which haa produced such results, need to be | “or the service of the year.26,000,404 64 and a more faithful application of the revenue laws. aystem of protecting human life {rom shipwreck on the | ministra government. The reduction tion of Propos- : Should be deficiont in the symme- stinralated or checked? Is it not the bettor rule to leave | ahi 271 12 |. The report of the Register of the Treasury (No. 26) | New Jersey const, and $20,000 appropriated without | ed in my former ‘as carried out by the bill poly Key! def Sesential to the harmonious working | nll thers works to private enterprise, regulated, aud, | eo ee 000,277 12 | sro acconapanien thts, Ac exhibite © greatly leaproved specifieation, (which the department hav thought ad- Perl te dopstnes ‘snd the reduction proposed im Of its several parta, and requite a careful revision. when expedient, aided, by the og operation of Stateal Ti | reaving in the Treasury, July 1, 1865, 8 condition of his ofiee."‘The annual repert on commerce | yisablo to expend on the coast of Long, laland,) Mr. Dill, prepared and ‘reported by the Committee of { ‘The present organization, by maintaining larce sta | constructed by private capital, the stimulant and the | ‘batance of...,..1 $15,000,927 ¢o | And zavigntion is in. advance of any former one, and | C: Dunham was appointed for the New Jersey coast, and | Ways and of the House of tatives, would ment of its labors. The business of the office has been | instructions to examine cxisting sees: and re- | from customs to the corps or departments, separates many officers from that | check go together, and furnish a salutary restraint | The receipts of the seal year end. | Will be in print for the use of Congress at the commence- | Mr. J. N. Schellinger for the Long Island coast, ‘with t venue 5 the fied, which are deemed requisite to qualify them for | is manifest that, with the most effective guards, there | From customs. 59,708 45 | Promptly and well done. port what could be needed to put them ina perfect | The t tariff has eight schedules, or close connection with , and those active duties in against speculative schemes and extravagance. Tut it | ing September 20, 1864, dave been ns follows:— hh command.” Were the = is a t of going too fast and too far. ery ‘The Solicitor of the Treasury has caused to be made | state, and to select intermediate stations, so as to make | rates of duties, as follows :—The first of 1 cont, Seer ae cone teal msinig® discharged by omcere | We Seay well pease before w tion contemplatin vs SH81054 12 | out a schiodule (No. 27) of all the lots_and lants pur- | the stations on cach coast five instead of ten malles the second of 40 per cont, the third of 30 per dent, 40 > Getached from their regiments, it {+ ‘efieved that the a simultaneous movement for the construction of rail- | ‘alisleba chased under execution and decrees for the United | Both these agents have and are now em) fourth fed gd the fifth of 20 per cent, the / service would be equally well performed, and the | roads, which, in extent, will equal, exctusive of the | Total,,., sesceseceeeseucececeseess $21,621,202 85 | States, or otherwise taken fur debts aue to the United | in bul the houses at new stat and provid. | of 16 per cent, the seventh of 10 per cent, and Glsciptas vas instrnction d the army be imy . While | great Pacific road and all its brinches, nearly one third | 94, ai for thi pe tes, and which have heretofore been sold, and also | ing the = juired for them and the old ones, and | of 5 per cent.’ The bill by the rd / ue regard to the security of the right of officers, and of the entire length of such works now completed | t expenditures for the same first quarter have beon schedule of all such lands as are now held by the | the additional boats have been built, and are being ship- | the of Re} his five as to tho nice sense of honor which should be cultivated in the United Stat acd which cannot 24 follows: is a Sonal Int United States. They are submitted, in order that | ped to the new stations. follows :—The first of 100 per the a them, would scem to exaet compliance with the | cost, with equipments, s than one hundred | UARCOUS BNE SOrKgn ine: 6 " 0s may have in view the sales heretofore Under the a tion of $12,500 for locating boats | per cent, the third of 16 per ‘the fourth of 1 oatablished rule of promotion in ordinary cases, still it | and’ fifty millions of ‘dollars, The like. | % rsertry 51} made,gand devise some suitable mode for the future | at different ‘on Lake Michigan, twenty-three boats | per cent, and tne fifth of 5 per cont. And the ba ean hardly be doubted that the range of promotion by | ly to result from combinations of interests in this char- peau 12 | sales of the property on hand, and such as may here- | ba’ en ‘and sent to the places indicated in x at this department, and which is substea- pelection. which is now practically confined to the le acter, can hardly be over-estimated. But, independently 7 7,039 92 | after be scquired; also for closing or crediting | the act. ‘ts for the tworemaining pointe will be pur- the one reported by the minority of the Com- of general officers, might be somewhat extended with of these donsiderations, where is the accurate knowledge, 4% 08,791 09 | on the books of the treasury such debts as have | chased and sent so soon as persons can be found to take | mittee of the House of ge ppm has but twe benesit to the public service. Observance of therule of | the comprohensive intelligence, which shall discriminaté 1 deen, or shall be, discharged in whole or in part by ee aT ae for which purpose the necessa- | rates of duty: The first of 1t r ea ae Canes, meniority sometimes leads, especially in time of peace, to between the relative claims of thoac twenty-cighi pro | 1876,015 17 | the pare hase of real estate; because, after accounts inquiries are now being instituted. of 26 percent. There are aificaltion ia the the ion or officers who, after meritoriousandevon | roads, in eleven States and ono Territory? Where will you | Total orca ee ee eee tated at the Treasury, leaving @ balance me late melancholy disaster to the ship New Era has | of the, present tariff of the olasai- | service, may have Leen rendered by age or | @egin, and where end! If to enable these companies toex- | . Total expenditure 16,169,330 62 | due to the United States, they are passed. to the Re- | shown the inadequacy of the mortars heretofore used | fication under the T echetules; end diMiculties | incapable of performing active duty, and whose | ecutetheir proposed works, it is necessary thatthe sid | 9* Appears in det gister, and appear on his books, and then: to the soli- | for throwing lines to vessels in distress, and establish- | continue to increase the acts of the manufacturers fn tab , The receipts for remaining three quarters of the | citor, and appear on his books, and are then sent ing a communication between the wreck and the shore. sesialiating one class of geote So nests wat fm ancer- - year are now estimated as follows the proper Metriet attorney for suit. When the dot ita are now being made, witha view of pro- fae Barge nme od ‘rom custom ia collected and paid into the treaswey, in whole or in | vi ne et mounted, and capable of throwing » } diffic art, the amount so paid is entered on the books of | balland line the requisite distance. The appropria- | mittee, and would entirely disoppear under that | advancement, therefore, would tend to impsir tho offi- | or the general government be primarily given, the policy elency of the army. Suitable provision for this class of of. | will present a problem so comprehensive im its bea { | | | = as to claim, in anticipation, the severest analysis, En- the creation of a retired list, would remedy the | and so important toour political and social wellbeing, evil ithont wound {he just pride of mem who, by past have estal @ claim to high considera- | tertaining these views, I recur with satisfaction to the | Miscellancor . fhe Auditor, where the account. was first stated, | tlona will not bo sufficient to place all the stations in an | posed by the department. { fiom. Tm again oommonding this meesure to tho favors. | expericnee and action of the last session of Congress, as | ———-==—-——= | and then on the books of the Comptroller, and then on | entirely effective condition. The bil of the committee, with the tableg herewitty | ble consideration of 1 1 would suggest that | furnishing assurance that the sul will failto | Totah... ” +seees+ $43,600,000 00 | the books of the Register; but where lands or any ‘The report, No. 38, from Captain A. H. Bowman, of | anncxed, exhibits the revenue from customs for the fis- the power of placing officers on the retired list be | elicit a carcful re examination and rigid scrutiny. | ‘The receipte for the first quarter, the estimated re. | other thing is purchased ‘under execution for the | the engineer corps, in c of the construction of | cal year, ending June 90, 1863, and what has been the limited to one r. The practical operation of the | It was my intention to prosent, on this occasion, some | ccipts for the remaining three quarters, and the balance | debt in whole or in part, no entry thereof is made | custom houres, Taarine hospita , &c., which accompanies | revenue under the present tariff for the a: of six measure would nn be seated, and if, after the lapse of | sngrestions regarding internal improvements, by the | in treasury cn the first day of July, 1854, make a | on the books of the Auditor, Comptrolier and ister, | this, givos information in detail ‘of all that bas been done yearn, inclading 1! and what would have the re- 1 | years, there be occasion to renew tho tsion, | general government, which want of time at tho close of | total sum of $84,107,067 60 for the service of the fAscal.| until a re-sale is made, and the ge is into | towards the completion of those under the direction of | ceipts forthe same periods under the bill of the commit- ee it can be reproduced with any improvements Which ex: | the last session prevented my submitting on the return | year ending June 30, 1866. the ‘Treasury; and when tho United States fail, in | this department since the date of my last report, and of | tee, and under the one recommended by this pelignte mar indieate, The present organization of the to the House of Representat ives, with ol ns, of the | The estimated expenditures for the remaining three | whole or im part, in the courts, no ontry is made on | the working of the system of operat ions, and affords all meee tobianualy Sociale ths enuanére ia the artillery into regiments is liable to obvious objections, | bill entitled, “An act making 9) riations for | quarters of the year are as follows:— the books of the Auditor, ‘and Register. | necessary information upon that subject, Tho attention | bill of the , leaving the sum of about $2,000, ‘The service of a1 is that of andanor. | the repair, ‘tion and mn of certain | Civil list, foreign intercourse, and mincel- Thus, the books of the Treasury exhibit balances due | of ae pd neha called to that part of the re- | revenue from unenumerated articles; but they are ouf- anization of batterics into a corps of artillery would be | public works Beretofore commen: under authority | _ laneow the United Stat® after the same are discharged. This | port which tes to the custom house being built at | ficient to explain the charactor of be gers tariff, the ‘more consintent | of law; butthe space in this communication already Deficiency in the Post 2,719,464 00 | might be remedied by a treesury ata causing ew Orleans. one ag seo by the committee, and one proposed of the | Geen; with other matter of immediate public 61 y | Interior the entries to be made on the sof the Au- It satisfactorily ped that the foundation is not | by the mt. a, ou dal | swobene me to rererve that sul for ® mos- | War De 3,628,360 90 | ditor, Comptroller and Register, and in each | sufficient for the weight and sanpaioc ek no measenieee: h is also presented exhibtt 16, containing do” arms ay merely nomi This nominal | sage, whichtwill bo transmitted to the two houses of Con- | Navy Departmen’ 11126810096 T1 | office’an account of the lands, Ke., purchased for the | ture, as specified in piety to which Con- bo ig eal a ot by this 4 te whick is in our service is entirely disproy to the | Taterest on tho pubilo devt » 2/370,008 60 | United States on exch debt, and fhe the discrepancies | gress has directed it to be built; that there is ur. | added the ‘teriff on the same ; from force, and ter than the wants af the country | . ———_—_—_—__ | betereon the treasury of indebtedness and | gent necessity ty modify the plan and remody the evil | which it will be seen that the makes . Therefore commend the discontinuance of ® | MAIR eric rere eeecegee ese cts + OMB,176,600 69 the judgment in the particular case; but it had better be | as far as practicable, and a modification of the plan a4 most of these articles free; amd, as fi ) these artd- distinotion which has no foundationin either the arms _ Total catenaied expenditures for tho year regniated by aa ‘Thia correction of the books | indicated by pevmen ie srocmenie, are used in the arts and manufact moat of add or the character of the service expected to be per- | also +, 804,946,081 21 | would be « work considerable tims and labor, aa Tho at < Deene alse bonny, Ta m are free of duty under the lawe of" mana 4 ! the eetimat- | it would require to overhaul the books from the com- Cee ities epg Tan at. ctaring nations. Under the Fagtish the raw covarction with the proposition for the increase of mencement of thegovernment, Vetao just statemeng it; add it ja recommendedy reasons stated erinl used in the arte and manufactares haw been.