15V inEO. W. BOWMAN. SEW SERIES. PRESIDE**!"* MESSAGE. pjlow-CHizens of the Senate unit House of Representatives: The Constitution of the Untied Stales pro xies that (\ingress shall asserhtde annually on t j',e first Monday o( i)-c., and it has hrrett usual l'- the President not to make coirununicatiofis ,| -i public character to tin- Senate arid House I R,j, r r-ntativr> until ail vised ol their rearfi st,, receive it. I have deferred to this mage < nlii the close of the first month ol the session, p a t in v con victoos of duty will not permit long r to postpone the discharge of the obligation HiiuineJ t'V ( lte Constitution upon the President u-jve In the Congress information! of the state I the In ion, and recommend to their consider ation sucti measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.' , 1 It is matter of congratulation trial the Repub lic ,* tranquilly advancing in a career of pros perity and peace. iOKKIOS RELATION'S —C'EXTiUI. AMERICA. Whilst relations of amity continue to exist .between the United States in all foreign powers, v-ith some of them grave questions are depend ing which may require the consideration of Con^re?--. Ofsuch questions, the most imfmrtant is that which has arisen out of the negotiations with (heat Britain in reference to Central America. Pv t-h* 4 conventions concluded between the two governments on the 19th of April, 18f)0, loth 'partiescovenanted that "neither will ever" '•nccupv, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion ovei Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America." It was the imdouh-ted understanding of the United States, making this treaty, that all the j,resent States of the former republic of Cential America, and the entire territory of each, would henceforth enjoy complete im'-pendence; arid that both contracting parlies, engaged equally, and to tiie same extent, for the present and for the future, that if either of them had any claim to right in Central America, -uch claim, and all uonipatioii or v under it, were unreserv edly relinquished hv the stipulations ot the con vention : and that no dominion was thereafter 10 be eyeicised or assumed in any part of Cen tral America, by great Britain or the United States. This Government consented to restrictions in regard to a region ot country, wherein we had specific and peculiar interests, only upon the conviction that the like restrictions were in the same sense obligatory on Great Britain. But forthig understanding of the force and effect ot the Convention, it would have been cun llurfed hfus. " 111 * ' ** So dear was this understanding on the part of Ihe United States, that in ciirrespundence con |i mporaneouß w it St the ratification ol the conven tion, it was distinctly* expre-sed. that the mutual covenants of non occupation were not intended in apply to the British establishment at the Ba il?.''. This qualification is to be ascribed to the fact that, in virtue of successive treaties with previous sovereign's ol the country. Great Bri tain tiad nbtaim-d a concession of I tie right to cut mahogany or dve-woods at the Baliz*, but with positive exclusion of all domain or sovereignty: ami thus it confirms the natural construction and understood import of the tr-aty as to all the fst of the region to which tin* stipulations ap plied. It, however, became apparai t, at an early day after entering upon the discharge of my present functions, that Great Bri'ain still con tinue in the exercise or assertion of large au thority in alt that part of Central America com monly called the Mosquito Coast, and covering th* l entire length of the Stateol Nicaragua, and a part ol Costa Jiica: that she regarded the Ba hze as her absolute domain, and was gradually extending its limits at the expense of the State "I Honduras: and that she had formally coioniz e! .r considerable insular group, know n as the lov Islands, and belonging of light to that State. All these facts or pretensions ofGreot Britain, ' ''lug contrary to the rights of the States of Cen tal America, and to the manifest tenor of sti pulations with the Gmted States as understood • v this government, have been made the subject <•! negotiation through the American Minister oi London. 1 transmit herewith the instructions to him on the snhp-ct, and the correspondence -tWeen him and the British Secretary on Fur **'Sn Affairs, hv which you will perceive that t-ie two governments differ widely and irrecon c'leably as to the construction of the conven j'on, and its efiect on their respective relations ' v> * ntral America. Great Britain so construes the convention, to maintain all her previous pretensions un cnang.'d over Itie Mosquito coast and in di(br '"t partsof Central America. Th ese pretensions, •'* to the Mosquito coast, are founded on the a •''niption of political relations between Great hotain and the remnant of Indians on that coast, entered into at a time when the country was a c ,; onial possession of Spain. It cannot be suc cessfully controverted that by the public law of t-'iropeand America, no possible act of such In 'uansor their predecessors could confer on Great bilain any political rights. Great Britain does not allege the assent of pain as (be origin of her claims on the Mos 'i ut i coast. She has, on (tie contrary, hv re hired a rid expressive treaties renounced anil " '"'Quished all pretensions of tier own, recog '■f d the full and sovereign rights of Spain in Uiusl unequivocal terms. Yet these preten- NSi> " itliout solid foundation in the hegin and thug repeatedly* abjured, w ere, at a Priori revived by Great Britain against antral American States, the legitimate suc '(> to all the ancient jurisdiction of Spain in "d reffjon. They were first applied only to *inetl part of the coast of Nicaragua, they ar e now reasserted to this extent not h wit list and '"C engagements to the Gnited States. •• Hie eastern coast of Nicaragua 'tire! Costa Rica, tlie interference of Great Britain, though offered at one time in the form of Military oc cupation of the Port ol San Juan del Norte, then in the peaceful [Kjssession ol the appropriate authorities of ttie Central American States, is now presented bv her as the rightful exercise of a protectorship over the Mosquito tribe ol Indi ans. But the establishment at the Balize, now reaching far beyond its treaty limits into the Stale of Honduras, and that of the Bay is lands, appertaining of right to the same state, are as distinctly colonial governments as that of Jamaica or Canada, and therefore contrary to the Verv-letter, as Weil as to the spirit of the convention with the United Slates, as it was at the time of ratification, and now is understood by this government. Tlie interpretation which the British govern ment, thus in assertion and act, persists in ascrib ing to the convention, entirely changes its char acter. While it holds us to our obligations, it in a great measure releases Great Britain In nt those which constituted the consideration ol this government for entering into the convention.— It is impossible, in my judgment, for the { nit.-d States to acijniesce in such a construction of the respectice relations of" the two governments to Central America-. To a renewed call hv this government upon. Great Britain, to abide hv, and carry into effect the stipul rt ions of the con vent iim, accord ing to il s obvious import, by withdrawing Ironi the possession or colonization of portions ot tlie Cen tral American States of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the British government has at length replied, affirming that the operation of the treaty is prospective on'v, and did not re quire Gicat Britain to abandon or ronpfact any possessions held hv her in Central America, at the date of its conclusion. This reply substitutes a partial issue, in ttie place of the general one presented by ihe L niled States. The British government passes over the question of the rights of Great Britain, real or supposed, in Central America, and as sumes that she had sucli rightsal the dale ofthe treaty, and that those rights comprehended Hie protectorship of the Mosquito Indians, the ex tended jurisdiction and limits of the Balize, and the colonv of the Bay 1-iand, and thereupon proceed# i v impl notion to infer, that, i! the stipulations of the treaty be merely future in etiect, Great Britain max* st• 11 continue to hold the contested portions of Central America.— The Gniied S(<;t-s cannot ailinit either the in ference or the premises. We steadily* deny, that, nt the date of the treat v, Great Britain find any possessions there, other than the limited and peculiar establishment at the Ilalize, arid maintain that, if she had any, they were sur rainerwl by toe Convention. The government recognizing the obligations of tin* treaty, has d* sired to see it excepted in both parties, and in the discussion, therefore, has not looked to rights, which we might assert, independent Iv of the treaty, m consideration ol our geographical position and ot other circum stances, which create for us relations to ttie Central American Stales, different from those of anv government of Europe. The British goveiinvent, in its communica tion, although well knowing tin* views of the United States, still declares that it sees no rea son why a conciliatory spirit rr.av not enable ttie two governments to overcome all obstacles to a satisfactory adjustment of the subject. Assured of ihe correctness o} the construct ion of ttie treaty constantly adtn-red to by this gov ernment, and r solved to insist on the rights of the Gnited States, yet actuated also I v the same desire which is avowed bv the British govern ment. to r move all causes ol misunderstanding between two nations associated hv so many ties of interest and kindred, it has appeared to me proper riot to consider an amicable s dut i >n hope less T here is, however, reason to apprehend that, with Great Biitain in tlie actual occupation ol the disputed territories and the treaty therefore, practically mill, so far as regards our rights, this international difficulty cannot long remain undetermined, w it bout involv ing in serious dan ger the friendly relations, which it is the in terest as well as the dutv of both countries to cherish and preserve. It will afford me sincere gratification, if future efforts shall result in the success, anticipated heretofore with more confi dence than the aspect of the case permits rue now to entertain. iiEcm itmi:xt. One other subjert <<l discussion between the Gnited States and Great Britain has grown out of tin- attempt, which the exigencies of the war in which she is engaged with Russia induced her to make, to draw recruits from the United States. It is (be traditional and settled policy of the United States to maintain impartial nentialiiy during the wars which from time to time, occur among the great powers of the world. Per forming all the duties of neutrality towards the respective Iv-ligerent States, we may reasonably expect them not to interfere with our law (til enjoyment of its hem-fits. Notwithstanding the existence of'such hostilities, our citizens retain the individual rigid to continue all their accus tomed pursuits, by land or by sea, at home or abroad, subject only to such restrictions in tliis relation as the laws of war, the usage of nations, or special tieaties may impose ; and it is our sovereign right that our territory and jurisdic tion shall not he imaded bv* either of the belig erent parties, for the transit ol tli"ir armies, the operations of their fleets, ttie lew of troops for th'ir service, the fitting out of cruisers by or a gainst either, or anv other act or incident of war. And these undeniable rights ol neutrali ty, individual and national, the United States vv ill, under no circumstances, surrender. In pursuance of this policy, the laws of the United States do not forbid their citizens to sell to either of the beligerent powers articles, con traband ol war, or to take munitions of war or soldiers on board their private ships for trans portation, and although, iti so doing, Ihe indi- vidual citi ven e\jioses his property or person tot some ot the hazards ot war, his acts do not in- ; volve any breach of national neutrality, nor ol ! themselves implicate the government. Thus, ; during the progress of the present war in Eu-I rope, our ( iriz-ns have, without national regpon- j silnlily therefore, sold gunpowder and arms to' all buyers, regardless of the destination of those j articles. Our merchant men have been, and \ >l ill continue to h" largely employed by Great: Britain and France, in transporting troops, pro- ! v isions, and munitions of war to the principal I s-at ol military operations, and in bringing home their sick anit wounded soldiers, lint such use of I our mercantile mai yte is not interdicted either ; bv the international, or by our municipal Taw, ' and therefore does not campiornit our neutral : relations with Russia. But our municipal law, in accordance with the law of nations, peremptmily forbids, not only foreigners, but our own citizens, to fit out, I within tin' limits oi the United Slates, a vessel to commit hostilities against anv State with which ih-' United States are at p-ace, or to in crease tim force of any foreign armed vessel intended for such hostilities against a friendly ; State. Whatever concern may have been felt by g 'either of the belligerent powers lest private | * armed cruisers, or other vessels, in the ser- l vice of one, might he fitted our in the ports nl this country to depredate on the property of ttie other, all ,siich fi-urs have proved to he utterly groundless. Our citizens have been withheld from any such act or purpose by good liiith, and by respect tor the law. While the laws of the Union are thus per emptory in their prohibition ot the equipment or armament of belligerent cruisers in our ports. : tliev provide not absolutely that no person ' shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the j' 1 Toted States, enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United j Srates with intent to he enlisted wr entered, in . 1 the service of anv foreign State, either as i) so!#, dier, or as a marine or seaman on board al ttay l vessel of war, lotter of n.arque, or Arid these enactments are aUo in stnet conTofoN 1 1 itv wuli the law of nations, which declares. j< that no state has the l ight to laise troops ior ,' land or sea service in another state without its*' consent, and that whether forbidden by the mu nicipal law or not, the very attempt to do it, without such consent, is an attack on the na- • tional sovereignty. Such being the public, righja ant! the munici- J pal law ot trie United Slates, no solicitude on 1 the subject was entertained by ibis government, 1 w hen, a year since, the ikutoh Parliament pass-ij ed an act to provide iov> the enlistment ot ior-f eiguers in the military serv ice qi Bi itahf. >' Nothing on the faro if the a if, or'TTi rft'f history, indicated that the British government propos-'J to attempt recruitment in the I uited States : nor did it ever give intimation i ! such intention to this government. It was matter ot surpi ise, therefore, to rind, subsequent Iv. that tlie engagement ol persons within the I riiied States to proceed to Halifax, in the jh itisji pro vince ol Nova Scot ia, and there enlist in ,the j service id Gieat Britain, via-' going on i\i:i siveiy, with little or no disguise. Ordinary le gal steps were immediately taken to arrest and punish |'nities concerned, and so put an end to acts infringing *ite municipal law and deroga tory to our sovereignty. J\h anvviiile suitable representations on the subject were addressed! to Biitish Government. Thereupon it became known, by the admis sion of the British government itself, that the attempt to draw recruits from this country or iginated with it, or at lea.-t had its approval and sanction ; hut it aNo appealed that tin* pub lic agents engaged in it had "stringent instruc tions" not to violate the municipal law of the I Noted States. ft is ihliicuit to understand how it should have been supposed that troops could tie raised here Pv Great Britain, without violation ot the mvinici; a I law. The unmisfakenble object of It"- law vv as to prevent every such net, which, it performed, must be either in violation ol the law, or in studied evasion of it ; and in either alternative, the act done would h alike injuri ous to the sovereignty of the United States. In the meantime, the matter acquired addi tional importance, hv their recruitments in the. United States not being discontinued, and the disclosure of the fact that they were prosecuted j upon a systematic plan devised by otiicial au ' tfioritv : that recruiting rendezvous had been j opened in our principal cities, and dejrols for j the reception ot recruits established on our Iron- 1 tier: and the whole business conducted under; the supervision and bv ihe regular co-operation , of' British officers, civil and military, some in tlm North American provinces, and some in the j United States. The complicity ot those officers in an undertaking, which could only be accom- , plislied by defying our law s, throwing sus picion over our attitude of neutrality, and dis regarding our territorial lights, is conclusively proved by the evidence elicited on the trial ot such oft heir agents as have been apprehended and convicted. Son eol the olfirer.s thus irnpli cated are of high otiicial position and many of them beyond our jurisdiction, so that leira! pro ceedings could not reach the source of the mis chief. These considerations, and the fact that the; cause of complaint vvas not a mere casual occur rence, hot a deliberate design, entered upon with lull knowledge ofour laws and national policy, and conducted by responsible public functionaries, impelled me to present the case , to the British government, in order to secure not only a cessation of the wrong but its repara tion. The subject is still under discussion, the result of which will be communicated to you in due time. IIRITISII AMERICAN KEf-ATIOXS. I repeat the recommendation submitted to tlie. last Congress, that provision he made for the appointment of a commissioner, in connection with Great Biitain, to survey and establish the boundary line which divides Washington i< r- Froedoin of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. IS, 1856. i ntorv* from the contiguous British possessions. My reason of the extent and importance of the country in dispute, there lias been imminent danger of collision between the subjects nf'Great Britain add the citizens of tlie United States, including their respective authorities in that quarter. The prospect of a speedy arrange ment has contributed hitherto to induce on both sides forbearance to assert by force what each claims as a right. Continuance of delay on the part of the two governments to act rn the matter will increase the dangers and difficulties ol the controversy. Misunderstanding exist as to the extent, char acter and value ot the possessory rights of the Hudson's Bay Company and Ihe property of the Pnget's Sound Agricultural Company, res serVed in our treaty with Great Britain relative to the Territory of Oregon. I have reason to believe that a cession of the rights of both com panies to the United States, which won't! he the 1 earliest Rmans of terminating ail questions, can be obtained on reasonable terms : and, with a view to this ' mi, I present the subject *.o the attention ot Congress. The colony of Newfoundland, having enact ed the laws required by the treaty of the f>th of Jurm, 1854, is now placed on the same foot ing, in rpecl t ) commercial intercourse with the United States, as the other British North American provinces. The commission, which that treaty contem plated, for determining the rights of fishery in riwis and mouths of rivers on the coast of the United States and the British North American provinces, has lieen organized and lias com menced its labors; to complete which there is needed Pother appropriations for tlie service of another season. so;;\n n;*' <. In pursuance of the authority, conferred by a resolution ol the Senate of ttie United Slates, 'pr.sß.-d on the 3d of March last, notice was giv en to ]).-hit.ark, on the 14th day of April, ot the intention of this government to avail itself ot tlie stipulation oi the 'subsisting convention of [friendship; commerce, and navigation between that Kingdom arid the I niled Stat-s, whereby •either party might, after ten years, terminate the same at tin* expiration r l one year from trie date of notice for that purpose. Tin- considerations which let! me to call ttie attention of Congress to that convention, and {induced the Senate to adopt the resolution refer red to. still continue in lull force. The con- A'ention contains an article, which, although it Sloes not din-cllv engage the United States to [submit to ihe imposition ot tolls on the vessels wind cargoes ol Americans passing into or Pom nhe Baltic s. a, during tin* continuance of the jjTj-f atv. yet mav, hv possibility, lie construed as T'., / V vOTh iidioNsßvn. Ttie exaction of these tolls not being justified hv any principle of in ternational' law, it became the right and the du ty of the United States to relieve themselves from the implication of engagement on the sub ;t, so as tube perfectly free to act in the pp uises in such wnv as their public interests and iionor shall demand. I remain of tlie opinion that the I, nited States ought in ' to submit to tlie payment ol the Sound dues, not so much because of their a hfooiit, which is a secondary matter, but be cause it is in efiect the recognition of the right of Denmark to ti>at one of the great maritime ' high war s"I nations as a close sea, and the nav igation of it as a privilege for which tribute may be imposed upon those who have occasion t.) Use it. This government, on a former occasion not unlike the present, s'ignnliz'-d its determination ;to maintain the freedom of the s> as, and of the 1 great natural channels of navigation. The Barbarv States had, f• • r a long time, coerced ttie payment of tribute Irom all nations whose i ships visited the Mediterranean. To the last demand of such payment made by them, the United States, although suffering less by their depredations than manv other nations, returned tin* explicit answer, that we preferred war to ti ibute, and thus opened the way to the relief of the commerce ofthe world from an ignomini ous tax, so long submitted to bv the more pow erful nations of Europe. If the manner of payment ofthe Sound Dues differ from that of the tribute formerly conced ed to the Barbarv States, still their exaction by Denmark has no belter foundation in right.— ! Each was in its origin nothing but a tax on a | common natural right, extorted by those, who ; were at that time able to obstruct the free and j secure enjoyment of it, but who no longer pos ! sess that power. Denmark, while resisting our assertion of the freedom ol th" Baltic Sound and Belts, lias in i dicated a readiness to make some new arrange ments on the subject, and has invited the gov ernments interested, including the I nited States, ; to be represented in a convention to assemble j fir the purpose of receiving and considering a proposition, which she intends to submit, tor th capitalization ofthe Sound Dues, and this distri bution of the sum to be paid as commutation among the governments, according to the re spective proportions of their maritime com merce to and from the Baltic, 1 have declined in behalf of the United States to accept this in vitation, tor the most cogent reasons. One is, that Denmark does not offer to submit to the convention the question of her right to levy the Sound dues. A second is, that, il tlie conven tion were allowed to take cognizance of that particular question, still it would not be compe tent to deal with the great international princi ple involved, which affects the right in other cases of navigation and commercial freedom, as well as that ol access to the Baltic. Above all by the express terms ol the proposition, it is contemplated that the consideration ol the Sound dues shall be commingled with, and made subordinate to, a matter wholly extrane ous, the balance of power among (lie govern ments of Europe. While, however, rejecting this proposition, and insisting on the right of free transit into and from the Baltic,! have expressed to Den . ! mark a willingness, on the part ofthe United I 'Stales, to share liberally with other powers in j compensating lier for any advantages which | i commerce shall hereafter derive from expewii , j tores made by her for the improvement ant! j safety ofthe navigation of the Sound or Belts. I lay before yon, herewith, sundry docu ' ments on the subject, in which n>v views are | more fully disclosed. Should no sat isfactory ar rangement be soon concluded, I shall agrrin call | your attention to the subject, with recommenda tion of such measures as may appear to be re quired in order to assert and secure tlie rights of [the United Stales, so far as they are affected by ; the pretensions of Denmark. in axci:. I announce Willi much gratification, that, since the adjournment ot tlm last Congress, the question, then existing between this government and that of France, respecting the French Con sul a' San Francisco, lias been satisfactorily de termined, and that the ralations ofthe two gov ernments continue to IK* ofthe most friendly nature. o nr.* tier. A qur<tiin, also, which has been p< ruling for several years between the Uniter) Slates and the Kingdom ol Greece, growing out of the se questration, by the public authorities of that country, of property belonging to the present | American Consul at Athens, and which had been the subject of very earnest discussion here tofore, has recently been si tiled to the satisfac tion of the party interested and of both govern- ! 1 merits. s r* a I .v. With Spain peaceful relations are still main tained, and some progress has been ir.ade in se curing the redress of wrongs complained of bv i this government. Spain has not only disavowed (and disapproved tlie conduct of the officers who illegally seized and detained the steamer Black Warrior at Havana, but has p.iso paid the sum ; claimed as indemnity for the loss thereby in- ' flirted on citizens ofthe United State-. In consequence of a destructive hurricane which visited Cuba in 1844, the Supreme nn thority of that island issued a d* cree, permitting the importation, for the period of six months, i certain building materials and proi isious, free .if ! dutv, but revoked it when hall the period only i had e!ap.--d, to the injury* of citizens of trie 1 . j States, who had proceeded to act on the la ill: of ♦ hat decree. The Spanish government refused i indemnification to tlie parties aggrieved until, recently, when it was assented to, payment be ing promised to be .made so soon as the amount j due can tie ascertained. Satisfaction claimed for the arrest and search j of the steamer El Dorado lias tint yet been ac- i corded, but there is reason to believe that it will j tie, and that case, u itb other*, continues to be j urged on the attention of the Spanish govern-| merit. Ido r. t abandon the hope of concluding j with Spain some general arrangement, which,! if it do not wholly prevent the recurrence ol ! , difficulties in Gut a, w ill render thenj less Ite quent. and whenever they shall occur facilitate j their more speedy settlement. MUX ico. The interposition of this government lias been invoked by many ot its citizens, on account of injuries dune to their persons and property, tor which the Mexican Republic is responsible.— ; The unhappy sitnati no! that country, lor some ; tine* pa>t, has not allowed its government to ; give due consideration to claims' of private rep- i aration, and has appeared to call for and justify ! s'irr.e forbearance iri such matters on the part of : this government. But, if the revolutionary movements which have lately occurred in that Republic, and in the organization of a stai.de gov ernment, urgent appeals to its justice will then . he made,and, it may lie hoped, with success, f r the redress of all complaints.of our citizens. (•EXTRAI. AMERICA. In regard l<> the American republics, which, 1 from their proximo'v, and other considerations, , have peculiar relations- to this government, while it has been my constant aim strictly to • observe all the obligations of political friendship I ! and of good neighborhood, obstacles to this have ! arisen iri some oi th-un from their own insufli- j : cieut power to check lawless irruptions, which in eff.ct throws much ofthe on the U. States. Thus it is that the distracted internal i condition of the State of Nicaragua has made it incumbent on nie to appeal to the good faith of our citizens to abstain Irom unlawful inlerven- ' tion in its affairs, and to adopt preventive mens- ' ores to the same end which, on a similar occa- j sion, had 'he best results in reassuring the peace | of tiie Mexican States of Sotuma and Lower Cal-j ifornia. TREATIES. Since the last session ol Congress, a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, and for the surrender ol fugitive criminals, with the king-. , Horn uf the Two Sicilies: a treaty ot friendship. Commerce and navigation with Nicaragua ; and a convention of commercial reciprocity with the Hawaiian kingdom have been negotiated.— The latter kingdom and the State ol Nicaragua have also acceejed to a declaration, recognizing j as* international rights the principles contain ed in tlie convention between the I nited States and Rus.-ia, of the 22d of July. lSof. 1 iiese ' tieaties and conventions w ill be laid before the Senate lor ratification. TUEASI'R V. The statement made in my last annual mes sage. respecting the anticipated receipts and ex- i penditure* ofthe Treasury, have been substant ially verified. It appeals Irom tlie report ol the Secretary of ( the Treasury, that the receipts during the last fiscal year, ending June 3 ), ]S"io, from all sour ces, were sixty-five millions three thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars : arid that the public j expenditures for tile same period, exclusive of payments on account ofthe public debt, amoun ted to fifty-six million three hundred and sixty ! five thousand three hundred and ninetv-lhree , dollars. During the same period, tire payments . made ir. redemption of the public del t. inclit ■ ding interest and premium, amounted to trine TERMS, 8 2 PER YEI2I. million eight hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars. Tin* balaivce in the Treasury at the beginning of the present festal year, July 1*185.% was eighteen million nine hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars : the receipts for the first quarter and the estima ted receipts for the remaining three quarters, a tnnunl tog, ther. to sixty-seven million nine hun dred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and thirty lour dollars; thus affording in all, as the available resources ot tiie current fiscal year, the sum of eighty-six million eight hundred and ft I— tv-six tliowaand ceven hundred and ten dollars. If, to the actual expenditures of the enrrent fiscal vear, he added the probable expenditures lor tfie remaining three quartets, as- estimated toy the Secretary of the Treasury: the sum total will be seven!v-on< mfliion two hundred and twenty six thousand eight hundred and (orty ssx dollars, thereby leaving an estimated balance in the Treasury on July I, IK."H,ol fifteen mill ion six hundred and twenty-three thousand eg! t hundred am! sixty-three dollars and forty one Cents. in the above estimated expenditures of the present fiscal year are included three million dollars to meet the last instalments of the te.il millions piovided for in the late treaty with .Mexico, and seven millions seven hundred arid fifty thousand dollars appropriated on account oithe debt due to Texas, which two sums make an aggregate amount of ten million seven hun dred and fifty thousand dollars, arid reduce the expenditures, actual or estimated lor ordinary objects o! the year, to the sum of sixty mil lion (bin hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars. The amount o! the public debt, at the com mencement of the present fiscal year was lortv million five hundred and eighty-three thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars, and, de duct i.'ii being made of subsequent payments, the ! whole public debt of lite led era I government re ' ir.ainiug at this time is h-ss than forty million : doilais. Tiie remnant of ceitain other government . stocks, amounting to two hundred and forty three thousand dollars referred to in my last message ::s outstanding, has since been paid, I am fuiiv pe, -naded that it would he tiitfi i cult to devise a sv >ie;"n superior to that, by which the fiscal bu-m.-ss of the government is now conducted. Notwithstanding the great number oi. agents of collection and disbursement, it is believed that the checks and guards pro vi.ied, inc'gUjng the requirement of monthly re form, render it sea:cely possible for any con siderable frtiud on the part of those agents, or neglect involving hazzard ot sriuus public loss, to escape detection. 1 renew, however, the i recommendation, heretofore made by me, ol the j enactment of a law declaring it felony on the part of public officers to insert false entries in ! heir hooks oi records or account, or to make false returns, and also requiring them on the termination of their service to deliver to loeir successors all hooks, records, and other ojbects of a public nature in their custody. Derived as our public revenue is, in chief part, from duties on imports, its magnitude al fbrds gratifying evidence of the prosperity, not nr.lv of our commerce, but ol tiie other great interests upon which that depends. The principle that all moneys not required for the curr< nt exjienses of tiie government j should remain for active employment in the hands of the people, ami the conscious fact that the annual revenue from all sources exceeds, by many millions of dollars, the .amount needed for <i prudent and economical administration of pub he affairs, cannot fail tostigg-st the propriety of an early revision and reduction of the tariti'of ; duties on imp i ls. It is now so generally con ceded that the purix.se ot revenue alone can justify tiie imposition ol duties on imports, that, ! in re-adjusting the impost table and schedules, which tiiiq'i stionably require essential modifi cations. a depaiture from tiie present tariff is not anticipated. [Conclusion r,rxt IVrth.) ' NECIN; FOR M'RIXG MEAT. Those who u ill carefully adopt our method of curing pork ami beef, will he enabled to en joy a.- nice hams, tongues, '-dried heel" and rounds as the Emperor ot all the ifussias can command, always providing that the meat cured is the best quality.-*—lt is this : ! To one gallon of water, i Take 11 pounds of salt, f lb. ot sugar, l oz. of .saltpeter, f oz. of potash. ]n this ratio the pickle to he increased to any quantity desired. Let those he boiled together, until all tiie dirt from the sugar, (which will not be a little,) rises to the top and is skimmed off, then throw it into a tub to coo!, and when coiif, pour it over your heel'or pork, to remain the usual time, sav four or five weeks. The rneat must be well covered with picket, anil should not be put down lor at least two days alter killing, during which time it should be slightly spiinkled with pondered salt-peter. Several of our liiends have omitted the boil ing of the pickle, and found it to answer as well. It will not answer quite so well. By boiling the pickle, it is purified, for the amount of dirt l thrown oli'toy the operation from the salt ami sugar, would surprise one not acquainted with the fact. <lcrmnnfovn Telegraph. Ty nxn MAN had all the graces and goad ac tions 1 hot weie in the world to plead lor him i sell, they would not justify him lo (.'od; and it i all the sins ol tin- world w ere to meet in the per son of one man the blood ol Christ would infini tely outweigh them. Studies asked a seedy looking chap what ho done far a living. 'I am a contractor on a railroad.' 'Vou a contractor on a railroad!' said the un crednloiis Sniffles. 'V- s. Sir-ec, 1 tend the brakes, and every now and then contracts a bad odd !' Snilil- s called for brandy as usual, VOL XXB\ NO. 21.
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