Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-12-03

After satisfying the appropriations made
by law for the support IT the civil govern
ment. and Of the military and naval es-
Adjustments, embracing suitable pr"'i-
sion for Notifications and Ter The gadCa!
increase of the navy, paying the interest
of the public debt, and extiDsushing
more than eighteen millions Of the Prin-
cipal, within the present year, 1t is estl-
mated that a balance Of mere than SIX
millions of dollars will remain i'll the
treasury on the first day OF January, APP
plicable TO The current service If the en-.
SURG year.
The payments into the treasury during
the wear one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen, on account of imposts and ton
mage, resulting principally FROM duties
Which have accrued in the present year,
may be fairly estimated at twenty mil
lions of dollars internal revenues, al
two millions FIVE hundred thousand pub
lie lands, at one million five hundred
thousand; bank dividends and incidental
receipts, at five hundred thousand ma
king in the whole, tweEty-iour millions
and five hundred thousand dollars.
The annual permanent expenditure for
the support of the civil government, and
of the army aud navy. os now established
by law, amounts to eleven nillirns and
eight hundred thousand dollars and for
the sinking fund, to ten millions ma
king in the whole, twenty-oue millions
and eight hundred thousand dollars ; lea
wing an annual excess of revenue beycnd
the expenditure, OF two millions and sew
en- hundred thousand dollars, exclusive
of the balance estimated to be in the
treasury on the first day of January one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
IL the present state Of the treasury,
the whole of the Louisiana debt may be
redeemed in the year one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen after which, if the
public debt continues as it now is, above
par, there will be annually about five mil
lions of the sinking fund unexpended,
until the year one THOUSAND eight hun
dred and twenty-five, when the loan of
one thousand eight hundred and twelve,
and the stock created by funding treasu-
~ notes, will lie reGeemab'e.
It'll also estimated that the Mi.sissip-
pi stock will be discharged during the
year ore thousand eight hundred AID
nineteen, frCm the proceeds Of the public
lands assigned to that object, after which
the receipts from those lasds will annual
Iy add 10 tie public revenue the sum Of
one million five hundred thousand dol
Jars, and leaving an annua! excess of re-
venue, after the year one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen, beyond the per
manent authorised expenditure, Of more
than four millions OF dollars.
By the last returns from the Depart.
ment Of War, the militia force Of tie Sc
vcral states may be estimated at eight
hundred thousand men, infantry, arti.lc-
~ and cavalry. Great part Of this fcrce
is armed, and measures are taken 20 arm
the whole. An Improvement i'll TIE orga.
nization and discipline Of the militia, is
one Of the great objects which claims the
unremitted attention of Congress.
The regular force amounts nearly to
the number required by law, and is sta
toned along the Atlantic and inland
frontiers.
OF the naval force il has been neces-
sary TO maintain strung squadrons in
the Mediterranean aud ia the Gulf OF
Mexico.
From several of the Indian tribes inha.
biting the county bordering Oh Lake E.
RE, purchases have been made of lands,
on conditions very favorable to the Uni
ted States, and as it is p;esuued not less
So TO the tribes themselves. BY these
purchases, the Indian title, with mode
rate reservations, has been extiDguished,
TO the whole Of the iand within the limits
OF the state of Ohio, aad to a great part
Of that in the Michigan territory, and Of
the state oil Indiana. From the Cherokee
tribe tract has been purchased in the
state Of Georgia, and an arrangement
made, by which, in exchange for lands
hey Dd the Mississippi, great past, il
not the whole Of the lanG belonging 10
that tribe, eastward Of that river, in the
states Of North Carolina, Georgia and
Tennessee, and in the Alabama territory
will soon he acGnired.-By these acgui
sitions, and others that mag REASONABLE
be expected soon to follow, We shall BIZ
enabled to extend our settlements f,Gm
the Inhabited parts of the state Of Ohio
along Lake Erie into the Michigan terri
tory, and to connect our settlements by
degrees through the state Of I"diana anC
the Illinois territory, 10 that Of Missouri
A similar and equally advantageous ei