•• a t: _ sdslitasi sir *fr y • , 'I"I'YSBURG,.AIAMS COUNTY, PA VOL. 1 X.--NO. 3N.] THE GARLAND. With sweetest flowers earieleil, From varimig gardens cull'd with care." THE MARINER'S ORPHAN. The cold faithless moon looking down on the wave How dark grows my heart with her beaming! And yonder she 81111}1n1 011 the new cover'll grave, ‘Vhile tears drown my sight in their streaming. l'or, there lies my father, down, down in the der O'erwhelmed by the black heavy billow ! And now they Imve borne off my mother to sleep Where the damp clods of earth arc her pillow. How oft would ,lie knet,i when the moon from above flowg mild o'er a calm sparklinz ocean, And lift her .+weet voice in Iliaolcsaiving, and love, To of her eveningdevotion ! llnt when into elms Is all her brightness was east, With looks full of wo and imploring, She how'd like a reed at the rush attic blast, Awl ay'd while the tempest was roaring. Th• it, pale at the noise of the storm and I he sea, Whit, tears rull'd na chrystal-drops shining, She threw her fond arms ront.tl my brother and,m 11cr trembling In stay by their twining. !tut ! oh when they told her the whole fatal tale, I.lv silt nee her anguish was spoken She heard that the bark had gone in the gale, Then sunk ; for.bet heart-strings had broken ! And since, when I see the false moon beaming clear With %tars gathered thickly around her, 1 think of that night when no ray would appear To light the frail bark that must founder. The sound of the waves as they die on the shore, It fills me wtth sadness and sigh kir ; To me they bring back it dear father no more— They show me a mother when dying! ',l' Ul l'3a - ..) . j',(V •-)il-,)'<'SQ t•lt(} I! II 11 II 1.:11 , 1 ED I n 11RGII ICI It NAI TIME DEAD-HOUSE OF PARIS La Morgue kor the Dead Douse) of Par is, is a retired gloomy building, situated of that part of the left bank of the Seine ditch lies between the city quay and that of Orlevres. Tho object of the establish went, as its name partly implies, is to re ceive the bodies of all those who have come to a violent ors I, by land or water, and eith er to retain them till they aro claimed by or to bdry them if they remain un known. It is strange how the existence of this building influences the district in its immediate vicinity. La Morgue, is the centre point of attraction, the source of news and novelty. The neighbors there talk not of politics or revolutions. "A fine corpse was that brought in this morning." "De was oily, was'nt her "Did you see the girl to.day?" "What long black hair she had I It trailed on the ground as she passed on the hurdle I" Such is the aener e, al nature of the gossip in the neighborhood of tire Dead House. 1 visited La Morgue twice. On the first occasion, Francois, tla: receiver of the hod. les, could not show the establishment to m-! in the absence of the recorder, Mr. Perrin. These two persons dwell with their tainilies in the upper floor of this house of death, and have the solo charge of it. Francois, with whom I became somewhat • familiar, desir ed toe to return at a certain time, and I should see the whole. Accordingly, I went again to La :Morgue. "Ah, ynu.aro there !" said Francois, ris 7 leg to receive me, and introducing me to his wife and another person who was pres• eat. "This is a neighbor," continued Fr:it-- cols, alludlng to the hitter individual, "Pilo comes, out of sheer friendship, to help me when I require assistance, and on this inor• ning his services; have been much requir. ed. Your visit has been timed most luckily, sir. We have today a woman who hang ed herself with her garters, a man who has been four hours in the waters, and a third, a little female child, an infant who was sof Located last night by accid.an in a stage coach. They mistook her for a pin•ket,and crushed her. Poor thing ! how lovely ehe is!" "Ah !" said the wife of Prancei4, dper ps she had a mother, Who waited aaxious Iv for her return from the country! By the by, Francois, where did you lay her? 011 t he dissection table?" "No no; why, what use eonhl there be in °potting her ? ho could think ol' that dear little child having been poisoned? Go and , 00k at her; she is us clean as if she had come out of a bath And then the young nurse, who brought her here in her apron, wept OH if the little one had been her own. She told me that she had been . re turning Gem her native village in Nortnan dy, whither she had gone to nurse the child, and Clint the stage coach, in which she was, was so full of People that qhe was compelled to put her little nursling between her knees. She was then much thtigued, having slept none for two days. When night came, she fell asleep. The child slipped front her grasp; she slept still. l'he :child moved, and perhaps cried, but the rat tle of the coach :aided the sound ; and the nurse slept on. In the morning whom she awoke, she litund that she had but the body of her babe!" "Is this all, Francois?" said his wife. "The rest HEW be conceived. On reach. ing Paris where the rowdier lives, the nurse thirst not go to the house, and thus she thought ()I bringing the body here for in terment. But she would scarcely part with the child. She kissed its cold broW. she kissed its hands, she kissed its shoulders, its feet, saying all the while, 'Oh Ic'can it be true that she is dead, sir!' Then she gave the body to me, took it back again, shook I it, called it by its name. and strove with her (know to open its eyes. 'Oh! do you (know no way to open its eyes for me? Ali! Ithey were such pretty eyes, so round, so blue ! Its eyes! My girl had blue eyes like her mother—oh, she will kill me, that mother ! I will tell her the child died from its teething; hut all our village will say it is not true. I will say they trek her from me in the coach; but the coachman will say it is not true. No, no ; I will tell noth ing. I will go back to may village, and wait till her parents come to See the child. Perhaps they may not cone for three—for six months—perhaps no . fur a whole year But all ! I can never go back to my villaao —never more, tf I have not my infant, my lilac Leonme.'" Ilere Francois interrupted his account of the poor nurse's exclamations, to tell his wile to mite the name of Lootiore. "Ile• member, wife, to repent it to Monsieur Por- Fin, that he may inscribe it in his register." Francois then resumell the nurse ' s sohl4)- " I cannot return to my village in of niakdy. 'Every body there was so 6ind of cry Leonme. Sugar plums and cakes were showered upon her. Monsieur the Curate was distracted about my girl! 0(i! sir, could we not bleed her, and bring her back ! Or put her feet into warm water Ah, you know many cases of children he Mg restored—don't you now? Alt, you do! No ! Oh, tell me—tell me what to do! fler mother will kill me, yes, t ertainly she will kill me ! Or if Igo borne to my vil lage, they will stone, mil—they will throw du t upon the like a toad I Oh, sir, brio' my Leonor) back to me, and I will—yes, I —I will give her to you!' Francois p &used, and then continued in his own words, "When it was absolutely necessary to depart, the nurse again kissed the iilkint's cheeks, and besought leave from Me to takeaway wild) her the cap and handkerchief that were upon it. It is not our cu.tom to permit this, but I was always too soft•hearted. I bide her take there, and, alter snatching them up, the poor WO• Wan threw her apron over the babe's fea tures, and rail out of the house." This was all Francois had to say about the nurse and child, and his wif• summoned up by - the re mark, "You see, one ought always to take two places in such a case in a st tge-coach." Phis was all .Madame Francois thought a bout the A knock at the door was now heard, and Plalleok opening it, introduced Mr. Perrin, the recorder of La Morgue, a little old man, who coughed incessantly. tic politely pro fussed his willingness to show me his estab lishment, and away we went for that pur pose. We went tip a flight of steps, and, in doing so, were obliged to stall:: by the wall, in order to allow a bevy of showy, pretty young girls to pass us, "These are Mur of my daughters," said 11r. Perrin, "I have eight children. Francois has had four,and he bas been so fortunate as to see them all married. Ile is a good lather, Francois." So (thought I) twelve have been born in the Dead-House ! Conjugal amid, trieSlie joys, marriages and liaptisins, lov.•, religion, virtue, all havo a place in this la- neral abode, as well as elsewhere. Nleau while we passed on throw.h chambers which it is not toy purpose to describe, tin- til we came to the adumustrative cabinet or registry-office of Mr. Perrin. 1 asked and received permission to look over the book containing the records of the dead. It was in double columns, the Urne for the known and the other fir the unknown. Tho 611111_ hers of the unknown mently predominated. Such entries as these were abundant: "Brought at three in the morning : skull fractured ; unknown. liron , lit at mid night; drowned under the Bridge of Arts: a pack of cat ds in the pocket : unknown. Child newly born, found dead from cold, nt the door ola hotel ; unknown." And so on. "Ah !" said NI. Perrin to me, "don't you find our registers kept very nicely now ? lly hand does tremble a little, hut you may see that it is still a firm hand-writing for my 'se. I hive cultivated a flowing dash with some success. There is a capital NI. n .w—neatly turned, is it not'!" Good, simple man ! Proud only of the urn ora capital letter, whilst heedless of the let, that that very letter was the cum nencement of a prince's name, of a name inscribed upon a u ► !What: coinoge. flow came the name of a prince into the p:►ges of a dead house register reinoo her the occasion, though I know not the cause. One night when a proud mansion was light ed up in Paris, when its inagnitieent balls were crowded with the gay and fashionable, all thinking only of life and its enjoyments, a domestic, with a haggard look, rushed up to the mistress of the dwelling, who was surrounded by the guests entertained by her in her husband's tel absence. The lady had no sooner listened to her servant than she flew from the Assembly. The music ceased, the dancers stopped, whispers passed among the crowd a voice cried "to La Morgue!" and away rushed the whole, some of them uncloaked, some with their very heads uncovered, and all in coofusion. A strange sight it was to see that lately brilliant throng flying in disorder through the open .streets, in a night of storm and darkness. They reached La Morgue one by one; and there stretched on a table they beheld the lord of the mansion they had left, cold and lifeless. The body of the Prtuce--,- had been found in a wood in the environs of the capital. How he (lied was undiscovered. But, opposite to his name the register, there was, as M. Perrin madu c tne remark, the Words well known. • To return, however, to 11. Perrin. From the chamber of registry we wont to another apartment, that in which the clothes of the (1 ° 1 . 1 .4 n'CIV kept. There thvy hung' upon teV.P2BV:Oclirt Quivlvxpztalga. aa, awn. the wall. of all forms, kinds, and dimensions; hideously coupled together; a spatterdash . joined by a pin to a sleeve, of a shawl rest ing upon the corar of a man's coat ; dresses of gentlemen, ladies, workmen, and, in short of every class, mingled together, a:I dirty and defaced, and exciting the most painful impressions in the mind. One could even mark the aprons of the workmen still rolled tip, and showing that death had surprised them at the end of a day's common toil. Francois, who followed my eyes in look ing at these oblecis, inurder to observe the effect made by them upon me, here drew a profound sigh. What!" you then aro ino. tied at this ?" said I to him; ' v(air condition is n isiiiisfictory—reptigolint to you, then, is it?" ''Nut precisely that, sir," replied Franco is. "But you must know, sir, that hitherto the clothes of the Unknowns have• knell to us after being exposed for six months. We then sell thein. Now they speak ()flaking the clothes from us '" Strange calousness of habit ! I consoler! Francois by the assurance that neither the government nor the world at large spoke of taking away the perquisite of the clothes.— From this apartment we now went to the rent where the bodies are exposed; and here, upon a marble table, its sole furniture, I beheld the three bodies spoken of. The infant which had fallen Critic tho grasp of its poor nurse, and b, , en sutrocated in the, stagecoach, was beautiful ! The other ho dies were disagreeable objects, and I hur ried from the slab' of them. I said to 11 when he rum: to his register room ag till, that I l'eared he must find his situation tedeuer m the lung nt~ hits of winter. no," said he, in a lively ton", "my d inglitr‘rs sm:z, and work ; Fran cols and I join nor wives at a game rd uic quer. The misfortune is, that our little party is often put into disorder. A knock comes below ; we are obliged to deseeinl,ro receive and undress the new comer, and to put the ease in the register. This disturbs our game; ire forget. to make the points" "But your daughters, arc they peilect 'Oh ! you mistake much, if you imagine that the eulllllloll spectacles to be seen hers distress them at all," said %l. Perrin • They pass the night here with the gr•eat est composure and cheerfulness. One grows to any thing." lie might well say so. The room which - his family occupied were in the floor imme diately ahove that where the bodies were laid. Nay, the want) of the young ladies stood directly above the table on which the unfortunates weir! exposed, before bin , r claimed er bu is d. So much was struck with the wonderfill searing of habit in this instance, that I could not hell') fincying it possible for these girls—so 6111)111;1r with the idea of dead bodies, so accustomed to the domestic sre'clacle of their existence— to forget themselves on some occasions,nnd to ask strangers whom they visited, just ns' one would inquire for a garden or a krtch• en, "nut where du you keep your dead bodies here?" I nn w prepared to leave La Morgue. tiler bidding fitrewell to M. Perrin and Francois, they opened the gate for are, and 1 was about to issue, Whet 1 was driven back by an advancing crowd. These people were fidlowing or rather surrounding a man, who was wheeling a barrow to the door of La Morgue. As it entered, a track of water marked the course of the vehicle. The cover which was over the body—tor body it was which the barrow contained— was taken off, and it was plain that the young woman who lay there had died-re cently, from the clasped hands and com pressed h pq. Ft OW one of her hands Francois found sonic difficulty in withdraw tug a haiallterchiel which she held. lle had no, sooner got it, than he cried, "Good heavens! let me look at this woman!" Ile gazed for a moment at her counte nance, and exclaimed "It is she!" "Who ? what she? "The visitor of the morrunfr—the Nor• man nurse!" was the reply of Francois I had been alli•cied by the story, and was more so now, when I saw what despair had driven the poor nurse to. Francois said quietly. "Alt! well, we shall lay her beside the body of the little one " M. Perrin put on his spectacles, opened his register, and wrote with a superb dash, UNicxow:v !" All LiENTATI L VERNME NT.—TIF AT. ETTI: frequently used to say, laughingly "My countrymen have but little idea of what consti_ toles a legitimate popular representation, and when I illustrate it in the Chambers by compar mg the United States and France, the contrast scarcely scents credible or conmatible with the low standard of democracy in the old European Gov_ ernments." The whole number of votes taken at the late election in the State of New York is in point. There were 375,000 votes polled in a population of two millions, i. e. near one-tifth of the inhabi tants voted. Whereas, in France, with a popula tion of thirty-two millions, there are hut 300,000 entitled to vote, or less than one-hundredth, of the population ! This is, New York State alone has 75,000 more rotes than all the empire of France. We clip the fa owing from the Lancaster In. tolligoncer. It is curious end interesting: FRANKLIN.—It is rather a curious mci. dent,t hat when the American Congress sent Dr. Franklin, a Printer, as Minister to France, the Court of Versailles sent M. Gi rard, a Bookbinderois Minister to the Uni ted States. When Dr. Franklin was told of it, he exclaimed, "Well, Pil print the Independence of America, and M. Girard will bind When we are alone We have our thotighis to watch—in the fatuity Qur kurrs—in ouuvany, our tongue', 00-FE.IRLESS .IJVD FREE. .00 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEItLY Tit EA:4I It Y REPORT. Report of the. Secretary of the Treasury on Ike Finances. rnEsseny DEPATur3rElqr, December :3, 18a3. The undersigned respectfully submita the follow ing report, in obedience to the ~A ct supplementa ry to the net to establish the Treasury Department." 1. OF TilE REVENUE AND KEPENDITURED. The hillance in the Tinaatiry on the 1 at ofJanua. ry, ;639, which will then ho ayallablo and ap. plicablo to public purposes, im es. timated at $2,765,312 36 This result k derived from the following data: on din Ist MJantiary, 1837, the loilanco in the 'Fieastiry„ exclusive of trust 1 nits and thus° belonging to the Post Office, was 816,337,688 36 The receipts during that year, from all sources, exclusive or the run& afore. 22,643,973 53 Buhl, were Viz Custom■ 311,169,290 39 Lands 6,176,236 52 Miscellaneous! 1,705,457 47 Treasury Dotes 2,992,989 15 These, with the balance last mentioned, constitute an nzaregate Of 868,981,661 89 The itxpeollit ores daring the stone yeitr, exele,ive ot• Cie trust...hinds and those beiongiiip to the l'ostollice,were 831,815,409 91 Viz. Civil I.rit,fureigit intereenrein,mul flak. eellrnoons 5,521,'332 76 Military service, including fortifica timis, Indian anus, pensions, arm. lug the militia,t , te Florida w.r, re• nurvnl of the Cherokees nod Creeks, I,ptucernentii i ivers nod harbors, Ci,structing rond4, and loolding 111 , 11'11.H and arsenal+ 19,417,:174 41 Naval sel vice, including gradual tin. prevenient and 43xpluring ezpedi. win 6,85:2,0.59 80 Public debt 21,822. 91 This le ft in t fir Troviory Oil tho Ist or Janu,ry. 1838, a balance of $37, r 66.251 98 The receipts dur.ng the first three quarters of 1836, with exceptions similar to those iirriore named, are ascertained and estimated to linen been $31,075,723 Viz. poqnonod bonds $1 . .. , ,VViti,771) 56 [Or this stun, about 0,900,000 dollars, received in Treasury inflow, cannot, until the settlements to which they belong shall be completed he the ac counting officers, ho entered upon the Uogister's books. A part will bet curried into the Trotisury'hy war rant during the fourth quarter, and the remainder nest year.) _ _ Lands .2,036,828 54 Aliscellaneong 238,431 b 5 Proceeds of third bond or U. S. Bank 2.254,871 38 Part of socnnd bond L 60 1 1,0011 00 Issue orri easury notes 12,716,8'20 86 The fur thor receipts in the fourth quar ter are estimated at 7,052,2315 84 Viz. Customs,estimirting tho actual receipts during the qua rter,nnd not tho sums which may be formally carried upon the Register's books from former quarters 85,250,000 00 Lands 1,100,000 00 [lncluding only a portion ofthe pre emptions and such of the sales as miry be actually 'mid into the Treasury be. fore toe year expires.] Miscellaneous 15,000 00 Oil second bond efU. States Burilt,iltio in September, 1838,and paid in part helore, and in par r after that date 687,1130 84 These united ❑ H ike the mutregute or receipts Mr the dear 1838,as uscer tamed and estimated 38,197 05 , 1 03 This, With tho balance on the first or January last, would amount to 75,29.1,206 0 The expenditures (Infirm the first three quartos N or 1838, with similar exceptions, worn $28,427,218 68 Viz. Civil list, etc. $7,029,674 13 Military service, etc. 15,731,3723 62 Naval service, etc. 4,325,563 21 Public debt 1,217 03 Redemption of Treasury notos,includ ing interest 4,339,440 64 The oxpenditoren duriiig the fourth quarter, including 81,000 interest on funded debt, cud the redemption of $3,750,000 of Treasury ii..tes,a to estimated be the ditibient Depart ments ut $13,511,920 10. But it is nor - expected that thu redomptiUll of ill these notes will appear on the Register's books un'il next your. Nur does the undersigned anticipate that the actual expenditures within this Quarter, including the above notes rodeeined,,will exceed 1'2,000,000 00 Making an aggregate of expenditures tbr the year :838, of 40.427,418 68 This computation would leave in the 'Treasury, on dos lst of January, 1839, a bal• all ce of 834,866,987 33 r It is proper to ascertain, in the next pluce,how much of this balance is not immediately avuilablo and applicable to public purposes. • The awn of $23,101,644 97, which has been placed with the Stated tbr sate keeping. is a part of that balance, and cannot, by the provisions of the act of October 14, 1837, be made available till directed by Congress. Another part is about 81000,000, due chiefly Limn various insolve-t banks, on account or tho money that bolero 1837 had been placed in their custody to the credit of the Treasurer,and still re mains unpaid. . Another portion is near $2,400,000, which is from banks that suspended specie payments in 1807, and will probably nut be paid during the present year. • About $500,000 of tho amount which has boon placed in thei Mint, for the specific purposes des. ignstod in the lows on that subject is another part of that Warm). whichieould not of once bo mad• available liar other objaCte without much public inconvenience. The arzgreguto of these items, not immediately availalde nut., applicable to public purposes, is $32,101,G44 97; und,il deducted from the forego ing h...lance, it would leave, on the Tot ofJainiery next, lif tilhted in the commencement of 0 . 64 re port, only the sum oi $2,765,3 , k1 3 1 ; then availa ble, and applicable to those purposes. Subjui.eud is a condensed view of the roceip:s and uleaas, as well us the expenditures for 1638, as ascertained and estimated; also the fundii not nvailibla in that year. SUMMARY FOR 183 S RECEIPTS OR 31E%NS. 'AMOUNT. Fldlsiten on the let ofJan'y,lB3B, $37,166,251 98 Receipts from customs, 17,178,770 56 Receipts from lends, 3,136,828 54 51incellaneous, 253,431 85 Treasury notes issued, 12,716,820 86 Second and third h mils of Mink of the United States of Pennsylvania, 1,512,10 22 EXPENDITURES. Civil and inidcollaneons, first three quarters, 84,029,674 13 Nlilitary, first three quarters, 15.731,323 62 Navnl, first three quarors, 4,325,5!13 21 Estimate of above expenditures for 4th quarter, • 8,249,000 00 Public debt for the year, 2,217 08 Redemption ofTreasury notes for the year, 8,089,440 64 Balance o .the 31st of Dec , 1838, 34,866,987 33 UNAVAILABLE FUNDS IN 1838. Depositos %vitt' the States. $28,101,644 97 Due from insolvent banks beforolB37 1,100,000 00 Due from banks that suspandad pay ment in 1837. and not payable till 1839, 2,400,900 00 Part of money in the mint, 500,000 00 From balance on 3lst Decomber,lB3B, being 934,896,987 33 Deduct total unavailable as above, 32,101,644 97 Available balance remaining, $2,765,341 16 11. OF THE PUBLIC DEBT The payments 011 account of the funded and unfunded debt,amee Ito let Docembor,lB37,haye boon as follows: 1. Oil accou.t of the principal and interest o ho funded debt— utcrost Leaving unclaimed & undischarged $325.5:20 83 Viz. Principal Interest 2. On nccount of the unfunded debt existing previous to 1837,including SI 08 interest on Treasury notes of 1815 Leaving the amount orcertiticates & notes paydb/0 on presentation Viz. Certificates issued for claims during Revolutionary war, registered prior to 1798, $27,293 31 Treasury notes issued during late war, 5,300 00 Certificates of Miss'pl stock 4,320 09 In addition to the above, the United States, un der the act of the 20th May, 1836, fur the relief of the corporate cities of the District of Columbia, have assumed the following eobts, bearing an in. tercet of five per cont. exclusive of charges, via. Of the city of Wasleton, $1,000,000 Do. Alexandria, 250.000 DJ. Georgetown, 250,000 The payments tor the year 1838,0 n ac• count of the interest and charges on this debt, amount to $76,995 99 3. STATEMENT IN RELATION TO THE ISSUE AND RE DEMPTION OF TREASURY NOTES IN 1d37 AND 1838, Issued under the act of the 191.11 Octo. her, 1837, $10,00 0,000 00 Do. do. 5,709,810 01 21at May, 1833 Of this amount, e 15,710,810 0 86,888,809 CO wore at 6 per cont. 4,280,273 72 do 5 per cent. 2,784,844 73 do 2 per cent. 1,753,881- 96 do 1 mill per cent The hillowing amount has been redeemed: There have boon entered to the credit of the "account of• redemption of 'Creamery notes" on the bunks of the Register $5,063,197 41 And there hate been cancel led arid returired to the Treasury, arid aro now in the course of settlement, as appears from (he rec• ords of the Ist Auditor and the Commissioner of the Goners! Land Office 2,892,052 52 Louring outstanding EXPLANATIONS AB TO TUE APPROPRIATIONS OUT The appropriations heretofore made, which will remain unsatisfied at the end of the year 1838, and be chargeable on the balance then in the Treasury, and the revenue subsequently re ceived, arc estimated by the other Departments at $13,187;126 83, but by the undersigned at $ 1 ,511,9:20 10 more, in consequence of ostinutt illy the expenditures of the fourth quarter differ ently. Upon the view taken by this Department, it is computed that 812,369,623 68 of these appropria tions will be required to be paid, in order to ac complish the objects contemplated by them. Of the remainder, about $370,360 40 may go to the surplus fund, or not be needed to accom. plish those objects ; and the residue, being $l, 959,362 8.5, it is proposed to apply to the service of the ensuing year, without ro appropriation. V. ErrctiATE OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES con 1539 - • • • The receipts into tite . Treasury during the year 539, are elitimated at $93,760,000 00 Viz. Customs 819,000,000 00 Lands 4,600,000 00 Miscellaneous 500,000 00 The proceeds of the fourth bond of the U. States Bank, if sold, 2,350,000 00 And the sums likely to be realized from former deposit° banks on instalments which become due in 18392,400,000 00 These with the estimated balance of 92,765,342 iu the Treasury,which,on the Ist of Jamiary,l339,will be avail. able and applicable to public purposes, constitute an aggregate of efficient moans amounting to The expenditures for 1539, including the redemp tion of right millions of Treasury notes, and interest, falling due is that year, are estimated at Thus, of the old appropriations which will be outstanding on the Isl of Jan uary, 1339, it is computed that there will be expended, in that year 7,500,909 00 The Treasury notes to be redecmcd,and • Interest, will amount to about 8,000,000 00 Of the.new appropriations called for,to getter with those which are: perina %lent for 1339,4 is computed that there will be expended within the year 15.000,000 00 Theco constitute en azzrernte nrnrivar •tr , r•, ~. 4 BY COOPER, SMYSER, & CO. $75,2J4,206 U ME= 875.294,206 0 $39,101,644 97 11121.5 27 2,001 8! $2,217 08 $75,954 47 249,566 36 $36,915 40 $1,500,000 $7,955,050 (10 $7,754,560 10 issue now Treasury notes, instead of such am might be paid in before the time for their edemption arrived. The apprehensions of embarrassments in the finances within the year, which had arisen from those unexpec ted appropriations, and from the thilure that then continued among the banks in most quarters of the Union to return to specie pay ments, were removed by these opportune provisions. Occasions, however, have not yet orison to require the full use of either of them. The whole amottnt of Treasury notes out = 7 standing at any one time since they were first authorized, in October, 1837, has newer equalled ten millions of - dollars. The amount now outstanding is only $7,754,5h0. Be side the restrictions on the sale of the bonds of the United States Bank, the want' of pow er to guaranty their eventual payment, end the short iloriett they had to run, wi':a the 31,545,342 00 groat quantity of State stocks in it...a market of a better character for perro'inent west ment,caused somie temporary inc-oovenience, and prevented any offer .or them above par. either at home or abroad. The sale. how. ever, of one becoming expedient, it was ef fected within the lir.sitations prescribed. ft has not yet been mound necessary to diSpose of the other. flu! it is expected thatorbett tho period for redeeming most of the out. standing Treasury notes arrives, it must be sold, unless other, means to meet the public engagements shall, in the mean time,he pro. 7,. ~•.•,r( $30,500,000 00 [WHOLE NO: 434. Leavinc a balance in the Trea.ury, the 31st of December, 1939, available and applicable to public purpoaes, a mounting to 81,015,242 00 The estimates for new Appropriations now presented from the differett de partments amount to $21,C65,083 93 To these may he added permanent ap propriatione for the service of 1833, made by former acts, equal to 3,891,003 Ott These make all the new and permanent appropriations for 1839, 31,559,039 93 Viz. Civil, foreign intercourse, and miscelfa- Military service_, &c. 13,969,836 01 Naval service, &c. 5,681.096 07 Redemption of Treasury notes, and otb er public debt, 6,050.090 00 For further particulars see tho details or the annual estimates. It will be perceived by these statements that nn surplus balance will probably exist either on the Ist of January, 1832, or during th,it year, to be deposited with the several States for safe keep ing as a fourth instalment under the deposits act of Juno 23, 1536. Indeed, great care will he necessary in restricting the appropriations to the necessary wants of the Government, or the re ceipts will nut be sufficient to meet the current &mends on the Treasury, unless those rcceipre should unexpectedly exceed the pre s ent estimates When an unusual excess existed in the Treas ury, it was preposod to place that fourth instal ment with the States for safe•keeping till needed; hut, before it became payable, the money was wanted to discharge existing appropriations. The deposite of it was, therefore, postponed by Congress till next January, and •the money has been used by the United t•itater, to which it be longed, without incurring the expense and incon venience, to all the parties concerned, of paying and thou immediately recalling it. The Instal ment is not a debt dun to the Statesiand hence is not - required to bn paid like an appropriation t;Jr the public service. Yet the remark may proper. ly be added, that if a surplus should hereafter ac crue, largo enough, after defraying all the exist ing charges imposed by Congress upon tbo Tres. sury, to make the deposite originally r2f.ntempla led, this Department, with its presolit views, would feel bound to carry it into ofrect, unless Congress, in the mean time, should further mod ify the laws now in force in relation to the subject. •. lI.N.PORTI AND lIIPUNTEI IN 1339 - - The exports during the year ending Sepieri ber, 30. 1838, ars computed to have been $103,- 136,000. Of these, shout $9l/.666,000 were of domestic, and $19,470,000 efibreigo The iiiimor have fished from the previous year $4,898,414, and the latter, $9,384.962. The imports for the same year were $113,000,. 000. Those are 828,989,217 leis in value than these of the previous year, bOing nearly 878.000.0U0 lose than those under, the enormous overtrading and other oveiactione which characterized 1836. For further particulars reference may be had to the table C. It is an interesting fact that, durirg the last throe years, more than $86,900,00U annually, or an average of nearly nine-tenths of our whole domestic exports. have been derived from agri culture. More than savon.tentha" of her whole Population . are probably employed in that useful pursuit. VI. EXPLANATIONS OF THB BSTIMATES OF RF.CEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES, AND BUG GESTIONS ON THE MODE OF MEETING FLVC- TUATIONS IN THEM. The receipts from customs during the present year, will vary but little from the estimate submitted in.the last anneal report. The receipts from lands will be less; but the amount asides made,snd preemption rights existing,will not dater essential!) from what was anticipated,though the act of Congress, as to the latter, passed so late that payments for all of Them could not be realized till an other year, without causing much inconve nience and unnecessary pressure in some portions of the country. The estimates presented for.new epprce . priations and for expend►tures,in I Bficl.were quite as large as the views of the different departments,at the time Congress assembled in December last, appeared to jusay. But the unexpected continuance of the Florida war, a solicitude to induce the Cherokees to remove peaceably, and an earnest desire to suppress, with promptitude,all threatened disturbances on our northern frontier, with several other measures of lees importance, originating in Congress, led that body to make appropriations amounting to nearly ten millions beyond those requested in the annual estimates. Some provision of addi tional means, corresponding to this excess, became, therefore, necessary; end, in order to discharge the excess, and guard against contingencies, as well as avert the conse quences of a protracted suspension of specie payMents to) the banks, Congress wisely. granted the additional authority both to sell the bonds of the United States Bank and to $3.653,157 87
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