Mr. Gaillard reported from the joint committee, that they had waited on the President of the United States, and that the President had informed the committee that he would make a communication to the two Houses at twelve o'clock to-morrow.
Wednesday, November 4.
Obadiah German, from the State of New York, took his seat in the Senate.
On motion by Mr. Leib, a committee of three members were appointed, who, with three members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the said House, shall have the direction of the money appropriated to the purchase of books and maps for the use of the two Houses of Congress; and Messrs. Leib, Tait, and Campbell of Tennessee, were appointed the committee on the part of the Senate.
President's Annual Message.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States:
Fellow-citizens of the Senate
and House of Representatives:
On our present meeting, it is my first duty to invite your attention to the providential favors which our country has experienced, in the unusual degree of health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich abundance with which the earth has rewarded the labors bestowed on it. In the successful cultivation of other branches of industry, and in the progress of general improvement favorable to the national prosperity, there is just occasion, also, for our mutual congratulations and thankfulness.
With these blessings are necessarily mingled the pressures and vicissitudes incident to the state of war into which the United States have been forced by the perseverance of a foreign power in its system of injustice and aggression.