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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!
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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',
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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