Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-12-16

resulting pflnCiPdtiy iioiai Du'AS7 II HAN'i -
accrued in the present year, may be falriy
estimated at twenty millions Of dollars; IN
ternai revenues, at two millions five hundred
thousand public lands, at one million five
hundred thousand bank dividends and In
cidental receipts, at five hnndred thousand ];
making in the whole, twenty tour millions
and five hundred thousand dollars.
The annual permanent expenditure for
the support Of the civil government, and OF
the army and navy, as now established by
law, amounts to eleven millions eight hun
dred thousand dollars and for the sinking
fund, to ten millions making in the whole
twenty-one millions eight hundred thousand
dollars leaving an annual excess OF reyen-
ne beyond the expenditure of two millions
seven hundred thousand dollars, exclusive
of the balance estimated to be in the trea-
sury on the first day of January, one thous-
and eight hundred and eighteen.
In the present state OF the treasury, the
whole Of the Louisiana debt may be redeem
ed 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 millions of the
sinking fund unexpended, until the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five,
when the loan Of one thousand eight hun
bred and twelve, and the stock created by
funding treasury notes, will be redeemable.
1t is also estimated that the Mississippi
stock will be discharged during the year
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen,
from the proceeds Of the public lands as
signed 70 that object after which the re-
ceipts from those lands will annually add to
the public revenue the sum Of one million
five hundred thousand dollars, making the
permanent annual revenue amount to TWEEN
ty-six millions of dollars, and leaving an an
nual excess of revenue, after the year one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be-
yond the permanent authorised expenditure,
gilmore than four millions of dollars.
BY the last returns from the Department
OF War, the militia force of the several
state may be estimated at eight hundred
thousand men, infantry, artillery and cavaI-
ry. Great part of this force is armed, and
measures are taken to arm the whole An
Improvement in the organization and disc
pline Of the militia, Is one Of the great OBJ
jects which claims the unrcmitted attention
Of Congress.
The regular force amounts nearly to the
number required by law, and is stationed
along the Atlantic and inland frontiers.
OF the naval force. it has been necessary
to maintain strong squadrons in the Medter-
ranean, and in the Gulf Of Mexico.
From several Of the Indian tribes inhabit-
ing the country bordering on Lake Erie, pur-
chases have been made of lands, on cond-
tons very favorable to the United States,
and, as it is presumed, not less SO TO the
tribes themselves By these purchases, the
Indian title, with moderate reservations: has
been eXtinguished to the whole of the land
within the limits of the state OF Ohio, and
TO great part OF that in the Michigan tern
tory, and Of the state of Indiana. From the
Cherokee tribe tract has been purchased
IN the state OF Georgia, and an arrangement
made, by which, in exchange for lands be-
yond the Mississippi, great part, if not the
whole OF the land belonging to that tribe,
of that river, in the states OF North
Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, and in
The Alabama Territory, will soon be acquir-
I'd. BY these acquisitions, and others, that
may reasonably be expected soon TO follow,
We shall be enabled to extend our settle
ncnts from the inhabited parts Of the state
If Ohio, along Lake Erie, into the Michigan
erri.ory, and TO connect our settlements BY
legrees, through the state Of Indiana and the
illinois territory, to that Of Missouri A
similar, and equally advantageous effect will
;oon be produced to the south, through the
whole extent Of the states and territory,
which border on the waters enptying into
he Mississippi and the Mobile. In this pro-
yress, which the rights of nature demand,
md nothing can prevent, marking growth
-apid and gigantic, it is our duty to make
new efforts for the preservation, improve
nent, and civilization of the native inhabi-
ants. The hunter state can exist only in
the vast, mcultivatcd desart. 1t yields to
he more dense and compact form, 4 great
or force, of ciziIized population; and Of
light it ought to yield, for the earth was Civ
en- to mankind to support the greatest num-
Der of which it is capable, and no tribe or
people have a right to withhold from the
wants of others more than is necessary for
their own support and comfort 1t i graft
Tying to know, that the reservations Of land
made by the treaties with the tribes on Lake
T. rio were made with a view ia midi ridtal