For this purpose the papers are respectfully submitted.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, December 27, 1832.
To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I beg leave to call the attention of Congress to the accompanying reports—­one from the engineer selected under the act of the 14th July last to take charge of the survey of the bridge across the Potomac which that act authorized the President to cause to be erected, and showing, after a careful survey, the propriety of applying a part of the sum appropriated to the repairing the old bridge; the other showing the considerations which, in the opinion of the same engineer and that of General Gratiot, should determine the choice between a superstructure of wood and of iron on the same foundation of granite.

Concurring in the reasons stated by these officers for the preference of the superstructure of wood, I have adopted it accordingly, and propose to take the measures necessary for the execution of the work.  Previously, however, to inviting contracts for this purpose I deem it advisable to submit the subject to Congress, in order that the necessary appropriations may be supplied.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, December 28, 1832.
To the House of Representatives: 

I have taken into consideration the resolution of the House requesting me to communicate to it, so far as in my opinion may be consistent with the public interest, “the correspondence between the Government of the United States and that of the Republic of Buenos Ayres which has resulted in the departure of the charge d’affaires of the United States from that Republic, together with the instructions given to the said charge d’affaires,” and in answer to the said request state for the information of the House that although the charge d’affaires of the United States has found it necessary to return, yet the negotiation between the two countries for the arrangement of the differences between them are not considered as broken off, but are suspended only until the arrival of a minister, who, it is officially announced, will be sent to this country with powers to treat on the subject.

This fact, it is believed, will justify the opinion I have formed that it will not be consistent with the public interest to communicate the correspondence and instructions requested by the House so long as the negotiation shall be pending.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, January 2, 1833.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State on the subject of the French ship Pactole, upon the cargo of which a discriminating duty seems to have been levied in 1827 by the collector at Pensacola, in contravention, as is alleged, with the convention of 1822 with France.

ANDREW JACKSON.

Washington, January 6, 1833.
To the House of Representatives: