The custom-house should be a business office.

Convinced that the people of New York and of the country generally wish the New York custom-house to be administered solely with a view to the public interest, it is my purpose to do all in my power to introduce into this great office the…

In answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to forward to the House any facts or statistics in his office on the subject of forestry not heretofore reported…

They are transmitted with the assurance that any measures that may be enacted in furtherance of these important interests will meet with my cordial approval.

They believed that our institutions were equal to any emergency, and that they ought to be maintained at the cost of property or of life.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of April 16, 1878, I transmit herewith reports

The Government can not prepare for trial at said special term, because no fund appropriated by Congress can be made available for that purpose.

I can not approve a bill which in my judgment authorizes the violation of sacred obligations.

These reports are respectfully submitted for the information of Congress.

The form used for such nominations was one found to have been in existence and heretofore used in some of the Departments, and was intended to inform the Senate that if the nomination proposed were approved it would operate to remove an…

No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the 26th instant, making inquiries relative to a naval force at Hayti.

It may be proper to state that the number of captains authorized by the second section of the act of 16th July, 1862, is now full.

No definitive measure or proceeding has resulted from these communications.

Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made.

I recommend an appropriation of this sum for the benefit of the owners of the Jules et Marie.

The obligation of this Government to make amends therefor could not be questioned if the injury resulted from any fault on the part of the San Jacinto.

I have therefore thought it proper to appoint, and I do hereby constitute, a provisional court, which shall be a court of record, for the State of Louisiana;