Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

To.R INDIAN TRIBES.

The extension of our limits has,iwouglit within our-jurisdictlon •
many additional and popaloui tribes of llid aus. a large proportion of
which are wi'd, rsc'able, and dilLtu tt) control. FrSolatory and
warlike in their disposition and habits, it is impassible altogether to '
restrain them from comm•ttiog aggraa ons on each other, as well as
upon our frontier citizens and those einigrXinz to our olitant States
..n3 Territories. Hence expensive military expsdit.ons are frequently
nec..ssary to overawe and chastis, the move law ess and hostile.

The present system of maktng them vahiable presents to influence'
them to remain at peace has proved inefftetual. It is b:lle7ed to be.
the be,ter p licy to colon! a them in •suitable localit es, whet,: e they
can recei, e therndifuents of (lineation as t be g adnally inticod to
ed ,pt habits of Indust. y. o far as the eapeeiment has been tried '
it has worked well an pqlctice, and it whi doub&ess prove to be less• •
expens.ve ,hen the present system.
'a he whole mimeor of iodtatts within nr territorial limits is '
believed to In, from the best data in the Interior Department, about
325,000.

The bib:s of Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickcsass and Creeks, settled.
in the ter, t ry F.et :Tart for them west of Atkinias, are r,,pid y
advancing in education and b all the arts of civfiza,bn and. self
government; and we may indulge the agrecab.e saticipati n that 'at -
no very distant ay ttaey will be incorpo7ated into the Union as one of
the sovereign Stot!s.
TAI P )ST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

It will be seen from the rapo-t of the Pcnito. ster. General, that the
Post Office derrtmeut still continue. to depend on the treasury, as it)
has be..n compelled to do for several years ra,t. for an impor-
tant portion of the means of sustaining and estindirg it. operalons.
Their r..pid growth and expansion are shown by a de. ennial state-
ment cf the number of p,st offices, and the length of post ro
commencing with the year 1827. In that year thm'e were 7,000 post
offices; in 1837, 11,17 i. in 1317, 15,146; and in 1157 .hey number
21,530. In this year i,725 pat officss have been csLablishod, an i 7u4
disc •ntinued, he ving a n.. 4 inc•e.se of 1,021. The postmasters of 3:1;
offices are Appointed by the Picsiderit.• •

The lengta of post roa•is in 1827 W:ks 105,336 -miles; in 1837.
141,242 miles; in 1847 153,818 miles; and in th- )ear 1857 there
are 242,601 miles of post road, including 2 2530=11es of railroad, on
whic.i the mails are transporter.

The expenlitlirem of the department for the fiscal year ending on
the 30th June, 1857 asadjusted by the Auditor, amount d .011,-.07,670
-!ols. To def,my these e tpenditu. es there was to rlit' credit of Lie
departm9ni on the let July, 1856, t e sam of 789;50 doff; the gross
revenue of the year. including the annual al mvancas for tlin trans.
po ation of free mail matter, produced 8,053,951 dole; and the ,e-
-mainder was supplied by the ndpropri,t on, frnm the t 0.17 U y of
2 250,00 I d ,Is grant.id by the act of Cmigr es approved Augnt 18,
1856, and by the appropriation of 666,883 dols mide bithe act of March
3, 1857, leaving 252,763 dots to be curried to the cred4 of the depart-
ment in the accounm of the currant year. Cco mend to your
consideration the report of the department in relit:ion t) the
establishment of the overland maill-routs from the Almsissipi river
to Ban Francisco, California. The route ix as seleeted with my full
concurrence as the one, in my judgment, best ca'calatea to attain
the important objects contemplated by Congress,