|| KBSU OR BCPTIRE Hernia or Bupture oared. Hernia or Bupture cured. Hernia or Bupture oured, Hernia or Bupture oured. Hernia or Bupture oured. Hernia or Bupture oured. Hernia or Bupture cured. Hernia or Bupture oured. Bupture or Hernia cured Bupture or Hernia oured. Bupture or Hernia cured, Bupture or Hernia oured. Bupture or Hernia cured. Bupture or Hernia oured, Bupture or Hernia oured. Bupture or Hernia oured. Marsh’s Badioal Cure Truss. Bitter’s Patent Truss. Fitch’s Supporter Truss, Self-Adjusting Truss, Dr. Bannings’s Lace or Body Braoe, for the cure of Prolapsus Uteri, Piles, Abdominal and Spinal Weaknesses. Dr. S. S. Fitch’s Silver Plated Supporter. File Drops, for the support and cure of Piles. Elastic Stockings, for weak and var icose veins. -ilaatiG Knee Caps, for weak knee ; lints. Ankle Supporters, for weak knee oiots* Suspensory Bandages. Self Injecting Syringes; also every ind of Syringes. Dr. KEYfcEH lias also a Truss which will radically cure Hernia or Bupture, RTrnrvm 00 at ' D , so ° Store. No. 140 WOOD th « "olden Mortar. pj„ f rTrnssea shonla send the number of TOMure rOUDd 1116 bodr ' mm ediately over the giTo his personal attention ll! ' t J ? i O j T P MeB in “dolts and children Md he is satisfied that, with an experience d twenty years, he will be enabled to give satisiao- Self-Inject! eg Syringe*. Self-Injecting Sytinges. Self-Injecting Syringe*. Self-Injecting Syringes, Soid at DR. KEYSER’S, 140 Wood eh Suspensory Bandages, Suspensory Bandages, Suspensory Bandages, Suspensory Bandages, A dozen different kinds, A dozen different kinds, A dozen different kinds, A dozen different kinds. At DR. KEYSER'B, 140 Wood street. nolO-lydAw JJR. KETSKB 8 PECTOBAL STREP CUBES CONSUMPTION, CURES BRONCHITIS, CURES COLDS, CURES ASTHMA, CURES ALL DISEABEB OF THE LUNGS, I invite attention to aomo of the moat extraor- dinary cores by my PECTORAL SYBIJP. Tltey are at home, and any one who has doubts can inquire of the persons who have boon oared by it. DR. KEYSER IE PREPARED AT ANY TIME TO EXAMINE LUNGS, WITHOUT CHARGE FOR ALu THOSE Wko NEED HIS MEDI CINES, ATTEND TO YOUR COLDB.-A case of fire ftTii»p oaiBd by Dll - KEYSEa ' B PEO- ,, Pittsburgh, Jan, 11, 1860. -DB.Krrstß : wife has been afflicted with a bad cotuh and difficulty of breathing for five years, which for soverai years back had gradual ly morea od in violence. The oomplaint has been hereditary, and she hod been treated by sev eral physicians without any relief. In this state of her case. I procured some of your Pectoral Oougn Syrup. I bought, the first time, a fifty cent bottle, whioh relieved her very much: I then called and got a dollar bottle, which, cured her entirely, anilsbe has now no trace oi the former dtfbhse, except weakness. I would also state that I used the medicino myself to a cold and cough.' The medicine cured me by taking one doM. iMpross my oatiro satisfaction with the medicine, and you are at liberty to publish this if yon desire to do so, v ltJ WM. WILSON, Alderman, Fifth Ward. n. i i. PI ’T BBCMH . Nov. 18,1858. iv l beea « m pre or l«s, in my life, affected with the severest of colds and hors*- neas. Attunes my throat would become sc closed a room on aeeond two ? ttlo rooms, gas fixtures in every room brtek oamage house and itable for fim 1,2' Eraue arbor, two varieties ofgrsDM jrn«J!S fd“ trees. ehrubbery.e£. nL,S, S. (hjTHBEET &SON™ 8 - 51 Market street A WILSON'S AWARDED THE HIGHEST PREMIUMS AT THU rRRNAfION 1L liXDIIiITIfIN, LONDON, 1 Industrial Exposition, Paris, 1801 In competition with all the leading Sewing Ma chines In Enrope and America, and the Dmted States Agncnltnral Association: Metro politan Mechanirs' Institute, Washington; Frank lm Institute. Phi a leiphia ; Meohanics' Aasocia- Uon, Boston; American Institnte, New York- Maryland Institute, Baltimore; Mechanics' As sociation, Cincinnati; Kentneky Institute. Louis villa ; Mechanics’ institute, San Francisco; and ,ln " C,,on, y f’alr where Exhibited tbi* Season. 125,000 OF THEME MACHINES Have already been Sold. A fact which Bpeaka lender than words of the enccess and popularity ol Wheeler A WU *®“’“ Fnlni| y hewing Uaehlne-the cheapest Machine in the world. Of every kind* BECAUSE IT IS THE BKesr. Every Machine warranted for 8 Years. eme,^ INSTRUCTIONS FREE. Always happy to exhibit and explain them. containing an explanation of the machine, with testimonials from ladies of the highest fßOOlal standing, given on application. eithor in person or by mail. WM. SUMMER A CO., Agents for the Western Stales and Western Pa. Principal Offices aod Wholesale Emporiums, Wo. 37 Fifth Street.. .PITTSBURGH, PA Pike’s Opera House CINCINNATI, 0, Masonic Temple. n024-d&w THE NEW CARPET STORE, We '^waViMA^K^d^ErAa 00 ' 1111 ' a ' Without any Advance In Price, A full line of CARPETS, FLOOR- OIL CLOTUS, In sheets 3 to 24 ft wide ; Woolen Druggets and Cmmb Cloths, WINDOW SIIADK3, Table and Plano Covers, Bags, Mata, Stair Bods, Ac. These goods hare advanped in first hands from TEN to IWE.mTY-FIVE PER uENT within thirty days, and aro row selling at LESS TEAS MAHUIACTOHKKS f RICES. Our stook is almost entirely now, all having been purchased witr in ninety days for cash at the ve:y lowest prices of the y ear. M’FARLAND. COLLINS & CO. Nos. 71 and 78 FIFTH ST., Between Postoffico and Dispatch Building, noib Jacob Keller, importer and wholesale dealer in FOREIGN WINES & LIQUORS 160 BHITHFIELD STREET, Three doors shore 6th street JACOB KELLER WORLD INVITE a* particular attention to hi» stock of German Wines ana French brandies which has been se lected and imported by himself Families and oburcbes could depend on obtaining at this es tablishment the best and purest of wines. Pure Liquors of all kindß, equal to any in the city, ai- hand. Also, puro old Kye Whisks and the best Rectified Monowrahela. oc3o £IABPET(i Have Advance*) in the East, But we continue to sell, until further notice. All (roods m our line at prices rednoed FULLY TWENTY PER CENT. I From Last Season’s Rates, W. d, a a. ncCALLmi, nolia 50.»7 FOURTH STREET. P.tp Y W.ic. -Railroad o^ p 8 “« ° No. 23 Fifth street. 81st of December, proximo, For the purpose of ctmsidfaKng an agreement far The Sale of Ulo FnunelUse, To be a eorgoretion of that Company, to the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and ChioafSTkailwlS Oompupr. as Provided in " Act of file Uenerel Aasugbto the State of Ohjo,"paMat April, noSWd r SeewMui. s For Sale UPWAKDa ui' LOUISVILLE, KY, daily post. DAILY POST-ADVANCED RATES, on 6 year, by mail Six months. One week, delivered in the city Single copies To agents por hundred .... Another Infamous Outrage. The Sussex (N. J.) Herald publishes the following account of the kidnapping of the sou ol a citizen of Hamburg in that county, on Saturday week : In the foreuoon of the day mentioned, in the midst of the rain storm, two men, strangers in the neighborhood, with a pair of horses and wagpn, drove up to the place of Stacy L. Stoll, esq. Without ceremony they proceeded to the grist mill near by and demanded to see Mr. Joseph E Stoll who was tending the mill. Having pre’ sented himself, he was informed that they were authorized to arrest deserters, and that he must go with them. They reused to give their names, or to show or offer to show any authority. They said they were from Jersey City, and had au thority from headquarters. Stacy L. Stoll his lather, who has long been confined to his bed with sickness, could not see them, but his mother, an infirm woman, and her younger sou, a lad about thirteen years of age, came down to the mill, when these catchpoleß proposed to compromise, and tor 5>400 offered to let Joseph go, aDd to guarantee him that he should not again be molested, Joseph, thinking that their object was to extort, money, stepped out of sight, somewhere about the mill. This put these villains into a great fury • they then threatened Mrs. Stoll, that un less she paid them the amount they exacted, they would arrest her for enter taining a deserter—and exhibiting their iron shackles, seizing hold of her—when the little boy. seeing the abuse of his mother, came to her rescue, to get her from their grasp ; whereupon these demon employees let her go, and seized the lad— a very .mail boy of his age—and valiantly and bravely fastened upon his wrists a pair of irou shackles, which extended his arms about one and a half feet apart; they then dragged him along past his father's Ouse, and placed bim iu their wagon, and drove off hastily in the midst of a vio lent rain, tbe lad having nothing to pro tect him from the cold storm but the in door clothes he chanced to have od. They said they would take him to headquarters Hie poor invalid father, unable to protect mim, and bis helpless and agitated mother and sisters who witnessed the scene, could only look cm with horror and dis traction as the affrighted and screaming lad was carried awr»y. Tbe mother followed as far as Warwick, New It ork btate, when she found the men, but no trace of her boy ; nor would they condescend to inform her where he was until near night, when they told her that she probably would find the boy at home, it seems that after.proceeding about Bix miles with him, they unloosed his shack les, and put him cm of the wagon to re turn home as best he might in the drench ing iaio. tup rreeamen of the South The fearful condition ot those victims of Abolition madness, the poor •‘freed men ' of the South, appeals to the heart w e7trr y person of human sympathies. We quote the opposite remarks of the N. Y. World upon the subject, and urge its important suggestions upon our readers’ consideration. After quoting the descrip tions of the Rev. Mr. Fiske, General Grants Superintendent of Contrabands, our New York cotemporary says : “Swarming thus m their worse than savage misery among the camps of the soldiery, their presence moves all that is nbaid and brutal in those camps to hatred and contempt, to outrage and abuse. Had thesn people asked us for the bread of freedom it were still insufferably base in us to have given them these stones in re sponse. Bat it was we who offered, Dot they who asked, this bread at our bands, The master may have chastised his slave with whips, hat we have made him free, only to chastise him with scorpions. The master gave him life, at leaHt, and raiment, food and drink, and a roof to cover him, and the comfortable presence of his fel lows. We give him slow starvation, rags, and the firmament for his shelter. We take him from his wife and children to fight our ba'iles in the field, surrendering them to insalt, privation, and death by famine and disease. The men who have brought this huge wretchedness upon a helpless race, now throw the burden on the people, whose national name it threatens for ages to dis grace. We cannot, and we must not, re ject it. By every entißKleration of honor and humanity, as Christian men, we must lift It, grievous though it bo. This is the immediate work and duty ni the hour. To the future we may well remit the chastise ment, sure and terrible, which awaits the hypocrites and the madmen who have loaded upon us, and upon our childrep, so cruel a weight of national shame and of individual misery." Address of Mr Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Gentlemen ol the Douse of Representa tives—to day will be marked in American history as Ihe opening of a Congress des tined to face and settle the most import ant questions of the country, and during whose existence the rebellion, which has passed into culmination, will, beyond all question thanks to our army and navy and Administration—die a deserved death. Not only will your constituents watch with tho strictest scrutiny your delibera tions here, but the friends of liberty to the most distant lands, will he interested spectators of your acts. In this greater than Roman fornm, I invoke you to approach these grave ques tiona with the cairn thoughtfulness of statesmen, treeing your discussions from that acerbity which mars instead of ad vancing legislation, and with unshaken reliance on that Divine Power which gave victory to those who framed this Union and can give even greater victory to those who are seeking to save it from destruction by the hand of the parricide and traitor] I invoke you also to remember that sacred truth, which all history verifies, that “They who rule notin righteousness shall perish from the earth.''„ Thanking yon with a grateful heart for this distinguished mark of your confidence and regard, and appealing to yon all for that support and forbearance, by the aid of which alone I can hope to succeed, I m now ready to take the oath of office nd enter upon the duties you have as» signed me. A Negro about dying was told by his minister that he must forgive a oertain darkey against whom he seemed to enter tain very bitter leelings, . ‘|es, yes,’ he replied, ‘if I dieß I for gib dat nigga; but if I gits well dat nijrga moat take care.’ William Lloyd Garrison, Mr. Garrison was not mobbed last night. Vitriol was not scattered throngh the audi enee. Stones were not dashed throngh the windows. Yet Mr. Garrison Baid that the execution of John Brown was a horrible murder, and uttered the boldest, most uncompromising anti-slavery opin ions. He was not even hissed ; on the contrary, he was welcomed and interrupt ed by applause, and throughout hia 6ne speech had the sympathies and respect of his hearers. What nas happened to Phil adelphia that in three years she has been thus transformed? What spell of elo quence has Mr. Garrison wrought, that he, who, twenty years ago, nearly lost his life in the streets of Boston for declaring slavery to be a crime; who, up to 1861 was nnjußtly branded as a traitor and an atheist, should now be acknowledged as one of the truest of Americans ? He has wrought no spell bnt that of truth ; he is I not eloquent as Brutus is, and speaks with no more power than of old. The above is frbm the Philadelphia riVess, edited by John W. Forney, the Ulerk of the Senate of the United States I Who is this Wm. Lloyd Garrison, who is “> w pronounced by Forney “as one of the truest Americans ?” He is the editor of the Liberator, at Bostou, which, from 1881 to 1861, made its weekly appear ance with this motto, as the key to the principles of the paper: “The American Umoo and Constitution—a league with bell and a covenant with death.” For more than a quarter of a century did he labor openly and boldly, and with fanatical zeal and determination, for the destruc tion o( our Union and Constitution, be cause they, in his judgment, contributed to the support of slavery in the Bouth. riis doctrine was, that our political in | Btitutions should perish, in order to give the negro a chance for his freedom I 1 his original architect of disunion, who has done more, perhaps, to bring about, the war and separation of the Northern and Southern States, is now received with ovations by the Administration and so called Union party in Philadelphia, and i its organ heralds him as “one of the truest of AmericansT Before a large and fash ionable audience of the Quaker City, Gar rison stands np and asserts that the execn ion of John Brown, who prooeeded, in a time of profound peace, into the State of irgima with a band of desperadoes, with the avowed purpose of inciting negroes to revolt and murder their masters and their master s familes, to bring upon the Old Dominion all the horrors of St. Domingo, and by whose raid a number of valuable ives were lost, whose hand carried pikes tor the barbarous negroes to use in trans bung the heads of infants, after their lashion upon such occasions ; asserted, we repeat, that the execution ol this bloody arid terrible miscreant was a hor rible murder, and the sentiment was re ceived with applause I If this was not a period when the events that have trans pired have been of so extraordinary a cbaracier as to preclude our being aston .shed at any thing, this applanse o? such a sentiment by an American audience would sorely awaken that ©motion. ~ ul " p •**«».. w —« th pubiVc sen- Ument—to the excess of craziness—that it can be carried when under the direction of a ferocious and cruel fanaticism, and even this Philadelphia welcome to the eulogist of a murderer and a traitor of the worst grade, is bot in harmony with that spirit that baa already subverted our Government, and perpetrated atrocities from which the whole world recoils with horror and amazement ! This Philadel phia audience, that received Garrison with so much enthusiasm, may have been well dressed may have had the appearance of a high civilization—hot its moral respect and sense of justice and right, is that of heathens and barbarians of a degraded type. Is there any one now who can not measure th* sincerity of the professions of devotion to the Union that have come from that quarter— who cau not now see the total and utter hypocrisy of them, and is uot ready to rebuke their impudence when they shall again be thrown under his observation ? The Unionism of the Radical or Jacobin faction is that peculiar Unionism of Garrison and John Brown that Unionism which applied the torch and the sword to the destruction of the great temple of American Liberty, and razed it to the ground, and now exult with ferocious and crazy joy ovsr its rmns ! The Work StiU Going On The business of arbitraiy arrests is still progressing in ihe lower end ol our conn ty. We noticed n week or two ago the arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Conrad Horn, ol Hazleton, hy the military. On Friday night of week before last, another outrage or aeries of outrages was perpe trated upon a number of the citizens of Black Creek, whose houses were entered in the night hy some soldiers and the men arrested and taken to Hazleton and from there to Beaver Meadows. They were taken btfore the Deputy Marshal at the latter place, and that officer finding noth ing against them, discharged them aad lelt thorn to return home on foot through the rain. The victims ol this last outrage were Amos Rittenhouseand two othi- sons, Philip Wolf, David Hnnstnger, Christian Beninger, Adam Oroll and Michael Smith. The arresting party also wem to the house of George Clinger, who keeps a hotel in the neighborhood, destroyed hie liquors and other articles, and warned his family to leave the bouse. And these deeds are perpetrated upon American co zens, who are guiltv of no crime save that they refuse to fall down and worship the Abolition God at the behest ol the men in power I In other words, they are Democrats and believe that our old fashioned constitutional gov ernment, such as our fathers made for us through Beaa of blood, is better than a despotism founded upon pretended “raili tary necessity." How long the liberties of the citizen are thus to be crushed we do not know. But we jet hope that the people will awake from the infatuation which seems to render them careless qf the future, careless ol the existence of the free institutions—and when once aroused, that they will yet hurl by their votes a party from power that thus perverts the the purposes of good government to party spleen. A few months more of sion, and the rights of the people'will not be worth the paper upon which we write this paragraph.— Zttzeme Union. The Sewing Girls The Boston Herald , in an article upon the poor sewing girls’ strike in the large cities, says: “The prices paid for sewing are too con temptibly small to mention. Where are the- shoddy . contractors 1 Where are the loud-mouthed philanthropists and sponters about human freedom ? Where are the anti-slavery agitators and Abolition minis ters who roll up their eyes In holy horror about slavery, when the,worn kind of sla very, exists in our very midst? Do our Chris tian ministers preach long and flatulent dis- courses about the sad condition of the thousands of females who labor twelve or fourteen hours a day for $1 60 or $2 per week? How are they to pay for their board) ; and how are they to be clothed apon snch a miserable stipend, we inquire? Do not the great wrings practioed upon them in this particular cry aloud to Heaven for' vengeance? Will not the bo called res pectable women, who live in luxury and e &ae, qo something to aid the unfortunate of their own sex ? . Will they not step for ward arid lend their influence to alleviate the sufferings of their unfortunate Bisters? 'Do they imagine that going to church, arrayed in purple and fine linen, and at tending a few meetings during the week, yclept sewing circles, where scandal is the presiding genius, will carry them to Heaven ? It they do they will come far ri °j en l “ e y stand before a just Hod, will not the question be pat to them: Have you fed the hungry and clothed the naked. Have you done anything to re- 1 lieve the distress of your poor sißters, or 1 have you been proud, arrogant and sel- 1 fish? i “The misfortune is that these poor sew mg girls must be negroes to get the Bym pathy ofthe Abolition agitators.” Supreme Court of the United States. Monday, December 7, 1888 Present: The Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Jastice. I Hon. J. M. Wayne, i I Hon. J. Catron, j I Hon. 8. Nelson, | Hon. R. C. Grier, j Hon. N. Clifford- }■ Associate Justices. Hon. N. H. Bwayne, i Hod. S. F. Miller, j Hon. D. Davis, and [ Hon. S. J. Field, J ~ r - Justice Taney announced that Wm. Thomas Carroll, late Clerk of this Court, has died since the last adjourn ment ofthe Cour, and proceeded as fol lows : i h ' s , h , ereb ? ordered that Daniel Wes ley Middleton be and he is hereby ap pointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States ; and that he forthwith I take the oaths of office, and give bond, according to law, for the faithful perform ance of the duties of his office. While we are appointed a successor to r ja?t to his memory | to say that he was an accomplished and faithful officer, prompt and exact in busi ness, and courteous in manner, and during the whole period of his official life dis charged the daties of h:s office with jastice to the public and the sailors, and to the entire satisfaction of every member of the Coart. V,e sincerely deplore his death, and direct this order to be entered on the records of the Court, and a copy of it transmitted to his widow by the Clerk, to mark our sympathy with the sorrows of bis afflicted family. Mr. Chief Jastice Taney announced to, the Bar that the Coart woald commence the call of the docket to morrow in the following order : No. 9. Bayne vs. Morris* No. 'l7. Meiggs et al vs. The Steamer Northerner. Mafl Stc-amship*'tJompany. No. sti. Miles vs. Caldwell. No. hB. Rench vs. Deery, Premium Sewing Machines, TMK OXLY GOLD MEDAL Ever Awardel to Sewing Machines in Illinois, Thestf machines were awarded the Highest Pre mium', over ali competitor*, for the Beet Family Sexoinp Machines, ine Best Manufacturing Mai chines, and the Best' Machine Work, at the fol* lowing bTAXh FAIRS of 1863: *Yeu> York .State Fair. First Preminm u-r family maohine. First Premium for double-thread machine, rirst Premium for machine work, r ermont State Fair. First Premium lor family machine, first Premium lor manufacturing machine, first Promium for maohine work. lowa State Fa ir. First Premium for family machine. First Premium lor manufacturing machine; First Premium for machine work. Michigan State Fair. First Fremiam lor 'amily machine. First Pretuiam for manufacturing machine. First Premium for machine work. Jn-iiana State Fair. First Promium for maohine for all purposes. First Premium for machine work. Illinois State Fair. £i rst £ remiuai for machine for all purposes, rirst Premiam for machine work. Kentucky ."state Fair. First Premium for machinefor all purposes, firot Premium for maohine work. Pennsylvania State Fair. Mrst Premium for manufacturing maohine _J>rB;.Pramium for beautiful machine work*. Ohio State Fair. First Premium for maohine work. A nd at the following County Fairs : Chittenden Co. ( Vt.) Agricultural Society' first Premium for t amily sewing machine, rinst Premium for manufacturing machine. First Premium for machine work, Champlain Valley t Vt.) ApricuUuralSociety. First Premium lor laimly machine. First Premium for manufacturing machine. First Premium for machine work. Hampdeu Co, [Mass ) Agricultural Society. Diploma for family machine. Diploma for machine work. Franklin Co (iV. F.) Fair. First Premium for family machine, Fi-ot Premium f.r manufacturing machine. Queen’s Co (N. Y.) Agricultural Society. Hr t Premium tor family machine. Washington Co. uY. Y,) Fair. First Premium for family machino. Saratoga Co. LV. F.) Fair. First Premium lor family machine Mechanics Jn-titute {Pa.) Fair. First Premium lor machine for ali purposes. First Premium for machine work. „ , Th^, b ,?\ e .°oQ?i»mea ali the Fairs at which the GK'-'VLR SI BAKLK MACHINKd were exhibit ed ihis year. At nearly ail of them the leading Sowing Machines were in competition. The work made upon the Grover A Baker Sew ing maohine has received the First Premium at every fctate Fair in the United State whereit has been exhibited to this date. Sales Rooms, No. 14 FIFTH 8T- Pittsburg Pa. oc2&2md*w A. F. CHATONEY, Agent. LAKGE STOCK OP NEW SHOES AT MFFENBACHBB’S, SO. 15 FIFTH STBKET, mbraiing fleDt’a. Ladies, Misses and Children's wear *n great variety. J UST RECEIVED — ~ Laird’s Bloom of Youth for the complexion and skin* Drake's genuine Plantation Bitters. Ayer’s ChorryjPectoral and Sarsaparilla. Mrs. Allen's Hair Restorer andZylobalsum. Wishart’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial. Hagan’s Magnolia Balm. S:ear!ing Am&roeia for the Hair. Holloway's Family Medicines, Lindsey’s Improved Blood Searcher. All of Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines, Pure Glycerine and Honey Soaps. Glycerine Cream and Cold Cream, for chapped hands, face, nb«ny PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. Delivered before Congress on Dee. 9th FdMe citizen of the Senate and House ki 'fteprtftntatvoes ;—.Another year of Koo M j sufficiently abundant harvests passed, tor these, and especially for ffti™ lmpr ° TBd co “ dition °t onr national af profound gratitnde dne ;,. remain in place and W° d AlrT h ( ore,gn Powers. The ef -I°** d'Bloyal citizens of the United States to involve us in foreign wara and to aid iu inexcusable insurrection have been unavailing. Her Britannic Majesty’s (government, as was justfy expected, have exercised their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France B llke proceeding promptly indica ted the neutralityTvhich he proclaimed at the beginning of the contest Quest.ons, of great intricacy and importance have arisen out of the blockade and other bel ligerent operations between the Govern- ? e , D , tand B6V ? aI °{ the “aratimepowers,; but they have been discussed, and, so far as was possible, accommodated in a spirit of frannness, justice and mutual good will. 1 ffrat i f y in « that oa r prize courts, by the impartiahty of their adjudi oation, have commanded the respect and confidence of the matatime powers. On Foreign Treaties. ’ n e , supplemental treaty Detween the United States and Great Britian. for the suppression of the African slave trade, mode on the 17th day of February last, hn been duly ratified and carried into execu tion. It ia believed that so far as Ahieri - can ports and American citizens are con cerned, that inhuman and barbarous traf fic has been brought to an end. I shall submit, for the consideration of the Senate, a Convention for the adjustment of pos sessory claims in Washington territory arising out of the treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, between the United States and Great Britian, and which have been the source of some disquiet among the citizens of that now rapidly improving part of the country. A novel and important question involving the extent of the maratime ju risdiction of Spain, in the waters which surround the Island of Cuba, has been de bated, without reaching an agreement, and it is proposed, in an amicable spirit, to refer it to the arbitrament of a friendly Fower. A convention for that purpose will be submitted to the Senate. I have thought it a proper subject to the approval of the Senate to concur with tne interested commercial powers in ah arrangement for the liquidation of the Soheldt dues, in the principles which have been heretofore adopted in regard to the Denmark^ 11 DBrigation in the waters of Our UittlfiuUioa with Chiu. * on S Pending cod trover By between this Government and that of Chili, touch lng the seizure of Seiana in Pern by Chi lian of a large amonnt o t treasure belonging to citizens of the United States, bron K h ‘ ‘“a close, by the award, of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, to whose arbitration the question was re ferredbythe parties. The subject was thoroughly and PatlWlldT..«mtmn« and ds this Government expects fnii fro “ other^ powers when similar injuries are inflicted by persons in their Bervioe upon artizans of the United States we must be prepared to do instice-to tor fnS 61 ' 8 ' . If ex * Bt “S judicial tribunaia are inadequate to this purpose, a special courts - “ay beauthonzed with power to hear and decide such claims of the character refer to’^B I ? ay ba l e arisen under treaties and nnhlm i~— n„_ ■ . '“"S’- - yn -- - w-m ” uoyo UOCIA. VtMfi ierred to some Governments, but uo defin- Uiye answer to the proposition has not been received from any. The operations of the Treasury during the laßt year have been successfully con ducted. The eaaotment by Congress of a National Banking Law has proved a vain ble support of the public credit, and the general legislation in relation to loans has lully answered the expectations of its fa vorers. Some amendments may be required to perfect existing laws, but no change in their principles or general scope is beiiev ed to be Deeded* Since these measures have been in operation all demands on the Treasury, including pay ot the army and navy, have been promptly met, and fully satisfied. No considerable body of troops it is believed, were ever more amply pro vided, more liberally and punctually paid aud, it may be added, -that by no people were the hardens incident to a neat war more cheerfully borne. The receipts during the year from all sources,.including loans and the balance 10 * commencements were $90,112,667,488; the aggregate dig* bursements, $896, 796,680,66; leaving a balance on the 7th of July, 1868. of $632,904,421. 01 the receipts there were derived from customs, $6,906,964-- 240; from.internal revenue, $8,764,076,- 796; worn direct taxes, $148,610,861: trom lands, $167,617,17; misoeilaileoM a 2“cea, $804,661,686 ; and from loan., ,166,682,861; making an aggregate of $90,112,667,486. Of the dSXU there were $282,689,22; for pensions &e -> $4,216,620,69; for interest on public debt, $24,729,846,61; for War Department, $699,298,600;83; for the Navy Deyartmeut, $6,824,106,27; for the payment of fonded mid temporary debt. $181,086,686,07, making an aggregate of $89,678,688,066, and le^ving^tXioe o $682,904,421. --auuo Bat the payment of the funded and temporary debt having been made from monies borrowed during the year most be regarded as merely nominal payments, aud the monies borrowed to make them as merely nominal receipts, and amount, $181,086,686,07, should there tore be deducted both fromthe receipts and disbursements. This being done, there remains, as aotual receipts, 714,709,985,- 08, leaving the balance as already stated. The actual receipts and disbursements lor the first quarter and the estifacM re _ oeipts and disbursements lor the remain ing three quarters of the qnrrent fiscal year of 1864, will be shown in detail by the report of the Secretary of the Trea sury. to which I invite your attention. It is sufficient to say here that it is not believed that the actual' results will exhibit a state of the finances, less for midable to the country, than the estimates of that officer, heretofore submitted, while it is confidently expected that at the dose of the year, both disbursements and debts will be found very considerably less than nos been anticipated. The report of the Secretary of War is a document of great interest. It consists of, hirst. The military operations of the year, detailed m the report of the General in-Chief Second. The organization of colored persons into the war ser vice. Thirffi The exchange of p“ oners is fully set forthin the let ter of General Hitchcock. Fourth. One rations under the act for enrolling and caU jng out the National forces, detailed in foe wport of the Provost Mantel General h-ifih. ihe organization ot the invalid corps. Sixth. The operation of the sev eral departments, of the Qnartermaster Generals; Chief of Engineers; Chief ot Ordnance and Surgeon General. It hua appeared impossible to make a valuable summary of this report, except each as would be too extended for this place, and hence I content myself in referring your attention to the report itself The duties devolving on the naval branch ot the service daring the year, and throughout the whole of this unhappy contest, have been discharged with fideli ty mid eminent success. The extensive blotffiade has been constantly in efficiency as the navy has expanded, yet on so long a line it has so for been im.