Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-12-15

the hrst President OF the United States
announced to congress the result of tha
first enumeration Of the inhabitants or
this Union, he informed them thar tho
returns gave the pleasing assurance that
the population ofthe United States Dor.
dered on four millions of persons. AT
the distance of thirty years from that
time, the last enumeration, Eve wears
since completed. presented population
bordering upon ten millions. Perhans
of all the evidence of prosperous and
happy condition of human society, ibe
rapidity ofth increase Of population il
the most uneGuivocal But the demon-
stration of our prosperity rests not alone
upon this indication. Our commerce.
our wealth, and the extent of our terri
tories, have increased in orresponding
proportions and the number of inde-
pendant communities associated in our
Federal Union, has since that time near
" doubled. The legislative representa-
ton OF the States and people, in the two
Houses of Congress, has grown with
the growth of their constituent bodies.
The house which then consisted of 65
members, now numbers upwards of two
hundred. The Senate which consisted
OF twenty six members, has now forty
eight. But the Executive, s. still more
the Judiciary Departments, are yet in
great measure confined to their primi-
tive organization, and are now not ade-
quate to the urgent wants of still
growing community.
The naval ornaments, which at an
early period, forced themselves upon
the necessities of the Union, soon led
to the establishment of IA Department of
the Navy. But the Departments of
Foreign Affairs, and of the Interior,
which, early after the formation of the
Government, had been united in one,
continue so united at this time, to the
unquestionable detriment of the public
service. The multiplication of our re-
lations with the nations and Govern
ments of the old world, has kept pace
with that Of our population and COM
merce, while within the last ten years,
a new family of nations, in our own
hemisphere, has arisen among the inha-
bitants ofthe earth, with whom our in
tercourse, commercial and political,
would, of itself, furnish occupation to
an active and industrious Department.
The constitution of the Judiciary, expe-
rimental and impefect as it was. even
in the infancy of our existing Govern
ment, is vet more inadequate to the adj
ministration of national justice at our
present maturity. Nine years have
elapsed since predecessor in this Of
fee, now not the last, the citizen who,per-
haps, of all others throughout the Union,
contributed most to the formation and
establishment of our Constitution, in his
valedictory address to Congress, imme-
distely preceding his retirement from
public life, urgently rel recommended the
revision of the Judiciary, and the es,ab-
lishment Of an additional Executive
Department. The exigencies of the
public service, and its unavoidable de-
ficiencies, as now in exercise, have adj
ded yearly cumulative weight to the
considerations presented by him as per-
suasive to the measure; and in recon-
mending it to your deliberations, | am
happy to have the Influence of his high
authority, in aid of the undoubting con-
victions of my own experience
The laws relating to the administra-
ton of the Patent Office are deserving
of much consideration, and, perhaps,
susceptible of some Improvement. The
grant of power to regulate the action
of Congress on this subject, has speci-
fed both the end to be attained. and the
means by which il is TO be effected--to
promote the progress of science and
useful arts, by securing, for limited
times, to authors and inventors, the ex-
elusive right to their respective writings
and discoveries. II an honest pride
might be INDUCED in the reflection that,
on the records of that office, are AREA
DIV found inventions, the usefulness OF
which has scarcely been transcribed in
the annals of human ingenuity, would
not its exultation be allayed by the in
ouiry. whether the laws have effective
" insured to the inventors the reward
destined to them by the Constitution,
even a limited term of exclusive right
to their discoveries
On the cath of December, 1893, it
was resolved by Congress that mar
BILE monument should be erected by
thu United states in The Capitol. at the
city OF Washington, that the family OF
General Washington should be reques-
ted to permit his body to be deposited
4 ,1 hot he.