The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1868, Page 4

4 ‘ INEW,. YORK . HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. ty gust last invited | who are suffering extreme destitution produced by | Second—For & distinct designation of the var alaations cf Foe) ng Po pags airector Tooont devastating inundations, who shall discharge tue duties of President in tae of the Union Pacific road Com) » who had Our relations with Mexico during the year have | event of a vacancy in that office by the egy b instructed to exaim:ne location, | been marked by en increasing growth of mutual ‘or removal of both the Presideat and een specially astiructic road. confidence. The Mexican government has not yet mitted Seta iden at the Atgeanes (ro acted upon the three treaties celebrated here last Third—For the election of Senators of the United 4 For tain questions in regard to the authority oie suminer for estabiishing the rights of naturalized } States directly by the pocne the several States, d those ; hale At the beginning of the rebellion the bank note nasa EB s Ss A G 5B Finny Hifi it Sevres 0 of tastes, cireu ation of the country amounted to not much on account of their inquisitorial character, One | Ore than two hundred mulhons oi dollars; now the Handed jlliong sonny” are exveaaed ore | Glen’ lansen tract over insured one mint a hich ig em- uy mitlhons, ved in the exeouton’ or tame te Pruuieft isa OF THE a plo gary and unconstisutional ; one hundred and . ions absolutely easentia! to the best interests of the coun- | y. arose citizens upon @ liveral and just us, for regulatt instead of by the Lexus! 5; aad President of the United States. | pay’meinieres on the paste gent; en araiy of tax | £17. in view of tego diverse opinionalt may bowali | which nad rom time to Uno oa pe prec og ie | Sonu’ powers and forte edustast of mataal | Oar Hor tata ot pra o your erers verishes: . real paper issucs, ommussioners ppointed each uccessive terms _— ageni placed op Consress beyond ths control ertne goss with a metallic or convertible currency. | Section of the Work. "Alter carefully Considering the | — All commerotal nations, as well as all friends of | Profoundiy impressed with the propriety of make Executive, divert from their legitimate purposes | For this purpose jet us inquire how much gold and | jaw of the case he aMirmed the right of tue Execu- | republican institutions, have ocoasion to regret the | ing modifications tn thé constitue Fruow Oruzexs oF THE SENATR AND HOUSE OF large sums of whicn they collect on ee gue’ bee cae eet [- pers aga tive to orde, ig Frege ‘@ thoro' —— of Feques peel tear Accd a tao oa. a Feapectful sadmit them for tie carly and REPRESENT ATIVES:— sniation and ponies po can Be emane Probably not more than half the amount of pantad th examine this ‘and other lines, and have occurred, however, to atfect the harmony and cordial | far ua remove all pre vext for violations of ngtess it again be- | defects ‘avert if suffered ye | the owing that when our paper cur- | recency submitted a statement of thew inves! friendship which ‘have for several years oxisted | the organic law, by remedying such imperfections Ging i resnenhing oO payer, Cannot fall 14 Oreriniet sont iegoe ia the publiccoun: | FeDey 18 com With "gold ‘and vativer its | fons S¢ which che report of the Secretary of the | between thas youtiful and vigorous republic and | a# time and experience may develop, ever remeuk comes my duty to call your attention to the state of | Cis'tng weaken the atachment and respect of the | commerctal value 1s compressed into 000. | {interior furaishes specide information, » | our own. Uering that “the constitution which’ at any tiie the Union, and to its continued disorganized condt- | people towards thelr political institutions, Without | This makes it the obvious duty of the ‘WAS DEPARTMENT ADPATES. * Negowations are pending with a view to the sur- | oxists, until changed by an explicit and authentio tion under the various laws which have been passed | proper care the ama balance which i 3 estimated Crinclplos of aoe Tey eceatstent with the | ‘Tne report of the Secretary of War contains infor. | YOY And construction of, Bblp canal seroma act of the whole people, Is sacredly obligatory upos upon the subject of reconstruction. Will remain in the Treasury at (he close o1 tetaisaity | measures as will enable tho holder of it notes ‘and | Mation Of interest and importance the | States. Ihope to'be able to submit the results of ooNoLusron. "Tr may be safely assumed, as an axiom in the gov: | fecal Year will, not be realized, and SacsHONe anu | those of the national Danks to convert them withont | #c¥eral bureaus of the War Department and the ope- | fret negotiation. to the Senate. during ii present lth performanse fw uty imposed upon me by ernmeat of states, that the greatest wrongs inflicted | merated by billions. loss into specie oF its equivalent. 4 reduction of our | force on the Soth of September last Was 48,000 men, e constitution, thus Communicated to Oon- session. that january ‘The very Mberal treaty which was entered into | gross information of the state of the Union, and re- pot Soe ae vy ee fey Bn It foccod last year Dy the United States and Nicaragua has | commended for Pe consideration auch measures opinion of the Seeretary of War thut within the next | Dee railed by iolehar republic. as bave seemed to me Costa ith tness of a sincerely ied into effect they will aston the eon ite out Ww earnest a carried int re o 4 a noannieueme Cumnenenct Ge Gar are oy neighbor, cits a reciprocity of tra’e, | ment of the great and Donafoeat putpoads for which hich 1 commend soll view great ‘to the consideration of Congress. | the constitution was ordained, a it coms pier ig ipl oa a ‘The convention created by treaty between the enone states were “to form 9 more perfect the absolute ren of retrenchment wher- | United States and Venezuela in July, 1865, for the Injon, estabiish justice, insure domestic tran- ver it can be ai it is hoped that matual adjustment of claims, has been held, and | quillity, provide for the common defence, prov ngress will ion the reduction which | #5 decisions have been received at the Department | mote the general welfare and ig report recomménds, Whtii ‘1860 16,300 men | 2 State. ‘The fore recognized governiment of | blessings of liberty to ourselves and cost the nation $16,472,000, the suin of $05,632,000 1s the United States of Venezuela has been subverted. } posterity.” In Congress aro vested all I tive estimated as necessamy for the support of the army | 4 f eigt cated government having been instituted | powers, and upon them devolves the bluty during the fiscal year onding June 40, 1570. ‘The es- | U' circumstances which promise durability, it | as well for framing uawise and excessive laws as timates of the War Department for the last two fiscal | 28 been formally recognized. for neglecting to devise and adopt measure abso- ears were, for 1867, $33,814,461, and for 1868 T have been reluctantly obliged to ask explanation | lntely demanded by the wants of the country. Les $251205,000." ‘The actual ‘expenditures during the | 424 éatisfaction for national injuries commuitied by | us carnestly hope that before the expiration ‘of our same periods were, respectively, $96,224,415 and the President of Hayti. The political and social con- | respective terms of service, now rapidly draw- $128,249, 818. “The estimate submitted in December | “on of the republics of Hayti aud St. Domingo is | ing to a@ close, an all-wise Providence wl 80 last ioe the fiscal year ending June 29, 1869, was | Very unsatisfactory and painful, The abolition of | guide our counsels to strengthen and preserve $77,124,107; the expenditures Soe the first quarter, | very, which has’ been carried into effect through- | the federal Union, inspire reverence for the constitu- ending the 30th of September last, were Serato ti7, | Out the island of St, Domingo and the entire West | tion, restore prosperity and happiness to our whole nd oH ‘Secretary of the ‘Lreasury gives ‘$66,000,005 Indies, except the Spanish islands of Cubs and | peopie and promote “on earth peace, se a § the amount which Will probably be requirea’darin, Porto Rico, has been followed by a profound | toward men.” ANDREW JOHNSON. the remaining three quarters, if there should be ng | popular conviction of the rightfuness of re- | — WasiliNuTON, December 9, 1863. reduction in the army, Making its aggregate cost for | Publican institutions and ‘an intense desire ‘the | ©. secure them. ‘The attewpt, however, to eee ner eit saikastmatttcenemuie establish republics there encounters many obsta- THE PERUVIAN IRDN-CLADS AT WEW ORLEANS. aper circulating medium need not necessarily fol- upon a people are caused by unjust and arbitrary | gt is shown, by the abe and comprenensive repre ow, This, however, would depend upon the law of legislation, or by the unrelenting decrees of despotic | the fiscal year ending June 20, £006, ware £406, 6 pes, | Comand rg sup Apes ee ee pay in rulers, and that the timely revocation of injurious | Gnd that (a0 oe eae tie ‘Treasury & surplus of | Convertible into coin or its equivalent their present and oppressive measures is the greatest good that = ‘397,798. It 18 estimated that the recei nee specie value in the hands of their holders would be can be conferred upon @ nation, The legislator or | ine present fiscal year en Juno 30, 1969, will be | enhanced one hundred per dent, | réauis 80 ruler who has the wisdom and magnanimity to re- bryce ie ae Lee rg a ope desirable ts aemanded by the nighest publ id- trace his sieps, when convinced of error, will sooner | Citiment. For the fscal year ending June 8, 4970, | &Fations, ‘The constitution contemplates that. the cir. or later be rewarded with the respect and gratitude | it is estimated that the receipts will amount to | culating medium of the country shall be uniform tn ige 7,000,000,,and the expenditures to $303,000,000, | Guality and value. At the trme of the formation of of an intelligent and patriotic people, ieaving an estimated surplus of $24,000,000. that instrument tho’ country had Just emorged from ‘HY RECONSTRUCTION QUESTION. re feats) sinh ae ip way cy fede oa at beter ing from y the e: of redundant and wo paper cur- Our own history, although embracing a period less It becomes proper, in this connection, to make @ | rency. ‘The sages of that period were anxious to pro- than @ century, aifords abundant proof that most | brief reference to our public indebtedness, which bas | tect thelr terity from the evils which they them- if notall of our domestic troubles are directly trace- | #ccumulated with such alarming rapidity and as- | selves experienced. Hence, in providing a cir- able to violations of the ic law and excessive | Sed such colossal proportions. culating medium, they conferred upon Congress the . Organi % In 1789, when the government commenced epera- | power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, legislation, The most striking fliustrations of this | tions under the federal constitution, it was burdened | gt tho same time prohibiting the States from making factare furnished by the enactments of the past be ny reien of Thin. crpaiea ating, anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of h ‘ ation. ebts, g ‘ree years upon the question of reconstruction. | requced to $45,000,000 When, in 1812, war was declared one anomalous condition of our currency is in After a trial they have substantially failed and | against Great Britain, The three years’ struggle | striking contrast with thet which was originally de- proved pernicious in their results, and there seems eee ee dae aad ry Be Sere oul, siened., Our ciroulasion now embraces —firah notes ot ions, al ul ol th ational banks, which are made receivable for al no good reason why they should longer remain upon | $127,00,000. Wise and economical legisiation, | (ues to the governinent, excluding imposts, and. by the statute book. Staics to which the constitution wever, enabled thé government to pay the | all its crediiors, excepting in payment of interest i, cles, most of which may be supposed to result from * e guarantees a republican form of government have | Bure a hount within a period of twenty years, and tipon its bonds and thesecurities themselves: second, | fOr the Lnree fiscal Years Which have been named is | tong ‘indulged. habits of colonial supinences and de- | M7Sertous Méveuiouts Connected Therewith, the extinguishment of the national debt flied the | Joyal tender nows, iasued by the United Siates, |/thusshown to bo $116,545,340 for this single branch | Hongonce upon Kuropean nionarchival Powers. [From the New Orleans Picayune, Deo. 5.) wien reduced to miiitary, dependencies, in each of | jand with teolcing, and was one of the great events | and which the Taw requires shall be received ax | Of the publioservice, | While the United States have, on all decasions pro- |, or some tine past two iron-clads, formerly Knows Urbitrary wit of che comuondus generale Althouse | Of President Jackson's administration, After its re- | well sn payment of ail debls between citizens as of | 7, report of the Beeretaly of the Navy exhibits | 6381 @ decided unwillingness that any part of | a tie Oneota and CaLawba, but since tiie hotstin of the commanding general. Although | demption a large fund remained in the Treasury, | ati governinent dues excepting imposts; and third, the constitution requires that each State shall be re- | which was deposited for safe keeping with the seve- =e Sudallver col. By te fete our pi presented in Congress, Virginia, gant and | ral states, on condition that it suould be returned | ent system of dnance, however, the metallic cur- Texas are yet excluded from the ye Chae and, | when required by the public wants. In 1849—the year | rency when eoilected 14 reserved only for one class contrary to the express prov mons of that insiru- | after the termination of an expensive war with | of goverument creditors, who, holding {ts bonds, ment, were denied participation in the recent elec. | Mexico—we found ourselves involved in a debt of semi-annually geceive their interest in coin ‘from — a President and Vice Fresideut of the United | 364,000,000; and re the amount oned.} by. fee the national ‘Treasury, ‘There is no reason Stat government in 1860, just prior to the outbreak of tl which will be accepted ag satisfactory by the people The attempt to place the whnte purutation: under | repellion, In the spring of 1861 our civil war com- | why those who delend us on the faneand protect us the dominion of persons of color in the South has | menced. Each year of {tg continuance made an | on the sea: the pensioner upon the ratitude of the impaired, if not destroyed, the kindly relations that | enormous addition to the debt; and when, in the | navion, bearing the scars aud wounds received while had previonsly existed between them, and’ mutual | spring of 1865, the nation successfully emerged from | in iis service; the public servants in the various de- Pee’ has Caged hep | of animosity which, | the conflict the obligations of the government had | partments of the government; the farmer who sup- Jeading in some instances to collision and bloodshed, | reacied the immense sum of $2,893,992,709. ‘The | pjies the soldters of the army and the sallors of the has prevented that co-operation between the two | secretary of the Treasury shows that on the Ist day | navy; the artisan who toils in the nation’s work- races 80 essential to the success of Industrial enter- | o¢ Novcinder, 1867, this amount had been reduced to | shops, or the mechanics and laborers who build {ts prises mm the Southern — Nor have the inhabi- | ¢),401,504,450; but'at the same time his report ex- | edifices and construct Its forts and vessels of war, tants of thoss Se one saree. froin the dis- | nitits'an {ncrease during the past year of $35,625,102; | should, m payment of their just and hard earned turbed condition of ai geen oe Onn ot these Con- | sar the debt on the 1st day of November last is stated dues, receive depreciated paper, while another ae enactments, z gid Union has been | to nave been $2,527,129,602 It ia estimated by the | class of their countrymen, no‘ tnore deserving, satay by rave sipccteenien ce troubles which | Scerctary that the returns for the past month will | are paid in coin of gold and silver, Equal and mig! ee eo pete : peace of t foyer” its in- | add to our liabuities the further sum of $11,000,000— | exact justice requires that all the creditors of Lerests have been injuriously affected by the derange- | making a total increase during thirteon miontus of | the government should be paid m currency posasess- ment of business and labor, and the consequent want | $45,500,000. ing & uniform value. This can only be accomplished Deg pes Regen ee ae Foxe! of the pouney, In my message to Congress ‘of December 4, ua by the restoration of the currency to the standard 2 federal constitution the magna charta of | it was suggested that @ policy should be dev established by the constitution; and by his means A eee eae te feel type 4 Which, without being oppressive to the people, | we would remove e discrimination which may, if it eo ee aes Jie ah | Poe Sil our | would’at once berm to effecta reduction of the | has not already done go, create a profudice that jomestic and Lomed bow irs, Sustained ourselves in | debt, and, if persisted in, discharge ft fully within ® | become decp-rooted und wide-spread, and imperil fee and in ¥ tg tg eal reat nation among | getinite number of years, The Secretary of the | the national credit, he Powers of the earth—must assuredly be now | ‘treasury forcibly recommends legislation of this | — The feasibility of making our currency correspond 7 3 r r of the Peruvian colors as the Manco Capac aut the operations of that department and of the navy a rine aiuesees << ie Nines Saas See Atahaullpa, have beon actively engaged ia diting during the year. A considerable reduction of the narchical power, too little has been doue by us, on out for sea at the Algiers shipyard, across tue river. Force has been efveted. | There are forty-two vessels, | the oiner hand, vo attach tho communities by which | “hose tron-clada, it will be remembered, were pur carrying 411 guns, in the six squadrons which are we are surrounded to our own country, or to lend chased some two years or, more ago from the United established tn diserent parts of the world. Three oven & moral support to the elforts they are so reso- | States government by Messrs, pwilt & Co., agents of these vessels ure returning to the United Iutely and so constaftly making to secure republi- for the Peruvian government, the sale ai the ime nd jour are used as storeships, leaving the wetnal | Cay dhstitutions for themselves.” te ts indeed & ques- | Creating ® mood deal of seandal in consequence of 1ising force thirty-tve vessels, carrying 356 guns. tion of grave consideration whether our recent and certain inquiries made in rejerence to u in Coa- ‘Tho total number of vessels in the navy 18 206, | Droceus example 18 Hot caloulated to check the | 8ress Over ® year ogo @ rumor prevalied thas mounting 1,743 guns. Kighty-on® vessels of every rowth and expansion of free principles and make taese steamers were about to take their depariure, description are in use, armed with heel Bie The ose cbmmunities distrust, if not dread, a govern- | 80d Judge Kellogg, mg collector of the port, was number of ealisted men in the service, includmg ap- ordered to keep close Watch upon their movements, prentices, has been reduced to 6500. An increase Bronk wipich at will consigns (o mnilitary domination 4 ‘ecause tt was stated there was suill troubie in refer- of navy yard facilities 18 recommended as ‘and while read: Ro reatat a attempts by other na. | nce to the sale made to Switt & Co., by the Navy ® measure which wil, im the event of tions to cugnies this enulaphere the monarchical | Vepartment, and also that the authoritive at Waal eee be beac Ee opened Richens Aabeaed + | institutions of Europe, assumes to establish over a inion acl Soaril seoe se Denna awe sight Se more thorough and system e North 4 violated—hostil still continuing betweea Spam Pacific Ocean 18 advised in view of our recent acqul- | 14re portion of its people @ rule more absolute Upon making an examination of these and Per sitions, our expanding commerce, and the increasing | Harsh and tyrannical than any kuown to civiitzed | ee eee re ae. tie ‘oificers: detailed byciase intercourse between the Pacific States and “Asia. ‘The acquisition of Alaska was made with the view | C0llector reported that they were #0 effectively dis ‘Vhe naval pension fund, which consists of a moiety of exvending national jurisdiction and republican mautied so far as regarded their machinery that I© of the avails of prizes captured during the war, | prinoipies in the American hemisphere. Believing | Would be impossible for them to move without re- amounts to $14,000,000, Exception is taken to the E ' fitting, and Shosraper tics at Washington were so act of 23d July last, which reduces the interest, on | ‘at ® further step could be taken ta the same direc- 4 tame it appears these monitors: informed, Since the fund loaned to'the government by the Secretary | oR I last your entered into a troaty with the Eing | five passed regularly into tile hands of the Peruvian as trustee to three per cent, instead of six per cent, | Of Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. | Coven ment and are now being rapidly gotten ready Thomas and St. John, on the best terms then attain- which was originally stipulated whea the invest- ‘ Jor sea. under the eye of the Peruvian Minister Sefer mont. Was-uade, An amendment of the pension | Sb!e, and with the med consent of the people of | {a arc! arrived ‘ity on Sunday ngwested od Sey those islands. This y still remains under con- | Garcia y Garcib, who arrived In our city on Bunda io oxtatine cnnctmenia, "The expendicures of the | sideration in’ the Senate, A new convention has pian sheaths Tousiers oan bp eaebe He Po been entered into with Denmark, enlarging the time | Ade 48 seawor ben - 2 adequate to the settlement of questions growing out | character, and justly urges that the longer it is de- tandard be seen by | departmens during the last fiscal year were tificat the origi vessels were engaged in taking coal yesterday, and of the civil war waged alone forits vindication. This | ferred the pa aicule ai becomenita ‘aoooms. ee Cy eae taeeder ved wonoun commercist $20,120,394, and the estimates for the coming year loueaae aanoanbponcy enn Reeriaes: Wil to-day haul out into the stream to organize great fact is made most manifest by the condition of | pijshment. We should follow the wise precedents | statistios. amount to $20,003,414. Honjthe acquisition and incorporation into our federal | ‘beir crews fprevions to starting upon the lx the country when Congress assembled in the month | established in 1780 and 1916, and without further | ‘The aggregate product of precious metals in the | MANAGEMENT OF THR POST OFFICR DEPARTMENT. | Union of the several adjacent continental and insular | months’ voyage around Oape Horn. Theso troa- of December, 1865. Civil strife had ceased; the | deiay make provision for the payment of our o! United States from 1849 to 1867 amounted to spies i mpeans had ee Apes entire fofce; in the | tions at as early a period aa may be practicable. | $1,174,000,000, white for the same perlod the net ex- fy ie ‘ates the people had warmed into national’ | ‘rye fruits of their labors should be enjoyed by our | ports ‘ef specie were $741,00,000. ‘This shows an ede scamnnmaneenren al Bhar eepiin citizens, rather than used to build np and sustain | excoss of rodust over net exports of 9458,060 000, A 7 imoneyed monopolies in our own and other lan fur | There arg tn the Treasury $103,407, in col cir. Jon of the simple yet effective provisions of the | foreign debt 13 al computed by the Secretary of | culation in the States on the Paciflc coast about The Postmaster General's report furnishes a full ch which were built in Cincinnati towards the and clear exhibit of the operations and condition of poeta Pepsin arlene ek esi close'of the war, are single turreted monitors, armed the postal service. The ordinary postal revenue for justice, faith or honor. easion or con- | cach with two fifteen inch guns and draw the fisoal year ending June 30, 1808, was $16,202,600, | tro1 of those communities has hitherto hindered the | tuirteen feet water, with six days’ coal on board. and the total expenditures, embracing all the service wth and impaired the influence of the United | ‘Thelr crews—counting officers, men and all haude— for which special appropriations have been made by tates. Chronic revolution and anarehy there | Dumber nearly 200 each, all e1 ed at liberal sala Congress, antounted 592, Showing an eX- | Would be equally injurious. Each one them, | Ties and paid in American gold. The firemen struck constitution the Executive Department, with the | tue Treasury at elght hundred and fifty millions; | $40,000,000 and few millions in the national and ainbed, to, $38, 7 voluntary ald of the States, had brought the | citizens of foreign countries recolve interest upon a | other banks—in all less than ‘$160,000,000. Taking | C@4 of expenditures of $6,487,991. Deaucting from | when firm y established as an independent re- | ‘or higher wages @ few days ago and were re-en- work of restoration as near completion a8 | jarge portion of our securities, and American tax- | into consideration the specie in the country prior to th ex Pi pendivures the suim of $1,896,525, the amount d at sixty do) @ month in gold. of appropriations for ocean steamship and other aad’ See Pieces ne Utrengiee net These ron are propelted “by donbie propel special service, the excess of Fm gen rpg was | power. Conforming my administration to these | /¢hs, and have also recently been rigzed with twe $4,541,460. By using an unexpended balance in the inciples, | have on no occasion lent support or | 1svs—the foremast provided with @ square sail and ‘Treasury of $3,800.00 the actual sum ior which ® | toieration’ to unlawful expeditions set on foot upon | Staysall, and the mainmast with a spanker. ‘This special appropriation 1s required to meet the dofl- | the plea of repnhiican propagandism, or of national | ®Mount of canvas with two Jibs, it is thought, will ‘ciency is $741,466. ‘Tho causes which produced this | extension or ag-randizement. The necessity, how- | tend to lift and eas them materiaily in @ sea Way. large excess of expenditure over rovenue were the | over, of repressing such unlawfal movements clearly. | When lying in port these vessels present a raiher restoration of service in the late insurgent States faaltaten the, duty which rests upon us of adapting | #ttractive Supearenne. ‘Though their main iran deok and the putting into operation of new service | our legistative action to the new circumstances of a 4 14 only about @ foot above the water line, tiey Bre established by acts of Congress, which amounted, | Gectine of European monarchical power and in- J Provided with light, movable hurricane decks, which Within | the lass two years a naif, t2 | nuence, and the increase of American republican | ®08wer very well for the purpose for which they: about 48,700 miles—equal to more than one-third of | iqeas, interests and sympathies. were inten The turrets, which are moved by. the whole amount of the service at the close of the It cannot be long before it will become necessary 4 Steam, are 1d white. war, New postal conventions with Great Britain, | tor this government to lend some cffective ald to the | _ These monitors are under the command of a Pero. North Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzer- | gointion of the political and social problems which | Vian commogore, two post captains and a number of land and Italy, respectively, have been carried into | aye continually a4 before the world by the two re- | Veruvian minor officers. Tue executive oillcers are ertoor. Under thelr provisions linporiant improve- | pabites of the isiand of St. Domingo, and whioh are | Americans, ag well ag the engineers, gunners, bea Muents have resulted in reduced rates of intorn& | now disclosing themselves more distinctly than } ten, &c. tional postage and enlarged mall facilities with Euro- | heretofore in the island of Cuba. The subject is com- They are to be convoyed the whole distance ean countries. The cost of the United States ttans- | mended to your consideration with all the more | two steamships, the Havana and Monterey, whi atlantic occan mail service since January 1, 1868, | earnestness because I ain satisiled that the time has | Vessels are expected here dally from Now York. A’ has been largely lessened under the operation of | arrived when even #0 direct a proceoding as a pro- | they oan ondy take On doara enough coal to last Jon these new conventions, @ reduction of over one-half tion for an annexation of the two republica of | Siz days at a time there will be, we should take tt, having been effected under the new arrangements | the island of St. Domingo would not only receive the | #0mMe dificulty ia making coaling stavious, for ocean mail geen | service which went into | consent of the people interested, but would also give | , Collector Fuller informs us that his present instr» effect on that date. ithe altention of Congress ts in- | satisfaction to all other foreign nations, “~ | tions are not to interfere in any way with the de vited to the, practical suggestions and recommenda. | “Yam aware that upon the question of further ex. | parture of the monitors, tons made in his report by the Postmuster General. | tending our posseasions it is apprehended by some |. The Spanish steam corvette Churruces, which has was within the scope of its authority, and the nation | payers are made to contribute large sums for thelr | 1849 and that produced since 1867, and we have was encouraged by, the prospect of an early and satis- Fapporte The idea that such a debt is to become | more than 300, 000,000 not accounted for by rt factory adjusiment of all its didiculties. Congress, | permancnt should b¢ at all times discarded as in- | ation or by the returus of the Treasury, and there- however, intervened, and, refusing to perfect the | yoiving taxation too heavy to be borne, and payment | fore most probably remaining in the country. & k #o Nearly consuunmated, declined to @duit mem- | once in every sixteen years, at the present rateof | ‘These are important facts, and show how com- rs from the unrepresented States, adopted a series | interest, of an amount equal to the origina! sum. | pletely the inferior currency will supersede tho bet- of measures which arrested the progregs of restora- | ‘This vast debt, if permitted to become permanent i forcing it from circulation emong the masses tion, frustrated all that had been so successfully ac- | and increasing, must eventually be gathered into the | and causing it to be exported as a mere article of complished. and, alter three years of agitation and | hands of a few, and enabie them to exert adanger- | trade to add to the money capital of foreign lands. strife, has left the country further from the attain- | a5 and controlling power in tne affaira o1 the gov- They show the necessity of retiring our paper money ment of wnion and fraternal feeling than at the iu- | ernment. ‘The borrowers would become servants to | that the return of gold and silver to the avenues of ception of the Congressional plan of reconstruction. | the lenders—the lenders the masters of | trade may be invited, and » demand created which Jt needs no argument to show that legislation which | the people. We now pride ottrselves upon | will cause the retention at home of at least so much has produced such baneful consequences should be | having given freedom to four millions of the | of the productions of our rich and inexhaustible abrogated, or else made to conform tothe genuine | colored race; tt will then be our shame that | gold-bearing fields a3 may be sufficient for purposes principles of republican government. forty millions of peo} nigh their own toleration of | of circulation. It is unreasonable to expect a a ry “ THE TENURE OF OFFIOR BILL. usurpation and profi q suffered themselves | return to sound currency so | as the gov- Under the influence of party passion and sectional | to become enslaved, ani ly exchanged slave- | ernment and banks, by continuing to ue frredeent: agg other acts have been passed not warranted | owners for new taskmasters in the shape of bond- | able notes, fill the channels of circulation with de- ry the noaaucaticn, Congress has already been | holders andtaxgatherers. Besides, permanentdebts preciated paper. Notwithstanding @ coinage by our made familiar with my views respecting the Tenure | pertain to monarchical governments, and, tending }| mints, since 1840, of $874,000,000, the people are of OMice vill. | Experience has proved that ita repeal | to monopolies, etuittes and class legislation, are | now strangers toshe currency’ which was designed \s demanded by tie best interests of the country, and | totally irreconcilable with free institutions. Intro- | for their use and benefit, and’ specimens of the pre- ‘nat while it remains in force the President cannot | duced tnto our republican system, they would gra- | cious metals bearing the national device are seldom enjoin that rigid accountability of public oMcers 0 | dually but surely sap its foundations, eventually } seen, except when produced to gratify the interest essential to ai honest and eiticient execution of the | subvert our governmentat fabric and crect upon its } excited by their novelty. HU depreciated paper is to jaws. Its revocation would enable the Executive | ruins a moneyed aristocracy. It is our sacred duty } be contined as tho permanent currency of the Department to exercise the power of appointment | to transmit unimpatred to our posterity the bless § country, and all our coin is to become a mere article and removal in accordance with the original design | ings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the ff of trafic and lation, to the enhancement in OUR FORBIGN RELATIONS. that our political system cannot successfully be ap- | been lying in our port for some months past ke: of the federal eye ae founders of ropablio, and by our sine oo a or < that indlspeciabe tothe big =e t fe eeynpers question ee ivegpapirs pave, — ed to ta are nigre or ie than our Seyreoe 38 rere) itis 1, send boone tomes s those who are low us careful avold the {| peo) would ve w: omy ish | last year in our accustomed cordial a: en ut the conviction Is rapidly gaining ground in Rie sa. The act of March 2, 1867, mai appropriations | dangers which threaten @ free and inde; nt ear ts, thus saving the nation tne tercourse with Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, | American mind that, with the increased Yacilities | the Galize. ‘The espionage on the part of the Coure for the support of the army for the year ending June people. care and expense incident to such estab- 80, 1868, and for other purposes, contains provisions Variousplans have been proposed for the payment | lishments, and let ail our cious metals be which interfere with the President's constitutional | of tie public debt. However chey may have varied | exported in bullion. The time has come, however, functions as commander-in-chief of the army, and | as to the time and mode in which ft shoud be re- | when the government and national banka should be deny to States of the Union the right to protect them- | deemed, there seems to be @ general concurrence as | required to iake the most efficient steps and make selves by ineans of thetrown militia. These provi- |-¢o the propriety and justnoss of a reduction in the | all necessary arrangements for a resumption of ions should be at once annulled; tor while the first | present rate of interést. The Secretary of the Trea- specie payments. Let specie payments once be ear- might, in times of great emergency, sertousiy em- | sury in lis report recommenda five per cent; Con- | nestiy inaugurated by the government and banks, barrass the Execuilve in efforts to employ and direct | gress, ina bill passed prior to adjournment on the | and the vaiue of the psper circulation would directly che common streng |) of (he nation for its protection | 27th of July last, agreed upon four and four and a | approximate a specie standard. aud Prasenygtion, tig Qther is contrary to the express | half per cent, while by many three per cent has Specie payments having been resumed by the gov- ieolaration of (he constitution, that ‘a well regu- | peen held to be an an cary, suMicient return for the | ernment and banks, all notes or bills of paper is- ‘ated militia being necessary to the security of @ ree | investment. The geaeral impression as to the ex- | sued by either of a less denomination than twenty State, the right of tue people to keep and bear arms | orbitancy of the existing rate of interest has | dollars should by law be excinded from circulation, shail not be tafringed.”” Jed to aninquiry Im the pubiic mind respeci- | so inatthe people may have the benefit and conve- i jieved that the repeal of all such lawswould } ing the consideration winek the govern- | nience of a gold and silver currency whieh tn all San Salvador, France, Austria, Belgium, Switzer- | for intercommunication between ail portions of the | rucca ts sald to refer only to the OubarPiilibustering land, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden | earth, the principies of free government, asem- | movement, in which these iron-ciads were at one and Norway, Rome, Greece, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, | braced in our constitution, if faithfully maintained | time reported to have been engaged. She would do Liberia, Morocco, Tripoli, Tunis, Muscat, Siam, Bor- | and carried out, would prove of sufficient strength | little, however, in tho way ot stopping these ture neo and Madagascar. and breadth to comprehend within their sphere aud | reted monsters, with their four heavy fifteen inch Cordial relations have algo béen maintained with } intiuence the civilized nations of the world. guns and coats of mail, if they should taxe a fa the Argentine and the Oriental repubiies, The ex- The atiention of tne Senate and of Congress ts | Lo point their prows toward the “Ever Faitbli pressed wish of Congress that our national good | again respectfully invited to the treaty for the estab- | Isie.”” odices might be tendered to those republics, and | lishment of commercial reciprocity with the EHa- (The steamship Havana, referred to above, cleare® algo to Brazil and Paraguay, for bringing to au end | watian kingdon, entered into last year and already from thig port on the 23 ultimo for New Ori the calamitous war which has so long been raging | ratified by that government. ‘The attitude of the Po! cans, in the valley of the La Plata, has been assiduousiy | United States towards these islands ts not very | and had not arrived there at last accounts, although Somes ag or analy soxlommpized by all the ag er oagget Aeon they age Po she had beon out fourteen or fifteen days, Her con- beliigerents, ‘Chat important negotiatio: jowever, the Vest ndies. is known aud el by the a has thus far been Withous results rv Hawaitan government and people that their gov- | 90° the Monterey, cleared from this port for Penac, Charles A. Washburn, lace United States Minister | ernment and institutions are feeble and pre- | cola on Monday last. It is possible the convoy may be ac y the American people as at least @ par | ment has actually received for ita bonds, and | their business transactions will be uniform in value | to Paraguay, having resigned, and being desirous to | carious ; that the United States, bemg 80 near a rendezvous at Pensacola, and proceed thence to their tial return to the fan ‘pies of the gov- | the conclusion is becoming prevalent that the amount | at home and abroad. return to the United States, the Rear Admiral com- } neighbor, would be unwilling to see the isiands yoints of destination with the irou-clads.—Kn ernment and an ind after the consti- | which tt obtained was in real money 800 or 400 per “Every man ol property or industry, every man | manding the South Atlantic squadron was early di- | pass under foreign control. Their prosperity | » tation is to be made the ‘8 safe and unerring | cent less than the obligations which it tssned in re- | who desires to preserve what he honestly possesses | rected w send a ship of war to Asuncion, the capital continually disturbed by expectations aud aiarms | UsRALD.) guide, They can be productive of no permanent | turn. it cannot be denied that we are paying an ex. | or to obtain what ie can honestly eafn has a direct | of Paraguay, to recetve Mr. Washburn and his | of unfriendly political proceedings, as well from (he 4 Henetit to the coun nd should pot be permitted | travagant percentage for the use of the money bors | tuterest in meinaining asate circulating iwediuim— | family, and remove them from a situation which | United States ag from other foreign Powers. A re- | HONOR TO THE GRAVE GEVOLUTIONARY COLONEL KNOWLTJA fo stand fs so Hany onuments of the dedctent wis- } rowed, which was paper currency, greatly depre- | sucit a medium as shall be real and substantial, not | was represented to be endangered by faction and 4 ciprocity treaty, white it could not materially dimin- — dom wach bas elaracterized our receas legis | ciated below the value of coin, This fact ‘is made | Habie to vibrate with opinions, not subject to be | foreign war. The Brazilian commander of the allied {ak the revenues of the United States, would bes New York, Dec. 7, 1868, sation. apparent when we consider that bondholders re- | blown up or blown down by the breath of specnia- | invading forces refused permission to the Wasp to | guarantee of the good will and forbearance of ali | po wre Comrssioneny oF TUR CENTRAL PaARK:— THE FINANCES. cetve from the Treaaury, upon each dollar they own | tion, but to be made stable and secure. A uisordered pass through the blockading forces, and that vessel } nations until the people of the islands shall of them- demands the early in government securiiies, six per cent tn gold, which | currency is one of the greatest political evils, 1b un- returned to its accustomed anchorage. Remon- | selves, at no distant day, voluntarily apply for ad- i have the honor to respectfully request that yout stlon of Con Compared | is nearly or quite equal to nine per eent in currency; | dermimes the virtues necessary for the support of the | strance having been made against this refusal, | mission into the Union. Board may give the name of Knowiton avenue to four population tie public expeu- | that the bonds are then converted into capital for the | social system and encouraged propensities destrac- | it was promptly overruled, and the Wasp | The Emperor of Russia has acceded to the treaty | one of the avenues reaching from the vicinity of dan umount unprecedented tn | national banks, upon which those instituttons | tive ofits happiness; it wars against industry, fra. } therefore resumed her errand, received Mr. | negotiated here m January last for the security of Lioth strect, the north end of the Park, to Washing. vur history. issue their circulation, bearing six per cont } gality and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of | Washburn and bis family, and conveyed them | trade marks in the mterest of manufacturers and » . The population of the United States in 1790 was | interest; and that they are exempt from | extravagance and speculation.” it has been | to a safe and convenient seaport. in ihe mean- | commerce. [have invited his attention to the im- | ton Heights. My reasons for this reqnest aro that nearly four millions of peop! Jucreasing each de- } taxation by the government and the. States | asseried by one of our profound and most | time an excited controversy had arisen between the | portance of establishing, now while it seems Ca¥ | the name and fame of Colonel Knowlton may be cade about thirty-inree per cent, it reached in 180 | and thereby enhanced two per cent in | gifted statesmen that “of all the contr: thirty-one mullions—en increase of seven bundred | the hands of the holders. We thus have an aggre- | cheating the laboring classes of mankind per ceat on the population in 1700, In 1869 it is est- | gate of seventeen per cent which may be received } been more effectnal than that which deludes them mated buat it will reach thirty-eight millions, or an | upon each dollar by tue owners of government se- | with paper money, This is the most effectual of in- increase of eight hondred and sixty-eight per cent | curities, A system that produces such results ts } ventions to fertilize the rich man’s tields by the sweat Justly regarded as favoring a few at the expense of | of the poor man’s bre Ordinary tyranny, oppr ihe many, and has Jed to the further inquiry whether o p taxation—theso bear lightiy on our boadhoiders, in view of the large profits whieh | hay mass of the commmnnity compared in 1890, $41,000,009; in 1860, $63,000, they have enwoyed, would themselves be averse to @ | witha frandulent currency and the robberies com- nearly $1,200,000,000; and In 1860 it ts settlement of our indebtedness upon a pian which | mitied by depreciaigd paper. Our own history has Secre! bt the Treasury, in his last amaual re- | would yield them 9 iair remuneration and at the | yecorded for our thsirnction enough, and more than » that they will be $ 000,000, same tine be just to the ae ee ot the | enough, of the demoralizing tendency, the injustice By comparivg the public disbursements of 1869, a8 J nation, Our pational credit should be sacredly | and the intolerable oppression on tie virtuous end estimated, with those of 1791, it will be seen that the | observed; but in making provision for our | well-disposed of a degraded paper currency author- increase of expenditure since the beginning of the } ereditors we should not ores shh ie dune to | ized by law or in any way countenanced by govern- ie may President of Paraguay and the late United States | and practicable, a fatr and equal regulation of tie Minisier, which 1 is understood grew out of his | vast fisheries belonging to the two nations in the | henorably perpetuated. This officer gave up his life, proceedings in giving asylum in the United States | waters of the North Pacific Ocean. gallantly fighting for his country, September 16, egation to @leged enemies of that republic. The ‘The two treaties between the United States and 1776, near the foot of Harlem lane. The circum- question of the right to give asylum is one always | Italy for the regulation of consular powers and the | stances to which I may, without being tedious, invite dificult, and often productive of great embarraas- | extradition of criminals, negotiated and ratified here | your atiention aro simply ‘these:— ment. In States weil oryanized and esiablished | during the last session of Congress, have been ac- General Howe landed at Kip’s Bay September 1 foreign Powers refuse e.ther to concede or exercise | cepted ana confirmed by the Italian government. A | i774 The Continental troops stationed behin that right, except as to persons actually paconae liberal consular convention which has been nego- | proastworks at tie presont foot of Thirty-fourth to the dipiomatic service, On the other band, all } tiated with Belgium will be submitted to the Senate. | s:reet to oppose his landing ran away (as Washing- such Powers insist upon exercising the right of | The very important treaties which were negotiated | toy writes 1B nis brother) in the most cowardly mane asylum in Stotes where the law of nations is not | between the United States and North Germany and | yor, ynat same night General Howe estatiisl his i acknowledged, respected and obeyed. Bavaria for the regulation of the rights of naturalized | jines on the high ground extending long whet is The President of Paraguay is understood to have | citizens have been duly rated and exchanged, and | now tie northern end of the Park, while Wasiing- opposed to Mr. Washbarn’s proceedings the injuri- | similar treaties ha The ment in 1791 were $4,200,000; in 1 been entered into with the | ton neid the ridge Where now stands the convent of government has been 8,618 per centum, wile the | the masses of the people. o assumed | ment.” It ts one of the most successful | ous and very improbable charge of personal compll- | kingdoms of Belgium and Wirtem! ind with the | the sacred Heart. On the léth, the day followin fucrease of the population for the same period was } tiat the Lolders of our securities have already | devices, in times of peace or war, of expan- | city in insurrection and treason. ‘fhe correspond: | Grand Duchies of Baden and 1 Darmstadt. I ) Wasningion sent Colonel Knowiton and part of hi only 808 per centum. Again: the expenges of the | received upon thelr bonds a largeramountthan their | sions oF revuisions, to accomplish the trans ence, however, bas not yet reached the United States, | hopesoon to be able to submit equally satisfactory | command of Connecticut troops to the Harlem ni government in 1860, the year of peace immediately | original investment, measured by @ gold standard, | of ail the precious metals from the great mass of Mr. Washburn, in connection with this controversy, } conventions of the same character now in thecourse | Knowiton becoming engaged, Major Leitch an preceding the war, were only $63,000,000, while in | Upon thig statement of facts it would seem but just | the people into the hands of the few, wiere Ls 4 are ed Dn represents that two United States citizens attach of negotiation with the respective governments of | 1,4 Virginians were ‘despatched to his support. A 1869, the year of peace thy ars afjer the war, it | and equicaole that the six per cent mterest now paid | hoarded in secret places or deposited under bolta | to the legation were arbitrarily seized at his side, | Spain, ltaly and the Ottoman empire, severe engagement, with considerable losa of Life,, is estimated they will be $85, b50,000—ah ingi of yy the government should be applied to the teduc- } and bars, while the people are left to endure all the | when leaving the capital of Paraguay, committed to Examination of claims against the United States took piace. Knowiton was killed and Leitch see #59 per centum, wlile the tnerease of population | tion of ine principal tn semi-annual instalments, | inconvenience, sacriiice and demoralization regult- | prison, and there subjected to torture for the pur- | by the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Puget Sound | vetely wounded. Washington, in his letter to the wag only twenty-one per centum for thesame period. | which in sixteen years and eight months would liqui- | ing from the use of depreciated and worthless ’ ese Atalistics further show that in 17#i the | date the entire national debt, Six per cent in gold | paper. annual National expenses, compared with the popu- | would at present rates be equal to nine per cent in THR PUBLIO .ANDS—PRNSIONS AND INDIANA, lation, Wore litte more than one dollar per capita, | currency, and equivalent to the payment of the debt The Secretary of the Interior, in his —s gives and in 1860 but two dollars per capita; while ia 1860 | one haif times in # traction leas than seventeea | valuable information in reference to the interests (ravagaot sam of nine dollars | years. This, in connection with all the other advans | contided to the supervision of his department, and tages derived from their investment, would afford to | reviews the operations of the Land Oitice, Pension nserved that all these statements refet | the public creditors @ fair and liberal compensation | Office, Patent Office and the Indian Bureau, nts of peace periods, | for the use of their capital, and with this they shouid During the fiscal year ending June 0, 1968, tt may, th tto compare the ex- | be satisMed. The lessons of the past admonish the | 6,655,700 acres of public land were disposed of, The penditures of the three war periods—the war with | jender that ft is not weil to be over-anxious in exact- § entire cash receipts of the General Land Onice forthe nat Britala, the Mexican war and the war of the | ing from the borrower rigid compliance with the | same period were $1,632,745, being greater by on. jetier of the bond. $284,883 than the amount realized from the same ) 1#14 the annual expenses incident to the war of If provision be made for the payment of the tn- | sources durin: bed pdb f A The entries under Js12 reached their highest amoun ~~! pose of procuring confessions of their own criminal- | Agricultural Company, on account of certain posses- ! ongreas, duted tember 18, 17 ty, end venttinony A eines ae Nahe td ed tory Ad in tne stata & Wot ad oon ree 3 aos — Le g tere alions against the Unit # Minister, ashington, alleged by thoge companies in i, MeMal hon, the nevis pone fer eean Ki provisions of MD erent, Leigh a eae pas 4 Gave cla ees oe fate te much to be regretted, as he wan Paraguay, ing reacty 0 La as nine | and Great of Jun 5 “ ‘s seructed to roe Without delay to Asuncion, there prosecuted, under the direction of the jomtin- |, The following ts Washington's order, dated Sop to investigate the Whole subject. The Rear Admiral nal commission to which they were submit- | tember 17, 1776:—~ commanding the United States South Atlantle squad- | ted for adjudication by eer between the two gov- The General most heartily inks the troops commanded ron has been directed to eee ensue —— a yo July ad and will, it is ex) be pean OL: .s tates eho oa teeababatr Miearea p poo witha er naval force to sustain such justdemands | gone! an early day. " ay tie occasion, may require, and to vindicate the | "No practical regulation concerning colontal trade | behavior ie ar lola net Seed nae troops of fo and 14 have been eo honor to while gloriously Mg! rights of the United States citizens referred to, and | and the fisheries can be accomplished by treaty be | Colonel Knowlton, who of any others wha may be exposed to danger in the | tween the United States and Great Britain until Con- | country, having fallen yesterday theatre of war. With these exceptions friendly rela- oaa shall have expressed their judgment concerR- | Captala)yown is to take command, * ‘ Hout $51,000,000, | debteduess of the government tn the manner sug- | the Homestead law cover 2,528,923 acres, nearly one | tions have been matntained between the United | ing the principles involved. Three other questions, In that the simple facts I have narrated may while our popalation slighty exceeded 5,000,000, ested our pation Will tapidly recover its wonted | fourth of which was taken under the act of June 21, 9 States and Brazil and Paragnay. however, between the United States and Great Bri- prove a suificiont jastideation for your compliance showing an expenditure of only $5 80 per capita. In perity. Its inverests require that some measure | 1966, whic applies only to the States of Alabama, One relations during the past year with Bolivia, | tain remain open for adjustment, ‘These are the mus | With my request. ‘It seems to me most fitting and is47 the expenditures growing out of We war willt Mexico reached $6 21,090,000, giving aid be taken to release the large amount of capi- | Mississippi, Lowisinna, Arkansas and Florida, 75,000,000, and the population about | ta! mvested in the securities of the government. It On the of Jane, 1608, 169,643 names were borne Ecuador, Peru wnd Chile have become especially } tual rights of naturalized citizens, the boundary roper that one of these avenues passing over this fi ily £2 69 per capita for the war | is now merely unproductive, but in taxation anna- | on the pension rolls, and daring the year ending on ‘ily and cordial, Spain and the republics of | question involving the title to the island of San Juan atte ground, and near the spot where this brave Per, Holivia nnd Boundor have expressed thelr | on the Pactile coast, and mutual claims arising since | gan xallant oftese fell, should be named in his honor ise8 OF that year. In 1865 the expenditures consumes $150,000,000, which would otherwise | that day the total amount prid for pénstons, inciud- } willingness to accept the mediation of the United | the year i863 of the citizens and subjects ofthe two | aud that the circumstances of the case fully justi led for by the rebeilion reached the vast amount ed by our Sarpy people in adding to the | ing the, ypenses of ‘disbarsement was $24,010,992, | States for terminating the war upon the South Pacific | countries for injuries aud depredations committed | ph is communication, 1am, gentiemen, very reap »/ $1,290,000,000, Which, compared Wilh @ population | wealth of the natlon, Our commerce, which at oue | peing $6,301,025 greater than that expended for like | coast. Chile has aot Aoey declared upon the ques- | under the anthority of their respective governments. § ryjiy, your obedient secvan of 4,000,000, gives $5 20 per capita, successfaily rivalled that of the grent | purposes during the preceding year. tion. In the meantime the conflict has practically | Negotiations upon these subjects are pending and t DANL. BUTTERFIELD, From the 4th day of March, 1%, to the 20th of | maritime Powel has rapidly duninished, aad During tho year ending the #0th of September last | eximusted itself, since no belligereat or hostile | am not without hope of being able to lay before the Brevet Major General United States Army. ‘uno, 1861, the entire expenditures of the governs | our industrial gn are in @ depressed | thoexpenses of the Patent Ofice exceeded tie re- | moveueut has beon made by either party during | Senate, for its consideration during the present seq ciel Port sinter nent were $¢1,700,000,000. During that period we} and languishing condition, The development } seip's by $i71; nud, including reissues and desigus, | the fast two years, and there are no indications of | ston, protocols calculated to bring to an end these THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION IN THE TWENTY-EIGNTR wore engaged in wars With Great britaiu and Mexico | of our tnexnaustible resources 14 checked, and the } 14,153 patents were issued. @ present purpose to resume hostilities on either | justly exciting and long existing controversies. i 1 were tavolved in hostilities with powerful in- | fertile felas of the South are becoming wasie for Treaties with various Indian tribes bave been con side. Great Britain and France have cordially We are not advised of the action of the Chinese NEW YORK OISTAICT, Ulan tribes; Louiiana was purchased trom France ‘ant Of ineans to till them, With the release of | cluded, aad will be submitted to the Senate for tts | seconded our proposition of mediation, and [donot | government upon the liberal and auspicious treaty BL G Cos. of $15,000,000; Florida was ceded to us by | eapilal new iife would be infused into the paralyzed | constivutionai action, | cordially sanction the stipe- | forego the lope that tt may soon be accepted by all the | which was recently celebrated with its pienipoten- | An Amportnunt Question of Law Bofore the ; Qalifornia was acquired from | energies of our people, and activity and vigor it~ | lations which y o for reserving lands for the va- } belligerents, and lead to @ secure establishinent of | ttaries at this capital. re State Canvassern. , aud the Territory of New | parted to every branch of industry. Our people | rious tribes, w thoy may beencouraged to aban. | peace friendly relations between the Spanish Japan remains a theatre of civil war, marked yy (Prom tho Albany Argus, Dee. 9.) i from Texas for the sum of | need encouragement in their efforts to recover from | don thelr nove hablis aad engage fu agricultural | Ame \ republics of the Pactic and Spain re- | religious incidents and political severeties peculiar The question as to Who was legal eieciod to Come $10,009,000. Bart he spring Of 1561 the war of | th ts of the rebelifon and of injudicious legislae | and ind int porsaits, This polley, inaugurated } sult which would be attended wit mmon benefits | to that long isolated empire. The Hxecutive has as th the Monroe and Orleans alsteies was argued 4he rebeilion com au, and from the Ist oC July of | tion: and it should be the aim of the (ghee od to | many yess has heb fan yang ae waste e peigerea STU URIGaNe Tor ils eaminarte fereite aan Romaoiiotaee ie Lorin yay fionaay before the Hoard of state Onuvassers., -TD® that y t June, 1965, the public expen- jate them by the prospect of an early release | ever it ba pursued in good fal and with be | mercial na com aio, cf e e - "i dditute a cas is acleregate of | Sein the buncene wot pede their prosperity. coming liber v the United States, The necos- | ton of Congress, @ correspondence which shows that | bas been'frankly and fully sustained in that course cod a «8 oo Ee eee aoe 900,000, peace have intervened, IC we cannot take the burdens from thotr shoulders J siiy for extendiug it us tar as practicable tn our rela | the Bolivian repablic has established the extremely | by the enlightened concurrence and co-operation of | Davia was legal, Mr. John Mevonvill, the Gethyg during th urements of the govern | we should at least manifest @ willingness to help to | ticns with the aboriginal population is greater now | liberal principle of receiving Into ita citizenship any | the other bow § Powers—naimely, Great Britain, r Pr a with sare ama that therefore J ment hay son $529,000,009, $346,000,000 } Dear whem, thaw at aay preceding period. While we furnisk sub } citizen of the United Btates or of any oiler of the | France, the Netherlands, North Germany and Italy. | {ii uecordance with lav. and that herenes op and $393,000, eae amc ® CURRENCY, sistence and instraction to the Judians, and guaran- | American republics upon the sitaplo condition of vol- Spain having recentiy undergone a revolution peal id f Ay. J “4 ee + election, and thas 000,000, @stiu! r Tv referring to the condition of the cireulating me- | tes the wndistarbed enjoyment of treaty rights, untary rogisiry. marked by extraordinary unanimity and preserva. | Supreme Court bevore the day i to he correspondence herewith submitted will be } tion of order, the provisional government established | consequently he could uot be elected Qongeera toand patntully replete with accounts of theruinand | at Madrid has been recognized, and the friendiy ine } Mr, John H. Reynolds appeared a Lat very wretehe ness produced by recent earthquakes, of | tercourse which las so long happily existed between | in behalf of Mr. MeConvill an made the cue unparalleled severity, In the republics of Peru, Ecua- | the two countries remains unchanged. Kirong and comprehensive ergul ‘couns’) oF dor and Bolivia, The diplomatic agents and naval | AMENDMENTS TO THA CONSTITUTION RECOMMENDED, | Judge Davis did not ap) eieunens to the ofiicers of tha United States who were present in Lrenew the recommendation contained in my com- | in person, but sent a wril ‘Tho Board have uot those countries at the time of those disasters fur- | munication to Congress daied the isth July last—a | Board embodying his views. tn tho matter, Th is nished all the relief in their power to the sufferers copy of which accompanies this measage—that the | yet come to & determination ‘vill, institutes this and were prompt rewarded with grateful and | ynigment of the people shonid be taken on the pro- pone A to state that Mi State Canvassers npom touching ncknowlodgments by the Congress of Peru. | priety of 80 Amending the federal constitution that it | con! before the Board ef 4 mn a totalex- j dian, 1 shail m y reiterate, substantially, that | sould habitaally insist upou the faithful obser z years im- | portion of my last annual message which relates vo | of their agreement to remain within their respective or Rearly ag MUCH 8 | That subject. reservations. This ja the only mode by which cotli- ilytwo years that ‘Tho proportion which the currency of any country | sions with other tribes and with the whites ean be od the extraor | #hould bear to the whole value of the annual pro- § avoided, and the safety of onr frontier settlements duce clroulated by its means is a question upon F secured. which political econoimiats have not agreed. Nor THR PACIFIC RATLROAD, can it be coatrotied by leisiation, but nrast be left The companies constructing the railway from war Jor | to the irrevocable law#which everywhere regulate J Omaba to Kacramento have boon most energetically the preservation of the nation Wilt not be endured | commerce and trade, The dirvulating medium will } engaged tn prosecuting the work, and tt ts believed dunary expenditi ‘These starting fu of retrencoment in ail bra Abuses which were tol Sas tion of iaw and of constitutional right, Tha eople, how that profoand peace - * irresistibly fow to those po.nts wh it 1s in @ vat the line will be completed before tho expiration } An appeal to (he charity of our fellow citizens has } shail provide: the ques ‘and finportant qu: The red hie eit om ‘internal revs a ven nod pul Greate demnnd. ‘The law of jemand ond suppny is of the next fiacal year. ‘The, six percent bonds is- § been answered by much liberality, In this connes- First—For wn election of President and Vice | case 9 8 very Intereration ‘of Judge Deve yaa vive, during the past three years, gracually dimin- ) as unerriag as that Which regutates the €ides of the | guad to éiose companies mmounted, on the oth inst., # Hon I submit an appeal which has boen made by the | President by a direct vow of tho Rea ina tees tos agus ait Void he, Was still @ Justice of the na work had been per: B Swiss republic, whose goverpmyyt and institutions | through the agency of clvctora, ani 200,00, are kindred to our own, in bobail ef tig Inbavitquts, | eligivlo for re-ciocHlon to @ second torm, bupreme Court gad was 19 40 Uno oilloe, . sed, and toe continuance Of useless and Gxtraya. | ocean; and indeed currency, Wke the tides, bas ite } to $44,527,000, and a pau expoudiiyees will involve Us im Hational Lapks | ebbs and dows Mroughow. tie commercial world, formed to the extont of