By our mails, whose speed is regularly increased and whose routes are every year extended, the communication of public intelligence and private business is rendered frequent and safe;

Science is steadily penetrating the recesses of nature and disclosing her secrets, while the ingenuity of free minds is subjecting the elements to the power of man and making each new conquest auxiliary to his comfort.

The representation of the people has been renewed for the 22nd time since the Constitution they formed has been in force.

The laborer is rewarded by high wages in the construction of works of internal improvement, which are extending with unprecedented rapidity.

Manufactures have been established in which the funds of the capitalist find a profitable investment, and which give employment and subsistence to a numerous and increasing body of industrious and dexterous mechanics.

With the treaty are also transmitted the dispatch which accompanied it, and two others on the same subject received since.

I transmit to the Senate, for their advice with regard to its ratification, a treaty between the United States and France, signed at Paris by the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments on the 4th of July, 1831.

report to the President for dismissal every clerk in your office who shall avail himself of the benefit of the insolvent debtors act for debts contracted during my Administration.

I communicate to Congress a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and the Emperor of Austria, concluded in this city on the 28th March, 1830.

printed copies of the treaties which have been lately ratified between the United States and the Choctaw Indians and between the United States and the confederated tribes of the Sacs and Foxes and other tribes.

Congress only is competent now to adjust and arrange these differences and satisfy the demands of the New York Indians.

I lay before the House of Representatives a treaty recently concluded with the Choctaw tribe of Indians, that provision may be made for carrying the same into effect agreeably to the estimate heretofore presented by the Secretary of War to the Committee of Ways and Means.

The whole matter is respectfully submitted.

To the Senate of the United States: The inclosed report * of the Secretary of War is herewith inclosed in answer to the resolution of the Senate of yesterday's date.

It shall be lawful for the president to take such measures and to employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove from lands belonging to or secured by treaty to any Indian tribe any citizen who shall make a settlement thereon.

My opinion remains the same, and I can see no alternative for them but that of their removal to the West or a quiet submission to the State laws.

To an independent and foreign people this would seem to be assuming, I should suppose, rather too lofty a tone--one which the Government would not have assumed if they had considered them in that light.

Years since I stated to them my belief that if the States chose to extend their laws over them it would not be in the power of the Federal Government to prevent it.