port of delivery, within the collection district of the port of New York, with a Surveyor, who shall have power to enroll and license vessels to be employed in the coasting-trade and fisheries, and to enter and clear, and grant registers and other usual papers to vessels employed in the whale-fisheries. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. Among the Joint Resolutions which were adopted during this session, were the following: A Resolution of welcome to Kossuth-Resolved, That Congress, in the name and behalf of the pecple of the United States, give to Louis KosSUTH & cordial welcome to the capital and the country, and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to him by the President of the United States. A Resolution extending the time of the Commission under the Convention with Brazil-Continues the Commission four months from and after the first day of March, 1852. sieged, blockaded, or invested, in goods not contraband of war. Free ships shall give freedom to goods, and everything shall be deemed free which shall be found on board the vessels of the citizens of either nation, though the lading should belong to the enemies of either, contraband goods always excepted. The same liberty shall be extended to persons found on free-ships, so that said persons can not be taken out of them, even if they be enemies of one or both parties, unless they be officers or soldiers in the actual service of the enemy. The stipulation declaring that the flag shall cover the property, shall apply only to either of the contracting parties shall be at war those powers who recognise this principle. If with a third, and the other neutral, the flag of the neutral shall cover the property of such enemy, provided said enemy acknowledges this principle, not otherwise. When the neutral flag of either of the contracting parties shall protect the property of the enemies of either, it shall be understood that the neutral property found on board such enemy's vessels shall be considered as eneA Resolution to authorize the continuance of the my's property, if shipped with a knowledge of the existence of war. work upon the two wings of Capitol-Appropriates neutral does not protect the enemy's property, In case the flag of the five hundred thousand dollars for that purpose. then the goods of the neutral embarked in such A Resolution to establish certain Post-Routes-enemy's ship shall be free. Contraband goods, Authorizes the Postmaster-General, in his discre- found in a vessel bound to an enemy's port, shall tion, to contract for carrying the mail on all the be subject to detention and confiscation, leaving plank-roads which have been or shall be con- free the rest of the cargo and the vessel. In restructed in the United States, and during the con-gard to the visiting or examination of ships on the tinuance of such contract, such roads are de- high seas, the contracting parties agree that whenclared to be post-roads. ever a vessel-of-war shall meet with a neutral of Joint Resolution providing for the distribution the other party, the first shall remain out of canof the laws of Congress and the debates thereon-non shot, and may send its boat, with two or three Provides that the Congressional Globe and ap- without the least extortion or ill-treatment, and men only, in order to execute the examination, pendix, which contain the laws and debates there- the neutral party shall in no case be required to on, shall pass free through the mails so long as the same shall be published by order of Congress. go on board the examining vessel for the purpose Another resolution approves the action of the of exhibiting her papers, or for any other purpose Territorial Legislature of Oregon in locating the capital of Oregon at Salem, in Marion county. Another changes the name of St. Peters river, in Minnesota, to Minnesota river. TREATIES. whatever. In case one of the contracting parties should be engaged in war, the vessels belonging to citizens of the other, must be furnished with sea-letters, or passports, expressing the name, property, and bulk of the ship, and the name and residence of the master, also with certificates containing the Three treaties have been ratified and proclaim- particulars of the cargo and place whence the ed during the past year, viz.: with the Republica ship sailed. Without such papers or equivalent of Guatemala, Costarica, and Peru. The treaty testimony, vessels may be detained, to be adjudged with Guatemala provides that commercial favors by competent tribunal, and may be declared legal granted by either party to other nations, shall be prizes. These provisions in regard to visiting and granted to each other on the same conditions. examination, apply only to vessels without conCitizens of each country may frequent all the voy. When under convoy, the verbal declaration coasts and countries of the other, and reside and of the commander of the convoy, on his word of trade there in all kinds of produce, manufactures, honor, that the vessels under his charge belong and merchandise, and enjoy all the commercial to his nation, and have no contraband goods on privileges of citizens. The same privileges are board, shall be sufficient. Whenever one of the to be accorded to the vessels of ench nation by contracting parties shall be at war with another the other, that the other grants to its own vessels, State, no citizen of the other party shall accept except in regard to the coasting-trade. No dis- a commission, or letter of marque, at the hands criminating duties are to be laid on the produce of the enemy, on pain of being treated as a pirate. of either country. No embargo or detention for In case of war between the two contracting parmilitary purposes shall be made or laid without ties, the merchants residing on the coasts or in indemnification. Property captured by pirates, the ports of each other, shall be allowed six and found within the territory of either country, months to arrange their business and transport shall be surrendered on proof. The persons and their effects out of the country. Those residing property of citizens of either nation, shall be pro- in the interior, shall be allowed one year for the tected in the other. Rights of conscience shall same purpose. The citizens of all other occuparemain inviolate. The citizens of each country tions in the respective countries, shall be respectmay trade from the ports of either with the ene-ed and maintained in the full enjoyments of their my of either, except at such places as are be-personal liberty and property, unless improper During the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1852. Payments for objects other than the Ordinary Expenses of Government: Awards for indemnity to American Principal of the public debt... citizens under the Treaty with Mexico... $2,163,994 00 529,980 78 conduct shall cause them to forfeit such protec-EXPENDITURES of the GOVERNMENT tion. The two contracting parties shall form a consular convention, which shall declare specially the powers and immunities of the consuls and vice-consuls of the respective parties. This treaty shall remain in force for twelve years, and until twelve months' notice thereafter. The acts of individuals infringing this treaty, shall not disturb the harmony of the two nations, unless such acts shall be sanctioned by the Government of such individuals. In case of any infringement of this treaty by either party, satisfaction shall be demanded before war is declared or reprisals made. The privileges of the most favored nations are inutually conceded. In the event of war between the two nations, the money, private debts, shares in the public funds, or any other property, shall in no case be sequestered or confiscated. The treaty with Costarica has no important provision not contained in that with Guatemala. The treaty with Peru contains, in addition to the general provisions of those with Guatemala and Costarica, the following: The Republic of Peru engages to accord to any citizens of the United States who may establish a line of steam-vessels to navigate regularly between the different ports of entry within the Peruvian Territories, the same privileges of taking in and landing freight, entering the by-ports to receive and land passengers, carrying the public mails, establishing depots for coal, and all other favors enjoyed by any other association or company whatever. The steamers of either nation shall not be subject in the ports of the other to any duties other than those paid by any other association or company. Every vessel actually owned by citizens of Peru, and commanded by a Peruvian, shall be considered a Peruvian vessel. though the construction and crew may be foreign. American whale-ships shall have access to the port of Tumbez and the ports of entry in Peru, and may sail from one port to another, and barter supplies to the amount of $200, ad valorum, duty free; and may further sell, free from tonnage or harbor duties, oil or other goods, to the additional amount of $1,000 each vessel, on payment of such import duties as are paid by citizens of the most favored nations. Peruvian citizens, frequenting the mines in California, shall enjoy all the privileges accorded to citizens of the most favored nations. In case of a wreck, or other damage, to a vessel of either of the contracting parties, on the coast of the other party, such vessel shall enjoy the same protection and privileges as a national vessel. In case of war between the two nations, it is agreed that the merchants, traders, and other citizens of all occupations, of either of the two parties, residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their business therein, and shall be maintained in the full enjoy. ment of their liberty and property, so long as they conduct themselves peaceably and properly. Suspected persons. however, may be ordered to leave the country, the term of twelve months being allowed them, in which to arrange and settle their affairs, and remove with their families and effects, to which end a safe conduct shall be given them; but suspected persons may be ordered forthwith to remove to such places in the interior as may be designated. This treaty shall remain in force ten years and further, until one of the contracting parties shall have given ten months' notice. Installment and interest due May 30, Expenses relative to the limits and Five and three per cents on the sale of Payments for land erroneously sold.. Minnesota... Lands for a Cemetery near the city of Building Custom-Houses. Do. Marine Hospitals. Navy-Yards.... Congressional Globe, American Ar- Government of Territories.. Florida.. Relief of the District cities-interest Marine Hospital establishment... Do. do. do. Lands* 3,180,000 00 89,075 48 591,518 60 118,791 19 96,158 18 49.916 39 547,385 02 60,610 31 20,000 00 9,000 00 521,491 23 128.693 44 285,596 71 741,692 68 671,796 91 722,410 74 1,248 017 90 Paid under the Act of the 3d March, 1849-these ex penses were previous to 1st July, 1849, paid out of the rev enue, and accounted for in their quarterly settlements at the Treasury. Claims otherwise provided for. 9,982 38 Smithsonian Institution.. 30,910 14 55,165 21 Auxiliary guard, Washington. 15.295 24 Penitentiary Insane and transient poor.. Paintings for Capitol.. Total Expenditures... 11,920 00 10,700 44 9,838 38 1,943 29 2.000 00 5,000 00 .$46,007,893 18 CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY IN NEW 355 Only 13 counties included. The other returns were destroyed by fire in San Francisco. Only Real Estate was returned in the Census. The amounts given are partly estimated. In Minnesota only a part of the Territory was returned. This table presents a better show of wealth to each person in the South than in the North, from the fact that the Northern capitalists do not own the laborers, and do count them as persons. South Carolina makes the best relative show of wealth on paper, being $1,017 to each person in the State; but if we add her 334,984 slaves to the 283,523 free persons, and then divide the aggregate wealth of the State among the whole number, it will show but $416 for each. If we deduct for each slave $300 (which is much below the usual quotations for such merchandise), and then divide among all the population of the State, the amount to each Value. will be reduced to $258. So of other slave-holding $1,712,152 States. The average amount of property to each 1,401,586 person in the United States, excluding slaves, is 1,213,126 $355. The average amount in the slave States being 10,205,284 $455, and in the free States $317. Add the slaves 1,252,900 to the free population of the Southern States, and 3,554,894 there will be for each person $304, and déduct for each slave $300, and there remains only $236 to $19,339,942 each person in those States. ENGLAND.-The following figures in regard to Churches, &c., in New England, are taken from the returns in the Census Department MILITARY POSTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Statement showing the Military Posts now occupied by the troops, their several Garrisons, and the names of their Commandants. Fort Adams... Fort Trumbull.... Fort Mackinac., Fort Brady. Fort Niagara.. Newport Harbor, R. I... Sault de St. Marie, Mich New York Harbor, N. Y... Florida.... 10 miles from Smyrna, Fla.. Fort Capron.... Indian River, Fla.. 140 miles from Tampa, Fia. NO. OF REGIMENT. COMPAN'S 1 1 3d Artillery. 1 do. 2 do. Bre. Lt. Col. M. Burke, 3d Art. B. Lt. Col. J. Washington, do. Bre't Col. F. S. Belton, do.. do. do. B. Maj. T. Williams, 4th Art. do. do. B. Maj. S. C. Ridgeley, 1 4th Artillery B. Col. J. L. Gardner, 4th Art. Recruiting Depot. Bre't Col. H. Brown, 2d Art. 4th Artillery B. Maj. W. W. Morris 4th Art. Capt. J. Roberts, 1 do. Cavalry Depot. 2 3 2 1 1st Artillery 4th Artillery 2d Artillery do. do. do. Detachment. do. do. B. Lt. Col. P. S. Cooke, 2d Dg. Dalles of Columbia. Oregon... Steilacoom... Puget's Sound, Oregon... Columbia Barracks Vancouver, Oregon. (2 1st Drag'ns. Maj. G. Morris, 2d Drag. 3d Inf. do. do. 512d Drag'ns. B. Maj. W. N. Giver, 1st Dg. 2 13 2 2 3d Infantry. 11 Ist Drag'ns. Maj. G. A. H. Blake, 13d Infantry. 2 { } do. 2d Lt. D. C. Green, do. Sd Inf. 2d Infantry. B. Mj. 1. Heintzelman 2d Inf. 1st Drag'ns. 1st Artillery B. Lt. Col. Magruder, 1st Art. Detachment. 2d Lt. A. J. Stemmer, 2d Infantry. Capt. C. S. Lovell, 1 2 do. 1st Lt. T. Moore, do. 2d Inf. do. 3d Art. do. 2d Inf. 1st Drag'ns. 1st Lt. H. W. Stanton, 1st Dg. 1st Artillery B. Maj. J. S. Holtremy, 1st Art. 1st Lt. J. J. Woods, Detachment. 1 10 1st Art. 1st Artillery Capt. B. H. Hill, do. In route to..... Pacific Coast.... 4th Infantry. Lt. Col. B. Bonneville, 4th Inf. REMARKS The strength of the several garrisons, owing to the ordinary casualties of service, (deaths, desertions. discharges, &c.,) is continually changing. A fair estimate of the force would probably be attained by averaging at forty men, the Companies stationed on the Northern lakes, the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the Upper Mississippi, and at posts near the Western frontiers of Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas. For the posts on the Oregon and Santa Fe routes, in Texas, New Mexico, California, and Oregon, sixty men per Company would be a fair average. QUARTERLY RATES OF POSTAGE. The following are the quarterly rates of postage, when paid in advance, on newspapers and periodicals sent from the office of publication to actual subscribers, viz.: Weekly newspapers (one copy only) to actual subscribers in the county where published, free. Newpapers and periodicals, not exceeding 14 ounces in weight, circulated in the State where published, daily, 223 cents; six times a week, 194 cents; tri-weekly, 92 cents; semi-weekly, 6 cents; weekly, 3 cents; semi-monthly, 14 cents; monthly, cent. Weighing 3 ounces and under, sent to any part of the United States, daily, 45 cents; six times a week, 39 cents; tri-weekly, 19 cents; semi-weekly, 13 cents; weekly, 64 cents; semi-monthly, 3 cents; monthly, 1 cents. On papers of greater weight than 3 ounces, the charges are as follows:Daily. 6 times a w'k. Tri-weekly. Semi-weekly. Weekly. Semi-monthly. Monthly. Anything over 3 ounces and under 4, is charged as 4 ounces, over 4 and under 5, is charged as 5, &c. Quarterly payments in advance, may be made either at the office of mailing or delivery. When made at the mailing office, satisfactory evidence thereof must be exhibited at the office of delivery. POSTAGE ON TRANSIENT MATTER, PREPAID.-Newspapers, periodicals, unsealed circulars, or other printed matter (except books), to any part of the United States, weighing 3 ounces, 1 cent; 4 ounces, 2 cents; 5 ounces, 3 cents; 6 ounces, 4 cents; 7 ounces, 5 cents; 8 ounces, 6 cents; 9 ounces, 7 cents; 10 ounces, 8 cents; 11 ounces, 9 cents; 12 ounces, 10 cents; 13 ounces, 11 cents; 14 ounces, 12 cents; 15 ounces, 13 cents; 1 pound, 14 cents. If not pre-paid, double the above rates will be charged. On small newspapers, published monthly or oftener, and pamphlets of 16 octavo pages or under, when sent in single packages to one address, and prepaid, the rates are, for 8 ounces, 4 cents, and one half cent for each additional ounce. On books, bound or unbound, and not weighing over four pounds, for any distance under 3,000 miles, prepaid, the rates are 1 cent per ounce; over 3,000 miles, 2 cents per ounce. Books sent unpaid, are subject to a postage of 50 per cent. in addition to their pre-paid rates. |