ranititatv Ifrom tit; Fifth paged tzradlents will not exteed thirty to forty feet to the mile and arc of limited extent. Upon the Pacific side the surveys were confined to an ex amination of the Caeca& ranee, with a view to ascertain the relative elevation and practicability of the pastes:. Three were foUnd, the Cowlitz or Packwood, 2,600; the Snoqualmie, 3,030, and Cad,y's. 4,800 teL above the level of the sea. • Tbe :3otthern Pacific Railroad Company report that they have surveyed only - that portion of their line It ing between the town of San Jose and:Gilroy, In the county of .:Santa 'Clara, v. dis tance of thirty males, The grading is rapidly progrt ssing. The iron has been purchased and is tratuito. They expect to complete this thirty malice - 0V road by the ist , of April 1869. Their capital stock • Is -$1,800,000: of which .1172,000 has been actually paid in,and their indebtedness iss4Bo,ooo. - . The following statement exhibits the amount of United States bonds issued to the railroad com panies: 1,793,11 miles, nearly $44,337,000. The net of July 13,1863, authorized the sum of $6,500, appropriated_by_tile net of blareh3, 1860,j to be applied to the completion of the bridge Over the Dakota river, on the line of the wagon road between- Sioux City . and Atte month of the Big. Cheyenne. A superintendent was appointed in August last and the bridge is in process of con struction. One'of my predecessors, on the eve of his re tirement from office. urged the propriety of an aFPr°Priation for erecting and furnishing suite b ft residences for the Vice-President of the United States and the heads .of the executive depart ments. After alluding., to , the vain of ; .-.honey when the government went into Operation, and the salaries of___..those_officene_were originally fixed, as compared with that which it bore in December, 1852, when his report was submitted, ho expressed the opibion that - 46,000, at the latter date, - was not worth much more than $3,000 at the former. The-cost of rent provisions, fuel and other he cessaries of life in this city.had risen to such a degrte that the most rigid economy was required to enable those officers to live within their in comes, and ho declared that as tar as his obser vation extended few of them had been able to do SO. Congress did not accede - to his recommenda tion; ihey,lowever, passed_ the stetot March._3,_ 1853, which increased the salary of the Vice- President from $05.000, prescribed by the act of September 24, 1759, to 58,000, and gave to, the menffiers of tbe Crtbmet the satire - amount. - The addition thus made was estimlited . to be sufficient for house rent. No increase has been voted since, notwithstanding the constant apprecia tion of labor, rent and every article of consumption. My observation and experience enable' me to affirm with unhesita ting confidence that the income of the office will net equal the outlay, if the incumbent lives in a style at all compatible with the pro prieties-of his position and-the--relations which a decent regard to the just claims of society com pel him to maintain. "The high offices of the country should be opened to the poor as well as to the rich; but the piactical effect of the present rate of compensation will soon be to exclude from the Executive councils all Who have not ample resources independently of their official salaries." Several.of the annual reports of this Depart ment refer to the compensation of the Judiciary. One of the most thoughtful writers of the last century remarks that the administration of jus tice seems to be the leading object of institutions of government; that legislatures assemble; that armies are embodiedi - and - both. war and peace made by a sort of reference to the proper ad ministration of laws and the judicial protection of private rights. While this is emphatically true in every free country. the judicial department of the United States - Is charged also with other duties, and, its power extends to all cases arising under the _constitution and the acts of Congress. The guardianship of the fundamental law has been thus confided to It. The Supreme Court decides, in the last resort, questions in volving the constitutional authority of the fede ral government , and its various departments - as well as the reserved powers of the several Stales and the consistency of their legislation with the constitution and laws of Congress: No foreign tribunal possesses so broad a jurisdiction or deali - With issues so vitally affecting national power,' dignity an sovereignty: Its mem bers should eonsist of- jurists who, having gained the highest honors of the bar, bring to the discharge of their exalted trusts mature experience and pre-eminent talents and learning. Their salary, if not equal to their former profes sional income, should at least secure them an in dependent support, and bear a just relation to their arduous employment. One of the most eminent judges of that court resigned on account of a scanty salary, and a venerable Chief Justice whose labors during a long life conferred endur ing benefits upon his country, died a few years since, btqueathing - to his family little beyond the legacy of an illustrious name. Toe salary is far from being proportionate to the weighty responsibilities of the station. It is even lees than is paid to some subordinate offi cers in other branches of the p ublic service. It is a singular and disreputable anomaly that the chiefs of bureaus of the War Department, each, received in pay and, emoluments, during tno last fiscal year, a larger compensation than the Chief Jusilee of he United S tates. Recent legislation recognized the just claims of the judges of the district courts, and of the Supreme Court of this district, but Congress, inadvertently, I presume. omitted to make a becoming pro vision for the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. The proposition to erect and furnish houses for the Vice President and Cabinet ministers may not meet with more favor now than when it was originally made. I earnestly recommend, there fere, that fifty per centum be added to their present salary and to that of the justices of the, Supreme Court. It will even then be much less than is allowed to officers of a similar grade by any other first class government. The Cabinet ministers will not receive more than is now paid in coin to several of our foreign repre sentatives, who discharge much less laborious duties, in capitals not less expensive than Wash ington. Since the salaries In question were fixed at the present rate, Congress nave, by suc cessive statutes, increased their own by at least 200 per eentum. Their aption met with general apProbation, and I do net doubt that the mem bers of that honorable body will render, in some degree, to others the justice already secured to themsel vie. I baveheretofore alluded to the compensation of the Assistant Secretary and the hearts of bu reaus. The Commissioner of Patents, whose salary is not too large, receives $4.300, being fifty per cent more than that of the other officers of equal grade in this department and exceeds by more than twenty-eight per cent that. of his of ficial superior, the Assistant Secretary, whose duties involve far more labor and responsibility. This glaring and indefensible inequality should be corrected. I recommend that the annual salary of the Assistant Secretary be fixed at 000, and that the Commissioner of Patents. Com - missiOner of the - General Land Office, Commis stoner of , Indian Affairs and Commissioner of Pensions shall each be paid $4,300 per annum. Thcrdutus of a copyist are merely mechanical, and bets liberally paid, more so, indeed, than the same qualifications in any other walk of life com mand: but the higher order of cierical labor, re quiring for its acceptable performance Intelli gence and,spacial knowledge, as well as faithful training and long continued service. Is not ade quately remunerated. It is my Bottled opinion, the result of much reflection and of experience in my present position, that the efficiency of the clerical force would be essentially promoted by thoroughly reorganizlngit t and securing to clerks of experienced and tried ability an enhanced compensation. It is hoped that a subject of so much importance to the successful workings of the executive departments will receive the con, sideration it so well merits. I am, Slr, very respectfully, your obedient ser vant, O. H. BROWNING, Secretary of the Interior. The President ' —The Sultan of Turkey, it seems, is very fend of music. and is especially partial to playing the piano. He has had a most magnificent instru ment made for him, and on this he ex temporizes and romposes. One of his composi tions, entitled "Melancholy," is published with his name in full—Abdul Azlz Khan—by lticordi. Milan. —lt may be worth while to state, as a literary raw dot of - a two-penny reprint, in an English proViielui :town, of the "Girl of the Period," frOin the'Saturday Review, thirty-two thousand ezpies have been sold. Of a vindication entitled "Woman; her. Friends and her Enemies," two thousand copies have not been disposed of. —An apt illustration of the absurdity and in justice,of the custom of obtaining promotion by purchase, which still prcvails in the British army, is afforded by a Loudon military journal, which antioupeea that an ensign, .probably a boy of twenty or thereabouts,.has, heoome Lieutenant- Colpael, Orr in other words, commander of his regiment, by purchase. THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN---PHILADELPHIN L WED.N EEDAY, DECEMBER 9,1868,-TRIPLE S u,eile4o) - IRir OT TUE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY NAVY DEPAIIThiIIeT, December 7, 1868. SIR: I respectfully 00.41111 t the annual , report of the Navy Department and of that branch of the public service aunng the past year. EXIIIIIIT or- THE NAVAL FORCE The number of vessels in squadron service, as ands. ere; etoreships, and returning, L342,carrying 411 guns; a reduction Curing the year of 14 Vei11010; carrying 66 guns. The number of vessels of all descriptions in use, as cruisers, storeships, receiving ships, tugs, .tc , is bl carrying 6113 guns; a redaction from last year of 32 vessels,l Carrying 206. guns. The total number of veer, is borne upon the navy list is 206, carrying 1,743 a reduction during the year of 32 vessels, carrying 126 guns. The following tables einibit the present em ployment and condition of the naval force: NO. 0 tlllB, - Cruising vessels in squadron 6ervice.... 35 350 Vessels returning from squadrons .. 3 24 atoreships for squadrons .. . .. 4 31 special end-lake service 3 -19 Apprentice ship • ~ 1 11 Practice vessels, and in rise at the Naval • Academy . ' 1(1 115 Receiving ships... 6 " 112 Quarters for officers at League Island and marine barracks, Norfolk 2 27 Togs at invy : yards and stations, powder boats, &c ... 17 . 18 Toial in use .. S 1 69:3 Iron-clad vessels laid tip"— .. .... 46 107 Iron-clod ; weasels rot completed....:..: , 5 IS Steam aloolis not - completed... ... ....., 15 25:3 Lino l or-baltlc ships tint comoleted...... 2 SO Other vesselY laid op, repairing, ilt,ting for aea, and for aa1c.....;........ 57 592 Total number of vessels of nil descrip tions In nee, building—repairing, fit ting for sea, ,tc 206 1,743 Tho vessels ot the navy are ciaa;ified as follows: No. Gans. Vessels of the Bret rate—of 2.400 tone avd ripwaroe3s 062 .. Veesele ot the second-rate—of 1,200 to 2,400 tone... ... ' " 87 983 .. Vessels or the third rate--ot GOU to 1,200 tone 76414 Vessels of the - fourth rate-=under GOO tons 511 184 Total . 206 1,793 The following table indicates the character of tae vtecolk: Iron-clad vessels Screw steamers... Paaele-wheel steamers Sailing vessels TILE bItUADIIONS. The organ' zation of the squadrons remains essen tial 4 the same as Ny44,1=100 my last annual report, borne changes_ of.eommunulng °lacers and of vessels palm taken place, and•the force of each•equadron has. In consequence of the limited number of ecamen su b wed by the act of lith.ot June last, oeen necessarily reduced. zunornati NUMMON. Admiral D. G. Farragm, who was in command of the squadron at the date of my last report, retaraed to New York hi the flag-shlp on th. tenth of No vem ebei, leaving the squadron in temporary charge of Commodore A. .111 Pamock. The Franalln Is to re turn with Rear-Admiral Wihiam Radford, who has been designated to command the squadron, which is composed of the following vessels : Franklin, (flag-ship) 'Frolic - 5 guns. 59 guns. Guard, (storeadpoE guild. Ticonderoga 9 gnus bwtara 10 guns. The Canandaigua is on her way to the United States from this squadron. Admiral Farragnt has visited during the year Hol land, Belgium, England. Scotland, France, Portugal, bpaLn, Italy, Austria, Prussia. Greecd, Turkey, and Morocco. His reception in every place which he has visited was equally flattering with his reception the preceding year in the north of Europe. and cannot ha. lees acceptable to the government, and people of tne United States. While honoring that distinguished officer, the sovereigns and other high officials of these powers have availed themselves of the occasion to compliment, in friendly terms, the neon he repre sents. It is a gratification to remark, while noting the movements of this officer and hletlquitdron, that in no instance has an appeal been made for his inter ference in any manner to relieve or extend aid to oar countrymen scattered along the shores where the ling has been exhibited, nor has any application beat made to him to assert and vinaicate their rights. Throughout Europe the rights of american citizens .re respected, and wherever the flag has been carrier' by the navy the privileges to which they are entitled and which are guaranteed by treaty stipulations and internaqonal law have been asserted and maintained. . ..... The principal points of the west coast of Africa, us far as St. Paul de Loarido and the neighboring groups of islands wh ch lie within the limits of the European squadron, have been visited by the Swatara.. She let Lisbon February 5, and returned to that port April 27, having toucned at Porto Grande, Porto Praya, Uralic( Canary, Teneriffe, Madeira, Monrovia, Cape Palmas, Ei Mina, Fernando Po, Jelin Coffee and Sr.. Thomas. Commander Jeffers reports that the slave trade is entirely suspended. The vessels of this squadron have, during the year, In addition to the porta mentioned, visited Valencia, Tarragona, Barcelona, Malaga, Leghorn, Palermo. Civita Vecchia, Taranto, Ancobit. V'enice, Brindisi, Candle, scio, Marseilles, Havre Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux, Pauillac, Basque Boads,Cadlz, Ferrol,Ham. burg, Bremerhaven, Antwerp, Plymouth and various ports on the Irish coast. ASIATIC NUADRO.N.' Rear- Admiral Henry H. Bell, who was in command of this squadron at the date ut my last report. was drowned at Osaka, on the 11th of January. by the up setting of a boat in widen he was crossing the bar. The command devolved upon Commodore John R. tioldsborough, as senior officer, until the arrival of Bear-Admiral S. C. Rowan, who sailed from New York in the Piscataqua on the 16th of DScember, and assumed command at Singapore on the 18th of April The squadron is composed of the following vessels : Piscataqua (flag-ship) lllnadilla ..... . 5 guns. 23 guns, aroostooli.. 5 gang. S Buns. Maumee 8 guns. 6 gins. loaho, (store and 10 guns. ho.:nital ship, lu guns. Oneida.... Jroquois.. Aalinalot. 3!donocacy The Shenandoah is on her way home from this squadron under orders issued in..l WIC last. The Hart lord arrived at New York in august. The United States minister, Mr. Van \'alkenburg, was of opinion that our government should be repre sented by a btrOD:Z naval force on the m casion of the opening of the ports of Osaka and Hiogo Rear-Ad miral Bell concurred in this opinion and assembled us many vessels of the squadron Of Iliogo as were avail able, Including the ilia t turd, Iroquois, Monocacy, Al imetouk, Oneida, and Shenandoah. The latter vet.- eel cenveled the United states minister trout Yoko hama to COll6llll mate the terms of the treaty No serious trouble was apprehended, hut certain discon tented factions were kuown to exist It was thought, therefore, that the dismay of foreign power voted prove a wholesome restraint on the turbulent and die all ected. Agreeably to arrangements, Osaha and lllogo were quietly opened to foreigners on the first of Januar - 1 , . Tie event was celebrated by the American and British ve?sels at those places, their mastheads being dressed with the respective national flags And the Tycoon. d 110 g at the main: Every vessel similltaneoasly fired a salute of 2iguns, which the Japanese promptly re turned at both places Although Ibe Of, cuing of these ports had been har monious, attain) bore an aspect 50 unsettled t.h r. Hoar-Admiral Bell determined to delay his departure, and three days after rending dispatches to the d.,- partment announcing this purpose, he was drowned' by the swamping of his boat oh Osaka. This melan choly event, made the more afflicting by the drownh,g at the same time of Lieatenan; Liesitmander J, 11. Heed and ten of the — crew of the Admiral's barge, o:- curred on the morning or January 11. The harmony which prevailed at tae opening of the new ports was of short duration. Difficulties. orlglui ting in the innovations on ancient customs and od position to intercourse with foreigners, appeared among the Japanese, and soon broke out in hostalitie.. On the frith of January the contending parties came in conflict at Osaka. Tue Tycoon, who favored the extension of commercial intercourse, was defeatet, ; and during the night of January 31, sought taneltir with some at his principal adherents on board the Iro. quoin, winch was in the harbor. Protection was giv,m him until eaylighr, when he was transferred to one of his own vessels of war. (JD the let of February; the several ford= minis-. tens were compelled to abandon Osaka; and were re 'calved and conveyed in the Iroquoi., to Hi •go, whew they established their legations. On the ;th of ?wi ntery an assault was made in the streets of Htogo by a detachment of Japanese troops on the foreign resi dents, during which one of the crew of the Oneida was seriously wounded by a musket ball. In conse quence of these outbreaks, which threatened the safety of the foreign population, the naval present forces made a joint landing and adopted mea.rires to pro tect the toreign settlement. But on the Sth of Fehru , soy an envoy from the Mikado arrived at, the j United States legation with inforniation of a change of government. Assurance was given that foreigners would be protected, whereupon a set- i tlement was made and the forces withdrawn. Toe . Jana, ate Weer who had command of the detachment of troops, ordered them to ilre on, the foreigners at B ego, was subsequently executed in the presence , of a number of the officers of the vessels of war. Hear-Admiral Rowan reached Yokohama on the 24th of June, and found the open ports in possession 01 the Mikado party. The foreign naval forces, fn pursuance of agreement in conference. have jointly ' occupied Yokohama for the defence of the foreign settlement. No scions disturbances had taken place there at the date of the lastuecounts, and Rear-Admi ral Rowan was awalthig the progress of events be tween the contending parties. After the death of Rear-Admiral Bell, Commodore GoldsborOnglitransferred his flag to the Hartford,. and left Nagasaki on the Tat of February for Hong-Kong, on.his wily to Singapore and the United States. The limits of this squadron are extensive and the service required is of a varied character. In Recent-. her the htonocacy examined the track of 'Steamers between Nagasaki and Osaka through the inland sea, - the waters navigated by the, auxiliary steamers-of toe ' . Pacific Mall Steamship Company, for the - purpose - or deteintining on the proper sites for light-houses. During the same month the -Ashirelet went to Taira where the passer° of the United States Minister, air! Burlingame, had'been ohstructed by the rebels. The minister and family were received on board and Con veyed to Shanghai, In June the Unadilla visited liankok. in Siam, -• and ;delivered a pres ent of arms to the nrinui•• minister. Courtiesies were exchanged with the King, the Crown'Prince,the prime =litter, and °thee officials. In April the Shenandoah was sent to Corea . to make another attempt , to rescue tbe•crew of the schooner General Sherman, which had been destroyed by the Coreans 801110 eighteen Months previously, ,it having been stated upon appareatly good authority that some of theinwere still :dive and, in captivity. From all We Intl:lunation - that Commander "Febiger could gather, he concluded that none ot the crew or Passen gers of the 'schooner were. living. .ffe succeeded, however, in obtaining a fair survey of the Pine Yang Piver and WS:approaches, and in, securing other use ful data. The AroostOok, Lieutenant -L'otrimander leardalee, conveyed the consuls for Amoy and Poo-Cho° to For mosa, in April, to enable them to visit' the various ports on that island coming . under this charge. The eaVages Inhabiting the lower part of the island; it wilt be recollected, murdered the shipwrecked oft cent and crew of the = American • bark Hover. Satielled--from--inquiry- that,no --foreigners- were in • captivity, onthe island , Lieutenant-Com mander Beardslee obtained assurances from the natives of kind_treatmerit_to,l and restoration of, any persons may hereafter he shipwrecked upon the usland. Although the squadron has "been ' mainly in Japanese _waters, the principal commercial ports in• China had been, visited, and. all needed protection given to American interests. 2i012111 ATLANTIC SQVADRON. • Rear-Admiral Jamea S. Palmer, who wee in com mand or "this squadron at the - date of my last report, died of -yellcitv ;over at Bt. Thomas, on the 7th of December. The lidgehipßutiquellatina'heing infected with the, disease WO, on her return to blew York, placed cant of commission; and, until the Contoocook was, ready for sea,. the Waunpanoug marl eueed as a nag -ship. Rear Admiral D. IL Hod hoisted his flag on boare the latter vessel on the ilind of irebruary. The squadron,is now composed , of the-- ~ Contoocook, (ffsg-ship) I ytnatic •• ' ' 13 guns. Gettysburg Sdeo • .... 10 guns. Nipsie Penouseot . 9 guns. The fear-admiral commanding him' lit the ftitg-ahlp, visited many of the important points within the limits or his command. During the months of May and June he was at filt.•Thomast.bante Cruz, Point a Pltre.tit: .Plerm,La Gnaythatspinwall,Port au Prince and Hey West. He is novv makbag a secondd cruise thzough the West-India islands.tand- at last- advicea was at Havana. The other vessels of the squadron have been actively emp'oyett, and haire - given assist =CO to our merchantmen and protection to' our citi zens wheneVer needed. A vessel continues to be constantly stationed at Aspinwall for the protection of our citizens and treasure in tranaitu between that'place and Panama. In April, upon application of the agents of the steam ship company, a force was landed from-the Penob scot to guard th passengers and treasure, the streets being idled with excited and lawless individuals, the police and native troops having been sent to, Chiriqui in consequence of the death of the president of the republic. There was no conflict, however. and when the anticipated trouble had passed, the forces re-em barked. . , No. Guns. . 52 129 .. 28 199 ... 31 477 206 1,143 !the disturbed condition of Hayti has called, for more than ordinary attention to American • interests on that island. Instructions have, from time to time, been issued to the admiral in command to watch the progress of events, and he prepared at all timeevto /flora necessary protection to our citizens. In per suance of these directions the Contoocook, De Soto, Shawmnr, Saco, Penobscot, Gettysburg, and Nipsic, have, at different times, been in Haytten waters, and some of them have remained there tor weeks success fully. The naval officers in command have exercised krudence, observed neutrality, and exchanged the cnetonuay courtesies witn the authorities., - Iu March last the De Soto, Commodora Boggs. was Ordered to Venezuela to co-operatln with our minister in securing the release, and indemnity for their de tention, of a part or the crew of the American whal ing sehooner Hannah Grant, who had been captured On the peninsula of Paragaana, and carried as prle nere to Coro. At Caracoa, Commodore Boggs learned of the release of the' crew of the schooner, but he very properly proceeded to La Guayra,and in company with Air. Stillwell, the United States minister, visited Caracas and had an interview, with the Vice-President and other 'authorities or the. republic. The - Saco, Commander Wilson, took on board at St. Thomas the master of the Hannah Grant, and, actor restoring hint to his position, at Kingston, proceeded to Venezuela. The question at that stage became one of indemnitY, subject to adjustment through other channels. No further occasion for naval action—was-therefore no ces.ary, and the force was witridrawn. In dune a display of naval force in the gall was con sidered necessary, in consequence of reports that a hostile expedition against Mexico was concentratin.,. near Now Orleans. No occasion for action, however, 7 manifested itself. SOUTH ATVEVUAI4IIBOX . The South atlantic ' o nyder doilimana of Rear-Admiral Charles 11. Davie, is composed of the following VC:Melt: Guns. Gueniere, (11ggshili: ell Wttep.. Pawnee ...11 Kansas gun:mob:mg . 6 two VeEEOIB were ordered home in consequence of the reduction of the naval force by act of vongreas The Boren arrived at New York In October, and the Shamokin is daily expected at Philadelphia. The continuation of the war between the allied powers and Paraguay has rendered it advisable to keep some portion of the force within as convenient reacu as practicable of military operations. Other points, however, within the limits of the command have not been neglected, but our interests have received atten tion and ample protection. The flag has been shown at Bahia, ltto de Janeiro, Bt. Catharinea. San Carmen, Phis Grande, Falkland Islands, Montevideo, iluencia Ayres, and other points on the coast of South America; at itosarto, Curupaity, Corrientes. and °trier places 13,i the La Plata, Parana, and Paraguay rivers; and at Cape Town, Little Fish Bay. Bermuda, St. Paul d. Lear do, Ambriz, HlnEetptp, liabend. Malemba, Lam - &no, Black Point Bay, and Mayumba, on the south west coact of Africa The presence ot naval vessels has generally been all that was necessary for the security of American cite - zens and their property; but on two occasions it was deemed advisable to land a part of tne force at Mon tevideo. On the 7th of February, in concert with the commanders of other squadrons, and at the request of Governor Flores, fifty seamen and marines were landed for the protection ot foreign residents and the custom- house. On the succeeding day, affairs having quieted, the detachment wait withdrawn. On the igth of the same month another force was landed, and remained on shore until the 26th, in COLLSeqwence ot disturbances occasioned by the assassination of General Mores. Rally in the year, at the request of the Secretary of State, the Wasp was dispatched to the capital of Par aguay for the purpose of toingiag away our minister resident, Mr. Washburn. When she arrived at the Sent of war in the Parana River, the passage of the vessel through the blockading.teet was refused by the ,Brazilian authorities; and after waiting some months, end tailing to couvinde them of the right of a neutral man-ot-ear to ascend the river as fares Asuncion for the purpose stated, that vessel returned to Monte video. in August the Brazilian authorities 11/Ith drew their otjection, aua the Wasp ag in ascended the riser, which is difficult of navigation, owing to its tortuous coarse anti shifting sano-bars. Only the smaller class of naval vessels can ascend to Asuncion, on the Parana River, in the interior of tlotan America, 930 miles from Montevideo. On the 30th of teptember, at Villeta (below Asuncion), the Wasp o.ok on board Mr. Washburn and calmly, nod coni , eyed him to Baenos Ayres. Rear-Admiral Davis, at the date or his latest dispatches, was preparing to accompany the newly-accredited minister of the United Suttee, General McMahon, to Paraguay.., NORTU reetplo SQUADRON. On the sixth of august last Rear-Admiral R. K. Thatcher, who had been in command of this equauron for two yeare, was relieved by Rear- Pkomiral Thomas T. Craven. The squadron com prises: G (r Pensacola (flag-ship) Resaca Mel:tong° u I Oseipee Lackawanna .. 1' 'Jamestown .16 Saginaw... uyane (atoresnip) I 8 These vessels have, during the year, given mace of their attention to the west coast of Mexico and the ports in the Half of California. where their presence hes had a salutary influence. Rear-Admirals Thatcher and Craven have each in hie flag-ship visited that portion of the station; and the following places have been visited, some of them repeatedly, by the several vessels : Idazatlau, Guaymas. Acapulco, Sian Bias, Manzanil.a. La Paz., einalow River, Jicabanma, add Boca Maceptile. The commercial ports of the Central American States of Nioaragua, costa Rica and San Salvador have been visited by the Saranac, Mohican and k lasi pee. Our flag has teen received withftanifeetations. of pleasure by both the anti:terrines and people. They. all respect our rights and those of our countrymen m alt:ling there A yessel of this squadron continues to be stationed at Panama, for the prott ction of our interests op the fothinoe, The Cyanc, now there, answers the eintrtf7e purpose of a guard and store vessel, and is able ordi narily to efferd ample protecttion to American inter ests. lu March last, there were threatened difficulties which rendered the display of additional force desira ble. and the Saranac was accordingly detached to that point, but, happily, the political on that occasion passed without any necessity for Interference. in June last Rear-Admiral Thatcher. in the flag ship. visited the northwestern coast, touching at Port, Townsend and Eoqutnmault. Several veitsela of the sonadron have visited the newly acquired territory of Alaska. The Ossipee conveyed the commis.. donors from San Francisco to Sitka, and was pre sent Attnet participated in the ceremonies incident to the transfer of the flag. Toe Restica and Jamestown, although sent there primarily for the influence of the cold Climate In die intectlng them of yellow fever, afforded such pro tection to our ettiaens as was desired. In April last the Saginaw was dispatched to Alaska, where she re - matfett several months, for the purpose of making ex- P'orutions and surveys. and of determining the most aniu.ble limbers anal, anchorages on the coast and in the adjacent islands . -The Suwanee under orders for the same point wee wrecked on the 9th of July, by running on a hidden rock in Shadowell passage, while in charge of a coast pilot. The °Macre and crew suc ceeded in landing on the nearest beach. Rear_Admi rat Bilstings, commanding her MajeetY'a Pacific Squadron. and'Commander Percher, of her Majesty's 'steamer Sparrowhawk,wero prompt to render vain ible assistance on the occasion..., The wood soon - broke up, but Rear-AdmiratThatcher, who was at the time at Itsquimault, made the btat 'practicable terms' foe lIIIVSLIg the engines and other articles. • The Lackawanna, which had been at the Sandwich 'lslands more than a year, was in 'May relieved by the Alohongo. Our commercial and "whaling "interests rally justify theconstant presence of one or more of ear vessels in that quarter; a feet which will be ap preciated when it hi known that at- one tittle in No -1867, forty-two American flags wore flying from that number of whaling and merchant vessels in the harbor of Honolulu while bat six gaga of another nations could he seen. In July last, his Majesty, the King of sthe Sandwich Islands, attended by a portion of his cabinet and his personal staff, visited the Mo. bongo, and was received , with the boners duo to his - position. - 801.111 i PACIPIC OQITAIDItOI4. • Rear. Admiral Thomas Turner succeeded near-Ad miral Dahlgren in command of ,thls squadron on the 14th of July last. It is composed of the following VeH r eels: GUJI a_ Powhatan, (flag-ship, ..17 Dacotah.. Tuscarora.. ... 10 Nyack .. liearsarge .... ..... 7 Onward , .. Tbo vessels of this r quadren have carried the flag into all the principal commercial ports from Panama to Valparaiso, and have rendered such protection' to American interests as wag---needed,— On the—night of the 10th of January last, General Prado, ex-ptesident of Peru., and other officers, came alongside the Nyack any requested _asylum freird nereonal violence,_which be apprehended from the revolationary partY. He also requested transportation to Chili. His requests were compiled with, Anil be was safely landed at Valparaiso. Australia and the various, groups of islands in the South Pacific have not been visited, the disturbed con dition of political affairs. and the disasters from phya foal convulsione; in South America, having rendered it. advisable that the vessels of the squadron should re main on that coast. , . Two - vessels,. the Wateree and the Fredonia,_ have been lost by earthquake. , I.IOI.TRY 'AND DEWTEUCTION ymilear.s AY .ZARTII• v_ . . A violent earthquake which occurred in the Harbor. of gt. Thomas. and in that, vicinity, on the afternoon of 'November 18, 1867, caused the stranding of the United States steatuer - - Monongahela;- - and two other vessels of the • equadron barely escaped serious injury. The De Soto..in the harbor of St. Thomas, was swept from ber moorings by the force of the waves, both chains snapping, and , was thrown violently upon the iron pike of a new wharf, but fortunately the next wave carried her again into deep water, and he sustained but little injury. • Tho Susquehanna, in the same h.ar bor, succeeded in getting away. from her dangerous position without damage. The lilenongahola, which at the time was anchored off Frederickeradt, island of St. Croix, was carried by a wave over the 'warehouses, and into one of the streets df-tbe town. She came back with the return ing sea. and . was legit on a coral reef at thotvater's edge. Fortunately._ but five of her crew. were...bat, and no very serious in inry was sustainui by the ship. its it was deemed practicable to re-launch her, the officers and crew ;embed by the wastrel. - On learning the facts, the United States bark Purveyor was put in commission at New York, provided with all necessary appliances for launching, and on the 17th of January lett for St. Croix, where she arrived on the 3lat. and the party, under the supervision of Naval Constructor Ddvidson. commenced.preparations tam getting the Monongahela afloat. The ihst attempt failed. but on the 10th of May a successful effort was made. She Was - safely laturthecVand left St: Croix on the Vitti of June. arrive° at New York the 20th,and was put outlet commission July 8. On the 13th of August last, a violent earthquake visited the Western coast of soath America, by which two of the vessels of the South Pacific squadron were lost tn the service. The storeship Fredonia had, in consequence of the prevalence of yellow fever at Cal lao. bean moved up to Arica, and was there with the Wateree quietly riding at anchor. a. short time after the shock of the earthquake was felt the sea receded. leaving the Fredonia on the bottom, and a moment after the waters rolled in with such power as to break her to fragments. Twenty-seven officers and men were drowned—three officers who were on shore, and two seamen who were rescued, being all that were eaved. The Wateree was thrown ashore and left high and dry about dye hundred yards from high water mark. elk, was badly strained, and her wanton was such that the expense of any attempt to launch her would have exceeded the value of the vessel. Grader these circunittatces it was deemed !hi 'the beat ir.tereets of the government to sell her. and the necessary direc tions were accordingly given. Bat a single man - was lost from the ves-el—a seaman in charge of the cap. tam's gie on the beach. who was carried ont to sea by, the waves Rear-admiral Turnermas at Callao, in his flag-ship, the Powhatan, when this calamity occurred, and, as a matter of security, steanviciont of the harbor until the next morning. On learning of the disastrous results of the earthquake at Arlcq, he proceeded to that point. The Poxvhstan, on application of the authori ties of Peru, was permitted to convey surgeons, nurses, for the relief of the thousands of sufferers at Ar Cu The commanding officer of the Wateree also I urniehed such aid as he could to the destitute inhab itants, with provisions from the ship's supply. The senior officer at Valparaiso promptly responded to an application of the Chillan government, by placing the Tuscarora at the service of the authorities to convey viovisions anti other necessaries to the sufferers alony the coast. NAVY-YARD PACIL/TIEB In the event of a war with any - maritime power, our battles are to be fought upon the sea and not upon the land—by our fleets, not by our armies. Nonation 01 Europe can transport any considerable military force to our shores, but should it be attempted, they would be met upon the ocean and there arrested by our navy, if it is maintained in a condition at all com mensurate with our maritime ability, and such as common prudence admonishes us to have always ready to be put In commission. Our floating bul warke, not less than our harbor fortitleationa, should receive attention; for, though peace now prevails, and we hope and expect its continuance, there may be war in the not remote future, for which a wise and prudent government should he always prepared Wo are also admenished by the experience of the peat that among contending belligerents the rights of neutrals are not always respected; and the best guar antee against aggression is a timely exhibition of our ability to maintain the honor and rights of the coan triinfortunate would be our condition should the coun try bo sudoenly involved in hostilities with one of the principal maritime powers were we no better pro paree than when the late rebellion commenced. In none of our navy yards is there more than a sin gle dry-dock, and there are but six in all—three built of stone and three floating docks. In the event of a maritime war this deficiency would be seriously felt— perhaps to a greater extent than any other of our press ing wants- and it is worthy of consideration whether steps should not be taken withoni delay to place our naval establishments in this respect in a condition approaching, at least ' our relative importance with other naval powers. The dock-varde at Cherbourg and Toulon in France, and at Portsmouth in Great Britain, each contain a greater number of dry-docks than all our yards combined: and some of the -other dock-yards of these powers are but slightly inferior to those named. W bile Great Britain, France, and other wartime powers aro increasing their dry-dock facilities, already far greater than oars, we are doing nothting in this direction. These and hindered subjects have been adverted to in preceding reports, and need not be recapitula-. ted in detaii, hut could not be wholly omitted. _DEDUCTION OP THE FORCE IN NEVE-I'6IIEIS. A reduction of the working force in the navy yards was commenced soon after the close of too war. by gradually elsruissing the most inefficient and timet able mechanics and laborers, and; retaining only the experts and most faithful halide for continued perma nent employment. This arrangement, while it re lieved the department of the least profitable employes, secured a bogy of skilful mechanics on whom the gOvernMent could always depend, and who _would toren a nucleus to initiate others in any emergency. Hulls which had been commenced in the navy-yards during the war were in progress of construction and yet unfinished at its cum, tor - which engines were building under contracts. To employ a email force of the best mechanics to complete in due time the work on these vessels was considered true economy, and tor the best interests of the government in all re specie. But the action of Congress bas necessitated a further reduction, so that but a remnant of that body of superior mechanics who were employed during the war remains, and they are engaged almost exclusively in the repair and refitment of vessels. Congress, by reducing the day's laborof those who work for the goverilment. to' eight hours instead of tea, has imposed on the department, as a necessity, the employment of a largernumber of hands to ex ecute the same amount of work; and tt is was intended that tho per diem compensation tor a working day of ten hours in outside establishments should. under the statute, fix the rate of wages in navy yards, 2J per cent. Is added to the cost of labor. TDB NAVAL ACADEMY Vice-Admiral Porter continues in cnarge of the Naval Academy. Thu high standing of the institution con tinues to be maintained, and the officers yearly added to the service possess the advantage of excellent academic culture with professional discipline. The number of graduates at the close of the last academic year was 79; the. number of admissions the present year, -i9; total number of midahlecten now at the academy,-259. Since the passage of the act of March 2, ISO, until the faint:tam of the present class, I have appointed no midshipmen from the States which were excluded om reoresentati on; but the admission of representa tives during the current year, though at a late period has led to the le:commendation and appointment of several midshipmen from those States. NAVAL ANMENTIORN. The act of June 17. 1868, limits the number of per sons authorized to be enlisted into the navy, includ ing apprentices and boys, to eight thousand five hundred, and no more. This limitation, which ie ac tually below the maximum which existed prior to the war, has compelled the Department to reduce the number of naval apprentices A discontinuance of geneital enlistments was ordered immediately on the passage of the act, and discharges have been taking Place to such an extent as to require the Department to put one of the school ships out or comtnlsslon. The necessity for this step is to be regfetted, because, a policy bad been adopted for the future of the navy. which, if properly encouraged and sustained, would have furnished both the naval and commercial ma. rine wlth.a body oc mariners of unsurpassed excel lence. I am unable to perceive reasons for 'minding naval apprentices within the established number of persons employcifin the naval eervlce, and the eat3Ct 'Mud necessarily be to limit their nnajber, and-check a nohow so suspiciously commenced, it it t does • not 'wholly defeat the great object intended, BUR VUI" OF rui 1 , 1011771 rAINFIC. In_view of the rapidly . inereaeing _intertentiwe be 'western America 'anti Asia. of •they-growing commerce ol the Pacific 6tates, and -et the • , important and various interests which are, npringlnt. np In connection ,with our''recent eXtenstve aoduisi • mons, it is important that a more complete andays ' tematic survey should be made of the -North acme Octnn. The naval •vessels =the station continue to perform some useful but necessarily limited and irreg-, War eurvon over that extensive, and partially explored field. but the period has arrived when something more effective should be done.- _ ~ . Attention is especially invited to Brooks or Midway Islands, discOvered a few years ago and recently sur veyed by order of thls department. ,The charts of the slimy represent two Islands enclosed in a lagoon. terming& perfectly secure harbor; accessible to ves• eels drawing less than twetty , _ and affording an abundant supply of pure;freali water. Thes&lidands, which are uninhabited and unoccupied; are situated about midway between California and eastern Asia, on the track of the 'mall steamships,- and furnish the only knoWn refuge forvesselapasslng directly between the two continents.: It is represented by the naval officers who. ade the utilVeY, and also bt , Reg-Admiral Thatcher, lately in command of the NorttiTackle squadron, that the bar at the entrance of the harbor might be &smelled at a very email expense, and a port vastly= superior to Honolulu be thus opened to mariners, where a denet might ,be eetablished for the supply of provisions, water, and fuel to the ocean steara lines, and a refuge aftordett to merchant ships navigating. that ocean. The importance ,of taking posseselcmofthese Wanda, and making thepropos improvements, can scarcely be overestimated and should tbe delayed. . ~.. .... 6 The Department bats continued preilous arrange ments for the custody and preservation of the Iron clad fleet which it hats on hAtid. These vessels can bo serviceable only in time of war, and tho probabilities are-that with a prolonged peace they will, from cm roalon and other causes, greatly .deterlorate, and not unlikely become useless before they will be needed for service. In the meantime their keeping and proper care are, attended with considerable annual expense, and at no very dating period a large. outlay, almost 1 -egnal to-the - aaristructlon - of - netv - 'Nesselsiwillt quird to put them in aallingand (Wmhi conditiOn. • Since the passage of j thojoint restantion.authoriz ine their sale but two have been disposed of—the Ca tawba andtineota, - ots class --- of Wallope similar in all reapects-;at their appraised value. 4)755.000, which has been paid into the general treasury, as dt rected, and not applied to the primes-a or this De partment. Exception was taken to this sale and tranafsr, ano Congress, through a committee. ordered an investigation. Delay and embarrasament followed to the anroyanco of the foreign noverninent which was indirectly the purchaser, and the effect, has been to diner other powers itOM offering to make purchases. and such of our countrymen as interested thee:mein* to effect Bales, as a r business oPeattion, have 'lnns rentiy abandoned their effort's.-- - - It bas been and still is the opinion of the Depart ment that tbe , trua policy of the_ governmeat is, to dispose, if possible, of all the vessels of the classes whose sale has- been authorized-by Congress, --To beep them entails a lame annual expense [wan the government, and ha a few seam if unused they_ will become valueless as vessels-of-war, and will have to be broken up end disposed of as old, material. it is worthy ofsonsideratlon therefore, whether they should not be sold, If opportunity offere, at less than tueir present appralsexuent. - raosiorrox Oir orricens. The act of April 21,1841, provides that ."no line offi cer upon the active list below the grade of cOatalo - nor any other naval officer, moray,; be _promoted to a higher - grade until:l4i Mental, moray. and profess-, biOrull fitness to perform all his duties at sea shall ba established to the satisfaction of a board of examin ing officers, to be appointed by the President of the United States, , 'and. unless be has won, examined by, a boardof naval surgeons and Profibanced physically qualified'to perform all his duties at sea " If not re commended for promotion by both of these boards the act directaihat he "shall be placed upon the retired list" Under the provisions of this act, young oilicera in the early stages of their active proicsalonal career are in some instances placed on the retired Hat and thus become pensionere for life, aftcr having received an education at the public experve. without rendering any equivalent service. No discretionary power la conferred Ql2 the Eecretary or _President: to permit e second examination, even if the efficerahall !um sub sequently overcome the cause of failure. nor can any relief be granted, for the act is mandatary. • It may well be questioned whether any °dicer below the grade, of lieutenant commandershouldhe .placed. on the retired list for mental or professional disquali fication which Molten the remit of indolence or in capacity. ' On the 17th of. April last a protosed form of deed= of this property, with accompanying papers. was re ceived from the city of Ptulaaelphis and transmit-, ted to the Attorney Uenetal for examination, art le quired by statute- The investigation of the various titles involved has necessarily been protracted. and one or two, points sormeaterl by the Attorney eenersl yet rennin to be reported, upon. It is thought that but a short rime will elapse - hefore the title will be per rectal aril the landlucome the property of the United state& - MTN ON TUN THANES NIVEA kVA NAVAL ponroora. In my last annual report it was stated that a tract of land, having a water front of, not less than a aa!e on the Thames river, near New. London, Connecticuk had been selected for the transfer to the United States, under the provisions of a clause in the_act making aproopriations for the naval service, approved' March 2, 1867; The deeds of the:propert7 were offered to the government by the Governor (it Connecticut or} the 22d of May, and after examination by the Attordery General, as movided by law, were formally accepted on the 27th of June, 1841 The second section of "An act relating to pen sions," passed attire last session of Congress, pro vides "that no person dish be entitled to a pension by reason of wounds received or disease contracted in the service of the United States subsequently to the passage of this act, unless the person who was wound ea or contracted the dbease was lithe lino of duty;" and, "It in the naval service, was at the time borne on the books of some ship or other vessel of the United States. at sea or in harbor, actually in com-. mission, or was on his way, by direction of competent authority, to the United Ststee,or to some ottiervistael or naval station." Some of the moat heard ous duty lb which naval officers are called upon to engage is discharged at shore stations, and when their names are not borne upon the books of !I vessel actu ally hi commission. It is manifestly unjust to deprive the family of an officer or. Beaman who may lose his Me while engaged in proving a gun. or firing a salute, or "in the line of duty" in any other way, ot the small pension heretofore allowed in such ewes, because his name happens to be borne upon the books of the station instead of a vessel in the harbor acto. ally in commission. . Within the past month an officer who had been . 42 years in the service, has died of disease "contracted in the lino of duty" on shore, and tinder the provisions of this act his family are deprived of a pension. it is recommended that the law be amended in this particular. The naval pension roll on the let of November, 1868, waa tut follow e: 1,175 invallde t annually receiving $92,574.19 1,515 widpwa and children, receiving 247,152.00 86 invalids, under actblareh 2. 1857. ro- 2,726 persons, receiving a total amount of. $347,031.19 There has been during .the year an increase on the pension list of 248 pereons, calling far s27,2(a.Uti. 11114E8 AND rxxemx rum. In my annual report for 1861. the proceeds of the sale •of prizes captured during the war and adjudicated prior 'to the Ist of November of that year were given. Since thbt date most of the cases then in court have been determined, and upon the ler of November of the present year the gross proceeds of such miles, as far as. returned, amounted to 824,875,- :i+1.91; expenses aster as returned $1,828,000.86; net proccids $23 629,627 -During, the year the naval pc.usion fund has been in creased 81,000,000, making a total at the present • time of sl4,eee, 000. The act of April IEOO. provided "that all moneys accruing, or which have already accrued, to the United States from the sale of prizes,thalt be and remain for ever a fund for the payment of pensions and half-pay, should the same be hereafter granted to the callzere and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same.' In the revision of the prize law in 1862, when the country was engag-d in war. this provision - teas' TO-' - enacted and subsequently, upon the recommendation IthisDepartment, the Secretary of the Navy, as t ustte of the fund, was authorized to invest It in reg.-, istered securities of the United States, which wap done, at the same rate of interest:the government was paying to other creditors, viz., Mx per cent. in gold.' The statute also provides that if the income of the fund is more than sufficient for the payment of pen alone, "the.surphis shall be applied to the making of further provision for the comfort of 'disabled - officers, seamen and marines." I cannot in juetice to•the distinguished navel of ficereoho have rendered invatuable service to the country, and by their gallantry contributed largely to this fund, omit again calling attention to the fact that the present pension laws make no provision for pensions to the families of the admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admirals, cOmmodores, and other, grades of "the line and'etaff, :and again urging that suitable pro vision be Made in each of these cases. ExrrseEp 4ND ESTIMATES., The available resources for the fiscal 3 ear, ending June 80,1868,'were $103,465, 754.69 By request or the Navy,'Departniont there was carried to the surplus fund of the treasury, on the 30th' September, 1867 ' • 65, 000, 000, 00 Leaving subject to draft 38,465,754.09 There remained in the treasury, on the 30th Jane, 1868 18 345 360 07 Sbowine en expenditure during the fiscal year of ' 20,120, 39 L 62 The resources for the current fiscal year are EU3 PA' lowa : Balance in the treasury $18,345,860.07 Appropriations, act Jane 17, 1868 17, 356, 350.09 . - • 85, 701, 710.07 There bas been designirted to be car- • • • • ried to the surplus fund 1,129,651:0.5 Leaving unexpended and available :for the current fiscal year • 84;672,015,12 The'estiruates for the fiscal yeat• ending Juno,Bo, 1670, are as follows: ' Pay of officers anti seamen of the • navy a 7 869;728.07 %pairs at buildings, (locos and in- ;;; ; • cidental expenses navy yards..: 1;285,08(1.00 Pay- of civil establishment in navy ; • 1 - • yards, hospitals, ,1:c • ' '426;885:76 Ordnance, repair cf magazines;,tic' 450, ClOO. tie Conk hemp, and . 1,820,,.000:00 .Navigation and navigation sunplibs.. 257:500.00 avai Academy, 210, 684 .40 LEA(It7E IBLAI4ID. 11= Naval °purgatory and .Nanttcal Ai , tisane - 40,560.011 Repair sun tireservatdon of vessels.. S.166,500;011 Ptetan machinery. tool,. &c I,2ass, 000,09 Provisions and ,clothing 0 1,672,i560.(110 Ilopains of rival boipitala and labor- • stories 46, (I00.01:1 Contingent expenses 1, 6 44,563 OD, support of marine corne t .. .. . ... ......... 1,174.767.7 T . --- Total , $20,998 , 414 51/ , As Congress has for two years declined to make , appropriations for improvements in navy yards, I der remit the several bureaus of the Department, in pre , paring their annual estimates, to accept the policy erophatically indicated of the wishes of Donates& and to limit their estimates to. the' amount necessary for the wants of the service, based upon the, authorized number of men, and want is absolutely required to keep in repair and to preserve the public property. Should it be thought advisable to place the , navy yards in more eillcient condition, befitting the regairements of the country and the service, former reports can bb : referred to for statements of improvements considers:l essential, or should the views of the Department in these respects, or as regards`any branch of the service' be desired, they will be promptly tarnished. Since the close of the war the estimates_ of Departmeot and the appropriations of Congress have -- until the present year, been based on a MAXIMUM Of 15.000 enlisted men. • The , eatimates mow submitted 'are - for 8,503 mho, lit: chiding appreptices. the number established by the , act approved on tho ilth of last June. Should EFOXI ffICPO at eta , present eession enlarge or diatintett the number now authmized, tho appropriations ehould be made necessarily to correspond, and the estimates which follow must conform to existing legislation. repoug • The accompanying rts of the chicle of tho sev eral bereave, and of the> commandant of the merino corps, giVe a suromary of the operations of their sev eral departments during the year, and are referred CO for lull Information, upera polate_whiett_can_herairaty bell ftyaltiitted to. __ . • The Commandant of the Marine Corps reports the force in the best poasible condition of elliciency and elscipline,and the barraeke andpublic propertyin-thelr-- charge well - Cara for and in adinireble order. A. re duction of the force corresponding to tnat of the naval service ban been made, and the entire atreurgth of the corps, officers and men, la now about 2 800. The marine barracks in Wrishington,built of indiffer. exit material nearly seventy yeara ago, are represented as rapidly crrimbliog to decay. and in each a alum.. detect condition that it wilt be impossible for the • troops much longer to occupy theca. The necessity for ;the'erection of new 'barracke, which has been re-. peatedly urgral, Is again respectfully recommended. CUNOLUSION. In this my eighth annual report, it Is aeatisfedlori te state that the 3 ear now drawing to its close has been navvy.f ysf acetal bat active cruising on the part of tho Our corrimace end gapping interwe, If, less extensive than-they were eight Yews ago; are never theleea as vigilantly guarded and pmtected. The waste of warts always great, but much of the expenditure of the Navy Department, which is but a small per cent. of the tuitional war expenses, is In vested In navy yard improvements, which are worth to the gnvernment all they cost, and, in naval-yassels and ordnaece, which have at all times an ititrinein vante. When the fact of this large amount of pro perty on hsnd, of the return of minions to the t•es vorY. of tbe magnitude of the war, of the vast opus.. tions or_the Davy. and of the depreciation of the cur rency. and •the cor , sequently enuanced prim!) won which thrteeoperationa were conducted, are cocustder ed. the economical and faithful administration of the Navy Department will be admitted. My acknowledgements are, doe to the gentlemen who, In their several grades, have been associated with um In the discharge of the laborious and re eporsible duties of tats deetttment, for the able and ethcient service which they have readered. In the choice of my assistants. of the chiefs of the several bureaue, end of others who have participated in the civil administraticm of this department, as also In the sett ction and assitranient to duty in the navy of tae officers whose meritorious conduct and heroic achieve ments have illumined our history and given enduring renown to the navy, lege= myself to have been most fortunate. and I cannot elm this report without ex pressing towards each my sense of grateful °lotto, Lions, and commending them to the gratitude of the government and country. Gmton Wirmata, Secretary of the Navy' To.the.lttaident: F.VEL*Ort'is OF THE POSTMASTER4JENERAL POST OFF - lelt DRTAIiTMEST, Dee. 3, 1868. —Sir: The ordinary postal revenue for the year ending the 30th day of -June last, was $16.291,600, and the expenditures during the same period, includ ing service for which special appropriations were made, $22,730,592, showing an excess of expen ditures of $6,437,991. The receipts from postages, as compared with --the previous year, show an increase of six per c.entute and the expenditures an increase of eigh teen per cuatum. The ordluary expenses, not ineluding mail transportation for wbich special appropriations were made, were 421,555,592, and the receipts, including the amount drawn under the acts mak ing appropriations for carrying "free mall mat ter," were $20,092,600, showing an excess of ex penditures of $1,462,991. The receipt., of the department were :—Frinn posteges, $16,292,600; the amounts drawn from the Treasury under acts making .appropriations for "carrying free matter," $3,800,000, and under the acts making epecial appropriations for "over land mail and marine service between New York and California," $1,1'25000; steamship service be tween San Francisco, Japan, and China, 4125,- 000 . ; between the "United States and Brazil," *JOAO; for "carrying the mail on routes estab lished by acts passed dal ig the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress," 4486,525, and. "for prOparing and publishing post route maps." $10,000; making the receipts trom all sources 421,989,125. The expenditures of all kinds were as above stated, 422,730,592, showing an excess of expenditures over receipts of 4741,466, for which a special appropriation will be required- The revenue account stated by the Auditor (see appendix) differs from the foregoing because of his adding to the reedipts of the department,from all sources, a balance of $1,494,469, standing to the credit of the revenue account Jply 1. 1867, hut whfch is not immediately available. The estimates for the current fiscal year, as eubmitted to Congress with the last annual re port. showed anticipated deficiency of 43.- 298,000, to meet which there was then la the Trea sury $2,000,000, being the unexpended balances of termer appropriations standing to the credit of the department, leaving the amount to be pro vided by aPpropriation from the general Trea sury 41,296,000. Of this sum Congress appro pi bated 4800,000. '[he expenses during the fiscal year just clesed exceeded the estimated amount, especially in the item of transportation, and thus absorbed the 0 $2,000,000 relied on to assist in meeting the an ticipated deficiency for the current year. The ordinary expenditures for - the current-year were also estimated too low, from the fact that the de partment could not, at the Lime the estimates were made, anticipate the extraordinary increase of service established by, acts of Congress. Tak ing those or the last fiscal year as a basis it is an ticipated that In the current year there:will be a deficiency of $3,60500. There will also be re (eared 497,000 for service on the route from Fort Abercrombie to Helena, Montana, anthorizedhy the act of July. 27, 1868, from January 1,1869,, to , June 30, 1869; and to meet the increased liabili ties of the department for service on the "over land route," $161,000, making $3,862,500 which will be required to meet deficiencies in the re ceipts for the current fiscal year. The accompailyieg report of the Auditor fully' sets forth the details of the financial operatlona of the department. The:ordinary expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1870, (including $645,250 for overland end sea mails to . California) are estimated at ' 424,510,41 a The ordinary revenue is estimated at an increase ,of five per ceutum on that_',.of. the year _just closed, or $17,100,000 Add the standing appropri salmi for carrying 'free mail matter.... Making the total estimated revenue 17,800,000. Showing an excess of expenditures of $6,740,413 to be provided for from tho general Treasury. It will also bo necessary to make the- usual, special appropriations as follows: , Mail Steamship service - between San Francisco, Japan and China $500,000 Mall steamship , service between the United States and 150,000 Mail steamship. service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, 75,000 During the year 883,470,500 postage atomPs, of the value of $11,751,014 including 160,000 pone dicul stamps..valued at $14,750: 44,552,300 plain stumped envelopes, representing - $1,285,218. 25,460,750 stamped envelopes, bearing, printed etude and requests for return, to writers repre senting $750,520, and 3,072,600 newspaper wrap pers, valued at $67,372,, were issued , The aggre gate value of these issues Was - $19,863,124—being an Increase Of 3 .45400 per contain over the issues of tho,previous year. The sale of postage stamps 'and stamped envelOpee during the year. as ro. ,ported by the Auditor, was, '514.066,119, or $209,016 more than tho issue; thus absorbing to that amount the stock remaining unsold in the lands of Postmasters June 80,4807. The number of packages of postage stamps lost in the mails 700,000 durfeji the r year ilea - 33,. epreeenting $2;67`.., ~and . of stem ped _envelopes , 7, Yenned at $220.• There were In the service'of the department on the 3d Jan, 1868,, , 8,§91 contractors ;Pr the transPortation-of the atolls. Of , mail routes in operation there were .8,226;' aggregatallengtb, 210.928'rnilee; aggregate annual transportation, - 84,224,325 mike; aggregate annual cost, $10,236,. 056; including the compensation of poattl rail way clerks route agente, local agents, mail- tries sen gere,retail-route znessengent and baggage mss-' tern. In charge of malls, viz: $1,114,333,the aggre gate annual cost was* 1.1,380,389.Tti1s service was _divlded.as,foltows, viz: -Railroad routes-length, .36,018 miles, annual transportation, 34 : 886,- : 178" IntletlV annual cost, $4,177,126: about 3,2 cants per 'Mite. - Steamboat' routes` Length ' 19;647 ' miles; annual transportation 3,707,530 miles; annual cost, $350,331, about 1613 cents per mile. Celerity, certainty and security-Lengtb, 161,233 =ilea; annual tranepottation, 45.540,587 miles; annual cost. $5,438,299; about 12 mate per mile. The length or routes was increased over the pra; ceding 'ear 13,083 .mlige; thh,annuai-transporta tion,,s,24l,p3G, and ce5t,.59 . 29,77 Opt° _which add - beresied eost fiar- railway ems, al - clerks,-route,- local and other other agents, $93,762, making an aggregate of $1,023,562: ---- In reference to-the overland-mail.route-the re- port states that after the failure of several bidders,. whose entitraeterhad` been accepted 'to carry the mail, a contract was made with Wells, Fargo & Co. to carry the mails between the termini[ of the Union Pacitie and Central Pacific Railroads for one year. or untilthe two roads ' meet; 'at the e o ratf 481,760,000 per Minna:, subject to deduc tion pro rata for every section of fifty miles of railroad completed and reported to the depart ment ready to carry the mails, It being estimated thetthe_AttP between the railroads, -covered 'by theitage Service, - will - be lesitened at tberratc-of fifty miles every fifteen days, or a hundred miles a month, and that it will be closed up entirely by ' the let of Auguit, 1839, and that upon this bads the pay to Wells, Fargo 454. Co., sander their ac cepted proposal; will amount in all to about $370,000. Messrs. Wells, Fargo & Co. also ob tained the con tract to carry the mails from Coyote, EA111 , 013, to Denver. Colorado, at , $79,000 per an., nuts; and also, on the route froM Cheyenne, Da,- cotah, to Denver, at 40;970 - per annum, on 'the same terms as above stated. Under these ar rangements the overland mail service on the -three-routes„is now 7 in_segularoperation.-The terrl tor tal mails are now carried ;froth Tort-Aber crombie. Dacotah, to Helena, Montana, at 11194,060. The service; on Gm` route front Sheri dan (on the eastern division of.the UntowPacific Railroad) to ;Santa Fe-bas been increased from three to six . trips` per:. Week, and! the schedule time reduced to four days in summer. The sor vlee Is well performell,, though still occasionally by hostile Indiana: ' The Important route from Salt Lake City to the Danes, Oregon; has been reset from let October:hot for to.x.4ltnee a-week-Fe:nice, at the rate of $149,000 per annum -,A salving, as compared with the last contract, of slo4,oooper annum., The 3014 of June, 186f3. being the period for the expiration of the term;of contracts for trans porting mails In the States of New Jersey, Penn sylvania Delawaredderylandand Ohio, the de naritmenl, In anticipation or the close of the terra, entered upon a sysitematie revision apd re adjustment of. the rates;of pay_on railroad router otthose States. , Vberever the ' returns required or jut:tilled a change from the former rate a cir cular was addressed to the , proprietors -of the route, submitting tho offer of the to department and explainipg Its purpose. In many instances the terms offered have, after considerable eorrespon- Abaco, been accepted, and contracts made ac .ordlngly,., ,In others, , though formai contracts are 'for the service , for • the first quarter of the new term, not executed, Inc department , :has proceeded ' to settle of the rates offered. many routes In other States than those above named' have been brought up fur review, upon applications made by the pro prietors of tho railroads interested,' and In every ease where-the returns showed a readjastotentlo• - be proper it has been ordered. Thus the rates have been changed upon seventy-ono mates In in all, as appears the annexed "table showing the readjustment of rates of pay per mile on certain railroad routes." The total amount of the annual pay upon them roines, under the re adjustment, it will be seen, is $926,043, and the total amount_ of the former annual pay $775,722 - -an excess of the present over the former amount of $150,320. In connection with this subject It may be proper to state that at differ ent OURS within the months of January. Febru ary and ,- March last, while - Congress was in cession, there were submittal to the depart ment. in behalf of a "cadmium on mail service" an-;ainted at a national railroad convention pre - frly - held, - several Schedules of proposed ',ages in the rates of pay for the transports non of molls on -railroad routes, and finally the draught of an act on the subject, to be submit ted:if approved by the Postmaster-General', to the postellice committees of the House and Sen ate. The proposed asst provided that In all con tracts hereafter to be made with railroad compa nies for the transportation of the mail, the rates of compensation should be, at the option of the Postmaeter-General, in proportion either to the weight, of matter to be traneported 'or to the number of cubic feet of car space which the de partnient might require for the acCommodation or its mails and agents. The schedule of rates -,prescribed , in the act' al lowed upon every 'mile-of -actual transporta tion seven cents for car spare per day not ex ceeding twenty-five cubic feet, or weight per day mot exceeding 250 pounds; twelve cents for car apace per day exceeding twenty-five and not ex ceeding fifty cubic feet, or weight per day ex ceeding 250 and not exceeding 500 pounds, and so on, ascending to a similar sliding scale, until, for 2.600 cubic feet, the largest amount of "car apace"found upon - any route reported; the, rate reachedlls cents for every ,mile of ' transporta tion. Theproposed act provided further that an additional sum of one d.ollar should be allowed for every mile run by a train specially required to be run for the transportation of the mall, and two cents per mile• for transportlngM the pas senger cars any agent traveling on theimaineas of the department, routekagents to be.transported free, nut at their own risk.' Among - the other papers was , a -"comparative statement'? purporting to show the effectof the adoption of, the committee's rates upon the whole cost of the railroad mail service in'operation. by which it was made to appear that a diminution of thirty eight per cent. would result, leaving out of the account all car space' beyond the amount re quired to transport the mails as freight, allow ing 'a cubic foot for every- ten pounds' weight; and -this thirty-elght per cent. it was suggested by the committee, would probably be more than sufficient to cover the east of extra' car ,service required for th use'of route agenta and poatal clerks. If wad found, however, upon estimating the - Lear space used upon the first seven - routes-in table E. in the last annual report (pages 72-85), allowing six and or:c heat feet for the {height of 'the ear 'cell -4 "rg,-he :. suggested by ;the coMmittee,, that thirty-eight per cent, would be insufficient to .or the amount of transportation shown upon a routes alone at the committee's rates. To * ,i t , i xtiiin,, thererore,-the, real „effect Which...the ~,ssAc...,ption of the proposed rates would have upon g,' , ;i:'„nite annual coat of mail transportation on rail ' road rates,' a statement was made up in the de partment, predicated upon the "car service” and actual transportation already in use, as shown la table E, in the last animal 'report, by which it was found that the increase of expense would be enormous. Thus, for. Illustration, on the Phila delphia, Wilmingtrin Mid 'Baltimore Railroad mail apartmenteof eight different sizes were re ported, which- were estimated to average 1,750 cubic feet. For this amount of "car space" the schedule prescribed in the ,proposed act allowed i eighlY;one,cents per mile. The number of trips on the route' was reported at twenty-eight 'per week. Each trip inctuding the run forth and back, the number of trips Inuit be.doubled to find the amount of transportation per week on each mile of the road's length" making fifty-six miles, and this again multiplied by fifty-two to find the amount per annum, making 2,912 miles, which, at eighty-one cents per mile, would give $2,868 as the pay per annum for every mile of the road's length. The , present rate is $376. - The disparity on some other 'renters would be still greater, the rates running up from $75 to $2,000 and more, and from $2OO to $3,000 more. On the whole amount of railroad service; in opera tion on the 30th of Juno, 1867, the' effect would bolo Increase the annual expense from 483,812,- 600 to $21,710,023-:an excess of $17,897,423. The department forbearing, upon such a showing, to take any part in„presenting the proposed act to the Poet Mice committees of the two houses of Congress, has proceeded with the. iv,ork of read justing the rates of pay on railroad routes upon a scale within the limits of existing laws and much More 'compatible with'She resources at its command: - During the past year an • engraved post route map, in four sheets, has been completed ,by the topegrapher;:and coplea issued for the use of:the department, representing the, post-offices and mail service in the State of Now York; and ; its connections with adjacen t States, and with the dominion of Canada. This map along with that proviso:tall' published, representing the North eastern Staten hag been tound of great nee in the ' • • • • • • I Ltd '/A Yr. , L , 1 11 1 , OA- . I I y , • s • • • I • - - seteral b anches of ttsieleiiriment'itiiTaireir work tepestizineterif end others; and Oepeeialllftti ; the el4lo3Cf,thetrivelinT'Onitread),postiaffilere. }ln eottleg end = d istribut ing hitt e rs.; . A similar map, of tnefitateta of Pennsylvania, New Jereey, • DClaivere and Maryland was expected to have been.leined before thisbut the Large amonut of work req u ired • in chiapiliation has delayed the leette. The plates are expected from the en graver within three monthe. The map of the State Maine! , end laillegencres is also well advanced Ite Prighitrer'a s4 hands and _be completed about , the same time. Drawings are being prepared for the map of Ohio and Indientii-,and these other Ststfese;lti" groups, twill be talon up` as fast as thetteehltar nature and the magnitude - of this work will - Ine s imposed ' 5 , L t - .4 ` • -Thef menet of finetritnponedc totitractOra ; and deductiobs made from their pay during the year was $116,609,, and the amount remitted <VIYi 7 PP,I4I4II3g Wm 'net - atriFirmt,ictf fines and dia• • duetions '545,814: The amount expended for ' new mail bags was $.58,016. • Tbere aro now in operation in the United States 26..milway t postal linesn'eutull videttin to 34 metes; eiteeding in the'eggregate over -7,019 - miles of railway and steamboat lines. upon 1,571 miles of -which twice r daily- servieet—la performedsT reaking'it total eqnal to- 8,090 miles Of railway postal service daily eachsway.and an increase of 3,276 miles over *helm - Flee m operatien in 1867. There are employed le' :this service 279 *Mr, as ,head clerks, clerks and assistant clerks, at sale= itiee'ranging fretit 's9oo to $1.400 per annum, malting an aggregatecost W 44329,700 per -an increase of 119 men, at a coat of $141,800 over the prealoue year. , To perform this ;work, in the 'old way would reqiiii - e the services ~ of 283 em loyett, at a cost of $331,935, showing a saving of $2;235 asiimwork - ln - notr beingdone;ltis propee to state that the set - vide Is being performed, not• as formerly, byre:into agentspa the slow way_ or ae coramilidalkditrainti,bnt. upon the fades; express attithitt byineans of; Ward's mail bag . '; catcher, the clerks are exchanging pouches •st all ,offlece pn the line Onee'seff in rata.. twice daily each . Way:. (intim Eidson River and New ,York Central' - Railroads, for instance, the postal car leavea NOW Wale'at 8 A. M., Performing ser- Nice at AIL etations 'to Syraeuse, where they ar- ' rive•at half past six P. M., and from Syracuse to Buffalo, where, they, arrive , at e twelve,midnight, rillexpresse stops. _Ale ffightlineleaven ,New . York at eleven P. IL, perforMing services for all 'ofticesat express stops to Albatiyamtving Albany • at quarter past seven A- M. performing the ser vice at all post-offices to Buffalo,where they ar rive at halt-past eight,-P., IL, so that every oflicaowihe, line'from New York,•,via Albany to Buffalo that chooles to exchange Mails twice is, served.twice daily with mail eash way. Under the old route agent system, this , same service was perforMed as follows: Route agents left -New York in the morning and ended in Albany in the • afternoon; other route agents left Albany in the mowing and arrived in Syracuse in the- evening, and still otherroute agente, leaving Syracuse, fn .., the morning, arrived In Buffalo in the afternoon —requiring from two 'to three 'days to ' send a letter from one point to another and 'receive an answer. Now letters can be'tent and answers re turned-between almost any- two-officea on the line within twenty-four hours. This is Bluntly. , an illustration, the, seam Improved facilities for the rapid . traelmieelou of mails obtain' ng on ' most other lines of railway - postal service. ':The aggregate amount of postage, inland, sea • ard toreign, upon the letter correspondence ex changed with foreign .'countries was $2.153,690: Of this amount $1;700,467 accrued en the letter snails exchanged with European countrbis,s3o9,- 518 nil letters exchanged with the Dominion of Canada, and $137 706 on the letters exchanged with the West Indies, Mexico, Brazil, Central and South America, the Sandwich Islands, Japan and Ghlna. The total letter postagen on mails exchanged with co - Mettles of Europe during the first six months,from . July 1 to December 31;1867, inclusive, under the pro Visions of the postal eon 'yendoes then in force, amounted to $1,057,612; and on mails• exchanged with the same countries during the mane of the fiscal year, from January Ito June 30,1868, at the reduced rates eistablisbed by existing conventions, amounted to $618,854, being a reduction tq the advantage of correspondents during add six months of $408,- 758, on an increased correspondence amounting to 626.548 lettere per annum. The postage col leetioni in the United States on the correspon dence exchanged with Great Britain and countries on the Continent of Europe amounted to $l,- , 090;245. and the postages-- collected in Europe amountsa to s6lo,243—excess of Collections the Mitten States, $474,020. The estimated amount of United States poetage upon -the letter malls exchanged with Great Britain' __and the Contibent of Europe was $793,700; with Canada and the British North American provinces, $176,179, and withahe West Indies, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and China, and Central and South America, $128,098, making in all $1,097,979-11 deereaee of $98,426 compared with estimate of previous; year. Ad ding the amount of United States postage upon printed matter exchanged in United States and European mails, calculated at $90,000, and $lO.- 529,the reported amount of United States postage on printed matter exchanged with the West In dies, Mexico, South Arnerida. China, Arc., the total United States postage on foreign mails (exclusive of printed matter interchanged - with the British North American provinces, of which no separate account is kept), was $1,138,508. The number of letters exchanged with foreign countries (exclusive of the British North Ameri can. Provinces) was 11,128,532, of which 5,900,307 were sent - from and 5,228,225 received in the United Stake, increase over number of previous year, 830.208. Of this number 10,068,659 were exchanged with European countriee t an increase . of 620,548 compared with the previous year. Es- Granting the number exchanged , with the British provinces at 2,476,000,the total number of letters exchanged in the mails With foreign countries was 13,600,000. From the Ist of January, 1868, the date on which the new postal conventions with Great Britain, North Germany, Belgium; etc., came into operation, the arrangements made by this department for the Transatlantic mail steam ship service have been restricted to the out ward mails, in accordance with the new system adopted in said convention that each office shall make RE own arrangements for the mails which it despatches, and shall, at its own cost, remu nerate the owners of the steamships employed for the conveyance of the same: and in like manner the sea transportation of mails received 'from Europe since the Ist of January, 1868, has been provittedand raid for by the respective foreign post departments despatching' the same to tnis country. From July 1 to • December 31, 1867, inclusive, the steamers employed by this department in transport ing malls in both directions conveyed mails the - total postages which - amounted to - $491,534' and those employed in same service by foreign post department conveyed mails, during same period, the total postages on which amounted to $566,078. During , the last half of the fiscal year, from January 1 to June 30, 1868, inclusive, the total poatages on mails sent to Europe - under the new arrangements -amounted to $340,835, and the total postagea 'on mails received from Europe during the same period amounted to $308,019 these reduced amounts resulting from the re dueed rates of international poStage charged on and after the let of January, 1868, under the provisions of the new postal conventions, which came into operation on that date. Tho cost of the United States transatlantic mail steamship service from July 1 to December 31,_1867; under_ arrangements then in force, allowing the', non postage as compensation, was $282,017, and from January Ito Juno 80, 1868, under the new arrange ments. 5189 760—a reduction of over one-half from the costof the same service during the previous six months. Total cost of transatlantic *service for the year. $421.777. being $120,560 less than the preceding year. The amount , paid for the tranaportation of mails to and from the West indica, &c., by en amera , receiving various rates of cam. pensationwithin the limit of the'pestages,_ wies 570,287, and the coat eine and isthmus conveyance of mails to and from Central and South Amerlca,by way of Panama. was $27.334. making a total expenditure for ocean trans portation 'of $519.999, exclusive of payments amounting to the sum of $497,916 made during the year to the steam• ship lines to Brazil, to Japan and China,and to the Sand wich Islands. respectively, receiving subsidy grunts fixed by *special acts of Congress. Newpostal conventions with Great Britain, the North German Union, Belgium and Netherlands, reopectively. the leading provisions of which wore briefly stated in my last report were carried into effect on the let of Jan uary, len; and those concluded with Switzerland and . Italy into operation on the IA of April, 1868 On the pith of December 1867, before the new convention with the United Kingdom of 18th June 1887, went - lino operation. notice was given by the British Bost (Mice to terminate the same on 4he Slat of December, Mk, in accordance with the Atower reserved in the 91st article thereof: which notice was accomp anied -by the announcement, that Mr. Anthony Tro llope would be despatched to Washington in the spring of 1869 with full powers to negotiate a new convention better calcu. latest to afford satisfaction to the people of the two' coml. tries. The provisions of the new convention to supercedo. the present One on the let ef January 1869. were accord. it gly, arranged with Mr. Trollops at Waahingten in July last; and, alter adjusting by direct correspondence - be. tween the two post departmeete certain modhicationslon which Mr. Tro ll ope dld'not consider himself authorized to treat, the 'modified convention mess formally executed , on the :Nth of November last. Ito general provisions are substantially thede of the present conventin: At the in vitation of the fftenchltovernment Mr, Kamen was sent to Prance, but failed to effect a revision of the postal con vention with that country. 'There haw been a motightation oftheeictatconvenden vrlthcanadrione made ettabllahhet'aaexchangeerniell with - 140 0 th estlndier r The nueitgetunghtp sec vice tO japsn la referred to as being repusr ,agio energetic,. In , :Oconee to the coaling of the latiaMere title ;mate the septet sags , :••-•1t wag hoacti that the 'dictiogekltby‘ eaucluasuri et atga)l . stogp of Waggle gattingstetween- ryitornLcaudChian, ilia innientenhiattingtecrWith /Sect tollths 'steamship ;elite, would.have resulted in, in I : ereatithe the.eflictepcp^ el the ItervVe by 'relieving the' rttetrholps Mut .theibecesen,y,solnarrybse rite 'pelf. I Weillitefithallegeired foreoluriniptlen e onthtlr. long. tvoyaip, of IV OOO . _ f iee, 'the ' . efforts of, the eicon-„ ft:ear:tore "t&e , 'llteettlite-der linPreveibent 4 Werre reg at ffed vrith abet Wry Bat Auffertunatify,,thir surveye made by . films of navy. a s well as those of the ateetuship colnlian/Y- dernonstratodttliat , the Project w,ars , implacticable- of executiont.at.present.,ewing to ',realness Of writer nt the, entrance to the harbor.' ' if it, ghoul& prove feat flotraiorinVero2l4l atri anfoinked frethe opinion of competent naval , officers ,whoso sittentionhati been :• Rivets to the; subject. to ' obtain the noteerare in., tbo eresaed de;th of - W on the bar. bya reasonable ex lf l ur ? te ier ri l t t n t xPe g ofl A t t u :;efriWOnitstrsioteorliT atteteAel go - census firiartrell rok - the ettarament of tins ; object as- for • other -public 'advantages of a ',national and; 1: commercial character that:Will readily. siege& -them-.+ selves. At ineresee apd.extensien of the aervieo on the 3JaPen and.Clotha line is reconuriendeil to the cepaidera., Ben of Cengrarl.• Tiro inailrehave beensatigfrictorhy car- ! t ried to brazil and toe klawattattilefitnd/is With regard: to th e ph:Testa, contract with the Commercial Navigation Company of few-. York, autboriZed by het of Ceingress, Mender' declined' to execute one in the 211111,12110. and , On the conditions stated. but expressed his willingueaa. to make a conditional contract for _the carrying of mails to 'Europe 1)y American steansibipor. et ;last four outward In • tripe cacti eek.''l view the great 'lmportance of the subject lin earnestly , -recommended:- the .proposed E , contract hie, careful conthiersetion and action. • Coiatinning, the report i 5 r Welly , concur In' th e re. commendation of niy predeceas pr. ~ -. ltesturiestenatneral: Leauseeon, in hie annum report,oriloyomber 1884, , that. - Should be made. - by tree y itipulations between' nations or otherwhe; forthenteeptionsitreatment of re , our Erim u t t e k t t s .ft r uble. de ,wiiroo authorizing such Ipackete. imaer proper sateguards.agairuit the transporta tion cf ,pereons, or ertieles, contraband of veer,. to.. con. three their navigation' withoill'irdoeditnent or interruP- Xurinit the yearthe re wen:. 2,167 past °flees establiehed, 849 diet't Mitered and 26,481 fn operation on Jae*, 30. lette. , rri eggreeete copenestien , for *pedal agents, /route agenteg Mite , incireengers, :portal railway , clerke. local agents and beggage masters .the gervice during the v ear ending June 30, 16.68 amounted , to $961,g70. - lire free delivery ay stem has been in , oration during 'the. year in fort .eight of the principal citie pe s. It has'COO togrow.in nemilarlievor. and ; has,,, , to serest e-s.O ex.- to the general and box has,_ . In Rhiladelphia. Chicago, , kt. Louts, Cleveland.' Loulivil and other cif teethe number of post office horsehair bee _ ...eireetly reduced, andthe hope is conlideirtii-eirtortaleed._ .that this mode of : delivery will Ultimately aupereede all *there. Its necessity hi large cities is illustrated by the tingle example of heir Vern, with Its 64W hexer., repro- ' tenting 30,000 name/. any one of will .h .each mortice. 'clerk must be able' to recall and associate with the proper box on the instant, a work impersible •to be do'. e witliontilability to error. Tb a dithetdty necessarilyin _ creases with the 'arose th of the city. and fi nds no remedy (for the reason stated) in the multiplication of clerks. Rho only remedy I or. this. evil known to mete tbe..de. livery by earrterThet aggregate results for the year-are" chosen In the taming figurea:—__The number, of latter carriers employed wee 1.108: mail letters delivered. 346.488: local letters delivered. 14.01938; newipapers -de-' livered. - 18,910,715; lettem collected, 63.164.625 V anidant , paid carriereOncladteg• incidental expenses, e9fti,934; ' portages on local matter. $475 982. , • She reviewing and readj oni lug of postmasters' gaieties • once every two years having thrown upon the depart meet a - largo amount of extra leber th e employment of one additional fourth i class clerk s recommended. 'A black agency ban been established It Waabington, and that at brew York and the onezt. 'Buffalo have peen dis continued. 'Abe ealaries et Me postal clerks aggregated $'274,t00, and tbothof 1,198 Letter carriera, Including inci dental expenses, 1195. M. Increased compeneation for both is recommended. The whole number of letters of an clasees received at the ,dead letter Mike during the, year ending the 30th Jute, last, ha 'actual' count was 4,1u2.144. showing a .decrease of 144.381 letters' from' the lumber estimated to have , been received during the previous year.. Of these lettere 3,M,066 were domes tic letters; 167,018 were forergo and were returned on opened to the countries whet e they originated. The whole nun, ber ref erne/. wa4 2.258399,-0f where ab tit eighty-four return toe d re pdaelrtivmeernedt. to l 8o w 34 n o e le s t an e d coxn ee i n pdirg ncen in sums of one dollar and upwards. of whichl6.o6l lettere. containing vi 3.628, were delivered to owners, and 2,124. containing $7,60, were filed er held for dimpothiou , 14,062 contained $3,420, in ' turns less than one dollar, - of which 12.513, containing $3,1-11, were delivered to owners; .17,760 contained . chocks. , drafte„ deeds l and ether papers cf. valuta. ..repreeentieg the I value of 83,609,271 of these 16,809 were restored to the owners and ten were returned and filed; 13.985 con tained books. jewelry and other articles of property, of the estimated value ed 11,560; of these Mel were for warded for delivery en d 9 ell were delivered to owners; 15.221 contained photographs, postage stamps and ar ticles of small vame. of which 114,666 were delivered to owners. and 2.001.812 letters returned had no enclosuree. The aggregate of postal letter service during the year is estimated at '720 000,00 e, and the proportion of domestic dead letters to the number of domestic lettere mailed in about one to 126, .Tho amount of money taken from all dead letters undelivered since last report and. depoal. I ted in the United 'stater, 'treasury was $27,967. The I amount realized from sales of waste paper and deposited was $1.280. The money order offices in operation number 1488. During the year 831:47 orders were issued.. rum tenting $16.197,e58. and the number paid 836,940. repren. Bag fiCi... 4 78.6e1. and $149,035DAM to Prirchswers. ceesof iF.Atliefl over psymente as $19321, The total ceipts from this branch was $121,603, and the expendi ture, esusa . . The law requires the salaries of postmutera to be ad justed once in two yearn- The agregate salaries of post masters as revised July 8,1861. was s3,Bra,BilL- As adjusted July 1, leen, tbe sum was $1,17,13,7215. As aojustedJuly 1. Ifittl.ltbe stun was $1.645.868. The increase in a little over two years,) from tiur.e, 1866, to and including July, 1868. was $1.1.8.1,5416. We increase of galaxies. under the rules prescribed try law, is encouraging. It ie based solely upon the continual increase of the businesa of the department and of the people. The increase of the expenses of the pottal service, based as it is upon public necessity and 'public dement:l; instead 'of being cause. of diecouragemert 1a a eubject of congratulation. The restoration of so large a part of the postal service sua prnded doting the war., and the new service created by Congress elute the close of the war—equal to one third of the amount of set vice in operation at the time—have pro- dnced a lees deficiency than existed in time of peace mid prosperity previous to lea The proven ion of/ deficiency to revenue is far lees now than then. not Withstanding the service is very much 'greater than ever before. In 1839 the sent or lee deficiency was only one million lees than the entire revenue. in 1803 the gum of the deficiency was about $.1600.000 less than the entire revenue. For the year IEOI tbo deficiency is ten mil lions less than the entire revenue. The majority of the Southern sitetee haee never paid their own expenena for postal service. They wilt not do so for a long time to come. With the exception of losea and Missouri none of the States or Territories west Of the Miniseippi river has e ever paid a revenue equal to their postal expense'. The co.t of the transportation or the mails in all new Stater and Tenitories and in all sparsely populated poy thins of the country never hoe been paid by those States and Territories out of their own revenues. It is only as potulation and business increase and the country is de veloped -that- metal--- service can be selneus taiang. The idea that the Poet Office Department can be self-sustaining, in the present condition of the country. ie shear& It cannot bee nd ought not to be, for ,fifty years to team:" The revenue will largely increase and eo wilt expendi tures. Ten years hence I estimate the expenses of the Post Office Department, at s4o'ooo.oth and the ravennee at 834,000900. This increase must go on as tong as the eouritry . Prospers and mineral,agricultural and commer cial helmets increases. The mines are not yet all de veloped. The lands are not all cultivated. The rivers are not all navigated. The railroads are not all surveyed. The;cities are !not all built. The sea' has not given us all we have a right to [exact. Our country is not finished. Until it is finished he is not a wise nor 'a. sagacious' man who assumes that the postal -service will pay for itself. The Post °thee Department can be made selfeastainnig in one way and that is by cutting off the postal service in tlietlthattntrit Territories where the receipts for post ages are not equal to expenses . This would exclude all bet lowa and Missouri west of the Illississiippi and ail the States overborne by the rebellion. It could further ec.mo mize by withdrawing all aid from the China, Marti and Sandwich /elands steamship lines, thus saving $725.000. It could save $895,000 by abolishing the letter carrier el stem for the cities. it could also economize to the ex tent of over s7oo,tso be overturning the system of postal cars. It is true that in public estimation the letter carriers for cities are thought to be almost in dispensable, but the system costs money and brings email revenue. it is all disbursement and no receipt. What if from ;twelve to twenty-four hews are Bayed in the trans minion of IL ails between Washington and Cincinnati. or lit. Louis. or Chicago, and the wholh West or Northwest by these traveling poet offices, which out oil and receive mails while traveling_ at thirty miles au hour, and which receive mails- make up mails and distri bute mails as they go hurrying along? It costs money, and the government, like, a. miser, can keep itemoney in its chest. It gives no return and helpa no body, but is safely hoarded. A halting, Una, illiberal policy like this wit! save one million and lose twenty. Every dollar put out by the Government in subsidies to build railroads in subsidies to aid ocean commerce, in liberal appropriations to open lines of travel and develop material resources in a great nation like this is money put out at exorbitant usury.and w ll l.bring returns in do. velopment of material wealth and in making the nation treat }n greatand strong in everything of value and in terest to a people. I haye twice in my annual reports called attention to the great abuse of the franking privilege. it becomes my - duty again to speak of the frauds perpetrated upon the revenues of the Post thee Department by these abuses. I have had occasion frequently during the pasty° al to call the attention of members of Congress tq we of their names in sending mei lablelmatter free under isfaa granite frank. Three dollars Neill- buy the Jim afinette frank of any member of Congress; and the use , of it by claini agents and bnsineee men in cities in sending books. periodicals. letters and business circulars do llen& the department out of immense lama of money. It is estimated that' the lose to the • department by this species of abuse of the franking privilege has amounted to from $1.00,000 to $1.600.000 during the past year. tin former occasions 1 have urged, in order to avoid the-con tinuance of this sermons. nimeat in the use of the names of members of Congress without their knowledse or consenf, - Ahatthe law be so Changed as to require the writ, en signature of the person exercising the thanking plivilege upon the matter franked; and to relieve the beads of departments and bureaus of great labor, that a franking clerk be , authorized by law for each department. of t h e government, with the right to frank all matter pertaining to the department for which lie is so appointed; and to relieve members of Congress from great labor and cant that ono or more franking clerks bo appointed for each Rouse of Congress to frank such letters and public documents as it is dear _ able to send free _through the mails. I have thus far failed to secure any attention to these urgent appeals and am becoming eatiefied that the only way to avoid an atm° • which is becoming systemized and which is so severe a tax upon the revenues of the department is to abolish the franking Privilege altogether. In the city of Beaton the government has purchased, for a largo sum of money, to VerY valuable site for a post office and for revenue °elites, It is of very great tance. both to the postal and revenue service, that at as early a day as possible plans for ' buildings should be adopted and rpm opri ellen i made to_erect them. There le no occasion for any delay,nd every neon that economy and public necessity can suggest.why the work should go immediately forward. Bottom is the capital of New England, and the government ought to erectpublic buildings there- - which wo uld l gratify the pride of that people and do honor to itself. I must again urge that stem! be immediately taken to erect a suit able vost- of ilco in the city of New York. A moat eligible site has been purchased therefor:this purpose. The ne cessities of the public service demand that there shall he no further delay in this cue, The building now occupied for a postotlice is what is left-of an old church. It b . patched and'lnittered: full of dark corners and die comforts. The sunlight' can, scarcely penetrate its gloomy interior. Gas is burnt there day and night, and men work by•it. Iris over an old graveyard, and - under its rotten floors lie skulls and bones, and the damp mould of dead men. On removing the floors for repairs a short time ago, these unwelcome sights were exposed to view. Tho • building is unfit for any nee whaterer, Yet. , there.. !tie summer and , win ter, behest an t d cold, by gaslight, from night until morn log and from morning • until night. 800 men are at work for the peeple of the whole United Statee, and inhaling a oleeped •attriosphere every breath they draw: II Is 'disgrace to the city of New York and a disgrace to the nation:. An average of nearly thirty men are sick all the time from laboring in that unwholesome place. he ,Post Office,Department pays every , Year for, extra help on cc . event of it a sum equal to the intermit on half a MIIIIOO of dollars.. .It im not always that the . commercial and men. 03eireculrlielitaatlen la the awe; • Be, the citx. et I.lo*, York is both e moneyed and. , commercl t centre o the vti cetera Hemisphere. In fifty Yours it may be the.too. rayed centre , and commercial centre of• the world. [Pas than twenty years tto, City .will eon! alit n pentagon Of at least 3 4111,003 of reople--a reputation equal to ,that. of all the colonies at the date of the Itevolution. It us now time to berm to do something to meet its growing necesaitles. The Pat-office building 'sunset.. in Hanle at any time to horn down. :sod' scarcely a day passes but there . goott tbtongh that office in money. drafts., awl secaritlea. from :St' s ( Uo.too to $30.600,400 in - value.; To erect suitable . public' buildings Otero le the nation's work and the nation's rap reeentatives oneht to'attend to tt. g the actual differenee between .invennes,..,teidepeurernt lof efiecial approprittione, 'and expenditure!. includiute . # special appropilatione,'Wee *3.998,456. Therevettuee,'in. , dependent of F3l•ecial appropriations, tor the year ending /June r.O. 186e.ev ere $16,2331.9(ki5pd the expenditurcairiclud - rerverofte for weich'snecial approprietione , were mad,„` q were $22.730.592,eh0Wipg an'exceitts of ereendittirell of 6:4- ~ ; 437,091. To meet this deficiency there were drawn under appropriations 'cadet or carrying , •tree matter $3.800.000, nriil under acta making epeeist operopriatioas for , over, in laud mail and .„erine.f eervice between 'New, .Ifork ' Sand Calitornia, - .131,11.13,0001 atetunship eerviee between 't San Promisee, Japan and China, $126,630: between the Cnited Mates and Brazil, 8150.109; far carrying mail !on sprites ratabllabed by-actsttaased during the that satinet', ofthe Thittv-ninthi Congress:l2o3.62s.,and fog r nteParing and poblis bine post route maps, $10,600, leaving a dere cu nay. as stated in the fast ..Dar t of. this report, for the !year ending Juno 36. IVA of $741,466. it is ecen from the iferegeireg itateMelit of receipt% expenditures and'ap-r . -!propriattone that In eh pplying neeessarg Pedal ecebnili lo- . fictions• or the people, the eXeeett of_expene. Beres over `,•re venues rapidly increased from i 159 to 1859 and 1 960, in. ;:cluelye. the deficiency forjefe being 603,996,00% and for the ; year 1860 being 56656,705, 'Ai ter the ; year IMO timbal's:L. , , Fivo service.-in the -Southern -States began-rapidly to ' dinduished. until in the yeer'lB6s - there was go little mall service perform, d in the elates Involved In the rebellion that the r evenute exceeded - the - expenditures by 8861.430., the eervice .w as almost entirely euspended. Directly ,after, the war ended, and during ,the second year of tire sdminlistration 'of my immediate predeceteor, , 'ending :Juba. 30. 1E66, the Peatmaister-Generel entered mionthe eerioue task of restoring T the service in the "ineurgent States. In the Stater of N'iritinia, North Carolina, - Smith -.Carolina. Georgia, Florida, enneasee Alabama, ntheis. alkareme. Louisiana and Texas, the service wee re store d during the year ending Juno -50, 1660 e to ',an :extent coating $1.0r6.6`'7., lane the eae States the cost of -"service for the . year' ending :June 30 1667: increased to 5c891.531, and, for the - year udingJune 30, 1668, if increared to the arterof s3,l69tee This expenditure wets for transportation aloue , anda eludes none of the other large expensed accesearily con riectedwith the postal service is those Stater. • Deringithe - year endliig - Jti11e30,3868, - the - aggegate - length of routes increased to 21103 miler. and the annual transportation increased to 84 1 124,:135; miles, an increase of 14,683 milesiu length of routes and 6,241616 miles in.an n ual traneorta. tie's, Since the 30th day of June,18652 and to the lit' day of July4lB6B, 3 year& tbe aggregate leng It of mail routes has increased 74,55811,11 es and the annual transportation has . increased 26,730652 =ilea; .Sinee I Came to • MO' head of the Post lithos Department, in July. lea, after the close of my immediate predeceases setond and last year as rertmester General, the aggregate length of mall enable gint --- nuder contract and in actual op, ration up to the at day of Jtily.lBeB, is 36 008 miles, and the increase of annual transportation for. the time , increased ' miles. , 'lnc increase of service and great increase of the expellees of the department • . for - inland , mail transportation have not all*riven from restoration reatoraon of mail ' service "in the late 'disordered State+. A large amount of the service in operation erect-, ens to the war, and diecontinned" during the war, has not yet been renewed.. In addition 'to the increased and increasing railroadtransportation. with Be increasing ex yintea,Coorrego. by. series of , acts.betwemstherBd day of March. lEen. and the '2sth day of ,July. 1868—a little over three years—created 1,267. new -mail I outer, with an ag gregate length of 401,744 miles. Of these thirty-three were establirbed in the late rebel States, with an aggregate length of lees than 1,000 miles. One hundred were ea ta bibbed in the Territories. Ivith 8./1 aggregate length of . 11,141. miles. • I, have the aatisfactiop ,of stating that a decree has beef rendered In the Bigh Court of Chancery of the L ornizilon of Canada, in toe "atan/O e4ule," (the. United States vs. Boyd, et Al.), in favor of the plain. tiffs. This action was brought .to recover United States toetOga stators of the value of 810.5002 which had been Stolen in July ....1664. from the 'steamer Electric Spark, conveying the United States mails from New York to New Urleans,which was captured at eea by the armed steamer Florida,l a piratical vemel.e. ,in under rebel colors. The court enstaLued e the right of the United Stahel to 'the names; awarding costs of suit and ordering .the retuen of the Otarnps to this country. The •preparation of the case in this country was chiefly conducted by 'Joseph A. Ware soli citor of the auditor's of fi ce, who deserves great credit for , hie diligence and skill; and the case was prosecuted under the counsel and direction of Caleb Cushing. The report of the solicitor of the auditor's Mlle° and the opin ion of the Chancellor are published In the appendix. The subject of connecting the instal service with the . mag net ie telegraph la one deserving the special attention of Congress. An independent report on the subject will be prepared and submitted for consideration at ,an early . day- . The rapid. growth of the postal service of the United States since the preeeth organization of the Poet Office Department was established by_ the act of July 2.110:1„ has devolved on its officers an amount ef businees of ito extenrive. varied and responsible a character,that a re organization, wisely adapted to the present and proapec tiee conditin of the tervice. is necessary to neaten the greatest practicable 'efficiency in its adminfetratiots • I will take an early ormortunitv-to-prepare and submit to Congress for its approval a plan for its reorganization. Respectfully submitted.* . . ALEX.- W. RANDALL, Postmaster General. The President. , SPECIAL NOTICES. THE FAIR FOP. THE ' , BENEFIT OF THE gelr North Broad Street United Preebyterian Church. in the citapel. Master street, near niateenth„ to open nightly. A gyeat nundeal treat tonight. & fine chance-to 'buy Uhriatmaa preeente. . de&3t• c)FeICE OF "THE RELIANCE INSURANCE lier CO:111'1,NY OF PHILADELPHIA," No. 308 WALNUT STREET. Lies. 7. 1868. The Board of Directors of the. •I'he Reliance 'near. since Company of Philadelphia.' have this day declared a dividend of Four Per Cent on their capital stock, for the Past six months. payable to the Stockholders or their legal representatives, on demand, free of taxes. deB.loo . . . THOMAS C. HILL. &scrawl. ibrFUR. FOR THE SALE OF FANCY AND 158 E ful articlthe for the benefit of Bethany Higdon for Colored Children at the School House. Brandywine: e l reet,above Fifteentb.fcom Third day F-51.(TtleedaY) the Bth to birthday (Y'riday). the 11th of 12th month (De cember). Mingle Ticket 10 cents; Season Ticket() 25 cents. de2,4t. maw. DECEMBER 2. I.B6B.—UNTTED STATES COL LECTOR'o SALE. Will be sold at the fa ctoty of JACOB DEAN. 011 Adatas street. Frankford. Twenty.third Ward. Philadelphia, on SATURDAY MOB:RING. December 12th, at - 11 o'clock, the following described personal property, to wit: 10 pieces cf Doeskin Cloth. containing about SE, yards each. Destrained upon and to be - sold for tinned States Tares. Conditions Ca,h. in Government funds. THOS. S. FOULKROD, Deputy, Collector Fifth Dist. of Penna. DEP. 2.1E65. rde2 wtn 5t•J F. &FDA ENE, Auct'r. mistr. NOTICE.—IT BEING CONTEMPLATED TO "'"'"" remove the remain of those person ,buried in the ground on Carpenter street, above Fourth to the yard on Pine street. adjoining the church, it is desirable that any parties interested who wish to make removal to other groan& will notify the Committee at once, and arrange- manta will be made to facilitate their doing-so. K. BENNETT, 1 745 South Fourth-street. j 333 South Fif th 13 a 1111 street(l Committee. GEO. OBIFFLLILS:•, 518 Spruce atm et. Third Presbyterian Church, Dec. 75,188. del4itf LEGAL NOTICES* USTATE OF CASPER ROCHE% JR. LETTERS 1.2 J Testamentary upon the Estate of CASPER SOUDER„ Jr., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned by the Register of Wine of Philadelphia, all persons Indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or demands against it to make known the same, without delay, to Ra CHEL, A. SOLIDEtt, Execu trix. No. 879 North Seventh street, Phila. de9„wets TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY AND J. County of Philadelphia.—Estate of NATHAN DEN'S, deceased.—The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle and adjust the account of FREDERICK BROWN, Trustee for PALMIRA unirmALL, undor the will of NA THAN DUNN, deceased, and to report distribution of the balance lathe bands of the accountant, will meet the par ties interested for the purpose of his applintmedt, on TUESDAY, the 16th day of December, A. D.-1889, at 4 o'clock, P. M., at his Office; No. El South Fifth street, in the city of - PluladelPhia: JOSEPHAAJLAY, de4•tar,w6rs Auditor. 1 N TEE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY AND County of Philadelphia.—Estate of FRANCIS FRIES, deceased —The auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle and adjust the account of VIC FOR OUIL-. LOU. Administrator of the estate of FRANCIS PRIES, deceased;' - and'td - report - distrlblition of the" balance the hands of the accountant will meet the parties in tereeted for the purpose of his anpointmenton FRIDAY, Decembr 18,1866, at 3}¢_ o'clock P ,61.. at his °nice, No. 141 South Sixth street, in the city of Philadelphia. WILLIAM P. MESSICK, di f m MIS Auditor. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.—ln Bank ruptcy.—At Philadelphia, November gOch, 1868.--The un dersigned hereby gives notice of his appointment as As signee of 'HENRY SHILL, late of the firm of JOHN SHILL & SONS, of Philadelphia, in the county of Phila• gelphia. and State of Pennsylvania, within said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition by the District Court of said District. G. IRVINE' WHITEHEAD. Assignee, No. 618 Walmit street, Philadelphia. To the Creditors of said Bankrupt. dr& xv3t• IN THE DI STRICTCOURT OF THE UNITED STATES A . FOR THE EASTERN DiermoT OP PENNSYL VAIIIA.—t4AMDEL FIELD. of Philadelphia, Bankrupt, having petitioned for his - discharge. a meeting of credi tore will be held on the ?.9d day of December. 1868, at 2 o'clock P. M.„ before Register Witham Montchael. Esq.. at No. 690 Walnut street, in the City of Philadelphia, thin the examination of the bankrupt may be finished, and any business of meetings required by mations 27 or 29 of the Act of Congress may be t , ansacted. The Register will certify whether the Bankrupt has conformed to his duty. A hearing will also be had on W t dnesday, the Bth of -January,-1860, before the Court, at Philadelphia, at le o'clock A. when parties interested may show came against the discharge. Witness the Honorable John Cad. walader, Judge of the said District SEAL OP COL*I4 Court, and the seal thereof.at Phil Wel ?---- phis, November 23, 1868. O. R. FOX,' Attest: Wu. Hollionern,Register. ino26 w 3tal fleck. ri STATE OF WILBELMINA GIBBON (LATE EP. ley), deceased.--4 Letters • testamentary to the above estate having veen granted to the undersigned. au Pertons indebted to !Mkt estate will make payment, and these having claims will present them, without delay, to J. d. idoldl.LLlN, Executor, or to his Attorney, J. AUSTIN SPENCER, 423 Walnut street.. n02.5.w.6t. LETTERS' TESTAMENTARY 'HAVING , BEEN grant. dto the subscribers upon the , estate Of NA 'IIIAN BROWN. deceased, all persons indebted to the same will make paymentand those haying claims present them to THOMAS HttOWN, 108 South Tenth street; JAMES IRWIN, 289 De an street, or to GEORGE JUN HIE. Esq.,their Attorney, S.E. cornet Sixth and Walnut streets. • " n 025 w Bt." II3TATE CP CATHARINE SCHRACK, DECEASED. upon of Administration cum Teettmento annex° upon the Estate' of oealieums SOHRACK, deceased. haring been granted to the undersigned. all persons in-. debted to said ketate are requested to make paymcut, and those having claims against the same to present them without delay to " JOsEPII STULB, • • ' • 152 No- - th Fourth street; Ch. 4 noCw.6o 41 ? rne . Y$ 11 g 13T1N423W8aPlEnilitUaltreet: • ,isirowiGE - 1110EVF.IVaNe 'AIM STORAGE YARD. 2008. 2010. $Ol2 J.Vatarket stseet.—Tirtoltsge and storage for lumber3ron. coati -grain. , bark.. produce and all' kindo at mercbea. dito. Moo, room for loading care from otdpmout. Tonne Roasonoblo. • • • no2o tf q • ' F. Ls .111111.,1410.111 BA_LIES. - 11,. TllolllAft &BONR. AUCTIOYEDR.I, - " -' ' .Npt 1M and 141 mutt' corth_qtr.A*, NE ART EXIIIIIITIDN AND' BALE OF Tar:VERY DIGHEnT 4 IhIPORTANC_R •., t • • RNOEDLER., enceeseor'.to,, DO OPEL dt. CO., New announces ,to the Dettpitot ;Philadelobia,.tbst ne `will mate anAmportent oncrinr of . Fine• Works of Art.• 113 JAritiary n..•xt. ands. designs that it sheik...he the finest, and Inert elegant'clict.ioll Of nOttlrClj And orke of Alt - evtt offeltdAri' elpola at' toublim' tale." The entire ,Coliection,wilt be on txbibition in the'eastern' golleffeo of ,tho.Fonnsylvanta. Academy of • Fine • Arts, sornmeceirtx 'about January let. until tho day of, sate- • %mile request , of fd. - Kn dler the 'enure 'olTangenienti exhibition and selling, win be nodcelheitnenagement o ikix..Chariersi.P.,llaseititio,ll2sChemnrita4 • .. 7 •, ffAtES OF STOCK WAND ARIAL _Par. Public sales*: the Philadelphia EXchature EVRAY TLEBIa I . at 12" o'clock, . b Pure - 11am at, the Auction Stord EVERY . T' ' •• - • ' • ideas atßetddences receive annelid a:tent:tote. • STOCK O ,_LOANR, &a. • • • 014 ,TUESDAY, ,D 134.1, 15, At d 2 0'0104km:ton; otthe-Exchanne by order of Eiol cuhrront k.intte orAidloyman. demoted— . 'P One seat. No. 1,, Pew 8& ha .KellettOL Israel Collgtega* thno,l3lxth Etreet. , above, alown. • - - well,tecttrod ground ;rent 1348.- situate No; 1715 Carlton street 55C00,Ui 8 ^lthte•twentr- Sonde, Jannory and July. 100 u North lltireonri RN, Elorit. -- 20.10.Tennerbie Bondoilels9 " 2 - 100 tkennetseellandr,ligiti. , , _ 1000 Lehigh Navigation 6 per cent. Gold Bonds. • :5500 Union Canal Company Ronda • , 325 Renesetri beael Co. aregattod Banda. . . 50 Allemaula Club -Boucle, of Philadelphia -75 Marmon= Clnb Bonds - do. • Ito Lean Certificate A. U. Ica) abares Sheldoo Oil and Mining.oo. 700 ehareg Monitor 011.00. .• • +hares Ilemplield RR :Co., of W. Va., "49 $5O: $5OO Bond. Chapman Mining and Lumbering Co. - • MO bonds Springfield, ,Mt. Vernon, and - Pittsburgri Railroad Co. , '8 Continental Insurance Oa' Scrip: ' • " Estate of Anna Fatiatet,-. $lOO Phillidelorda City five }9 cent. loan: City.ol4 cent, loan, 111400 Philadelphia. City 6118 cenCloal t!,,new: 10(0 Camden and Amboy Coupon Ronde. 1000 Delaware and Rsultan•Coupon Roads. - ..1000 - PentsvivantallailroadConvertiblir Coupon Bond. • 4146 Schuylkill Nay. Co. , Loati, convertible. 7,4.14 62 Chesapeake and Del.'Cansl Loan, P 355. 15e actin tberapeake and DeL Canal Loan, 1850. 10 shares Nay, Co.. common. _ 3 abuse Chesapeake end' Del. Canal. 97 eharso Phmnix Utterance Co. 197 st,ares,Fenneylvania Railroad Co. shares Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. 12 shares Mechanical National Bank. ,:17 shares Farmers' and Mechanics. , flank. -- 11 mbar+ e Philadelphia National Bank. 28 hares Commercial National Bank. shares Bank of North America. Sale - at.,the Auction Roomer, Noe. 129, and 141 South Fourth attract- , HANDSOME FURNITURE __PLANO MIRRORS. HAND SO3LE VILVET, BRUSSELS AND OTHER CAR rzn., ON THURSDAY MORNING. Dec 10th. at 9 o'clock.+ at the auction rooms, by cata logue, a large assortment of superior Household Porn!. tam comprising--liandnome walnut, parlor, library, dining room and chamber furniture; anperior rosewood piano forte, fine French plate mantel and pier mirrors,, wardrobes,, bookeasem, sideboards. extenelen, centre and bouquet tables ;4, tdna, glass and plated ware; bode and bedding, line hair math'e as. %Wilco furniture.chand , ,,diers. fine e_ngravings, gas conanming and cooking atovee, hand eome velvet. Brmuels and other carpets. dtc. Sale at No. 1a724 Wain* street. BUPEINOR 11(.1IIEELIOLD PLMNITURE: - LARGE MANTEL AND PIER MlRllolid, BRUddELB CAII4 ON FRIDAY MORNING. • Dec. 11, at 10 o'clock. at No. IVA Walnut street, by cata logue. comprising - Di awing Room Furniture,sa in covers; pair large and cegant French Plate alautel and Pier blirms. Elie Brussels and other Carpets, superior Birch. wood Chamber Furniture, made to order by-Parker; ele gant Cheval Glass. Ingrain Carpets, Oil Cloths, dm, May be examined on the day of sale at 8 o'clock. . . LEASE. GOODWILL AND FIXTURES OF THE GUNNER'S RUN DISTILLERY, No. lOU Cumberland street, Nineteenth Ward. belonging to Mt care. Kalinwr iler & Becker. ONTUESDAY, Dec. 15.. At 12 o'clock noon. will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange ail that valuable Lease, (which has 6 years to run from August 1. 1868. at $1 SOU , per an. num), Goodwill and Fixtures of thewell known Gunner a Run Distilltry, situate at N 0.1053 Cumberland street, ex tending from Arambigo Canal to Commerce street. It is in complete running order. with - everhing aepertalning to the briefness. including Boilers, Mills Mash and Fer tat ntirg Tubs, Pulleys Shafdng, felting. Pumps, a corn. plete Distillery Atiparatue.,&e.- Being one of the moat complete 'Distilleries in the United, States; coat the present owners. Messrs. Rahn. welter & Becker. - $75.000. The' jease and specifications may be seen at tire Aucticra Rooms and. will be geld sub. ect to terms of said lease. . , Irer Immediate posseelion. May be °mut:Lined any,day previous to Belo. ' . The purchaser has the privilege of bruising the Rea& c.a. tate for $25,000 before the expiration of lease. _ Sale bY Order of Heirs. • . ESTATE OF CHARLEct A. SNYDER. DECEASED. VARY VALUABLE COAL LANDS, 800 ACRES. TEE MONT TOWNSHIP. SCHUYLKILL ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15T/1,-1868, At 12, o'clock. noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange. all that valuable property com posed of the "Leatre,r & Miller Coal Estate." _ Fall particulars handbilhi at. the Auction Rooms. • Executors' Sale Real Estate. - ESTATE OF SAMUEL O. HILL, DECD. ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Dec. 190. at 3 o'clock. will be sold at public sale, at the Blue Bell kieteL Darby Road, 2711; ward, frame darelling, barn, daughter house and five awes of land. Blend Road, itirgsessing. Also,_stone dwelling and stable, North st., Prochalville. near Blue BelL Lot 50 feet by 131,;5 feet. Full particulars-in handbills. Extensive sale at PAO South Second street. STOCK OF SUPKRTOK SIN CT FURNITURE. ON MONDAyISIORNINO. Dec. 21. at 10 o'clock, at T. & J. A. HenkeWs Ware. rooms, No. 4o South Second etreet, will be sold at public sale, an extaaeive assortment of superior Furniture, mina. prietng—Walnut parlor suite, with rich dud plain cover ings: library, dining, room - and hall furniture elegant chamber furniture, wirioneetylae, all manniacturedin a superior manner expeesay for their waxeroom : sales. and warranted. IFD" Th e sale will be peremptory. and is made on on. count o! Messrs. Henkel being about to remove to their new warerooms. No. 1002 Arch street. DI3III3OHOW & CO., AUCTIONEERS. BNos. ,Tl 2 and 234 MARKET street. corner Bankst. Sugeessorn to John B. Myers & Co LARGE SALE'OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY 60000. ON THURSDAY MORNING, Dec. 10, at 10 o'clock. on font months' credit. DOMESTICS. Bales bleached and brown cottons, all grades, do white and colored drills, favdrite makes. do. white, moray, blue and fancy blankets. Cares Indigo Blue Checks, Stripes. Ticks and Denims. do. Manchester Gingliams. Prints and Delaines. do. Canton. white and scarlet and fancy Flannels co. Domes. cadet mixed Jeans, Jaconets Cambries. do. whito and cord Corset Jeans, Cottonades. do. Sabots, printed Cloakings, Litl66.9l3,Tweeds, &c. MERCHANT TAILORS' GOODS. Pieces Belgian, E.'nglish and French all wool and Union Black and Blue Cloths. do. Esquimau:, Castor and Moscow . Beavers. do. French Black Doeskins and Fancy Casslineres. do. all wool lhinchilla London riots, Sealskins. do. Black and s..elored Italians and Satin dellkiner. DRESS GOODS. BILES, &o. Pieces Paris Black and Colored Merinos and Delaines. do. Plain and Plaid Silk Poplins, Borges, Chines. do. Black and Colored Mohalrs, Alpacas. Coburgs. do. Milleraids, Printed lifelines and Delaines. do. Black and Fancy Dress Silks. Shawls, Cloaks,&c. LINENS, W EUTE 00005, &o. Full lines Bleached end W . B. Table Damask. Napkins. Full lbws Barnsley Sheettngs, Dialler, Table Clotho. Full li n e s I r i s h shirting Li,,,ena, flatlands, Crash. Full lines Bleached and Brown Drills. Ducks, hocks. --Fsdl lines Jaconets. Cambrics. Nainsoolts. VELVaTB AND VELVETEENS. Full lines IlisCk and 11lored Vel FURS .vets ana Velveteens. FURS, An invoice of high cod and Fashionable Furs. —ALSO— A line of very rich fancy ALRESO DSS SILKS. —— Hosiery, Gloves, Balmoral and Hoop dkirta. Traveling and Under Shirts and Drawers. Rewires. Tailors' Trim minas, t mbrellas. lidkfa., Suspenders. Zephyr Gloodsotc. LARGE SALE OF BRITISH.NRENGH. GBRV&N AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS. • ON THURSDAY MORNING. Dec. 10, at 10 o'clock, on four months' credit. LARGE - SALE - OF CARPETINGS,OIL CLOTHS. &c. ON FRIDAY MORNING. Dec. 11. at 11 o'clock, on four months" credit, about 500 piecing Ingrain. Venetian. Lint, Hemp. Cottage and Rag CarVeUnge, Oil Clothe, Huge, dm SALE OF 15:0 02i5g9 BOOTS, SHOES, TRA VELING BAGS, aio: • ON TUESDAY MORNING. Dec. 15, at 10 o'clock. on four montbe' credit. B SCOTT. SCOTT'SONEER. ART GALLERY 1020 CHESTNUT street. Philadelphia. THE PRINCIPAL MONEY hSTABLISIIMENT— El. E. corner of SIXTH and RACE streets. Money advanced on Merchandise generally—Watche, Jewelry, 1 laments, Gold, and 1311Ver Plate, and on ell articles of value, for any length of time agreed on. WATCHLIS AND JEWELRY AT PRIVATE SALE. Fine Gold Hunting CasaDouble Bottom and Open Face English, American and Swiss Patent Lever Watches; Fine Gold Burning Caro and Open Face Lapin° Watches; Fine Gold Duplex and other Watches; Flue Silver Hunt ing Case and Open Face Engitsh, American and tildes Potent Lever and Lepino Watches; Double Came English Quartier and other Watches; Ladles' Fancy Watches g Diamond Breastpins; Finger 'Rings; Ear itingli Studs •' Sze.; Fine Gold Chains; Medallion'; Bracelets,. Scarf Breastpins; Finger Rings ; Pencil Cases and Jewelry generally.FOß BALE.—A large and valuable Firoproof Cheat. suitable for a Jeweler; cost igtiiin Also. several Lota in South Camden,Fifth and Ohestnnt streets. C EIELABK & EVANS, AUCTIONEERS, 630 CSTNIIT street. WPI sell THIS DAY, MORNING and EVENING, A large invoice of Blankets, Bed Spreads, Dry floods Cloths. Casstmeres, Wary. Stationery. Table find Pocket Cutlery, Notions &o. City and country merchants will find bargains. Wff Terms cash. Croode packed free of charge. 8629 tf 11 D. MoULEEB & co. VV ilucTioNEE.Re. No. 500 MARKET etreet.. BALE OF 1700 CARES BOOTS. SHOES. BROGANS. BALMORALS. ON THURSDAY MORNING. December 10, commencing At 10 o'clock. we wlll sell by catalogue, a largo- and coverlet ueeortment Boots. Simee, Brogans. Balmoral% dre._ Also.women'a. rdlesee. and Likßdren's wear. TL. WALBRIDGE & C__ A _O. AUCTIONEER% . 606 MAILIEBT street. above Fifth. DE BARIUM' & CO.. AUO'FIONEEREI.' ju CABII AUCTION HDDEINp No N 230 MARRE' street. Corner or BS street. Cash TRADEn consi.mmente without extra Ogren. RIXTII SALE OF IMPORTED , AND AND • ItIOAN FURY. ROBES. 11.1/013.AFFODAN3. px. by Cate l olo o .' • ON THORSDAXIIORNENG... December 10. at . 10 o'clock. , , 'IIA,VI6 & ALArrioNnum JL , Late •If tth Thomaa e Sorui. • atm° No& 48 and GO North SlXTllvtreet. 4‘ll.lt . '96riA.r : t, 41A i..fot. . . . (IN Etti.l T V" : Avtirt 4. ALately Salesmen for. 11. !Thomas dXSot%.),r Isle. toe Cl ik,STlki UT street. rear entranem'frorn Sl T tiOrt, •BANnSOME-RESIOENGE AND I , EIRNITORIti Bale on the Premises SM. Wharton street. ELEGANT WALNUT la lttOft, *MIA LIND G k. 60.31 Etna Tufty.. rtostiwooD PIANO , ; URTE,_PAI,NTINGS, BRONZES: RICE( BRUSSELEI Aup (auk d:10 • , ; tazi.Tillati3DAV • 'Dee.ioiat 10 o'clock, at No.:831. Wu Alton streA eats , loguo. the entire bandsomellousob old Furniture. includ :lng snit of elegant Walnut and Green einsn - Drawing • ltoom Eurritureifour suits elegantCiled Walnut. ber Pon3iture:komwood hun-tErench-Plates• ;Mantel Mirror, handsome:Walnut ardrobe. Exteasion Table, Sideboard. Spring end Hair 31Atresses. Cottage Chamber Snits. Oiltraintangs. and , Engravings) Srongemit rich English Brussels 'Gamete, • libiap, 444 tilaorritoe,. Gnrkinp,Utenells;llefriqerator dm. May be examined a , 8 o'cloek on morning of sale. 11ANDSOME. MODFRN RESIOBNCE. Immanitelp, previous to .thn sale of Furnitrne.atlnt Oclock,t will be sold. the. Handsome Modem: ThreeretorY Brick Residence, with double three story back building and lot of ground. situate' onWherton street, eget of tFourth street, 'No. 83 - 1. The hot:ll36'ls very aaperfor; has . 'marble vestibule. ranges, hot and -cold water, water closet, gas throe/bout, saloon yarior. dining room anl :Alleben on theftst fibre , iittirit rool3t, bath room. store room and six chambers , . drY ce lar, die,; gas fixtures in ;eluded in sale.' May' be seen at aro time 'atreViouts to Sale. Sale at N0.1817 - Oltestitut street. • HANDSOME PURNITUBEL sopERLoR. curtAan • Ulla in DEtt SUITS. FINE, BAIR • I%L4ThItSSEId,_OI.NE..s. -BR -USSELS, 11 --VENATEIN CASESIR.- . ON EFLEDAY_,-iIIOSNING. , • Don 11. at 10 o'clock: at No. 1817 CliesMut street, by catalogue; the entire supiariorLliouseholdtEurniture..in: eluding Superior Walnut Parlor Furniture.' Minn Suite Baunsome Walnut Chamber--Ftniiiturn: four limbs Su.:- Cottage Chamber Purniture.Rine Hair and other stresses, Bidding Sto*es, Finn - Breaselta. Ingrain and, euitian Carpets,Laihut, and GlasswareaCitchezi Eurnit- • Mire and liteurils, Window Shades, dm. • _ May be examined at o'clock on the morningor slue. - ' LABGEOPECIAL BALE OF FINE.T9ILERNARE,I2, - s.. THE AUCTION 800 d. . ON tiAIbIIDAY MORNING. • Dec.l2, at 1.1 o'clock, at the Auction Nootd&lbf, logos'. without reserve, a large assortment of plUni, end fancy panted Atte toilet sets, Ape slopjarg. feet tubs water currier& • - - ' • • , • . , Salo at No. 2027 Came street: SUPERIOR 1101Iiis;HOLD. FURNITURE, ROSEWOOD PIANO FORTE.FINE lifiliSBELS AND OTHER, DAR.* • PETS. &o. • • • ; ON MONDAY MORNING, , • Dec. 14, at ill o'clock. at N 0.2027 Comae etrect. betufAirl, Twelfth and Thirteenth. above. Berke. tho entire enforwlen ilc usehold Furniture, Rosewood Piano Forte, Fine Drus-:, eche, Irgrair -and 'other CarpeM, Chine: and GlinieWare. Matreeeee, Bedding, Extension Table, ,G- - • May be examined at 8 o'clock on.the morning of sale: 4 Public 831 e cat the Premise% 8116 'l3rtindywineistrtxst, , l? - - RESIUEN9II AND FURNITURE.- - - ON THURSDAY MOItNING.' ' • • Dec. 17, at 10 o'clock. on the premises, all that neat ndo-: dem three-story brick residence, two•story back.bullding and lot of ground, 16 feet front by 77 , feet deep. situate ors, the south Bide of- Brandywine street: 2116.. - Suitiett to P. yearly ground,rent of ss4,- SUPRRIOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE: TTNDBRUS. SELF. AND OTHERAJARPET3. dra - Immediately after the ElllO of the“ Residence; at •in < o'clock. by! atalogue. , at Nc.' 2116 Brandywine atreet, the superior Walnut Parl r Furniture,,euperfor Oh - amber arid,•,. Dirdng Boom Furniture, fine Erna _els and Venetian Oar &eta, obina and Glassware, Hair Manus, Refrignator. May be cacarcined on the mornineof sale at 8 o'clock. Bale No. big Chestnut street. VALUABLE ,AND , I-14ND50.11.0 BOOAB.AND. _ ALBUMS: _ , - •ON MONDAY rATTERNON. 14uo inst.. at 4 o'clock at the auction rooms,tiycataiogae. valuable collection of booke; including finely illustrated bibles. handsomely. bound. photographic albunis. THOMAS BIRCH di BON, AUCTIONEERS AND C031.11018810N .M.EBORANTB. • NO. 1110, CkLEBTNUT, street. . . Rear Entranie N 0.1107 Benisons street, " HODBEHOLD r rUhNiTURE - .'.0.P EVERY.. DESCRPP TION RECEIVED ONCONSIGNMENT.e • Sales of Eurisiture titDweßhigs attended to on the 9104 reasonable terms - SALE oF A PRIVATE COLLECTION DP ,, OIL PAINTINGS. ANCIENT AND MODERN... • ON'WEDNEBDAY EVENING. At 7 o'clock, at the' Auer ion Sion:Nei 1110 Chestnut' street wilt be sold—about to Paintings and Engravinga. • including works of HamPton, P3Wle." Moran „ Sommers, iv Wall. Carl Sha: 'A. Cortez, JaUlard; Birch., Winner. Sew:latent, Rota de Tivoli and others. -Also; a number of Framed Engravings, Photographs. Chromosiiini . 'The Paintings. wilt be open for exhibition Alorel ll 7'. _ . BALE OF FINE DIAMOND JEWELRY ; GOLD WATCHES, CHLUN_B, &c. - • . , ON , THU - 1030AX htORNING. At 11 o'clock, at-the'auction 'store. No 1110 unertliot street. will be sold. an invoice of £m° diamond duster and single stone bresetpins and finger rings, fine gold and diver English and Swiss watches. gold Leontine gold sleeve button ; etude. dm.", The Goods can be examined at the auction store on • Sale at No.lllo Chestnut Ofrreet. SUPERIOR NEW AND SECUNDHAND HOUSEHOLD FTRtNITURE, PIANOS, CARPED34,' HIRRORac, PLATED WARE, ~ GLOB ritiß ! p, • MI.LUAEOw. ow FRIDAY MORNIND. - - At 9 o'clock., at the Auction, Store. NO.. 1.119 Chestant streot„.7lll be g old.--A largo assortment of superior limas. old Fun3iture, inehiding—Elegant Walnut ,Parlor Snits in plush; Chamber Suits of Walnut.-finiehetl In oil and yarnbh Sideboards, El:derision Dining S'ables, Spring and Hair Mattresses. Marble. Top Tables, Cottage Chamber Furniture, Bruges Tapestry, Ingrain and Venetian Car pets; Melodeon. Paxlor , Organ; hosesvood Pianofortes. Silver Plated Ware, China, Stoves, , Also, Office Deeka and Tables,.Rre-proof Cheat Letter FreFP, &C. _ 16 CASES OF_GLASSWA.RE.—AIso. 16 packages of new lassw are consisting of band Batas goblets, nappies, tum blers., dialies, bowie. &a. Bele at No. 1163 Green street- HOUSEHOLD..FtR.NITUiE, 7 4. OTT4LOE SETS, CAR. PETS_ ttc. ON SATURDAY mORNING NEXT. • • - • At 10 cecleck.it NO. ilO4 Green street, will be sold the Furniture of a family declining bousekeeping. comprising Walnut Parlor Furniture, covered with hair cloth,* Mar ble 'rop Tables Parlor and Chamber Carpets ..Walnut Chamber Furniture, three Cottage Suites.. Bering and• Bair Mattresses, Fend er Reda, Dining Room and Bitting Rooni Furniture. China, GLneew are. /stoves. Kitchen t The Furniture may be examined early on the nterning of ca,e. 'TAELEB A. FREEMAN. AUCTJONEEE, u No. 422 WALNUT street. Peremptcay Sate No. I9'24:North Fourth etreet: VALUABLE MACHINERY JACQUARD 'LOOMS. WINDING FItAMES. WARN MILLS. HAND, LOOMS, SPOOLINu WGEELS. corrojg,,_AND, SILK SWIEsTS, BEADING MACHINES. EU CTON-: BOLE SEWING MACHINE', TURNING LATHE," Cat TON AND WOOLLN YARN. TASSELS., GIMP, WEBBING. FRINGE, FIREPItt,OP. dm &a. • ON TUESDAY MORNING. ' Des. 15, at 15 o'clock, will be cold tlie entire Stock and Machinery of a Suspender and. Dress Trimming manu factory. Peremptory Solo No.ll924NorthFoOrth otreet.. VALUABLE FACTORY FOURTH , AND .11AUKLEY STREUPB. NINBTEENTII WARD. ON TUESDAY MORNING.' Dec. 15th, el le o'clock t will eo sold at public sale, with•f out reserve, on the premises, a valuable three•story brick Factory, with basement, 1013¢ feet on Ilackley street, and 119 feet on t earth street, vr,ith engine and boiler house. smoke stack. superior 90-horso power engine, made by ld organ, Orr & flue boiler all complete, and in perfect order. 11-V" The Factory is substantially constructed. in per feet order and complete in all its arranaentents. Ur - !dale VeremPtarY. $5OO to bo paid at the time of sale. gle - Th machinery will bo sold immediately after the Real Estate. AT PRIVATE SALE. A VALUABLE TRACT OF 20 ACMES OF LAND;' With Mansion House. I:tieing Sun Lane, intersected by Eighth. Ninth. Tenth and Sieventh, Ontario anA 'riots etreate, within gat) leet of the Old 'York. Roadi valuaNc depogit of Brick Clay. Terms easy. ._ _ - A valuable beanie/Le erApertv No.Bl9Arenotieet: BUILLINOTON,—A Handsome Mansion. on Main it. lot 60 by lOC feet. COPARTNERSHIPS P DISSOLVED; • - Theuortnerehip heretofore existing under ihertifiti of ROOF' 'KIBBE & CO, fa this day diotolved blr the. death of . SAMUEL W. ROOF. 'I he business will be settled by the surviving partners at Nos. Z 1 and 28 Bank atrett. JOSEPH C. ItOOP. Executor of Samuel W. Roop. LIENRY , R. KIBBE. • CLINTON J. TROUT. . JOSEPII C. ROOF wiLia.s.m. Y. cutrIADY.. Surviving Ptirtnere. — PIIILATIELPMA, December 1.1868. PARTNERSHIP FORMED. • . The undethigned hereby give notice that they have. med a limited partnership, under the-provisions of, the act of Assembly, entitled "An act relative to special path. nerships.! , approved March 9!, 1836, and the supplement,/ thereto, the torrus of .which are the following, vizi • I. The name of the firm under which such partnership Is to be conducted is.KIBBE, COLLADAY 'I - ROU.P. 2. The general :nature or the business.'intended to be.:, transacted is a general Dry Goods importing and Geon.,. mission business. 3. The General Partners are HENRY R. X188E.. - rtr` siding nt the Girard House, in the city of Philadeltiti 'W t 11...LlAtel Y. COLLADAY. residing at No. 132,9 orth, Bro. d Street, in the same city. and WANTONBro. J. TR tir, ruiding at N 0.142 North Nineteenth Street. in the game ' city • and the Special Partner is JOSEPH.C.ROOP: resid-. ing at N 0.2006 Wallace Stoet, in the said, city ; pf dclphia. • 4. The amount of capital contributed to: the Ycbinniiii stock by said Special Partner is Y ifty Thousand (6150,000) Dollars hi cash. _ 5. The said partnership iel to connnehcOon the first dsy of December. A. D. 1868, and is to terminate on the first daY of January. A. D.. 1871. HENRY R. KIBBE, NVILLIASI. Y. COLLADAY, CLINTON J. TROUT, General Par,tners. JOSEPH C. ItOul'. . --• - Special Partner.... _ deli haul ItE11110VE1lt• IiEM VAL.—TIIE LONG ES'I'ABLISU ED. DEPOT fer the purchase and solo of second hand} doors._ windows. store fixtures, dro., from Seventh street to Sixth street, above Oxford, whore mush articles are for sale in great yariety. Also new doors, eashes, chatters • &cr. ' • . • , DIATDPI W; ELLIS I)EMOVAL.—IIICUARD a. - WILLIAM .f.; ATTORNEY SL at:Law., (formerly with aro. 4a..4A111,13), has , rtr: me ed to 'OS Walnut street.,'o • r GLASSWItItE. • And manufacture wit willow with or witheut hosest• Dem iJohnn covered Wit willow or ratan Wino Boatel all autos; Porter bottles, Mineral Water helmet tutclA,‘„,- : druggiat'o bottles of every deacrittlor4 ; BENtairc. , del Im* 97 Houtit.Pront drtiet - I:34wOXJDM.I: I I , FPO LET—WiTit BOAftD. - TWO LIANDSOWROOIsitk, witA private bat.h.rooru attacked., Altpiy JJ Sprat* street. 404Sti*
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