Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-10

+! of an enterprise which promises so Inuo1
tconyenience to the whole commerciat
world and such eminent advantages 70
Mexico herself. Impressed with these
sentiments andthese convictions, the CO.
lyernment will continue to exert all pro-
per efforts to bring about the necessary
arrangement with the republic OF Mexico
| for the speedy completion of the work.
For some months past the republic OF
Nicaragua has been the theatre of one OF
those civil commissions, from which the
cause of free institutions, and the general
prosperity and social progress OF the States
| of Central America, have so often and so
severely suffered. Until qufet shall have
been restored, and a government aPpa-
trently stable shall have been organized,
no advance can prudently be made IN
disposing of the questions pending between
/ the two countries.
am happy to announce that an inter
oceanic communication from the mouth
/ of the St. John to the Pacific has been so
| far accomplished as that passengers have
actually traversed it and merchandise has
been transported over it and when the
canal shall have been completed, accor-
ding to the original plan, the means OF
communication will be further improved
| 1t is understood that a considerable
part of the railroad across the lsthmus OF
Panama has been completed, and that the
mail and passengers will in future be con-
veyed thereon.
/ Whichever of the several routs between
the two oceans may ultimately prove
most eligible for travellers to and from
the different States on the Atlantic and
! Gulfo Mexico and our coast on the Pa
cific, there is little reason to doubt that
all of them will be useful to the public,
and will literally reward that individual
enterprise, by which alone they have
been or are expected to be carried into
effect
Peace has been concluded between the
contending parties on the Island of ST.
Domingo, and it is hoped upon durable
/ basis. Such is the extent of our COM
mercial relations with that island, that
the United States cannot fail to feel a
strong interest in its tranquility.
The Office of Commissioner to China
remains untitled several persons have
been appointed, and the place has been
offered to others, all of whom have decll-
ned its acceptance, on the ground OF the
inadequacy of the compensation. The
annual allowance by law is six thousand
dollars, and there is no provision for any
outfit. l earnestly recommend the con-
sideration of this subject to Congress-
Our commerce with China is highly i'm
portant, and is becoming more and more
so, in consequence of the increasing inter
course between our ports on the Paclhc
coast and Eastern Asia. China is un-
derstood to be country in which living
is very expensive, and know of no rea-
son why the American Commissioner sent
thither, should not be placed, in regard
to compensation, on an equal footing with
ministers who represent this country at
[ the courts of Europe.
BY reference to the report of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, it will be seen
/ that the aggregate receipts for the fiscal
year amounted to $50, 49, 79 81; which,
with the balance in the Treasury on LIST
July, 1850, gave, as the available means
! for the year, the sum of $58, 917, 524 sc.
The total expenditures for the same
period were $48,OO5, 1878 SO.
The total imports for the year ending 8oth June,
1851. were $2l5,T25995
of which there were in specie 4,967.9ol
The exports for the same period $2l7, 5l7 $50
OF which there were of
domestic products SITS .546 $50
Foreign goods re-eXported 9'78s ,695
Specie 29i29l $50 IN.
Since the list of December last the pay
ments in cash on account of the public
debt, exclusive of interest, have amounted
to ST, Sol ,456 sc; which, however, in
cludes the sum of So, 242, 400 paid under
the 18th article of the treaty with Mexico,
and the further sum of So, SOL ,213 45,
being the amount Of awards to American
citizens under the late treaty with Mcxi
co, for which the issue of stock was au-
thorizcd, but which was paid in cash from
the Treasury.
The public debt on the goth ultimo,
issued to Texas by the act of 9th Septem-
Der, 1850, was $62, $50, 1916 &c.
The receipts for the next fiscal year
are estimated at $51, 100000, which,
with the probable unappropriated balance
in the Treasury, on the 3Oth June next,
will give, as the probable available means
for that year, the sum of S63, 258, 743 %.
1t has been deemed proper, in view of
the large expenditures consequent upon
the acquisition of territory from Mexico,
that the estimates for the next fiscal year
should be laid before Congress in such
manner as to distinguish the expenditures
so required from the otherwise ordinary
demands upon the Treasury
The total expenditures for the next ifs
cal year are estimated at $40, 892, 299 10
of which there is required for the ordina-
ry purposes of the Government, other than
those consequent upon the acquisition of
our new Territories, and deducting the
payments on account of the public debt,
the sum of S33, 343, 1913 O8; and for the
purposes connected directly or indirectly
with those Territories, and in the fulfil