The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-10

dollars greater than for the year ending
June 80, 1853. OF this deficiency $780,
000 dollars is to be attributed 10 the
additional compensation allowed Post
masters by the act of Congress June %,
1854.
The mail facilities in every part ..of
the country have been very much in.
creased in that period, and the large
addition of Railroad service amounting
to 1908 miles, and added largely to the
costof transportation. The inconsider.
| able augmentation of the income of tho
Post Office department under the re-
duced rates of postage, and its increas-
| ing expenditures must for the present.
makei it dependent to some extent upon
the treasury for support. The recon-
mendations of the Post Master General
in relation to the abolition of the frank
ing privilege, and his views on the cs-,
Enlistment of steamship lenes deserve
the consideration of Congress I also
call the especial attention of Congress
to the statement of the Post NJ aster Gem
eral respecting the sums now paid for
the transportation of mails to the Pena-
ma Railroad..Co and commend to their
early and favorable consideration the
suggestions of that Office in relation to
new contracts for mail transportation
upon that route, and also uponthe Tehu.
antepec and Nicaragua route.
The United States continues in the
enjoyment of amicable relations with all
foreign powers. When my last annual
message was transmitted relating to theE
enlistment of soldiers In this country for
foreign service, and the other to Central
America threaten to disturb good under.
standing between the United States ands
Great Britain. OF the progress and:
termination of the former question, YOU.
were informed at the time, and the 9TH
er is now in the way of satisfactory ad-
justment. The object of the conven.F
ton between the United States and5
Great Britain of the 1Sth-ef April.
1850, was to secure for the beneftsof'
all nations, the neutrality and the COM
mon use of any transit way or inter-oce-
anic communication across the Isthmus,
of Panama, which might be opened with
In the limits of Central America The
pretension subsequently, asserted by
Great Britain to dominion or control
over territories in or near two of the.
routes, those of Nicaragua and Hondu-
ras were deemed by the United States
not merely incompatible with the main
object of the treaty, but opposed even
to its express stipulations. Occasion of
controversy on this point has been re.
moved by an additional treaty which
our minister at London has concluded.
and which viii be submitted to the =
Senate for its consideration, should thss
proposed supplemental arrangement be
concurred in by all the parties to be eff
fected by it.
The object contemplated by the orig.
inal convention will havesbeen fully at
tanned. The treaty between the United
States and Great Britain of the 5th of
June 1854 put an end to the causes of
irritation between the two countries, by
securing to the United States the right
of fishing on the coast of the British
American Provinces, which advantages
are equal to those enjoyed by British
subjects, besides the signal benefits Of
this treaty to large class of our citi-
zens engaged in pursuit connected to
no inconsiderable degree with our na--
tlonal prosperity and strength. It has
had favorable effect upon other inter-
ests, in the provision it made for recip.
rocal freedom of trade between the
United States and the British Provinces
in America. The exports of domestic
articles to those Provinces during the
last year amounting to more than $22,-
600, 600, exceeding those of the preYi-
Gus year by nearly 81, ,O00, 900; and the
imports therefrom during the same Pc
riod amounted to more than 2o,0Oo,0O0
an increase of So, 600, 600 upon those of
the previous year. The improved con-
dition of this branch of our commerce.
is mainly attributable to the above men
toned treaty. Provision was made in
the first article of that treaty, for the
Commission to designate the mouths of
rivers, to which the common right of
fishing on the coast of the United States
and the British Provinces was not to
extend. This Commission has been em-
ployed part of two seasons, but with-,
out much progress in accomplishing the
object for which it was instituted, in
consequence of serious difference fopin-3
ion between the Commissioners, not only
as to the precise point where the rivers,
terminate, but in many instances, as to
what constitutes river; these difficult
ties, however, may be overcome by re-
sort to the Umpirage provided for by
the treaty. ---..,r
But Great Britain and France 10
common with most of the States Of
Europe while forbearing to reject did
not affirmatively act upon the overtures
of the United States. While the ques;
tion was in tEis position the representa-
tives of Russia, France, Great Britain,
Austria, Prussia, Sardinia and Turkey
assembled at Paris took into considera-
tion the subject of maritime rights, and
put forth a declaration containing the
two principles which this government
had submitted nearly two ye.rs before
to the consideration of Maritime powers,
and adding thereto the following propo.
sltions Privateering is, aud remains
abolished, and blockades in order to be
binding must be effective; that is to say
maintained by force sufficient really
to prevent access to the coast of the en-.
envy, and to the declaration thas com.
posed of four points two of which had
already been proposed by the United
States. "a -
This Government has been invited to
accede by all the Powers represented at
Paris, except Great Britain and Turkey,
to the last of the two additional propo-
sitions-to that in relation to blockadea
there can certainly be no objection
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