San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
Total Expenditures. ......... 70

Total Expenditures. 72,94S,79
The average expenditures of the past
five years, deducting payments upon the
Mexican public debt, have been but about
SIS, 100000. A reduction of the reve-
nue. from Customs is thus justified and
recommended. Changes in the distribu-
tion Of the troops and an increase of the
naval force are urged The sa'es of public
lands, for the year, have been 9,227 1873
acres, for which 1921 Ala has been re-
ceived There has been located with mil
itary scrip and land warrants, 80, 100,2 ,230
acres and 16,S73,699 acres have been
surveyed and are now ready for market
The expenditures of the Post Office De-
partment were Sl0,407 ,S6S; receipts,
81 ,620,S01, showing deficiency Of 81
/, 7S7 ,046, an increase of $744 900 over last
year.
With foreign powers, all our disputes
are now in a fair way of adjustment. Mr..
Dallas has concluded treaty, settling the
Central American question, and all the
other points in dispute with Great Britain
will soon be settled. No allusion is made
in the Message to the non appointment of
British Minister The Danish Sound
dues question will, it is hoped, be at last
settled in an amicable manner The Presi-
dent announces that Russia has agreed to
Mr.. Marcy's proposition, in reference to
maritime warfare; that the Emperor of
France has expressed his general approval
of it, and that the Congress of Paris may
possibly lead to its general adopt n.
The recent new Granadian attempt to
levy exorbitant toll on American property
crossing the Isthmus, is stated to be un-
warrantable and call for resistance.
The State of affai.o in Nicaragua is dis
posed of in the bare remark that Two
Ministers being sent from that Republic !
it was impossible to determine which one
was accredited by the Government de
facito, and therefore neither one was re-
ceived. The President says he will con-
tinue his efforts to obtain redress of the
wrongs inflicted upon American citizens
by Mexico.
The Presidentthus concludest the lengthy
document:
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sage, the occasion seems to be an appropriate
one to express my congratulations in view of
the peace, greatness, and felicity which the
United States now possess and enjoy. To point +
you to the state of the various departments of
the Government, and of all the great branches
of the public service, civil and military in or
der to speak of the intelligence and integrity
which pervades the whole, would be to indi-
cate but imperfectly the administrative condi-
ton of the country and the beneh hcial effects of
that on the general welfare.
Nor would it suffice to say that the nation is
actually at peace at home and abroad ; that its
industrial interests are prosperous; that the
canvas of its mariners whitcns every sea that
the plow of its husbandmen is marching steadily
onward to the bloodless conquest of the Cont
nent; that cities and populous states are spring.
ing up, as if by enchantment, from the bosom
of our Western wilds, and the courageous encr-
gy of our people is making OF these United States
the great Republic of the world. These results
have not been attained without passing through
trials and perils, the experience of which, and
thus only, nations can harden into manhood.
Our forefathers were trained to the wisdom
which conceived, and the courage which achiev-
ed independence by the circumstances which
surrounded them and they were thus made
pable of the creation of the Republic. 1t de-
wolves on the next generation to consolidate the
work of the Revolution, to deliver the country
entirely from the influences of conflicting trans
atlantic partialities or antipathies, which at
tached to our colonial and revolutionary his
tory and to organize the practical operation of
the constitutional and legal institutions of the
Union. To u.s. OF this generation, remains the