Dist. MEMBERS ELECT TO THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, SO FAR AS ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN HAD. Arkansas.-2. 2. Gantt, Edward W. 1. Hindman, T. C. Delaware. - 1. Fisher, George P. Florida. -1. Hilton, R. B. Indiana.-11. 9. Colfax, Schuyler, 2. Cravens, James A. 3. Dunn, William M. 4. Holman, Wm. S. 5. Julian, George W. 1. Law, John, 10. Mitchell, William, 6. Porter, Albert G. 11. Shanks, J. P. C. 7. Voorhees, D. W. 8. White, Albert S. Illinois. 9. 2. Arnold, Isaac N. 8. Fouke, Philip B. 4. Kellogg, William, 9. Logan, John A. 3. Lovejoy, Owen, 6. McClernand, J. A. · 5. Richardson, W. A. 7. Robinson, J. C. 1. Washburne, E. B. Iowa. - 2. 1. Curtis, Samuel R. 2. Vandever, Wm. Maine. - 6. 3. Fessenden, S. C. 1. Goodwin, John N. 4. Morrill, Anson P. 6. Pike, Fred'k A. 5. Rice, John H. 2. Walton, Chas. W. Massachusetts. - 11. 3. Adams, Charles F. 19. Franchot, Richard, 30. Frank, Augustus, 9. Haight, Edward, 4. Kerrigan, J. E. 22. Lansing, Wm. E. 15. McKean, James B. 2. Odell, Moses F. 13. Olin, Abraham B. 25. Pomeroy, T. M. 24. Sedgwick, C. B. 17. Sherman, S. N. 1. Smith, E. Henry, 32. Spaulding, E. G. 11. Steele, John B. 31. Van Horn, Burt, 28. Van Valkenburgh, Rob't B. 10. Van Wyck, C. H. 18. Vibbard, Chauncey, 5. Wall, William, 7. Ward, Elijah, 16. Wheeler, Wm. A. 3. Wood, Benjamin, 4. Allen, William, 5. Ashley, J. M. 21. Bingham, J. A. 14. Blake, H. G. 7. Corwin, Thomas, 12. Cox, S. S. 16. Cutler, W. P. 18. Edgerton, Sidney, 2. Gurley, J. A. 11. Horton, V. B. 20. Hutchins, John, 17. Morris, James R. 9. Noble, William P. 15. Nugent, George, 1. Pendleton, G. H. 19. Riddle, A. G. 8. Shellabarger, S. 13. Sherman, John, 10. Trimble, Carey A. 3. Vallandingham, C. L. 6. White, C. A. Oregon. -1. Shiel, James, THE SURPLUS REVENUE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND ITS DISTRIBUTION AMONG THE INDIVIDUAL STATES IN 1837. By the 13th section of the 115th chapter of the Acts of Congress of 1836 (5 Statutes at Large, 55) it was provided as follows: "That the money which shall be in the Treasury of the United States on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, reserving the sum of five millions of dollars, shall be deposited with such of the several States, in proportion to their respective representation in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, as shall, by law, authorize their treasurers, or other competent authorities, to receive the same on the terms hereinafter specified; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver the same to such treasurers, or other competent authorities, on receiving certificates of deposit therefor, signed by such competent authorities, in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary aforesaid; which certificates shall express the usual and legal obligations, and pledge the faith of the State for the safekeeping and repayment thereof, and shall pledge the faith of the State receiving the same, to pay the said moneys, and every part thereof, from time to time, whenever the same shall be required by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of defraying any wants of the public treasury, beyond the amount of the five millions aforesaid; Provided, that if any State declines to receive its proportion of the surplus aforesaid, on the terms before named, the same shall be deposited with the other States, agreeing to accept the same on deposit in the proportion aforesaid: And provided further, that when said money, or any part thereof, shall be wanted by the said Secretary, to meet appropriations by law, the same shall be called for, in rateable proportions, within one year, as nearly as conveniently may be, from the different States with which the same is depos. ited, and shall not be called for in sums exceeding ten thousand dollars from any one State in any one month, without previous notice of thirty days for every additional sum of twenty thousand dollars which may at any time be required." The amount in the Treasury, Jan. 1, 1837, over the sum of $5,000,000, was $37,463,859.88. This was to be distributed in four equal instalments, one to be paid on each of the following days: Jan. 1, 1837; April 1, 1837; July 1, 1837, and October 1, 1837. The first three instalments, amounting to $28,101,644.91, were paid, but the fourth instalment of $9,367,214.97, payable Oct. 1, 1837, was withheld, the federal government then having need of the money; and it has never been distributed among the States. The following table (taken from "Senate and House of Representatives' Papers," 1837, 25th Cong., 1st Sess., Doc. No. 30, p. 72) shows the representation of the several States in Congress at that time, and the amounts distributed to each State: ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Page 20. Line 15, insert " Apogee, 1st day, 10h. M." Page 42. Line 4 from bottom, for Os. 23, read-0s. 23. Page 43. Line 12 from bottom, after wires, insert a comma. Page 48.- -Reference No. 59, line 2, after "left," insert "bank." Pages 51, 53. In notes, for "William F. Robinson," read "William Robinson." Pages 115-118.-John A. Dix, of New York, is Secretary of the Treasury; Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, is Secretary of War; Horatio King is Postmaster-General. Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, has resigned; and Mr. Kelly is acting Secretary. Mr. Trescott, Assistant Secretary of State, and Mr. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, have resigned. Mr. Dundas, Second Assistant Postmaster-General, is dead. Page 120.-William P. Mellen is Postmaster at Natchez, Miss.; William J. Newkirk, at New Albany, Ind.; William B. Taylor, in New York city. The post-office at Pensasola, Fla., is said to be discontinued. Pages 121-123. The collectors in some of the seceding States are said to have resigned. Pages 134, 135.- Captain Ingraham and Commanders Farrand and Hartstene have resigned. Pages 140, 141.-The officers of the Federal Courts in some of the seceding States have resigned. Charles E. Jordan has been appointed and confirmed District Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Grenville Wilcox, Attorney, and James M. Brown, Marshal, for the Western District. Pages 144-148. Mr. John B. Weller is Minister to Mexico; James McDowell is Consul at Lyons; R. B. Bradford is Consul-General for Japan at Simoda; David Porter Heap is Consul-General at Constantinople. Page 176. The Public Debt of the United States, Jan. 1, 1861, was $63,709,321.63; of which $11,900,461.64 were treasury notes. Page 195.-The gross revenue of the Post-Office Department from all sources for the year ending June 30, 1860, was $8,518,067. The payments during the year were $19,170,782, of which $4,296,009 was for 1859, making the payments for the year $14,874,773, and the excess of payments for the year over the revenue $6,356,706. Pages 221-228.- Henry S. Lane, of Crawfordsville, is Senator from Indiana for six years from March 4, 1861; Ira Harris, of Albany, from New York; Edgar Cowan, of Westmoreland, from Pennsylvania; and Timothy O. Howe, of Green Bay, from Wisconsin. Martin F. Conway, of Lawrence, is Representative in Congress from the State of Kansas. The Senators and Representatives from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and from Louisiana with the exception of Mr. Bouligny, have withdrawn from Congress. Page 237. Changes should be made in the ex officio members of the Smithsonian Institution, to correspond with the changes in the several offices. - Page 245. Population of some of the principal cities and places by the census of 1860, New York, 814,277; Philadelphia, 568,034; Brooklyn, N. Y., 273 425; Baltimore, 211,824 free, 2,213 slaves, total, 214,037; Boston, 177,902; New Orleans, 170,766; St. Louis, 162,479; Cincinnati, 160,060; Chicago, 109,420; Buffalo, N. Y., 81,000; Louisville, Ky., 75,196; Newark, N. J., 72,055; San Francisco, 66,000; Washington, D. C., 61,403 ; Providence, R. I., 50.669; Rochester, N. Y., 48,096; Detroit, Mich., 46,834; Milwaukee, Wis., 46,323; Cleveland, O., 43 550; Charleston, S. C., 40.194; Troy, N. Y., 39,653; New Haven, Conn., 39,277; Richmond, Va., 37,958; Lowell, Mass., 37,069; Jersey City, N. J., 29.256; Portland, Me., 26.342; Cambridge, Mass., 26,074; Roxbury, Mass., 25 137; Charlestown, Mass., 25,120; Worcester, Mass., 24,963; Nashville, Tenn., 23,715; Reading, Pa., 23,171; Salem, Mass., 22,486; New Bedford, Mass., 22,309; Dayton, O., 20,132. The above figures cannot be taken as precisely accurate; but they are said to be substantially correct. |