The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

domain, and suggests that a public building be
erected in Washington, with apartments ~for
the accommodation of scientific memorials re-
presenting each Stile and Territory. The re-
clamation of inundated lands by practical pro-
cesses known to modern science is the sub-
ject of an interesting paper called for by the wants
of different portions of the country. The amelio-
ration of barren lands by irrigation, tree-growing,
and other processes, a problem whose importance is
daily becoming more pressing, is discussed with the
expectation that practical measures may be speedily
adopted to render these widespread acres capable of
supporting vegetable and animal life on an ex-
tended scale. The mining legislation of Congress
is thoroughly considered, attention having been called
to controversies in some of the mining districts
growing out of conflicting constructions of the
law. The report closes with a review of the
area of public lands at different periods of American
history, now amounting to nearly 3,000,000
square miles, or nearly 2,000,000,000 acres. The
territorial limits of the Republic are given, its
chorographic features and geographical relations,
and the changes on the Eastern Continent
conspiring to throw into our hands the sceptre
of the world's commerce. An extensive corres-
pondence with State, municipal, and commercial,
authorities has been condensed so as to present
some interesting statistics from all parts of the
Union. An interesting article on tree culture adds
a special practical value to the report. The report
further shows that there has been disposed of for
cash, for homesteads and under the several laud
grants, over 6,900,000 acres of the public domain,
of which a large share is for actual settlement.
'the total cash receipts exceed $1,500,000. The
lands disposed of for actual settlement add about
23,500 farms to the productive resources of the
country. Of these 8,500 are within the limits of
the Southern public land States. The grants for
Pacific Railroads, military waggon roads, and other
railroads, approximate 186,000,000 acres. The total
area of public domain, including Alaska, may be
stated in round numbers at 1,800,000,000 acres. To-
tal disposed of 400,000,000. Leaving undisposed of
1,400,000,000 acres. The annual earnings of the
American people are estimated at $7,500,000,000,
and their domestic trade at nearly $6,000,000,000
a year. The report also contains tables, showing
the lands sold and disposed off for settlement der-

ing the first and second halves of the fiscal year,
the area of the several land States and Territoriegt
how the lands in each have thus far been disposed
off, &c. The geological history of the valley of the
Missouri River and Wyoming Territory, and the
theory and results of the railroad policy are fillll
shown, with the unifying effects upon our nation'
ality, and considerations are presented in regard to
the candidacy of the Republic for a full share of the
Asiatic trade."

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue and
Secretary of the Treasury have agreed upon the appoint'
ment of C. E. Creecy, Esq., as supervisor of the dis-
trict of Louisiana, and Henry Niles succeeds hire $w
the head of the appointment bureau of the Treasury
Department. Supervisors have yet to be appointed
for the districts of Now Jersey, Southern OW'
Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. 'lll.
Hon. Reuben Tomlinson, formerly of Philadelphia'
has been appointed State Auditor of South Carolina, and
is organizing the system of collection of taxes in that
State with great efficiency.—The President has appeintej
Coland Powell, of Tennessee, Consul at Port Still:deli
Falkland Islands, to fill a vacancy.—John Savage is to he
sent to England as Consul for Leeds, but we do not ko°//
what John Savage is meant.—J. W. Byron, who has WI
been on O'Neill's staff, has been appointed by the President
Brigadier-General in the U.S. Army.
It appears that Germany is indebted to an Arne
rican for the establishment of Sunday Schools. Eight
years ago none existed, when Mr. Woodruff addressed
several audiences on the subject at Bremen, a
German
merchant acting as interpreter. This gentleman has since
devoted himself to Sunday School work, and the result
has been the formation of 66 of these schools, with 11,29
scholars, and in the German cantons of Switzerland 19,
with 2,353 scholars.
Mr. Justin M'Carthy, lately one of the leading
editors of the London Morning Star, has become one of the
editors of the Independent. Ile is an able writer, and tbo-
roughly conversant with British politics. There is a story
that Messrs. Raymond and Weed are negociating the par-
chase of the National In?elligencer, with the view of mak-
ing it the organ of the Government. The Tribune sneers
at the idea of the editor of such a paper as the felt
York Times leaving the Empire City to take up a Wash'
ington journal, which, it says, would excite astonish'
ment and derision. " These Washington organs' have
generally been poor concerns, and the Administration
does not want an organ. With one or perhaps two 431
ceptions they have been compelled to live upon Publie
patronage—adverti-ing contracts squeezed out of C°n:
gross—and such little drippings and jobs as have boe !
thrown in their way by lobby agents. A newspaper tlav_
cannot live except upon subsidies of the Government ()ugh'
to stop." There may, however, be more truth in the re-
pert that Mr. Gorham, Secretary of the Senate, who
ceeded Colonel Forney, with his two papers, "both
wants at least to have one, and for this purpose desires to
purchase the Washington Chronicle.
General J. C. Abbott of Raleigh, N.C., latel
of the Federal Army, and now United States Senator, Ids!
formed a law partnership with Colonel Edward Canty/01i'
an ox-Confederate officer.
Nehemiah Ball, of Concord, has been sentenc,`;s
to ten years in the State prison for forging the name of 4--a
uncle, Rufus Merriam, upon transfer blanks of Unite
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States bonds and railroad stock, which had been stolen, 1C
order to sell them.

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Births. 010
GIBE—On the 10th inst., at Clevedon' Somersat,
the
of Lieut.-Colonel Win. Ed. Gibb of a son.
MAxwELL---On the 14th inst., at, Lichfield House, of 0
mond, Surrey, the wife of John Maxwell, Fs3cl"
daughter.
Ecfelic
PRICE —On the 15th inst., at Chessington of
Surrey, the wife of R. Dans), Green Price,
daughter.

Maiages .°
CALDW ELL—CUST—On the 33th inst. ,at St. g°
Hanover-square, C. B. Caldwell Es , of Nov G;:f
co. Meath, Ireland, to Sophia Frances,lcl• daughter -
late Hon. W. Cust. '
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PERKS —GILLOT —On the 12th lust., Birmingb33T'ffol'l
Perks, Esq , of Kirkstall Villa, Perry Barr, 0' I;i4l't
shire, to Maria, second daughter of Joseph Gillett,
of Westbourne-road, Edgbastou, Birmiughani•
Deaths.
BRANDE the 11th inst., at Sulliamstead Ifeus°,
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ham-green, Everard A. Braude, Esq., aged 93.SVi
BROOKS —On the 13th inst., at Denmark-hill, S'-'4"
Brooks, Esq., aged 48. ntf°r°
COOMBS—On the 14th lust , at the Castle Hotel, We"it
Charles Coombs, aged 70. jose.r.e
EWA AT —On the 14th inst., at Broadleas, Devize,s'hcso
Christopher Ewart, Esq., of Now Brighton,
late M.P. for Liverpool, aged 69.
Twisixo—On the 14th inst., at L Kent, Chas•T
Esq., Q.C., of Halifax, N.S., aged 68.
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