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By B. ELLIS & CO. Volume XVIII. Cimts mv) Btntmd. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL is published every TUESDAY* THURSDAY and SATURDAY EVENING, THE WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL Is published every TUESDAY MORNING. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the P. O, TERMS: ‘TRI-WEEKLY, Five Dollars per aunum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum,in advance. E3F” Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Dol lar per square, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for every subsequent insertion A liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertise ments. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Adminisirators, Execu tors and Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the mouth, between the hours of ten in forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situate. Nostices ot these sales mu :t be given in a public gazette tony days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of Personal property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell Lana or Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration must be published thirty days—for Dismiesion from Administration, momnly six months—for Dismission from Guardianship,forty days. Rules tor Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers lor the lull space ot three months—for compelling titles from Exocutors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv 3ii by the deceased, the full space ol three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. BUSINESS CARDS. PRINTING AND BOOS BINDING. HAVING connected with our Printing Office, a full and completeassortment of Book Binder’s toolsand tock,and also added to our Printing materials, we arenow prepared to execute,in good style and with despatch,every kind of work in either branch of the business, on the best terms. BLANK tVORK, of every description, with or with out printing, made to order, in the neatest manner. WARE HOUSE PRINTING, Receipts, Drafts, Notes, Bills of Lading, &c., &c., executed neatly and promptly, and bound in any desired style. RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT BLANKS, oiall kinds got up,with accuracy and dispatch. Bill Heads, Cards, Circulars, Hand Bills. Pasters, Programmes, &c.,&c.,printadin theshox est notice and in the best stylo. Magazine and Pamphlets put up in every style of binding. Bookso all kindsrebound strongly and neatly. LOMAX .V ELLIS. Columbus,Apr il IS l&M B.Y. MARTIN. J. J. MARTIN. MARTIN & Attorneys at Law, eexurnurrs, ga. Office on Broad Street—OverGuuby &'Daniel. Columbus, Jan.‘J, 1857. w&twlv. IIAUILTOA A: PL,AWE, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, CO jUMBUS, ga. THE above firm have renewed their Copartnership, and will devote the most assiduous attention to the pro fession in the counties ot‘ Muscogee, Harris, Talbot and Chattahoochee,in this State,and in Russell county, Ala. Office, front room over E. Barnard’s Store. January 28,1857. w&twtf. M. B. WELLBOR j; JERE . N. WILLIAMS. WELLBORN & WILLIAMS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Clayton, Alabama. WILL give prompt attention to the collection of all claims entrusted totheircare in Barbour county. Let 4 wtwtim MARION BETIIUNE, attorney at law, TALBOTTOJT, Talbot County, Ga. October 24th, 1856. wtwtf. W. S. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. C U S S E T A, Chattahoochee County, Ga. Gives his entire attentionto the practice in Chattahoochee adjoining counties. apiJG—wtwly* BAUGH & SLADE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WILL practicelaw In Muscogeeantl thcadjoinimcountlea of Georgia and Alabama. or Office over Bank of Columbus, Broad Street. ROBERT BAITOII. J. J • SLADE. Columbus. Ga. March 27 1857. wtwtf MOBLEY & FARLEY, ATTORNEYS A T LA W, HAMILTON, GEORGIA. Hamilton, Geo. Feb. 4, 1858. wtwy * GRICE & WALLACE, MTOBEHTffS AiT BUTLER, GEORGIA. WILL give prompt attention all business entrustedj'to then). W L GRICE. VVM.B. WALLACE. December l —wtf W. A. BYRD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CUTHHERT —Randolph County, Ga. WILL practice n the Pataulaand Southwestern Circuits All business entrusted to his care will received promp Itention. inayl9—wly. WM. M. CHAMBERS. WM. M. BOBBINS. J. A. ROBBINS. Chambers, Robbins & Robbins, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, EUFAULA, ALABAMA. WILL nractice in the counties of Barbour, Pike, Henry Coffee, Pike, Dale and Russell. feb I—wly WILLIAM GORDON, A TTOR A EY AT LA W NEWTON, ALA. IVILL attend promptly to all business confided to his ’* care in the counties of Dale, Henry, Coffee and Pike. February 27,1858—w6m. otdmas w. ATTORNEY AT LAW, PRESTON, Webster Coantjr, Ga. WILL practice in'the counties of Clay,Chattahoochee, Webster, Early, Randolph, Stewart and Sumter. Particnlar attention given to collecting and remitting. January 27,1857 —wtf. T J, GUN N, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GA. WILL attend promptly to all busineess entrusted to him January 26,1858—w1y. ELAM & OLIVER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA. WlLLpracticeinthecountie9of Marion, Macon, Stewart Taylor, Chattahoochee, Kinchaioonee, and any of the mavberequired. WH. D. ELAM. THADEUB OLIVER. November 10. wtf REDDING & SMITH, Attorneys at Law, PRESTOS, WEBSTER COUNTY, GA. rS’-Wiil practice in PataulaCircuit and adjoining counties. L. it. REDDING. A. J. SMITH. Pres.cr, February 1858—wtim, s.s. STAFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAV, BLAKELY,EARLY COUNTY. GA. apg wtf. RA.IFORD & BURTS, ATTOB.3CBXS AT JAW: CU S BE T A, Chattahooche Comity, Ga. Will practice iu Chattahoochee and adjoining counties and give prompt attention to the collecting ot all cairns entrusted to their care. ?P ri r, 3 ,77w,1?’ E. G. RAIFORD. DUNCAN 11. BURIS. R. A. TURNIPSEED, A TTORNE Y AT LA W , CUTUBERT, Randolph [County, Ga. HAVING removed from Cusseta, to Cuthbert Ran dolph county, will give prompt attention to all busi ness entrusted to his care. ap2< wffi PARKER & PARKER, ATTORNEYS A T LA W , COLQUITT. Miller Comity, Georgia. WILL give their entire attention to the practice in Bouth iV western Georgia; will also give prompt atteutton to the collection of all claims entrusted to their care inthe ‘o I lowing counties: Baker,Calhoun,Olay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Lee,Miller, Mitchell. Randolph, Terrell and Worth. February I, 1658- wtf. • BED-STEADS. A LARGE lot of very neat low post Bedsteads, as low as $4,00. Forsaleby J. H. SIKES, Columbus, March 4. 36 Broad Street jggagfr J. FOGLE & SON, dentists, Office on Randolph Street,near Broad, Columbus,Ca Columbus, May 9,1867. wtwtt WM. F. LEE, D. D. S. SURGEON. OFFICE corner of Broad and Randolph Streets, Columbus, Georgia. December 17,1856—w&twtf Bacon! Bacon! WK lave now onhand and willbe conltant.y receiving. Prime Tennessee Bacon-Hams, Bides mild Shoulders, which wo will sell at the lowest Commission Houseprices. Mar2—w&twtf E. BARNARD fc CO. TO THOSE INDEBTED. lire hereby give notice that all claims due us, and not paid VV or satis actoriiy arranged, prior to the next return day of the respective counties in which tho parties reside, will be sued. None shall be slighted. . mar2o—wtwtf. E. BARNARD & CO. j CO-PARTNERSHIP. TIIE undersigned have this day associated themselves together under the name and style of AYER & GRAY, Auction & Commission Merchants, and respectfully solicit a share of business —pledging them selves to a faithful discharge of all business committed to their care. Liberal advances made on consignments. A. K. AYER, RICHARD M. GRAY. Columbus, Jan, 1, 1857. jan6wtwly FOR SALK. - . lam now offering for sale one of the most desirable residences in or n*ar Columbus. It Je situated just outside ofthe East Common, near the residence of jkJkJLMaj. John H.Howard. The lot contains six acres. For further particulars, apply to me at Upatoie,or Charly.J Wiliiamsat Columbus. June 20 —twtf C. B. HOWARD. DISSOLUTION. THE copartnership heretofoie existing under the name and style of MARCUS & RAGLAND was thisday dissolved by mutual consent. Van Marcus will continue the same bu siness at the old Stand, and will attend to all settlements of the late Arm. april I, 18*58—twtf THE LIVES unratMUMrom PREPARED BY DR. SANDF OR D, COMPOUNDED ENTIRELY FROM GUMS. IS one of thebest Purgative and fLiver Medicine now before the public, that acts as a Cathartic, easier, milder, and more effectual than any other medicine known. It is not on ly a catharlic, but a Liver Remedy, acting first on the Liver to eject it s*m or bid matter, then on the Stomach amt Bowels to carry off tlie Imatter, thus accomplishing two purposes ef fectually, without any of the painful feelings experienced in the operation of most ’Chathartics. It strengthens the system at the same time that it purges it; and when taken daily in moderate doses, will strengthen and build up with unusual rapidity. The*Liveris one of the fr/V principal regulators of the human {body; and when performs its functions well, the powers ofthe system fully developed.Thestomach is almost eniirely dependent (on the healthy action ofthe Liver forthe proper ipeform-j ii lance of its functions,wbenthe stomach is at faulttheDoweUjGr, Jare at fault, and the whole system suffersin consequence of one organ—the Liver— having ceased |to doits duty (U; For t the disease of that or gan.onejof the <proprietor;r\ w / >.haß made it his study, in a practice of more than (years, to find some remedy wherewith to counteracttbcj many derangementsto which it is liable. To prove that this ‘remedy it} # at last found any persontrou bled with Liver Com-! (plaint, in any of its forms, has but to try a,bottle, audj conviction is certain. These gums remove “alf * morbid or bad matter fiom the system,supplying in their (place a healthy flow of bile, invigorating the Stomach. > ‘>]{ causing food to digest well, purifying tiie blood, jjgiving tone andhealth to the wholemachinery, removing) cause ol the disease.— effecting a radical cure. Bilious attacks artj, .Jcured, and, what is Better,‘prevented, b)( occasional use ofthe Liver Invigorator. j, L One dose after eating issuf-|M(flcient to relieve the stomach and prevent ‘ihe food from! and souring. Only onedose taken before! jretiring, prevents Night mare. ii t! Only one dose taken atjrjlj night, loosens the bowels gently, and cures Cos-( k jtiveness. Olio Jose taken after eactf ‘meal willcure Dyspepsia dose, of two tea-( (spoonsful will always relieve Sick Headache. ) ( One dose taken for fe- jmale obstruction remove the cause Tof the disease, and):. Imakesa per ect cure. Only onedose immediately sryr) relieves cholic, while One dose often repeated is( £-\ J a sure cure for Cholera Morbns,andapreventaiiv<f jtof Cholera. Only one bottle (needed to thiow out ofthe system the’effects of medi-j, j (cine after a long sickness. £3f"One bottle taken fori (Jaundice removes ail sal lowness or unnatural color) from the skin. One dose taken a shorn yjjtime before eatiDg {gives vi gor to the appetiieandmaken food digest well. One dose often repeated? Chronic Diar rhoea, in its worst forms, j while SUM Jtf EE and Bowel complaints yield) to the first’dose. One or two doses cures Jtacks caused by Worrasin Children: there is no surer,) safer, or speedier remedy in the world, as itfnever falls.) A few bottles cures! J; Dropsy, by exciting the absorbants. j ‘J ( We take pleasure in recom * mending this medicine as a preventive for Ague, Chill, Fever, and all Fevers of a Type, It operates witbeertainty,and thousandsj ;are willing to testify to its wonderful virtues. ). : All who use it are giving their unanimous testimony in its favor. , Mix water in the mouth with the Invigorator and swallow both together. THE LIVER INVIGORATOR, Is a scientific Medical Discovery, and is daily working cures almesttoo great for belief. It cures asifby magic, even the first dose giving benefit, and seldom more than one bottle is required to cure any kind of Liver Complaint, from the worst jaundiceor dyspepsia to a’ common headache, allot which are the result ot a diseased liver. Price Ono Dollar per Bottle. SANFORD & CO. Proprietors, 345 Broadway,New York. WHOLIESAI> 1C AO ENTS. Barnes & Park New York; T. W. Doytt & Sons, Philadel phia; M. S. Burr 4- Cos. Boston; fH. H. Hay & Cos. Portland; John D. Park, Cincinnati; Gaylard fc Hammond, Cleveland; Fahnstock U ’Davis Chicago; O.J. Wood fe. Cos. St. Louis Geo.H. Keyser,Pittsburg; B.S, Hance, Baltimore. Andre tailed by all Druggists. Sold Wholesale and Retail by J. S. PEMBERTON & CO., BROOKS & CHAPMAN, DAN FORTH H NAGEL, May2o—witwly and all Drugggists. “the union of the states and the sovereignty of the states.” COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1858. U. S. PUBLIC PRINTING, ETC. Mr. George Taylor, from the Select Committee on Printing, made the following— Report The Select Comtnitte appointed under the resolu tion of the House of Representatives of Decem ber 9, 1857, to examine into the laws in relation to the printing for the House of Representatives, the prices paid therefor, and the duties of the public printer; and which was further directed, by resolution ofDecember 18, 1857, to inquire into the prices paid for the binding ot Congress, and the laws regulating the same, and into the prices paid for engraving, and for the paper used for the printing of Congress, and for the publication and binding of the Congressional Globe; and which was further instructed, by reso lution of January 19, 1858, to examine into and report to the House what change, if any, is re quired in the existing laws providing for and governing the public printing connected with the Executive Departments or Bureaus, beg leave to make the following report: It became necessary to the committee, in order properly to discharge the duty assigned them, critically to examine, in connection with “the laws in relation to the priming ofthe House,” the man ner in which the printing, binding and engraving of Congress is at pressnt done, and ascertain its char acter, whether efficient and economical or the re verse, with the general managemeut of those great interests; and, if possible, to devise a system by which the public work in those several depart ments can be done in a way to obviate any defects which might be found at present to exist. Under the existing laws, the Senate and House of Representatives for each Congress elects, each respectively, a public printer to do the printing of each at certain established rates of compensation. Each house has its binding executed under the di rection of a committee on printing; and for each Congress there is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent ofthe Senate, a superinten dent of public printing, who, very much in the ca pacity of a steward of Congress, acts on its behalf in purchasing paper, delivering the same to the public printer, and keeping an account thereof; in receiving from Congress the manuscripts and other matter ordered to be printed; delivering the same, to the printer or engraver; in receiving the same, when executed, from those parties and from the public binders; inspecting work dor.e, and in cer tifying the accounts therefor. How under these arrangements,have the printing, binding, engrav ing. &c„ ot Congress and the Executive Depart ment been done’ Have they been done well, and with a just economy ? And are the established rates for printing and binding either higher or low er than the public interests require ? These ques tions ‘will be best answered by a statement of tacts. PUBLIC PRINTERS. The public ‘printer elected by the 33d Congress, and the public printer ofthe Senate for the 34th Congress, respectively, contracted with a third party to do the required work, reserving to them selves a large per centage, which was as a nett reward or profit for simply taking, under the name of public printer, the printing ofCongress, and sub letting it to another who did, and is still doing the work for them. The public printer elected by the House for the 34th Congress, did the required House printing himself; and, in addition, as sub-contractor under the Senate printer, did the work ofthe Sen ate for that Congress, ns he did all of the printing for the public printer ofthe 33d Congress; and he is now doing the work for the public printers of the Senate and House of the present Congress.— The same party is printing the post office blanks as a sub-eontraotoi under the gentlemen having that work to do. The per centage paid by the s üb-contractor re ferred to, to the various public printers designated —emoluments of their mere sinecure offices-amoun ted to more than $21,000 during the month of January last, and will average nearly $20,000 per month. This includes no allowance of per-centage upon the House printing for the 34th Congress; the sub-contractor mentioned, as public printer of that body, did the work himself, and thus was saved payment for privilege. The gross amount thus paid, as a per centage or bonusjfor the privi lege of doing the work, by the sub contractor to the government officials, varies but little from $240- 000 per year; at the same time he realizes, over and above that large profit, a handsome reserve profit for himself. The printing for neither the 32d nor the 34th Congress is yet completed, but is still in course of execution ; therefore, the aggregate of per centage named as being paid by the sub-contractor to the officials is the per centage on that printing, on the printing for the present Congress, and for the prin ting of post office blanks, which is seperate from the congressional printing, and amounts to nearly $50,00 per annum THE PUBLIC BINDING. In the matter of the binding of Congress and of the departments a similar state of facts has been found to exist. The House binding for the thirty fourth Congress may be taken as a fair illustration of tiie manner in which that work generally lias been done. That binding was contracted to be done at 22 percent, less than former prices. The gentleman who secured that contract from the House Committee on Printing sold the con tract, or re-let the work to be done to a party in this city for the consideration of 20 per cent, on the gross amount of binding done, and this sub-con tractor again sub-let his contract to another or third party in this city for the ’consideration of one.half of the profits on the work done, after the deduction of the 20 per cent., which was reserved to the pub lic binder or original contractor. Upon information which your committee are not disposed to question, is believed that the 20 per cent, reserved to the public binder has already amounted to $33,000, and that the second or sub contractor has received a very considerable sum out of profits which have been made on the work after the payment of the 20 per cent• to the original contractor. And it is but simple justice to the third party, or second sub contractor, who did tiie w’ork, to add, that he has been so well satisfied with the residium of the profits, the one-half remaining after the payment of the 20 per cent , that he has felt it his duty to do the work in a better manner than much of that here tofore done for Congress. This particular illustration has been selected, not with a view to find fault with the first contracting party, but as aptly showing the general practice of parties assuming to do the public work, who obtain contracts and then use mechanics to execute them under a reserve from the actual operatives of a large per centage, as profit to themselves. Tho binding ofthe Senate for the 34th Congress was given to a gentleman ot this city at rates ten per cent, higher than the prices allowed for the House binding for that Congress. Under the cir cumstances, and after what has been said relative to the profits made by the various parties interes ted in the House binding, it would be useless to in quire into the exact gross profits of the Senate bin der, who your committee believe is not a practical mechanic in tho business into which his contract led him. The binding of the Senate for that Con gress, already paid for, amounts to about $150,000, and much yet remains to he done. The gross amount of binding for the 33d Con gress is $538,458 59, that for the 34th Congress, $384,686 17. In additiont to congressional works, there is a large amount of binding annually done for tiie dif ferent executive departments and bureaus. The prices paid in the departments and bureaus are much higher, in comparison, than those established by Congress. The binding done for the depart ments and bureaus is of a different character, and it is done without any contract, and with little or no regard to economy. The cost of the blank books used annually in the departments is large, and in almost every instance the prices paid for them are from thirty to fifty per cent, more titan such books can be procured for. There is no competi tion for this work, and no general contract is made for its execution. It is a grand monopoly for a few individuals, who leap therefrom enormous profits. The following letter which your committee re ceived from Air. Hein, disbursing agent in the Coast Survey office, bears directly on this point: Coast Sunvey Office, Fehr uaay 2, 1858. Sir : I enclose copies of the accounts paid by me during the year 1857, for blank books, binding, printing blanks and formulae, amounting to $1,066 10. The work was done by Mr. H. P. Lewis, and Mr. George S. Gideon, in Washington, and given to those gentlemen by direction f < -txi the Treasury Department to that effect. Finding that some kinds ofb'Ank books could be procured from Baltimore, of much better quality and lower prices than here I ordered some front Messrs. Alurphy & Cos. Their accounts show that their prices for better work are from 25 to 50 per cent, lower than is paid here for similar work ; but on complaint being made by the book-binders in Washington, no further orders have been given to Baltimore. No contract has been entered into for the blank books and printing of formulae. They are fre quently changed, and only such quantities are ordered from time to time as are necessarily re quired. The expense for binding, &c., has beea paid out ofthe Coast Survey appropriation, being consid ered a contingent expenditure for that work. Yours, respectively, SAAIUEL HEIN, Disbursing Agent Coast Survey. Prof. A. D. Bache, Superintendent Coast Surrey, Washington, D. C. The manner in which the binding is done lor the Department of the Interior furnishes a fair il lustration of the general plan adopted by the depart ments, with exception ofthe Treasury Department in which a private binder is employed at $lB per week, assisted by a boy at sls per week. Aitich of the binding of that department is done in this way at a saving of from thirty to fifty per cent, on the entire amount. The binding in the Department of the Interior is very fully described iu a letter received by the committee from the Secretary, the Hon. Jacob Thompson, from which liberty is taken to extract the following: “No contract or agreement has been made or entered into by this department on account of binding or printing for the present year. Such work is ordered from time to time as required, and is paid for according to rates established by the Superintendent of Printing during the few months the subject was placed under his supervision by the act of 3d March, 1855.—(Laws U. S’, vol. 10, p. 653.) Much of it is of such a character that it must be done in tire building of tho department, and more than a year tince a room was assigned to, and fitted up by the proprietor of the ‘Union’ for that class of work. Under these circumstances, and because the work has been done to our satis faction, and at prices certified to us to be reasona ble by the Superintendent of Printing, I have not been satisfied that the public good would be sub served by giving it to other parties, although they have proposed to undertake it for less. Proposi tions to this effect have been submitted by the fol lowing gentlemen, viz; “1. By C. Alexander, under date of 15th July, 1857, who offered to do the work for 33 per cent less than the rates then allowed. “2. By C. Alexander, under date of 15th’ Sep tember, 1857, renewing his previous offer, or it the department would enter into contract with him to do its binding, &c.,to 4th Alarch, 1861, at the rates then allowed, offering to pay into the Treasury of the United States, for its use, ten thousand dol lars. “3. By William Pettibone, under date of the 15th inst., proposing to undertake the work at 20 percent, less than the rates heretofore established, and now paid. I enclose copies of these proposi tions.” The binding done for the Executive departments and bureaus, including the printed heads in some instances, for the year 1857. amounted in gross to the sum of $77,500. This does not include the work done by the private binder in the Treasury Department. Owing to the change in our consu lar system, by which the amount in the State De partment was greatly increased, the gross amount above stated is probably more than a fair average. The average would not fall below $60,000 per year. THE ENGRAVING Tiie engraving for Congress and the depart ments is done in a manner not dissimilar to that of the printing and binding. It has been satisfacto rily ascertained by ihe committee tiiat it can be done fully thirty-three and one-third percent, less than it is done at present. The wood engravings or cuts for the mechanical part of the Patent Office Reports for 1856 may be taken in illustration of a general manner. The engravings cost the govern ment per page of 33J inches, $26 50 for the work alone, tiie drawing being $5 per page, wood sl, and tiie electrotyping $2 per page additional. The original contractor had a large portion of the work done in New York. He sold his contract to a second party at a very fair per centage tor his services as broker, and the second contractor sub contracted with a third party, the unfortunate ar tisan who did the work at sl6 per page. The engraving, wood, drawing .and electrotyping cost the government $33 50 per page ; but in making up the 513 pages paid for, they extended to 534 pages, which reduced the average cost to $32 10 per page as made up. The whole ought not to have cost more than $22 to $25 per page. The cost of the Arden horses in the agricultural report for 1856 was $5 per hundred plates, for those furnished to the House, which, for the 211- 530 copies, cost $10,576 50. This, your commit tee are advised, was from twenty-five to thirty per cent, more than a most liberal price for the plates. As an evidence of this fact, your committee need only to state that.the same plates were furnished to the Senate for $3 75 per hundred, although tiie Senate required|only one-fourth as, many copies.—• Tiie same remarks may be made respecting the South Down sheep, and the strawberry plates, each off which cost the same amount. The cost ofthe four colored plates, arid the wood euls of birds, &c., in tiie agricultural report of 1856, for the Senate cop ies, 56,420, together with the paper on which they were printed, was $28,000 94. For 211, 530 cop ies for the House the c05t,5147,199 64. The largest size of wood cuts in the fifth volume ofthe Pacific railroad reports of surveys cost the government $45 each; but your committee are in formed by responsible and reliable parties that they ought to have been done for from S2O to $25 each. The investigations which your committee have made authorize them to say that a deduction equal to that so shown to have been possible might and shonld have been made upon the engravings generally, with the single exception of that done on the report of the coast survey officer, which is at present executed in that office under the di rection and supervision ot the head of that bureau. At first, Professor Bache, in conformity with the general practice, gave out the work by contract; but finding it done so badly, and at such high rates, he abandoned the contract s ystern and commenced having it done under his own immediate supervi sion by"artisans employed by himself. The results have fully justified the experiment. His work is much better done and at far less expense. The whole amount of the cost of engraving, lithographing, and electrotyping, for the 33d Con gress is $829,858 25. For the 34th Congress it is $351,824 62. The saving of but twenty per -ent. on these large amounts, more than which it was possible to have made, would have left with the government an aggregate of $237,342 57 ; which sum could have been used much more profitably in promoting tiie interests of the meritorious artisan. As it was, this class was undoubtedly.compelied to do the work at the smallest price, while the politician and speculator were paid a premium for their suspi cious connection with the work. In order to arrive at the most certain information upon this subject, a member of your committee for warded to the firm of \V. H. Arthur & Co.—one ofthe most prominent and responsible houses in that business, in connection with blank books and stationery, in the city of New York—copies of works containing samples of the engraving, litho graphing, and electrotyping, referred to, with a re quest to have the same examined by artists, to ascertain what similar work could be done for, and communicate the results to the committee. From their letter in reply the following extract is made: “We regret exceedingly that we were not in possession of the precise points upon which you desired information, but we presume your inves tigation thus far has elicited facts which cannot well fail to satisfy you that a change in the gov ernment’s method ofhaving its work done is im peratively demanded. “We are satisfied from our own knowledge that, under the present system, government has paid for some works issued by it prices abundantly suffi cient to have had the work exocuted in a manner far superior to what it has been, and yet the arti san doing the work (being the third or fourth re move from the real contractor) is generally so poorly compensated for his labors that he has no incentive to do his work well. “With scarcely an exception, the works now ex hibited have been condemned by many art.sts who have examined them as being unfit to be issued by the government; and they account for this by averring that very frequently the contracts pass through a number of hands before they reach the party who finally does the work, and who receives a price so diluted from the original contract price that it is possible for him to furnish creditable work for the compensation given. It is further alleged that in many cases contracts are awarded to parties who, although engaged in the business, have really very little kuowledge of the work which they undertake to perform, but who, under force of what appears to be a natural desire to prefer govern ment to all other work, are constrained to take the work, at prices which not only do not compensate them, but degrade and demoralize the trade or profession to which they belong; and the entertain ment of this view by our first class artists deters them front entering into competition with a class who have much to gain, and little, if anything, to loose. “All the points contained in your communication have been fully laid before all parties desiring in formation, as also every facility extended to those desiring to make estimates, even, in one or two cases, that of allowing them to be taken away from the store. “But there was evidently no disposition on the part of any who had performed any part of the work to disclose the prices they had received for it, except in one or two instances, and in those cases we ascertained the fact that the work had reached them after passing through three or four hands, at a price at least one huudred pier cent.— less than the work was known to have cost the government. This state of tacts had become so notorious that but a few months since a large body of operatives of this city held a public meeting, first to petition the government to change its mode of having the work done, and next to refuse to al low men to work with them who suffered them selves to be employed on government work taken by their employers at such ruinously low prices; and a bouse in this city, heretofore largely engaged on government work, has resolved to do no more unless as the original and not as sub-contractor.— We can readily conceive how the committee can arrive at the absolute cost ofthe work to govern ment, but to arrive at the price paid to the various parties for doing the work or furnishing the mate rials is not so easily achieved, from the fact of their unwillingness to disclose the manner of their ob tabling the work and the terms on which they per form it. “The final point contained in your letter, viz: ‘that yon desire to arrive at the best modeot doing this work, so ns to secure justice both to the gov ernment and to ‘the parties engaged in the various branches of business - ’ With these facts and in formation of the same tenor which you have prob ably elicited from other sources before you, the necessity of an utter abandonment of the present system, and a resort to some better mode, would seem to be necessary. Government does not re quire, does not ask for cheap work ; what it re quires, and what it should insist upon having, is good work ; and this can only be obtained by deal ing with the producer directly, and without the intervention of other parties. Government has its bureas for the regulation and disposition of affairs of no greater importance than this subject of the public printing has become. Remove the disposi tion of this description of patronage from the con trol ofJSenate'and House committees, and place it in charge of a competent person who shall be respon sible to Congress for the quality and cost of the work, and who shall be restrained by statute from receiving bids for any description of work from persons not actually engaged in the business for which they present themselves in competition. If we have indulged in a line of remark which you may deem uncalled for, we beg you to ascribe it to our earnast desire to do all in our power to serve you in your very praiseworthy undertaking of re forming what we believe to be one of the greatest abuses existing under our government.” PAPER FOR THE PRINTING The paper used by the government is now pro cured by the Superintendent of Public Printing, under the provisions ofthe law of 1852. A faith ful observance of that law would secure the gov ernment from imposition ; but your committee have reason to believe that it is not sufficiently guar ded in its provisions. An examination ofthe pa per in the public store house has shown that lit tle attention had been given to the weight and color ofthe paper furnished under some of the contracts. When the samples, which the law requires the superintendent to keep, were deman ded, it was found that they had been used as waste paper, or for some other purpose. This, doubtless, was an over sight in tiie late superin tendent, as one ofthe clerks informed your com mittee that the samples were in the office until about the time of the appointment of your com mittee, and were then thrown aside, as the con tracts had been filled. In that particular, your committee are unanimously of the opinion that further checks and saleguards are required, both in the purchase and in the use of the paper for public printing. The present mode of supply is open to great abuses, and there are few or no sufficient checks to correct them. The gross amount of paper purchased for the printing of tho 33d Congress was $500,456 21 ; for the 34th Congress, $510,163 64. In addition, the paper for the department printing amounted to a considerable sum—about $161,209 05 during the period of tiie 34th Congress. REPORTING CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Your committee was also instructed, by the resolution ofDecember 18t.h, to inquire into the cost of the publication of the Congressional Globe. The proceedings and debates of Congress are pub lished in the Congressional Globe by Mr. Rives. He gets $7 50 per column for the reports, which are published in the form of a daily paper, and laid on the desks of the members on (the following day. These proceedings are afterwards made up in the quarto form, of which Congress orders 11,768 copies, for the use u of the members. There was formerly paid sixty cents per volume for binding the same, but now seventy-five cents are paid for binding, per volume. There are usually six vol umes to each Congress; four the long and two for the short session. In addition to the amount paid per column for reporting the proceedings, Congress has usually made an allowance to the reporters; and as a fur ther evidence of its great liberality, it resolved on the 18th,day ofAugust, 1856, to give Air. Rives one cent excess tor every five pages of the Con gressional Globe and appendix over 3,000 pages, for the long session, and the same lor all over 1,500 pages, for the short session. This gratuity amounted to $12,655 39 for the thirty-fourth Cou gress. The proprietor of the Congressional Globe has a further benefit at the public expense. He is permitted to send his paper, whether in a single sheet or in bound volumes, by mail without charge In this singular mail facility there seems to be no intrinsic propriety. 1 The gross sum paid for the Congressional Globe f for the 32d Congress, was $176,462 08 ; for the 33d Congress $186,601 94; and for the 34th Con • gress $204,482 64. This is exclusive of the bind ing, which amounted to $32,805 28, for the 32d Congress ,to $52,939, for the 33d; and to $53,939, for the 34th Congress. Air. Rives now has the contract for binding, and therefore receives annu ally, for the Globe about $257,904 28, which is the gross amount paid for tho 34th Congsess. A responsible party in this city had offered to sup ply the Globe, in the same style in which it is now furnished, at a reduction of $38,000 per annum, and to give ample security for the fulfilment of his contract, and out of the remaining profits he ex pects an ample compensation. This would be equal to a saving af $76,000 for each Congress. The attention of your commitee has been called to an item of printing, in the annual expense of advertising the mail lettings, in the papers of this city. Your committee beg leave to submit the following tabular statements of the cost ofthe prin ting, binding, paper, and engraving of Congress and of the departments, and of the amount paid for the Congressional Globe. Table “A” shows the cost of the thirty-third Congress , “B,” that of the thirty-fourth Congress; and “C,” the amount paid for the Congressional Globe. H, Rep. Com. 350 2 TABLE “A.” The total cost of printing, binding, and engraving for the 33 d Congress. First Session—Senate §182,407 91 First Session—House 321,516 05 Frist Session—Department 160,000 00 Sesoud Sesssion—Senate 236,627 64 Second Session—House 320,132 44 Second Session—Department... 160,000 00 Add Japan, 2d session, 33d Con gresss, not included in the an nual report of Superintendent 239,84 1 30 Cost of Pacific Railroad Report, including engraving, executed outside ot tire control of Con gress, and under the direction ot the Secretary ot War 1,100,000 00 To complete Gillis’ Report, 4 volumes 65,000 00 Total cost for two years. 33d Congress 2,786,296 98 Add, paid for Congressional Globe 186,601 94 Add, paid for binding Congres sional Globe 52,939 00 Grand total paid for priming, Ag 3 025,837 92 TABLE “B.” Cost of printing, engraving, and binding fur the 34 tli Congress. First and second cession—Sen ate §218,169 40 Firist and second Session — House 433,130 82 Department, lor the year 175,334 16 Third Session—Senate 249,793 56 Third Session—House 404,314.12 Department, tor the year 162,965 25 To complete Emory’s Report and Commercial Relations 200,000 00 1,873,707 31 Os this total §535,185 30 is for printing. 671,372 69 is lor paper 335 402 15 is tor engiaving. 331.747 17 is forjiinding -1,873,707 31 Add amount paid for Globe 204.5C5 28 Add amount paid lor binding the Globe 52,939 00 Total amount paid 2,13i,611 59 TABLE “C.” Amount paid for the Congressional Globe. !32d Cong 33d Cong, 34th Cong. Reporting proceedings ,$28,995 04 $29,716 95 $27,489 65 24 copies of Globe and i Appendix for each i member of the H’s j 51,336 00: 51,624 00: 52,056 00 100 copies for ti Li- ; brary i 1,000 0O 1,206 00 1,481 60 Excess of 1 cent tor eyery live pages of, Globe and Appen-! dix-fot allover3,ooo pages for long ses- j sion and ),suo for, 1 short session ——— : 12,655 39 Additional compensa tion to reporters.... j 6,900 00| 10,700 OOj 8,800 00 Same amount paid for: 88,231 04: 93,300 97 102M52 64 the Senate j 88.331 04j 93,300 97 102,482 64 1 176,462 OS. 186,001 94 204,965 28 Paid for binding the! whole number taken; byAJongress ; 32,805 28; 52,939 00 52,939 00 Total paid lor Globe | _ and Apendix.2oß.Bos 28 239,510 94| 257,904 28 To these amounts there mnst be added an an nual sum of about SIOO,OOO, paid, by the Clerk of the House ofßeresentatives and the Secretary of the Senate, for stationary, twine, and other arti cles, used in the folding rooms ol Congress in fold ing and sending away the public documents, The following statement will give some idea ofthe work done in the folding-room of the House: there were 837,667 ‘ volumes of public documents fol ded and sent to members during the thirty-fourth Congress. During the same period there were 5,594,930 speeches folded and sent out. About the same number of “each was folded in !be folding room ofthe Senate. Under the foregoing exhibits your committee deem it pertinent to state, that the result of their inquiries in relation thereto has satisfied them that a saving, (or each Congress referred to, of abont three-fourths of a million of dollars might have been effected by a proper system. From the proceeding facte your committee feel authorized to say that a very large amount of mon ey is annually paid to politicians and speculators through contracts for printing, binding, engraving, &.c., and that the mode by which the public work is now done not only presents opportunities for frauds upon the treasury, but invites and stimu lates an unnatural competition among parties who are willing to risk their teputation iu a business promising such large gains. The injurious effects of the present plan are twofold. It injures the private business of the country, as stated in the let ter ofAlessrs. Arthur &. Cos., it offers a premium for dishonest speculators, andfenables them* to op press the honest ami hard working artisan. It contributes very largely to lower Congress in the estimation of the public, and thus ithnfliets aserious wound upon our institutions. The public printing, binding, &c., together with everything else except the legitimate legislation of the country, should be removed from Congress and beyond congresional influences. The great objects of legislation, involving the prosperity and dignity of the nation, are neglected or overlooked in the pressure of petty details, or in races after congres sional officials, whose love of precedent leads them beyond the line of public economy, and sometimes that of propriety. To remove these difficulties, and to avoid the large expense of the present mode of doing the public printing, your committee recommend the es tablishment of a Bureau of Public Printing, con nected with and under the direction of, the De partment ofthe Interior. In’this way your com mittee believe that a large amount of money can be annually saved. Taking the congressional and department printing and binding and the publica tion of the proceedings and debates together, we think that forty per centum on the gross amount, at least can besaved. This amount, for one year, on the cost of the usual and necessary work, would more than pay the entire expense of establishing the Bureau. But your committee consider this’ annual saving, however important to the treasury, to be of minor consideration, when compared with the many advantages and benefits to be gained by the establishment of a printing Bureau. The demoralizing effects of the present system of public plundering would be removed, while it would relieve Congress from the imputations, PEYTON H. COLaUITT, ) Edit JAMES W. WARREN, f iaitors ’ Number 27 just or unjust, which grow out of the elec tion of’ its printers and binders. It would also relieve individual members from the importuni ties of friends interested in the publication of books by Congress. It is a well known fact that many ot the expensive but almost useless works recent ly published were forced upon Congress by par ties interested in the public printing, The system your committee recommended has been tried and adopted by almost every European nation. Their experience has given entire satis faction. In .England the work is done by public printers under the royal charter; and as the par ties are paid bv Parliament for the work at certain established rates, their system resembles our pres ent plan, but it has never given satisfaction. In 1831, Lord Nugent and J. Vernon Smith were ap pointed a select committee to investigate the sub ject. Mr. Parks, the sole manager of Air. Clowes’ great printing establishment, gave it as his opinion that a saving of one-half might be made in the expense by the establishmeht of a public printing office. The committee reported the facts, but suggested no remedy. From that time to the present there has been constant complaint, and a regular succession of select committees, but they have gained nothing but a reduction in Ihe profits ol the public printer, which was effected by a res olution reported by the select committee on the 13th. of June, 1850. Trusting in better fruits from the labor of your committee, they beg to reportfor adoption the ac companying bill, creating a Bureau in the Depart ment of the Interior for the execution of the pub lic printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, and electrotyping. All of which is respectfully sub mitted’ English Opinion of Sir. Belly’s Operations in Central America. From the City article of the London Times. The statement from Paris to-day, that a con cession for the canal to unite the Atlantic and Pa cific through the territories of Nicaragua and Costa Rica has been granted to a French Company, is surprising only from the tact of its apparently not having become known at New York where the in fluence over Nicaragua is paramount, and where there are persons who still claim rights to the route which, whatever may be their validity, are likely to be supported lor political purposes. The whole affair, however, is without practical importance, since the conditions are never likely to be fuL filled. The company are to commence the work in two yeats, and complete it in six, and the channel is to be such as to admit two of the largest ships to pass abreast. The direction moreover, is to be en tirely French, and the French Government are to have the exclusive privilege ofkeeping a couple of ships of war on the waters of ihe-route throughout the whole period occupied in its construction. A capital of £10,000,000 or £15,000,000 would not suffice, and the public can easily judge the pros, pect of any such amount being raised within the next 24 mouths on the Paris Bourse. The scheme originally proposed in London, and most unfortunately rejected, was for a canal of much more moderate dimensions or even, in the first instance,for an ordinary transit, by improving the navigation of the San Juan, and crossing the 11 miles of hilly land between Lake Nicaragua and the sea by a railway or other temporary means, until the success of the enterprise should have en couraged further expenditure. The following ‘ declaration” is appended to the grant made by Costa Rica and Nicaragua to Al. Belly for the purpose of constructing the ship canal across the Isthmus, referred to in the proceeding article : Declaration against the United States and in favor of an European Protectorate. The following is appended : The supreme chiefs of the two Republics of Nic aragua and Costa Rica assembled at Rivas, after having settled the questions which divided the two Republics, and having re-established peace and the most complete harmony between them, with a common accord and. in order to secure the indepen dence and safety ofthq two countries, as well as of all the States of Central America. Considering that a fresh invasion of American liliitiusters still menaces the independence of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in contempt ot all the laws that protect nations and that guarantee the lives and properties of citizens in civilized countries : That this invasion, officially reprobated by the Government of the United States, is preparing in reality, under its patronage as the means of definite ly taking possession of Central America, if Central America refuse to surrender itself voluntarily to the United States ; That hitherto all the official agents of the United States at Nicaragua have been accomplices and auxiliaries of the invaders, acting as masters and audaciously hoisting the flag of the. United States In all parts where, as at San Juan del Sur, the flag ofNicaragua only ought to float, and openly me nacing Central America with an inevitable annex ation : That the Minister actually accredited to Nicar agua boasts in public of peremptorily proposing this ultimatum —either the legal possession of Nic aragua by the ratification of the treaty Cass Yris sarri, or a fresh invasion of the (filibusters already organized at Mobile under the American flag; That, moreover, the Government of the United States has, according to official reports, made to that of Costa Rica, by its Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, declared that it was utterly power less to prevent fresh attempts by the filibusters, or to protect the neutrality of Central America owing to tiie insufficiency ofthelaws of the United States on this head; Considering that three years of war and devas tation have deprived the two of the means of’ resisting a fre*h attack on the part of many thousands of briyands; that the towns of Nicaragua are destroyed in whole or in part; that their commerce is annihilated ; their population is decimated; and that alter a desperate resistance, which testifies th Ir patriotism, they must suc cumb before a superiority of numbers, unless Eu rope design at last to defend them agamst attempts unprecedented in the 19th century ; They declare solemnly ; 1. That they place the Convention above men tioned, relative to the canal ofNicaragua, under the patronage of civilized Europe, by appealing to the justice and humanity of all Christian nations against the attacks of pirates and buccaneers, of whom they have been for three years the victims ; 2d. That they place the independence and na tionality of the Republics ofNicaragua and Costa Rica under the guarantee of the three Powers who have caused the independence and nationality of the Ottoman Empire to be respected, namely,Fiance England and Sardinia. 3d. That they supplicate the Governments of these three Powers not any longer to leave the coasts of Central America without detente, its rich country at the mercy of barbarians, and the future route of the trade of the w orld without a serious guarantee of liberty and neutrality. 4. That they bind themselves in the name of their people to accept from those three Powers all the conditions they may attach to their assistance, provided the public law of civilized Europe be ex tended to ail the States of America, and imposed by force, if needs be on those wiio so audaciously violate it. lu faith whereof they sign the present declara tion. RIVAS, TOMAS MARTINEZ, JUAN RAFAEL MORA. May 1, 1858. A Sad Case. —J. A. lleadly, a hitherto respec table citizen of Buffalo, has beenconvicted of pass ing counterfeit money. The announcement of the verdict of the jury shocked him, and he had no s oner re-ached the jail than he was in a raging de lirium. Mr. Headly has achieved considerable rep utation as a writer, and was once a director of a bank. He is the father ol a very interesting fami ly who are completely crushed by this sad affliction