Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-03

ern1nent urgent appeals tots justice will then
be mad, and 1t may be hoped, with success, for
theTedress DC an conn Of our citizens
CENTR4is AaERIcA.
In regard to the American republics which
from their proximity and other Considerations
have peculiar relations to this government, while
it has been my constant aim strictly to observe
aIlthe obligations Of political friendship and of
good neighborhood Obstacles to this have arisen
in some of thesn, from their own insufficient
power to check laWiess lnruptions, which in eff
feet throws most of the task ION the IT, States
Thus lis that the distracted internal condition
of the State OF Nicaragua has made itincum-
bent on me to appeal to the good faith of our
EcitiZensto abstain from unlawful Intervention IN
its affairs and to adopt preventive measures to
the same end; which, on similar occasion, had
the best results in. reassrring the peace of the
Mexican States of Sonora and Lower California
TREATIES. ~
Since the last session of Congress treaty Of
amity, commerce and navigation, and for the
surrender of fugitive criminals, with the king
dom of the Two Seieilies; a treaty o. friendship,
commerce and navigation with Nicaragua; and
a convention of commercial reciprocity with the
IIawaiin kingdom, had been negotiated. The
latter kingdom and the state of Nicaragua have
also aeceded to a declaration, recognizing as in
ternational rights, the principles contained in
the convention between the United States and
Russia, of the 22d July, 1854. These treaties
and conventions will be laid before the Senate
for ratification.
5fs TREASURY.
The statements made in my last annual mes
sage, respecting the anticipated receipts and
expenditures of the Treasury, have been sub
lstantially verified.
|, It,appears from the report of the Secretary
jof the Treasury that the receipts during the
last fiscal year ending June 80, 1856, from all
sources, were sixty five million three thousand
nine hundred and thirty dollars; and that the
public expenditures for the same period, exclu-
sive of payments on account of the public debt,
Amounted to hfty-six million three hundred and
| sixty-iye thousand three hundred and ninety
three dollars. During the same period, the
payments made in redemption Of the public
debt, including interest and premium, amount
ed to nine million eight hundred and forty-four
thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dol
lars.
The balance in the Treasury at the begin
ming of the present fiscal year, July l, 1855,
was eighteen million nine hundred and thirty
one thousand nine hundred and seyenty-six
dollars; the receipts for the first quarter, and
the estimated receipts for the remaining three
quarters, amount, together, to sixty-seven mil
lion nine hundred and eighteen thousand seven
hendred and thirty.four dollars; thus affording
in all, as the available resources of the current
! fiscal year, the sum of eighty-six million eight
hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred
and ten dollnrs. s,se-5
| If, to the actual expenditures of the first quar-
ter of the current fiscal year, be added the proba
BILE expenditures for the remaining three quarters
as estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury,
the sum total viii be seyenty-one million two hun
bred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred and
forty-six dollars, thereby leaving an estimated
balance in the treasury July l, 1856, of fifteen
million six hundred and twenty-tlree thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty
cents.
/ In the above estimated expenditures of the
present fiscal year are included three million do-
lars the last instalment of the ten millions provi-
ded for in the late treaty with Mexico, and seven
million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
appropriated on account of the debt due to Texas
which two sums make an aggregate amount of ten
million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and reduce the expenditures, actual or estimated,
for ordinary objects of the year, to the sum Of
sixty million four hundred and seyenty-six thou
sand dollars
Tie amount of the public debt, at the COM
mencement of the present fiscal year, was forty
million, FIVE hundred and eghty-thrce thousand,
six-hundred and thirty-one dollars, and deduction
being made of subsequent payments, the whole
public debt Of the federal government remaining
at this time IS less than forty million dollars.
r. I'M - - ~
The remnant of certain other government
stocks, amounting to two hundred and forty-three
thousand dollars, referred to in my last message
rs outstanding, ms siaee been paid.
am fully pursuaded that it would be difficult
tc devise system superior to that by which the
fiscal business of the government is now conduct
ed. Notwithstanding the great number of public
agents of collection and disbursement it is belle
we'd that the checks and guards provided, inclu-
ding the requirement of monthly returns render
it scarcely possible for any considerable fraud on
the part of those agents. or neglect involving haz
ard of serious public loss, to escape detection
Igenew, however, the recommendation, here
tofore made by me, of the enactment of a law
declaring it felony on the part of public officers
to insert false entcries intheir books of record or
account, or to make false returns, and also re-
quiring them on the termination of their service
to deliver to their successors all books records
and other objects ola public nature in their GUS
tody.
Derived as our public revenue is in chief part
from duties on imports, its magnitude affords
gratifying evidence of the prosperity, not only of
our commerce, but of the other great interests
upon which that depends
The principle that all moneys not required for
the current expenses of the government should
remain for active employment in the hands ofthe
people, and the conspicuous fact that the annual
revenue from all sources exceeds, by many mil
lions OF dollars, the amount needed for prudent
and economical administration ofpublic atfairs,
cannot fail to suggest the propricty of an early
revision and reduction of the tariff of duties on
imports, that, in re-adjusting the impost tables
and schedules, which unquestionably require es-
sential notifications, departure from the prin-
ciples of the present tariff is notanticipated.
ARMY.
The army, during the past year, has been ac-
lively engaged in defending the Indian frontier
the state of the service permitting but few and
small garrisons in our permanent Notifications.
The additional regiments authorized at the last
session of Congress have alreaey been sent to the
field an the duties, which deVolye on the mill
tary establishment, have been satisfactorily per-
formed, and the dangers and priyations incident
to the character of the services required Of our
courage, zeal, and capacity to meet any requi-
sition, which their country may mako upon
them.a &. 5zs.s6.r
The recommendations heretofore made for a
partial organization Of the army, are also renew
cd The thorough elementary education given
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