The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1856, Page 2

2 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY. 4,. 1856. ; me on the 6th inst. Ithai been detained sewers! days | ration the numerous establishments of kind eadinets, and it may therefore de supposed that, ia | erable Hecretary of State of the United States the assur- | om the terms agreed upon, and to commence in two weeks THE DANISH SOUND DUES, by the obstruction to the er oe: Oceasioned by the | which Denmark has constant y poly And. fee principe, it comtains Jothing whish is new to the pete ances of his consideration. TORBEN BILE. from that date, and that in case of failure to do 60, it | ice. In consequence of Passion Week immediately suc- | the navigation of Sy Baltic, and to simplify the despateh verested; or which requires detailed exvlanatioas ia MR. MAROY TO MR. BILLE. ‘would be my imperative duty toadvertise the route for a re-letting, und hold the company responsible for tho ceeding its reception, I could not act upon the instruc- | of vesrelato the customs et the Sound. fhe govern- | o:der to be understood. It coves not seen aecoesary, MR. MARCY TO MR. BEDINGER. 2th i Department ov Stare, " tions which it contained until the 12th inst. Oo that day | ments themselves, althou, respec ‘1 at all times tne renber, to submit, at thie late boar, the various ba-es Gifference, if any, bet con the sum contrasted for by it peer OM WM par gm mene yo tpg eget A Spe gh ogee gee oe Pe aa Pept gd tee Boone yee gf a aaa sore anmnarox, Nov. 9 1858. | aud that which Tshow | ave to pay under the advertise- Wasurneros, February 1, 1864. j Depmark, through his ency M. Scheel, alaister of | crifices made in favor of general peace, were mos'ly, and | tos particular exacination Tse Danish goveramen:, Sm—Your despatches, Nos, 2 and 3, have deen re- | Foreign Adairs, upon the subject of the ‘Sound dues.” | for reasons the importance of which it were diiiizult, | slthough natural'y boand to contribute i's share to ; Tod you in oxe of my despatches that M Biunme, perhong to copes tn our time, unable to divers from | cavit tion, does not wish to act im anticipation of the waved. . the fornier Minister of Foreign Affairs, had express d the mack the effects ofan agitatim, thé injustice end ions which thay be ret affont, or be promulgated, in On the 20th cf last December a resolution of the House | opinion, very unequiv. » that Denmark would | groundle:sness of whith they could not but acknowledge. | the course of a negotiation to which ‘he delogstes of » ef Representatives (a copy of which is onclosed) raquest- | ever consent to abandon those tol's without receiv- | The efforts of Devmark to allay this agitation led, at | nnm er of different States are carticlpsms, Its desire dhs Yoadiens 0 icate to that House taforma- | 8 4m us some equivalent for them, and that, ia | the beginning of the reign of King Christian VIL, the } being simply to find out an expedient equally aecepta ts lent to communicate 1 o my own opinion, all negutiations and verbal comma- | august predecessor of the reigning King, to a negotiation | woall, Provided that this odject be accomplished, i: gives ‘tion as to the state of the negotiaticns between the Cai- | nications upon the subject would prove utterly fruit- | between Denmark, land and ia, the reauit of | no pre‘erence taany particular mode of proceeding. ted States and Denmark in relation to the imposition of | less. pet, ‘as I had been induced to belieys that ar- | which was a revision of the old tari of the Sound; and Tt may not de supertinons, however, to prezent an ont- “Sound dues,’ The answer to this resolation has been | Tanements were being made between yourself and tue | by this measure a ret period of time was reached. line of the bares of capitalizai-n which the Vanish gyv- wens ly to the | Danish Charge d’Affaires in America, whica mighi Dever‘helers, the Danish gov®rnment hai hy no means | ernment would find mostly suited to the nature o: the eterred in the hope of receiving » forms! reply to sibly result in some final se:tlement of the concealed from’ itself that the agitation would be renewed nves which would bave to he capitalize’, aad the note addressed by you on the subject to the Minister of | and aslreceived no reply to my despateh of the ere long; and, in view of this gventuailty, King Oo joption of which would render, in his optcion, the \a States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. | etier a the company Torten Biles note ef the 7th instant, eommantosting © | of sve‘ad Vor exocgeed wo tate pdt Bape copy ofa joint memoir addresved by the Danisngovernment | yice; and after waiting until the 20th October, I adv to the grivemeais pirates . tho navigstion and | tised the route, inviring proposals until the 30th of ¥. commerce of the Baltic, inviting thea to send special | yember to be decided vy the 3d of December, and ser- zaprenmaiadines ia peneaae™, © “ee. ammpower, thelr 04: | vice to onmmrence Ist January, 1 plomatic agent pe some general | In maxing this statement, it ty but I should add Tangement on the basis of the propositions contained | that, in iny oplonion, the directoraof* ths liaols Centra} _ joint memoir for the abolition of the Sound das. | Rai.roud Com! any used every exertion in their pover to a rey, dead peceraane has the honor herewith to | comply with elt engagements, but failed to do so owing to the Minister of the U seat neat nee stiarees to the very high price demanded of them by the owners wil Crag ood Mr. Billé with the President’s views in | boat service by the Depariment in every part of che Union, nited Stat of the beats. A comparison of the prices paid for steam~ ceived z rd to the propcaition of tho Danish government. Ral r your unse July lust, in which I said, “Since ihe date of my de- | Vill. had already conceived the inea the re- | share to de contributed by each respective power, tue | ” ‘1 shows that the highest price givem per mile is $191 25, pe tions of Denmark, afte ee apeetatactory | patch of the Ist of April, 1854, [have reesives nothiag | vision whieh he bad decided upon in tehal! of merchaata, | anost proportionate te the pro raia of the duties levied se der igned tera to Mr, Billé the assurance of his | and this on an important route, om which the contract eonversation with him on the Ist of st. If) further from your department upon the subject of the | by other mcdifications of the variil, at periods mo-e orless | upon their vavigation and comm Mr. Tonu Bin, &e., &e Washington, D.C. ors are subjeet to an extraordinary oatiay in the payment ‘hat formal reply shall not have been given by or before | ‘Sound dues,” 1 am left to tofer, therefore, that it is | connected with each other, in order tha: the rights to | ‘The duties of the Sound and of the Belts aro partly Lovie? ‘ > i“. nO, of a tell avGrant’s pass, but that the average pricé is fhe period of the reception of this despateh, you will | determined not to press that mapter further at preseat, | levy might always be proportionate to the value of the | upon vessels ond partly upon cargoes. The latter duti-s $€6 60 per mie. At the sum of $180,000, the price agreed en and shall wait until I hear again from you on the sub- | goods lixble to cuty. ase the veri able Sound cues, whive in the first categiry to begiven the Mincls Coctral Rulroad Company, the rate per mile would be $169 96; but if $350,000, the price demanded trom the railrosd hwo 3g were paid, the cost is per wile would rexch the. ver rate of $350 50, Annual Report of the Postmaster Gener Duibe wiiah oviduct Lava iora: cunlempletad: her: Chas Posr Orvics Derantwenr, Dec. 3, 1855. | yrers when the act of 1850 was passed. immediately make known to the Danish goverament tx | juct,” I, of course, did not move agaia 10 the matver | It is not the tautof the Danish governmynt thet the | ve princiyally included light-honse daties, clearance du wishes aud expectations of the President in regard to | ‘until the arrival of your last despateh and instrastions. | intention of Kivug Christian VIIL has not yet bean carried | ties, &e. lt was formerly intended to adpt, ay an ex. ‘his burdew upon our commerce, to which the g,vera- | Having received them, I culled ou the Minisier of Yorvign | out In following the suggestions of *hat enlighiéaod | clusive basis of capitalization, the nationality of vessals ment and people of this country cannot reasonably bs | Affairs on the 12th mstant. In the conversations which | monaich, the government commenced long age the pre- | pasting through tie straits; bat it is evideat that this Thad with him, I reiterated os well as Icoull, all tae | jiminary labors necessary toa new revision of the tari, | plin wonld be anything but just, seeing that the number to submit any longer. 1am, sir, tfally, = gapectes to subuelt any longer. Tan, or, sepa | foreible reasons and unanswerable arguments which you | bur at the yeried when the flea of tue dvceused King | Of versels Del nging To ® certain nation aod passing | _Sr—The number of Post offices established in the Uai- | | The malls acrons the Lsthiaus of Panama ave convayed: Beowame, Esq., &e., &e., &e., Co have so ciearly set forth in the first iastructions given | shoule have been reatized. Denmark founs herself very | through the Sound sod Reita does in ne way represeat | ted States during the year endi: 30, 1855, was | bY the Panama Railroad Company, but without any régu- ‘HENRY ime, Eaq., &e., &c., &o., Copenhagen. e y ing June 30, ¥ ‘ac teed ta an ae me upon that subject, and 1 urged them upon bis ex- | much sgeinst her will, and.by evente wnloh- could ant the quote. which ti Balen actualy emtziontes to ‘he | 3,669, and the number discontinued $01, showiag a né? lar ouminsok. ne tervice as been. satisfac nlly por & celleney with what power I could. I was listea posritly heve been forseen, implicated ima war which | duet, which are pelocipally levied upon merchandise. Prmed. Fe ‘he PL. sy og mg ' with ctiention and Teourteny, and the resuit was | neee-sarily absoroed all he attention of her govern. | This quota weld foe ka conturmity to the trae stare | imerease of 862. The sites and names of 373 have been oe bo ot ees ferred from the contrictons const » 1835, 5 hat his exceliency tuli me in'the inost emphatic. ua- | ment, and which eid not admit of those «acrifiess insepura- | of things if we were to adopt asa basis the quantity o! | changed. he whole number of offices on the 30:h of | UEder the New Granadiaa goveramvnt to the Panama ‘Tho undersigned, his Danish Majes'y » UhargedAlTaires, | jquivocal, and positive terms, that Denmark wouli | bie from any retuction of the tariff setualiy in focee, | wererapdise which bas pasved through the Sound and en api" ‘and on the 80th of November 24,770, of Baloes Cclaay ee ire mR Ge the mala pane mag 2 ported over the fsthmus was 298,728 poonds; af a cost, hhas been instructed by his goverameat tw eXpress to the | peyer consent to abandon her right to ollect the “Sound | After the coveiusion of toe pesce, the evumtey found it- | toe Belts. Im adopting this badds, tt might be agrees enorable W. L, Marcy, Seere acy of Stare of the Unite) | dues” from the vessels of the Usited States wich. | selv in prey to the inevitable consequences of the ingest npen, for ins Acee; tbat the resective States, Denterk States, the regret with which his Majesiy's guverument | our seme equivalent granted by our governmea: ta | commoticns which the war had ooly tended to foster, and | included, +hov'd eomsribute, in proportion to the qrinti- bas learnt that the President of the United States has | jjeu ihereof, He went on to xy that all toe other | to che difficulties by which it was ihus surrounded there | ty of goods exported from their ports and imported into deemed it advisable to recommend to Congress that no- ers who objected to the payment of the ‘dues’ | was rcon acded the present war botween Russia, Fea the Bote, passing broogh ‘apateal or exported by the thee be given to Denmark of the intention of his govern: land, Prussia, Sweeden, &e—would, as be | and Aggland. same way of the Baltic, to he imported into thete ports, ‘ment to termivaie the existing couvension of April 25, | pelieved, consent to psy Denmark an eqnivaleat (not if Pde pew ed on the Danish rnment. it would cer- | end vice versa; and sy combining this basis with that of clearly defined by him) for the remission of those aues, | tainly not relect, with a vi Bringing the matter of | the nationality of the vessels, so thet the exmpens«tior and that he would be glace to treat with the Untted States | Senrd dues again inte dicen a period liky the preseat, | to be paid to Denmark might be calculated, aa relate: which 258 are of the class the Postmasters of which are | includivg the Is;hiaus expenses of the route, agen's im appointed by tke Presiient, The number of Postmasters | che ge, of ahiul 551,000, Helng a fraction over seven eer, coute a pound. Toe weight for year, euded 3ls apvointed curing the regular fiscal year, was 7,103, a8 | March, 1865, was €07,074 pounds, which was paid for at fo lows :—To fill vacancies by rosignation, 4056; by re- | thera’e:t twenty.1wo cenis 2 pound, mskiug the to'al movals, 819; by deaths, 287; by change of umes ani | cost vd bragicersd cr reegiieess onece be wind Vw By é e act of Maven 3, 1851, the Postmaster General was ajié sites, 216; and by establishment of new offices, 1,663. therized ‘(to enter into contracts or make suitable On the 30th June last there were in operation 7,033 | arrargements for vransperting the maiis between Chagres The principal motive for this recommendation is stated Dy the President to be a desire to avoid amy embarrass with the others, &e.. &. I could only reply shat my | when the two powers mostiy interested in this ma tor find | to the reat Sound dues, ator the transit of goods, after ment which the stipulation ped in the filth article | instruecions were positive upon that point, ani forbace | themselves placed in an attitnde of antagonism, But the | the cirect mportations or exportatioas of acy Sate in | mail routes. The number of contractors was 5,703. The | apd Panama with sezularity end despaten; provited ef the convention might occasion ia claiming tor the | me to offer any biibe tor that which #as clearly our | post ton into » hich said government has been tarova | merchaudise baviog passed the straits of tho Sound sod | jengrh of these routes is estunated at 27,903 miles, the rates of cowpensution should not exceed twenty-two sbipping and cowmerce of the United States exemption | right, and nis answer satisfied me ihat it was vain to | lesves it no other alternaiive. of the Bells, acd with regar! to light-bouse and otaer sabia ! cents a poune. vais authority the Panama Rail- a bre iosanar = on a * talk any longer upon the subject. I then told his Ex Amorgull the g veraments, that of the United States of | duties, ofter ine tlag. we might perhaps get a litcie nearer The toral snnual transportation of mails was 67,401,165 | road Compasy bas bern paid the full maximum compen- The President declares that he does no* doubt that suck | gellency that | was au‘horizet to give Axcerica is the only one that has ever ealie: into quea- | the just aud equitable sotution of # problem the full set. | miles, costing $5,945,288, and divided us follows, viz:— | fation of twenty-two cenis a pound from Ise Devember, exemption can be claire? asa matter ot right, siating | pate tbe treaty of 1826, &. H tion the right of Denmark to coliect the Sound dues, It | tleneut of which must always present the gcvatest diffi- | 24 79,752 miles by modes not spesified, at $1,430,665 — Fan to a ‘April, 1855) since ee mares er guiued iJ J psa weir service and orde:e? payment e made teen 5% cents o mile; 18,859,118 miles by coach at $1)215,979 | conta a pound. The yailroed was completed ia eh aary, about 635 cents a mile; 19,202,460 miles by railroad, at | 18°05 the locomosive for the firs: tlie, pasvod over the 2 entire route on the <8'h, and the mail was tor the first $2,078, 089—sbout 103 cents a milo; 4,459,827 miles by | time carried thr ugh by the train on the 20th of that steamboat, at $625 605—abont 14 cents a mile. Compered | month. The read being completed and ths compaay with the service of June 20, 1854, as actually in operativa, hed meee tM gat gy Seen Sa hake re cht a ; : charges, the reduced price for first class iceight in ao there is an increase of 8 307,025 miles of transportation, | SMO? Oe seune fitteen couis a poudd, Lesasidered or about 5 1-a per cent, and of $675,221 50-100ta cost, or | that eighteen cents was a liberal compensation for the about 144-100 per ceat, The increase of railroad ssrvice | mail. “it to be admitted on aj} hands that this exaction ix | that notice whenever it sball sult your o 90 is butvecently that tue Umitei States have expressed | eu.tier sanctioned not by the general principles of the law of | we shall regret such a step upon the part of the Uuited | themselves direc:ly in that sense; for although it may be ‘The two tables acoompanying this represent, one, the nations, but only by special conventions, which most of } states, you will pleace ulerstand that the i r to acknowledge that tnoge States have, on various | amount of duties eollee ed at the Sound and Bel’s upon ‘the commercial nations have entered into with Den- | | have given you to-day in relation to the * Sound dues ions, in the course of luster years, caused it to be | versels of exch respective State 1o the years 1851, 1852, aa ~ Will not be changed or movified, &2. Al this, the suostance cen that they cid net intend to foliow, with reapect | 1%, and the other the amount of duties collected vpn Bas Mojesty’s government, disagreeing with this view | Griy of which | ventuse to give you, though utte:ei | to the Sound cues, the international system geueraiy e3- | the goods imported Into the Baltic, or exported from that of the bearing ot the law of nations, and of treaties on | with great courtesy, and with many protestations of | tablisted ip Europe, the provision relative ty those due, | sea curing ‘he same year, ‘the right of Denmark to levy the sound dues, snd bs ndsbip for the United States, was eaid, nevertheless, | inserted in the convention of friendsnip, commerce, and In placing these documents at the disposal of the Cubi maced that » ‘rank and expitci: siatement of what io | with the utmost positiveness; so tnat 1 saw at one» ny | wavigetion, concluded on the 26th ef Ap-il, 18.6, betweea | nets, the Lanish government ventures to express a hop» a3 to be the crue nature wad character of the sald | Guty to be to give the police directed ia your last | Denmark and America, contains, nevertheless, the ssme | that they wil be treated with all the discretion whish Fight, cannot but terd to remove any cause of misunder- | despatch, and rdingly I did fo, om the 14th iast., ia | as the analegous article of the treaties and coyen- | the delicate nature of the affuir in questi n demands. standing between the two governnients in re‘eence to | the tollowine words: tions of the same character between Denmark and ochor =a, is 8,488,132 miles, at acest of $86,636, being 22 15-100 | In fixing this sum I took into consideration the great his subject, has instructed the undersigned to submit to sphere hi Aniox ov au Uwe Srares, | | powers, rather # formalackno ledgment than a tondessy AE” Baron ie ipo lecnnne toe Geis pan oat ie, feamspertetlan, and: Lbzsiiio, saab «One n=) ocke Of ie rons, Wie tearsnee eit He che preperty pegears opis nhl Graphene besa IN eh Covesnaces, April 14, 1855. 5 wo cisphte the right ia question, Wasaucrom, Nov. 3, 1855. Szhalad Geneneeniton Uy eoaea not speelian. In 3875, iaitts goutaraction, Eos. saagnlsnasoniiaambicpriey, aud J erg ich he Las the honor of do- §m:—I heve the honor tointorm you that I am direatod In a noie dated the 14th of last April the minister resi- Sm-—-I proceed to ¢’mmunicate the Prosident’s reply to or 8076-100 per atlas this aenuetioc tutie oF yo oe Rave deaineaioceant woh ote bedeb ei) ay P a1 15 te e ae 4 en 5 claim to © in the following remarks: : by the Presideutof the United States respectfully to novify | cent o! ibe is Mujosty’s government holds thar the right of Den- | yur eaceleney, and throug your execliency the govern. | aforesnid e mark to the Sound dues is a right existing under the law | ment of his Majosty the King of Denmark. that afver the | ment en af naticns by immemorial prescription, and, therefore, | expiration of one yet m the date of this communica- | makes particular mention of the Sound dues: end ia de- pore cf ee iberating on that subject indepeadent of ali treaties. é tion, the United Strtee will regard the general convention | rouncing it, said diplomatic agent expressed a hope that he friendly relaciona between Denmark and the Untied The Sound dnes are anterior to all treaties, and have | of friendship, commerce, and navigation, agreed upoa by | Dentoark would, befo'e the expiration of the treaty—i.e. | staice have Lever been interraptod. The Prosidsat choc. existed from time immemorial. The tiesties concluded | Denmark and themselves on tre wth of April, 1825, as | beforethe 14th of April, 185¢—acknowledge the justice | juves'an ardent. disposition ter sustain san} ntreugthea by Oenmark, in which meation is made of ih? | finally abregated, wns that after that period its grovisions | and the propriety of allowing American vessels ty pursue | them. and he would-extremely regret that his detorsains, Bound dues, therefore do not, and eould not, confer | will not be binding upon our government. their ¢ anmercial operations om the reas without paying | tin to asrert what he belieyes to b> a just r'gh sin au an: @ right which alreaty erisied, and had ‘existed | “nis votice is now given in consequence of the recent | trioute to any one, and without being stopped by any | txceptionabie manner should be regargea as on indioatios ages. Nor bas the right iteelf, or the title | conversation which I had with your excellency upon t power wha ever, The obyect which tae United Scares | oy Me sctnck Sn Datnackierin ce olecterasere aes by which it was exercised, ever been tmanie tho 81> | subject of the ‘sound dues.” ‘Tas very deciied an} y ave had in view in denouncing their convention of | tion of her frienechip, The exdetiond ea foreuee cota. Jeot of negotiation, but only the amouut of the dues | tive manner in which your excelleucy was pleasod to commerce with Denmark has, thea, beea to exempt | perce at the entrance into the Be tis have been werodan ‘nd the manner of levying them. ‘The treaties of | press the oivion that Deumark would never consent to | thereby American vessels from ‘the Sound dues. it is | tive scurce of revenue to Denmark, und it is very natural Me last three for four centuries, therefore, while sinc- | remit those taxes npon the commerce of the Uaited States tury to inquire in this place wnether the ac- | {hat she alould struggle to retain it. If these Sane'l wa, ticning the right by the irrefragibie evitence they present | without some equivalent granted by them ia lieu thereof | corapiishment of vant object in the logical coasequence | were founded in righe the Unived states would be thee lect es general recognition of the Svund daes by ail nations | has left me no other course 1o pursue. Bat in tattog | of the expiration of a convention which does not men- | Power to interfere with her enjoymenzor theme and at ull times, do notin the least affect its character as | this step Iam especially instructed by tae President to | Mon the dues in questioa, except for the purpose of | PUG, tat wommed to diccers che nae we right i ‘an immemorial right existing iudepend»ntly of alltreaties. | express to your excelieucy his sinoere regret ut the ne- | securing to Amexican vessels, in regard to to the levying | this communication; thet bas alresdg. boon done, aed the ‘To suppose that there does have their sole foundetion | cessity which has cempelled him to give notice of the | of the cuties, a privileged treatment, fastead of the | United States have adopted the conclusion that’ they are in rpecial conventions eatered jato with Denmark would, | termization of @ convention which has been so mutually | non-privileged treatment which bad been applied to thom | under no obligation dealt From intenaatinal lator test les, lead to the extrao:dinary covclusion that nu: | advantageous. in ‘omer times. Denmark desires to avola # diccussion | stipulation te sield to tha clan. Deamack, on the con, merous ané powerful States should separately have agree! |” Your exceilency will allow me to express the hops that | of this kind, and, besides, tho steps taken by tue United | {rary, hes adovted a different ardan opposite conclusion, femakesgrantofthemtoDeomers, before the end of the approaching year Denmark will see have only tven alluded to in thts document in or- | Ty ipyeacily cone-ded that both wnuone oe anxious to ac. To suppose that the Sound dues were not a rigat auder | the justice and propriety of permilting the free vessels ci'y the porition into which, as it has been ob- | rive at a su'itactory solution of this vered ques ms The law of nations, but aa exactioa not sanctioned vy the | of the United States to pursue their commercial enis | served above, Dewmark bas been thrown. subject interests saveral’ other powers-andeed all taal: general principles of that law, would lead to a couclusin | upon the open seas, undisturbed by the tributes orar- | This positon bas 4 double effect upon the detormina- | time nations—-and Denmark has pavited them to ho scores no lees extraordinary—to wit: tha: the numerous snd | restatious cfany power. tion of the Dauish government. Because, afte: the seniedliaa Cineanitanite aikaiaa tata taee that Oke powerful States interested in the navigation of the Baltic | }<hai! continue to cherish this hope to the last hour | nunciation of the convention of the 16th of Ap:il, 1826. | heen, to consider a proposition to be olleced by hee to abouid from time immemorial have suomitted ty this ex- | limited for the termig.tion of the conventi.n, and even | oF ra’her after the declaration, on the part of the United Ga linlissitip teveston: col to orients Eieeae eke setion, and, finally, even recogurzed 1 im their treatios | Jonyer. I beg thar your exceliney will ackcowielge | Steter, to exempt American versels from the Souud du- | tial jewers the rum to bs. Waid tor. this Teaunclstion ni nmark, though in wo way bound to rospec the receipt of this uote at the earliest convenient hour, | tes, the Pansy government, if it decline, in view ot thix | {he present inode of collecting tt. The Uutted sates hay. tee ass Copenhagen error tbe | the proposition of tae Danish government to the Unive! n , whic! oss only written engage- | States, to join in a convention with otker Powers iate- into between Denmark and Americs chat | rested in the “Sound dues,” at Copeahagen, for the pur- less by 2,325,628 wiles, or about 12}; yer cent a’ a dl- | reeeive the full maximum price of twenty-two cenyy, minished cost 0; $34,257 or 6 92-100 per cent. Steamboat | until a pe:marent contract shall be made uta fixed an- rervice, during the past year was reduced $1,335,656 | nualrum. The new disiribation schemes, refecvel to ir, wiles, ‘x nearly 40 per cent, and the costinerossed $138,- | my Jas* snnual report, bave been completed and sent to 267, or 217% per cent. Tuis great change resnited mainly | the several disteaputing Yost offices. This work iavolved from the re-ietting of contracts ast year ia the States of | a minute examination of all the mail arrangements of Michigan, Inclana, MMinois, Wisconnin, Iowa, Missouri, | the country, with a view to a definite allotment for eso’ Kentueky, Tenuesseo, A'abams, Mississippi, Ackansas, | dis‘viouting office, so as to insure the transmissiou of.) Louisiaro, Texas, Caitforcia andthe several \Territorias, | mais, in all cases, by the most direct and expeai~ Acomparison of the steamboat service, umter the con- | tieus rcures, and, at the same tine, to guard tract: which expired 80th Juno, 1854, with that oa 30cm | agsinst the too frequent distrioutions which nave Jone, 1855, under the new contrasts, commencing Ist | beretotore prevailed. ach distributing office has now Tuly. 1864, ‘shows a reduction of 1,647,680 miles, or about | alp?absticul lists of all the counties in all the States (ex- 56 per cent in the annual transportation, and’ an addi- | eept California), wich the proper distribation point an- tion of $20,120, or about 28 per cent, tothe cost. In the | cexed to euch connty, Then the Postmasters have the other rections of the Union, the steamboat trenaportation | plaineet instruetion as to the proper distribatio of matf> has been increased 211,904 miles, at an increased eoat ot | matter for every portion of each 3ta\e. There ace in $46,287, all 1,645 counties, formed inte 757 different geoups, to The umount of service in the forogoing general | suit the reveral distribuiing offices, and shew the course statements, chargeable to California, are 692,115 | of the mail from each cfiixe to any county in the Union, miles, costing $127,515—npportioned as follows:-— | and the whol» number of notnta thus indicated for thé - Steamboat transportation 175,656 miles, at 952,000, | fitty distributing offices, is 82,260. In my las: anual re- cr 20 cents 6 mils per mile; coach tranaporta- | pertI recoromenced the adcpt!i mn of a system of registra~ tion 876,476 miles, at $49,915, or '151¢ cents per mile; | tion for giving greater security to valuable letters en- moces not Fpecitied, 139,084 miles ‘at $20,600, or 181{"| trusted to the muils. By the 8d section of au act ap- cents mile, On two steamboat routes which cost | proved March 3, 1855, Congress authorized the Postmas- $21,400 prior to Ist July, 1854, the pay for the same | ter General to proviae means by which any person desir- amount of service is now $50 000, being an insrease of | ing to post a valuable letter, to be semt by mail, might at $20,000, as anticipated in my last year’s report. his ¢ption have it registe:ed upon payment of a fee of five There bas been @ remarkable addition to the ooach | cents in ad:ition to the rate of pos.age chargeable thereon, tran-portation, viz:—116 per ennt, and yet the whole cast it buving becn estimated that this additional paymer IY wht in her to levy the di and I seize the ocmasion to repeat to your Exsellenc; dech z ef jc 2 is 43 jt than la: r 84 would cover the inc‘den: strat ; tT sel \'to repeat to your Exzclleney tao | declaration, to confine itself’ to the reply which has beon | jy enly 434 per cent more than last. Tuere was 84 per co (expense ine'den: to suc registration. <iggant-dbibins, Beg 1 n to 1 i en respectfully invited to send a representacive to the | Shige ; : ’ ties, can only be satisfactorily accoantei for by adwitting Eectleaar: Sie ae ae ae jneasure adapted, to the circumstances, but it havey.n | Without at all questioning the fale tutention of Den- | HE’ snsurent Oifference is mach gcenter, but this arises | among the several port efices blank for a now system cetaudtisbonived Sulanevent eo me problematical whether tho measures which bad | mark in proposiig this measure, the U'resideat feels con | jum transferring the Sait Lakelacd can Diego route to the | of ucccunts, to show 10 reepret to registered letters not that these cues have existed, and continue to exist, as & Ma gtheeae tetie al maton 18th instant I received an'answer to the above | been coutemplnied ia regard to the Sound dues previous | ftyine: by & sense ot duty to dec ine the aoewptance af ight 5 Nv 3 ? to the aforesaid decla: ation would now suffice to avoid a i 1 M 01 si oy ectua! origia Bre nee, cure $e lost in the ob- | with enclore. It might be inferre: corfiict aud leations, the consequence of which, by Miiltepresciike haven sunt on shupert at Decca * mae Sr seams Sanacity, Duk} o of this re; ly. and from the tap ied threat wi the force signees, would probabiy oyecstep tie | which the United States deny. It is assembled withou: a later period, when a system of puoi s, that this government ia farther then ever frow | limtset w discussion between Peamark aud tae United | Spy power to pass upon the right of Denmack to levy a account of xervies in Utah for the past year, it having | only the receiving and sending of each mail, as formerly, been changed the previous year to California. but the receiving, sending, aod delivery ot each particu- ‘The total increase of all grades of service in Califorma | lar letter. These clasks with accompauing instructions during the year ending “Oth Juno last, is 100,286 miles, or | were prepared and dis!riputed as early as possible after Segulate the international rigate and relations of , ing to our just demands in this mat'-r. But the | States, 4 b “ bout 17 per cent of transportation. The to‘al saving ix | the pasesge of the wc! re:errec to, and were in the pos- the puivilege of Jevyin, tanarrow water passage | Yisposition to rerist the payment cfhe © + and daes” is | If it only depended upon itself, the Danish govecnmen: | Su sbullon open furelga commerce, buronly authorized | $35 418, or 12 per cent. revsion of euch Postmaster before the commencement of like the Sound was in strict mily with the thea by adjust the share to be peid by each na'iun in leu o In Oregon the service is as follows, viz.:— the fiseai year, (Ist July, 1855,) when it wen: into ope~ becoming general among commercial natieas, and extent and importance of the | ereasing ever .! sede pe eover the seas, | by thie Presiden those Would determine upon a revision of the Sound tarifl; es | the culles ions theretafore assessed upon tacir respective e Unis measure could be adopted without | vessels ana cargoes. ‘The United states, however, contest rrence of any foreign power, and itis persnaded | (heir hasility te pay any contrioution whatever. Th iil recuced and reguia‘ed ufiec tae actual value | main question at iesue between tais government and tha: ot how znush Durden auail be Borno bs our commerce ‘o the at whether it 6! ib not only svows that a revision would not satisfy ed 10 any burden atail The proposed rere pewer with which Denmark sincerely desires to preserve | wil] be perceived by the restriction upon its jurisdiction 1 relations of good understancing; it bas | is expressly precluded from deliberating and dendipg than provavle, in copsequenc «pon the only sezious question at issue between he last day or , that other powers, whose views ana de-ires | (hated states end Lenmack act. Some of | are equally enutled to be taken into consideration, woul! This is not, however, the only difficulty which preven’ vs -eeeee $8,100 | ration, TO guard az much as’ poseible against the mis- Moces not specified, 75,512. . 16,767 | takes and errors likely 10 a ise from iaaov upon the Coach, 12,480 miles |. 31659 | long established to.ms in which postmastera’ accounts had The rteamboat service hag teen decreaved about 26 per | been kept, I preserved vac ndapted these forms to the new sent duitog the year. The eost for the year ending 30th | requirements of ‘ho law. and have thus endsavored, by June, 1854, was 109 per cent higher ‘han for the past | thesimplest means possible, to secure uniformity and ac- year ending +h June, 1855. curacy in the Keeping and renderiug 0° accounts. Aj rat I» Nebra-ka and Kansas twenty-two routes have beea | estimate cf the value and ultimate success of the plan of p»tin operation, on which the abnual transportation is | registration adopted cannot be formed from the short ex- estimated at 75,364 mlies, at a cost of $4,312, or 6 cents | perience hal of it. Its operation bri to the immediate 7 mills per mile. knowledge of the Depurtment not only every failure, bat Steamboat, 20.052 mies, at a - 1 believe the steps resolved upon ill be, recretly if not d. p that a though there is im this c Fo) of gocds would be like to suiity the reasonable wishes of | ot Denmark is, not how vitories. The + nemly appeired as un attribute of gnty, and were covjunctively with their immemorial chara: w wielged as such The nature and extent of these maritime ri sovereignty have since been duferently judged, and hie Ma- | uc ty’s government readily admits that tue general prin: ithett da ‘ ate ciple 4 thn. law. cl-masions would now hardly cours ton]. “irene rhea ere ee en sanction the imporition of tolls sumilar to tue Souad dues | two in the Donich papers upon tue yupen the subject, yet I thi ik tha ult will prove beneficial to as. andI ly without hope that Denmark will oltimsteiy d to absnden. the ground she has so lorg oaintained, the traging public. Butthe deelaticn above mn where nore before had existed. As Wing i 8) Peon teoceka rays P , ‘i '% te ig Petiies Mejesty'a qavercaent wuunt protect agalat ger <4 toe are belog translated, and, if they shall prove of | net te disposed to find in this micasure a suliaple expe | the President trom conrenting to be reproveated in the Fhipreylcmcen inp try easton pie prey sten omaha ib Met ih ee SS atria 1a one 4 tienlar doctrines of the internationu! law of our time pe- | sooty POrH nee, will be sent you. * ne conven ion. In claiming an exemption of our ships ana | “Jn Utah there is an increase of 25,060 miles of tans- | with a view to such modifications as may be required, L ; * » | Under these circumstances, the Duntsh government has | the) fi - mn wheceby to jadge of | | have the honor to be your oedient servant, detonniz od 16 wubaddt to the powers intereniad in theatair | ine nnie the tence ce ee ee Serato origin in @ past age, BENRY BEDINGE Trudi an enieny alesse: | coerce ee portation, costing $12,203 additional, as compared with | bave in each day’s report abundant proofs of its the service on the 30tn Juno, 1854, This, however, ces | usefumess, and ulso of the necessity of perfeetiog it by ing exclusively ¢pplied as a She validity of rights that have tJ 4nd have come down to the present day sanctioned by | Hon, Ww. 1, Moncy, Secretary of State Ree (ha bake | Brineiple of extensive and various appilcation. It yieide t result t ! ldition to the servica, bat | ruch means as experience may suggest. By arrangements ¢ . Wa. re % a planit is about to propose wid 4 not result trom soy actual addition to the servics, ba 4 on y y arraogem fmomemoriti observance, be fepmpnicldsye 4 a ET fie tie powers, af isle mame eat gl — a pssst heal eorp in eemreoere simply frem changing to Utsh the route from Salt Lake | with Prusria and Bremen the comiatry aysiecs has been. The exictence of the Sound dues m+y appear contrary . SORE : ; ly; {thopas, above all, | the nel to San Diego. which rior to July 1, 1854, was charged to | extended to letters conveyed between the United States paltic were acyniesced in by the Uni‘ed States, simi April 17, 1855. ‘actions might, on the same priuciy'e, be demanded California. The toliowing table sows the extension of | and Germany. (See ariicles of agreement annexed. ) raliroad rervice:— ‘The expenditures of the Department for che last tiscal eg of America wili be ¢0 the rule that the highways of nature are free to all CorENmA ride Jar expressed to the dscte Sm—Conformably to the desire which and may no longer find ax sdequa at 8 3 de copasera .¢ ! ‘aerlianmibe ohn sce Uhietd- i ia peat. 1 finve:the boaiecito/iebare: €o0. fe part of Denma: at the straits of Gibraltar and Messina, ‘at the Dards- F 1 ofthe mnie gts of sovorsiguty powered ty a | Ti feceved he sane dapat of April of thisyaar, | fetot ber cite to seca, a tans af posible, ter | nelle and on all great ravigab rivera hose app nal MPP Earp oped eed nam ti ioe he existence independent of esol, ernsiderations, aa gu ex. | Your communication con‘aiuing the announcement that | inercsts wi h those of America, and espectally to ari branches and tribuiarios are oecusied by different iade Length of twanspor- tional | Compensa'ion to postmasters.... ” "$2,185,836 22 onal right rested iu Denvoark by victue of immo). | the President of ‘he Uniced Siates bys declared tlhe ¢29a- ollie pent coe bee: ¥ Oe oka Dace Lee ee 4 States, route. tation. __cost. | Ship, steamboat and war letters 8, 786 prescription « i{tle recognised by all law, ang by | Woe ef the Hosts sponte ot Com, and ov navigne “3 ~-guaug Fespeoes. In fast, ad + ‘the Presklenit cannot admit the competency of such a ; .. 107 209,003 $15,014 | Transportation of the mails 6,076,334 60 none than the law of Datos. tion, concluded the 26th” April, 1820; between Denmark | S\¥erDment does not think at ovght to enter inta such s | tribural as that proposed by Denma:k—as he woul d>if | New York. TIT “ss “e600 “43832 | Wrapping paper........ 6/407 £0 SF eee te no enas of Vienna, when remodellingthe | aud the Usited states, for the term of ten yours and | ‘“wcussiin, ite princlzel motive in not confining fuall 0 } this government were represented therein to deal witn | New Jersey. Hennryivauia, De- Gfice furniture for post offices 5,250 10 soap of Europe and iegirlating on the tree nav.gation 9. | tWelve mouths additions! after the decnaciation, the revmun which sd teen peested is, tat it coe net | a alzeple of euch vast tmportance :0 he whole com: } Tiware, Viaryacd aod Cle. 1,0:8 864,970 69,517 | Advertising . : gate 4 - é No one c! than cayself, sir, partich may : ted Stat : . Virgivia, North Carolina, Sout! ai & 5 ivers, Sound eccssion te object to the sontinuance of th | | 0° adh mg Mae eae tatich Mew votre. | the steps taken by tie Cited Statte on withou: | 2M, ¥# another ground of objection t joining in the Fone Nore Cer oHntoide 947 466,700 86,000 | Blanks ; No 9niss 40 Bound dues, whic! pong te ee on Ded ¢ | go long the interests cf the citizens of the United Statesas |, Seturs thus asice the project of a revision, uu: | propored convention quite #8 controling as either of the | wichigan, Indiana, Iiinois and Mail locks, keys and e:amp: 26,172 87 lected 1f those dues were decmed an unjust exaction, aad | Tio a cof the subjects of the King, my augustsove- | However, abandoning the same, the Danish government | foregoing. The government of the United Staves will | Wisconsin......+-.+ 1,875 1,747,728 145,746 | Mai:depredations and speci 64,458 eae enewanen ty the len ce eee e reign. / staris upon the byputhesis that the other governments, | never consent to the pretension that the New World is to | Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabaina Clerks for offices... 702,617 40 ere eden arcs ounen oearas Tut I am directed to call your attention to the fact that | Comtidering the revision, as mot caloulated to prevent | be appropriated to adjust the political balance of the VI. |“ jtississippi and Louisiana... 149 132,842 25,498 | Official letters... 55 y of the Baltic powers, whose commerce and nevigs: |.» tt vermment cannot understand the connection which | t2¢,° flicts which it is the qrestion to avotd,would aave | Tt is clearly statec in the proposition whica Denmark hos —-— ——-— | Postage stomps. 11,903 9£ tion are expecially subjected to the Sound dues, would | 2 Eoveroment of the United States establishes bstween | iVited it to submit to them other propositions whlch, | sulauitied to the United States thas the eomveation into | otal inereae...... ......9,674 9,483,132 $286,036 | Stamped envelopes 40,635 34 indeed be inexplicable if thore dues were not recognize! | 16 Stoiftiun of the Sound dues and the above-mentioned | V/tbeut intzingiog upun the right of Denmark, might act upon the question relative to the Sound dues iacou- | The letiings of new contracts for the year, commencing | Payment to letter carriers ” 143,312 98 cabpeesartation = 4 pre went) by the la ot nati yas, | treaty, which, it is true, regulates the rate at whic the pe Agere er ‘ unite, ina higher degree, the sultcag: nexion with the system of the Euro balance of power. | ig¢ July last, embraced the States of Virginis, North Caro- | Repayment for dead letters 6 82 i seri p _ “ — i . ie y t se eet a | tolls should be imposed upoa American vessels, but of of the parties intere “ue : i na It is nore *han intimated that the fume is to be subordi- | | ng, south Carolina, Georgia and Flo Acomparison | Postage stamps of old issues redeemed, 18 70 Thus, a most distinguished statesman, when Mini-te posed upon American voosels put of | a¢ the plan cf a revicicn be discarded it 1s to declare, | nated to the latter. Of the utility or wisdom of the poli- | orthe new rervice, na in operation ZOth September, wits | Purchase of patent pacl 5,000 00 of Forexgn mrocig ae “ ary sre gt col ually independent Nevertheless, as the gov- at least implicitly, that the only basis upon wirish negotia- | tical theory of tho balance ot power in its application to | thet under the expired contracts, 30th June last, shows | Mircellancons payments...... 168,0l1 29 sitate to declare, in an official despateh, that bis gov ra- | ororent of the United States bas taken the ioi‘iative in | HOES would be ente:eu into with Denmark ought to 9° | the Furoy ean fami'y of nations it ts not proposed to ox | that the annual transportation of mails has been in- | Payment of balances due Great Britain 850 TE Mat i did not enter and never could enter, into its in. | the denunciation of the treaty, the guverninent of the thet of 8 dens fe. tle ant £ the ‘aauie of the (Zound | press an opinicn, but enough of its operations bas been | exeased 423,073 miles, at an increased cost of $117,077, Do. do. do. Bremen. . 13,465 40 ent th Od not ent, and never could enter into tsi | King any august sovereign, Volcvos fisel! entiied to | A2¢ he protlem to te solred would then be to ind ao | seen to impress pen this gorerament a fed devermins | divided amdng the several States as follows, vit ' |g ——— yacterized as sacred, und to which he reerguined the title | lope that vropositions wit be made t> it reniing "oer | without devogutteg on that account from the righ | been the cherished poliey ‘of this government. to uvott smiierofanmucd “annuat | | The grows reve pa of Deamark 10 be indisputabie. the suave lime, to preserve intact the relations of com. | Cf he Danisa crown. This double result could duly | such a dangerous complicity, and the President will not | states. tation, cost. land and foreign), from stamps and stamped en- Bis Mojesty’s government, therefore, cannot perosive | the smine tite, to preserve inter sted 50 h 'y between | be obtained by a capitalization of the dues, in order to | yield in sny case to the slightest relaxation of it. Viral 128,009 $58,434 | vel sold, and from miscelianeous sourees, amoant jn what mancer the abrogation of the existing convention | Merce » Mich: have Nain werent the consequence, eyual y | {ee At ence snd torever, the trading navigation from } ” Tye following quotation from the Danish document sub- | North Carolina. } 27771 | im the last fiscal year to $6,642,136 13, to-wit:— Detween the two countries can in any way alfect the ob- | Tht Uwe eel nns Tenewary of the detuitive teraiaation | Pe payment of duties by means ot a just compensation | mitting the proposition to this government will show the | South Carolina, i From letter postage........ $3,234,549 67 Rgation of the government of the United stares to re- emating. teeutrnaioely Yaak: the yooedls of ahe,| amet: é _ | intenced covnection and commixture of the two sabjects: 286 «18.417 | Stamps and stamped envelopes sold. 2,611,318 05 pect « right of the Crown of Denmark, which it poswess- | {7 tates Would, i thele passage through the Sound | _ Tis. then, ts the plan of settlement which the Danish “Besides this ccndition, there is still another which the 21055 | Newspapers and pamphlets 638927 50 oo sadependently of all ireaties. acd commerce of the | and the Belts, be placed upon the same footing with ti governinent submits to the consideration of the Powers | Denish government considers ersential, namely: that the |" Tilg comgarison shows & decrease in tho annual traa.- | Fineh sos. ....., seo. 000++ 35°00 ‘The exemption of the + pe ing a soa, moresver, nut | of the cations to whom mo favor is sb ——— io thealluir of the Sound. ‘ affair in question (the Sourd dues) be not considered »s | portation in South Carolina, which results from the fact | Enrollments returned, 77,002 82 Daited Brates from the Sound duss could, moreover,» non fororisbe) Accept wit, e., &c., & SHEEL, But on arrangemeni of this nature can only be rex! | oxe of commerce cr money, but us a political one. This | that new contracts are not yet coneluded for the steam- | Letter carriers 143'312 98 ese ae T paach sce wai oar | ee Jon, Minister Resident of the United states | ed by the simultaneous concurrence of ail the reepec. | would bein accordance with the history ofthe Soundduss, | pout routes between Charleston and Savannah aud | Dead letterr, 4,976 O1 fhe exemption to all nations, iuoirouch as en us |e ad. : tive Toners, Tue formal and positive engegewenta ex- | and wih the part which they have performed ia the | Chasteston and New York, and. they are therefore not | Extra compen BRO 8: ee eee rece, sled ever tua’ of Mi. BUDINGER TO MR. MARCY. isting between Denmark and the other Powers relative to | polities of the North of Europe. Otherwise the negotis- braced in the statement of service ax {a ojeration | Miscellancous recelpts 7,783 3& shipping and commerce of ore nation over that of all ers.” The assertion of such a claim, therefore, on the ct the United States, would be Satemouat toa s ould be abolished alto- 7 bag inal eh gpl rah: tad Sin—Accompanying this despstch you will fiad a doeu- » ent would consiler it as a ba- | ment in relation to the Sound daes, received by me, on teagel ct tusdnclons Highs ofthe Denish ceowa and of | the Sth inst., fror his excellency the Micister of Foreign he interests of the coantry over which it is its Grstand | Affaire tor this king: the bonnd dues do not admit cf a #pectol arrangement | tion would be deprived of that scope and character which in respect to this matter between Denmark and asotier | are requisile to prevent its being fettered by questions of Vower. arecondary nature, which may be HeKpen te an ar- Besides this condition, there is yet another whish the | rangement werely commercial and fiscal, but not to onv Danich government rgards as essontial: it is that the af- | destined to serve as a complement to treaties of pease and fair m question sholl be treated, mot as a commercial or | comprcmises by which the system of the political balan money transretion, butas a political matier. This would | bas been acjusted.’” " correspond with the history of the Sound dues, with the Tn passing upon the political question prevented by this h September last, although they are now and will ——— probably continue in operation. Of the 423,673 miles of | Total............cce+ eeseeeceeseees +++, 96,042,136 13 adcitional service, under the mew contracts, 243,636 are | Add the annual appropriations made in com- formed by raiitoad. Of the additional cost of $117,0i7; | penfation of mail service to the govern. $51,067 is for railroad rervice. ment, by the acts of the Jd March, 1849, ‘The total anpual transportation under the new con- | and 3d March, 1861.........cccceereeeee+ 700,000 00, tracts, as acjusted for the quarter endiog 40th Septem. = her, is 10,847,879 miles; and the total annual cost, | Total .....s00. sevsseesseeesseeeesse ss 87;G42,196 134 [Extract.] Lecatios or Tag Uxrrep States, ) Coren Oct. 7, 1955. 7 prief note which came with it, his excelon and most imperative duty to watch, if 1% did not, to the In the brit - olities of Xt thix government cannot be induced to take an: f A tate sely the am O88 revel hich it , : faves GAS the pare dosamest signed ti part which these dues have played in the polifics of the | extract, thik g: - Y } $006,843, divided as follows, viz. :— To state precisely the amount of g nue wi mtmost of its power, seek to avert, or even to redist, any fented to cach of to Powers luterested in the affae of | north of Europe; otherwise, Tevere impossibie to give to | part; nor will it submit to have its international rights 8,260,803 miles by railroud, at $485,188, or 14 cents 3 | increased within the lnstftiseal year, the balance against the negotiation the nozessary scope and character ia or- | restricted or medified in subservience to the political | milis per mile. the Uni'ed States, resulting our postal acsounta demand requiring those rights and interests to be ented 10, ficed.; ngs ; = theory with which the question as to the Sound dues is 7 : ; * ™ _ id you herewith the original ¢ocume d der thut it may not be incumbered by questions of a ory the q' 799,746 miles by steamboat, at $106,874, or 1334 cents | with Great Britain, Frussia and Bremen must be de- Peeper ence oof Pape aes treated you herewith the original Cocument, and also a | oe ory cians, which may do very well in'a purely com. | intermixed in the Danian proposition. a ale 7 t, sblaauileaie usted: incase TORGEN BILL 26 Sl perceive thet the ticre and place proposed by | mercial aus fiscal axrangement, but not in an arrange. | | Inthe payer tubmitted by Denmark to the constdera- | P°s 171.495 mites by conch, at $161,781, or T eents per | The amount of balances due to Sngland on the Avcat igh consideration. tometer ten ee Denmark for helding the Congress” which she recom | ™Ment intended to serve asa complement t> treatios of | tion of this government there is an allusion to ‘the sa- 1 mile, ear 1855 was about., os + 870,522 86 Hon. W. 1. Mancr, Eeoretary o| sheet, mends, ae ihe inouth of November next and the city | Peace, and to tronsactions by which theraystem of politi- | orifices” she has made for facilitaving the navigation of | 4,480,205 miles by inferior modes, at $263,000, or 6 balances due to Biemen for the year. 6,150 37 ME. MAKCY TO MR. BEDINGER. of Copenhagen. cai equilibrium hes been reguiated. Consequently, the | foreign vessels through the saltic straits, Any ox. | cents per mile. —_—_— DEPARTMENT OF STATE, =) ‘After reading the Gocument, I called at once upon the | Danish government, in recommencing tts proposition to | penditure she has made for the safety and facility | There should also be added $6,164 for the cost of adii- | Total..........+. seseeeceeee876,663 23 id Lim that, so fac as concerned the United | the kind eonderation of the eabine's, also iakes the | of this navigation may constitate an equitable States, I'feared te had appointed uch too early rhe liberty 0: requesting that they will be pleased 'y decide | claim upon foreign powers for remuneration to it would be almost impossiole to trausmit his prop sition | Upon en‘ering imto negotiation with the Deuish go- the extent they have participated in this advan- to" my government, and to receive iustructions relative | Yerpment a# seon a4 porsirle, and to farniva their | tege. The collections isitherto snais’ have. mach more Thereso, no eaily ax the month of Noveiner. Ko. ife replied | O'plcmatic agehts at the Danish court with full powers | them compensated for theve outlays. While the United , between the | that he himself would have pro‘erred a lacer date, but | 8M necvvsary toxtractions, or to ent xpecial eum- | States would not ccnsent to purchase a right which they Gaited States and that governswunt, ermination of | that he ud. beso strenaoualy urged, by several of the | Tissioners to Copenh gen ta order to devise and es- | comsider indubitable- the free enh tanned i the same, | am directed by tho Presiviont to exprest bis | powers tuost interested in the matter, to appoint as early | tablish cefinitely @ general agreement, both as ro- | they would not hesitate —— derally in compenss.- vegret at the recessity which has lot t» this proceeding. ‘Among those powers he partic ards the oorapensation to which Denmark might think | ing Denmark for any fair claim for expenses sho may in- He had hoped that tke government of Neumark would Prussla, and, 1 thiak, Rese erself entitled to claim as indemnity for the losses she | our in improving and zeae safe the navigatim of have favorably considered tho appeal to irs justice, which jer more emphatically would sustain by the cessation of the dues, and as to tae | the Sound. There is undoubtedly a necessity to keep up you had been instructed to ineke oa the part of your + the United States would have aban. | Move of catculation to be ured, ia order to aecertain and st aconriderable expense light-houses, buoys, &:., for ment, for the abolition of the oppressive duties or Wer, as thy couterencs w oui, | tdetermine, eventually, the just proportion in which | the security of this navigativn. Vor such expenses ta Felis which-bave been levied for #0 long mt by that feveral montas; probably the | each of the respective powers would have to contribute | future, cixeonnectod i ep tanmn for surrendering a pi Power upon yorseis of the Unite scares their cargoes | whole winter, & From whet I have been able to _. tenced right to contro Sagi. of the Sound aod fo the Baltic sea, in violation of she right which all ‘ua- | joarn, T have not the slightest doubt that the “Congress” ¢ desirabls that this negotiation conld be opened | Belts, the United States are willing to enter into an nr- Movs possess to the unrestricted navigation of opon | whi take place, and thet euch nation inieresied fa any | iM te course of the month cf November of the presunt rangewent with Denmark, and to pay a fair equivalent gens, The right of the Danis govern vent to exact these | Geyree inthe Sound question will efther invest its present yer. In expressing ‘his desire, the Dami:h government | for#py advantages to their commerce which may be de Pardensome toils, has been steacily*denied by the « representative at this court with fail power to act thece- | ha# in view not only the urgency ot the affair ia ques | My'd from these outlays. > tional route agents, mail messengers and local agents, From the foregoing, ceduct the balances due appointed since the Ist Juiy last, and $1,540 for the | the United States by Prussia for the year... 69,694 11 Charleston and New York and barleston ond Savannah ~—— routes, which are expected to contiaue atthe same rate | Balance. + $8,950 12 ‘as ugder the former contract. If, then, 959 be deducted ‘On the 20th June last thero were in service 319 route | from the aggregate of $7,942,136 18, the actual gross egenta, at » compensaticn of $235,170 65; 29 local agents, | revenue of the Department, for the fiscal year gading at $19,828; and 981 mail messengers, at $100,471 65— | 801m June, 1866, will be. te eseeseres + +97,835,177 01 making a total of $354,070 30 to be added to the cost of | The gross revenue of 1864, after deducting tranrportaticn. ‘This makes the total amount for the foreign balances, amounted t0..,........ 6,816,651 91 x ference in favor of 1 current year $6,824,989 30, which will probably be in- ; aia creared to $6,000,000 by new service on the Missiseippi | D seceese $518,519 10° river and routes established by the last Congress, Being an increase of 7 3-6 por ceat. The cost of foreign mail service yaid by thls Depart; | The expencitares of the Department for the yee 1 ment is not ivciuded in the foregoing statements, and | as bef re piated, were... + 99,908, 342 mounts to $611,467. In my last annual report, gave | The gross revenue, as rop 5 rentons whieh, it appeared to me, clearly justided some | tor, inclnding foreign postages and the deay in making a contract for conveying the mails by | snnnal appropriation of $700,000 for mail stcasbeat between Cairo and New Orleans, under the | services rendered to government, was..., 7,342,135 2% Wasur ‘Sia—In communicating to y« the Sevate of the ‘i instant, idop suthorizing the Preside Denmark tne notice re @e general convention of 26th ot April, 16 os, March 12, 1855. 5 Minister, ond t solution of , ernment of the Uniied Sintes, and ibey bave been sul yoint fal nissioner rier’ | ton, as releter to Denmark, but also the consideration You are. therefore, instruc'ed to invite Denmark to | act of Congress of Sth August, 1864. My expectation ———__.. Sitted to. thus far ouly because of ita unwillingness | UPC. OF appcint » special commisionsr for thet purpose. | thay ceye:al powe 8, and particularly ove who, by theie | suomit a proposition on this abject, and assure her that | Sey that snore Sdvantageous ‘terms would be’ secured | Excess of expenditure in 1885, ......+.-«.82/026,208 16 hitherto apt th find uhia | tt will receive due consideration feom your government, | ater the fal completion of the Hiinotws Central Ratlroad, If to the foregoing excess of expenditare be added the to hazard the interraption of the friendly in- y yonatble stint cgraphicel position, might be ver: tersourse between the two countries by peremptori vention ft is imprssiblefor me to conjecture, Toniy | B6CRTp p ig! ‘4 fusing any longer to suffer eo unwarrantavie an imp thon ite commerce. As @ prel ary step © # b veforal on the part of this government, aa announcem and the opening «f the Ohio and Mississippi road from | balonce accounts clewed by ‘oad debts,” ‘compromised e east to its point of intersection with the Minois debts,” and ‘‘suspense account,’ amounting by the Au- ‘ent’ Accordingly, negotiations were had with several | citor’s starement to $049 9, then the entire excess for parties, thcugh without apy favorabie issue, until Jd of | the year will be $2,626,866 15, In my last annual re- © | know that of th he & ‘term too close at hand, are go little in‘eres ed in the | botrbe must not expect thet it will be favorably entor- | tolls’ to Donmevk are” Yeouming evere’ day. once | Seusd dues thet they might aot deem it necessncy to be | tained if it thould inelude, either expressly or implied- restive uhder these burdens, and, while hevitat. | 2eprerented from the beginning of the eventual eo- | ¥- op oer eet for the surrender of her pretended ing themselves io take the first stop in che | ferences, or might even prefer, perbaps, to canse the vight control the free ure by our ships of the Sound and @ tu intention to termicate the existing convention | Wetter they do not. object’ to see tie Cail reives to be represented at the negotiation by some | the Belts of the Baltic. I am, sir, respeofally, your | April iast, when I concluded a contract with Mr. James | port I stated that the expenditures of 1856 would, between the two countries has bern deemed advisnsle, | staces btepoent to lend the way it reste ing thele tapisee friendly power. 7s 5 4 obedient rorvant, W. L. MAKCY, Frscy to convey mails on the route from Cairo to New | owing to causes not within the controi ot the Depart em acceunt of the fiti article of that convention hav- | imposition. Inieod, Iam of opinion that if 1: ware nst | The choice of the olty of Copenhagen as the eext of the | To flxwny Bumivarm, Faq., &e., &e., Ke. Orleone and back daily, in suitable steamboats, agreeably | ment, greatly exceed those of the previous year, and them been construed into a concession on the part of the | forthe state of things ut present existing to Farope, negotiation has been occasi med by the circumstan ut MR. BILLE TO MR. MARCY. to the advertisement of Slat August, 1854, for the com- | briefly adverted to somo of those causes. Subsequently “Onited Sates of the right of Denmark to levy the ‘Soand | there are several af those powers whe would not ha:{. | that city 1s the headquarter of all the administrative de- LeGation OF DevMaRK, a ion of $180,000 per annum, he tbaving visited | other i ems of feo Apes Dw which I shall prosently ail dues,’ ani the President has accordingly been ves‘ed Wi'h | tare to disembarrass themselves of tiat pacticulue tri. | partments, and that it presents, consequently, very pecu- Wasiixaton, Nov. 7, 1855. ‘asbington with full powets to negotiate and conclude | were edded by acts cf Congress. The commission allo muthority t give such notice. He has not abanioaed all iar ‘acilities for fornishing the materials and ths infor- ‘The vndersigned, Chargé d’Affaires ‘of his Danisu Ma- | such a contract on behalf of the Ilimois Centrat Railrond | to Postmasters under the act of $d March, 1853, bad hope, howewr, that te Denish government may yo ‘og to be in‘ormed, as soon as possible, of the de‘erni. | mation which migh* he desired ia the interest of the ne- | jesty, haa the bunor, by order of his goverament, to ca- | Company, ax stated to me ine letter from Z. N. A, Gris- | proved insuflicient at a few offiges to defray the expensed phew such & Gsposition in reference to this subject as jon to which the President shall come soncerning thiy | 8etiation. ‘close 40 the Hon. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of Stats of the | wold, President thereof, dated 20d March last. of their administration, and an authority waa asked to may render unaecescary the communication for the Wr | pronoeed Congress—whether any one from the Uniiel | The Danich government does by no means conceal from | United States, the accompanying memorlal, widresset by | On the 24th April Mr.{Joy informed the Department } mais dditic nal allowances in auch special cases, which ssination of a convention which has been so mutually al | Styies will be depated to it, and, if 60, whether I will po | itselt that the step it bas determined upon tating is not | tbe gvermment of his Danish Majesty to tue powers in- | that arrangements had been made for a number of bouts, | could not in all, according to the estimate of tho Auditor, ‘vant ms. Yor are therefore instructed, unless ia | mpowered to act, or another. of a character to be at first eqnally well roceivedgvery- | terested in he commerce and navigation of the Baltic | probably to go into the line immediately. The contract | have Tnyclved an increare of expecse exoceding $46,000 your judgment ¢ should be no prospect of eee 4 + * * * * * * where; but, while regretting that such may be the cae, | Sea, inviting them to enter, as soon as posible, into ne- | was #0 ordered; and, considering the wealth and infla- | a year, but with tle authority to grant special relief the step being aitended with saccees, to make another aad I have the honor to be, ka... it reverthelers cherishes hope that its propositions and | govation with Denmark, and to furnish their diplomatic | ence of that corporation, and its direct interest in cou- | act of Congress, approved January 22 1264, gave a gen- final appeal to ue government of Denmark to relieve our Hon, W. L. HENRY Denmark with full powers and ne- | neoting therailroad with a regular line of boats to New | eral incrense of coymissions, the effeet of which upom Orleans, there was every reason,to expect a prompt nnd | the expenditures for compensation to Postmasters and eommerce fromthe burtyn of the Sound dues. Should faithful performance of the stipulated rervioe; some de- | ‘Clerks for the Post Offices” in tho past year, as com- ¥ BEDINGER. ita proceedings will not be jurged until afver they shall | agents at the court of you, however, determine to make no further attempt to ‘The duties wh 4 ave been waturely examined, allowances being made | cersery instructions, or to rend special commissioners n | crown levies upon vessels y the position in which Denmrk finds horself placed; it | to Copenbogen, to consert and establish definitely a attain that olject by negotiation, or should your effort, | and cargoos passiog through the straits of the Souad and | expecta to meet with equal justice everyw ‘al ngroement upon the basis of the proposition made | lay was to be ex pected, owisg to the magnitude of the | pared with 1664, 1s shown by the following statement :— i | ‘ywhero, and eneral 0) ent upon roposition ‘y , prove unsucosssfal, you will then immediately 13s have already been, for along time, mad : . eporition ‘o i sald ial for the aboliti enterprise, but I did not permit myself to doubt that the ‘June 80, 64. June 20, °55, fa to the ge Er i peemck tne 9 cae 18 oo a peo pda | ine, made the wb. | places ite trust in the frlendly disposition of whish the | in the afore memorial f abolition of the Sound be re wiald be ¢ La y 44 * | Revenue from letter stamps , produced an agitation | powers have, on other occarioas, given so many proofs. dues, uently badob- | On ite own part, it will set to work with the Text inten ‘This invitation is particularly addressed to the govern- as a pledge of tho desire of tne ‘To my surprise, however, after walting some time fora | sold, foreign postage, for the termination of the convention—req resting an uc hi pbatinate that they uve f: the mach more obstinat rhe report on the subject, { received a letter dated 16th newspapers and pamph: Ri t thereof, a copy of whiel you will trans | jects apd tendencies of a political cha and have al- | tions, penetrated with a sincore desire to prove, by facta, | ment of the United stat Enowledgmen' gmt hither with the least practicable delay, am, wir, &e., | vays teen baved upon false and pr ‘leas of the | that it has nothing else in view, by way o° a fin evernment of bis Majesty to reconcile ag mach last, from the Vice President of the Illinois Central | lets, from emolu- Wits 1. MARCY, right in virtue of which the ¢ at 1 asaleo of | than an srangunent equally soceptable to all, wb aeiss Bi Nporible its interest with thoro of America, and the | Ri Heond Company informing me of a faiiure to organizes | ments paid ........... .96,111,087 16 90,472,005 er Bony Beoiscur, Feq., &-., &o., Copennagen. the manner in which Denmark s0'olses (ua: eight. the It ouly remains now to add kome general remarks upon | undersigned flatters himself with the hope that {t will be | line of boats, and submitting new propositions, which I | Over expenditures for com- ME, BEDINGER TO MR. MARCY. true state of thingr bet aly knows to those who did | the manner of carryicg out the plan of capitalization. received in the same apirit by the government of the | could not consistently en' in. Ia a letter, dated Sep- pensation to postmasters tract, | not care to represen’ the same in its true light, general ‘This iy pot the first time that this plan has beon dive | United States, and that it may thus bring about an um- | tember 17, be wrote in, enclosing a proposal from and clerks for officer. . . .. ea 55 =: 2,837,962 62 Lacanion oF tie Cxrrep Stare, attention was very natucally directed, by preference, to | cussed; although It has never been formally proposed cerstandirg between the two countries upon the question | another pard, at three hundred and fifty thousand dol- | Or £8 26-100 pr. et, or 43 84-100 p. ct. , i ly proposed by & 4 9 ~N x, April 20, 1865. f the obligations which the levying of the duties imposed | the Danich government to the powers generally, it has | of the Sound. jars per annum. I answered on the 24 October, that The proportion of this revenue Linen gr expended ar despatch of the 12th witiso was reoctved by | wpum the tracing public, while no one took into conside- | nevertheless been the subject of confereooes w th several He avails himself of this occasion to renew to the hon- 11 mustrequire the Railroad Company to perform service § for ‘compensation for ostmasters ‘clerks for