Southern shield., 1850-11-16
AT MEMPHIS.

black-smiths' shop, ioiners' shop, tarring house. offices, commandants house, machinery for saw-mill; and for constructing hemp house, house for fire engine, cisterns, pavements, drains and ditches, and for repairs of all kinds one hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars. AT sACKETT's HARBoR. For fences and repairs of all kinds, seven hundred dollars.
 FOR HOSPITALS, VIZ: At Boston--For repairing, whitewashing fences, walls, painting, glazing, repairs o: roads, &c., one thousand dollars.
 At New York paving, grading. com pleting sewers, wall and fence round burying ground and current repalrs, sixteen thousand dollars.
 At Pensacoa.-For general repairs, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. FOR MAGAZINES, VIZ:
 At Boston, one hundred and fifty dollars.
 At New Y ork, five hundred dollars.
 At Washington, one hundred and fifty dollars.
 For completing the stone dry dock at New York, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars
 For completing the floating dry dock at kitte- ", Name, three hundred thousand dollars. For completing the floating dry dock at Phil Iadelphia, three hundred and seventy one thou sand two hundred and forty-two dollars. For completing the floating dry dock at Pen Isacola, four hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
 For commencing the construction of float Iine dry dock on the coast of California, one hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into con tract for the construction, with all reasonable despatch, of sectional or balance floating dry dock, basin, and railway, at such harbor on the coast of the Pacific ocean as he may select, of a capacity and dimensions in no respect inferior to those of the dry dock in progress of construc ton at Pensacola PrOvided, That by granting the said contractors permission If required to prepare the materials chiefly at some harbOr on the Atlantic seaboard, and advancing moneys thereon as the works progressed, the said works can be completed at a sum not exceeding by more than twelve per cent the total amount contracted to be paid for the floating dock, basin and railway at the Pensacola navy yard with the addition thereto to what chat would be the cost of transportation to said coast of the said materials thus prepared, and with the reserva- tion, till the works are done, of ten per cent, and the usual surety for the faithful perform ance of the contract, and the Secretary of the
 
 agreement with the contractors, if they will keep the said works in repair, and take proper care of the same for any given period of years. free of charge to the Government, to permit them 10 use the said works, during such period, on their own account for repairing merchant vessels, when not occupied by vessels of the navy, to which precedence shall at all times be given, on such terms as he shall deem req sonable.
 The sum of five hundred dollars for suitable plans of the buildings and requisite improve ments at the naval depot near New Orleans; and that said plans be procured and furnished under the direction of the senior naval officer resident or stationed at New Orleans.
 MARINE CORPS. i, For pay of officers, non-commissioned off, cers, musicians, privates, and servants serving on shore, subsistence for officers, and pay for undrawn clothing two hundred and flty-three thousand four hundred and six dollars and seven cents.
 For provisions for marines serving on shore, twenty thousand dollars.
 For clothing, forty six thousand four hun dred and sixteen dollars.
 For fuel, ten thousand dollars.
 For military stores. repair of arms, pay ot armorers, accoutrcments, ordnance stores, flags, drums, flies, and musical instruments, six thou sand nine hundred dollars.
 For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, nine thousand dollars.
 For repairs of barracks, and rent of tempo rary barracks and off ces for commanding off cers, six thousand dollars.
 r For contingencies, viz: freight, ferriage, car toro ,bo rfonn to iu1OpS adyo- cate per diem for attending courls-martal, courts of inquiry, and for con tant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased ma rines, printing, stationery, forage, postage, pur- suit of deserters, candles oil, straw, furniture, bed-sacks, spadas, axes, shovels, picks, carpen- ters' tools, keep ofa horse for the messenger, pay of maron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital headquarters, twenty thousand dollars.
 SEC. ?. find 6e a .further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, should he deem it practicable, to employ such part oi the naval force as may be necessary to remove the wreck of the steam-frigate Missouri lying in the harbor of Gibraltar.
 SEC. 3. .4nd De n further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and IS hereby au- thorized, if he deems it advisable, to submit the demands of the claimants for salvage on the United States vessel Water Witch, to the arbi- traton of the judge of the district court of the United States i'll the southern district of Florida.
 Approved September 2S, 1850. ~~-~-~-~~o-~~ PRESIDENT FILLMORE AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAw.-The following incident is told in letter from the Washington cor respondent of Tuesdays Richmond Enqu'r:
 "A distinguished gentleman from the West-an x-Senator-caled on Mir. FILL MORE, and, after the usual courtesies, was