TENNESSEE. TEXAS-(Continued.) VERMONT. Native State. Term expires. VIRGINIA. Term expires. Native State. Term expires. 1851..Hopkins L. Turney...Ten. session, $2,496, or $4,992 for his 1851..James M. Mason...... Va. Native State. 1858..John Bell.. ..Ten. traveling charges during a Cong. 1853..R. M. T. Hunter........Va. [Mileage, 2 Senators, former Mr. Rusk, $4,694 for 2 sessions. Congress, $1,586 and $1,736.] [Mileage, 2 Senators, XXIXth 1849.. William Upham........Ms. Congress, $264 and $358.] 1851..Samuel S. Phelps......Con. 1849..Isaac P. Walker.... 1853..Samuel Houston......Ten. [Mileage, 2 Senators, former 1851..Henry Dodge.. Mileage-Samuel Houston per Congress, $848 and $960.] [Mileage-uot known.] TEXAS. 1851..Thomas J. Rusk....... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ROBERT C. WINTHROP of Massachusetts, Speaker. WISCONSIN. .la. [Whigs in Italics; Locos in Roman; Natives in SMALL CAPS. After each member's name is placed that of his native state or country. In the XXIXth Congress, every member, eighteen excepted, received for wages $2,024, during the first session, and $696 for wages, were paid to those present during the second session. Speaker Davis's wages, during both sessions, amounted to $4,948 and $1,392. Each member of Congress receives $8 for every twenty miles he travels between Washington and his own residence, both coming and going. The mileage paid to a number of the members of the XXIXth Congress is stated below, and those conversant with the routes, can judge whether the compensation is an equitable one. Speaker Winthrop was elected on the third ballot, thus: Members present 218; for Winthrop 110; Boyd 64; McClelland 14; McClernand 8; others 22.] Native State. Dist. ALABAMA. Dist. Members. ILLINOIS (Continued){ Native State. Dist. Members. 1..John Gayle. ..Ala. Mileage-Hoge 2 sess. $3,084; 2..Henry W. Hilliard.......N.C. Douglass 2 sess. $2,564; Went3..Sampson W. Harris.....Ga. worth, each session. $1,445. Mc 4.. William M. Inge........N.C. Clernand, Wentworth and Rich5..George S. Houston.....Ten. ardson, reëlected, to XXXIst Con6..W.R.W.Cobb.........Ten. gress, with-1. Wm. H. Bissell; 7..F. W. Bowdon... ..S.C.S. T. R. Young; 6. Edward Mileage-Dargin 2 sess. $2,063; Baker; 7. Thos. L. Harris.] Chapman 2 do. $2,080. ARKANSAS. Ky. Robert W. Johnson... Mileage-Yell one sos. $1,708. Johnson is elected to the XXXIst Congress. CONNECTICUT. 1..James Dixon.. 2.. Samuel D. Hubbard......Con. 3..John A. Rockwell.. Con. ...Con. .Del. 4.. Truman Smith. MAINE (Continued.) 3..Hiram Belcher........... 4..Franklin Clark. 5..Ephraim K. Smart.......Me. 6..James S. Wiley..........Me. 7..Hezekiah Williams.......Vt. D.lin $575. [Elected to XXXIst Mileage each session--HamCongress-1. Elbridge Gerry; 2. N. S. Littlefield; 3. John Otis; 4. R.K. Goodenow; 5. C Sawtelle; 6 Ia. Charles Stetson; 7. Thos. J. FulIa.ler; all new.members.] .Ky. .Ms. MARYLAND. ..Pa. 1..John G. Chapman. INDIANA. Md Ky. ма Va. .N.Y. 3..T. Watkins Ligon.. .Va Md ..Md. Mileage each session-Ligon $36; Perry $184. .Pa. 1..Robert C. Winthrop.. 1..William Thompson. 2..Shepherd Leffler... Mileage per session-Dodge Mileage-Brockenborough person and Leffler are elected to $1,354, Leffler $1,440. Thomp Edward C. Cabell.. ses. $944.-Cabell is reëlected. Va XXXIst Congress. Ky. 9.. Artemas Hale. Va. 10..Joseph Grinnell.. Ky. Mann succeeded John Quincy KENTUCKY. 1..Emile La Sere:.. LOUISIANA. Ky. Ky. MICHIGAN. 1..Robert McClelland...... Pa. 2..Charles E. Stuart.......N.Y. 8..Kinsley S. Bingham....N.Y. Mileage each session-Chipman $963. MISSISSIPPI. La. 1..Jacob Thompson.. La. 2..W. S. Featherston.. Va. 3..Patrick W. Tompkins La. 4..Albert G. Brown. Mileage each ses.-Harman 4..John Wentworth.......N.H. son $1,840; Thibodeaux $1,944. 5.. Wm. A. Richardson.. .N.H. .Ill. Ky. Ky. 2..Asa W. H. Clapp...... MAINE. .Ohio. 1..David Hammons.. Me. N.C. Ten. Ky Mileage each session-Roberts $1,600: Adams, (2d ses.) $1,488; Jefferson Davis, (ex. ses.) $1,520. MISSOURI. .Me. 1..James B. Bowlin..... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Dist. Members. OHIO. Native State. Dist. Members. Native State. Dist. RHODE ISLAND. Native State. MISSOURI-(Continued.)/ 2..John Jameson......... Ky. 1..James J. Faran.................... .O. 1.. Robert B, Cranston......R.I. 3..James S. Green.......... .Va. 2..David Fisher... ..Pa 2..Benjamin B. Thurston...R.I. 4..Willard P. Hall.........Va. 3.. Robert C. Schenck..........................0. Mileage each session-Cran5..John S. Phelps..........Con. 4.. Richard S. Canby.........0. ston $344. Mileage, 2 sessions-Sims $2,- 5.. William Sawyer. 804; Relfe $2,443. [Elected to 6..RodolphusDickinson.....Ms. XXXIst Congress-2. Wm. V. 7..Jonathan D. Morris.. Bay; Bowlin, Green, Hall and 8..John L. Taylor.... Phelps, are reëlected.] 9.. Thomas O. Edwards.. 10..Daniel Duncan.... NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 0. SOUTH CAROLINA. O. 1..Daniel Wallace....... O. 5..Armistead Burt......... S.C. 1..Amos Tuck [Free Soil]...Me. 11..John K. Miller.. 2..Charles H. Peaslee.....N.H. 12..Samuel F. Vinton.... 3..James Wilson.. .......N.H. 4..James H. Johnson......N.H. 14..Nathan Evans.......... Mileage each sess.-Moulton 15.. William Kennon, Jr..Ireland. son $650; Rhett $519. Wallace, $422. NEW-JERSEY. NEW-YORK. 16..John D. Cummins.. $680. .0. ..Pa. Woodward, Burt and Holmes, 1..James G. Hampton.......N.J. 18..Samuel Lahm.. .N.C. 17. George Petrie... .N.Y. 22..Ausburn Birdsall. 23.. William Duer........ 24..Daniel Gott... -25..Harman S. Conger.... Ms. Con. Pa. VERMONT. Con. .Pa. 4..Lucius B. Peck...........Vt. session-Foot $432. [Wm. Henry elected to the XXXIet Congress, 1st District; Pa. 3. Marsh, reelected; 4. Peck,do. Vt. Pa. 21..G. A. Starkweather... Con. 9..William Strong. 26.. William T. Lawrence....N.Y. VIRGINIA. Va. Va. Va. Va. .Va. Va. .Va. Va. Va. Pa. 1..Archibald Atkinson......Va. 2..Richard K. Meade... 3..Thomas S. Flournoy.. 4..Thomas S. Bocock..... 5.. William L. Goggin............. 6..John M. Botts... 7..Thomas H. Bayly.... 8..Robert T. L. Beale 9..John S. Pendleton..... 10..Henry Bedinger.. The present members for Dists. 11..James McDowell...... 1, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21 and 23, 12.. William B. Preston.......Va. are elected to XXXIst Congress. 13.. Andrew S. Fulton.........Va. 1.. Thomas M. Clingman....N.C.Also, 2. Joseph R. Chandler; 3:14..Robert A. Thompson.....Va. 2..Nathaniel Boyden.........Ms. Henry D. Moore; 4. John Rob XXVIIth Dist.-E. Blackmar, do., vice J. M. Holley, deceased. Mileage-Lawrence $188; King, $480; Strong $512; Smith $522. NORTH CAROLINA. WISCONSIN. Va. 3..Daniel M. Barringer....N.C. bins, Jr (contested;) 6. Thomas 15..William G. Brown.......Va. 4..Augustine H. Shepperd..N.C. Ross; 7. Jesse C. Dickey: 8. Thad- Mileage each session-Hunter 5..Abram W. Venable......Ky. deus Stevens; 10. M. M. Dimmick; $80; Brown $264; Hopkins $369. 6..James J. McKay. .N.C. 13 Joseph W. Casey; 14. Charles 7..John R. J. Daniel.......N.C. W. Pitman; 16. Jas. X. McLana8..Richard S. Donnell......N.C. ghan; 17. Samuel Calvin; 18. An9... David Outlaw...........N.C.drew Jackson Ogle; 20. Robert R. Mileage each session-Boggs Reed; 22. John W. Houe; 24. Al$218; Graham $400. fred Gilmore. 1..William Pitt Lynde..... 2..Mason C. Darling Mileage per session-Martin [(2a) $1,500. OFFICERS OF THE SENATE.-Asbury Dickens, cies of Congress: viz. to Ritchie & Co. $26,839; to N.C. Secretary, $3,000; Lewis H. Machen, Md. others, $11,300; books to members, &c. $141,100. Chief Clerk, $1,800; R. Beale, Va. Sergeant-at- This statement exhibits an expenditure of $1,Arms and Door-keeper, $1,500; and twelve others. 684,869, per Congress, or $842,434 average, per OFFICERS, &C. OF THE HOUSE.-Thomas Jeffer-session-being for wages, $758,416; mileage of son Campbell, Tenn. Clerk, $3,000; Daniel Gold, upward of 300 Congressmen, $355,787: salaries N.Y. Chief Clerk of office, $1,800; eight clerks at of officers, $40,918; contingencies or casual re$1,500; Nathan Sargent. Sergeant-at-Arms, $1,- quirements, $529,748. The average charge of 500; John M. Johnson, Post Master, $1,500; Robert Representatives, for expenses on the road, coming E. Hornor, N.J. Door-keeper, $1,500; and others. to Congress and returning, is, $1,154 50 in two LIBRARIAN TO CONGRESS-John S. Meehan, postages of the Senate in the year to March 4, sessions, beside their wages at $8 a-day. The N.Y. $1,500. Assist. E. B. Stelle. 1847, were $18,821; Representatives, $49,954. On the 12th of Aug. 1818, Congress reduced the compensation, after that year, to persons bringing to Washington the vote of any State, for Presi dent, to 12 cents per mile traveled, "by the most usual route." if $2 50 cents per twenty miles are enough for State Messengers, why do Congressinen continue to vote themselves $8 for traveling a like distance? CHAPLAINS-Henry Slicer, Senate; R. R. Gurley, House. EXPENSES OF CONGRESS.-The expenditure during the XXIXth Congress-Dec. 1845 to March 1847, two sessions-in wages of members, their mileage and contingencies, salaries of officers, &c. was as follows: First Session.Wages of Senators, $110,408; mileage of Senators, $44,309. Wages of Representatives, $453,738; mileage of Representatives, $130,634. Second Session.-Wages of Senators, $38,206; their mileage, $45,767. Wages of Representatives, $156,064; their mileage, $135,077. Services of officers and clerks of the Senate, $17,706. Services of officers of the House of Representatives, $23,212. Contingent expenses of the Senate, including books, &c. bought for Senators, $134,123. Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, $216,386. Contingen Toward the expenses of the second or short session, XXXth Congress, there was voted, Aug. 12, 1848, compensation and mileage of Members, $388,440; Officers and Clerks, $89,557 50; Senate's contingencies, $75,000; House's contingencies, $117,756 50; Librarian and Library, $11,300. Also, to T. Jefferson Randolph, executor, $20,000, for all the papers and manuscripts of a public nature, left by President Jefferson, and $6,000 to defray the cost of printing them; and $6,000 for printing Alexander Hamilton's manuscripts. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Secretary of State-JAMES BUCHANAN, Pa. $6,000. | for a renewal to the "Principal Examiner having Acting Chief Clerk-Wm. S. Derrick, Pa. $2,000. Diplomatic Bureau-A. H. Derrick, Pa. $1,600; W. Hunter, Jr. R.1. $1,500; F. Markoe, Jr. $1,400. Consular Bureau-R. S. Chew, Va. $1,400: S. L. Gouverneur, N. Y. $1,400. Home Bureau-A, J. Glossbrenner. $1,400; Lund Washington, Jr. Va. $1,400; and nine other officers and agents, at $800 to $1,600 each. Clerks and Messengers, 1847, $22,131; Contingencies, including the publication of the Laws, $33,849; Postages, $1,763. In session of 1848, $2,000 were voted to pay a Clerk to examine the claims of American citizens and foreigners on each other's Governments. PATENT-OFFICE. Commissioner, Edmund Burke, Vt. $3,000. Chief Clerk, H. H. Sylvester, Ms. $1,700. Examiners, Charles G Page, Ms. $2,500; W. P. N. Fitzgerald, Vt. $2,500. Salaries in office, 1847. $22,643; Contingencies. $7,920. Addl. Examrs., H. B. Renwick, N. Y.,$2,500; L. D. Gale, Ms., $2,500. Assist. Examrs, J. H Lane, S. Cooper, W. B. Storms, T. R. Peale, $1,500 each. Machinist, A. B. Stoughton, $1,250. Draughtsman, Arthur L. MacIntyre, D.C. $1,200. Fifteen other persons employed. In the first session, 1848, there was voted for the Patent Office, $1,500 for scientific books; $3,500 for collecting Agricultural Statistics, &c.; $1,000 for Chemical Analyses of vegetables used as food. New Law for Regulating the Renewal of Patents, and Increasing the number of officers in the Patent Office. Passed May 27, 1848. This statute takes from the Secretary of State, Solicitor of the Treasury and Commissioner of Patents, the power they had jointly to extend Patents, by authority of Section 18, of the Act of July 4, 1836, and vests the sole power of extending the duration of all Patents, for not more than seven years additional, in the Commissioner of Patents ALONE, who is to refer every application charge of the class of inventions to which said case belongs, who shall make a full report, and particularly whether the invention or improvement, secured in the Patent, was new and patentable when patented; and, thereupon, the said Commissioner shall grant or refuse the extension of said Patent, upon the same principles and rules that have governed" the Board of Officers in whom the power was vested before. This Act provides for the appointment of two additional Principal Examiners, at $2,500 a-year each, and two additional Assistant-Examiners, at $1,500 a-year each; also, two Copying and Recording Clerks, at $1,200 each. MINISTERS AND CONSULS ABROAD. London, $9,000. J. R. Brodhead, Pa. Secretary 000. Secretary of Legation, $2,000.. Robert Madrid, $9,000. T. C. Reynolds, S.C, Secretary sia, $9,000; Andrew J. Donelson, Tenn. Berlin, kins, Va. Lisbon; T. G. Clemson, U.S. Brussels; Chargés d'Affaires, [$4,500 each.]-G. W. HopAuguste Davezac, W.I., The Hague; R. P. Flen nikin, Pa., Copenhagen; Henry W. Ellsworth, posits, Jackson said to him, "My dear Duane, Con. Stockholm; W. H. Stiles, Ga., Vienna; we must separate as friends. Far from desiring Nathaniel Niles, Vt. Turin; Benj. A. Bid- that you should sustain any injury, you know lack, Pa. Bogota; B. J. Shields, S.C. Caraccas, have intended to give you the highest appointVenezuela; W. A. Harris, Va. Buenos Ayres; Seth ment now in my gift. You shall have the Mission Barton, Md. Sant Iago, Chili; John R. Clay, Pa., to Russia." President Polk's brother had a pleasLima, Peru. ant journey to Paris, Naples, &c. as Minister to the latter place. Consuls-T. W. Gilpin, Ireland, Belfast; F. T. Bush, N.Y. Hong Kong; G. W. Ellis, Me. BomThe Consuls at Liverpool, London, Havre, the bay; F. B. Wells, N.H. Bermuda; J. H. Wil- Havana, &c. receive very large incomes in the liams, Ms. Sidney, New South Wales; A. P. Gib-way of fees; the amounts are not known. The son, N.Y. St. Petersburg; G. Reed, Pa. Malaga; true policy would be to pay them salaries and no C. Nichols, Con., Amsterdam; David Rogers, fees, or allow such fees only as would secure the U.S. Santa Cruz; John. Cuthbert, Pa. Hamburg contingent expenses of missions, very little can services of competent officers. Of the details of W.H Robertson, U.S. Bremen; A. Hammet, Naples; P. S Forbes, Ms, Canton, China; Gor-be known from the public accounts. In 1846-7, ham Parks, Ms. Rio de Janeiro; W. G. Moor- our Consuls expended $87,416 for relief and prohead, N.Y. Valparaiso; John Black, Mexico tection of American seamen; of which, only $1,(City); Jas. Cowdin, Glasgow, 086 were repaid. The chief places of expenditure were, $18,050 by Job Turrell, Society Islands; $14,604, Abeel, Sandwich Islands; $6,000, Aspinwall, London; $6,081, Society Islands. six Ministers' salaries and one outfit, $63,000; The votes of 1848 for Foreign intercourse, are Secretaries, $12,000; seventeen Ministers, includ ing a Chargé d'Affaires to the Pope, at $4,500, $76,500; Turkey, $8,500; Barbary, &c. $12,000; Contingencies, $60,000; J. Dodge, late Tobacco Agent to Europe, $4,500; China, $7,500; other Foreign Missions, $33.935. Running a Boundary Line with Mexico, $50,000. was The sum expended in the payment of outfits, infits, salaries, clerk-hire, interpreters, traveling charges, guards, &c. &c. (over and above ships to convey them to their missions in certain cases,) for Envoys, Plenipotentiaries, Chargés, Consuls, Commissioners, Secretaries, &c. abroad, $304,303 in 1846-7.-Executive Doc. 7, pp. 274-5. Of this, $64,444 were for Envoys; $58,713 for Chargés des Affaires; $14,047 to Secretaries; $56,750 for outfits; $42,876 for missions to Turkey, Barbary, China and the Sandwich Isles; and $53,176 Contingencies of Missions and Foreign intercourse. FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC AGENTS IN UNITED STATES. To countries where there is little diplomatic France, Guillaume Tell Poussin, Envoy; Britain, business to transact, like Russia, Austria and John F. Crampton, Acting Chargé; Russia, AlexNaples, Ambassadors are frequently appointed, ander Bodisco, Envoy; Spain, Calderon de la which enables gentlemen to make the tour of Barca, Envoy, Austria, The Chevalier HülseEurope, as Ministers and Secretaries, at the pub-mann, Acting Chargé; Argentine Confederation, lic cost. Each Ambassador to Russia gets $18,000 General Carlos Maria de Alvear, Envoy; Chili, the first year, besides contingencies, and $13,500, Manuel Carvallo, Envoy; Peru, Joaquin Jose de if he return the next, which is often done. Since Osma, Ervoy; New-Granada, General Pedro AlJackson's entry into office, we have had Ran- cantara Herran, Envoy; Portugal, J. C. de Figadolph, Buchanan, Wilkins, his brother-in-law, niére é Moráo, Minister Resident; Prussia, Baron Dallas, Cambreleng, Dickerson, Ralph Ingersoll, Von Roenne, Min. Res.; Belgium, The Chevalier Bagby, and, perhaps, one or two more Russian Beaulieu, Min. Res.; Denmark, Steen de Billé, Ambassadors. Mr. Bagby's position on the Texas Chargé; Netherlands, F. M. W. Testa, Chargé; question, his resignation as Senator, and his Sicily, Chevalier Martuscelli, Chargé; Brazil, Russian Mission, may be compared. When Felippe Jose Pereira Leal, Chargé; Sweden, A. D. Duane would neither resign nor remove the De- Lövenskiold, Chargé. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. The salaries or wages of Clerks and Messengers in the Auditors' Offices for 1847, were-1st Auditor, $17,603; 2d Auditor, $23,176; 3d Auditor, $35,350; 4th Auditor, $20,825; 5th Auditor, $11,800; Post Office Auditor, $82,690. Contingencies, incidentals of the six Auditors, $10,680; Postages Chief Clerk, McClintock Young, Md., $2,000. Fourteen other Clerks, at $1,000 to $1,800 each, &c. Clerks and Messengers, 1847, $21,850: Contingencies, $16,966; Watchmen, $3,420; Contingencies of S. E. executive building $9,400; Postages, of Auditors, $12,517. $2.960. Treasurer of the United States.-Wm. Selden, Va. First Controller-James M. McCulloh, Pa. $3,000; with fifteen Clerks, at $800 to $1,700 each. $3,500. Chief Clerk, J. Larned, Ms. $1,700. Eigh- Clerks and Messengers, 1847, $14,707; Continteen other Clerks, at $1,000 to $1,400 each. Clerks and Messengers, 1847, $25,050; Contingencies, $1,173; Postages, $1,286. gencies, $1,900; Postages, $324. Second Controller.-Albion K. Parris, Me., $3,000. Chief Clerk, J. M. Brodhead, N.H. $1,700. Ten other Clerks, at $800 to $1,400 each. Clerks and Messengers, 1847, $12,245; Contingencies, $1,100. Auditors, $3,000 each.]-1st, Wm. Collins, Va.; 21, Jolin M. McCalla, Ky.; 3d, Peter Hagner, Pa.; 4th, Aaron O. Dayton, N.J.; 5th, Stephen Pleasonton, Del.; Auditor for Post Office, Peter G. Washington, D.C. In the six Auditors' Offices there are over 160 Clerks employed, at wages from $800 to $2,000; probably $1,350 on an average. The Treasury Auditor for the Post Office has 66 Clerks, four at $1,600; twelve at $1,400; twenty-six at $1,200; and twenty-four at $1,000. Assistant-Treasurers.-Boston, Henry Hubbard, $2,500; New-York, Wm. C. Bouck, N.Y. $4,000; Charleston, Wm. Lavall, $2,500; St. Louis, Geo. Penn, $2,500. Ten Clerks, 1847, $3,974; Repairs, &c. $5,000. Register.-Daniel Graham, Tenn. $3,000; with twenty-eight Clerks, at $800 to $1,700 each. Clerks and Messengers, 1847, 826,938; Contingencies, $7,300; Postages, $2,147. Solicitor-Ransom H. Gillet, N Y. $3,500; with eight Clerks, average of salaries, $1,180 Clerks and Messenger, 1847, $9,651; Postages, $340 Besides the above public agencies and contingencies, the Secretary of the Treasury charges $6,128, and the Register $200, as "Expenses on Loans;" $4,341 as expenses in issuing Treasury Notes; Rawdon, Hatch & Co.'s bill, $15 135. Among the payments are, $9,292 to Amos Ken- there is a charge of Compensation for depositdall for Counsel fees, &c. in the Stokes suit; a ing Money," of $83,082; also, $112,440 paid to 83 $5.000 draft on Reeside on Post Office protested, persons for receiving money for Land, the income with interest, &c. 88,128; another $8,400; J. W. of a number of Registers, and $24,406 of "incidenNewcombe, heir of Gen. Warren, killed on tals." Bunker Hill, $8,321; Chus. F. Sibbaid for injuries, Receivers get $500 a-year, one per cent. on col&c. $26,030; Dr. J. Gray's Administrator, for lections, and et ceteras. Of the 83, we give some dwelling destroyed in the war of 1814, $5,000; E. of the best incomes, for the year, viz. John DeF. Norton, for Tapper's barn burnt, near Buffalo, ment, Dixon, Ill. $6,912; Thos: Dyer, Chicago, sane war, $450; Boston Custom-house building, $3,682; A. J. Irwin, Green Bay, Wis. $6,147; J. in part, $50,000. Postages of the President and A. Helfenstein, Milwaukee, $1,798; Paschal BeVice-President, 1846-7, $739. quette. $3,686; S. Langworthy, Dubuque, $4,000; V. P. Van Antwerp, Fairfield, Iowa, $3,774. The In any really efficient and clearly understood above have also, as "Compensation for and cost system, the hosts of Auditors, Clerks, Account- of deputies, &c." Dement, $2.492; Dyer, $533; ants, and other officers on the roll of the Depart- Irwin, $3,616; Helfenstein, $1,997; Bequette, $1,ments at Washington and elsewhere, might be 497; Langworthy, $1,078; Van Antwerp, $1,003. expected to keep the Public Accounts in the most Beside this, $159,225 and 84,749 are charged as perfect order, and to render them promptly to payments to Surveyors and Geologists, for “SurCongress. This, however, is not done, although veying the Public Lands;" of which W. A., J. the additional staff of extra Clerks and Account- and A. Burt had $8,833; late Douglass Houghton, ants at Washington, far exceeds all precedent in Geologist, Mich. $9367; John Mullett, Surveyor, the New World. Mich. $5,496; James Mullett, Mich. $3.029; others Among the EXTRA Clerks voted in 1848, for one in Mich. $7,654; Conway, Surveyor-General, Ill. year, in one Department, were seven additional &c. $2,738, Deputy Surveyors in Missouri, $20,to the Second Controller, at $1,200; two addi-000; do. in Mississippi, 85,171; do. in Alabama, tional to First Auditor, at $1,150; three additional, $15,000; do. in Louisiana, $8.512; Landry, Surat $1,150; and mine more at $1,000 to Second Audi-veyor-General, La. $4,920. [What is this paid tor thirteen additional Clerks in the Secretary for? His clerks, deputies and contingencies, of the Treasury's Office, to expedite the settle-are charged elsewhere.] Surveyor-General and ment of Paymasters' accounts, accounts of Cap-fifteen Deputies, Arkansas, $15,952; Surveyortains of Companies, &c. $12,000; six additional General, Florida, $2,616; his Deputies, $9,184: Clerks to Third Auditor, $6,400; eight more Surveyor-General, Iowa and Wisconsin, $1,300; Clerks in Land Office, $8,000. Total, $51,750 to his Deputies, $22,112. pay forty-eight new Clerks, who were as much For Lands" erroneously sold," but in what State wanted, had the old staff been kept at work, as or Territory is not stated, $21,720 and $29,179 The two score of "Measurers" in the N.Y. Custom-were paid back to many persons; also $6,976 of House, who get $1,500 a-year each for enabling purchase money of Lands in Louisiana. If an Inspectors to stand idle, or for attending to poli-enormous outlay for clerks, surveyors, receivers, tics now and then. Secretary Forward proposed recorders and overseers, will not prevent misto remove all or most of them. takes by the hundred, why pay them $465,000 a-year? The fiscal year, instead of ending at a time as near to the session of Congress as it would be possible to make up the detailed accounts to, ends in June; so that it will be some time in 1849, before the particulars, up to July, 1848, are printed and before the country. Of what use can the supervision of such documents be, by the Press, the Public and Congress, in a session ending March 3d, every second year? To Receiver and Register of Lands, Newmansville, Florida, for issuing permits, $2,500; do. St. Augustine, Fl. $2,500. To D. D. Owen, Geologist, Wis and C. T. Jackson, Geologist, Mich. $2,000 each, on Mineral Lands. LAND REVENUES.-Receivers, out of office, over a year, in arrears for moneys that had been paid Last Winter the Public Accounts were so mys-them-July, 1847. Sam. Finlay, Chilicothe, $24,dfied as to baffle an able Committee of Congress, 779; J. T. Canby, Crawfordsville, Ia $33,898; W. and everybody else. It is said that very large L. D. Ewing, Vandalia, $16,272; Wm. Linn, do. balances are allowed to accumulate in the hands $55,962; J. W. Stephenson, Galena, $23,808; S. of Quartermasters and others, on the pretext that Hammond, St. Louis, $21,574; Samuel Smith, St. Examining Clerks are still scarce! Stephens, Ala. $33,590; John H. Owen, do. $41,940; W. Taylor, Cahawba, Ala. $21,459; H. G. Perry, do. $6,075; U. G. Mitchell, do. $7,410; A Commissioner-Richard M. Young, Ky. $3,000. T. Perry, do. $28,156; G. B. Dameron, Choctaw, Recorder-Samuel H. Laughlin, Va. $2,000. $22,867; Columbus, W. P. Harris, $100,117; G.D. Also, sixty-one Clerks at $1,000 to $1,800 each. Boyd, $50,977. J. A. Girault, Grenada, $25,493; Compensation paid in 1847, of Clerks, Messen-R. M. Carter, New-Orleans, $80,210. Opelousas, gers, Porters, Recorder and "Agent for paying Salaries" in General Land Office, $82,424; Contingent expenses, $21,334; Postages, $3,294. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. W. Garrard, $27,231; W. H. Gantt, $21,606; B. Commissioner under Art. VI. with Great Britain, 1842, Albert Smith, Me., $3,000. COAST SURVEY. Surveyors-General, [$2,000 each.]-Detroit, Lueins Lyon, Vt.; St. Louis, F. S. Conway, Tenn.; Florence, Ala. J. H. Weakley, Va.; Donaldsonville, La. Pierre T. Landry, La; Jackson, Mi. C. A. Bradford, Pa.; Little Rock, Wm. Pelham, Ky.; Survey of the U. States Coast, 1846-7, $111,000. St. Augustine, Fl., Robert Butler, Pa.; Dubuque, A. D. Bache, Superintendent, $4,500, (and Jowz, Geo. W. Jones, Ia. With forty-seven other $1,500 as Superintendent of Weights and Clerks, Draughtsmen, &c.; and forty Registers, Measures, with an assistant, J. Saxton, at $2,000) who get $5 per day at Public Land Sales. -Edmund Blunt, F. H. Gerder, C. M. Erskine, Paid, in 1847, to Clerks in the above Surveyors-W M. Boyce and John Farley, Assistants, at General's Offices--in Lyon's office, $6,300; in $2,500 each; and nine others at $1,000 to $1,500 Bradford's, $2,369; Conway's, $7,820; Weakley's, each. Samuel Hein, Disburser, $2,000. $2,754; Landry's, $5,023; Pelham's, $6,739; But ler's, $3.874; Jones's, $7,040. The above expenditures on Land management OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS REVENUE. Maine.-Passamaquoddy, Eastport, Bion Brad in the year 1846-7, amount to $171,451. Then, bury, Me., Collector, $3,000; Portland, Rob't P. |