the

ranks:

The 'Secretary considers' the route from El

Paso to the Colorado the most feas yle for

the Pacific Pailroati.

A. national foundry is struney - recominend:

ed as one of the 'Most valuable I .oesus of de­

velopi4 `the mineral wealth and . resonrces of

the country. The arms fabricated in the na­

tionid Arniories are said to tie of the most, su­

perior q . uality.

Refeeng.to the

- national'defenses, the Sec­

retary of Wisr says that New York may be

norsiderectis . impregtiable- from any attack

from the sea, when . the fortifications .now' in

procesti shall I.l9finhbed.. The fortifications

will be better - ,1 - tne guns heavi,er, and more nu­

merous than these of Sebastopol.

The; secretary:%approyes the srtem