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 State 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. Au 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 land
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 aro 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 Territories,
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 th°
theory and results of the railroad policy are Nil
shown, with the unifying effects upon our nation'
alay, and considerations are presented in regard to
the candidacy of the Republic for a full share of tile
Asiatic trade."

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue and
Secretary of the Treasury have agreed upon the aPP°l°,fr
ment of C. E. Creecy, Esq., as supervisor of the (II
trict of Louisiata, and Henry Niles succeeds hitt' IL-
the head of the appointment bureau of the Treasi
Department. Supervisors have yet to be appoint°
for the districts of New Jersey, Southern
Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
Hon. Reuben Tomlinson, formerly of Philadelpil
has been appointed State Auditor of South Carolina? 55t
is organizing the system of collection of taxes in tbsa
State with great efficiency.—The President has appoint°
Coland Powell, of Tennessee, Consul at Port Statile'
Falkland Islands, to fill a vacancy.—John Savage is t°
sent to England as Consul for Leeds, but we do not
has le 10°11n.
0,
what John Savage is meant.—J. W. Byron, who t
been on O'Neill's staff, has been appointed by the Pren''):l
Brigadier-General in the U.S. Army.
It appears that Germany is indebted to an Anl;
rican for the establishment of Sunday Schools.
years ago none existed, when Mr. Woodruff addreP'o
several audiences on the subject at Bremen, a GreriA,:e
merchant acting as interpreter. This gentleman has aye
devoted himself to Sunday School work, and the 119
has been tho formation of 66 of these schools, with 11,21
scholars, and in the German cantons of Switzerland
with 2,353 scholars.
Mr. Justin M'Carthy, lately one of the leading
editors of the London Morning Star, has become one of
editors of the Independent. He is an able writer, and th°l
roughly conversant with British politics. There is a stet:
that Messrs. Itaymond and Weed are negotiating the Put'
chase of the National Intelligencer, with the view of In 9',
ing it the organ of the Government. The Tribune snee'to
at the idea of the editor of such a paper as the ICII,
York Times leaving the Empire City to take up a W'rsil-
ington journal, which, it says, would excite ant°Lfe
ment and derision. " These Washington organscatio:
generally been poor concerns, and the Administ
does not want an organ. With one or perhaps tW° belie
ceptions they have been compelled to live upon
patronage —adverti,ing, contracts squeezed out of 'heeea
gross—and such little drippings and jobs as hall° "tot
thrown in their way by lobby agents. A newspaPer „Os
cannot live except upon subsidies of the Government °-
re
to stop." There may, however, be more truth ill tliesso'
port that Mr. Gorham, Secretary of the Senate, Wh°.if,"
ceeded Colonel Forney, with his two papers, "both
wants at least to have one, and for this purpose &Sir'.
purchase the Washington Chronicle. ,teif
General J. C. Abbott of Raleigh, N.C., —T. 130
of the Federal Army, and now United States Sennt°;4'
formed a law partnership with Colonel Edward Cd'n".
an ex-Confederate officer. ~000(1
Nehemiah Ball, of Concord, has been sen""f
to ten years in the State prison for forging the annle,,r°,4ol
uncle, Rufus Merriam, upon transfer blanks of u",
States bonds and railroad stock, which had been st°l6-1
order to sell them.

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Births.tie
Ginn—On the 10th inst., at Clovedon, Somers '
of Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Ed. Gibb, of a sop,
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MAXWELL--On the 14th inst., at Lichfield fl°,--°: 0+
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mond, Surrey, the wife of John Maxwell, '-'
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daughter.
Ticaige,
PRICE —On the Isth inst., at Chessingtoa 1)
Surroy, the wife of R. Dansy Green Price'
daugh tor.

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BRANDE—On the 11th inst., at Sulhamstead .-4,-,, iv
ham-green, Everard A. Braude, Esq., aged ,'"3. V•I j
Bnooxs —On the 13th inst., at Denmark-hib' - . '
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Brooks, Esq., aged 48. i POP ,ll
COOMBS' —On the 14th inst ,at the Castle 1100-, _gel
~,,„e
Charles Coombs, aged 70. ~ ,iye,h r
EWART-0.1 the 14th inst at Broadleas, Pe— ,i)
Christopher Ewart, Esq.,. of Now Bright°ll' •i°
late M.P. for Liver pool, aged 69. , Vl°
TWINING—On the 14th inst., at L- e, Kent, (113- °.
Esq., Q.C., of Halifax, N.S., aged 68. 10,
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of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at I'as Strz4 OL:e0, COO
Strand, in the Precinct of t 1,3 Se veY, in t
Middlesex.—Wednesday, Docuraber 16, 1868.
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