The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-21 00:00:00

Demurer at its last session having made se prof
madding the fifteenth article of the treaty, by w
United States assume to make satisfaction for the "
dated claims" of oar citizens against Mexico, to an r
got exceeding three and a quarter millions of doll
suhieet is spin recommended to your favourable a
lion.
The exchange of ratifications of the tree
Mexico ;V•ok :piece on the 30th of Ma ,1848.
one year from that time, the eetmYeicmer •
um which eeeh goverment stipulates to
an required to meet " at the port of Sin Diego, and
to run and mark the said boundary in its whole COW
month of the Rio Bravo del Nord." It will be seen
provision, that the period within which a imam=
surveyor of the respective governments are to met
Diego will expire on the 30th of May, 1849.
at the' ekes of its last eseden, made an appropri
"the expenses of running and marking
_the
line " between the two eountries, but did not
amount of salary which should be paid to the
Meer sad surveyor to be appointed on the pi
United &Me. It is desirable that the moue of o
den which they shall motive should be prescribe
and net as at present to executive discretiou,
MOOSUDIO were adoLited at the earliest practical
to organise the " Territorial governess= of
as authorised by the act of the 14th of Att
The governor and marshal of the territory,
Mtby a mall military esoort, left thef
ii ori in September last, and took the
route, by way of Beata Fe and the river Gila, tol
with the intend= of proceeding thence in one of
to their destination. -The governor was folly a&
great importance of his early arrival in the coountr
confidently believed he may meth Oregon in the
of the present month, or early in the next. The oil
for the territory have promded by sea.
In the month of May last, I communicated
to Coignes that an Indian war had broko
Dugan, and recommended that authority be
raise an adequate number of volunteers to proem
delay to the maistanes of our fellow-citisens in the
The authority to Mae such a force met having be
by Congress, as some as their services could be
with in Meeks, orders were issued to the r
'smutted riflemen to proceed to Jefferson &
Mislead, and to prepare to march to
the prov- isles could be madiZlC
it was ready to mash it was muted 1
pseud by Worm en the last day of the 1
' whisk directed that all the non-sosandeduai el
I Mos, sad privates of that regimes, who bad I
vise io Mexico, should, upon their appliestioe, hi
be didier The effect of this provides we
ged.
the ash and file of the regiment, sad babes
era be filled by remits, the season had so f
that it was
fiire‘feressisable for it to pressed until
of the slut
la the month of October beat, the samipsayin
soda was mete= from the governor of tho
goveromet of Oregon, gide' informatics of t
saes of the Wien diets: bum, and of the des
dedleassions condition of the iakabMaat. Old
esedialtely transmitted to the armasaadar of coor
the Peethe, to despatch to their andelase. • ref
Men on that station, to furnish them with star
ties, and to centime to give them soak aid u
as the navy amid afford, until the army coal
conatry.
The immediate and only cause of the exist
of the Indians of Oregon is represented to
the leag delay of the United States in sal
souse trilby mespossidoe, is such artid
wanted, for the wintry new essapied by os
which the &dim slrlmd, end ever wide
nisei roamed. This eesipmeatien hod be
to them by the tempeasry government es
feet its fulftesse had bean padres=
time, newly two yearn The Indian* bees
dimudial of the geed faith, sad sews= ream
sad msines= whiost iselly led to the peens
In We Indian war eno idieueitimens of 0
compelled to take the Odd in their owe deka
teemed Mashie sassy sonless, and been
exposes whisk have &Ism heavily epos ti
Mem& that provides Midi be made by Oen
mato them he thole selviets, and to refund
neesseerg =mese whisk they have insane&
I mug the ressommeemisties bards/in and
thsalcevisiam be made for the appointment
of Lai= swats to reside=
Oregesomil that a mall ease be
them amide le saltiest* friendly Matisse w
this be dese. the presence of a small
will ball that is notomesry to keep the. in d
gene penes.
I egeommead that similar provhda be me
the Mlles lehabiting Northern Texas, New
lonia, aril the extensive region lying &two
saints i lffiesmi and these posmeMas,
effective metros of preserving pesos upon out
within the reemtly acquired territodes.
The BeareMei of the Trendy will present
report a hightg satithietery statement of th
the &anus.
The iamb for the fiscal year ending on I
Jane lest were of the value of one trend
four million nine hundred and seventy-se
eight hundred and seventy-ilk dollars ;
amount exported was twisty-me million
end twenty-eight thawed sad ten dolls
hundred and thirty-three million eight head
nine theraand eight hundred and sixty-sit
country for domestic use.
The value of the exports for the same
hundred and fiftyfour million thirty-two
hunched and thirty-one dollars. coesistiog o
dation' amounting to one hundred thirty-t
hundred and four thousand one hundred
dollars, and twenty-one million one bands
eight thousand and ten dollars of foreign ash
The receipts into the treasury for the se
elusive of loans, amounted to thirty-five mi
dred and thirty-six thaisand seven ham
debits and fifty-rime cents; of which there
eastems thirty-one million seven hundred
diumad and seventy dollars and ninety-1
odes of public lands, three million three
tweedreight thousand six hundred and fo
and Ility-sx cents; and from miscellaneous
seeress, three hundred and fitty- one thous
seven dollars and seven cents.
It will be perceived that the revenue from
last local year exceeded by seven hundred
themand and seventy deters and nisety-si
males of the fieentery of the Truman in hi
port; and that the aggregate receipts do
prod from custom, lands, sod asiacellanso
exceeded the estimates by the sum of fi
thirty-six thousand on= hundred and fifty
nine centi—indiestimg, however, a very war
estimate to the &etas resilt„
The expenditures during the fiscal year es
of June het, including those for the war,
payments of pnneipel and interest for the p
torty,two million eight hundred and eleven
hundred and seventy dollars and three ante
It Is estimated that the receipts into
the fiscal year ending on the 30th
including the =lanes in the
July lest, will amount to the rum oL fil
forty-eight Mimed nine huedmd and a
and ninety seats.; of which thirty-two mill
is estimated, will be derived from customs ;
dolling from the sales of the public lands;
two hundred thousand dollars from mi
incidental sources, including the premise
and the amount paid ani to be paid into
on account of military contributions in Max
of arms and vowels sod other public prop.'
necessary for the use of the government
of the war; and twenty million six Mudd
thousand four hundred and thirty. five
cents from loans already negotiated, ineludi
funded, which, togethi r with the balance i
the first of July last, make the sum triad
The expenditures fee the same period, int
=l7 payment on account of the principal s
public debt, and the principal and interest I
anent due to Mexico on the 30th of May no
penditures growing out of the war, to be
present year, will amount, including the
treasury notes, to the sum of fifty-four sail
and seventy-five dollars and six cents. lead
balance in the treasury on the Ist of July,
lion eight hundred and fifty-three thousand
ninety-four dollars and eighty-four cents.
The Secretary of the Treasury will preset
law, the estimates and receipts and expelled
decal year. The expenditure as estimated
thirty-three million two hundred and tl
ens hundred and Ilfty-two dollars and see
including three million seven hundred
thousand on. hundred and two dollen an
for the interest on the public debt, a:
five hundred and 'forty thousand
princ:pal, end forty thousand dollars for
interest due to Mexico on the 30th of Mi
the sum of twenty-five million eight hued
four thousandand fifty dollars and thirty-fit
it is believed, will be ample tor the adios
twee.
The operations of the tariff act of
such during the past yea as hity .to
pectation, and to emigres the opinion
prermr! of the wisdoms of the charge
sweet which was elf-redi by it. Tiu
it into the treasury for the first fiscal yes
meat exceeded by the sum of five million
sand four hundred and three dollars n • i
lemma collected during the last decal
tariff set of 1842, ending the thirteenth
The total revenue realised from the eau
operation, on the first of December, 184
of the Le quarter, on the thirteenth of
being twenty-two month., was fifty-six I
dial and fifty-four thousand five hundred
dollen, and seventy-nine cents—being a
than was ever before received from dui.*
ended under the tariff arts of 1124, 1828
Whilst by the repeal of nigh:y protective
duties the revenue hes been 10OTODiei,tl
people have been drnin•lied. They have b
the bevy amounts with which they were
forme laws in the form of increased prices
to
Tishve°"4l prediationsallan MwdhirPir weuirta; made, that
1847 would reduce the amount of revenue
Mt= under the set of 1842, and would pro
ness and destroy the prosperity of the ea
been raffled. With an increase,' and inc
the finances are in a highly flosishinp moo
tu,e, Commerce, and navigation are props
of minutest' s= tabri-i, and of other pro
lose injuriesely effected then was to have

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