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iUccklu (bcornia tfimstiffeumafet aub Republic BY JAMES GARDNER, JR. Al (a STA, GA. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18. Terms of Subscription. Daily Taper, per annum,,in advance... $8 00 Tri-Weekly 5 00 Weekly, por,annum in advance 2 00 If paid within the year 2 50 At the end of the year 3 00 05“ The above terms will bo rigidly enforced. Southern Csalrai Agtlcultural Association The next Annual Fair ot this Association will be held in this city, and we hope the ar rangements that will be made, will give such general satisfaction, as to insure its continuance for two or more years. It will be seen by the proceedings of Council, that the Mayor was au thorized to offer three thousand dollars for the Premiums, and four thousand, if necessary, for the construetion of the buildings. With his usual promptness in batineas, bis Honor the Mayor waited oa the Committee last evening, and we have the satisfaction to inform our read ers that the propositions made by him were ac cepted by the Committtee, and that the neces sary papers have been drawn up and signed. This we consider one of the best day's business done by our Council for sometime past,and will meet with a warm response from all who have the welfare of the city at heart. Washington Monument. The -V.i. i Intelligencer publishes a list of the amounts received from the Ist to the 16th Nov. by the National Monument Association, of sub the monmwent at the election polls. »lina does not hesitate to hold her annual I meJicaTah ...... , Gas Lights. About nine o'clock on Wednesday evening the Gas gave out, and our city for the space of an honr or two was in darkness. There was quite a brisk movement in the Hotels, Printing Offices, Restaurants, &c. in ramaging up old lamps and candlesticks. We understand the failure was caused by the burning out of some of the re torts, the contractors for furnishing new ones having failed to do so, in time. This is the first occurrence of the kind that has happened since our gas works have been in operation, and we are assured it will be the last, as every prepara tion is now made to furnish a lull supply. South Carolina Taxes. The following is an abstract of the tax bill, as passed by the House of Representatives. Forty cents, ad valorem, per hundred dollars of lands; one-half cent per acre on Catawba lands. Sixty cents on slaves. Two dollars on free negroes. Ten cents, ad valorem. per hundred dollars of city lots, lands, and buildings. Sixty cents per hun dred dollars on factorage, employments, faculties, professions. Ten cents per hundred dollars ot amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise, deducting therefrom the amount of stock on hand Ist January, and except also consigned goods sold and remitted tor. Ten cents on sales of transient goods. Ten dollars per day for representations, shows, &c. Rabun Gap Railroad. The lower house of the South Carolina Le gislature has passed, by- a vote of yeas 56, nays 36, the bill chartering the Blue Ridge Railroad, ft contains a clause authorizing the State to en dorse the Bonds of the Company to the amount of $1,250,000. The bill appropriating $1,000,000 as a subscription to the stock of the Road, had previously failed in Senate. The bill char tering the Road with the clause above stated, •we presume will pass the Senate. gOßurxAßv or Charleston.—George Buist, Esq., has been elected Ordinary of Charleston District. His majority over the highest candi date was 557, and over all 33. The Athens Herald of the 16th inst. says: The Georgia Annual Conference of the M. E. Church South, assembled in this place on yesterday morning—Bishop Capers presiding. At the time we go to press, we are not advised of the I action of this highly respectable ecclesiastical ! bod’.-on any of the important matters which have been presented for consideration. In our • next we shil. be able to give some account of their doings—the stations ot the preachers for I the ensuing year,a": least, if nothing more. Damages fob Collision.—ln the case of Benjamin M. Farrington and wife vs. the New- York and New Haven Rail Road Company, which action was brought in the Superior Court of Ne w-York to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by Mrs. Farringtou, in conse quence of a collision between two trains on the Sth of January last, the jury has awarded the plaintiffs 53,500. A Widow advertises in the Boston Trans cript,that she is very much in want of a husband. She says she is “20 years of age, rather good looking, kind disposition, of good education, and worth $10,000; would like a husband who has energy and enterprise, and is in every sense of the word a man, and an honest man, whether polished or unpolished.” Mr. Soule and the Cuban Question. We are requested to state (says the Washing ton Union,) that there is no foundation for the report, which lately made its appearance in the Baltimore Sur. and in the New York Herald, that the " Hon. Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, whilst on a visit to Spain in 1846, first sounded the Spanish government with respect to the purchase of Cu ba, and by his representations led to the steps ta ken by Mr. Polk’s administration.” Mr. Boule went to Spain,for the first time, in the summer of 1849,0 n professional business. He had no communication with the Spanish government in reference to Cuba, either officially or unofficially, and never made representations that could lead to a proffer of purchase of that island, either on the part of Mr. Polk’s administration, which had then terminated, or on the part of any other administration. The Grand Lodge of the State of New York | have presented to their Sate Grand Master, a ; silver vase, elegantly wrought, and chased with I Masonic emblems. Withdrawal.—The propeller City of Nor- ■ folk is withdrawn from the line between I Charleston and New York, a more advantageous offer having been made to her owners to run be tween New Orleans and Chagres, connecting with the lines on the Pacific. -t n, ' as under the new Census she is entitled to sev- ! en. ft is now proposed to elect two more, but j not till August next—dividing the State for that , purpose into two Districts, separated by the Mis souri river. The next Legislature will doubt- I less divide the State into seven permanent Dis- j tricts. A telegraphic dispatch in the Columbia South- Carolinian, dated New York the 13th inst. states that Vice-President King was so indis posed, as to be unable to attend the Senate. A late number of the Scientific American states that the smoke in the factories of large ci ties in England and Scotland is now consumed, it having been made a penal offence by act of Parliament for any factory to allow the smoke to escape. The smoke is all burned by simple contrivances of furnaces. A Committee of Gov ernment first established that the burning of smoke was perfectly practicable, and Parliament then enforced the fact. Crnsus op Carroll County.—We are in debted toR. M. Fletcher, Esq., tor the following statement of the census of Carroll County. Whites, 9129 ; Slaves, 1379; Free persons of color, 16; making the entire populationJlO,s24- The Springfield (Mass.) Republican asserts that a tumor weighing 112 pounds, was taken, after death, from the body of Hannah Whitr, of Gill, on the 22d ult. The sack of tumor weighed 174 pounds; the balance being water, on being emp tied out, filled a common sized wash tub. It had been in existence for eleven years. Isaac T. Thayer, Esq., a highly esteemed mer chant of New York, formerly of Boston, died suddenly on Thursday, of erysipelas. Lieut. Wright, of the Topographical Engin eers, has been appointed to undertake the works for East Florida, lor which appropriations Were Inada at the last Session B of Congress. The Chinese in Cuba.—The first cargo of Chinese is expected daily in Cuba, where they are to be let out for a number of years, and un der the name of coolies these Asiatics will per form all the offices of slaves, and will stand as low in the social scale as the swarthy blacks. Ihe number at present under contract is 6000, the privilege of which was given a mercantile house in Havana by the name of Villollo, Ward rop Ac Co., by whom they were to be imported Upon its appearing that the speculation would be profitable, the number was rescinded to half °f this amount, and the privilege of importing the other three thousand granted to another house. An Havana letter says that asjthe traf fic gives promise of being highly remunerative, and can be carried on unlike the slave trade without risk. Queen Christina, the Queen Moth er in Spain, has succeeded in obtaining a mono poly in the article of commerce. She designs importing 100,000 ot these coolies, and her capi tal, and numerous active agents, are already be ing devoted to the service. This lady is quite an,enterprising character. She has shares in the English copper mines at Santiago de Cuba, is part owner of the Havana Gas Works, and her agents are engaged in numberless other wavs in providing worthy investments for hsr capital and financial energy. First Shad or the Season.—The Savannah Georgian, of the 15th inst says: The first shad of the season was caught on the Savannah river and brought to market yesterday by P. Galla gher. It was sold for $25, the purchasers being Messis. Hayward & Finch, who shipped it by i. - Marg Route to —We learn from the Baltimore Sun that Postmaster General Hubbard on Saturday last ordered an important improvement in the mail service between San- Antonio. Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, a distance of 1,030 miles, having directed that the route be run monthly, each way, in four horse coaches, leaving each of those places about the 15th of the month. Letters or passengers leaving New York or Baltimore, on the first of the month, and going via New Orleans and Port Lavacca, will hereafter, owing to this arrange ment, reach Santa Fe (the capital of New Mex ico) in about six weeks. Captain Skillman, who has charge of the route, is a gentleman of unbounded energy, and, by the liberal terms of the arrangement now made with him, will be enabled to take with his coaches a sufficient guard to protect his mails and passengers from any of the copper-skins that may choose to cross his track. Savannah and Pensacola Road. —We are glad to learn (says the Savannah Republican) from Dr. Screven and Mr. Roberts, that the pri vate subscriptions to this impoitant enterprise ■ have reached something over $195,000. And this, too, notwithstanding they have canvassed | only a portion of the city. Never has any work I been undertaken which received so universal a sanction. Those who have been called on have responded handsomely, almost without a single | exception, and we doubt not, those hereafter to be called on, will do likewise. Cholera at Norfolk.—The New York Ex press states that a letter has been received, sta ting that there have been several cases of chole ra in the vicinity of Norfolk during the last few days. Mr. Foster, the harbor master died yes terday, making some lour or five cases within a fortnight. The Norfoik papers say nothing about the subject, and the above must betaken cum grano. Work for tho Month. Under the above heading our Agricultural co- ■ temporaries are accustomed to specify to their readers, the various duties of the husbandman for the thirty days therein embraced. There are some things which we might very appro- ! priately refer to as included in the work for the month ending the 31st. Some of our subscribers have promptly complied with our advance terms —such we shall exclude from our present re- ] marxs, others have suffered a year to pass, j ami six months of another y*-ar, writh-oat'-sayin* Turkey to us once.” Now, the present month is i a most opportune time to settle up this little matter of conscience vs. the Printer. The pre sent year has been one of great plenty. Cotton commands a fine remunerating price—money is abundant; and the man who can lay his hand upon a contented heart, or his head upon a pil low unfrequented by bad dreams, and is indeb ted to the Printer for the pitiful sum of three or four dollars, is most certainly afflicted with a treacherous memory or very bad principles:— There is a class of subscribers to newspapers who should perhaps be excluded from any very ] barshlstrictures-those who put off,and put offpay ; merit, disliking to be troubled with the payment ' of such small sums — they must wait until a Ten or a Twenty will cover the arrearages. All this I may be well meant; but in a Printing office it ; is essential that these small sums should be com ing in costantly—otherwise the heavy expen : dituresofan office cannot be met. These small sums make up the hundreds just as the small streams do the mighty Rivers; and it would be I every whit as sensible, to expect the Mississip- I pi to maintain its vast volume of water without ] the constant aid of hundreds smaller streams that feed it, as to expect the Printer to get out a hand ■ some paper filled with good reading without the small sums which every subseriber is expected to ] contribute. We think that as there is so little this month to occupy the Planter’s mind, he ! might find employment for the present, in re i newing his intercourse with the Printer. — Fed- I eral Union. The Funeral Ceremonies atNewOrlbaxs. , —The New Orleans papers of Friday evening ; are filled with accounts of the imposing ceremo- i Dies in honor of Clay, Calhoun and Webst r observed in that city the day previous From these we conclude that the pageant exceeded in universality and splendor, anything of the kind hitherto ever attempted in that city. Valuable Plantation Sold. We understand that the Rowell Plantation on the Savannah river, shven miles below Au gusta, containing seventeen hundred and two acres, was sold by Judge Holt, a few days ago, to Col. Turner Clanton, for forty thousand dollars, payable on the first of January. We have been requested to state by Mr. Wm. Haines, that he is not a candinate for the office of J ustice of the Inferior Court of this ''" ' ~ The Augusta Bridge. The Columbia correspondent of the Charles ton Courier, writing under date of 15th inst says: —■“ The Senate had stricken out from the Road Bill the section reinvesting the Charter of the Augusta Bridge in the Town Council of Augus ta—the House inserted and refuse, to strike out, and so the matter stands yet.” The Brooklyn Navy Yard has nine large Gov i eminent vessels moored in there, forming in full I or part three distinct expeditions,—Africa, Ja i pan,and the China seas. U. S. steamer Saranac arrived at Para, Brazil, ■ on the 26th of October, in 20 days from Philadel phia, making HO miles da’ly without sails. : Edwin Wilbur, heretofore a respectable yonng I man, has been convicted of forgery in New i York, asd sentenced to the State prison four I years and ten months. | A Mrs. Dakin, in London, whose house com ; manded a fine view of the funeral procession in j honor of the Duke of Wellington, let the upper part of it for one thousand guineas. I The Union Club of Now York arc about to ! erect a new and splendid club house, and have i commenced the raising of ? 100,000 for that pur pOß During the year ending October Ist the re cieptsof the Danville (Va.) Railroad Company were 3380,981. The cholera has re-appeared in the’[Lunatic Asylum at Toronto. There were two deaths on Friday. There is no cholera in the cityl Within the last two weeks, some twenty lo comotives have been shipped from Buffalo for the different Western Railroads. John X. Jones, for 19 years foreman at the Novelty Iron Works, New York, committed sui cide at Reading, Pa., last week. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MOI VJNG, DECEMBER 22, 1852. ] From the Baltimore Sun.] Annual Report of tho Secretary of th. Navy. The annual report of the Hen. John P. Ken nedy. Secretary of the Navy, occupying 11} col umns ot the National Intelligencer, gives a lucid and interesting account of everything pertaining to that important branch of the public service, and suggests many reforms and changes. It ne cessarily contains, however, many statements and facts, in detail, which have appeared from tune to time, in the coulmns of the Sun, in an abridged form, during the year, and we therefore limit ourselves to such an abstract of its contents as suggest changes and improvements in the ser vice. After narrating the late and present disposi tion of the six squadrons into which our naval force is now divided, the vessels which compose them, and the progress made in preparing the various vessels for service, the Secretary suggests that the time has come for Congress to inquire into the necessity for continuing the African squadron, and he thinks that the slave traffic is now so much reduced that a few small vessels added to the Brazilian squadion may be sufficient to suppress it. I'he Japan expedition, and the invaluable ben efits likely to result to the commercial world therefore, are referred to at considerable length ; but nothing not already known is mentioned. The expedition for the exploration of the China seas, the North Pacific and Bhering’s Straits, under Com. Ringgold, is also noticed, and the Secretaiy says that, in view of the arduous and long service required, he has put the sloop of war Vincennes, propeller John Hancock, the brig Porpoise and a pilot boat upon that squadron.— The expedition is to be well supplied with sci entific officers. The Secretary next refers to the exploration of a portion of Africa lying east of Liberia, to the importance of which his attention had been called by the Pennsylvania Colonization Society. With a view to preparing the way for such has attached Commander Lynch to the Ailicau Squadron, with instructions having in view the ascertainment of such localities on ilia coast as may offer the greatest facilities for penetrating the interior. The steamer Vixen is to be sent to the African coast to aid in commander Lynch’s operations. The expidition to explore the waters of the Uruguay and La Plata, lately opened to com merce, is the next subject considered. It will consist of the steamer Water Witch,with a com plete outfit of boats, &c., under command of Lieut. Page, who will depart as soon as the steamer is ready for service. The return of Lieut. Hernden from an explo ration of the valley of the Amazon, is next no ticed, and he is said to have accomplished his duty thoroughly and obtained much valuable in formation. Lieut. Gibbon, who took a different route, has not yet returned. The services of the brig Dolphin, in ascertain ing the location of rocks and shoals between this country and Europe, are favorably spoken of.— She has been despatebe 1 on a second expedition of the same kind, under Lieut. Berryman. The Secretary nexts speaks of Lady Frank lin’s new effort, aided by Henry Grinnell and Mr. George Peabody, to discover Sir John Frank lin. She has asked the co-operation of Passed Assistant Surgeon Kane, and permission has been given to him by an order which puts him on spe cial service. The Secretary recommends that Congress should provide any means that may be necessary for the prosecution ot scientific discov ery in connection with Dr. Kane’s duty. The Naval Academy at Annapolis is the sub ject of some extended favorable remarks. It is considered an institution worthy the highest re gard of Congress. The Secretary proposes that hereafter the Academy shall consist exclusively j of cadets of young men who are received as can- | didates for admission to the navy; that the num- i ber be limited for the present to 216; one-fourth or 68 to be nominated at the commencement of each yearly term, and to constitute the first or lowest class in the school—s7 of these to be nom inated by Congress and sby the President. Va cancies to be supplied by Congress and the Pres ident. Taking the experience of the West Point Academy as a guide, the number of graduates would not exceed from twenty-five to thirty. The Secretary also proposes that the corps of midshipmen shall consist of 250; to be assigned for service on ship-board, and after six months a‘ sea, upon examination and approval by a competent board, to be entitled to a midship men’s warrant dating at their graduation from the school. After three year’s service at sea, they shall be, upon examination, noted for pro motion to a new grade to be called ‘’masters.* The grade of “passed-midshipmen” to be abol ished as soon as the gradual promotion ot the i corps will allow. The grade of masters to con- , sist of one hundred, to be at once filled by the ] appointment of so many passed-midshipmen.— ' The change, the Secretary suggests, would effect I a reduction of one hundred and fourteen officers, I and increase the ratio of promotion to the corps I of lieutenant*. . _ j The or'-'i intron of a Hyd'.“ogMphicat r-orps . next recommended, to consist of 30 masters. 30 i lieutenants, 15 commanders and 5 captains, to be especially educated for scientific service, inde pendent and separate from the regular naval ser vice. It should be built up from material furnish ed by the Naval Academy. The Secretary dis- i cusses and argues in favor of his new corps at] some length. In connection with the other pro- I positions, he says that it will afford the annual ■ appointment of 62 candidates for the navy ; will ] give permanency and efficiency to the Academy; will quicken promotion ; will establish a valua ble corps of scientific officers &c. Com. Stribling, who has charge of the Acade my, is mentioned in commendatory terms, as are also all the other officers ; and the necessary ap propriations are urged to complete the buildings and purchase the requisite grounds for the insti tution. The abolition of corporeal punishment in the navy, and the neglect ot Congress to provide a substitute, the Secretary says, has caused increas ed insubordination on almost every eruise, more frequent court martial, and great demoralization of men and officers. The most frequent com plaints against it, it is alleged, are from the sea men themselves. In connection with this, he proposes a new system for organizing a body of efficient seamen, the details of which are as fol lows : “ That every commanding officer of a squad ron, or of a single ship, when not with a squad ron, shall, on his return from a regular cruise, re port to the Navy Department, in the muster roll of the men under his command, a statement of the good or bad general deportment of each man, with a special designation of those whose con duct has merited that degree of approbation which shall entitle them to be admitted into the navy. “ That this report be submitted by the Depart ment to the President, who shall thereupon issue a general order to admit into the navy the sea men who have been distinguished in the report for good conduct. And the President shall trans mit with this order to the commanding officer of the squadron or ship, a certificate to each sea man, written on parchment and stamped with the signature of the President himself, expressing his approbation of his conduct, and his permis sion to admit the subject of it into the navy, which certificates shall be delivered by the com manding officer of the squadron or ship, to the men entitled to them, before they are discharged from the ship ; this delivery to be made in the presense of the crews, and with nuitable formali ty, to attract public notice. “ That each seaman to whem this certificate shall be awarded, shall, if he accept it, register his name in a book to be provided for that pur pose, and kept on board of the ship, by which register he shall become a registered seaman of the navy of the United States, and be entitled to all the privileges, and be bound to all the obliga tions of that character. This registery book shall be transmitted to the Navy Department, where it shall be preserved, and the entries made in it copfod-into-a general registry aTphaGeHcally ar ranged, and kept in the Department. “ The obligations occurred by every seaman who signs the register, shall be those of faithful service and due performance of all seamanlike duty under the flag of the United States, good moral deportment and prompt obedience to all orders that may be issued by his lawtful superi ors, so long as he shall continue to be a member of the navy. The privileges attached to this registry shall be— “ 1. For every five years of actual duty on board a public vessel, an increase of o»e dollar a month over and above the established rates of ordinary pay. This additional monthly pay, ao earned by service, to be paid to each man so long as he may continue to be a registered sea man of the navy ; and after twenty years of service, to be paid whether be continues a regis tered seaman or not. The right to this addition al pay to be liable to forfeiture at any time with in the twenty years actual service, by the resig nation of any seaman on the registry, or by his being struck off the list of registered seamen, which may be done at any time, and shall only be done by the order ot the Secietary of the Navy, or by the sentence of a Naval Court Mar tial, upon the charges of misconduct; in either of which events, resignation or discharge by sen tence of the Secietary of the Navy, or of a Court Martial, he shall cease to belong to the navy, and shall lose all the privileges of such a char acter. “2. Every registered seaman to be entitled to resign his post in the navy at any time after three years’ service, if not engaged on a cruise. When engaged on a cruise, and alisent from the ports of the United States, he shall not resign without the consent of the commanding officer of his ship. A record of all resignations to be duly kept and reported to the department. A registered seaman of more than twenty years service, continuing in the navy, only to forfeit his additional pay when such forfeiture shall be adjudged by a Court Martial as a punishment for grossly immoral or insubordinate conduct. By such sentence, also, for such offences, his addi tional pay may be suspended by a court for such time as they may adjudge. “3. No registered seaman of the navy to be subject to any corporeal or other punishment of a degrading character, and to such only as may be ordered by a court martial on charges duly preferred and tried. This prohibition not to pre- vent the punishment without a court inertia such minor delinquences in conduct ! ' n< ‘ . ’,7 line as may be corrected by withholding W usual indulgences of the service, stopping pop,, tions of the ration, or increasing ordinary "’’Jg “4. Every registered seaman to be entitiea after any term of three years’ sea service W » furlough of such reasonable length as may en able him to make one or two voyages m tne merchant marine notextending without special . peimission to more than six months ; such fur lough to be granted by the commanding officer of the squadron, or the commandant of the navy yard nearest to the poit at which his craiiW may be terminated, and only to be granted in any case, with an express reservation andlM> tice, that the seaman to whom it is given snail report for duty in the navy, when any public emergency shall render it necessary so to druet him ; the order for return to duty to be issued by the Navy Department, or by such officer as may be authorized by the Department to do so. A failure to report, in accordances with this provi sion, to render hirp liable to be struck off the re gistry by the Secretary of the Navy. Every registered seaman reporting for duty within i three months ot his last cruise, and being there upon ordered to duty, to be entitled to pay from I the date of termination of bis last cruise. AH I furloughs to be regularly reported and noted at ■ the Navy Department. “ 5. Every registered seaman to be entitled to | wear on his dress some appropaiate badge by which he may be distinguished and known in the navy, which badge will be designated and j provided by the Navy Department. “ 6. The petty officers of each ship to be se- ] lected, as far as convenient, from the class of re gistered seamen, and the appointment always to be regarded as dependant upon the merit ana j good character of the person selected, to be held, j on good behavior, during the term of a cruise. I “ 7. A record to be kept, under the direction of every commanding officer of a squadron or I command. This record to be returned to rffi* department at the end of every cruise, and to be transferred to the general registry of seamen.— Upon the evidence of this general registry the additional pay to be granted. “8. Every seaman to be admonished to give his true name, age aud place of birth upon sign ing the registry ; and to be required to engage not to ship in merchant or other vessels, whilst on furlough, by any other name. His being con victed of violating this engagement So render him liable to be struck from the list of registered seamen, upon the order of the Secretary of the Navy. “9. In every case of dismissal from the ser vice as a registered seaman, the party so dismiss ed to receive whatever moneys may be due to him, unless the same shall have been forfeited by the sentence of a court martial, imposed as a punishment for an offence committed by him.— A seaman dismissed from the registry not to be entitled to be restored but upon the permission of the head of the Navy Department, granted in consideration of the meritorious character of the applicant. “ 10. Seamen, ordinary seamen, and lands men, in the service not belonging to the regis try, to be subject to such discipline, duty, and penalties as Congress may provide, in a code of regulations adapted to their government, under such restrictions or modifications as the Depart ment may think proper to make. “ 11. A printed book or circular to be made by the Department containing all the regula tions and conditions relating to the establish ment of registered seamen, giving a full descrip tion of the obligations to be contracted by them, and of the privileges to which they may be en titled. Copies of this book or circulars to be furnished to every squadron or single vessel inf commission, of which copiss one shall be given to every seamen, in order that he may be fully informed of the nature of the engagements to be incurred by him on entering the service of United States, These regulations to be be read and explained to the several crews, and, as far as may be necessary, to every seamen before he signs the registry. “ 12. The Department to be authorised to make, alter, and modify all rules and regula tions, so far as it may be found expedient, &c. “ 13. A limited number of boys to be receiv ed into, the navy, upon obligations contracted ac cording to law, to serve until they arrive at the age of twenty-one years. Their number, the quota, to be allowed to each vessel, and all need ful and proper rules for their government and du ties, to be regulated by the orders of Navy De partment.” An increase of the navy is strongly recom mended, in view of our extended possessions on the Pacific, where we are now without a single public steamship. On the Atlantic our naval steamers likewise require to be increased. .He recommends the building of three first crass screw propeller frigates, and the same number of propellerisloops of war. To these might be ad ded, with advantage, a few smaller steamers adapted to qihek diepatcK and The establishment of one,or mofejfactoiies iorlß® construction of machinery, &c., for steamers, is urged, and he advises that, byway of experi ment, one of the mail steamers, built with the understanding that they were capable of being, fitted for war service, should be equipped with ; the proper armament. I Provision for the increase of the number of I seamen, now limited to 7,500, is recommended —the present number being insufficient for the | navy as now organised. The wages of seamea : must also be increased. An increase of the ma-’ rine corps and of the corps of pursers, together . with the establishment of a new corps of assi=- j tant pursers, are recommended. The establish | ment of a retired list, the recognition of the of fice es Commodore, and the creation of at least two Rear Admirals are again recommended. The Naval Asylum at Philadelphia is well' conducted, but it is suggested that it would be well to remove it to Annapolis or Norfolk, away from the temptations of a large city. The Na val Observatory is highly commended, and Con gress is referred for further particular to an ac companying letterof Lieut. Maury. The obser vations cf Lt. Gillis in Chili, and the experi i ments of Prof. Espy are spoken of as deserving !of much praise. It is recommended as an act of justice that those officers, seamen, and marines, I and those of the revenue service, who served on j the coast of California and Mexico, during the war previous to September 28, 1850, should re ceive the same increased pay as has been al lowed those who served subsequently to that 1 period. I The Secretary, in conclusiop, estimates the sum necessary for the suppport of the Navy for the year ending June 30th, 1854, at $11,501,- 593 67; of which $4,031,921 98 will be for spe cial objects. The amount drawn from the Treasury dury during the year ending June 30, 1852, was, after deducting repayments, .$8,913,118 72, of which $2,656,068 84 was for special objects. The unexpended balance of appropriations on the 30th of June, 1852, was $3,119,644 60; all ot which, however, will be wanted for obligations to come due. (Fzom the Baltimore Sun ) Annual Report of the Fost-Master General. The annual report of the Hon. S. D. Hubbard, Post-Master General, contains a variety of sta tistic, much of which is embraced in the report of the Auditor, published yesterday. We give the following abstract: At the close of the fiscal year, ending June 30th, 1852, the number ot postoffices in the Uni i ted States, was 20,901 ; post-masters appointed during that year 6,255, of which 3,726 were to fill vacancies caused by resignations, 246 on change of sites, 309 by removals, and 1,719 on establishment of news offices. There were 1,719 postoffices established, and 614 discontinued du ring the year. From the end of the fiscal year to November I, 1852, 526 postoffices have been established, and 236 discontinued, so that the whole number in operation at the latter date was - its close there was in operation in the United States 6.711 mail routes, their aggregate length being 214,284 miles, and employing 5,266 con tractors. Annual transportation of the mails on these routes 58,985,728 miles, at on annual cost of $3,939,971, being about 6 7-10 cents per mile ; 11, miles were performed on railroads, at a cost ot $1,275,520, being about 11J cents per mile; 6.353,409 miles in steamboats, at a coast of $505,815, being about 8 cents per mile; 20,- 698,030 miles in coaches, at a cost of $1,128,986, being about 5i cents per mile; and 20,850,621 miles in inodes not specified at a cost of $1,029,- 650, being about 4 9-10 cents per mile. The inland service show an increase over the preceding year of 17,994 miles in mail routes ■ of 5,713,476 miles of annual transportation and of $518,217 in the annual cost, the railroad ser vice being increased 2,514,061 miles at an in creased cost of $290,501, and the steamboat ser vice to 898,427 miles, at an increased cost of $50,923. There were six foreign mail routes in opera tion on the 30th of June, of the aggegate length of 18,340 miles—annual transportation 652,406 miles. On three of the routes the annual trans portation is estimated at 200,592 miles, at a cost of $400,000, being about $1 86 per mile on the other three routes. The annual transportion is estimated at 458,934 miles, at an annual cost of $1,496,250, (including the additional compensa tion voted to the Colins line at the last session of Congress,) being about $3 26 per mile. The cost of ocean steamer service for the year 1858 was $1,896,250 ; for 1851, $1,023 250. The annual cost of conveying the mails across the Isthmus of Panama is uncertain as it de on their weight—the cost for the last yeai, at 22 cents per pound, the prices paid, vvas $48,039. It is estimated that lor a large portion of the contents of these mails, (being printed matter,) the amount received in postage under the Act of August 31st, 1852, does not exceed five cents a pound in payment of the whole transportation from the point of mailing to that of deliver. The temporary arrangements with the Panama railroad is still in operation. The completion of the road, it is expected, will remedy many defects in the transportion of the mails to and from California. The gross receipts of the Department forthe year ending June 30th, were $6,925,971 28 But of this only $4,226,792 90 were from letter,' fjp 6B anJ stamps, and $789,246 36 from , J/T* l l’*l’ crH 1,n, l periodicals. The receipts from ’ • wer e less by $1,388,334 43 than those ’ •fil . pre . cee,i "'" year, being a decrease of 22 I tlE* r' SltlCe t ' le new law took effect. Still ' j jHfOW'toaster General does not desire a return i °MB|her rates. MF? BXpenditures of the Department for the I ‘ S<a year We,e $7-108,159 04; those for" I ■rtW e^ eilt y« Br are estimated at $8,7 15,777 29. I "Mytmiated receipts, including $1,200,000 ap- i I f ® re $7,417,790 83; leaving a de- < i - I I |. l siiL® , P lo l’ r ' A l |l) i 1 ' A still larger appropriation t |WSBB>Wquii'ed for the next year. f . JF letter envelopes will soon be ready lor I M. principal postoffiees. The cornple- I 1 • riniiugtoii and Manchester rail- I IM *‘®uri"j I lie Hext year, it i< expected, will | l the transmission of the Southern mails. ; serviwhciween New York and Wash- ’. though much improved; is still defective - I ' ll " da lila ’'rifu.i‘ory. I'he endeavors of the de- 1 i l ' i, 'JUt t°_ improve this service has been ten- ‘ by a want of unity among the | i, interested in the line,and the i on the part of the com- < between Philadelphia and New I of Congress is invoked to re- ; ■ nijeeyVfe melter. i I? relating to inland mail routes ; Bored the repeal of the law giving < liageffe SI,OOO per year recommended, 1 ®s to allow the Department to gra- ! Be salaries according to service. rate port ? refers to the. application of the I twill Bremen line of steamers for increased ! o« the ‘.ground that while the Collins line 1 rece.yejjJO.GOO a trip, they get but $12,500 a < trip fev re liue and $16,666 for the Bre- ] A3~S.n iiuliicemi-nt lor this increa-e i I ,“fey sliow that, in addition to their hav- I I IwPtfe'yffhhait mail service *.ii efficiently as < j iJiftP] bifexpected with the limited means al- I ®xpoils from Germany to this fiMUiißCLits-iwsceod since iheT-tomiiieiiced uiurwi! nunffirff'jAwnigraiits is increasing, and the gross i sum '■» hiiffr they at present bring to this country amounts to 15,000,000 annually. I Seißrf postal conventions with foreign coun- l tries are noticed, and the report then proceeds t to eojsidir the necessity for increased comtnis- i sionSjto /lost-masters on account of the increas ed labor under the new law. The following is reconi mended for an office collecting postages to the amount of $3,000 : Allow oa SIOO, 50 per ct. cornm’n, SSO 00 ( 200,40 “ “ 120 00 “ 2,000,33} “ “ 666 66 “ 600,12} “ •' 75 00 -stir-also recommended that a post-master should be entitled to a small'compensation, say , to the amount of two mills, (or about 2} cents per quarter for a weekly paper,) for delivering from hii office, to a subscriber, each newspaper not now chargeable with postage. The recommendation, made last year, to ex tend the west wing of the building occupied by the Pcstoffice Department, is renewed, and the propriety of warming the establishment by means of steam pipes, is suggested. An ajipropriation for carrying the mails be tween Washington and Richmond, so as to al low oi keeping navigation open with ice-boats, is recommended. The report concludes by expressing thanks to Mr. Hall, late Post-master General, for his aid in making out the annual report, and to the As sistant Post-master General, the chief clerk, and the other clerks of the Department, for their in dustry and attention to their laborious duties. [From the Baltimore Sun.] Facts fbom the Census.—Many of the par tieulars in the report to Congress of Mr. J. C. Kennedy, superintendent of ths census, have been heretofore given in some way in our col- ; umiis. We. therefore, now glean only the most interesting facts, as follow : The Po/iulatign of the United States has in created 337 per cent, during the last fifty years. In that same period the population of France has . increased but about 30 per cent. The population of the United States is npw increasing at the rate of about three per cent, per annum, whilst that of all Europe (we infer from the Secretary’s partial statistics) is increasing at about the rate of one per cent, per annum. Immigration has not swelled our population to any’ such extent as has generally been supposed. The census returns indicate that, of our four millions of people, only two millions and a quarter,or less than ten per cent., were born in Europe—or, in round numbers, one million in Ireland, hajf a million in Germany, a quarter of a million in England, one hundred thousand in Scotland and Wales, half as many in France, oneiuhdred and fifty thousand in Canada, and one •hundred thousand in all other countries. ' Thejcensus-takers probably did not obtain com plctd lists of the nativity of all born out of the ,cblinfcy-»-their inquiries may have been misun- iuiv extent, ur imperlectly answe-r --insiders’ three ntill’ot.; a libeiai estimate for the foreign-born population ! of our country, or about one-eightb of the whole. We hqve -krrown the Irish alone estimated at a highe-- figure. Obbur total population, the deaf and dumb are, 9,717 ; the blind, 9,702, the insane, 15,763 ; the idiotic 15,706. Os these the colored deaf and dumb are but 632; colored blind, 1,715; colored insane, 612; colored idiots, 1,476. That is to say, the colored persons afflicted with these va rious infirmities are fewer in proportion to their numbers than the whites. Os Paupers, the census reports 134,972 as having received public charity during the year preceding June, 1850, and only 50,353 as actu ally receiving a subsistence from the public on the Ist of June in that year. Os these nearly 'three-fourths (36,916) were natives. The ag gregate cost of supporting paupers during the year aforesaid was reported as only $2,954,806, whereof N. York paid $817,336 and Massachu setts $392,765. Pennsylvania ranks next, but disburses only $232,138 in public charity, and New Hampshire fourth, paying out $157,351. Virginia and Maine are just behind. These re turns are partially imperfect, as a great many of the indigent are subsisted in hospitals, retreats, &c., on the gifts of private munificence. The real and personal estate in the United States and Territories is returned as of the actual value of $7,133,369,725. We would raise that, to make it correspond with the year 1852, to $10,000,000,000, and estimate the present actual population of the Union at twenty-five millions. Lying S4OO per head of property to each human - “being or $2,000 to each average family ot five Churches, or edifices for public Divine worship, in the United States, number thirty six thousand, (36,000,) of which the Methodists own one-third, or 12,467 ; the Baptists nearly ’ one-fourth, or 8,791; the Presbyterians the next ■ nu mber, or 4.584 ; and if we count the Dutch Reformed, Congregational, Lutheran and Ger- • man Reformed with the Presbyterian, (and the differences between all these seem slight and unessential,) the total is 8,112. But the esti mated capacity of the Presbyterian and allied Churches is greater in the average than that of the Baptist and Methodist Churches, so that while all the Methodist Churches will accom -1 .'..Ntc .| >n t 4.209.333 worshippers, and all the ■%U10.878, the Presbyterian and re , lated Churches aforesaid have loom for 3,705,211 worshippers. The Catholics have but 1,112 ■ Churches, accommodating 620,950 worshippers. The Episcopalians have 1.422 Churches, accom modating 625,213 worshippers. The average , number that each church edifice in the Union , will-accommodate is 384; the total value of Churcji property $86,416,639 ; and if all the Churches should be filled at one time, they wouldf.old 13,849,896 persons—probably some thing iear the total population that could at one • tir..e mkend church. ’“be Farm Lands of the Uniled States are set ' dowk in as amounting to 118.457,622 : and 184.6?1.358 of Unimprov- ! e j 303,078,970 acres’, worth in the average i $lO pK acre. The average value of the Farm Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connec -1 ticutWew York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania : isabofls3o per acre (New Jersey highest, Penn- ■ sylv*®= fowest;) while Maine, New Hampshire and vffrmont average about sls per acre. We • are 1 ither surprised to see the farm lands of North : and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Missis- ■ sipp and Tennessee valued in the average below , $5 [er acre. 0 f Domestic .Animals, this country had an ear ly » Ipply and has always beeen prolific—and the nuiriber continues to increase steadily and rapid . ly.--The increase of Horses, Mules, and Asses, ; from 1840 to 1850 was 559,053 although the I nuifilfcr has considerably decreased in all the ■ StaLs liberally chequered with Railroad. New Yoji has one horse to seven peisons, Ohio one to ®ur, and the whole Union about one to every I fiv*persons, or a little over four millions in all. 0(1 m at Cattle, the number in 1850 was 18.355,- . 287—an increase in ten years of about twenty i per cent. 1 •Che average product of butter appears to be »b#iit 49 pounds per annum to each cow, with I 62) pounds ot cheese. We export annually a lit- > tleover one million dollars’worth of dairy pro , due s. Os sheep there was an increase of 2,309,- f 108-between ’4O and and ’SO, notwithstanding a ■ din.'nution ot 646,855 in New England and i 1,761,460 in the Atlantic Middle States, equal to • 45 ~..r cent, in the former and 22i in the latter. I Sheep husbandry is tending rapidly westward and southward—to the milder slopes of the Al i leghanies and the prairies ot Ilinois, Missouri and ■ Texas. New Mexico has six sheep to each per il son—an extraordinary proportion. Best of all, i the returns show that while in 1840 the average i animal yield of wool was a little under two I pounds per sheep, it was in 1850 nearly two and r a half pounds per sheep, so that 21,600,000 sheep I produced in 1850 forty-six per cent, more wool : than 19,311,374 sheep did in 1840. An increase ; of 12 per cent, in the sheep had been paralleled i by an increase of 46 per cent, in the wool. And i in Vermont, where the greatest attention has ’ been paid to sheep husbandry, the average yield > per sheep is almost 4 pounds. Yet we import Considerably of wool—mainly the cheapest and I coarsest. In 1850, the import was 18,669;791 ■ pounds, valued at $1,681,691, or between eight :) arid nine cents per pound. The imports of wool have largely increased during three or four years. Os Tobacco, the aggregate returned in 1840 was 319,163,319 lbs; in 1850 it was 199, 752,- 646 pounds—a decrease of about ten per cent. Os Cotton, the production continues largely to increase. The product is now over 3,000,000 bales or 600,000 tons per annum Os Potatoes, the product would seem to have fallen off from 108,298,060 bushels in ’4O to 104,- 055, 989 bushels in 1850; and we presume this is correct; the reason being the effects and fears of potato rot. This disease would now see n to be passing away, and the culture ol the root con sequently reviving. Os IPine, the production is steadily increasing. Our importation amounts to six millions of gal lons per annum; our consumption to at least twenty millions of gallons; so that our home production must be not far from fourteen million gallons. Os this aggregate, it seems that only 221,259 gallons are acknowledged in the census —whence we infer that our manufacturers of Madeira, Champagne, Hock, &c., prefer not to “ let their light shine before men,” but meekly put aside the credit of their enormous consumpt ion of cider, turnips, logwood and other domestic and imported products. O(.Spirituous and Malt Liquors the annual product reaches the enormous aggregate of eight ty-six millions of gallons, (six gallons for each person old enough to drink) —our imports and exports just about balancing each other. The Hop culture (mainly confined to New York State) is extending. Os Flax and Hemp the production did not ma terially vary from 1840 to 1850. In our Silk Culture we produced in 1831 no less than 399,790 pounds of cocoons; in 1840 only 61,542 pounds; in 1850 barely 14,763 pounds! And yet it is demonstrable that we have every facility of climate, soil, unemployed hands, &c., for this branch of industry, and that its vig orous prosecution would add laigely to the Na tional wealth. Our Sugar cultm-a [g extending. Our produc tion (maple and cane togettwry-tw redo was 155 - itwpca | ,830,886 lbs,, an increase (mainly in T 126,730,077 lbs. The sugar cultuie lias iiUwUrart tained command of the most admirable and ef ficient machinery, and is steadily working fur ther and further Northward, through the gradual acclimation of the cane. [From the New York Tribune.] The Removal of Mr. Ewbank. The fact that Thomas Ewbank, who had held the responsible post of Commissioner of Patents since the incoming of Gen. Taylor’s Administra tion, was recently removed by President Fill more, and Mr. Silas Hodges, of Vermont, ap pointed in his stead, is already well known. It has been very generally, but “rroneously, spoken of as a resignation; but it was just such a resigna tion as Mr. Fillmore’s on the 3d of March will be. In essence, if not in terms, (we believe in both) Mr. Ewbank was removed, and for reasons which the public has not been permitted official ly to know'. Why was it deemed advisable to appoint a new Commissioner for the last five or six months of 6 the present Administration? Had Mr. E. proved unfaithful? Was there apprehension that the public interests committed to his charge would suffer by his continuance? Was he in any respect less qualified to hold the office during these closing six months than during Mr. Fill more’s twenty-eight months preceding ? Noth ing of the sort is pretended. Why then was he removed? We answer. Because he would not consent to lavish the Public Money in his charge on a personal favorite of the President in violation of law. This statement we shall now proceed to substantiate. Soon after taking charge of the Patent-Office, Mr. Ewbank began to lookarround him for some person to aid him in compiling and editing the Agricultural Statistics which, in the absence of any Agricultural Bureau of the Government, have gradually grown into an important element of each Annual Report from that office. After] much inquiry and hesitation, he finally decided to entrust this work to Dr. Daniel Lee, formerly of Buffalo in our State, just then editing the Southern Cultivator, at Augusta, Ga.; and, on Mr. Ewbank’s recommendation. Secretary Ew ing appointed Dr. Lee a Clerk in the Patent Office to collate and prepare Agricultural matter for the Commissioner’s forthcoming Report. Dr. Lee accepted the place, stipulating lor a much laiger compensation than had ever before been paid for the service, did the work,and recieved his money. There, it was supposed by Mr. Ewbank, the engagement was at an end. The duties which Dr. Lee was employed to perform were in their nature occasional; they were entirely suspend ed through the greater portion of the yearjand Mr. Ewbank wished to be at liberty to choose his assistant in preparing bis Agricultural matter as niaturer experience and fuller knowledge of the duties ot his position should dictate. But no ! Dr. Lee had tasted the sweets ot office, and he fully determined not to surrender them. He could write lor his Southern Cultivator, and for the or * or two Rochester papers with which he already was, 4 or soon after becair.c, connected, about as well from the Patent Office as any where, the first use of the Agricultural Statistics transmitted from all parts ol the country to the Patent Office,in reply to the Commissioner’s cir cular requests for inlormation, could be rendered of decided use to him in liis vocation ; and the fact that there was nothing for him to do offi cially for eight or nine months of each year, rather recommended the post thin otherwise.— And this determination of Dr. Lee to draw $2,- 000 (after unsuccessfully trying to get $2,500) from the Inventors’ Fund year after year, with a perfect knowledge that the Commissioner whom he was employed to aid did not want him,but was greatly desirous to get rid of him, has been the main cause of all the trouble encountered by Mr. Ewbank, and of his ultimate removal. The Pa tent pirates and cormorants who prey on the life blood of Inventors, (under pretence of aiding them at the Patent Office, where they often do them more harm than good.) have of course, been his natural and indefatigable enemies ; but their annoyance would have amounted to very little but for the powerful “aid and comfort” that the lamented death of Gen. Taylor afforded them from the inside of the office. On Mr. Fillmore’s accession to office, Dr. Lee, (as a former resident ot Buffalo,) became a fre quent visitor at the White House. When in the Legislature ot our State, he was the wildest and and most sweeping Radical ever sent there, and so advertised himself through various journals for a considerable time. Now, ‘however, he had beeome a most intense Conservative, and soon became a partner in the Rochester American newspaper, originally started as a“ Native ” or gan, and since subsiding naturally into the mo t malignent type ot Hunkerism. For this estab lishment, Dr. Lee soon began to purvey jobs from the Patent Office, of printinglabels, &c., without a shadow of authority from the Commissioner; and at length, in March last, an advertisment from the Patent Office making its appearance, he caused a grave complaint to be lodged against Mr. Ewbank, with the Secretary of the Interior, that it had not been ordered to be published in that superlative administration journal,the Roch ester American, although the papers authorized to publish it in this State were all as ‘ Conserv ative as could be desired—namely, the State Register, AlLaqqy: Commercial Advertiser, New York, and Commercial Advertiser, Buffalo Yes, Mr. Ewbank, on the formal complaint ofHon. A. M. Schermerhorn, M. C., was required to justisy to his official superior, his neglect to or der an official advertisement to be published in the paper owned in part by one of the clerks ! This is not a solitary case. Early in January last, Mr. Ewbank had to meet a complaint made directly to the President by his clerk, Lee. that he had ordered an advertisement to be published in the Rochester Democrat, the oldest and most influential Whig paper in its section, but which, not being Silver Grey, was denounced in the charge as being bitterly hostile to the Adminis tration. Mr. Ewbank, as soon as he could find time to look into the case, responded that he had nothing whatever to do with the matter in ques tion —that the advertisement had been given out by his clerk whose duty it was to attend to that business, who had selected the papers to be em ployed in this instance from the official list long ago furnished him from the Department of the Interior, and knew no more whose corns he was excoriating than Mr. Ewbank himself! And these are but specimens of the paltry annoyances and discreditable tittle-tattle to which Mr. Ew bank has been exposed by his greedy and mali cious subordinate. One of the gravest charges preferred from time to time against Mr. Ewbank was that of altering Dr. Lee’s manuscripis I —that is to say, the Com missioner of Patents, in an official document of the gravest importance, to be issued under his own,signature and on his official responsibility, saw fit to modify some exptessions prepared for him by one of the clerks, and not allow that clerk, employed expressly to prepare matter for his use, to dictate precisely what he should use or what te r ms he should employ in using it.— These alterations were in no respect material, so far as thepublic interests were concerned.but they were sometimes quite important to the thrif ty clerk—for instance, the following, prepared by him to be inserted in Mr. Ewbank’s last Report, but respectfully declined by the Commissioner, viz: “Os this, it is believed that a better service will be done to the Cotton-growing interest to copy from the Southern Cultivator, (u monthly journal publirhcd at .Augusta, Ga., at a dollar a year, which should be in the hands of every planter.) some pratical remarks on the preparation of Seed and Land.” We very cheerfully give Mr. Leee a most ex tensive circulation of this puff of one of his pa pers, in order to let the public see what sort of matter it was that Mr. Ewbank eliminated from his Agricultural Report. He did not feel author ized to give the Southern Cultivator the benefit of the circulation of this strong official puff in 140,- 000 copies published by Congress of his Annual Report, to the disparagement and detriment of all other Agricultural papers; and this has been the subject of grave and formal complaint against the Commissioner! The U. S. ship Southampton sailed from Brook lyn, rn Tuursday, lor Valparaiso, from thence to the East Indies. She is attached to tho Ja pon squadron. VOL. XXXI—-NEW SERIES—-VOL--VII.—-NO. (From the Baltimore BUn.) Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Hon. Luke Lea, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has made an interesting annual report. The operations of the government agents, among the several tribes, during the year past, maybe thus summed up, as follows : The dissensions among the Senecas in New York respecting their forms of government are not yet quieted, but steps have been taken which it is believed will lead to an early and pacific adjustment. The Michigan Indians generally are doing well—becoming sober, orderly, and industrious —their agricultural efforts crowned with re ward, while education is making commendable progress. The same remarks bold good of the Oneidas, in Wisconsin. The removal of the Menomonees, agreeable to act of Congress, has been effected—the whole tribe now being loca ted between the Wolf and Oconto rivers. A removal of the Chippewa Agency lias been made to the Crow Wing river, west of the Mis sissippi. Some of the Chippewas still remain at their old homes, on territory ceded to the U. States, but it is thought they will soon leave, quietly. The Winnebagos are discontented with their piesent location, and want to migrate to the Crow river, and the commissioner recommends that they have liberty to do so. The Sioux, of Minnesota, have given their assent to the two treaties concluded in the sum mer of 1851. These treaties happily remove all fee i of hostile collision with the whites, in fu ture. ■ These Sioux cultivate the soil very ex tensively, and in frequent cases intermarry with the whites in the employ of the tur companies. The Omahas, a poor and peaceful tribe,on the western border of lowa, have been of late the victims, to a disgraceful extent, of the white man’s rapacity, and the hostility of more war like tribes of Indians. The appropriation from the last Congress is now applied to their relief and protection. The Kiekapoos and I^rav\s,o£ the Great Ne mendatory notice for their general good conduct. The Wyandotts, now reduced to a compara tively small number, find it difficult to manage their public affairs, and are anxious to abandon their tribal organization and become citizens of the United States. To this end, they, in com mon with many of the white population, are impatiently awaiting the establishment of a ter ritorial government over the vast region north oflhe Arkansas and west of the Missouri rivers. The Delaware Indians, distinguished for their adventurous, roving and enterprixing spirit, are steadily diminishing in consequence of their ex posure to peril, which other tribes take care to avoid. The Christian Indians, a peculiar and inter esting band once resident in Canada, whence they emigrated from Ohio, are now located on the lands of the Wyandotts, who consider them as intruders and desire their removal. The Shawness are eminently successful agri culturists. and are advancing in general impro vement. But for the baneful effects of intem perance, to which their proximity to the border settlements greatly expose them, they would soon become a highly moral and prosperous peo ple. The condition of the Pottawatonies continues substantially the same as heretofore leported.— They depend mainly for support, especially in winter, on their large annuity ; and but little or no improment is manifest in their modes of living. The localities of the Kanzas InJians, in the country about Council Grove, on the great Santa Fe road, is unfortunate for them and the whites. They are a rude and depraved tribe, and little can be done for their welfare while they re main liable to the pernicious associations that await them here. The small-pox, reinforced by inebrity and general dissoluteness, has this year dealt sternly with the Sacs and Foxes. Their numbers have been thinned by death with unsparing hand.— Agriculture is almost entirely neglected, and their attachment to old habits, encouraged by their despotic chiefs, materially retaid their im provement. The Swan, Cieek and Black River Chippe ways of the Sac and Fox agency are in a pros perous condition, though they make frequent and just complaints of the depredations of the Sacs and Foxes upon their stock. The Weas, Pporias, and Piankeshaws, of the Ossage river agency, continue to furnish evi dence of commendable industry and steady im provement. It is to be regretted that the Mia miss belonging to the same agency are not enti tled to like favorable notice. The Cherokees are embarrassed by an onerous public debr, which they are striving in good laith to discharge. For this and other public pui poses they aie anxious to sell to the United States the tract of country containing about 80,000 acres, known as the “ Cherokee Neutral Grounds;” and ’ there is much force of argument in favor of the obligation of the government to relieve them by taking back the land at the prices they were re quired to allow the United States for it when it was granted to them. By a convention, entered into in 1 $37, between the Choctaws and Chickasaws, the latter, under certain conditions and restrictions therein provi ded. became a component part of the Choctaw nation. But they are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the political connection between them and the Choctaws; and there is reason to believe that the best interests of both would be promoted by a separation of the tribes. A similar state of things exists in relation to the Creeks and Seminoles. The visit of Billy Bowlegs and other Seminoles to Washington is next alluded to. Late advices from Billy leave no doubt that his stipulation to emigrate will be adhered to. The Indians in New Mexico arc generally quiet. The Apaches, near El Paso, however, are troublesome, and a squad of mounted men are asked for to keep them in check. Arrangements are making for the removal of encroaching Indians from the territory of Texas. The Navajos give promise of abandoning their predatory habits and betaking themselves to the cultivation of the soil. Notwithstanding the Mountain and Prairie Indians continue to Buffer from the vast number of emigiants who pass through their country de stroying their means of support and scattering disease and death among them, yet those who were parties to the treaty concluded at Fort Lar amie, in the fall of 1851, have been true to their obligations, and have remained at peace among themselves and with the whites. The negotiations provided for by a late act of Congress with the Camanches. Kioways and other Indians on the Arkansas river, have been necessarily postponed until the ensuing spring. It will then be expedient to make them parties to the treaty of Fort Laramie, or to one contain ing similar provisions. The agent for the Utah Indians has recently made an expedition to the various tribes therin occupying the region west of the Great Salt Lake. The thoroughfare of travel to Ca’ifornia and Ore gon passes through their country, and the object of the expedition was to prevent a recurrence, if possible, of numerous and often fatal collisions between the emigrants and Indians. It seems to have been eminently successful, as nomuruersor robberies are reported to have been committed by these Indians during the present year. To give some idea of the immense travel along this route, and the consequent importance ofconclia ting the Indians, the agent states that in retiming to Salt Lake he passsed on each es several days as many as wagons. The Commissioner recommends to Congress some timely and efficient measures for the pro per disposition and management of the Indians in Qglifornia. Something also must be done for the Indians west of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. From the Baltimore Sun. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior. The annual report of the Hon. A. H. H. Stu art, Secretary of the Interior, fills six and a half columns of the National Intelligecer,and abounds in various interesting statistics and many im portant suggestions. The sum required for the Department in 1854 is less, by $774,302, than for 1853, and the am’t estimated for pensions shows a decrease of $580,- 193, while the public buildings will require an increase of $689,158, caused by an item of $600,- 000 for the capital extension, for which no esti mate was made this year, and for other new ob jects in Washington. The estimate for agricul tural statistics has also been increased $2,200. The report gives various statistics of the pub lic lands, embraced in the report of the Commis sioner of the Land Office, already published at length in the Sun From the report of the Commissioner of the Pension Office, to which the Secretary refers,we learn that the pensioners on the rolls of the Pen sion Office have been reduced to 18,868, and are 743 less than last year. Under the act of 18th of March, 1818, for the relief of officers and soldiers in indigent circum stances, 20,485 were pensioned, of whom 1,046 are now on the rolls; only 389 have received payment in the first and second quarters of 1852 1,168 persons were pensioned under the act of 15th May, 1828, passed for the benefit of officers and soldiers of the continental army who served to the end of the war; 128 are on the lolls ; but 42 only were paid in the first six months of the year. Pensioners under the act of June, 1832,33,066; on the lolls, 4,328 received payments; in six months, 1,495. Pensioners under the act ol July 4,1836,f0r re volutionary widows and orphans of certain vol unteers and militia troops who died inservice since 1818, number 5,163, of whom 978 remain on the rolls. The act of 7th J tily, 1838, gave five years pen sion to revolutionary widows who married be fore the Ist of January, 1794. 11,400 were en rolled; 162 only have been paid in six months. Under the act of 2d February, 1848, for life or widowhood, 6000 were enrolled, and under the act of 29th July, 1848, which extended the peri odo! marriage to the year 1800, 975 were enrol led. On the rolls under both acts, 5,280 pension- era, of whom 4,209 were paid during the firstand second quarters of the year. The act of 21st July. 1848, for the widows and orphans of those killed in battle, or who perish ed by disease in the Mexican war. enrolled 1,122, while the number pensioned was 1,890. The whole number on the 1011-, under invalid acts, were 5,986, an increase of 627, compared with the last annual report; 4 232 were paid in the first six months of the y< ar. There are now on the rolls 726 invalids, enti tled to navy pensions,who receive annually $45,- 049 96. There are also 514 wi lows, who annu ally receive $101,490, and 48 orphans, who re ceive $6,138 The expenditure on account of pensions since the last report, is about $1,500,000, embracing many claims allowed before the close of the last but paid within the present year. .More stringent measures are called for to pre vent fraud in procuring pensions In some parts of the country the business has been reduced to a system, and bodies ol men have confederated for the purpose of carrying into effect their ne farious schemes, by means so artful as to render detection almost impossible. The cost of printing the sixth census was $178,805. Lippincott & Co., now propose to publish 10,000 copies of the statistics of the seventh census, in two folio volumes of 1,000 pages each, on fine type and paper, weli bound with Russia backs, for the aggregate sum of $49,500, being less than one-third of the amount paid for the publication of the sixth census. The progress of the extension of the Patent Office, and the great importance of the Bureau, are referred to, and to show the increase of the patent business, it is stated that in 18.36 the whole numbei of models in the office was 1,069; in the beginning of 1851 they had incraased to 17,257, and now reach nearly 23,000. Various suggestions for the benefit of the business are made. Much space is devoted to the Mexican boun dary survey, and the causes which, a few months ago, led to its suspension. The progress of the extension of the Capitol is also and the Cabins* t/str'uigryr^®BS timated that it wonk! -equire the expenditure wP” about $300,000 including the purchase of neces sary ground. In making this recommendation, the Secretary says: “ The cost of house-rent, provisions, fuel, and indeed of all the necessaries of life in Washing ton, has risen to such a degree as to require the most rigid economy to enable the members of the Cabinet and the Vice Presieent to live with in their incomes. As far as my observation has extended, few, if any of them, have been able to do so. This evil is increasing every year, and if measures are not adopted to arrest it, the day is not far distant when men of moderate means, but in all respects fitted to serve the public in high and responsible places, will be deterred from accepting them by the heavy pecuniary loss to which they must inevitably be subjec ted.” The Secretary concludes by calling the parti cular attention of Congress to the affairs ot the District of Columbia, and hopes the necessary appropriations will be made without delay to commence the work of introducing an ample supply of pure water into Georgetown and Washington. The erection of one or more per ment bridges across the Potomac, adapted not only for ordinary travel, but for the passage of railway trains, is also urged, and the necessary appropriation recommended. A grant by Con gress of a portion of the public lands in aid of public schools in the District of Columbia, re commended by the Commissioner of Public Lands, the Secretary says, commands his cordial approbation. [Tjlegraphed to the Baltimore S«n.] Arrival of the Steamer Arctic. New-York,Dec. 14 —9 P. M. The American mail steamer Arctic has just reached her wharf, bringing dates from Liverpool to the Ist of December, and from London to the 30th of November. She brings 71 passengers. The Arctic passed a ; steamer, supposed to be the Baltic, on Monday, in lat. 43 03, long. 66 56.—• The steamer Africa arrived out on the night of the 29th. • England.—The Earl of Derby has announc ed toimally in Parliament the determination of the government to adhere to the principles of free ttade. Parliament intended to adjourn on the 10th inst., for a recess of nine weeks. The ladies of England convened in meeting at the mansion of the Duchess of Southerland,on the 29tb, to adopt a memorial to the ladies ot the U. States on the subject of the abolition ol slavery. It was attended by many ol the highest ranks in England. In consequence of the extraordinary activity in the French navy yards, government has re solved to call for an additional 5,000 men lor the I British navy. 1 Disastrous floods have again occurred in vari ous parts of England, doing great damage. There had also been great loss on the coast of Scotland, among the shipping, in consequence of violent gales. The friends of the proposed London, Liverpool and North American Steam Sere w-Ship Compa ny have appealed to the Government in its favor. Advices from Burmah announce the capture of Prome with but little loss on either side. Advices from Paris state that negotiations are nearly completed between England and France for the negotiation of the tariffs of the two coun tries. A select committee has been appointed in the House of Commons to investigate the charge of bribery at the Derby elections, in which the Se cretary at War, Lord Beresford, is implicated. Measures have been taken by government to put the naval depots at Jamaica, Antigua, &c., in a state of defence. The steamer Adromache had arrived in the Thames, from Sydney, with 42 ounces of gold. The Bank of England is now selling Ameri can eagles at 765. 7id. France.—The Empire was to be formally proclaimed on the 2d of December. On the next day the Senate will be convoked to settle the civil list of the Emperor, and salaries of the members of the Imperial family. Some of the legitimists had resigned in the de partments, in compliance with the manifesto of Henry V. The report is confirmed that Henry V. is about to issue a manifesto to all the Pincess of Europe, pretesting against the usurpation of Bonaparte. The Municipal Council ot Strausburg has vo ted to present to the Emperor the Castle of that citv for the Imperial residence. Markets. Liverpool. Dec. I.—Cotton—Prices have ad vanced under the influence of the steamer Afri ca’s news over i but scarcely jd. Middling and lower qualities have improved most. The sales to-day are 12.000 bales, of which specula tors took 6,000. The sales of the last three days have been 25,000 bales, of which speculators took 9,000. The quotations are—Fair Orleans, 6i; Middling Orleans, 5J to SJ; Fair Mobile, 6; Middling Mobile, 5j ; Fair Uplands, 51 ; Mid dling Uplands, 5J to sj. The imports of the last three days have been 24,000 bales. Brown & Shipley’s Circular, of the Ist says, that the accounts ol the frost in the cotton dis tricts, received by the Africa, have given a bet ter tone to the cotton market, and prices of low and middling qualities have rallied an id to Jd from the previous extreme depression. The sales to-day aie 12,000 bales, of which speculators took 6,000 at the following rates: Middling Or leans, 5J ; Uplands, sf. Sales of the week 25,000 bales. Mr. Wadley.—We understand that Mr. Wadley, Superintendant of the Western and At lantic Railroad, is about to retire from that office, and return to the management ot the affairs jj)' the Ce n t-rn 1 II fl i thority” but we have reasoirto place confidence in the correctness of the report. We do not know how others may regard it, but it strikes us that the present is rather an inopportune mo ment for the Superintendant to throw up his of fice. Since the commencement of the new ad ministration, Mr. Wadley has planned and set on foot a vast amount of important work con. nected with the State Road, the most of which has but just been commenced, and which would, seem to require his further superintendance, du ring its progress 1 in order to be carried forward to successful completion. Mr: Wadley’s resig nation, at this time, can hardly fail to cause con siderable embarrassment to the affairs of tho Road and prove seriously detrimental to the in • terests of the State. — Manta Intelligencer, 16th inst. Death of James Marsh, Esq.—We are pain ed to announce the death ot this old and estima ble citizen, who departed this life yesterday, in the 81st year of his age. He was for upwards of half a century a resi lent of Charleston and, through the whole of his long and active career, has sustained a character for intelligence and in tegrity that won lor him the respect of the en tire community.— Charleston Mercwy, 17th inst. Texas B ee Hives.—A Gonzales correspondent of the Southern Star describes a bee-hive near the Coloiado river, as follows: About 250 feet, from the water’s edge, there is a beehive ; the hole in which the bees enter is about two feet' n diameter, and is worn smooth by this busy tribe, who, perhaps, have worked here uninterrupted for ages ; until this summer, when a man let himself down byway of ropes, and robbed these innocent workers ol about thir ty gallons of their hard earnings. “O! justicia! O! nwres! The Health of our City.—During the past week no case of Cholera Morbus has occurred, and no deaths. The health of Columbus was never better than it is at this time, in tact the Doctors say that it is distressingly healthy.— Columbus Fnquirer, lithinst. Hold Him ?—Some fellow has got off the fol lowing: Why should physicians have a greater horror ot the sea than anybody else? Because they are more liable to see-sickness. A German chemist has discovered that there iif sugar in tears,