The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 7, 1864, Page 2

“THE NEW YORK SUN, WEDNESDAY MORNING DEC, . 1564. The President's Mesenge. Is cther colurons of the Bun will be found the President's Messave, Although our Chief Mag'etrate confines bimerlf to the merest atate- ments of the condition of public affairs, be stil! reveals mufficient to show that the future po!) y of bia administration will be in socordance wit) its previons Matory, etcept eo far as our foreign relations are concerned, On thin subject the President indicates a more hostile attitade against those foreign nations from whom the Confelerates have received ald and comfort daring the present war, The people will mo doubt sustain this ponition, end Furopean nations may be warned in time against any interference with matters that concern ua more nearly than themeelves, The Prowident, in speaking of the recent elsetian, em- ploys language similar to that already made use of vp our article upon the wibject. He says: “No candidate for any oTice whatever, high or low, has ventured to eeck votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union, There has been touch impugning of motives, and much benated controversy as & the proper means and beat mode of alvancing the Union cause, but in the distinct ase of Union or No Union, the politicians have shown their instinctive kuowledge that there is po diversity of opinion among the people This statement warrants usin saeuming that the Preaidont will continue to adminiater the dutios of hia office with due regard to the Interests of the nation, uninfluenced by the ultra politiciana who would convince him that the Democracy are dia- loyal, or desirous of obtaining a hum. liating peace upon terme that would imperil the future welfare of our country. The sentiments oxprossod by the President upon thir subject will ’o much towarda inducing the Demooracy to support thove measures of public poticy which the people have endorsed, by re-olecting Mr. Lincoin, and ‘wo shail be surprised if the prosont Congroas docs Dot pags an ancodment to the Constitution, abolish - ing slavery gwithin the territory of the United Btates, Our financial afluirs appear to be in» better com dition thea the most sanguine patriot could have hoped, but we cannot perceive how this position tm ww be improved by the issue of public securition, that will be exempted from taxation, or not liable © seizure for debts contracted by the parties hold- ing them. We do uot bolieve Congreas or the people will venture upon euy such Quixutic mode of raising money until other wetbods have been exhausted, Woe have no doubt that the capitalists require somo inducements ter loaning their funda to the Government, but we ace no mivantage in giving taoney leudery tho spec ta Privileges contemplated in the augyestions of the Bocretary of the Treasury, and endorsed by te President. Millions of money have already been Procured upon the feiih of the nation, and that faith is still comparatively gound. Whea money ean no longer be raieod upon ** promises to pay,’ wo have plenty of revenue to fall back upon for the security of creditors, Woen every dollar cf revenuo has been j.edged, pawn We c our “real estate," aud finally resort to the “non. liability for debt Bonds" as a doectara- tion that we have reached a condition of financial embarrasmnent, when Repudiation beeomes the ouly sword that will cut the Gortian knot of our difficultica, Bat we have no fours of @uch a conclusion, The public debt in owne! mainly by the people, aud the people will be putri- otic enough to waittor their rnoney un'il the sources of the Nation ean be more fully deve ope, Beyond the Mississippi River lays a vast torriory, which, ina few yeary will be peopled by those whose industry wil! so increase our Niional wealth, that very littie taxation wi!! more than sullice te poy off tho few thousand Lillions thie war will cost ua, The closing paragrapha of the President's mea- far, although devoted to a consideration of the question of peace, do not present anything pew on the subject. In retterating his former declarations, ond ro-affirining the Exuanelpation Proclamation, Mr. Linooin dowres t) be understood as willing to leave the door open for all persons to onter the Union, upon terms which he consilers more favor- oble than any !!kely to be offered in future, It is significant, that the President does nos speak of the return of States to thoir allegiance, nor does be say anything about the reconstruction of » Umon which cannot again exist on iis former basis. He desires to deal with the units preferring to awalt the course of events, before committing himself to any defined policy concerning the territorial por- sonsionas ofa people at present ruled by despotic leaders, Time will show the wieduin of this policy. Moanwhile Burnwan is “marching on,’ Guans le “holding on," and other events are assisting in convincing the Confecorates that Our country wust and shall be preserved." The Charter Election. Nina Aldermen avd twenty-four Councilmen wore yeslerday chosen to ase ip the government of the city of New York, and unless the public had ‘eon duly informed by the Sun that an election Was to be held we fear many citizens would nog have beon aware that auch an evout was in pro- g™as— ln one or two diwtricts opporung candidates tunaged to make their contest jute: ceting to voters but beyond this very tthe occurred to attract pub- lie attention to the ballot-boxes, Our uidefath sable who lor macy yeara bas ‘*noted'’ election scenes, Bays that “yester lay our citizens did not seem to care a cont nental coppor about voting for munici- pil officers." We attmbute this apathy to the gene- ral convichon, that es the people had not been consiited iu borminating the candidates they felt but little iuteres: in the general result, Elsewhere will be found the latest resurns, Mr Welles and the Navy. Tax report of the Becrewary of the Navy, pub tecedin another partof today's Sus, places Mr Waeitts in a favorable attitude before the public, J) shows that he Las adininistered the affairs of the Department with a degree of skill and energs which he is far from being generally credited, The Becrotury hae sucecssfully vindicated himee.t from the popular suspicion thas attaches to him as the Great Uoresdy, ond in fact proves that he hae always beon alead of the other Departments, Expoditions that required the co-operation of land forces were imictluitely postponed for months, while indepentent naval movements—as the copture of New Orleans and Port Royal, for example—were always prompt and successful, The Naval Department was obliged to wait for nearly # year for the land forces nocessary to occupy the entrances to Mobile: and as for Wil- mington, about which there has been so much pomplaink it eppewrs thet i) might have been in Congross and the people. Court of the United Stat our posse It ge ready, Bit afer all, it will not do for Mr. cok are ven whee fon Wir to triumph too much over the i the ca tollitary = Departes If the = military | than ft Th to peruan tereuete meny haserds 6 van strength of the Confederacy was aa weak | Cm! @ contral tiade with porte wh. band eicsed, it not by actual military operation, at least Aiaxful and erfeetive blockade, For myselt, I have no dombt of the po and duty of the Executive, uo- he law of nations, to exclude enemies of the hu- fo race froman reyium in the United Statee, Congress should think that proceedings in euch cases lnck the authority of law, wht to be further regu- as its naval forces, the Sceretary of Wer would have had ap easy time cf it, and the retell on would have been euppressed long since. The tone of the Beeretary iu relation to the Florida a‘lair ie curious and significant. Hy» alludes toit in the | lated by it A recommen nat Pv tn f - * in fer etiectual t wren @eve mueie briefest possible terms, and expresses no of Di thom 6 itt’ domicile aad faclities for whatever upon the su . Tho ine | their criminal occupation fa out country, os - — hs 7 fe poaribdle that if it were «now and open question the diguaon of Mr, Wriims at the ald et Maritime Powers, with the livht theynow enjoy would tended to the relela by the Faglish | not concede the privileges of a naval bellieerent to » ineus rents of the United States, destitute as they are and always have been euaily of ships and of | porte aud harbors, Inaioyal emissaries have been nelther less assiduous nor more saccesetul during the lost year than they were before that time tn beir eforte under favor of that privilege to embroil our couutry in foreygn ware, The desire and deters is just and natural, and will be shared in by the whole American people. The time hae evidently come when this indirect method of waging war upon us will be no longer tolerated. There must bee reforta in this respect, and the sooner the | minstion of the maritime States to detent ) th ce re bet Le a@ @incese ny better, The report on the whole reflects consiler- | [at design sre believed to Le ae elinere ih D * executive capac Nevertheless, unforseen political diticalties have able crodit upon Mr. Wetuse’ executive capscity, | Oiien, especially i Lpaaiiien, aud British porta, and and hia suggestions for improving the various | on ther rn boundary of the United States which | have required, and are likely to coutinue to regui the practice of courtant vigilance, and a inet and cote cillnvory epirit on the pare of the United Btates, ne weillm of the natious concerned and thelr govern meow Commissioners bave heen appointed, under the treaty with Great Britain, on the adjustinent of the claitwe of the HMudeou's Bay and Puget's Sound Agri- cultural Companies, in Orevonu, and are now proce fug to the execution of the t asalened to therm In view of the insecurity of lite in the region adjnoent to the Canswian border, by reeent assaults and cepre- dations committed by inimical aad desperate persour who are harbored there, it lus been thought proper to Uranches of the service deserve the attention of Mr. Chase os Chief Justice Tre appointment and confirmation of the Mon. Panwon P. Cuase aa Chief Justice of the Supreme will not take the public by aurprise, Mr. Coase’s name bas always figured among the foremost of those who were regarded as most availablo for the position, and | give notice thay after the expiration | ot rix i , i youth: tiw perlad conditionally stipulated in his claims wore Lbackod with remarkable unanim- ihe: esinioa aransenenee with <ireat Britain Ry by the redical and dominant wing of the | the anited | Breton must hold | thenusely es Bepaltic t Hberty neiewe thoi nav AlmaAen an party. There was at one time spon the bi at they phadl flu at proceed. ® probability that the Prosident would ylebi | ine necessary, The coud) bora wu vesas wo 1 Cons to Lis natnrel preferences and make a more | Necvee™ cf Nye ne ; miinwine comervative nomination. But imperious party | or tnodifying the rights of transit from Canada, exigencies prevaile!, and the selection of Mr Chase was & political necensity which could not elevated, the extecretary of the Troamury \# placed beyond the reach of ordinary influences, and it is to be hoped that he will aspire ooly to prove o Worthy @iocessor to the Hlustrions men who have occupied this position, The Supreme Court of the tion, both at home and abroad, and it should be Mr, Chase's atabition to preserve iw reputation wotar- nished , through the United Sintes, ae well aa the recuiation of in porte whieh were temporarily eriablished by the Ree piocity ‘Treaty of the oth Jane, iss4. however, to be understood while making t) are not Ained to pudly towarces the there ie every Lot the Imy«- weil be avoided. Iu the position to which hela ronson to exp nnd Governine me ures & prevcot bew incursions adios th . The Act paced at the last eoaeion for the encour ment of emigration hus as tar ae was powsibie, by put ipto operation, it sews to need amendment, whieh will euable the officors of the government to provent the practic frauds ogninet the emigrants while on their way, and on thele arrival in the porte, ro ag to secure ther here atree choice of avocations and places of settlement. A liberad disposition to- wards this great national policy is manifested by moet of the Karopean States und ought to be reciprocated on our part by giviug the eimigtaute efective protec. tion, | regard our emigtante as one of the principal replenieling etreame which are appointed by Provi- dence to repair the ravages of internal war, and its waetes of national etreneth and wealth, All that is necessnry 1* to seeuse the How of that stream ja its pre- pent iuliness, and w that end the Government must in every way tuake it manifest that it pe wher needs por desicns to Wupoe involuntar hiitary service np tore who coue from omer lauds w cast their lot iu our pountry, The financial affaire of the Goverument have been successful dministered, During the las lee iaiation of the Inet possion of Congiess bas ficially affected the revenue; altuough suite time bee not yet elapred to experieuce the fail efleet of several pf the provitious of the acta of Conytess unpoeing ine essed taxation, Thy receipts durtay the from all sources, uvon tho basis of warrants United States has long enjoyed the highest repute. Foarth Annual MESSAGI OF President Lincoln. ———-0———— naof the Senate and Ilouse cy Lepre- erntatives : Again the bicasings of veal and abaodant har- Yeets claim our projoundest eratitude w Almighty (od, The condition of eur tereion affairs is eminent! - it ly entisfectory, Meaiwo coatinuca to be # thea | vipned by the Besreiary ot the ronetty +o the nie hi wa ye wl tre ¢f civil war, While our political rela. | day PA dobarsemante apen the came tions with that count: have undergone DO] tnate, were 1,803 05 Bk 89, aving a - , - t +h =O , o in the reasury. oe shown ve change, we have at + eure time rictly main een. a 996,730,005073, * Deduet from these taised neutrality between the inearrente, At] Qo ounie the amount of the principal of the public the re (6 States et Costa Kies aud Nieat+ | debt seucemed, apd the amount ot deur in eabetity- commercial or political Importance of that et provem portant South American State not to acknowledge the eirectuces, iruukoess and cordislity, with which the United stat into effect with the universal ac ple, the government under it has been recognized, and diplomatic intercourre with it has been open cordial and friendly epirit. ed, Mutual pay ments havo been roade of the claims thon therefor, and the @etoal eash operations ot the Yreamry were: Heceipte $994,016,.040,77 5 Disburse- ments $866,204.90, which leaves wexsh bulance to aun Aco Tea olen locey Dae beeu authored to ako ® survey of the river San Juan and the port of wn the ceo reasury of #18,942,558,71, Of the receipts sar oan, Ittva@ source of much patefaction that De eee ed Trot a stdena B 102,826,160, 00; frome the difieu ties wided fora moment excited some pol- 49,20; from direct. tax 475,645,960 ; iter! apprehcosions, and caured a closing of the inter ne #100,741, 15410; from mircel- va $47,511,446, 105 Isneous sour and from loana ap- expeuditues including former bui- Orempic tr it rowed ” fe 7 i siritrouc have been amicably odjusted, plied to actul and that there ine gad prospect that the route will | ugce gots die 7, There were disbursed tor the toon be roopened with an locresee of capacity end | eivil service F2i,b05,009,40 4 for peusious and In- adentett “ . he | Gubua Pyro Cronin for » War bepartiment $ty- pt Ve could not exnguorme either the | PNM a hho yy the ariment $5 209,79; 95,421,069; making an uceogate mid leaying abalance in the treauaury oF = O57 1 ae before etuted, bor the actual receipts aus cleburremneny for te first yuartesjund the eatewated taceipte aud disburse mente for the three semgwing guertere of the cur it year, aud the ecneral operations of the Treasury cetail, | refer you tothe report of the Seereiary the Tre J conenr with bim ti the oy.nion that whe pro: jon ot the monies requiséd to meet the exjwises consequont upon the war, derived trom taxation, #lould be eull further incrensod ; and | aarnestly inviw =-your attention ww this subject, Lo the end that there may be euch ad- dithoual lovislaticy as shall be :eyuired to meet the Just expectations of Ue secretary, The public debt. on the first day of July lgst, as appears by the books of the Treamry, atnountod & one vidion seven hund- red ad torty midion six hugdr d and ninety shous- and tour hundred « elehty-uioe dollars and forty - nine cont. I'rob. should the war continne tor at ime to an in- nt It woaki be doing injusticr of Columbia bave entered into intimate tiene with this Government. A Claims Conven- Hon has been constituted to complete the unfinished work of the one which clomal ita seeaion in 186t. The new liberal conetitution af Venezuela having gone jeacence of the poo- ina The long-deforred Aves Island claim bas been euthdaetorily paid and dischare- awarded try the lute jointcomuilasion jor the settles | anocber year, that in ent may i sc hgeaag 21 iw not re bete: » State, De tur from tive unde miullions, whe &! mount of elaine between the L nited States aud Veru, 1e ta for the most part by our own. people, An carnost aud cordial trendahip continues to exist | i, has hecome substantial brome); of national though betweon the two coontries; and auch eiforte na were io | private property, For obvious reawns, the more and avert 6 threatening war between Peru and Spain, this property cam be diatnbuted apong all the the better, “To favey euch general dfatribation, y inducements to become owners might por my power have been used to remove misunderstanding Our relations are of the test friendly uatuie with haps with good effect and witheyt injury be pre Chili, the Argentine Repubte, Boll Cost. Kies, | sented to persone of limited meays, With this Paraguay, San Salvador and Hayti, During tho port | view L sumgest whether .t might pat be both year uo diferences of any Kim! have prison with any | expedient aue competent for Congress fo pro- of these Republica, wlanuy expressed with cordiMity and earnestnes Aud, on the other band, their with the ‘are’ ‘Gon vice that @ limiwd amount of some fucure leone of public recurithes might be held by any bona Ade pur cluer, exempt from tagation and trom seizuie for debt, Under such restriotiows and Limitation as might be necessary 0 guard against gun Of FO ipo! te privilege, This would enable prident persons to res naide a I} wunuity against @ poartvie day of want, Privileges like these would render Die Posredsion ot much ecurives, With amount jimited, nes cosirable toevery person of “nail means who might be able to aytnpathios Uniasd Brats are con. The claim arising from the selzuse of the briv Macedonian in 1o2) hus been paid in full by the Goverument of Chik. Civil war continues in the Bpauieh part of San Domingo, apparently withous prospect of an early close Oferal correspondence las beeu trecly opened with Liberia aud it oeoun a lossing view of soclaland political prog @ that irgo of the able, Tb taay expected w derive new vigor | save enough for the purpose, The creat advantage of from Aimerican intluence, nproved by the mspid due | citizens being creditoreaa well as debwra, with rele- appearance of slavery in ihe United Staves, [| tion tothe public debt, is obvious, Men igadfly per- qoiicit your wuthority to furnivh to the | ceive that they canzes be much oppressed by a debs Ropublic, = @ fun-boas at A moderate cost, | which they owe to themaaslyos, The public debt on the to bo reimburmed to the United states by | Let day of July inst, although somewbut exceeding the instalments. Buch a veweel in needed for the eatery of | estimate of the Secretary of the Trew#ury made to Con- that State againat the native airican raeca, and in Li. berian hands it would be more effective io arreting the Africon slave trade than a squadron ip our bande Tho. possession of the least organized naval force would stimulate ® cenerous ambition th the Republic, and the confidence witich we should mauites: by fur- nahing it, would win forbearance amd favor towards the Colony from: all civilized aations at Of Ina Hoasiou, tudle ehort vof thatoricer made in the preceding December, aw the probable amount at Lie begins bing of this year, by the pum of $8,996,.09,85 fina inot exhibits a sasiefactory condition and conduct of the opermtious of tue Jieasury. Ibe National bank- tug s) stem proves to lw acceptabie to copitalists and : ft the people, On the 26h day of November The propomed — overiaad — telesraph between | 5 ‘ fanal Banks had eon” organised a Aworica aud gharope, by thew Motrin vonidersble numer of which were co sions pre anatie Russe, witch ee me tow vate bank. Changes (rou the State avetem to y vl a mee 101 ~ hen } a p it ki : Meighan uadee “Vay taroee a Ae bOOn the Nation stan) wre rapidly taking place, and it ss hoped thas very soon there will be an the United Dtaiwe bo banks of issue not authorized by Congress, snd pe bank nove cireviation Hot recured by the gov- e:ument, That the government and the people wili ceive general benetis trow Une chage in the baukiy tysteme of the country cay hardly be questioned, wem will ¢ by au aneoctation of American cisizeus, with tt cordial good will and support we weil uw of Wiis govern. ment as ot thowe of Great Britain aud Kussia, Ae surances have ven tecuived frou most of Lae South American States of their high eppreciation of the or - terprize and their readiness to co-operate in cone naLiouMl — &, olab! structing lines tributary to that workdencireiiug poruane bt Inhuence in support of the 4 communlestion, fF learn with much atitaction and protect the people againet loses in the use this the noble desivu of @ telegrapaule coumuni- money, Whether or not any mrther logis- cation between the Eastern coat of Amecics | wivisable for the suppression of State bapk and Great lar anes a ronowed with fuil | it will be tor Congress \o dewnnine, lt meee ea penouen on nooor pl hie: § } qu cle: * 18 7 " > M a oped thet with the iy pent, Thus | quite clear ghet the Trensusy cannot be eatietucto in iw return of domvstie peace (he county will be able to resume with cocey and advantaye her former high carecr of « and civiisadon, Our very popular nud ex represeutasive in beypt died ia April last plomsant Mtereation wlich arose between the rary incumbesto. the office and the Gover) the Pacha, rosuited to a conducted “bled the Goverment ean exercise a wirathing powes over the bauk uote circulation of the si | counny rejort of the Secretary of War, and the ae- docuinents will cetail the campaens of in the neld since the dare of the lugi ane Wi, ANG lO Lie operations of the roverul An i nual w pepension of ly.ercouse, | @dinawirative bureaux of phe or Se t The evil was promptly corrected on the arrival cc the | ducike the last sear, It will alan eect tn rn snccesor in the consulate, aud our relitions with | urey Ceeimed essen vial for the nati fence, and pis Bs well ae OOF 1elusiuns With ihe Lurbary Pons | to necg u yy the recy 1 ry ti erg ace entireis sviletectory, The reteition which | The reports ot the Nuvy presenta line #0 long been aunt in Cl lio, hoe hee con nehes oly CAlude ol the attaue supprowed, with the cowperutiay good oi) it be bwervice, It 1s 0 Government and of he ofber Western commercial ol '¢ “| r Hines, Ihe fudieta! consular eatavi nO priee, 10 Bur come veTy citiemst ai oberous aod 4 gisiative requisition to adaptit Wo the external our commerce, and to the more intimate tercourre which ha: been insiituted with the cove meant aid poopie or that vast empire, China | ¢ to be accepung with hearty, good will the conve ution. phlawe whieh regulare commerce and social laters | course among the weatem nutieok, Owiug w the | uilar ditastion of Japan and the anamoious for, | rytucn that & bw MM euch Vat } been or oulEe in ro briet a period | With 40 much eliciency and 5 q e PxX- hibit of the navy, incliding veenel Sate ener, tion, on the Ist of lecember, i564, shows s total of OTL veasei*, carrying 4,610 suns and 51,000 tone; be- lus Gh wejual tucreape duitug che year over and shove il losses by shipwrees or iu bertle of 8 vessels, 167 euns and d2427 tous. ihe total number of men as ; Usls tuwe in (he naval service, including oicers, is of ite governue ab the action of that empi about O10, Thee have beea captured by the fori tieaty stipulations ie inconstant aud o; navy during the year Sud vessels, the cious, Novertholom, good progress has been elected | whole number of naval captuies since houttiities com- by the Wesseru powom woving with enltr hteced + | OU vd conducted meuced, is 1,379, of which 2oT ure steamers, Tbe concert, Our own pocuaiary chums have beon allovod | grow proceeds urising from the aule of condemned or % in coum setdemont aud the fu- | 48 property, thus tar ieporved, wows WO a 14,396,- os) bos been m-opeped to commerce, | 260 ol, A large amount of such proceeds is stil wi. ore is reason also to believe that these proceodiugs | der adjudication, and yet wo be reported. The toul have increased reiher Shan dimminiahyu (he Giendship | capenditure of Novy Departiuent, af every des of bapen 10 United Staies, Tis tore beos alse Te eroeanstnes Gevanns ‘The porta of Norfolk, ud Ponseools | tas have boon called tuto cxusieace ina We ath rypoi tions haa | 1861, to the 1st of November, 1864 are #235,- +,262 36, Your tavorable cousideration is invited tothe various recommendations of the Secretary ot the Navy, especiaily iu regard 4) a Navy Yard gaitable estaviirhment for the construction and re- r of iron veseels, and the rauschinery and ature our shi) to which reference was made in my annual message, Your attention is also invited to the views oxpressed in the report in relation to the lerielation of Con reas, at ite inet sena.on, In respect to prizos enptured on our iniand waters. I cordially concur 10 the re jons of the Secretary as to the propriety of mirai in o reating the pew rank of Vice-Ad- val service, ntiou is lavited to the report of the Poet- i Generu tor ade allied qecount.ot the operations Hancral condition of the Post Office Department. postal revenues for the year ending June 30, amounted fo $1%405.055 75, and the expendi- the excess of expenditures lhe views preeented eubject of spectal t tures 1) S1L6b,756 Zo over receipia being by the Portinaste: Gen grants 44 the Government In ald of the establishment of new Ines of Ocean Mail Steamshipa, and the poliey he recommends ior the development of increased commercial intercourse with adjacent and neichber- jug countries should receive the caveful cousicecation of Congress, eot noteworthy interest that the steady expin- sion of population, provement and covernmnental inatitutions over the new and unoccupied portions of our country, have scarcely been chee impeded or destroyed, which, at firet giance would feem to have aleorbed alr ost the ensure enercive of the pation, Lhe Organization and adm f the State of Nevada has teen completed tn conformity with law, aod thas our excellent ayatem is firmly established in the mountains, which once seemed a barren and uninhabitable waste between the Atiantic States and those which have grown op on the come ot the Pacifie Ocean, ‘The Tecritorice of the Union are reneraily in a cou- dition of prosperity and rapid growth, Idaho and Montana, by reaeon of their great distance and the in- terruption of communtestion with them by Indiaa hos tilities, have been only partia.ly organized; but it ia tuderetood that these difficulties are about to disap- pear, which will permit thet: governments, like thoee of the other, xo into epecdy and full operation, As intimately connected with and promotive of this ma- terial grow th ot (ae nation, I ask the attention of Cou- eiew w the valuable information and linportant re. commendations sting to the public lands, Indian ailairs, the Pacific railroads, and maneral discoveries staineiin ihe teportot the secretary of the Int rior, which is he ith tranamitved i also Cuibraces t ubjecta of py . Pensions ead other topics of pubic iateress pertaining to bia department. The quantity of publie land diepoeeu of duitng the five quarter ending on the Suth of Sewember last, was 4,221,042 acres, of which 1.6550i4 serve were entered uouer the Hoine- sread le Phe remainger wae located with militar pd WaiTan's agiicuisurel scrip, certified to St 4 for cash, ‘The cosh re o wae $1,019,146, areudog J $1G,UT7 95 trom sncome from sale SO, D864, wax gu7s, ceived Guring the preceding year, the giecate humnverot meres wurvey et duiiug the year has been equal to the « an tity disposed of, and th is open to aetuement alout 154,000,000 seres of surveyed isnd The great ente:price of connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific States by railways und telexreph lines has been entered upon with @ vigor that gives sasurauce of success botwithetanding the euburrassiueats arising tron the p.evalllig: hieh p of materials wud labor, The ioute of the main line of the roud hus beeu definitely located for one bundrea tiles weetward trow the initial poime at Omabe City, Nebraska, and a preliminary iocation of the Pa- cific Rairoad of Calitor nia has been made trom Sucta- Mon'o eastward to the great beud of Mucke: River iu Devraska, Nuwerous discoveries of goid, sliver and Cinneber mines bave been added to the ny lee toio.e known; and the country occupied by the Sierm, Nevada, aud Rocky Mountalue and the subordinate ranges now tecine with enterprising labor, which 16 richiy remunerative, Lt is Leleved that the pro- ducta of the minesot precious metals in that recion has, during the year, reached, if pot excecded, giu,- WH, ia walue, It was recommended mm my last anoual Message thas our iodian system be remodelled, Congress at ite Laet ee@rion, scting upou the recommendation, did provide for reoryanizing the eystein im California, and it ie beliewed that under the preseot orgauszation the managemeut of the Indiaus there will be attenced with rewouable succe Much jet retualus to be cone to provide for tl .opes government of the In. diaua in other parts of the country to rcuder it recuie for the odvanciug s@ttler and to provide for the welfare of the iudian, fhe reeretary veiterates bie recom. mendations, and to ther the aitention of Congruce is tns.ted tie Liberal provisions made by Congress for paying pensions to invalid soidiers and eallors ot the Republic, aod to the widows and orphans and dependant mo- there of those who bave fallen in battle or died of dls- ewe contracted, or of wounds received, in the servieo of their couutry have been diligently admiiuiete red. There have veen added to the Pension Kolls dung the your endiug the suth day of June last the nates of 16,77y invalid soldiers and of 271 disabled seaioun, h present number of army invalid pens ers 2 and of uayy juvalid pensioners 414 widows, orphans and inothers “Z,)¥5 have t on the Army Veusion Kolla aud 245 0: Holle, ‘The pre this clins ie 25,450, @ud of Navy pensiouers iJ, the beginning of the year the Dumber ot revolution. ary pensioners was 1440, Ouly twelve of them wero soulicre, Of whom seven have eince died. The re- der are those who uncer the law ioceive p because of iviationship to revolutionary voids ending the Suth of June, 1864, ¢4,- 64,016,929 hi paid to pensioners of ail clance Leheeiiul ud to your continued patrons: the benevolent insututions of the lietrict of Colum- bin which have hitherto been established or fostered by Congress, and reepecttully reir tor intorma! copcerning tiem, ane in relation to the Washing Aqueauct, the Cap.toland other iatters of loewl m- terest to the report of the Ss cretary, i Acsiculural Departicent, pnder the suporvie- fou ot ite, ue and feithtul nead, in - tel ito the great aud vital interest wus created to savance, tis peculiarly the 2’vo- é¢ Department, In which they teel more directly convened thiana in any other, I commend it w the continued at eotion aud fostering care of Congied, The warcoutuues, Sluce the lastannual message rtant Lines and poutious then cecupied by Oo meiutained, and our armies y iivecod. thus hherating the regious 1eur, 50 that Missourl, Kentucky, ‘lou- the Navy ut number of Army pensionem of At and parte of other Stet have egain i reusonwbly fair crop. The moat re- Mmeikable texture in the wmuitary operations of the yeur is General Sherman's attempted march of %V0 mike directly through an iusurgent re- wion, it tends to show a great inciease of our selative strength that opr Generai-in-Chiet should tors abi sutront, and hold in check, every active flores of the enemy, and yet to detail a well-appointed larce artay to move on such an expedition, ihe re. sult not yet being Known,comsecture ip regard to it is bere indulked Important movements have also ceeurted auring the year to effect the moulding of go- ewwty tor durability in the Liuson ; although short of complete succers, It ig muuch ip the right direction, that twoive thousand citizens in oach of the states ot Arkansas aud Louidana, Lave organized loyal sta Governments with [ree coustitations, and are earn- esuly mryeeling to maintain and administer them, The moveiney¢ in the same direction more exten- sive though less do d5ile, in Missouri, Keutucky and ‘Teunersne, etiould net be overior But Maryland preswenlo the example of complete auccess, Muryland wesecure to Liberty and (pion tor ali ths fature, The geniusot robeiion will no more claim Maryland. Like wuother toul epirt being driven out. it may peck Co tear he, but itwill woo her no more At the Last session ot Congress a proposed amend meut of the Conetitution abolishing slavery through- out the lnited States, posed the Senate, Wut failed tur Inck of toe uislte = twor thirds vote in tuo Honae of Rep.esentatives, Although the present is the same Conv: ess, and pearly the eave members, and without question- ing the wisdom or patriotiem of those who etood in op- pocition, | venture w recommend the recousiderstoa and passage Of the 1aeasure ab the present sersion. Of course, the abstract question is not changed, but an inwrvening election #howe, almort certainly,that the neat Copgress will pase the measure, it this does not. Hence, there te only & question of time as to when the proposed amendment will go to the States for their notion, and as it ip to go, at all events, Miny we Dot agree that the sooner the better, It is pot elaimed that the viection has upposed 9 duty on menibers to change their Views, or their votes, apy further than ee an additional element to be considered, Their Judeuent may be attected by it, Itis the voice of the ley mow for the ret time heard upon question, In @ pee national Cree like ours, unanimity of action among thor rocking @ coumou end is very desirable, al- moet indispensable, and t no approach to euch uaaniudty is attainable, unless some deference ehall be paid to the will of the majority, elmply because it ie the willofthe mogerity. Lathh @ the common end is the quatntaiuance of the Lniea, and among the mmcahe to seeute that end, sach will, through the elec: tion, we most ene ty declared in favor of sach Conetl- tutiond ameaunent fe most redable indicanon of ble purpose in this cougtry is derived through our popular eet Judelog by the recent canvass and ite ioaulte, the purpose of the peopie, within the loyal phaioy to Nuntain che fotegrity of the Union was ever more drm nor more nearly unaniinous than now. ‘liv extraordinary calmness and good order with which the millions of voters met end mingled at the polls vive atrone aesurance of this, Not onl; thoee who supported the * Union ticket" (so led), but eo vceat Lanjoriuty of the opposing party also muy he fairy claimed to envertaiu aod wo be actuated by the same purpore, It ie an unsneworabie argument to this etlect that no candidate tor an, otice whatever, hish or low, has ventured w pe yotee on the avownl that he wae for giv! up the Union, There have been much impugning of motives aud much heated controversy as w tne proper moans and best mode of advancing the Union cause, but in the ciptinet leue of Calan ot ne Ui pa ine politi- clans have wo their instinet! ge that iesishorag es value to the thes whe we pp ant Of purpose, the election has been of vast Datioval cause, The election har exhitited fact not lee yeluabie to be known—the fac’ do not approach exhaustion 1: most it ranch of (be national resoure yhile it i# melancholy to tefl , filled so many graves and carried imourning to 60 many hearts, it 1* some relief to know that, compared with the surviving, the fallen have been so few, While Corps, and Divisions, aud Brigades, sod Reriments have fo-med and fought and dwindied and fone out of Cxirtence, a great majority of the mea who componed t e ttl living. The «ume le true of the Naval ‘ The eleetion retarne prove this, So many vor could not else be lound, ibe Staves teeularly ho! both now and four years avo, to wit: a, Connecticut, Deanare, Ull+ noly Indiana, iowa, Keatucky, Maine, Maryland, Mosreachueetta, Michivan, Minnesota Miesourl, New liampebire, New Jerer, New York, Ohio, Orerony nua ivania, Khode lsiant, Vermont Weet Virgiule ieeonein, cast JUS 01L votes now, seaiget UST 222 cast then, showing au Ave reeate How Of 3.~ Y52011, to which is to t ided, 84,762, cast now 10 the new States of Kaness and Nevada, which states dic my ein 18. thus awelliog the agerecate 1 and the net increase ductne the three and shalt ;eareof wartO 14.751, A table te appended shoving particuiara, ‘lo this gain sould be aided the uumber of ail soldiers in the teid fom Masnehur- Khote [sland New Jersey, Velaware, Indiana, na and Calitornia, who, by the iawe of those could not vow away from their homes, and which number cannot be jess than 9u00, Nor yet ia thie all, dhe numl in organiz tervitories is tripie bow to what it was four years ago— while thonaands, white and biseck, join us a4 the ma- tional arte press back the nsureent lines. So much te shown affirmatively aud negatively by the election, It ie not material to inquie how the increawe hae been proaueed, or to ehow that it would have heen reater but for the war, which ia probaviy true, the {riportant fact remaina cemorstrated that we have mow men now than we had when the war teen; that se are not exhausted wor in pioe of eataus- tion ; that we are gaining etrengis, ane may ue need be, wnintain the contest indefinitely, rie as tO meno, Material resource? are now hicie comp ete an abundant than ever, Phe national re-our en Uieds are unexhausted, aud, a* we believe, inexluetibio, The public parpere to re- dish aod maintain the hational cuchority {s unehanged, aud, aa we believe, unchangeable, The manuer ot couqnuing the effort alie to be chosen, m careful consideration of all the evidence ne- wi bie, weme tO .@ the ) @tlelupt at nezotintion with the josurceut leacer could seeult in any good, He would accept of nothing ehort of the eeveranee of the Union, His declarations to thie effect are explicit andott sepeaied, He does not atleupe ty Goceive us, Hie affords us no excuse te deceive ourrelves, Wo ennnot vouutarily yield it betyeen hia end us, The issue is Alu It te an irene which can only let ided by Vie~ te li we yled we the South. erm f geen sul Aa ai wi t woald be the vict 1 OW = ing war. What te true, hoy of him who heads the insurcent cause, as Hot Lecestarily true of those who folew, Althouxh be cannot ie-secept the Colon, they can, Bowe them we know siready desire peace and te-union. The number of such may in- cieaec. Lhey can atany moment have p-nce simply by laying down the me and subtuiiting W the National authority sr the Constitution, <Aiter loing #0, the Government cou boy if it would, maintain war maluet them, The loyal peopie would not #ustain or aliow it, If ques: tiot# should reanain, we would adjust them by the peaceius iweane of ie¢isiatiou, couterence, courts and votes, Operating ouly in Constituliema: aud lawful channels some certain, and other posable, questions are aud would be Le; oud the Raecutive power w ad- juet, aa, for instance, the adimise on of maeuberme 2 ‘Congress, and whatever wigit sequiie the appropria- tion of mone The haecuave power iteelf would be greatly diminished by the cea lon of actual war, Vaidous on Ot sor ure, however, would euill be within Executive coutrol in what epirit aad temper thigcontiod would be exercised can be fairly Judged of by the past. A yenr ago general pardou and amnesty Npon specitied terme were offered to ail ex- cept certain designated ciasees, hod it wae as the paiue time made known that the excepted classes were stul within contemplation of sp cia clemeucy, During the year tony availed thémselves of the wenerel provision and many wore would, only that the eigus ot bud faith iu seowe ied to such precautionary hemures ae rendeced the pinetical process lees easy anu ceruin, UVuriuy the saice tune wes epecial pare dons have been granted io individuals o1 excep @ ches and no volunsary eppiicauion Lee Leen Geuwd, jius practically the dou. las Leem for a iull year cpen to all, except such as were not in condition to tuake tree choice, that is ench #4 were in custody or under couetraint, It isetulsoopen to all, but the time muy come, probably will come, when publie duty shail cemand thet it be closed and that ia Ueu more tigovour incasures than heretofore shall bx in presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the National authority ou (he part of (he insurgents as the only indespensabie condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, | retract nothing heretoiore eaid as to 6! . Liepeat the declarations made wo year ago, t hile | remain in my pre- out position I shail not attempt to retruct or modify the b tion Proclamation, Nor euull I return to slavery any person who ts tree by the terme of that Proclamation, or by any ot the ucteol Congress, 1 the people should, by whatever mode or tavans, make it_u Executive auty to re-enmave such persons, an- other, and pot J, taust be their instrument to pertorm it, In etating a single condition of perce, 1 mean sim. ply that the war will cease ou the part ot the Govern. ment, whenever itsball Lave cemed on the part of those who began it, (Siguea) ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Table Showing the Voto for President, 1504, ¥i,su0® 116,141 150) eee AO 216 VivIs Kentucky .... Maiue Maryland P Massacliurette Michigan Minnesota Miraours New thay New Jeisey New Lok Ohio Uieson +e Fouusylyania Khose Islwud.. Vermont ‘ Weat Virginia hue Wisconsin. - Total. ..ccoee Kansas... ... Devuda....L sesecesere LUyO2S A 015,773 To! * *Noarly, t Estimated. The tranamission of the President's Message war commenced over the American Telegraph Company's Wires at 1.27, aud was finished at 2:25 P.M, Secretary of the Navy. Fourth Annual Keport, The annual report of the Secretary of the Navy opens with « review of the labore of the Department in organizing @ navy, from the commencement of the war, Io six weeks after Mr, Welles’ assumption of the duties of his Department, he was called upon to enforce a vigorous blockade of three thousand five bondred miles of our comst--a task which was declared impracticable by the highest European authorities, We had oteeble navy reduced to the lowest peace establishment, composed chietly of ealliag veesuke— most ot them dismanuel or scattered on foreign ta. tious, Oly two hundred seamen were evauabie as ali the naval stations and receiving ships, Many off. cere were demoralized or had deserted, Without men, ships, ordnance or other resources, it devolved upon the Departinent to enforce the mot extenaive blockade ever undertaken, ‘lle measures adopted caused an immense Davy to epring nw existence te restore the ational authorty st various polit An expedition under Admiral Stringham wae & anized, aud sailed trom Hampton Koads in Augus aL which remulied in the capture of Hattesas, am Admiral Dupou.'’s vietory at Voit Royal, secured: commodious harbor for the Bouth Ausuue Squadro On the lower Mississippi Adioiral Farragut dost open the gates of the passage of New Orleans, w restored to the Union the commercial mewopolis the South, These three expeditious, two of them tt larvest ever undertaken upon our continent we oreanized dunne the fist year of the war, Bata operations on the sea comet did uo, aloue aticet t! superiority of our navy, On the iniwnd warere Fort Heniy, Donelson, Shilo, Vicksburg, Port Mu gon Aud Bt every af ant pace on the Mussiasipy Cumberland, Leanesece and other rivers the pa’ periormea the most rplondid serviess, A tleet of mo than & hnnared veesels wae put ashore op the and most of them are pow petioling the Under the policy of the Lepartwent never y of the biockade, bo large equ: tons were nsintsined at foreign stations, and am cruisers wore detmled to protect our commer abroad, The eft of the Department were di aet wo eeouring harbors at nearly eyui-aistant potpe secure crusting grounds jor our #Gips, aud for dep of supplies and repairs, without compeéliiug thera return to the North, Under tuis eysvem all the poy were closed excep Wilinington, which pregentioa pe culiar ditheuities, ‘Lhe two aia entrances are ie \ Lies apart, and these eubsiviaed ute others, eacs which permitted ingress and @¢ 1688 to tue rebel cr ere. ‘Lhe water shows ually tO Ube ebore Line, isotated vorat Kive