Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-12-12

still further increase OF our naval force.
The report of the Secretary OF the Ii
terror presents facts and views in relaft"a
to internal affairs over which ths st'eI1
vision Of his department extends, ofnuch
interest and Importance.
The aggregate sale Of the tlc lands,
during the last fiscal year. amount TO
ninsSmition two hundredJ twenty Sc
ven thousand eight hundfd and seventy
eight acres for which las been received
the sum of eight mill1n eight hundred
aud twenty-one tho,sand four hundred
and fourteen dollas. During the same
period there hay been located. with mil
i,ary scrip am land warrants. and foI
other purpo,es. thirty million one han,
bred thousand Two hundred and thirty
acres, tPLs making a total aggregate o.
thirty .nine million three hundred and
tweP.y eight thousand one hundred and
twsnty hit acres. On the 30lh Of Sep
tember last. surveys had been made oil
sixteen million eight hundred and seventy
three thousand six hundred and ninety
nine acres. large proportion OF which Is
ready for market. -~ ..,. to-. -.
The suggestions in this report in re-
gard to the complication and progressive
expansion Of the business Of the different
bureaus OF the Departmental the pen
sion system, 10 the colonization OF Indian
tribes, and to the recommendations in re-
lAtiou to various improvements in the
District Of Columbia-are especially COM
mended to your consideration. r..e
The report Of the Postmaster General
fully presents the condition of the de.
pallmeut. lis expenditures for the
last fiscal year were ten million four hun
dred and seven thousand eight hundred
and sixty eight dollars and its gross re-
esipts seven million six hundred and
twenty thousand eight hundred and one
d"llars-makings an excess of expenditure
over receipts of two million seven hun
drcd and eighty-seven Thousand and for
" six dollars. The deficiency of this de
partment is thus seven hundred and for.
Iy-four thousand dollars than, for the yeaI
ending June 80, 1858. Of this defcien
ey, three hundred and thirty thousand
dollars ia 10 be attributed to the addition
al compensation allowed postmasters by
the act of Congress of June 20. 1854
The mail facilities in every part of the
country have been very much Increased
in that period. and the large addition OF
railroad service, amounting TO seven thou
sand niue hundred and light miles. has
added largely to the Cost of transporta-
ton.
The inconsiderHble augmentation OF the
income Of the Post Office Department I'M
der the reduced rates Of postage, and its
increasing expenditures, must, for the
present, make it dependent TO some ex-
tent upon the treasury for support. The
recommendations Of the Postmaster Gen
ersI, in relation to the abolition of the
Thanking privilege, and his views on the
establishment OF mail steamship lines, de.
serve The consideration of Congress.
also call the special attention ot Congress
TO the statement of the Postmaster Gene
raj respecting the sums now paid for the
transportation Of mails to the Panama
Railroad Company, and commend to
their early and favorable consideration
the suggestions Of that officer in relation
10 the new CONTRACTS for mail transporta-
ton upon that route, and also upon the
Tshuan'"pec and Nicaragua routes.
The United States continue 10 the en-
joyment Of amiabe relations with all for
eign powers. .-. -....
When my last annual message was
transmitted 10 Congress. two subjects OF
eOntrOversy-one relating to the enlist
msnt Of soldiers in this country for foreign
service. and the other to Central Ameri.
eA-Ihreslened 10 disturb good under.
standing between the United States and
Great Britain. OF the progress and ter.
mination Of the former question you were
informed at the time and the other is
now in the way Of satisfactory adj just
ment.
The object of the convention between
the United States and Great Britain or
she 10Th Of April, 1850, was to secure
for the bereht Of all nations, the neutral
iIy and the common use Of any transit
way, or interoceanie communication
ACROSS the iSIhmus Of Panama. which
might be opened within the limits Of Cen.
trail America. The pretension subse
quently asserted by Great Britain to do
minion or control over territories, in OF
near two Of the routes. those of Nicara
qua and Honduras, were deemed BY the
United States, not merely incompatible
with the main object of the treaty, bu
opposed even to its express stipulstions
Occasion of controversy on this point has
been removed by an additional treaty
which our minister at London has conclu
ded. and which will be Immediately sub
niIted to the Senate for its consideration
Should Ihe proposed supplemental ar.
rsngement be coucurred in by all the par.
ties t. be affected by it. the objects con.
semplaed by the original convention will
have been fully attained.
The tresy between the United States
and Great Britain of the 9Th of June,
1854. which vent into effective operation
IN 1855. put "hend to causes of irritation