/rii , cvrr!l ' annoying occurrences have ta-. cn as to the true boundary lino between our on ibe other, to llio distant realms of Asia, articles now taxed, and especially such ns House of-jienrc'ietittitives'' ‘ V " “ i ° r*| at *° at * h'vann, or in ilia vicinity ol territory of New Mexico und the Mexican ; J n,m deeply sensiblo of the immense enter into manufactures, and are not large- Tlio interest wiih liir-h" it ’ t 'he Island of ('nba, between nur citizens State of Chihuahua. A former commis- responsibility which the present magnitude 1 |y, or at all, produced in the country, is flic Republic nniiciiviio tfo- °°- , ‘ nish^rijn horities Considering sinner oftho United States, employed in of the republic, and the diversity and tntil- commended to your candid and careful Cnnirress nod ilm ' S g 0 !P I ' 0N ", II|I . V ol ! ,iril °d lo.onr shores; running that line pursuant to the treaty of tiplicity of its interests devolves upon me •- consideration. ston of ’llic dutv imimsoil’?,nA °' CCn " l - v "'S> ns . ll * ,oe . s ’ ,n ~M> ,r ? ck ofojrpdo.be- Guadalupe Hidalgo, made a serious mis-Mhe alleviation of which, so lar t*s‘relates-! You will find in the report ofolfre Scdrc- Prcsidcnt is ore of.ihn iL,. “?•?”' ” ” CW r t , wccn so . m . iicG*i, si ness, is, firsl.in'niy-reliance'pn the wis-.of the entirmhdequacy oftho present fis- 1 roundore ofA „oliii,- n 7 ru-, !' 4 ,° 'f urs< ?» purticuhrty that with tlm .sion was filenrlyra departure from • the dbjdoninnd patriotism of : : Houses Ofjcal system, fo meet all the, requirements of complex nnd svmn/eirienl ’ y< UMre “n At Sla ‘ cs ’ 19 ,hc f° S»'«KJ‘-‘d, a rcpeiu| rection for tracing tjiq boundary contained Congress ; and, Secondly, in ; the directions the public seryico, -find v Uint,” while nrc forent brandies of thAmvrmn rA A' llot l of s . l,< ; h °^ may well be op-j illthat treaty; it was nofconcurred in by aflbrdod me by the- principlesV public 1 perly administered,-it operates to the ad h certain extent indenerd „ i,V P' ohcndci. As no diplomatic interconr.se the surveyor appointed on the part of the policy, affirmed by our fathers or the epoch vantage ,of the communitv in ordinary rho dul es ofa i nli| P e o other, ,s allowed between our t ons,, at Havana United Slates, «liosb concurrence was nc- of 1798, sanctioned by long experience,: ’ r _ to *l,e -nme 7, ‘,-' C "A i.' o !?*"' [ind ,1)c C.iptnin-Ciencral at Cuba, ready ecssnry to give validity to that. decision, ■ and consecrated anew by tho overwhelm-1 r resirtictfullv ash vour attention to sun intelv uniter l,i,A! -1° |,o " cr - ■ bottu- explanations cannot be made, or pronipt tjiis goVcrpjpent isijpheoucludod, tlip/pby Jiing.yoicc of,the people of |ho,U, Slates, [dry suircestionb in'- the Ij I | I wl’ r | man I Sl |- , ' ( ' l toss nflordod, where injury has resulted* but Mint of Mi.vicb takes nllUiereiU view' Recurring to these princfplOs', ivliiohTon- settlement of esnccinllv ns re lugl , and none so-humble, In the scale ol All complaint on the pan of our citizens, of the subject. stituto tho organic basis of union we I S ° tl , *A , accoun,s > especially ns re- Mil all od'ic’al !2°mm ST” racn“ S? 5 ™re'lmcliTo ? ’T™' ori ' u -' l ljrli lo cn!cl ' ‘" l0 ,u ’y arrangement.— lasting friendship between them confirmed priato lino of aolion in tho specific and lim- p rom t i. e of War and Navv I , n n P , e, l-T’ by UnBu " c ?»- P"'“ deeply regrctt- and perpetuated. 1 • i i, C( | powers conferred on it by tho consti-. “m Mlv sa isfie A that Navv of'thS h ~1 1° ,l,lons ''' ! 1 FOVCrn l lore |g n cl; for wiihoul sortjo nrrajigfjnicnt oi thid. Congress hnving provided fof nfu I f mis* [ufjoi.*, cjiiplly as lo Ihoso ihings in which, rr « :is riot in a condinoii ol'slrcntrth and i fro 9> N lO now 0 'ga'ions resultrng kind-, the good unuerstnuding between the sion lo the States of Centrnl America, a 1 tho States havo a common interest in tlieiri ( p |t ,jp, ) v n s - '. c v .j, tu,. o|lv,!,n: 0 |lv ,!, n : I rom a sudden extension ol the field ot cn- two countries may Lo exposed to occasion, minisjer was-sent thither in Julv last'. As’relations to ono another, and lo forei-m ■, 7' y cownon ™™° lw B"** lerpnse; by the spirit with which the Hold al interruptions. Our Minister at Madrid vet he has had lime to visit only one of governments; while the groat mass 6f l "7 and other interop has been entered, and the aina/.mg energy is instructed U> renew tho proposition, and these Stales, (Nicaragua,) where he ivaq ‘ interests which belong, to tho. cultivated ; n,, 0^ 0 .! f T" it ail i winch its resources tor meeting the to press it again upon the consideration of received in the most friendly manner.— men, the ordinary business of life, tlm ISccretnrv the \ resnep^fnl'lv ctnun sol humanity have been .(level- Her Catholic Majesty’s Government. It is hoped that his presence and good of-' springs of industry, and nil tho drver re M i, m ; f im,, ,u„ \.'t VI „/| nP ®? 1 • , ' Tor several years Spain has been call- liccs will have a benign efiect in compos- ■ silied personal • nnd domestic nlfaira of so- - c . must nlw-ivs ho' Jlnr.tnH iviil Mils Alujough disease, assuming nt ono timo ing ific attention ol this Government to a irig tiro dissemions which prevail nmong'cioly, rest securely upon the general ro* l‘\ .\.-J * n , . . ° l . 1 , .the ehaineteristics of a wide-spread .nnd claim for losses, by some ol her subjects, them, and in establishing still more inti- served powers of tiio people of the several' '.P- i, ~ ‘ , e,es »oa a nucleus aroun uciasiatmg pestilence, has Icit its sad tra- in the case ol the schooner Amista/l. This mate and friendly relations between them Stales. There is the ellbetivo democracy 1 „!i „„ - lU ,'i° L *V L ' ei orco3 ° u nulloll - ccs upon some portions ot our country, wc claim is Ijclieved to rest on the obligations respectively, ami between each of them l of tl,o nation, and there the vital essence : ° ' V',-" 3 1011 r (an S cr > 4u i rc»j ,have still the most abundant cause lbr rev- imposed by our exiting treaty widt that and the United States. of its being and its greatness. ; augmentation or mod,heat,on, to adapt ,t | enmt thankfulness lo God for an accumu- cunlry. its justice was admitted, it. our Uonside.ing the vast regions of this con- 1 Of the practical consequences which l ;> l.mits and Iront.er lahon of signal mercies showered upon ns diplomatic correspondence with tho Span- linent, nml the numher of States which ' lluw from tho nature olYliu federal kov- !i°,*r °r. ° T Col " l . rj J lll ) 1 condition of as a nation. It is well that a eonciousness ish Government, us early as March, lb-17 ; would he made accessible by tho free nav- 'eminent, the primary ono is tho dutv of ' C “.I!* P ‘ , S ,C °(. 1 ,c con ‘. ot rapid advancement und increasing nnd one of my predecessors, in his annual igation of the river Amiy-onj particular at- administering with integrity and lido-lit v "o' 1 ’ 10 nccc.ssuy of which wiM appear , Btrougth bo habitual y associated with nn ; message of that year, recommended tlmt tentiou has been given to this subject.— tho high trust reposed in it by the consti- 111 conunun,c ‘ Ulons 01 the Secretaries . ki i , SUn ‘ SO , •°f dc P entic^ cu u P on Hitn provision should be made for its payment. Ri;azil, through whose territories it passes tniion, especially in the application of the ° , ']*, nl 'j • • ln!o . nor - 1 Who holds in Ins hands the dost,„y of men In January Inst it was again submitted to into .1, ■ ocean, I,as hitherto persisted in a! public funds as drawn by taxation from n „ B^ fn ‘ n,s ‘™ ~onp of ho Vosr-oJTice t onto na tons. "C’. Congress by tho Uxecntive. It has ro- policy so restrictive, in regard to the use: tho people, nnd.uppropriutecl lo specific oh- r -i° r ,i * C ' 3Cn en r, 60 Recognizing tho w.sdoin ol the broad eeived a fimnahlo consideration by com- oft hi's river, as lo obstruct’and nercly ex- jeeti by Congrcsi - I appily L have no Sc- 10 f OS9 ,' c ?P cnd . ,llir . o . w,,s - pnnciplo of absolute religious tolcrelmn mi.tccs of both branches, but ns yet there elude, foreign commercial intercourse'willU casion to suggest any radical change, in “o cvc ' l . 1 ni,l ° iunl rci an . d I proclaimed in our fundamental law, and has been no lit,til notion on it. I conceive the states which lie upon its tributaries and ' financial policy of Iho government 0 Oursis U.ousand sev Cn hundred and f,( y-s.x rejoicing in tlio benign influence winch it that good faiif, requires its prompt adjust- upper branches. - Our minister to that;almost, ifnot absolutely, the solitary pow- J 0 "'^ 5 ’’ a " d - th° gross rcec.pU (lurmg lias exerted upon our social and politcnl mont, and I present it to your early and country inns.ructcd to obtain a relaxation ler of Christendom having a surplus reven- i t,lc . l ‘ am ( 0 P en J’ five mill, on nine hundred oond.uon IshoulJ shrink.lron, a clem duty, favorable consideration. of that policy, and m use his efforts to in- tie, drawn immediately from imposts on . I,oUsa " d sa ''en hundredand did I fud to express my deepest convict, on, Martm Ivoszta, a Hungarian by birth, ducc the Rrazilian government lo open lo : commerce, nnd therefore measured by the l‘" ‘ > ji s * O ' V "'S 'hat the cur-1 tlmt wc can place no sure reliance upon: came to tins country m 1830, anti dec for- common use, under proper safeguards, this! spontaneous enterprise and national pros- rCVCn , U ,° K fa ! lcd ‘° ll ‘f CUrren ' any apparent progress, ,1 ,t he not sustain- cd Ins intention m due form of law, to bo-tgrent natural highway for international purity of tho country, with such indirect of d^ r f ne,,t b >! tilo . B t r y, l^f line “m" f ' C colncai ' lllzt ' nofthcL,| ' llfllSl;ll < )S - After trade. Several or tho South American j relation to agriculture, manufactures, and '' ° T l* 0 ® -t ' V ° thouMnJ ““ d tl,,r y great truths affirmed and illustrated by ut- remaining here nearly two years, he vis-, slates are deeply interested in this attempt tho products of tho earth and sea, as to L Ti USC 3 W “ a | h ’ ! y.ino rev cation In the midst ol our sor- iicd I’pikcy. Wlnlo at Smyrna, ho was, u secure the freo navigation of tho Ami- violate no constitutional doctrine, and yet;- H s^tcm ni ? d laW3 > ,ed rpwfor the aflheted and sufler.ng, « has forcibly seized, taken on board nn Aus-zon, and it is reasonable to expect their vigorously promote tlio general welfare _! '° ll, ' s J e , sul ‘- aro fully explain keen consoling to sec how promptly d.sas-; trian hrigof war, then lying in iho harbor co-operation in the measure. - Neither as to tho sources of the public 7 ,l,e , rc P o, ' [ ° 1 1 lhc Postmaster-Goneml;. ter made true neighbors of districts and ■of that place, and there confined in irons, As the advantages of free commercial 1 treasure, nov us to tho manner of keeping ,T f on ‘ cuUs ® bcin ? l , hc enormous rates! CU,es separated widely from each other, wuh the avowen design to take him into intercourse among nations are better un-. and managing it, docs any grave 00..™°. havo compelled to j ill r g | r i t ren E \ Ol ; ,he dolni,llons ef Austria. Our Consul at derstood, more liberal views aro generally versv now prevail, there boL a general i P r ° l '. rnad scrviro rendcred b X radroad ! In Ml ? er rT ’n ,Ch Un ; ,eB i Sm >' rna an - d at entertained as to tho common rights of all! acquic ? cence in the wisdom ofihnLscnt „ r , n nil hearts, in all parts oftho Union, when j interposed for Ins release, hut their efforts to the free use of those means which nn-!-system P i 1 * lO "* tll( 3 (t-T orl 1,10 I° st ‘ ikinger threatens from abroad, or calamity j were ineffectual. While thus imprisoned,, turo has provided for international com-' Tho report oftho Secretary of the Trans-1 7*°' I ° enc,a | l °‘ lbo ,nco ™ u | n " d ejc PC“- 1? -I r ■ Ingraham, with the the U. S. municotion. To these more liberal and urv will exhibit, in detail, iho state ’ y mails,camcrs u '.' ll bo foulld pu ‘ cowerslvlvi^linil'^-rTnnl^n 0 " 3 farc *g” St. Louis, arrived at Smyrna, enlightened views, it is hoped that Brazil; public finances and the condition of Z " nd n cbarQCtCr 10 tl 1, fh f r ' anSri ' “ ,lCr » nf l u,r * n S " R o circumstances, will conform her policy, and remove all various branches of the public service ad-) '■ l ° mand ' llL ' lmmcdialc ac,lon of Con B njSS - With so ftfon i!" 'o! 10l 101 w ni' T r CaSC ’ "‘""i tlu \ CJ,cla3lon llml ’ unnecessary restrictions upon tho free usej inhered by Hint department of the -rev- ' „ N V me !P us nnd nu S rant (nu6i u P on lhc some ol them questions ol a disturb- Koszta was entitled lo the protection of; of a river, which traverses so many states crnmc'nt. j I ension Bureau have been brought tolight If-o nL 0 ,! I r pcn .1 116 ’i’ Ut lher ° lh ' H nnd took energetic and and so large. u part of the continent. I am! I ho. revenue of the country levied n i i ' v 'thin the last year, and, in some instun nfte ndnS V ° ,ha ' ‘hesenwy- prompt measures for his release. 'happy to inform you that the republic cl! most insensibly, to the o„; ces : ™ riled P“«» sh^»‘B inflicted ; hut, '* For some years 1 nasf ('ri-at Hrlin' . ' L'lder an arrangement between the Paraguay and the Angcntine Confcdcra-i from year (o year increasing beyond cither i ;> nlor '“ n^, v, in others, guilty parties so ho^rst'nrticlo'of the con von* °, f lho f tu S ‘“ los and °.l A.ifitrm, Mon havo yielded to the liberal policy still;.ho mte resist tho prospective wants 0 f • Jaj'O escaped, not through tho wantofsuf so construeu tlio lirst articlo of the convcn-, ho was transforred to the custody ol the , resisted by Brqzd, in regard lo lhc navi-aa- t thaacovernmeiil - ficient evidence to warrant a conviction, l^ 2011 ' 01 , Pnl ’ 818 ’ m consul-general at Smyrna, l.l,cre' bio within their Aspect "er ho-! "TScSof the fiscal year ending b(lt inconsequence of the provisions oil IV7I r°' a !> onor remain until he should ho pi, posed of nos.' Treaties embracing this subject,, Juno there'remnined in the existing law's. |shLgSdttoShZyX C |fre°’ I?’ th °s "'“'re! agrccnM ’ nt f 7 f onsld » of, among others, havo been negotiated with, treasury „ balance of fourteen million six - From llio nature of those claims, tho sorted for ncirl’v -i aimrir-r J’ i- ; * rcsi>eUive governments at that place, these governments, which will he submit-; hundred and thirtv-two thousand one lmn-l remoteness of tho tribunals to pass upon subsequcji t' to 'the data of that t 71 ' UrBU ;‘ nt t' ‘ 7 i tcd l ° 1,10 al lba session. . dred and thirty-uix dollars. Tho p«V,Hc < H.cm, and the mode in which tlm. proofis, TJic United States have never acnuiosccd TI^K n °| V T I3 "Y 10 t lU | U 'i b ‘ A > lc ' v , -’ ra ” ,:h Rr “‘nmorcc, importaut, revenue for the fiscal vear cnding r junoi° f necessity, furnished, temptations to inlhis construction but Imvenlwnvs rhhn 1 I L | P r °„. Aus K ‘ S udc ,bo to tl,c !I k r fnultural interests of the United, 30, 1653, amounted to fillv-cigl.t million 1 cnmo hsVe fi een greatly stimulated by the SES™r n "S ° l Ul ° niof -7. W ,0 ,. 100k P« rt l»as. a few years past, been'nine hundred and thir.y-onJ thousand ei»ht I obvious ditliculties of detection. Thedc they ' 3 rall p a< ' loaa s .'t b »' grave com-, opened wuh Bern. Notwithstanding the hundred ami sixty-five dollars from C u S in tho jaw upon the subject arose ijojf. With a vTcw to' remove nil ditlicul P j 'Cgardmg koszta ns slid his sub-; inexhaustible deposits of guano upon the toms, and two million four hundred and ■ apparent, and so fatal to the ends of jus- 1 tics on the subject, to "xtend the ri-lits of ' |CC |r J 'o ""’i" 1 ” At ""t ° bl,n » “nds ol that cimntry, considerable dtfii- five tliousnnd seven hundred nnd ci«ht - tkl -’> tl,at y our early action relating to it is 1 our fishermen beyond thehmits f red hJ " l"*'V7'?• ' are experienced u, obtaining the dollars from public lands and other mis-. most desirable. ° , tho convention of IHIS and lo reculate 1 10 A 3 c o nn government its rc ll ‘ l j sat-tenru a importation of the, seven thousand five hundred nnd seventy-; hundred and cloven acres of the public tiotion.hns been opened Aviih a fair pros- 1 Aref'TcmiAdAutiTA'°tho 'caso f' 1“' arllrU '- ] .“ lol ' l; [n-ntcly, there has been a four dollars ; while the public expenditures' lanll >' d< -' mu " lJctl b y oun dollars ; leaving u Lntnnco of thirtv-two ' nmounled to one million eighty-threelhous llio fishing season. °!nlitv nf itn’ I'niip 1 4i,i. • 1 na| ioii-• nuni.--tei at lama. I Ins subject is now j million four hundred nnd twenty-live thou-, nnd fi ,ur hundred nnd ninely-fivo acres; Xsmbarmssiug questions have also arisen 1 acts of our otliccrs undcrVho'circum.stnA | Ul 'l'’ r aansk2" i N vdfi.e an.fi B 1 nst, t" t, ° ns ,, was, on 11,0 4th of March, 1853, sixty-.“"d located under land warrants and which separates the Territory of Washing- 1 which will lead to a mere unrestricted in’ 'held 'nliko’so.^^ ld " pC ° C V b °r T" 0 "'I '° n ° n ° l,u P rn . nd oftho mu- nmclo, ainco th:it period, to the amount of; dlil to proceeding. Tho quantity of fond »-,.h.1 ranco our relations continue on' occasions ,0 openfond exfond SmE't ! 1 ° T'l* 0 " T 7 ttnd tbrcc ! So ' ddufin B «'>« and third quarters •bpippst friendly fooling. The extensive 1 cial relations, not onlv with the empire of pilA allbfds ' ® n,orcd » l>ap- ( thousand three hundred and twenty-nine j of 18fi 2. were throo hundred and thirty commerce between States and China, but nith other Asiatic nations I foAhJ adoption olfo 1 I °PPo*.un.ty dollars, leavmg nnpaid, and in the cornin', four thousand four hundred and fifty.ono , |.nt country ought, it is conceived, Jio ro-1 In 185*2, an expedition was sir to Ja-' l„d uSomSI rrtssi of P oH acres. Tho amount received therefor; was eased from some unnecessary restrictions, >n. under the command of Commodore Son as " the area emLlnnM l,'V ■ ‘ft 8 !* hundred and eighty-[ six hundred ond twenty-ihrec thousand Wnf n )ul° n l advantage of both parties.—Perry, for thb purpose of opening ,OB p ßnd i S ® vcn audcightdol-!^ hundred and eiglity-sbven dollars.- With a view to this object, some -progress| cial intercourse with that island. Intelli. 1 sel Um- in-co’rinection Whh iltlh -r' 1 h ? Be n a y ni ( ? n ‘ s * “hhoOgh mado at I ho quantity sold- the second and third lKiqbqenmade >n negotiating a treaty of gencc has bce.i received of his pn-i• 1! cWfozA SJ" ™ ,ho F°' vcrs oF , respective classes Quarters of,he year 1853,was ono milli -comnerce and navigation in,cre, and of his having made known fo! .„i BA •'. ./^ I ° f been Qffc,itod readily, and Jon six hundred nnd nine thousand nine Independently ofqur valuable trade with'ihe Emperor of Japan the object of Irs vis- ually nrtd stendilv to nVM.'i ft e enort «l advantngfe of the treasury, hundred and nineteen acres; and tho a- Spain, wc have unportnot political relations it ; i )llt it U not yet nsecrla.ned' how 'far fou shions Tb-V' ac ';- and hav° at the samo time' jrrovby of sig. mount received therefor, two million two t h t r t^ r ? W, A^ 0 r ° r ncrehborbood : the Emperor wilfbc disposed to abandon 1 ?oeW ul.htym.thq rel,ol*«hey I.hvo, incidcn'- hundred and twenty-six thousand eight tp the l Eland of Cuba nnd Porto Rico. This first restrictive policy nnd open tlmt tioned nrb how univoriJl bccn W cs -, ,all y njlbided to th 6 mptjev market and to hundred nnd sevonty-six dollars. i million seven hundred, and scvcMy. e jji thousand one hundred and twenty acraT i Warrants hiivo been issued to UOth* September last, under the net of 1 l,h p ? ruary, 18V7, calling for twelve aiilli!! eight hundred apd aeventy-nino thqu*.^ ' two hundred:tmd eightyscjrcs; .under!!;. l of September 38,-1850,: oB d March d, ’ 1852, calling for twelve million-fivo-W dred nnd fivo ‘.bousand three hundredaS sixty'acres ; '’malting n total of twenty R' nrilllibn 1 three hundred and thousand six hundred and forty acres 1 . It is believed that experience have vef lied tilts wisdom and justice system, Villi regard to the public demafn. in most essential particulars. - You 'Will percoive, from tho reports the Secretary of.the Interior, that opju ions, which have often been. relation to the operation of the land systen as not being a source of revenue to federal treasury, were erroneous. -Tj, net profits from the sale of the public to June 30, 1853, amounted to tho j fifty-three million two hundred nndeigL, [ nine thousand four hundred and sixty , five dollars. I recommend tho extension of tlmltjj system over tho Territories of Utah xt, Sfcw Mexico, with such modifications t) their peculiarities may require, i Regarding our public domain nscliieflj I valuable to provide homes for the indiin, rious ond enterprising, I am not prepay to recommend any essential change inti land system, except by modifications h favor of the actual settler, and an extet sion of the pre-emption principle in cer tain eases, for reasons, nnd on groundi which will he fully depelopcd in the re ports ty s 'jl dapt it- to tho increased extent, populntiowl nnd legal business of tho United Stntos.-r r | In this relation, tho organization of •HI