The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1866, Page 1

aribnne, PRICE FOUR CENTS. New-York NO- 8,005. NEW-YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. vor. XXV1.. ., " drawn from our recent pational disorders ‘hy the -enemies of nt fsi il be required to secure a faithf: lication | Congress alone can apply 1) by their modification or | Bonds, 6 per cent. ized to reduce the circulation of the , mceording THE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY. | drensomout veens s e o | e o o . b e | e ST e w0 4 el v i Bt e i wien pow excluded rom Covgress, by aliving doubt aad | otherwise but roman, in the Gorersment o wublect to 1ts aliical and commercial futerete of the Usited States are | Boods, &per conl . g‘%?.:.,::;.’:mt:;m*:.“:.. o 0 See hension, wo 1 capital, now awaifing sn 0] un control 1] ortion o 2 o . w even! Are A ould turn capital, LOW KWATEIDE portuni ntrol until some portion of tha T as been actually built. | not ely fected in some degree by (- 3002,500 00 e R the mean time, tho reduction f o ""“‘ THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND ACCOM-. wnent, into the obannels of trade and industry, It | Portions of them might then, from time to time, be conveyed lrlnlpln’ng in the eastern regions of Europe, PANYING DOCUM ol aleriate the present troubted sondition of thoso States, | o the coporation, but uever in o grester Tatio 10 the | seems o havo come when our Government ought tobaves b nd. by inducing emigration. xid in the settlement of fertile re- | whole quaniity embraced by the grant than the com- | proper diplomatic representation in Greece, s Row tuneujtivited, and fead 10 an inereased production af | pieted parts bear to the eutire length of the projected improve- "This Government has claimed for all_ persons not of the notes of the State Banks, 3as been uearly balauced the increase of the circulation of the National Bunkn, £,213,000 60 [ commands about the same i 1t did when the reagury Report was p; ing been thus convieted, Dent. "This restriction would not operate to the prejudice of | or sccused, of suspected of crime, an absolute political right of DELIVERED TO BOTI HOUSES OF CONGRESS YESTERDAY. 1 ‘e added s0 Hrrrlly .\.nnuflu]--l.'mnlut the 1 Tite fo ud o r e K 8 e gt rvw'd'- [l o ] sl P P , n. ce of the world. New flelds of cater- | any undertaking conceived in good faith and executed with expatristion, and a choice of new national allegiance. Mos rom o mportan! return 3 MESSAGE FKOM THE PRESIDENT. | s worid e opened to ot progressive poope, wid soan the Tekonatte e e it 1 the setted practios towithdraw from | of the European States hava dissented from this prinelple, aud w paymeats, the Seerctary bas e alnly directad his. stientios 16 Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representaiices devastationeuf war would be x.-y..n- d, and all tra market the lands falling within the operation of such grants, | have claimed a right to bold such of their snhjeots as have m- £115,782,020 00 measures Jookiug to an increase of efliciency in the. "Aftor o brief iuterval the Congress of the United States | westic difleonces cfiaced from ¢ inds of onr o o this to, exciude the tneeption of a sabsequent adverse right. | migrated to and been naturalized in the United States, and af- — §%01,320,27 33 | of the revenues, to the conversion of interest-| Botes Ihis In our My to preserve the uvity of ‘A brench of the conditions which Congress may deem proper to | terward returned on transient visits to their native counts — | tive-twesty bonds, aud to s reduction of the publie e lands 8o with- | to the performance of military service inlike manner as resi- & $31,106,387 28 necomplished in these respeots, and is not l'M e impose should work a forfeiture of claims to druwn but unconveyed, aud of title 1o the lands conveyed which | dest = sabjects, — Complinta arising from the _claim remain unsold. in this respect made by Forcign States, bave hereto. Railrond have | fore becn matters of controversy between nited ccess. Should | States and some of the Enropean Powers, and the irritation con- States to the e we should b perils of thre and in the end abso- | Operations on the several lines of the Paci " by restoring the or 10 the rebelli e nation fre - has been ment exhibits the tems of increase and | derstood by the , is explained elsewhere in this repért, *lio debt for the four nonths from June 30, | The Secretary et 10 be his daty (0 uee skck 1866, to October 31, 1966 means, withia his control, as_were, in his judgment, best cale Amount of public debt, June culated 10 keep the business of the conntry as steady as posss resumes its sauual legislative labors. An all-wise and | constituies us one poo meoreiful Providence has abated the pesiilence which vis- "1":4 “)lv'"lh]’h"\ held $ted oar shoros, leaving ite calamitous traces upon 0me | diiniegr BIVAG ene wration, we resort to cousolidatia of our cotntry. Peace, order, tranquillity, and iem, ns o vemedy for the recnrrence of similar | been prosecuted with unexampled vigor and 'y gl ity h ,y," fo 2 Jecla ,ll v exast | O The war having terminated, and with it all ovcas llulmlfnrfluen causes of delay olul , it is confidently anticipated | sequent upon the failure to settle this question ineressed during 30, 1866, ... hle, while couducted on the uncertain hasls of an irrdeowinile eivil suthority have been formally declared to €x#t | o the exercise of powers of donbiful constitutionality, we | that this grest thoroughfure will be completed before the expi- | the war in which Prussia, Italy, and Austria were recently en- | Amount of cash in currency. To accomplish this, he bas thonght it meccasary t6 ughout the whole of the United States. In all of the | should hasten to bring legislation within the boundaries pre- | ration of the period designated by Congress. od. While Great Britain lias never acknowledged the right e bold a bandsome reserve of coin in the T For 6oing throug! P I3 y 5 R q " civil suth b rseded the oow yf | #eribed by the Constitution and to retarn to the ancient lind- During the last fiscal year the amount paid to pensioners, in- of expatriation, she has not practically insisted upon it. France Amount of public debt, June 30, 1666, 50, he has beew criticised by many very in persons, Btates civil authority bas euperseded the coercion o by our fathers for the guidance of succee cluding the expenes of disbursement, was §13,450.996, and | Bas been equally forbearing; and in has com- Jess oash i1 TIORSUTY. oooovoonn some of whom have condemued the policy #3 involving u heny srms, and the le, by their voluntary action, are mauin- he Constitution which at any time exis 0,177 names were added to the pension rolls. The entire num- mise, which, althongh evineing increased I a8 10t Octo- lo8s 10 the conntry, in the way of interest’ others have people, by pes H and anthentic aet of the whole pe ber of pensioners, Jnne 30, 1866, was 126,722 This fact furnishes n accepted by the United States, Peaco is now prevalling 3 to it as o failare on bis part to avall bimseif of means wilhin . Lis control for ing the price of coin and thus wpproxie melancholy and striking proof of the sacrifices made to vindi- | everywhere in Europe, and the present seems to be a favorable e main- mating, lpcel:‘rfiym 's; on the contrary. not w few have fioe es taining their governments i full activity and complete upon _all 1f, in the opision operation. Tho enforeement of the laws is no longer vtribution or modification of | eate the constitutional suthority of the Federal Government, | time for an assertion by Congress of the principle, so long y « obstructed in any State by combinations wowerful to W1 powers. be, in wny partieular, wrong, let it | and to maintain inviolate the intogrity of the Usion. They im- | tained bfi the Executive Department, that naturalization byone | debt of June 30, 1866, vot in nounced all of gold by the Government wnwise on ( Do suppressed by the ordinary course of proveed a1 amendment in the in which the Con- rmvupfln us corresponding obligations. It is estimated that | State fully exempts the native-born subjeet of uny other State statement........... 114,115 48 theory that if the coin received from evstoms, and not rquire o g e e gk ool frdis o B o o4 But et 1here bo no change by usurpn- | #53,000,000 will be required to meet the exigencies of this braneh | trom the performance of military service under any lorflrn e for the payme it of interest, shonld be permitied to accumulate fngn; © n o animosities engender iy tion; it is 1 n by which free Go - | of the service during the next fiscal year. Government, s0_loug 68 he does not yoluntasily renounce its Total. ....o..oo...... $LO81T0L08] 2 until it should reach about the ssme proportion to the outstand. Treaties havd been conciuded with the Indians who, enticed | rights and benefits. Amount of cash in Lreasury .. 1 2] ing United States notes that, in forruer loys, the eoin in:the vaults of well- managed banking institations sustamed 1o theiz wents are desiroyed.” W spoke these words 1 popidly yielding to the bevefictnt infuen o conntrymen, when, followed by their love and gratitude, ces of our free immediate liubilities, specie payments m' it be_resumed, with- into armed opposition to our Government at the eutbreak of 1 the performance of a duty imposed nupon me by the Con- fnstitutions, and to the kiudly effccts o P etuscrs s st socinl and commercial intercourse. An entin Voluutarily etired from fhe cares of pabliolife. *To keep in | the Kebellion, have wiconditiouslly submitted to our authonty, | stitation, T havo thos submitted to the Representatives of the | Amount of public debt, October 31, 160, less n of fraternal feeling must be the earnest wish of every | nil things within the pale of our constitutional powers, and | and manifested an earnest desire for o renewal of friendly | States and of the Peoplo such information of our domestie and cash in Treasury.............. out a reduction of the currency, and without 10 1he done riotic heart: and we will have sccomplished our grand- | cherish the Federal Union as ly rock of safety,” were | reiations. foreign affuirs as the public interests seem to require. Our ditjon of trade between the United States and nations. B atiacs! ibjavemeet whos, forgetiing the sad events | Froveribod bydofermon as riles of actioa lo endea ta ks “ooun. During the year ending September 30, 1666, €716 patents for | Government is now undergoing its most trying ordeal, and m Net decrease. ... Under these ciremmstances, feeling seasibie of the gieat ros of th e S viax Smly thelt instn rrred e principles. of their Constitution, and promote o | useful inventions and designs were issued, and at that date the | earnest prayer is, that the peril may be successfully an Which deerease was caused as follow sponsibility of his position, the Seerctary hay desmed it sufer o past, and remombering only e o, Himent amil action equaily anspicious to their hap- | balance in the Treasury o the credit of the Patest fund was | fnally passed, without impairing its original strength | Bouds, 6 per eent, act Jaly 21, and better for the country, to act aceoiding to the dictatew of ®ons, we resuine our onward carcer as @ free, prosperous, Jackson held that the action of the Ge $228,297. and symmetry. The interests of the nation are best | 1e4l, and April 13, 184%... £14,500 00 s own judgment, carefully regarding the eondition of the and united people - Wass be strictly confined to the | A% a subject npon which depends an immense amount of the | to be promoted by the revival of fraternal relations, | Bonds, 6 per cent, act Junuary narkets and of the Treasury, rather th.a to take his direetion Iu my messuge of the 4th of December, 1865, Congress | sphiere of its appropriate duties, and justly and foreibly nrged sduction and commerce of the country, I recommend to Cox- | the complete obliterition of our differences, and the re- 1847, b 1,672,450 00 from those who, Lowever intelligent and ble, were under Lo was informed of tho measnres whieh bad beon jnstituted | that our Governwent is not to be aintained nor our Union s such legislation as may be necessary for the preservation | inanguration of all the pursuits of peace. Durecting our efforts official obligations to_the Government, aad might be less aecu- the Executive with @ view to the gradual restor preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of - | of the levees of the Mississippi river. It is a matter of national | to the early mplishment of these great ends, let us endeavor N AR o . 615,400 00 | iately advised in regard to the nctual state of ity financial he States in which the insurrection occurred to “inl States. n thus atfempting to make our General G {iportance that early steps should. be taken not only to udd to | 10 preserva harmony between the codrdinate Departments of | Bonds, 5 per cent, net Septen- offirs. He Lus rezarded o steady market as of more jinport- gelations with the General Government ovisional | ment e Swemuke it weak, Iis true strength consists in | the efliciency of these barriers agaiust destructive inundations, the Government, that each in its proper sphere may cordially | ber 9, 1630 (Texas indemnity Vi5000 00 ance to the pegple, the saving of a fow millions of " Gov. had be - ted, Convi tion< ealled, Goy- 7| leaviug individuals 'aud States as much as possible to them- [ but for the removal of all obstructions to the free and safe navi- | eodperate with the other in securing the maintenance of the | Bonds, 5 per cent, act Masc in the way of interest; and observation and oxperience huve rernors had been appointed, Conventions catied, GOV { o, in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its benefi- | gution of that great chaunel of trade and commeres Constitution, the preservation of the Union, and the perpetuity | 3, 1564 (Ten-fortics) ... 140,230 00 wssured Lim that, i order to secnro this stoadigess in any con- oruor clected, Legislatures assembled, avd Sevators wnd Tol, but n ifs protection ; not in binding the | ~ The District of Columbia, under existing not entitled | of our free institutions. ANDREW JOINBON, 262,100 (0 | siderable degree, while business is conducted on & paper buais, resentatives chosen to the Cougress of tne United * Pt leaving ench to move un. | 10 thut representation in the National Councils which, from our | = Waahugton, December 3, 1666, Treasury notes, 6 per cent, uets December 2, there must be power in the Treasury 1o prevent suceessful eom- ntof +“These nre the | earliest history, has been uniformly aceorded to each Territory Solnor H 1657, and Mareh 3, 1861 ; 0,1 0 | binations to bring about fluctustions for purely speculative e~ Tt mantains | SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY'S REPORT, Feb- poses. Ho has also been elear in his couvictions that spcie Courts had been_opened for the ecforcen s have made them il- | established from time to time withis our lim and servi of wen whose dee Juse payments are not 1o be restored by an accumniation of n ywa Joog iu_sbeyance. The blockade bad been ve i ? . oustom-houses reistablished, and the | 1 aud who, long since withdrawn from the scenes of | peculiar relations to Congress, to whom the Constitution has \ o laws put in force, in order that the people x o their country the rich legacy of their example, granted the power of exercising exclusive legislation over the TREASURY I)mmmnr.; the Treasury, to be paid out at & future day in the recemption ribnts to the nadional income. Postal opecations hind Wnd their patriotism. Drawiig fresh inspiration | seat of government. Our fellow-citizens residing in the District, _ WasnmGroN, December 3, 1866, of Government obligations: but rather by uickened industry, Been d, and effort ¢ being made to restore | ITom their lessons, let us emulate them in Tove of coutry and | whose iuterests are thus confided to the special guardianship of { = In conformity with the requirements of law, the Secre- increased production, and lower wiich can aloue Buke JOSUNG, S WIS eficreney. vasbf §° ect for the titution and the laws. Congress, exceed in number the population of several of has the honor to make the following report. Treasury notes, 5 per cent, one aud the United States what they t to he—a creditor and not & shem 1o their former m:j.nnn of efticiency. utes be Report our Territories and o just reason hwgwr:jh'rdfllrhy | Tn bis report under date of the 4th of December, |m ‘act Mareh 3, 1863 deb'm:dnn‘lom T \’i:fln?- s!hhln the oourse that has deen lelegate of their choice should = uot mitted to & cretal od a otes, 7.00, net July 17, 1861 nisaed witis the gold which, daring the administration of 1! the Secretary estimated, according to the data furnisl Treasury notes, 7.0, et July partment, has come iuto the Treasury. He has permitted 18 1 ‘ompoutd iuterest notes, 6 per cent, net June 50, 1964, aud netion | information resy g the | 1 luate res pecting the 1 pon the curren of our revenue themselves haud been ake part in the b of amendivg the Constitution, and of thus sau umulate when the use or the sale of it was not ying Governuent obligations, or to provent commere 0 O orencn 1 n | seatin the House of Keprescutatives. No mode seems | pin b this Department and by the other Departments, His views stem, internai as well as | 5o appropriste and effectual of enabling them to make known that the expenditures of the Government for the three adjustue extinetion of African Slavery as oue of the { o orual 0 “J ! i ; ¢ kaown % te of our internecine strugele. v commended]t o careful consideration of Con- | their peculiar condition and wants, and of securing the loc 4 3 - 7. ults of o - at. the Executive Department s, Iu my last " expressed my weneral | legislation adapted to them. T therefore recommend the passage | Guarters of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1866, would ex- 1 St 3" g5 i¥eb %, 0t successful combipations ngainst the national credit ; of the District of Coluinbia 1o | ceed the receipts $112,194,947 20, The result was widely | yujted States notes, acts July 17, 1661, and Feb- and be bas sold whenever; sales were necessary to supply the Treasury with currency, to ward off finascial crises, or to save Haying progressed thus far, the found that it had accomplished v suthorizing ¢ 0 now only call aties ri- | choose a delegate, ery Departiment of the 5 a Views upon these subjects the necessity of carrying i arly all that was within United States notes, acts February 2, 1662, wed the sume rights and privileges different. The receipts exceeded the estimates $59,905,- 12, 1862........ fm,. tems e increasing coter- | 905 44 ; the expenditures fhll short of the estimates the paper circulation of the -wmz. as 147 as practieble fiom tion. For makiug salés Lo mu;?:[.:'ulu‘l,;lzlll"l’(:ll\:(:]"r\"l:l““:" m.l. o wystem ‘\“.l ntability, thorough m:] ent, u:h-:’-h :‘I(ul-lllty it " sy o) y yet re and wise economy Fith no exceptioual nor unusual ex and rapld progress of impro ¢ in the District are | 529,235 30, The following statement exhibits the July 11, 1862, and March 3, 1963, TNNeCesSary an cing deprect tlon ‘could be comploted, and that was the [ [ sive burdens of taxation can be lesser, Kflxm; gratifying, and I trust that the efforts of the muuici i ures cur ¢ 17, . alone is responsible. 1f, in conducting the voritism Congress of loyal Senators and Represcutative sueh & moditication of onr revenue laws as will be consi wnthorities to promote the prosperity of the national mr'm]mfi :.f m,rf:f,‘,’ ,fi{hrffi‘,‘[:::im':a et o N i L s Deeis shawn, or It theigtereits of oy rm“ huve Btates whose people had rebelied agai with the public fuitl, aud the Jegitimate and necessary wa \n1u uvllu; efticient and gene odperation of Congre & el s e ot o % & " 3008 Besrabes. been especially re m‘-.x,nmnl;"n it s thori o General Goverument. sovernument port of the Commissioner of Agriculture roview TATY of the estinaated and actual receipts and expendi- oh dex » 3 in violation of his instraetions. He bas not e e .‘.’,’,.,'.?,.... :.".,Lfn‘.., b Conati. | . Tic report presents n much more stisfactory condition of our | ope epartment during the past year, & Tured of the United. States from Octuber 1, 1665, (o' June T o o Napipaser Lovtcyer, that they Bave 5ot seen condueted bo tation, are madetho judges of the elections " poturns, aud | finances than one year ago the most sanguine could have antic- aid of Congress in its efforts to encournge those States whis 3, lset. Bonds, 6 per cent, act July 17, estly, tairly, and Judiciously. p ¥ “ h‘__) TS aasiboss andfie oo nsidoras ipated. During the fiscal year ending the 30th Jane, 1865, the | scourged by war, are now earncatly engaged iu the reorganise: KECEIPTS. 4 £1,00 0 1% may be hardly necessary for the Seccetary to remark that qualifications of their own members; audlts cousideration | juo vear of the war, the public debt was inoreased §941,%02,557, | tion of domestic industry. Fatimated, “Actaal. soomn of Rec't. ¢ Mareh 3 bis opinions have undergoné no change i1 rogard to the jm- 1t is & subject of congratulation that no f 100,000,000 00 §132. s ¥32,037,008 35 101,738,140 €0 portanee of & restoration of the specie standard, or the means uecessary to effect it. He trnsts, boweve:. thathe has vot been October, 1865, it amounted to 2,740, 22,140 40 e, and on the 3 0,000 00 ot onee cogaged the sttention of Cong against our domestie peace and safety, or our legitimate infla- understood as eutertaluing the opinion th..t » reduction of the 35,607,907 77 In the meanitime, the Pxecutive Departmen' —no other | On the J1st day of October, 1866, it had been reduced ,plan baving been proposed by Congress—continuedits | 310,006, the diwinutio, duringa period of 14 mouths, commenc: | cnee winong the natious, have been formed or attempted. 000,000 00 L efforts 1o perfect, as far us wis prectical y eptember 1, 1865, and eading October 31, 1566, having | While sentiments of reconciliation, loyalty and patriotism Luve 2,000,000 00 48 12,285, 125 90 currency would of itself pecessarily bring about specie yay- of the proper relations betwee . In the last annual report on the state of the | increased at home, a more just consideration uf our nat 1,043,042 €2 b the chiof and essential ticans to the de- s o the Stuteo; and o ettt i the three qrariers of chagacter and rights has been manifested by foreign natioss. y 46,006 00 s e regords o redundant legal tender currency ng > ding the 30th of June fast, the debt would be fu- | The entire success of the Atlautio Telegraph between the atts, ot Marchd, the prime cause of dur Anancial difieulties, and a enrtailucos ewfoundland fs sn | Cosb balance Oc- a0 frercof indispensable to en increase of lalor wnd & reduction of " During that periot, bowever, it was re- | coast of Ircland and the Province of 3 e receipts of the year having been | achievement which has been justly celebrated in both hemis- 1 1 the expenditnres §200, 's than the | pheres as the opening of an ern in the progress of civilization, Benate, the necessary ofticore were appointed, apd *I'L‘ - | estimates. could more cleal; these | There is reason to expect that equal success will attend, and priatiois made by Cougress for the payment of their | s the extent and availability of the nation even greater results follow, the enterprise for connecting the salaries. ‘The proposition to amend the Federal Constitu- | and the yupidity and safe two Continents through the Pacific Ocean l-ry the projected line tlon, s0 68 to prevent tho existence of slavery withiv the | erument great milit of telegraph between Kamschatka aud the Russian Fossessions | Givil Service United Statrs or auy place subject to their jurisdiction, | banded and expenses reduced from war te & pos in America. i ensions and In- Tatied by dhe requisitc pumber of Ntates During th car ending the 0ih of Jun The resolution of Congress protesting against pardons by | _ dia 1 on the 15th day of Deceinber, 1865, it was | foPis Were 620, and foreign Goveruments of jersons convicted of infa offenses, | War Department 307 officially dechared fo have become velid as & part of Jeaving an uvailable surplus of &5 510 our cou Navy Depart'nt. 3,000 he receipts for the fiscal year e s with which we ma B Justly the subject of complaint o our pust, has piices, 10 an angmentation of exports sud 4 diminution of im- o &m Fopeipei i b&m«rm‘::d other natious on an eq s ) u oxder that bis views on this t muy not be -wrl. 398,10 61 | hended, tho Secrezary tiusts that be witl be " e ferrig (even at a risk of & repetition of what he has herefofore Net decrease........... 14,200 %0 | presented in other communications to Congress and in other The followivg statement exhibits the items of jucsease and | Wiss to the country) to certain laws, weil understood, bt 100 decrease of the public debt from the Lighest point, August 31, | often distegarded, Which regulate international trade g, cou- 1863, 10 October 1, 1H66 14 rroi the movements of cofn. We bave (raveied so far from the tandurd, and are so blinded in regard to our ctual unt of publie debt Aug. Bl 2ot an per statement. §2,645,003,606 3 2] condition and our relations Wicl. other cowniries, by om extending (from time ¢ a8 the moemed 10 require, the_jndienal, revenue, and postal sys- gems of the country. With the advice and consent of tober 1, 1865.... " Y. Mareh 3, 1863, and Juse W, I1n64 Cash in Treasury, decrensed.. A6 12 0 ? Itu’»'fl“‘mh '1‘ "“‘ ""\"‘*’l tes. ““]! Lz 75,061,356, and that the expenditur the practice the States in which the insurrection exinte 516,425 078, leaving in the Treasury not been renewed. " unde w & d lrredecmable currency, and the mptly smeuded their Coustitutions, 0 as 10 ke | ¥or the fiscl year ending June 30, 1565, it s ontimated th The congratulations of Cangreis (6 (he Biperer of Rani e e et ey W8 I8l eotes mm conform 1o the great change thus effected in the or- | receipts will amount to §436,000,000, and that upon s escape from atterpted assassiuation, have been pre. b db oo 2 al und financial laws is necessary. gauic law of the laud, declared noll and void ali ordinan- | will be #350,247,641—showing an _exceas of sented to that humane and enlightened ruler, and received by 840,021,742 04 iuce tiade commenced between tie of diterent 850 and laws of secession; repudiated all pretended debts | Of the Governunent. T stimated receipts may be dimiv- | yiw with expressions of grateful appreciation. — — Amonnt of cash in Treasury, t8,218,05 1i— god and silyer haye been the orl: vel and recog: ishied by & reduction of excise and Jmport dutics ; but after all Dol g i attempt by Spautsb- Amer L fund, 24,207 04 $200,029,235 30 | Amount of public debt Aug. 31,166, lews cash nized measnre of value und medium of cxchanges. While in ] £ 4 §2,357,503,68 91 | thews internal trade, other representatious of velue Luve, W0 reater or less cxtent, been used by all nations, money made These metals has been pronounced by the judgment of the world the oply currency casing the attributes ueccssary for s uni- form aid universal chrculatig mediun. From this there is 5o appeal. Not oly 1s it the true and unive h‘: uf ts i and krowledged measure of vahic and medio_of by its regulating iow, it indicates the cor m.,:‘:‘u% of trade between diffcrent nations, Water does pot were naturaily seek level than does specie flow trom one nution 10 and obligations created for the revolutionary purposces of vy g vt bt o ¢R e She insuricetion; &ud proceeded, in good fuith, tothe entet- Mosary edabsions dhall Mave. R Tt | v nturers (0 nduce the emigration of reedumen of the U KECAPITULATION. e f0r tne protection and swelioration of | L ing 3 o e States t0 u foreign country, protested agaiust the project as one | Actual receipts, including cash Amount of public Spom o ! o cover all legitimate charges upon the Treavury, and leave a | which, if consummated. would reduce them to a o even | D . $HE2,304.420 £8 31, 1866, n8 per the condition of the colored race. _Congress, bowever, yet | large annunl surplus to be applied to the payment of the priv- | more oppressive than that from which they bave just Leen ted receipts, ineluding Amdunt of old fusded uud un- Besitated 10 adumit apy of these States to representation; | cipal of the debt. There secis now 10 be uo good reason why | lieved. “Assurance s boen receited frui the et SE| cash balanee. g funded debt q and it was not until toward the ciose of the eighth wnonth | taxes may not be redueed a8 the country advances in population | the State in which the plan was matured, et the . woony of the session thut &n exception was made ip fevor of and wealth, and vet the debt be extifguised within' the next nefther its encourngement LOr approval a Pennessee, by the admission of her Senatons and Kepre- quarter of u ce ¥ of yous cousideral whethes our laws upon | B The report o to the | ion or pasishwent of | Actual expenditures 1. 9,005,905 44 over estimat 4+ Amount of cash 1n Treass ‘Amount of publi in Treasury 130,226, debt, St 31, 1666, les Y Secretary of War furnishes valuable and ld::‘:’: a subject of profond regret that Cogress | important information in reference to the operations of his De- Ko ] et o und regret that Con wrtment during the past year. Few volunteers now remain in TR el o od eas thas 00,329,995 hother for the payment of balances created by an ot e for fatled 10 201wt Yoyal Senators aud ltepresentutives | e service, and they are being discharged ns rapidly i e N pustiinres ok San. S S i e T P L SEad 3579,005 71 | shanks of comuolitios Trade R ), from the other States, whose iubabi with those of | can be replaced by regnlar troops. The army has be od Btates for the withdrawal fidn e L. 0,435,140 T caused es follows by payments and ia- | and chiefly condueted by an exchange of el produedions; bul " the seats of 50 members in the House | wims. The mbitary strength of the untion has becn unimpaire . Treasury, agrees- 952800, o A piil " parment. nothing but the precious Metals » 3 logal Wender. 'and of 20 members in the Sevate wre | bY the discharge o volunteers, the disposition of nuserviceable | now pas, the socond in M n |, ante July 1, 163, §E58,209 15 ... B e P sohs 1+ 1his necossity for myinf Dbulances in o' which regulates (ko e ent 0t by their own consent, ot by failure of | % cishable ‘stores, and the retrenchment of expenditure. | Noyembor, 1457, Tmu of the | Towhich add balanee of sundry per cent, act March 31, T84S Gs. 1t is this great commer.ial and fuanci) Jw e Lt Ly (ks efutd!” OF Cinigriea. (6 ‘sccept their*| Ruaoiest ver miterial 1o meet evacuution, the French Go i trust funds Bot incladed in Bonds, 5 per cent, uct March 3. 1864 s the nation that sells more thos it buys, the cirde ion, but by the refa! O & Scoey I | been retained, and, from the disl attitude of nou-intervention, in regard to Mexico, us is bel the sbove balauce poe g Bonds, 5 per cent, nct Sept. 9, 1850, (Texas in : nation, aud the nation that buys mo than it sik, the A it demnity) 435,000 00 | debtor nation, and recoguizes 1o meding hut coin in the pays ‘Treasury notes, ¢ per ceat, ncts Dee. Z4, 1857, und ment of bulances, that determines the g 43,076,042 09 Mareh 2, 1561, esenias £,200 00 | the United States to resume aud maints 51,503 05 | Temporary loan, 4, 5, aud ¢ per cent, uets Fo the balanee is 1 our favor, or it not iu o 18z, and June 30, 1864 .. 02,140,714 27 | against us is so small that it can be paid with Certiticates of indebtednoss, oty drain upon our precious metals, specie o March 1, 1862, and March 3, 186 oo, $4,910,000 00 | resumed. Such, unfortuvately, is not the Tiot. Notwithstund- Treasury notes, 5 per cent, one and two yeals, act ing our heavy exports during the past yeer (thut of eottun have March 3, 1= eeve.. 51000000 00 | ing boea 650,672,690 pounds,” or nearly 150,000 balex, 8 quna. rument of the United Tlepented ansuras mperor, since that agreement, that eed evacustion within the period vespond to the national the Gov pidly organized, equipped, and concents have been given by th fications on the coast and frontier have received.orae being | would comy; i for discontent on the part of the inbabiteuts of those | pr red for more powerful anmaments; Iake survess and bar- | pentioued, or sooner. Btates. It would have accorded with the great rinciple | bor and i v f."y.m.:: 'l:';r‘;‘ e prose [ 1t was resaamabiy expected that the proceedings thus contem- el i i ou of erican Independence cotion. TP - e o o w iy o e ated woul prodice & erials of great politie interest in tie :“"“:;';:‘_’N‘,"“'"‘:,‘m'h‘:‘\'::‘r""m“,'u'nh‘.l:"“,"'",m‘._','( e ee | widitionnl bounties uthorized during the recent scesion of YE"F“"“" e ¥ 1. mewly eppeinted Minlster of the Congress, under guc lations as will protect the Govern- | United States, Mr. Campbell, was thercfore sent forward, on eredentials. Their admission, it is believed, would bave | ganding ready sccomplished wuch toward the renewal and sirer gthening of our reiations as one people, and removed serions couse Making balance, July 1. 185, including trust fund . % b Receipts trom inte Receljta from denied the right of representation. 1t would bave heen in cou | e 0 o o churge e . gonan: cxpress P s “ovstitution en and. wnd secure to the honorwbly.dischurged soldier | (o uih day of November last, to assume Lis proper functions as 3 e e e e ereuniatiie. and. " that:| (b6 wellsarmed rewand of his aitkiulness sod gallsot7y, Mors | Minister Fleaipotetiary of he United Stabes o that Repablie. 1t | * sourees Treasury otes, % 205100 00 | tity rvater thas our entire. crop ofthe present year), 1he o State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its cqual snf than six thousand maimed soldiers have received artificial limbe ent that he should be attended in the Compound interest notes, 6 per cent, wet June 30, Uniited States are largely a debtor to Eusope In the Senate.” These provisions were i ed 1o secure forty-oue national cemeterie vieinity of Mexico by the Licutevant-Geueral of the Aty of Hlfm ve . Pesss . 08.512,020 00 A few facts will put us right on this pok Between the yeap B e e 10 the. yeople of every b, 1he Mght of 5 Unijon soldjers, have alivady | (he United States, with the view of obtaining such informatic Treasury notes,7.50, act June 30,1664, wud Museh Je4%, whew gold was first discavered in Californis, ard the isg tation in ensb House of Congress: und sojmpotant | imate of military ap as might be important to deterine the vourse to be pursued by ESTYNDITURES, 3. 1865, eeiiesiiaeinesis ... 105,905,700 00 | of July, 1860, the product of the gold nad silver mines of the of b Redemption of United Sta s, uets July 17, 1861, and Feb, United’ States, was about 81,100,000,000, nearly all of which Lag 12, 1%6: s il 5 134,610 00 | gone into the world's general stock ; mnum robable ting ! the Constitution that the the United States iu redstablish fi'ulul il tain ould be press thnt 1t i stuted in the report of the Secretarycf the Navy that the | aud proper lutereourse with the Republic of Mexico. De P e oy State, | naval force ut this time consists of 216 vessels, armed with 2,351 | interebted In the cause of liberty aid humaulty, it seen For the eivil K obvious duty on our part t exescise whaleves influcnee we po service...... 41,006,961 4 ez, Testoration. s permasent establishment in that | For pensions Postal carrency, domestic and republican form of government. ond Indians. 18552416 01 Suspended requisitions t $020,32, 720 the amount of gold and silver now in the U} much larger thay it wes eighteen years o Duing the fiscal year euding June 30, 1%, the United States ited Foreign merchandise froe of duty...... $58.801,75° United * o3 8 vy ‘wes it deemed by the framers equality of the Stales Ju the S¢ ot even by an amendment of ‘without its consent, be denied & vou o 1 thud bl of the Na- | guun. O1 Uiese, 11 veesela, carrying 102V guus, are o com- Tunsion. distributed ehiefly among seven squadrons. ‘The num. | seased for 4 tiona) Legislature. . 1t in troe, it bas heen assamed 1 Suntes | berof men in fhe service Jo 1a%0. Great aciivity and vigh. | country c and rapu {pover i e ed by the rebellious acts of their wnd b lance have been displayed b the rons, and their | 3 condition of afairs in regard to Mexico, when X 'M-:h::::m-lw:. having been suppressad, | wovements have In!‘ll’]mlh .{m.l) and efficiently arrauged | oo the 22d of November last, ofiicial information was receised 284,440,701 €2 8 405,384 Foreign merchaudise poying duty %, 308,051 ard 10 be considered merely us conguered | in sueh manuer as would best promote American cowimerce, from Paris that the Kwperor of Fra had some time before Increase of ensh in Treasury.....ococoniecanenn. 42,108,905 49 i Aniuhadn islative, Executive nud Judicial Depuitiue: | wnd proteet the rights and interests our decided not to withdraw a detachient of forces in the Department” 43,324 118 . —— $427,900 #10 ment have, bowever, with great distinctiess i wbrosd. 1he vessels unewployed are undergol month of November puat, accoriing to eogagement, but tunt | For interest on Grossdecrease. ... ... . _Of foreigu merchandise there exported . eney, refused 10 SANCHIOD Li ASLILPLIUD KO ILCOT) or are Inid up wutil their services may be requl Most | this decision was wade with the purpose of withdrawing the | - the public debt 173,067 741 4 From which deduct for increasc— Free of duty [} Bature of our republican eystem, and with the pro‘e of the irou-clud fieet is ot League Taland, in the vicinity of | whole of those forces in the eusuing Sprivg. Of this deter- — 0, Bouds, 6 per cent, nets July 17 » Datiable.. s the war. Throughoout the reecnt legialation of Congiess P W place which. until decisive action should be | miuation, bowever, the United States Lad not received any no. and August 5, 1801 .. $114,500 0 o : sndeniable fact makes tael{ apparent, (Lat these 10 political | taken ress, was sclected by the Secretary of the Navy | tice or intimation ; aud, #o soon us the Luformation wus received Bonds, 6 per cent, nct Marc] g Tota) (mixed gold and cur- e ties are mothing Jess than States of this Unian. At the | us the most eligible location for that clas of veasels. It is iu- | by the Sovernment, cars \ras taken to make known sts dissent | Leaving a balance in the Treasury on the first 1864...... . e BEELN0 (0 i rency value). ... . 11,340,420 Very commencement of the Rebellion, each House declared, with | portant that a suitublo public etation should be provided for the | to the Emperor of France. day of July 1, 1¥06 A Bamaon i Bonds, 6 per cent, act June X, p Whick, reduced o currency value, was ety s vemarkable as it was ‘significast, ihat the war | irou-clad fleet, It is intended tiat thess veuscls shall bein | 1 cassot forego the hops that Fran o will reconsider the sub- | The following is a statement of the recei S5y - ovssnabinsyipw £20,000 (0 equal to.... o iy 10,260,720 a8 Dot ** waged, UPOn OUF PAFt, 16 any spirit of oppression. nor | proper condition for any emergeuc it s desirable that | jeet, and adopt some resolution in regard to the evacuation of | penditures for the quarter ending September 30, 1866: Bouds, 6 per cent, W r : z for any purpose of couquest o1 suljugation. no: the Wil accepting League Island for nwval pusposes, which | Mexico which wili conform as nearly as practicable with the L.. oo in Treasury, ogreeabls 10 warants, 1865, coeen 200,261,000 (0 Tota) wet imports foreign merchandise, Shrowing or interfering with e Yighis or tstablished in. | passed the House of Represeutatives at its last session, should | existing engngement, and thus mect the just expectations of | July 1, 1666....... : T 132,687,309 11 | Bonds, 6 per cent, acte July 1, valued in gold...... . 417,046,577 atitations of those States, but 1o defend apd maitain tie | Teeeive fionl nction atan early period, in order shat there may ted States. The papers relating 1o the subject will be | Receipts from loas 4 174,01 62 24 | 1602, and July 2 1664, iasued Imports. specie........ 10,329,150 ‘Of the Constitution and all lews wade i pursuance | be a suitable public station for this class of vessels, &8 before you. It is believed 1 ith the evacuation of | Receipts from customs. - " 20843774 2 aile 1o Central Pucifie Railioad Of which tbere was regx- Phvreol. and 1o prescrve the Usion with sll the diguity, | well wx a uavyyard of wrea suficient for the wante of Jject for serious dif- | Reoeipts from I 2 pany, &c., duterest pay- yorted quality, and righis of the several States unimpnired ; and thnt | the service ou tic Delaware Kiver, The Naval Pe fund States_ would remain. | Receipts from direet tax. . EG00 0 i, 8 goon s these objects” were *accowplished. the War onght | amounts 1o $11.70,000, huviog been incressed 82,750,000 during | The expressions of the Emperor and people of Frauce waraant | Receipts fom internal revenue 99, Fractionaleurrency nets Marc S Net imports, spec 0,08 450 S0 cense.” In some instances, Senstors were permitted 10 con: | the ’":f ’nw‘?pu&:uxfl ul“lhe Dej nma-mb{or the fiscal | & hope m’u ‘th adity ‘,:." friendsbip between the two muul. cipts from miscelavecus u“hlmf'u.n .‘I'un:.j‘l llln;lh 1 AL,00 45 ' o b Ak g ok — o T o other instances Kepre. | year ending J0th June last were $43,324,526, and the estimates | tries might in that case bo renewed aud perman ored o 7,061,764 2 old_certificates, act Marel, 3, ‘otal ne , fo crelia 5 el toseots Yo |1 B e ks e | Aeioseipeie o AL 8 1863.... e 0,806,960 (0—§241,251,257 40 | Duriug the tiscal year ending June 30, 80, the United States exported domestic merchondise, for the coming year amount 1o §23,50% 4 Attention is invited A claim of & citizen of the United States for indemnity for 1o the condition of our seamen, and the importauce of legisla- | spolintions committed on the high scas Ly the French aut tive measures for their relief and improvement. The sugges- | ties, in the exerciso of & belligerent power against Mexico, has value, $465,040,903, reduced to gold ‘value.. Net decrease......... 53,5 These statements are in the highest degree cucommging. FE,122 089 01 of the States whose peo Hons in hehulf of his desersing class of our fellow citizens are | been met by the Government of Frauce with u proposition to FYPENDITURES. et tn the arportionment. of the direct tux of | ewrsiestly recommended 10 tho favorabie attention of Cougross. | defer settleinent until u mutual couveution for the adjustinent of | Fu: the redemption of the pul- 2 They are conclusive evidence of the gieatiess of our resources, | Specie exposted . SLGH,IM 500 aanvally laid upon the United Ktates by the uct ap- | ‘The report of the Postiaster General prosenta most sats- | all claiue of eltioens and subjects of both countries, arisivg out | Jic deti ? and they clearly indicate the patience of the people undes sl | — this Coutiucnt, shall be agreed upon by | por the oivil service. . - .. Troposed burdens, and their unwilliuguess tha (bis Gebt sbould | Total domestic exports, valued in gold ... fugrory condition of the postal service, and submits recommen- | of the recent wurs b deserve the consideration of Congress. The | the two countries, The suggestion s not deemed unreasonable, | yor pensious and Indians, .. 11,765,975 hvl:rm‘l:d p; - r:‘"::"h““j‘m"‘""fil- ailad i 2 2 P alued I 34 pase s not expected, nor 18 it perbaps desirable, that the same pparent balance of trade, valued fa gold . ©....... o, | Bt belongs o ot e et o ot Boia] | Tor [he War Depurtment..... 1644 @ rate of reduction shouid be continued. A cousidesuble diming: | Byt these figures, taken from the reports of the eastow-ho proved Augast 5 1#6] lo-rr-u by the act of March 4, 1862, rese ater f the Department for the year eadug sad by the u) jonment of nlso | dutions w Sised their reyenues yecog | presence as States io the Unior for judicial pupases i vided nto districts, s Stutce wlone | 166, were 14,356,986, wnd the expeuditures $15.352,079, show. | for indemnity by forelguers, as well as by citizens of the United | oy the Navy Department 7 878,609 17 b oot T same recognition appears i the recent | iug an excess of the latter of $965,003. In anticipation of thks | States, arisiug out of the late ciril war, shall be adjudicated wnd | or D ret 0 (e Suutirobi 30,865,090 90 tion of txes was efected by the wmedments ot he WAl | o uoi present o wholo trut, For masy years there bus beer fon in reference to Tennessee, which evidently rests | deficiency, however, a special appropriation Was made by | determined. 1 have no doubt that the subject of all such claims ) . revenue law, at the lust session of Congress. A fusther diminn- | o syetomatio under-valuation of forehou merchandise wpor te S tion of internal t and a modiication of the tarifl, | o the United States, and large amounts have been mmiggle to 8 reduction of customs dutios ot | inro the country wioug our extended seacoists and frowsier which will doubtless 2, 1#66. Including the 'llllenqmayuur’llunuounnlwn"n&!nl aud proper time. t in & maiter of regret that no considerable advance has been | | oyvine o balance in the T e e 0t Taain i o o 1o Ao pruiaron | * 980 0 i O, o ez im0 19 | BAnT el etk cera e o sy . e g e m:w"r- mn"": The following statement exhibits the items of inerease | gy are now languishing under the bur'ens which buve be aud decrease of the public debt for the fiscal year ending | jmposed upon thew. But, after the prop - and necessary veduc- | g the past year tious shall have been wade, the reveaues will doubtleas be sul- | 17500y idont that the balances argely agwinet 1ho cient, if the Government shall be economically administered, 10 | {yiived States for some years past, whakei ¢+ way huve been 1he pay the current expesses, the iuterest on the public debt, wnd | yrom house retirus, On no other grozal can the fact be © mllions per | cconuted oz, that @ vers large smoant o Awerican bonds 9 Yo held in Europe, whick aie catimal, To wake ep for wnder-valuations and smug:lisg, sod for sury on the first the Ttebellion, but mervly suspended: aod tht principle is, | standing appropriation of ¥00,000 for free mail watier. as & ‘course, applicable 16 those States which, like ‘Tenuessee, st Jegitimate portion of the revenues yet remalning unexpended, 5 090 rmmmn ‘the functions of the State were not destroyed | Cougress in the act approved Jul 10 renounce their places in the Union. Im actual deficiency for the past year is oaly 82 etion of the Executive Departiment of the Government | & sum within #3141 of the wmount estimated in the anual | upon our national comme wpon this subject has been squally deinite and uniform, and the | report of 1664, ‘Tle decrcae of reveune, compared with | by Britih sufjects, in violation of interuational law and treaty o the war was apeciically stated in the Procismaiiou | the previous year. was one and onefifth per cent, and the | obligations. The delay, however, may be believed to have re- | June, 30, 1866: F 224 day of Septewber. 2, | increase of expenditures, owing principally 10 the enlargement | wuited iu o wuill degree from the domestie situation of Great “{’““,',L ;'f publie debt, June - 2 by my predecessar ou ihe it . an thet solomuly proelaimed and ed thet * hereafier, | of the mail sexvice in the South, was twelve per cent. On the | Britain. Aueutire change of ministry occarred in thut eountry 42,662,53,026 " e L O tof prac: | 301k of June ast (here were in operation six thousand nine | during the last s sxion veduee the principal at tie rate of from four month, Lu order that this may be dove, bowey Amcaut of ensh iu Treasury ‘@ beretofore, the war will be proseeuted for the obje Cealty restoring the coustitutious! relation between (he Upited | bundred aud thizty wail rontes, With an aggregate length of | new misdstry was call e ates and ench of the Stated and the people theseof, ju wiich | wne buudred and cighty thousand uine bundyed and twenty.one | there in soww Amount of public debt, June 30, 1863, Jess 2o additional donsiions 10 raiiroads, 5o payments b - e ad or dhistisbed. | grepate ansual transportation of seventy-one il | & becomivg apd fi cneli tn Tren ¢ filiment of contrnets, widd 1o WAL Cesss nifed Seatos Londs, b Departmert of dred and thirty-seven thoasand nine banred wid | ds of the st Amount of publip Jar any purpose whatoaer. Widh proper b : ive in aid pro 1 AR, i EEICRAe wn cost. foeludin: il gxe | ight b e W s W0, 1806, ..... parients of the Goveruwent, the deut ¢nu be puid by 1 s i | Awount of cash T re Fat created if, i wise oud equal revenue ke - Total L0, cnaeted wind coutiuued by Congresayapd these s uiv fully eatoiced by the otlicers chal Wil ther egecution, It ix evident, from tiese figures, res, of §¢.410,1% e deugth of vudlroad roites in | gouk ol aud | e, Clicull, vtwo miles, and the aunual | esteblivlod autilasecipioe Alances v 5 b the pro A and niety willion six Liandred and nive thousaid four | weataslity, shil be restored bolween the respective nations. et o Tty (w0 thou ‘the admission of Senators aud Represcitatives from gny | tmusportion thir Amount of publie debt, June %, 1500, iesy 'all of ‘the States. there can bo no just ground of apprehen- | hundred and sixty.seven miles. Tho length of steamboat routes | ~ Ou the 6th of June last, in violation of our peutrnlity Inws, & cush in Trewsury 9,630,538, 390 10 | That it is the will of the people that & should bo paid, wnd uot | us, aud, chiefly by the exportation of ol sion that s who nre disioyal will be clothed witk the | is fourteen thousaud three hondred and forty six miles, and the | military expedition and euterprise lsllnl! the British North —— | perpecunted, is clearly indicated by the favor with Whicli its | are belng tm‘pmrflunhmwfldcml arrany of Jation; for this could not b ‘when the Con. | anuual transportation three million four hundred and eleven | Americau Colouice was projccted and attempted o be carriod Net decrease. .. 31,100,387 28 | rapid reduction duritig the past year has been regurded. The | ly, because o large portion of these bon's Lave on m the laws are enforced by & v t wnd fulibiul | thousand nive hundred aud sixty two miles. The mail scrvice | on within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States. This decrease was caused as follows, by payments aud in- | ddea that 8 national devt can be auything else thau a burden— | specolation, and wiil be iikely to be retars.od whenever buaneial "Bach House is made the " judge of the elecfions, | i« rapidly increasing thronghout the whole country, aud its | In obedience to the o igation . mposed upon the Executive by | erease of cash in Treasury : in which there are some compensations, but still a burden. a | troubles fn'the countries in which they are held shall make ig geturns, and qualifieations of its own members ' and may, | stea J extension in the Southern States indicates their con- | the Constitution, to sec that the laws are faitbfully executed, Bonds, 6 per cent, ucts July 21, mortguge upon the property and industry of mpq-f—- uecessary for the holders to realize tipon them, oF Whenever e eopourrence of {wo thinds, expel 8 mewmber.” Whea | stantly iwproving condition. The growing importauce of the | al eltizeus were warned, by proclamation, agaiust taking part 1841, and April 15, 1842." 116,13 77 tunately'not an Americau idea. 1n coutries in which the pub- | satisfactory profits can be made by returniog them, which will @ Benator or Kej fative prescute his certificate of clection, | forelgn _servico also merits atteption. The Post- | in o aiding such olawi proceedings, and the proper civil, | Treasw 6 per_cent, lie expenditures are so heavy or the resources are so suinll tat | be wheu tliey neatly spproach par value in eoins' iprovie Do may at once be admitted or rejected ; or, should there he any Office Department of Great Britain and our own huve | military, and uaval officers were directed to take all necessary ncts ember 23, 1857, and no reduction of their public debts is practicable, and where | deutly, beca@he they are being sod at very low prices, s to Nodxsh‘my. Lis credentials may be refeired | agreed upon o preliminary Dasis for & new Postal Conveution, | measures for the enforcement of the laws. The expedition | March 2, 1861....... ... 2,200 00 uational securities bocome mouopolised capital in the hands of | and because their ‘exportation stimulat>s impoits, aml thug 10 the riate committee, 1f ndmitted | which it is believed will prove eminently beneficial (o the com- | failed, but it Las not been without its painful consequences. | Bonds 5 per cent, act Septem- moneyed aristocracies, who not only sbsorh the meaus, but give | cripples home industry. Nothing is more certain than the fuct 0.6 seat, it ust be upon evidence satisfactory to the House of | mercial interests of the bited States, inasmaueh a8 it contem. | Some of our citizens who, it was alleged, were engaged fu the | | ber 9, 1850, (Texas indewnity) 263,000 00 direction to the sentiment of the people, public debts may be re- | that there can_be no permanent resumpti yinents ‘whieh be thus becomes & wember, that be ssess the requi- | plates & reduction of the international letter postage to one- | expedition, were mpmn':i. and have been brought to trial, ss | Treasury notes, 7.30, act July garded as public blessings; but no such fallacy will ever be | iu the United States until the balances b+t ween them other e constitutional and legal quali deations. 11 refused admission f the umhxa Tates; # reduction of postage with all otber | for w capitdl offense, n the Proviuce of Canada. Judgment and | 17, 1861 P 380,730 00 countenanced by the free and intelligent people ‘of the United | uations shall be made easy by an exportation of commditive, s 5 member for want of due aliegiance to the Goverument, | countries to and from which correspondence i transmitted in | sentence of death have been pronounced against some, while | Certificates of indebtedness, 6 States. including the products of the mines. equal at least to our im= and returned 10 Lis .o.guu they are admonished tiat pone | the Bitish mail, or in closed wails through the United King. | others have been acquitted. Fully believing in the maxim of [ _per cent, act March 1, 1862... 9,381,000 00 Ho\i.l:x inour history has created so much surprise. both at ations, and until shall b made for retarning g loyal to the United States will be allowed & voice in dom : the establishment of uniform and reasonable charges for | Government, that severity of eivil ‘punishment for misguided | Treasury notes, 3 per cent, one bome ubroad, us the reduction of our national debt. The | honds, or for enting thelr retwrn at unj I Lies, tive Councils of the Nation, and the political power | the sea and territorial trausit of corres) poudence in closcd mails; 0% who ha' in revolutionary sttempts which and two year, act March 3, , | wonder excited by the rapidity with which it was created is | "This state of it is conceived, canaot Dl% withoa$ and moral influence of ‘are thus effectively exerted in | and an allowance to each Post-Office rtment of the right to !:redllnlnmlly failed, i unsound and unwise, such represen: 1863, 38 B84, 480 00 greatly exceeded by the adm! of the resolution of the tax- | a cLange in our financial A . he interests of loyalty to 1he Government and fidelity to the | use all mail communications established under the authority of | tations having been ‘made to the British Government, in behalf | Compos Payers themselves that it shall be speedily extinguished. Tle | ~‘There being but one univ recozsizel measure of value, Wnion, Upon this quéstion, so vitally affeeting the restotution he other for the dispatch of correspondence, either ji open | of the convicted persous, as, being sustained by an enlightesed cent, uct June 30, 1864....... 34,743,840 00 couviction is becowming fastened upon the popular wind that it | and that being a value ia itself,” costing what it cwents in of we Unloa and uhmw. present fonn of gov- | or closed wails, on the same terms as those applieuile to the in. | aud humane Jadgment, will, it is Loped, induce in their cases an Bouds, 5 per ceut, set Murch 3, is importaut—for economy in the national expenses, for the | the labor which s required to obtain it. the nation widop 18, emment, WY couv expressed, bave uuder Labitants of the conntry providing the meandof trensuission. | exercise of o , and & Judicious amnesty to all who were 1864 . 1,351,000 00 maintenasee of 8 true deiocracy in the ad tration of the | either from ehoice or xmpuru&unulm an id, The report of the Secretary of the Interior exhibits tie con. | engaged in the movement. Counsel Las been employed by the United States notes, aets July Governient, for the cause of good worals and of public virtue'| violates the financial law of worll and inevitably suffers for | 17, 1861, and Feb, i2, ir2... 200,441 00 —that the policy of @ steady onmual reduction of the debt | for its vioktion An irredecmable, and con ook the contrary, their correchness bas been T the al | dition of those branches of public serviee which are cow. | Govermment to defend citizens of the United States on offenses in Canada; and mitted to b “hould be defiuitely and iuexorably establisbed. Nothing short | ated eurn'fll-?v drives out of cireulation the curreney ision. During the last fiscal year. 4,690912 | capital a discontinuance of the United States notes, uets Feb- o land were of, 1,892,516 ncres of which | tions which were instituted in the mmunhlhm ruary 25, July 11, 1862, and of this, and that economy in the expenditures which | itself; and if made by law a legal teader, whils ity wlue The poliey ill it p the 1o the bur- ;«:w-fi&nm—-fumwh expedient & y scigs of pal now. If this mow—17, in the exact | were entered nuder the Homestead act. originally inst those Who took in the expedition, been di- 068,760 00 will render it ticable, will recoucile the people of theve States st the time, it is lawful 1o ex- -flnxnd relative to the public lands has uflmfi % L e 8 - dens alunuo:“ A uationsl debt must ever be a severe .umwmmunnmumu-m‘g o mot see that the gueation fications. Tmmediate revenue, and not rapid settle- | 1 have regardad the expedition as not only political in its 2,684,707 £8 strain upon ‘justitutions, aud ours should not be sub. | disproportioned even to its actual depreciation. Very different of time. Ten years hevee, if these | went, was the cardinal feature of our land Long ex- | nature, bt as also in & great measure forelgn from the United 132,029,239 96 Ject to it one nger than is necessary. To the perpetuation | from this is that Lealthy, aud of the right of representation will be no | perience and earnost discussion have resnlted in_the conviction | States in its causes, character, aud objects. The attempt was —_— of the existing dobt of the United Siates there are also, it ma; which is the of the increase of wetals, exelusion will be bo wenker, bt the enrly development of our tural resources, and | understood to be made in sympathy with an insurgent pariy in Gross decrease. $332,525,688 6] | be proper to remark, serious objections giowing out of the cir- fi‘m-hm is_obtained in tie gold and ng United States mukes it the duty of | the diffusion of an energetio populat over our vast ter- | Ircland, by striking ai tishProvinee on this Continent cumstances under which it was created. Although incurred in , dthough it first affects nhu within districts, 10 the consideration of Congress | ritory, are objects of far greater importance to the | was to aid in obtaining redress for political grievances a great struggle for m“snw- of the Government, and the course of and in obedience to its’ »oon. Judge necessary or expediest.’ I munm-u-ndpmmytmmwohhe-u« which, it was assumed. the people of Ireland had suffered at in its charaeter, it us are to | finds its way to other count aud becomes a part of the com= vely demanded by every con- | the land 1o the highest bi in ‘T:’-"' t. The preémp. | the hands of the British Governmept duringa period of scveral be shared bzmnw it 18 8 reminder of b and | mon of the nations, whicl, increasing in amount by the wound policy, and equsl jistice, | tiou Iaws confer upon the pioneer with the terms | centuries. The persons engaged in it Were chiefly defeat. It s exceedingly desirable that this, with other caises n.nhr‘rvhudfil-l-& and in activity by the deoe $4,784,000 00 heart! .‘ubfih-.aould be removed as rapidly | mands of commerce, advances the price .’m'h' com) ‘members froi the wow unrepre. | they impose the privilege of purchasiug s limited portian of | natives of [that country, ¢ whom had, while copsummate the work of restoration, | uiolnnd Jands” ot the minimum price. The homestead en- :&r-hdm m‘ann-'ymoun' States nbdr‘: our ry hnw With the present ,.L’: ties throughout the commercial world. Thus, the ot exert o most salutary influence ip_the reéstablishment of | actments relieve the settler from the payment of purhase laws of naturalization. Complaints of misgoverument | 30, 164, Tnfi eration, 50 that there may be nothiug in the future to prevent | the American, Australian and Russian mines m o interess’ payable in law that unity and good fe be!r"ltnml-lmmwughm advauce prices in their respective localities, but the operation ‘fraternal feeling. 1t would tend greatly to | money, and sccure Lim s permanent bome, upon the condition | in Ireland continually = en the attention of the Am;wh the vigor and | of residence for a_term of years. This liberal policy invites nd o s now prevailing in | money. . 134,641,130 00 necessary furuuunnnm-!: ity of soon distributes these luets, and stabity 1t we ud us more closely tion from the old, and from the more crowded” portions Government have deemed it necessary | Temporary k per The Secretary regre ithstanding the large reduction | where foels and to the increase of the llht-l"-m‘",. m--muflnflhu 10 sbow to the world the | of thenew world, Its propitions results are undoubted, and | to suspend the writ of Aabeas corpus in that country. These | cent, cts July 11, 1862, and of the national debt, and the satisfactory condition in other re- | ure of value. Al this is hesithful, because slow, permanc; and i ‘awtl ol worswent founded vlllhlmngldly ‘manifested wheu time shall bave given to | cireumstances must necessarily modify the opinion which we June 30, 1864. .. 90,430,135 25 spects, of the National Treasury, that [ittle progress has been aud universal. The coin produged in any ry will be ot the will of , and estublished upon the prin- | it wider dovelopment. might otberwise have entertafned in regard 1o an expedition | Gold certificates, act March 3, made sines bis last report toward :fl“”“ payments, The views | taised there no longer than its productions and l‘lfpl’l‘;‘ of Nberty, justioe wnd inie Our increased | Congress bas made lheral 'nm- of pblie land to corportions | expressly prohibited by our neutrulity laws. 8o o liose 3 10,713,180 00 presented by hiu in that report, withougl indorsed in the Honse | balance of trade iu its favor. "As soon as it becomes ches, Y ma-‘nh:usl weapenty. wouid i n‘gn;l t:l'hmn» in wid of the constinction of milronds and other futernal im. | laws remain upon our statute hoo! s, they: should be it fully lu Leprescatatives by a nearly usaniwous vote, were not sus- | (i this word ean be nronerly need in repand e!» m ouras i fallscy of e arguscnts ogaloet] | LUIBLOEY | Jrovemens buviid wis Jolicy bereatier vl oy stria oaecubed, 0d U Loy Qayele haraily, wustly, or oppressively, 4,040,756 (6 Mwwm muw;mtwq;wmmmu.mu.muq