Litchfield enquirer., 1836-01-07

rOu'eS aOo"t Zosdoys4S6, viz.s16,6I4,U50 miles ~
I0ur-h0rse post coaches and twohorse aResy 617,-
Sto Ptes on horses and in sulkies; $3.50 miles in
ssanbOas. and go, 5O4 miles in rail road cars The
Iunosr o. posonces on the sOIh June la:t, was ten
crease of 6liy-iour within the preceding year.
The gross revenue for the year ending 3Oih June.
The expenditures Tor the same year were 29IO6O5 OF
Balance against the Department $50, 855 "A
The gross revenue for the year ending
Both June, 1885, was 1895, $50 66
The expenditures for the same year 1851, $50 O8
Balance in favor Of Department S2s6,2O5 So
In the FIRST part Of the year additional allowances
were authorized, amounting the first of May, 10
about $lS7 600, which have since been suspended aud
do not enter into the foregoing statements Ii finally
admitted, they win reduce tire balance IN favor Of tue
Department that year to about $79OO0
The whole debt Of the Department the fret Of
The whole available means I,04O'68i IS
Balance ofdeb', %, 700 50
Adding the suspended allowances Isl, 900 90
II will make the debt exceed the availa-
BILE means on the Let July last $IsO,7OO So
The increase Of gross for the quarter end
ing SOth September last the corresponding quar-
ter OF last year is about twelve per cent. The annual
saving IN the recent letting Of contracts was about
800; from these data Il is estimated that the bal
aDce 10 favor Of the Depatm for the year ending
Both June, 1886. will be $476.227 90.
We give The following exrnc, show the condition
Of the Department, when the present incumbent took
charge Of it, and the measures adopted for the relief
Of it's embarrassments.
' When the Undersigned took charge Of this De-
partmeni, his attention Immediately called to the
condition Of it's finances; but found that
no satisfactory account o lis debts its COULD
within any short period, be obtained from its books
Il was only perceived, from curreat incidents and de-
tached accounts, that the unsatsed demands Of con
tractors from every quarter Of the couny, daily
accommodating; that there was debt Of near $3O00OO
due 70 banks that the outstanding acceplances ofte
Treasurer exceeded 1896, 600; that considerable
portion Ofthe Of Of the large Offices for
the present calendar year, had been anticipated by
drafts discounted in banks, which they had been in
str9cted to pay at ma,ury that additional allowances
had been recently authorized 10 considerable n
that 10 provide the means 10 meet the demands the
Department at Washington, created by the system Of
rns % ?,
their income in banksi and that these Heaws proving
insufficient. the Department subjected 10 con.inu
i,s engagements AT The sane lime, it believed
all hands, that the revenue Of the Depart
considerably exceeded it's current expenditure
and st the aggregate 81 dso, w": IN progress 2. dim
dent 10 make an effort to exiricate the Department
from its embarrassments. The measures resorted to
for that purpose, were as follows, viz: 2
~. A suspension Of ail recent allowances from the
credit OF the contractors.
"2. A refusal 10 accep, or pay any drafts drawn
the Department except by special arrangement.
quarter to the payment that quarters expenses, the
surplns only 70 be applied to the payment pre-exS-
ing claims.
feet more promp, collection and application Of the
current income Of The Department"
On the first Of October last, the system OF col
lection into action, and since that time there has
been paid ofihe debt, (which the first Of July a.
mounted to $iO6438 92) out Of postage, the Of
$s97 O77 4s, leaving Of the old debt unpaid on the lsl
Of December, only $467 3O4 A; Of this debt, about
in ko hal he a
ors. The Report says, that far from needing any
pecuniafy aid from The Treasury, the Department, may
the session, substantially free from debt with clear
annual surplus exceeding $40O 900, applicable the
establishment Of new mail routes aud the improve
ment fold ones. Ag
The Report states the various new regulations which
have been adopted 10 give more efficiency TO the De
partment by establishing more active supervision
over Poslmasiers and Contractors.
With the present means of transportation by rail.
roads and steamboats,, the travelling hours from WASH
ington TO Boston are aboni hriy-seSen--alOwng half
an hour at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-York, aad
Providence, each, for the exchange Of mails, the time
occupied in transmitting the mail from w RshinglOD TO
Boston would be thirty mine hours. When the va-
ted, t 10 supposed mail may pass from one city to
the other in from thirty to thirty-tour hours The
Department has not yet awaited itself OF the advania
ges ofrailroads in the transportation OF the mail TO
any great extent account Of tho prices demanded
by the railroad companies, which were considered
exorbitan This subject 10 submitted 70 'he eonsids-
ration Of Congress.
Considerable space is devoted 10 the subject Of The
dissemination Of abolition papers through the mails
and the vindicatioB Of the conduct Of the Post Master
General, in relation to il, last summer. re-organi
cation Of the Post Office Department 10 sirongy
commended, and the outlines Of plan for ihis pur
pose submitted. change in the rates OF postage
e recommended. 90 as TO make them conform 70 the
National Currency. in aradaa,ions Of S, 10, Is Is and
80 cen's.-Hargford Coaram.
Rrpnnm ar rur ErcRrrARY or WAR
The Report of The Secretary OF War occu-
Washington papers. It appears from Il that
the general positions Of the Army remain the
same as at the last Report. Some move
ments. however. have taken place, which are
stated by the Secretary. Fourteen Compa-
MES have been placed under the command Of
General CLINcH, 10 Florida. with a view to
impose proper restraint upon the Seminole
Indians. who have occasionally evinced an
uuquiet spirit, aud to ensure the execution Of
the treaty providing for their removal. The
Regiment Of Dragons has been employed in.
penetrating into the Indian country In exhi-
biting 20 the Indians force well calculated
to check or to punish any hostiliiies they may
commit, and in adding TO our geographical
knowledge Of those remote regions; Colonel
KEARNEY, with one detachment, marched
through the country between the Dies Moines
and the Mississippi rivers; Cot DoDaE. with
another, made an excursion south of Missouri
towards che Rocky Msnntains; and Major
Mason. with third. joinetby q detachment
Of Iefantry, was employed in duties cOnnec>
ted with the assemblage of body of Indians.
at the Cross Timbers, near the Great IVES
tern Prairie. The information concerni0g
the discipline and morale Of the Army Is sat-
isfnnsorw Thu. En@ineep and n nm sRmM lea 4